Volume 85, Issue 4

15 January 2012

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Mapping between quantum dot and quantum well lasers: From conventional to spin lasers

Jeongsu Lee, Rafał Oszwałdowski, Christian Gøthgen, and Igor Žutić

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045314 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

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Room-temperature continuous wave lasing in deep-subwavelength metallic cavities under electrical injection

K. Ding, Z. C. Liu, L. J. Yin, M. T. Hill, M. J. H. Marell, P. J. van Veldhoven, R. Nöetzel, and C. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041301(R) (2012) - Published 4 January, 2012

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Shot noise induced by electron-nuclear spin-flip scattering in a nonequilibrium quantum wire

Kensaku Chida, Masayuki Hashisaka, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Shuji Nakamura, Tomonori Arakawa, Tomoki Machida, Kensuke Kobayashi, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041309(R) (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Resistivity saturation in a weakly interacting two-dimensional Fermi liquid at intermediate temperatures

Xiaoqing Zhou, B. Schmidt, L. W. Engel, G. Gervais, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041310(R) (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Electromagnetic and gravitational responses and anomalies in topological insulators and superconductors

Shinsei Ryu, Joel E. Moore, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045104 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

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Skyrme crystal in bilayer and multilayer graphene

Yasuhisa Sakurai and Daijiro Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045108 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

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Magnetic phase diagram of MnSi in the high-field region

S. V. Demishev, V. V. Glushkov, I. I. Lobanova, M. A. Anisimov, V. Yu. Ivanov, T. V. Ishchenko, M. S. Karasev, N. A. Samarin, N. E. Sluchanko, V. M. Zimin, and A. V. Semeno

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045131 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

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Spectroscopic characterization of a multiband complex oxide: Insulating and conducting cement 12CaO $\cdot$ 7Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$

J. A. McLeod, A. Buling, E. Z. Kurmaev, P. V. Sushko, M. Neumann, L. D. Finkelstein, S.-W. Kim, H. Hosono, and A. Moewes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045204 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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Role of defect relaxation for trap-assisted tunneling in high- $κ$ thin films: A first-principles kinetic Monte Carlo study

Gunther Jegert, Dan Popescu, Paolo Lugli, Martin Johannes Häufel, Wenke Weinreich, and Alfred Kersch

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045303 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

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Material- and geometry-independent multishell cloaking device

Pattabhiraju C. Mundru, Venkatesh Pappakrishnan, and Dentcho A. Genov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045402 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

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Galois conjugates of topological phases

M. H. Freedman, J. Gukelberger, M. B. Hastings, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, and Z. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045414 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Transverse focusing of spin-polarized photocurrents

Juerong Li, A. M. Gilbertson, K. L. Litvinenko, L. F. Cohen, and S. K. Clowes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045431 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Nanoscale electron diffraction and plasmon spectroscopy of single- and few-layer boron nitride

C. T. Pan, R. R. Nair, U. Bangert, Q. Ramasse, R. Jalil, R. Zan, C. R. Seabourne, and A. J. Scott

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045440 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Two-dimensional Dirac fermions and quantum magnetoresistance in CaMnBi $_{2}$

Kefeng Wang (王克锋), D. Graf, Limin Wang (王莉敏), Hechang Lei (雷和畅), S. W. Tozer, and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041101(R) (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Equilibration of a spinless Luttinger liquid

K. A. Matveev and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041102(R) (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Proposed isotropic negative index in three-dimensional optical metamaterials

Boubacar Kante, Kevin O’Brien, Avi Niv, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041103(R) (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Flat bands with nontrivial topology in three dimensions

C. Weeks and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041104(R) (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Orbital, charge, and spin couplings in Ru $_{2}^{5 +}$ O $_{9}$ dimers of Ba $_{3}$ CoRu $_{2}$ O $_{9}$

H. D. Zhou, A. Kiswandhi, Y. Barlas, J. S. Brooks, T. Siegrist, G. Li, L. Balicas, J. G. Cheng, and F. Rivadulla

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041201(R) (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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

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Room-temperature continuous wave lasing in deep-subwavelength metallic cavities under electrical injection

K. Ding, Z. C. Liu, L. J. Yin, M. T. Hill, M. J. H. Marell, P. J. van Veldhoven, R. Nöetzel, and C. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041301(R) (2012) - Published 4 January, 2012

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Dispersion and damping of multiple quantum-well polaritons from resonant Brillouin scattering by folded acoustic modes

B. Jusserand, A. Fainstein, R. Ferreira, S. Majrab, and A. Lemaitre

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041302(R) (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

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Electron spin synchronization induced by optical nuclear magnetic resonance feedback

M. M. Glazov, I. A. Yugova, and Al. L. Efros

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041303(R) (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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Nonactivated transport of ultradilute two-dimensional hole systems in GaAs field-effect transistors: Interaction versus disorder

Jian Huang, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041304(R) (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

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Phonon-assisted relaxation between hole states in quantum dot molecules

Krzysztof Gawarecki and Paweł Machnikowski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041305(R) (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Confinement effects on the vibrational properties of III-V and II-VI nanoclusters

Peng Han and Gabriel Bester

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041306(R) (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Trions in ZnO quantum wells and verification of the valence band ordering

J. Puls, S. Sadofev, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041307(R) (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

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Hydrodynamic rectified drag current in a quantum wire induced by Wigner crystallization

M. Yamamoto, H. Takagi, M. Stopa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041308(R) (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

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Shot noise induced by electron-nuclear spin-flip scattering in a nonequilibrium quantum wire

Kensaku Chida, Masayuki Hashisaka, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Shuji Nakamura, Tomonori Arakawa, Tomoki Machida, Kensuke Kobayashi, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041309(R) (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Resistivity saturation in a weakly interacting two-dimensional Fermi liquid at intermediate temperatures

Xiaoqing Zhou, B. Schmidt, L. W. Engel, G. Gervais, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041310(R) (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Electronic transport in graphene-based structures: An effective cross-section approach

Andreas Uppstu, Karri Saloriutta, Ari Harju, Martti Puska, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041401(R) (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

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Effect of the band structure topology on the minimal conductivity for bilayer graphene with symmetry breaking

Gyula Dávid, Péter Rakyta, László Oroszlány, and József Cserti

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041402(R) (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

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Benzene adsorbed on Si(001): The role of electron correlation and finite temperature

Hyun-Jung Kim, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Jun-Hyung Cho, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041403(R) (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Interface structure of graphene on SiC(000 $\bar{1}$ )

N. Srivastava, Guowei He, Luxmi, and R. M. Feenstra

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041404(R) (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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Far- and near-field electron beam detection of hybrid cavity-plasmonic modes in gold microholes

I. Carmeli, M. A. Itskovsky, Y. Kauffmann, Y. Shaked, S. Richter, T. Maniv, and H. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 041405(R) (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Theoretical optical and x-ray spectra of liquid and solid H $_{2}$ O

J. Vinson, J. J. Kas, F. D. Vila, J. J. Rehr, and E. L. Shirley

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045101 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Stability of Ni sites across the pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in YNiO $_{3}$

Aline Y. Ramos, Cinthia Piamonteze, Hélio C. N. Tolentino, Narcizo M. Souza-Neto, Oana Bunau, Yves Joly, Stéphane Grenier, Jean-Paul Itié, Néstor E. Massa, José A. Alonso, and Maria J. Martinez-Lope

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045102 (2012) - Published 4 January, 2012

Optimizing large parameter sets in variational quantum Monte Carlo

Eric Neuscamman, C. J. Umrigar, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045103 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

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Electromagnetic and gravitational responses and anomalies in topological insulators and superconductors

Shinsei Ryu, Joel E. Moore, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045104 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Evaluation of high-order terms for the Hubbard model in the strong-coupling limit

Eva Kalinowski and Władysław Gluza

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045105 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Different types of dimensional crossover in quasi-one-dimensional spinless fermion systems

A. V. Rozhkov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045106 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Induced delocalization by correlation and interaction in the one-dimensional Anderson model

Conrad Albrecht and Sandro Wimberger

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045107 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Skyrme crystal in bilayer and multilayer graphene

Yasuhisa Sakurai and Daijiro Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045108 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Monoclinic $M_{1}$ phase of VO $_{2}$ : Mott-Hubbard versus band insulator

A. S. Belozerov, M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, and A. I. Poteryaev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045109 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Exact Kohn-Sham eigenstates versus quasiparticles in simple models of strongly correlated electrons

D. J. Carrascal and J. Ferrer

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045110 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Pressure-induced metal-insulator and spin-state transition in low-valence layered nickelates

Victor Pardo and Warren E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045111 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

First-order metal-to-metal phase transition and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a two-dimensional Mott insulating layer adsorbed on a metal substrate

H. Ishida and A. Liebsch

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045112 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Search for quantum criticality in a ferromagnetic system UNi $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ Si $_{2}$

A. P. Pikul and D. Kaczorowski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045113 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Monte Carlo study of a $U (1) \times U (1)$ system with $π$ -statistical interaction

Scott D. Geraedts and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045114 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Variational Monte Carlo for spin-orbit interacting systems

A. Ambrosetti, P. L. Silvestrelli, F. Toigo, L. Mitas, and F. Pederiva

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045115 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation without empty electronic states: Application to the absorption spectra of bulk systems

Dario Rocca, Yuan Ping, Ralph Gebauer, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045116 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Beyond linear response theory for intensive light-matter interactions: Order formalism and ultrafast transient dynamics

M. Battiato, G. Barbalinardo, K. Carva, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045117 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Quantum phase transitions in ultrathin films of three-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of an electrostatic potential and a Zeeman field

Huichao Li, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045118 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Edge-mode combinations in the entanglement spectra of non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states on the torus

Zhao Liu, Emil J. Bergholtz, Heng Fan, and Andreas M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045119 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

General method for calculating the universal conductance of strongly correlated junctions of multiple quantum wires

Armin Rahmani, Chang-Yu Hou, Adrian Feiguin, Masaki Oshikawa, Claudio Chamon, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045120 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Effects of static charging and exfoliation of layered crystals

M. Topsakal and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045121 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Transmission and Anderson localization in dispersive metamaterials

Ara A. Asatryan, Lindsay C. Botten, Michael A. Byrne, Valentin D. Freilikher, Sergey A. Gredeskul, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Ross C. McPhedran, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045122 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Phase diagram of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model

Christian Griset and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045123 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Topological and magnetic phases of interacting electrons in the pyrochlore iridates

William Witczak-Krempa and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045124 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Temperature-dependent behavior of confined many-electron systems in the Hartree-Fock approximation

Travis Sjostrom, Frank E. Harris, and S. B. Trickey

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045125 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Toward an orbital-free density functional theory of transition metals based on an electron density decomposition

Chen Huang and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045126 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Non-Gaussian resistance noise in the ferromagnetic insulating state of a hole-doped manganite

Sudeshna Samanta, A. K. Raychaudhuri, and Ya. M. Mukhovskii

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045127 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Imaging of 3 $d$ Mn orbitals in the ferromagnetic state for Ca-substituted manganite: Magnetic Compton investigation

Christopher Rumble, M. Itou, N. Hiraoka, Y. Sakurai, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, James E. Penner-Hahn, and Aniruddha Deb

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045128 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Boosting optical nonlinearities in $ε$ -near-zero plasmonic channels

Christos Argyropoulos, Pai-Yen Chen, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nader Engheta, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045129 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

Theory of topological Kondo insulators

Maxim Dzero, Kai Sun, Piers Coleman, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045130 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

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Magnetic phase diagram of MnSi in the high-field region

S. V. Demishev, V. V. Glushkov, I. I. Lobanova, M. A. Anisimov, V. Yu. Ivanov, T. V. Ishchenko, M. S. Karasev, N. A. Samarin, N. E. Sluchanko, V. M. Zimin, and A. V. Semeno

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045131 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Screened Coulomb interaction of localized electrons in solids from first principles

Bi-Ching Shih, Yubo Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, and Peihong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045132 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Spectral properties of the two-impurity Anderson model with varying distance and various interactions

Torben Jabben, Norbert Grewe, and Sebastian Schmitt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045133 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Time-dependent density functional theory for strong electromagnetic fields in crystalline solids

K. Yabana, T. Sugiyama, Y. Shinohara, T. Otobe, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045134 (2012) - Published 31 January, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

Pressure-induced transformations in amorphous Si-Ge alloy

F. Coppari, A. Polian, N. Menguy, A. Trapananti, A. Congeduti, M. Newville, V. B. Prakapenka, Y. Choi, E. Principi, and A. Di Cicco

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045201 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Electron spin-phonon interaction symmetries and tunable spin relaxation in silicon and germanium

Jian-Ming Tang (湯健銘), Brian T. Collins, and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045202 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Energetics and electronic structure of GaN codoped with Eu and Si

A. Vallan Bruno Cruz, Prashant P. Shinde, Vijay Kumar, and John M. Zavada

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045203 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Spectroscopic characterization of a multiband complex oxide: Insulating and conducting cement 12CaO $\cdot$ 7Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$

J. A. McLeod, A. Buling, E. Z. Kurmaev, P. V. Sushko, M. Neumann, L. D. Finkelstein, S.-W. Kim, H. Hosono, and A. Moewes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045204 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Optical and electronic properties of Si $_{3}$ N $_{4}$ and $α$ -SiO $_{2}$

G. Kresse, M. Marsman, L. E. Hintzsche, and E. Flage-Larsen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045205 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Photoexcited charge collection spectroscopy of two-dimensional polaronic states in polymer thin-film transistors

Jiyoul Lee, Bang-Lin Lee, Jae H. Kim, Sangyoon Lee, and Seongil Im

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045206 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Direct and indirect excitons in semiconductor coupled quantum wells in an applied electric field

K. Sivalertporn, L. Mouchliadis, A. L. Ivanov, R. Philp, and E. A. Muljarov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045207 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Charge extraction and photocurrent in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Andreas Petersen, Thomas Kirchartz, and Thomas A. Wagner

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045208 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Triplet dynamics in fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes

Bodo H. Wallikewitz, Dinesh Kabra, Simon Gélinas, and Richard H. Friend

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045209 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Chromium as resonant donor impurity in PbTe

M. D. Nielsen, E. M. Levin, C. M. Jaworski, K. Schmidt-Rohr, and J. P. Heremans

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045210 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

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

Limit cycles and chaos in the current through a quantum dot

Carlos López-Monís, Clive Emary, Gerold Kiesslich, Gloria Platero, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045301 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Magneto-optical probe of quantum Hall states in a wide parabolic well modulated by random potential

Yu. A. Pusep, L. Fernandes dos Santos, D. Smirnov, A. K. Bakarov, and A. I. Toropov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045302 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of defect relaxation for trap-assisted tunneling in high- $κ$ thin films: A first-principles kinetic Monte Carlo study

Gunther Jegert, Dan Popescu, Paolo Lugli, Martin Johannes Häufel, Wenke Weinreich, and Alfred Kersch

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045303 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Intersubband polaritons in the electrical dipole gauge

Yanko Todorov and Carlo Sirtori

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045304 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Interplay of spin and orbital magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effects in InSb/(Al,In)Sb quantum well structures

S. Stachel, P. Olbrich, C. Zoth, U. Hagner, T. Stangl, C. Karl, P. Lutz, V. V. Bel'kov, S. K. Clowes, T. Ashley, A. M. Gilbertson, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045305 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Rashba spin orbit interaction in a quantum wire superlattice

Gunnar Thorgilsson, J. Carlos Egues, Daniel Loss, and Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045306 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Multiple Dirac fermions from a topological insulator and graphene superlattice

Hosub Jin, Jino Im, Jung-Hwan Song, and Arthur J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045307 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Spin switching in a Mn-doped quantum dot using the optical Stark effect

D. E. Reiter, T. Kuhn, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045308 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Valence band structure of polytypic zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowires probed by polarization-dependent photoluminescence

D. Spirkoska, Al. L. Efros, W. R. L. Lambrecht, T. Cheiwchanchamnangij, A. Fontcuberta i Morral, and G. Abstreiter

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045309 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Effective Hamiltonian, energy spectrum, and phase transition induced by in-plane magnetic field in symmetric HgTe quantum wells

O. E. Raichev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045310 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Energy spectra of three electrons in Si/SiGe single and vertically coupled double quantum dots

Z. Liu, L. Wang, and K. Shen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045311 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Domain wall conduction in multiaxial ferroelectrics

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, George S. Svechnikov, Peter Maksymovych, and Sergei V. Kalinin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045312 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Sources of negative tunneling magnetoresistance in multilevel quantum dots with ferromagnetic contacts

Sonja Koller, Milena Grifoni, and Jens Paaske

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045313 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mapping between quantum dot and quantum well lasers: From conventional to spin lasers

Jeongsu Lee, Rafał Oszwałdowski, Christian Gøthgen, and Igor Žutić

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045314 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Experimental evidence for Luttinger liquid behavior in sufficiently long GaAs V-groove quantum wires

E. Levy, I. Sternfeld, M. Eshkol, M. Karpovski, B. Dwir, A. Rudra, E. Kapon, Y. Oreg, and A. Palevski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045315 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Discretized disorder in planar semiconductor microcavities: Mosaicity effect on resonant Rayleigh scattering and optical parametric oscillation

Marco Abbarchi, Carole Diederichs, Ludovic Largeau, Vincenzo Ardizzone, Olivia Mauguin, Timothee Lecomte, Aristide Lemaitre, Jacqueline Bloch, Philippe Roussignol, and Jerome Tignon

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045316 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Atomistic pseudopotential theory of spin relaxation in self-assembled In $_{1 - x}$ Ga $_{x}$ As/GaAs quantum dots at zero magnetic field

Hai Wei, Ming Gong, Guang-Can Guo, and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045317 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Competing hyperfine and spin-orbit couplings: Spin relaxation in a quantum Hall ferromagnet

S. Dickmann and T. Ziman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045318 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Photoluminescence from In $_{0.5}$ Ga $_{0.5}$ As/GaP quantum dots coupled to photonic crystal cavities

Kelley Rivoire, Sonia Buckley, Yuncheng Song, Minjoo Larry Lee, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045319 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Measuring which-path information with coupled electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

J. Dressel, Y. Choi, and A. N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045320 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Real-time simulation of finite-frequency noise from a single-electron emitter

T. Jonckheere, T. Stoll, J. Rech, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045321 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Surface structure of GaP(110): Ion scattering and density functional theory study

L. Fishwick, M. Walker, M. K. Bradley, D. P. Woodruff, and C. F. McConville

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045322 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Luminescence of GaAs nanowires consisting of wurtzite and zinc-blende segments

U. Jahn, J. Lähnemann, C. Pfüller, O. Brandt, S. Breuer, B. Jenichen, M. Ramsteiner, L. Geelhaar, and H. Riechert

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045323 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Characterization of low-frequency noise in the resistive switching of transition metal oxide HfO $_{2}$

Shimeng Yu, Rakesh Jeyasingh, Yi Wu, and H.-S. Philip Wong

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045324 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Enhanced shot noise in asymmetric interacting two-level systems

Assaf Carmi and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045325 (2012) - Published 31 January, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Polar-discontinuity-retaining $A$ -site intermixing and vacancies at SrTiO $_{3}$ /LaAlO $_{3}$ interfaces

V. Vonk, J. Huijben, D. Kukuruznyak, A. Stierle, H. Hilgenkamp, A. Brinkman, and S. Harkema

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045401 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Material- and geometry-independent multishell cloaking device

Pattabhiraju C. Mundru, Venkatesh Pappakrishnan, and Dentcho A. Genov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045402 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Evidence for an anomalous quantum state of protons in nanoconfined water

G. F. Reiter, A. I. Kolesnikov, S. J. Paddison, P. M. Platzman, A. P. Moravsky, M. A. Adams, and J. Mayers

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045403 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Anomalous photoluminescence Stokes shift in CdSe nanoparticle and carbon nanotube hybrids

Austin J. Akey, Chenguang Lu, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, and Irving P. Herman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045404 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Effects of unreconstructed and reconstructed polar surface terminations on growth, structure, and magnetic properties of hematite films

S. H. Cheung, A. Celik-Aktas, P. Dey, K. Pande, M. Weinert, B. Kabius, D. J. Keavney, V. K. Lazarov, S. A. Chambers, and M. Gajdardziska-Josifovska

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045405 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Tailoring magnetoresistance at the atomic level: An ab initio study

Kun Tao, V. S. Stepanyuk, I. Rungger, and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045406 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Waveguides with a silver lining: Low threshold gain and giant modal gain in active cylindrical and coaxial plasmonic devices

Amr A. E. Saleh and Jennifer A. Dionne

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045407 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Self-consistent approach for spectral properties of single alkali adatoms on Cu(111)

S. Achilli, M. I. Trioni, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045408 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Temperature dependence of the paramagnetic spin susceptibility of doped graphene

A. Faridi, M. Pashangpour, and Reza Asgari

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045410 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Comparison of microscopic models for disorder in bilayer graphene: Implications for density of states and optical conductivity

D. S. L. Abergel, Hongki Min, E. H. Hwang, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045411 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Biexciton binding energy in fractional dimensional semiconductors

Troels F. Rønnow, Thomas G. Pedersen, and Bart Partoens

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045412 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Magnetic-field-induced spin texture in a quantum wire with linear Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

S. Gujarathi, K. M. Alam, and S. Pramanik

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045413 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

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Galois conjugates of topological phases

M. H. Freedman, J. Gukelberger, M. B. Hastings, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, and Z. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045414 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Interplay between topological insulators and superconductors

Jian Wang, Cui-Zu Chang, Handong Li, Ke He, Duming Zhang, Meenakshi Singh, Xu-Cun Ma, Nitin Samarth, Maohai Xie, Qi-Kun Xue, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045415 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Long-scale dynamics of crystalline membranes

V. V. Lebedev and E. I. Kats

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045416 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier and interface-limited decay in island kinetics on Ag(100)

Xin Ge and Karina Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045417 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Si intercalation/deintercalation of graphene on 6 $H$ -SiC(0001)

C. Xia, S. Watcharinyanon, A. A. Zakharov, R. Yakimova, L. Hultman, L. I. Johansson, and C. Virojanadara

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045418 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Probing substrate effects in the carbon-projected band structure of graphene on Pt(111) through resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Srivats Rajasekaran, Sarp Kaya, Toyli Anniyev, Hirohito Ogasawara, and Anders Nilsson

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045419 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Exact renormalization group computation of the optical conductivity of graphene

Alessandro Giuliani and Vieri Mastropietro

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045420 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Effects of size polydispersity on the extinction spectra of colloidal nanoparticle aggregates

Alexander E. Ershov, Ivan L. Isaev, Polina N. Semina, Vadim A. Markel, and Sergei V. Karpov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045421 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Native defects in hybrid C/BN nanostructures by density functional theory calculations

J. M. Pruneda

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045422 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Kinetics of two-dimensional island nucleation on reconstructed surfaces

Sergey N. Filimonov and Yuri Yu. Hervieu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045423 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Spin-dependent avoided-crossing effect on quantum-well states in Al/W(110)

A. G. Rybkin, A. M. Shikin, D. Marchenko, A. Varykhalov, and O. Rader

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045425 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Role of structure of C-terminated $4 H$ -SiC( $000 \bar{1}$ ) surface in growth of graphene layers: Transmission electron microscopy and density functional theory studies

J. Borysiuk, J. Sołtys, R. Bożek, J. Piechota, S. Krukowski, W. Strupiński, J. M. Baranowski, and R. Stępniewski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045426 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Enhancement of local electromagnetic fields in plasmonic crystals of coaxial metallic nanostructures

Masanobu Iwanaga, Naoki Ikeda, and Yoshimasa Sugimoto

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045427 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Ultrafast luminescence kinetics of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes: Possible evidence for excitonic luminescence

Takeshi Koyama, Satoru Shimizu, Takeshi Saito, Yasumitsu Miyata, Hisanori Shinohara, and Arao Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045428 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Anisotropic surface-state-mediated RKKY interaction between adatoms

Paul N. Patrone and T. L. Einstein

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045429 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Scaling of characteristic frequencies of organic electronic ratchets

Erik M. Roeling, Wijnand Chr. Germs, Barry Smalbrugge, Erik Jan Geluk, Tjibbe de Vries, René A. J. Janssen, and Martijn Kemerink

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045430 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Transverse focusing of spin-polarized photocurrents

Juerong Li, A. M. Gilbertson, K. L. Litvinenko, L. F. Cohen, and S. K. Clowes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045431 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Cascaded plasmonic metamaterials for phase-controlled enhancement of nonlinear absorption and refraction

Seyfollah Toroghi and Pieter G. Kik

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045432 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Charge transport across metal/molecular (alkyl) monolayer-Si junctions is dominated by the LUMO level

Omer Yaffe, Yabing Qi, Luc Scheres, Sreenivasa Reddy Puniredd, Lior Segev, Tal Ely, Hossam Haick, Han Zuilhof, Ayelet Vilan, Leeor Kronik, Antoine Kahn, and David Cahen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045433 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Gap-plasmon nanoantennas and bowtie resonators

Dmitri K. Gramotnev, Anders Pors, Morten Willatzen, and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045434 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Role of dipole-dipole interactions for hyperthermia heating of magnetic nanoparticle ensembles

C. Haase and U. Nowak

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045435 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Modifying the Casimir force between indium tin oxide film and Au sphere

A. A. Banishev, C.-C. Chang, R. Castillo-Garza, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko, and U. Mohideen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045436 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Effect of van der Waals interaction on energetics and transport properties of a single anthracene molecule adsorbed or confined inside a carbon nanotube

L. Debbichi, Y. J. Dappe, and M. Alouani

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045437 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Experimental study of hot spots in gold/glass nanocomposite films by photoemission electron microscopy

C. Awada, G. Barbillon, F. Charra, L. Douillard, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045438 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

High-dimensional neural network potentials for metal surfaces: A prototype study for copper

Nongnuch Artrith and Jörg Behler

Phys. Rev. B 85, 045439 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Semiclassical interpretation of the spin interference effect observed in square loop arrays of In $_{0.53}$ Ga $_{0.47}$ As/In $_{0.52}$ Al $_{0.48}$ As quantum wells [Phys. Rev. B 84, 233305 (2011)]

S. Mineshige, S. Kawabata, S. Faniel, J. Waugh, Y. Sekine, and T. Koga

Phys. Rev. B 85, 049901 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Discretized disorder in planar semiconductor microcavities: Mosaicity effect on resonant Rayleigh scattering and optical parametric oscillation [Phys. Rev. B 85, 045316 (2012)]

Marco Abbarchi, Carole Diederichs, Ludovic Largeau, Vincenzo Ardizzone, Olivia Mauguin, Timothee Lecomte, Aristide Lemaitre, Jacqueline Bloch, Philippe Roussignol, and Jerome Tignon

Phys. Rev. B 85, 049902 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Anisotropic surface-state-mediated RKKY interaction between adatoms [Phys. Rev. B 85, 045429 (2012)]

Paul N. Patrone and T. L. Einstein

Phys. Rev. B 85, 049903 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012