Volume 84, Issue 8

15 August 2011

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FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Vertical field-effect transistor based on wave-function extension

A. Sciambi, M. Pelliccione, M. P. Lilly, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085301 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Isolated high-order harmonics pulse from two-color-driven Bloch oscillations in bulk semiconductors

Oliver D. Mücke

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081202(R) (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical investigation of the evolution of the topological phase of Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ under mechanical strain

Steve M. Young, Sugata Chowdhury, Eric J. Walter, Eugene J. Mele, Charles L. Kane, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085106 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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Orbital-separation approach for consideration of finite electric bias within density-functional total-energy formalism

Shusuke Kasamatsu, Satoshi Watanabe, and Seungwu Han

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085120 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$G W$ calculations including spin-orbit coupling: Application to Hg chalcogenides

R. Sakuma, C. Friedrich, T. Miyake, S. Blügel, and F. Aryasetiawan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085144 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Quantum quench spectroscopy of a Luttinger liquid: Ultrarelativistic density wave dynamics due to fractionalization in an $X X Z$ chain

Matthew S. Foster, Timothy C. Berkelbach, David R. Reichman, and Emil A. Yuzbashyan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085146 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

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Optically pumped InP: Nuclear polarization from NMR frequency shifts

K. L. Sauer, C. A. Klug, J. B. Miller, and J. P. Yesinowski

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085202 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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Importance of intramolecular electron spin relaxation in small molecule semiconductors

L. Schulz, M. Willis, L. Nuccio, P. Shusharov, S. Fratini, F. L. Pratt, W. P. Gillin, T. Kreouzis, M. Heeney, N. Stingelin, C. A. Stafford, D. J. Beesley, C. Bernhard, J. E. Anthony, I. McKenzie, J. S. Lord, and A. J. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085209 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

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Spin accumulation near Fe/GaAs (001) interfaces: The role of semiconductor band structure

Q. O. Hu ((胡奇), E. S. Garlid, P. A. Crowell, and C. J. Palmstrøm

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085306 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

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Effective screening and the plasmaron bands in graphene

Andrew L. Walter, Aaron Bostwick, Ki-Joon Jeon, Florian Speck, Markus Ostler, Thomas Seyller, Luca Moreschini, Young Jun Chang, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Allan H. MacDonald, Karsten Horn, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085410 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

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Retarded long-range interaction in split-ring-resonator square arrays

Manuel Decker, Nils Feth, Costas M. Soukoulis, Stefan Linden, and Martin Wegener

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085416 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Capacitance of graphene bilayer as a probe of layer-specific properties

Andrea F. Young and Leonid S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085441 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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Carbon nanotubes in electric and magnetic fields

Jelena Klinovaja, Manuel J. Schmidt, Bernd Braunecker, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085452 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Momentum-resolved optical lattice modulation spectroscopy for bosons in optical lattices

Rajdeep Sensarma, K. Sengupta, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081101(R) (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Band-gap engineering for removing shallow traps in rare-earth Lu $_{3}$ Al $_{5}$ O $_{12}$ garnet scintillators using Ga $^{3 +}$ doping

M. Fasoli, A. Vedda, M. Nikl, C. Jiang, B. P. Uberuaga, D. A. Andersson, K. J. McClellan, and C. R. Stanek

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081102(R) (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Tracking defect-induced ferromagnetism in GaN:Gd

Martin Roever, Joerg Malindretos, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Angela Rizzi, Christian Rauch, and Filip Tuomisto

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081201(R) (2011) - Published 10 August, 2011

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Isolated high-order harmonics pulse from two-color-driven Bloch oscillations in bulk semiconductors

Oliver D. Mücke

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081202(R) (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Infrared probe of the insulator-to-metal transition in ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ and ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Be}_{x} As$

B. C. Chapler, R. C. Myers, S. Mack, A. Frenzel, B. C. Pursley, K. S. Burch, E. J. Singley, A. M. Dattelbaum, N. Samarth, D. D. Awschalom, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081203(R) (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

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Identification of the $V_{Al}$ -O $_{N}$ defect complex in AlN single crystals

J.-M. Mäki, I. Makkonen, F. Tuomisto, A. Karjalainen, S. Suihkonen, J. Räisänen, T. Yu. Chemekova, and Yu. N. Makarov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081204(R) (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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

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Energy shift and wave function overlap of metal-organic interface states

M. Marks, N. L. Zaitsev, B. Schmidt, C. H. Schwalb, A. Schöll, I. A. Nechaev, P. M. Echenique, E. V. Chulkov, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081301(R) (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

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Excited state quantum couplings and optical switching of an artificial molecule

K. Müller, G. Reithmaier, E. C. Clark, V. Jovanov, M. Bichler, H. J. Krenner, M. Betz, G. Abstreiter, and J. J. Finley

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081302(R) (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

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Coherence of single-electron sources from Mach-Zehnder interferometry

Géraldine Haack, Michael Moskalets, Janine Splettstoesser, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081303(R) (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

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Robustness of Majorana fermion induced fractional Josephson effect in multichannel superconducting wires

K. T. Law and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081304(R) (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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A general approach to quantum dynamics using a variational master equation: Application to phonon-damped Rabi rotations in quantum dots

Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Nikesh S. Dattani, Erik M. Gauger, Brendon W. Lovett, and Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081305(R) (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

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Observation of field-induced charge carriers in high-mobility organic transistors of a thienothiophene-based small molecule: Electron spin resonance measurements

Hisaaki Tanaka, Masato Kozuka, Shun-ichiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Ito, Yukihiro Shimoi, Kazuo Takimiya, and Shin-ichi Kuroda

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081306(R) (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Interplay between real and pseudomagnetic field in graphene with strain

Kyung-Joong Kim, Ya. M. Blanter, and Kang-Hun Ahn

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081401(R) (2011) - Published 5 August, 2011

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Intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimensional carbon structures: Triangular graphene nanoflakes linked by carbon chains

Jian Zhou, Qian Wang, Qiang Sun, and Puru Jena

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081402(R) (2011) - Published 5 August, 2011

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Observation of room-temperature high-energy resonant excitonic effects in graphene

I. Santoso, P. K. Gogoi, H. B. Su, H. Huang, Y. Lu, D. Qi, W. Chen, M. A. Majidi, Y. P. Feng, A. T. S. Wee, K. P. Loh, T. Venkatesan, R. P. Saichu, A. Goos, A. Kotlov, M. Rübhausen, and A. Rusydi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081403(R) (2011) - Published 10 August, 2011

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Tunable exciton relaxation in vertically coupled semiconductor InAs quantum dots

Kushal C. Wijesundara, Juan E. Rolon, Sergio E. Ulloa, Allan S. Bracker, Daniel Gammon, and Eric A. Stinaff

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081404(R) (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

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Quantum theory of the nonlinear Fano effect in hybrid metal-semiconductor nanostructures: The case of strong nonlinearity

Wei Zhang and Alexander O. Govorov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 081405(R) (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Guiding the experimental discovery of magnesium alloys

Richard H. Taylor, Stefano Curtarolo, and Gus L. W. Hart

Phys. Rev. B 84, 084101 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Construction and performance of fully numerical optimum atomic basis sets

Björn Lange, Christoph Freysoldt, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085101 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Universal Fermi distribution of semiclassical nonequilibrium Fermi states

Eldad Bettelheim and Paul B. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085102 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Induced spin texture in semiconductor/topological insulator heterostructures

Jimmy A. Hutasoit and Tudor D. Stanescu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085103 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

DFT + $U$ study of magnetic order in doped La $_{2}$ CuO $_{4}$ crystals

Simon Pesant and Michel Côté

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085104 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Equilibration of integer quantum Hall edge states

D. L. Kovrizhin and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085105 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical investigation of the evolution of the topological phase of Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ under mechanical strain

Steve M. Young, Sugata Chowdhury, Eric J. Walter, Eugene J. Mele, Charles L. Kane, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085106 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Identifying valence band structure of transient phase in VO $_{2}$ thin film by hard x-ray photoemission

Teruo Kanki, Hidefumi Takami, Shigenori Ueda, Azusa N. Hattori, Ken Hattori, Hiroshi Daimon, Keisuke Kobayashi, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085107 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Charge disproportionation and Jahn-Teller distortion in LiNiO $_{2}$ and NaNiO $_{2}$ : A density functional theory study

Hungru Chen, Colin L. Freeman, and John H. Harding

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085108 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Probing non-Abelian statistics with Majorana fermion interferometry in spin-orbit-coupled semiconductors

Jay D. Sau, Sumanta Tewari, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085109 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Estimating quasi-long-range order via Rényi entropies

M. Dalmonte, E. Ercolessi, and L. Taddia

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085110 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Evidence of electron fractionalization in the Hall coefficient at Mott criticality

Ki-Seok Kim

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085111 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Dynamical screening in bilayer graphene

O. V. Gamayun

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085112 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Correlation between electrical properties and thermodynamic stability of $A$ CoO $_{3 - δ}$ perovskites ( $A =$ La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd)

Barbara Scherrer, Ashley S. Harvey, Speranta Tanasescu, Florina Teodorescu, Alina Botea, Kazimierz Conder, A. Nicholas Grundy, Julia Martynczuk, and Ludwig J. Gauckler

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085113 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Majorana fermions in strongly interacting helical liquids

Eran Sela, Alexander Altland, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085114 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Optical conductivity of perovskite manganites

Nandan Pakhira, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and T. V. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085115 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Electronic and magnetic structure of the mixed-valence cobaltite CaBaCo $_{4}$ O $_{7}$

S. Chatterjee and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085116 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Role of vertex corrections in the $T$ -linear resistivity at the Kondo-breakdown quantum critical point

Ki-Seok Kim

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085117 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Anisotropic thermoelectric properties associated with dimensional crossover in quasi-one-dimensional SrNbO $_{3.4 + d}$ ( $d \sim 0.03$ )

W. Kobayashi, Y. Hayashi, M. Matsushita, Y. Yamamoto, I. Terasaki, A. Nakao, H. Nakao, Y. Murakami, Y. Moritomo, H. Yamauchi, and M. Karppinen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085118 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Layer-multiple-scattering theory for metamaterials made from clusters of nanoparticles

Vassilios Yannopapas and Alexandros G. Vanakaras

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085119 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital-separation approach for consideration of finite electric bias within density-functional total-energy formalism

Shusuke Kasamatsu, Satoshi Watanabe, and Seungwu Han

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085120 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Charge-Kondo effect in mesoscopic superconductors coupled to normal metals

Ion Garate

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085121 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Gapless excitations in the Haldane-Rezayi state: The thin-torus limit

Alexander Seidel and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085122 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Quantized anomalous Hall insulator in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas

Yongping Zhang and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085123 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Interacting spinless fermions in a diamond chain

A. A. Lopes and R. G. Dias

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085124 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Effects of electron-phonon coupling on Landau levels in graphene

Adam Pound, J. P. Carbotte, and E. J. Nicol

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085125 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Spectral function tour of electron-phonon coupling outside the Migdal limit

C. N. Veenstra, G. L. Goodvin, M. Berciu, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085126 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Phase diagram of the one-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model at quarter filling

Sahinur Reja, Sudhakar Yarlagadda, and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085127 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Optical and dc conductivity of the two-dimensional Hubbard model in the pseudogap regime and across the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point including vertex corrections

Dominic Bergeron, Vasyl Hankevych, Bumsoo Kyung, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085128 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Effects of electronic correlations and disorder on the thermopower of Na $_{x}$ CoO $_{2}$

P. Wissgott, A. Toschi, G. Sangiovanni, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085129 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Pressure-induced topological insulating behavior in the ternary chalcogenide Ge $_{2}$ Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{5}$

Baisheng Sa, Jian Zhou, Zhitang Song, Zhimei Sun, and Rajeev Ahuja

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085130 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Computational study of the energetics of charge and cation mixing in U $_{1 - x}$ Ce $_{x}$ O $_{2}$

B. E. Hanken, C. R. Stanek, N. Grønbech-Jensen, and M. Asta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085131 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Probing high-energy electronic excitations in NiO using inelastic neutron scattering

Young-June Kim, A. P. Sorini, C. Stock, T. G. Perring, J. van den Brink, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085132 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Quantum criticality in NbFe $_{2}$ induced by zero carrier velocity

Brian P. Neal, Erik R. Ylvisaker, and Warren E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085133 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Numerically exact long-time behavior of nonequilibrium quantum impurity models

Emanuel Gull, David R. Reichman, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085134 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Evidence of guided resonances in photonic quasicrystal slabs

Armando Ricciardi, Marco Pisco, Antonello Cutolo, Andrea Cusano, Liam O’Faolain, Thomas F. Krauss, Giuseppe Castaldi, and Vincenzo Galdi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085135 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Optical and structural studies of a two-dimensional organic Mott insulator dimethylphenazine-tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane

M. Ohkura, Y. Ishige, R. Sawada, H. Matsuzaki, Y. Nogami, H. Nishikawa, M. Yamashita, S. Horiuchi, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085136 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Thermodynamic stability of LaMnO $_{3}$ and its competing oxides: A hybrid density functional study of an alkaline fuel cell catalyst

E. A. Ahmad, L. Liborio, D. Kramer, G. Mallia, A. R. Kucernak, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085137 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Entanglement spectrum of one-dimensional extended Bose-Hubbard models

Xiaolong Deng and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085138 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Discrete conducting states, wave-vector variation, and carrier mobilities in NbSe $_{3}$ microsamples

S. G. Zybtsev and V. Ya. Pokrovskii

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085139 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Luminescence and x-ray absorption measurements of persistent SrAl $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ :Eu,Dy powders: Evidence for valence state changes

K. Korthout, K. Van den Eeckhout, J. Botterman, S. Nikitenko, D. Poelman, and P. F. Smet

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085140 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

SU(2)-invariant Majorana spin liquid with stable parton Fermi surfaces in an exactly solvable model

Hsin-Hua Lai and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085141 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Quantitative determination of the discretization and truncation errors in numerical renormalization-group calculations of spectral functions

Rok Žitko

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085142 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Charge excitations in stripe-ordered La $_{5 / 3}$ Sr $_{1 / 3}$ NiO $_{4}$ and La $_{15 / 8}$ Ba $_{1 / 8}$ CuO $_{4}$ : Interpretation of the anomalous momentum transfer dependence via fluorescence interferometry

W. Schülke and C. Sternemann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085143 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$G W$ calculations including spin-orbit coupling: Application to Hg chalcogenides

R. Sakuma, C. Friedrich, T. Miyake, S. Blügel, and F. Aryasetiawan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085144 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

First-principles study of the band structure and optical absorption of CuGaS $_{2}$

Irene Aguilera, Julien Vidal, Perla Wahnón, Lucia Reining, and Silvana Botti

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085145 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum quench spectroscopy of a Luttinger liquid: Ultrarelativistic density wave dynamics due to fractionalization in an $X X Z$ chain

Matthew S. Foster, Timothy C. Berkelbach, David R. Reichman, and Emil A. Yuzbashyan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085146 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Semiconductors I: bulk

Donor-band ferromagnetism in cobalt-doped indium oxide

A. M. H. R. Hakimi, M. G. Blamire, S. M. Heald, Marzook S. Alshammari, M. S. Alqahtani, D. S. Score, H. J. Blythe, A. M. Fox, and G. A. Gehring

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085201 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optically pumped InP: Nuclear polarization from NMR frequency shifts

K. L. Sauer, C. A. Klug, J. B. Miller, and J. P. Yesinowski

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085202 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Anion ordering in spinel-type gallium oxonitride

Teak D. Boyko, Carmen E. Zvoriste, Isabel Kinski, Ralf Riedel, Stefanie Hering, Hubert Huppertz, and Alexander Moewes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085203 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Heat transport in silicon from first-principles calculations

Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen, and Harold T. Stokes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085204 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Coherent spin dynamics of donor bound electrons in GaAs

Carey Phelps, Shannon O’Leary, John Prineas, and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085205 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Influence on open-circuit voltage by optical heterogeneity in three-dimensional organic photovoltaics

Yuan Li, Mingjun Wang, Huihui Huang, Wanyi Nie, Qi Li, Eric D. Peterson, Robert Coffin, Guojia Fang, and David L. Carroll

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085206 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Thermoelectric properties and investigations of low thermal conductivity in Ga-doped Cu $_{2}$ GeSe $_{3}$

J. Y. Cho, X. Shi, J. R. Salvador, G. P. Meisner, J. Yang, H. Wang, A. A. Wereszczak, X. Zhou, and C. Uher

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085207 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Dielectric response of doped organic semiconductor devices: P3HT:PCBM solar cells

Oskar Armbruster, Christoph Lungenschmied, and Siegfried Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085208 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Importance of intramolecular electron spin relaxation in small molecule semiconductors

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085209 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Quantitative determination of local potential values in inhomogeneously doped semiconductors by scanning tunneling microscopy

P. H. Weidlich, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, and Ph. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085210 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Second-order piezoelectricity in wurtzite III-N semiconductors

Joydeep Pal, Geoffrey Tse, Vesel Haxha, Max A. Migliorato, and Stanko Tomić

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085211 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vertical field-effect transistor based on wave-function extension

A. Sciambi, M. Pelliccione, M. P. Lilly, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085301 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Feedback stabilization of pure states in quantum transport

Christina Pöltl, Clive Emary, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085302 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Long-lived electron spin coherence in CdSe/Zn(S,Se) self-assembled quantum dots

M. Syperek, D. R. Yakovlev, I. A. Yugova, J. Misiewicz, I. V. Sedova, S. V. Sorokin, A. A. Toropov, S. V. Ivanov, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085304 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Stimulated parametric polariton-polariton scattering in GaAs microcavities with a shallow polariton band under resonant excitation of exciton mode

A. A. Demenev, S. S. Gavrilov, and V. D. Kulakovskii

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085305 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin accumulation near Fe/GaAs (001) interfaces: The role of semiconductor band structure

Q. O. Hu ((胡奇), E. S. Garlid, P. A. Crowell, and C. J. Palmstrøm

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085306 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Spin and charge transport in U-shaped one-dimensional channels with spin-orbit couplings

Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪), Jhih-Sheng Wu (吳致盛), Son-Hsien Chen (陳松賢), and Ching-Ray Chang (張慶瑞)

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085307 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Observation of linear-polarization-sensitivity in the microwave-radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations

R. G. Mani, A. N. Ramanayaka, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085308 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Phonon mediated off-resonant quantum dot–cavity coupling under resonant excitation of the quantum dot

Arka Majumdar, Erik D. Kim, Yiyang Gong, Michal Bajcsy, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085309 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Probing of single quantum dot dressed states via an off-resonant cavity

Arka Majumdar, Alexander Papageorge, Erik D. Kim, Michal Bajcsy, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085310 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Spin-polarized half-metallic state of a ferromagnetic $δ$ layer in a semiconductor host

S. Caprara, V. V. Tugushev, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085311 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Surface edge state and half-quantized Hall conductance in topological insulators

Rui-Lin Chu, Junren Shi, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085312 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Atomistic simulations of low-field mobility in Si nanowires: Influence of confinement and orientation

Neophytos Neophytou and Hans Kosina

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085313 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Size-induced effects in gallium selenide electronic structure: The influence of interlayer interactions

D. V. Rybkovskiy, N. R. Arutyunyan, A. S. Orekhov, I. A. Gromchenko, I. V. Vorobiev, A. V. Osadchy, E. Yu. Salaev, T. K. Baykara, K. R. Allakhverdiev, and E. D. Obraztsova

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085314 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Electrical control of magnetic quantum wells: Monte Carlo simulations

E. Dias Cabral, M. A. Boselli, R. Oszwałdowski, I. Žutić, and I. C. da Cunha Lima

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085315 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Hall viscosity, orbital spin, and geometry: Paired superfluids and quantum Hall systems

N. Read and E. H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085316 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Correlated terahertz acoustic and electromagnetic emission in dynamically screened InGaN/GaN quantum wells

P. J. S. van Capel, D. Turchinovich, H. P. Porte, S. Lahmann, U. Rossow, A. Hangleiter, and J. I. Dijkhuis

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085317 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Polarized and resonant Raman spectroscopy on single InAs nanowires

M. Möller, M. M. de Lima, Jr., A. Cantarero, L. C. O. Dacal, J. R. Madureira, F. Iikawa, T. Chiaramonte, and M. A. Cotta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085318 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Structural model for the GeO $_{2}$ /Ge interface: A first-principles study

Shoichiro Saito and Tomoya Ono

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085319 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Correlation between emission intensity of self-assembled germanium islands and quality factor of silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

N. Hauke, S. Lichtmannecker, T. Zabel, F. P. Laussy, A. Laucht, M. Kaniber, D. Bougeard, G. Abstreiter, J. J. Finley, and Y. Arakawa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085320 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Ultrafast stimulated emission due to quasidirect transitions in silicon nanocrystals

K. Žídek, I. Pelant, F. Trojánek, P. Malý, P. Gilliot, B. Hönerlage, J. Oberlé, L. Šiller, R. Little, and B. R. Horrocks

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085321 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Potential energy surface of In and Ga adatoms above the (111)A and (110) surfaces of a GaAs nanopillar

J. N. Shapiro, A. Lin, D. L. Huffaker, and C. Ratsch

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085322 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Enhancement of excitonic emission in semiconductor heterostructures due to resonant coupling to multipole plasmon modes in a gold particle

A. A. Toropov, T. V. Shubina, K. G. Belyaev, S. V. Ivanov, P. S. Kop'ev, Y. Ogawa, and F. Minami

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085323 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Interference with coupled microcavities: Optical analog of spin $2 π$ rotations

O. Di Stefano, R. Stassi, A. Ridolfo, S. Patanè, and S. Savasta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085324 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Enhancement of Rashba coupling in vertical In $_{0.05}$ Ga $_{0.95}$ As/GaAs quantum dots

S. M. Huang, A. O. Badrutdinov, L. Serra, T. Kodera, T. Nakaoka, N. Kumagai, Y. Arakawa, D. A. Tayurskii, K. Kono, and K. Ono

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085325 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Nonlinear spin Hall effect in GaAs (110) quantum wells

V. I. Ivanov, V. K. Dugaev, E. Ya. Sherman, and J. Barnaś

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085326 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Decoherence-assisted initialization of a resident hole spin polarization in a $p$ -doped semiconductor quantum well

M. Kugler, K. Korzekwa, P. Machnikowski, C. Gradl, S. Furthmeier, M. Griesbeck, M. Hirmer, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, T. Kuhn, C. Schüller, and T. Korn

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085327 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Optical polarization of localized hole spins in $p$ -doped quantum wells

M. Studer, M. Hirmer, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, K. Ensslin, and G. Salis

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085328 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Inherent Si dangling bond defects at the thermal (110)Si/ ${SiO}_{2}$ interface

K. Keunen, A. Stesmans, and V. V. Afanas’ev

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085329 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

O $1 s$ core-level shifts at the anatase TiO $_{2}$ (101)/N3 photovoltaic interface: Signature of H-bonded supramolecular assembly

Christopher E. Patrick and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085330 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Giant and reversible enhancement of the electrical resistance of GaAs $_{1 - x}$ N $_{x}$ by hydrogen irradiation

J. Alvarez, J.-P. Kleider, R. Trotta, A. Polimeni, M. Capizzi, F. Martelli, L. Mariucci, and S. Rubini

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085331 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling

Cheng-Ju Lin and Chyh-Hong Chern

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085332 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Probing plasmons in graphene by resonance energy transfer

Kirill A. Velizhanin and Anatoly Efimov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085401 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Theory of light scattering from self-affine surfaces: Relationship between surface morphology and effective medium roughness

Angel Yanguas-Gil, Brent A. Sperling, and John R. Abelson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085402 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Er sensitization by a thin Si layer: Interaction-distance dependence

B. Julsgaard, Y.-W. Lu, R. V. Skougaard Jensen, T. G. Pedersen, K. Pedersen, J. Chevallier, P. Balling, and A. Nylandsted Larsen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085403 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Excitonic effects in the optical properties of a SiC sheet and nanotubes

H. C. Hsueh, G. Y. Guo, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085404 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Scaling properties of induced density of chiral and nonchiral Dirac fermions in magnetic fields

P. S. Park, S. C. Kim, and S.-R. Eric Yang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085405 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Dielectric screening in two-dimensional insulators: Implications for excitonic and impurity states in graphane

Pierluigi Cudazzo, Ilya V. Tokatly, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085406 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Effects of epitaxial strain on the melting of supported nickel nanoparticles

D. Schebarchov and S. C. Hendy

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085407 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Effective mass of electrons and holes in bilayer graphene: Electron-hole asymmetry and electron-electron interaction

K. Zou, X. Hong, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085408 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Characterization of thermal transport in low-dimensional boron nitride nanostructures

Cem Sevik, Alper Kinaci, Justin B. Haskins, and Tahir Çağın

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085409 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum noise in ac-driven resonant-tunneling double-barrier structures: Photon-assisted tunneling versus electron antibunching

Jan Hammer and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085419 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Manipulating Si(100) at 5 K using qPlus frequency modulated atomic force microscopy: Role of defects and dynamics in the mechanical switching of atoms

A. Sweetman, S. Jarvis, R. Danza, J. Bamidele, L. Kantorovich, and P. Moriarty

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085426 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Nonequilibrium inelastic electronic transport: Polarization effects and vertex corrections to the self-consistent Born approximation

L. K. Dash, H. Ness, and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085433 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Energetics and structure of organic molecules embedded in single-wall carbon nanotubes from first principles: The example of benzene

Matus Milko and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085437 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Carbon nanotubes in electric and magnetic fields

Jelena Klinovaja, Manuel J. Schmidt, Bernd Braunecker, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085452 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Structural and electronic properties of double Pb chains on the Si(553)-Au surface

P. Nita, G. Zawadzki, M. Krawiec, and M. Jałochowski

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085453 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Conductance and persistent current in quasi-one-dimensional systems with grain boundaries: Effects of the strongly reflecting and columnar grains

J. Feilhauer and M. Moško

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085454 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Tight binding within the fourth moment approximation: Efficient implementation and application to liquid Ni droplet diffusion on graphene

J. H. Los, C. Bichara, and R. J. M. Pellenq

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085455 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011