Volume 84, Issue 20

Pekka T. Neuvonen, Lasse Vines, Vishnukanthan Venkatachalapathy, Asier Zubiaga, Filip Tuomisto, Anders Hallén, Bengt G. Svensson, and Andrej Yu. Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205202 (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

Self-diffusion in crystalline silicon: A Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics study

Kenichi Koizumi, Mauro Boero, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Atsushi Oshiyama

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205203 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Carrier-mediated nonlocal ferromagnetic coupling between local magnetic polarons in Fe-doped In $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ and Co-doped ZnO

Shifei Qi, Fengxian Jiang, Jiuping Fan, H. Wu, S. B. Zhang, Gillian A. Gehring, Zhenyu Zhang, and Xiaohong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205204 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Quasiparticle band structures of $β$ -HgS, HgSe, and HgTe

A. Svane, N. E. Christensen, M. Cardona, A. N. Chantis, M. van Schilfgaarde, and T. Kotani

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205205 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Visible to vacuum-UV range optical absorption of oxygen dangling bonds in amorphous SiO $_{2}$

Linards Skuja, Koichi Kajihara, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205206 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Inverse design approach to hole doping in ternary oxides: Enhancing $p$ -type conductivity in cobalt oxide spinels

J. D. Perkins, T. R. Paudel, A. Zakutayev, P. F. Ndione, P. A. Parilla, D. L. Young, S. Lany, D. S. Ginley, A. Zunger, N. H. Perry, Y. Tang, M. Grayson, T. O. Mason, J. S. Bettinger, Y. Shi, and M. F. Toney

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205207 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

High-pressure optical studies of donor-acceptor polymer heterojunctions

K. Paudel, M. Chandrasekhar, U. Scherf, E. Preis, and S. Guha

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205208 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Study of the ferroelectric phase transition in germanium telluride using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy

Filip Kadlec, Christelle Kadlec, Petr Kužel, and Jan Petzelt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205209 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Ab initio study on band-gap narrowing in SrTiO $_{3}$ with Nb-C-Nb codoping

Wu-Jun Shi and Shi-Jie Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205210 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Fluorescence and polarization spectroscopy of single silicon vacancy centers in heteroepitaxial nanodiamonds on iridium

Elke Neu, Martin Fischer, Stefan Gsell, Matthias Schreck, and Christoph Becher

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205211 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of the layered iron oxychalcogenide Na $_{2}$ Fe $_{2}$ Se $_{2}$ O

J. B. He, D. M. Wang, H. L. Shi, H. X. Yang, J. Q. Li, and G. F. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205212 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Correlation of photocurrent and electroabsorption spectra and their temperature dependence for conjugated light emitting polymers: The origin of the corresponding density of states

Awnish K. Tripathi and Y. N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205213 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Temperature dependence of the upper-branch polariton population in an organic semiconductor microcavity

David M. Coles, Paolo Michetti, Caspar Clark, Ali M. Adawi, and David G. Lidzey

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205214 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Low-temperature magnetotransport of the narrow-gap semiconductor FeSb $_{2}$

H. Takahashi, R. Okazaki, Y. Yasui, and I. Terasaki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205215 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Excitonic transition dynamics on front and back surfaces of ZnO thin films

Sun-Kyun Lee, Bong-Joon Kwon, Yong-Hoon Cho, Hang-Ju Ko, and Takafumi Yao

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205216 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Chemical stability of the magnetic oxide EuO directly on silicon observed by hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy

C. Caspers, M. Müller, A. X. Gray, A. M. Kaiser, A. Gloskovskii, C. S. Fadley, W. Drube, and C. M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205217 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Mechanism of Fermi level pinning at metal/germanium interfaces

K. Kasahara, S. Yamada, K. Sawano, M. Miyao, and K. Hamaya

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205301 (2011) - Published 1 November, 2011

Magnetoresistance effects and phase coherent transport phenomena in a magnetic nonplanar two-dimensional hole system

Stefan Knott, Thomas Ch. Hirschmann, Ursula Wurstbauer, Wolfgang Hansen, and Werner Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205302 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Carrier confinement in GaN/Al $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ N nanowire heterostructures ( $0 < x \leq$ 1)

Florian Furtmayr, Jörg Teubert, Pascal Becker, Sonia Conesa-Boj, Joan Ramon Morante, Alexey Chernikov, Sören Schäfer, Sangam Chatterjee, Jordi Arbiol, and Martin Eickhoff

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205303 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Electronic properties of polar and nonpolar InN surfaces: A quasiparticle picture

A. Belabbes, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205304 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Spin-phonon coupling in single Mn-doped CdTe quantum dot

C. L. Cao, L. Besombes, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205305 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Room-temperature $p$ -induced surface ferromagnetism: First-principles study

Guntram Fischer, Nadiezhda Sanchez, Waheed Adeagbo, Martin Lüders, Zdzislawa Szotek, Walter M. Temmerman, Arthur Ernst, Wolfram Hergert, and M. Carmen Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205306 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Direct versus indirect optical recombination in Ge films grown on Si substrates

G. Grzybowski, R. Roucka, J. Mathews, L. Jiang, R. T. Beeler, J. Kouvetakis, and J. Menéndez

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205307 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Extracting the density profile of an electronic wave function in a quantum dot

Erin E. Boyd and Robert M. Westervelt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205308 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Electronic structure of realistically extended atomistically resolved disordered Si:P $δ$ -doped layers

Sunhee Lee, Hoon Ryu, Huw Campbell, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Michelle Y. Simmons, and Gerhard Klimeck

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205309 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Tuning interchain and intrachain interactions in polyfluorene copolymers

Ya-Shih Huang, Johannes Gierschner, Johanna P. Schmidtke, Richard H. Friend, and David Beljonne

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205311 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Dynamics of excitons and free carriers in hybrid organic-inorganic quantum well structures

Yu. Gladush, C. Piermarocchi, and V. Agranovich

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205312 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Coherent photocurrent control in a magnetic field through quantum interference

Kiran M. Rao and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205313 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Ab initio study of the early stages of gas-phase water oxidation of the Si(100) $(2 \times 1)$ :H surface

R. Lelis-Sousa and M. J. Caldas

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205314 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Femtosecond optical excitation of coherent acoustic phonons in a piezoelectric $p$ - $n$ junction

Yu-Chieh Wen, Gia-Wei Chern, Kung-Hsuan Lin, Jeffrey Jarren Yeh, and Chi-Kuang Sun

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205315 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Mechanically probing coherent tunneling in a double quantum dot

J. Gardner, S. D. Bennett, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205316 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Reconstruction dependent growth of lead phthalocyanine layers on GaAs $(001)$ surfaces

Linda Riele, Thomas Bruhn, Vanessa Rackwitz, Regina Passmann, Bjørn-Ove Fimland, Norbert Esser, and Patrick Vogt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205317 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Effect of doping on performance of organic solar cells

V. A. Trukhanov, V. V. Bruevich, and D. Yu. Paraschuk

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205318 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Unraveling of free-carrier absorption for terahertz radiation in heterostructures

Andreas Wacker, Gerald Bastard, Francesca Carosella, Robson Ferreira, and Emmanuel Dupont

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205319 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Capacitively coupled double quantum dot system in the Kondo regime

Irisnei L. Ferreira, P. A. Orellana, G. B. Martins, F. M. Souza, and E. Vernek

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205320 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Spin density waves in a semiconductor superlattice in a tilted magnetic field

Liqiu Zheng, D. C. Marinescu, and G. F. Giuliani

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205321 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Optimal quantum control for conditional rotation of exciton qubits in semiconductor quantum dots

Reuble Mathew, Craig E. Pryor, Michael E. Flatté, and Kimberley C. Hall

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205322 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Electron and hole gas in modulation-doped GaAs/Al $_{1 - x}$ Ga $_{x}$ As radial heterojunctions

Andrea Bertoni, Miquel Royo, Farah Mahawish, and Guido Goldoni

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205323 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Connectivity of edge and surface states in topological insulators

Yongjin Jiang, Feng Lu, Feng Zhai, Tony Low, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205324 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Tunable band gaps in bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides

Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Doron Naveh, and Elias Towe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205325 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Multidimensional nanoscale materials from fused quantum dots

Luis Tortajada, Lucas V. Besteiro, Murilo L. Tiago, L. J. Gallego, James R. Chelikowsky, and M. M. G. Alemany

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205326 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

Magneto-optical Faraday and Kerr effects in topological insulator films and in other layered quantized Hall systems

Wang-Kong Tse and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205327 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of statistical nuclear spin polarization in a nanoscale GaAs sample

Fei Xue (薛飞), D. P. Weber, P. Peddibhotla, and M. Poggio

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205328 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

Effect of photoinduced charge displacement on organic optoelectronic conversion

Laigui Hu, Akito Iwasaki, Rie Suizu, Yukiko Noda, Bo Li, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Michio M. Matsushita, Kunio Awaga, and Hiroshi Ito

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205329 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

Phonons in Bi $_{2}$ S $_{3}$ nanostructures: Raman scattering and first-principles studies

Yanyuan Zhao, Kun Ting Eddie Chua, Chee Kwan Gan, Jun Zhang, Bo Peng, Zeping Peng, and Qihua Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205330 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

Efficient simulation of multidimensional phonon transport using energy-based variance-reduced Monte Carlo formulations

Jean-Philippe M. Péraud and Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205331 (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

Zeeman splitting and spin dynamics tuning by exciton charging in two-dimensional systems

Leonardo K. Castelano, Daniel Ferreira Cesar, Victor Lopez-Richard, Gilmar E. Marques, Odilon D. D. Couto, Jr., Fernando Iikawa, Rudolf Hey, and Paulo V. Santos

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205332 (2011) - Published 22 November, 2011

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Consonant diminution of lattice and electronic coupling between a film and a substrate: Pb on Ge(100)

Pei-Wen Chen, Yu-Hsuan Lu, Tay-Rong Chang, Chi-Bin Wang, Li-Yen Liang, Chung-Huang Lin, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Ku-Ding Tsuei, H.-T. Jeng, and S.-J. Tang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205401 (2011) - Published 1 November, 2011

Plasmons in Pb nanowire arrays on Si(557): Between one and two dimensions

T. Block, C. Tegenkamp, J. Baringhaus, H. Pfnür, and T. Inaoka

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205402 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism in EuTiO $_{3}$ nanowires

Anna N. Morozovska, Maya D. Glinchuk, Rakesh K. Behera, Basil Zaulychny, Chaitanya S. Deo, and Eugene A. Eliseev

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205403 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Substantial reduction of Stone-Wales activation barrier in fullerene

Mukul Kabir, Swarnakamal Mukherjee, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205404 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Microscopic theory of absorption and ultrafast many-particle kinetics in graphene

Ermin Malic, Torben Winzer, Evgeny Bobkin, and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205406 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Raman spectroscopy of the internal strain of a graphene layer grown on copper tuned by chemical vapor deposition

V. Yu, E. Whiteway, J. Maassen, and M. Hilke

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205407 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Direct electrode-electrode tunneling in break-junction measurements of molecular conductance

B. Gotsmann, H. Riel, and E. Lörtscher

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205408 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

RKKY coupling between impurity spins in graphene nanoflakes

Karol Szałowski

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205409 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Universal scaling relations for the thermoelectric power factor of semiconducting nanostructures

Jane E. Cornett and Oded Rabin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205410 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopic signatures of many-body interactions and delocalized states in self-assembled lateral quantum dot molecules

X. Zhou, S. Sanwlani, W. Liu, J. H. Lee, Zh. M. Wang, G. Salamo, and M. F. Doty

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205411 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Tuning the band gap and magnetic properties of BN sheets impregnated with graphene flakes

M. Kan, J. Zhou, Q. Wang, Q. Sun, and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205412 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Interplay of epitaxial strain and rotations in PbTiO $_{3} /$ PbZrO $_{3}$ superlattices from first principles

Jeroen L. Blok, Dave H. A. Blank, Guus Rijnders, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205413 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Disorder-induced metallicity in amorphous graphene

Erik Holmström, Jonas Fransson, Olle Eriksson, Raquel Lizárraga, Biplab Sanyal, Sumanta Bhandary, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205414 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

All-electron $G W$ methods implemented in molecular orbital space: Ionization energy and electron affinity of conjugated molecules

San-Huang Ke

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205415 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Theory of nonequilibrium single-electron dynamics in STM imaging of dangling bonds on a hydrogenated silicon surface

Lucian Livadaru, Jason Pitters, Marco Taucer, and Robert A. Wolkow

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205416 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Charge trapping and scattering in epitaxial graphene

Damon B. Farmer, Vasili Perebeinos, Yu-Ming Lin, Christos Dimitrakopoulos, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205417 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Structural coupling across the LaAlO $_{3}$ /SrTiO $_{3}$ interface: High-resolution x-ray diffraction study

J. E. Boschker, C. Folkman, C. W. Bark, Å. F. Monsen, E. Folven, J. K. Grepstad, E. Wahlström, C. B. Eom, and T. Tybell

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205418 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Electroluminescence of molecules in a scanning tunneling microscope: Role of tunneling electrons and surface plasmons

Guangjun Tian and Yi Luo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205419 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Electronic structure of PTCDA on Sn/Si(111)- $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$

H. M. Zhang, J. B. Gustafsson, and L. S. O. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205420 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Edge effects in graphene nanostructures: Semiclassical theory of spectral fluctuations and quantum transport

Jürgen Wurm, Klaus Richter, and İnanç Adagideli

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205421 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Commensurate-incommensurate phase transition in chlorine monolayer chemisorbed on Ag(111): Direct observation of crowdion condensation into a domain-wall fluid

B. V. Andryushechkin, V. V. Cherkez, B. Kierren, Y. Fagot-Revurat, D. Malterre, and K. N. Eltsov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205422 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Hydrogenated graphene on silicon dioxide surfaces

P. Havu, M. Ijäs, and A. Harju

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205423 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Electron transmission through atomic steps of Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ and Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ surfaces

Katsuyoshi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205424 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Charge transmission through a single oligomer: Effects of photoinduced Frenkel-exciton formation

Luxia Wang and Volkhard May

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205425 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectricity in a quasiamorphous ultrathin BaTiO $_{3}$ film

J. L. Wang, A. Pancotti, P. Jégou, G. Niu, B. Gautier, Y. Y. Mi, L. Tortech, S. Yin, B. Vilquin, and N. Barrett

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205426 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Modeling the constant-current distance-voltage mode of scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Alex Pronschinske, Daniel J. Mardit, and Daniel B. Dougherty

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205427 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Manipulating light polarization with ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces

Yang Zhao and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205428 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Origin of conductivity crossover in entangled multiwalled carbon nanotube networks filled by iron

George Chimowa, Ella C. Linganiso, Dmitry Churochkin, Neil J. Coville, and Somnath Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205429 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Structural and electronic properties of Sc $_{n}$ O $_{m}$ ( $n = 1 - 3$ , $m = 1 - 2 n$ ) clusters: Theoretical study using screened hybrid density functional theory

Yu Yang, Haitao Liu, and Ping Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205430 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Multiscale magnetic study of Ni(111) and graphene on Ni(111)

L. V. Dzemiantsova, M. Karolak, F. Lofink, A. Kubetzka, B. Sachs, K. von Bergmann, S. Hankemeier, T. O. Wehling, R. Frömter, H. P. Oepen, A. I. Lichtenstein, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205431 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011