Volume 85, Issue 8

15 February 2012

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Twisting graphene nanoribbons into carbon nanotubes

O. O. Kit, T. Tallinen, L. Mahadevan, J. Timonen, and P. Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085428 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

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Full configuration interaction perspective on the homogeneous electron gas

James J. Shepherd, George Booth, Andreas Grüneis, and Ali Alavi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081103(R) (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

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Low hole polaron migration barrier in lithium peroxide

Shyue Ping Ong, Yifei Mo, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081105(R) (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

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Surface plasmon enhanced absorption and suppressed transmission in periodic arrays of graphene ribbons

A. Yu. Nikitin, F. Guinea, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081405(R) (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

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Unusually long free carrier lifetime and metal-insulator band offset in vanadium dioxide

Chris Miller, Mark Triplett, Joel Lammatao, Joonki Suh, Deyi Fu, Junqiao Wu, and Dong Yu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085111 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

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Symmetry breaking via orbital-dependent reconstruction of electronic structure in detwinned NaFeAs

Y. Zhang, C. He, Z. R. Ye, J. Jiang, F. Chen, M. Xu, Q. Q. Ge, B. P. Xie, J. Wei, M. Aeschlimann, X. Y. Cui, M. Shi, J. P. Hu, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085121 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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Signature of antiferromagnetic long-range order in the optical spectrum of strongly correlated electron systems

C. Taranto, G. Sangiovanni, K. Held, M. Capone, A. Georges, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085124 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

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Accurate description of charge transport in organic field effect transistors using an experimentally extracted density of states

W. S. C. Roelofs, S. G. J. Mathijssen, R. A. J. Janssen, D. M. de Leeuw, and M. Kemerink

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085202 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

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Theory of thermal spin-charge coupling in electronic systems

Benedikt Scharf, Alex Matos-Abiague, Igor Žutić, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085208 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Improving accuracy and efficiency of calculations of photoemission spectra within the many-body perturbation theory

Huy-Viet Nguyen, T. Anh Pham, Dario Rocca, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081101(R) (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

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Ultrafast pump-probe measurements of short small-polaron lifetimes in the mixed-valence perovskite Cs $_{2}$ Au $_{2}$ I $_{6}$ under high pressures

M. Trigo, J. Chen, M. P. Jiang, W. L. Mao, S. C. Riggs, M. C. Shapiro, I. R. Fisher, and D. A. Reis

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081102(R) (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

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Full configuration interaction perspective on the homogeneous electron gas

James J. Shepherd, George Booth, Andreas Grüneis, and Ali Alavi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081103(R) (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

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Strain dependence of bonding and hybridization across the metal-insulator transition of VO $_{2}$

J. Laverock, L. F. J. Piper, A. R. H. Preston, B. Chen, J. McNulty, K. E. Smith, S. Kittiwatanakul, J. W. Lu, S. A. Wolf, P.-A. Glans, and J.-H. Guo

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081104(R) (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

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Low hole polaron migration barrier in lithium peroxide

Shyue Ping Ong, Yifei Mo, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081105(R) (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

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Luttinger liquid physics and spin-flip scattering on helical edges

M. Hohenadler and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081106(R) (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

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Kondo effect in the presence of spin-orbit coupling

L. Isaev, D. F. Agterberg, and I. Vekhter

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081107(R) (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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Optimal pumping of orbital entanglement with single-particle emitters

Y. Sherkunov, N. d’Ambrumenil, P. Samuelsson, and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081108(R) (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Role of self-trapping in luminescence and $p$ -type conductivity of wide-band-gap oxides

J. B. Varley, A. Janotti, C. Franchini, and C. G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081109(R) (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Absence of static stripes in the two-dimensional $t - J$ model determined using an accurate and systematic quantum Monte Carlo approach

Wen-Jun Hu, Federico Becca, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081110(R) (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Spectroscopic observation of strain-assisted $T_{C}$ enhancement in EuO upon Gd doping

S. G. Altendorf, N. Hollmann, R. Sutarto, C. Caspers, R. C. Wicks, Y.-Y. Chin, Z. Hu, H. Kierspel, I. S. Elfimov, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081201(R) (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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

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Resonance-hybrid states in a triple quantum dot

S. Amaha, T. Hatano, H. Tamura, S. Teraoka, T. Kubo, Y. Tokura, D. G. Austing, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081301(R) (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

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Nonadiabatic switching of a photonic band structure: Ultrastrong light-matter coupling and slow-down of light

M. Porer, J.-M. Ménard, A. Leitenstorfer, R. Huber, R. Degl’Innocenti, S. Zanotto, G. Biasiol, L. Sorba, and A. Tredicucci

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081302(R) (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

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Exciton acoustic-phonon coupling in single GaN/AlN quantum dots

Irina A. Ostapenko, Gerald Hönig, Sven Rodt, Andrei Schliwa, Axel Hoffmann, Dieter Bimberg, Matthias-René Dachner, Marten Richter, Andreas Knorr, Satoshi Kako, and Yasuhiko Arakawa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081303(R) (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

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Giant negative magnetoresistance in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems

A. T. Hatke, M. A. Zudov, J. L. Reno, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081304(R) (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

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Identification of magnetic dopants on the surfaces of topological insulators: Experiment and theory for Fe on Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ (111)

D. West, Y. Y. Sun, S. B. Zhang, T. Zhang, Xucun Ma, P. Cheng, Y. Y. Zhang, X. Chen, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081305(R) (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

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Observations of plasmarons in a two-dimensional system: Tunneling measurements using time-domain capacitance spectroscopy

O. E. Dial, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081306(R) (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Plasmonic crystals for ultrafast nanophotonics: Optical switching of surface plasmon polaritons

M. Pohl, V. I. Belotelov, I. A. Akimov, S. Kasture, A. S. Vengurlekar, A. V. Gopal, A. K. Zvezdin, D. R. Yakovlev, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081401(R) (2012) - Published 1 February, 2012

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Trapping surface electrons on graphene layers and islands

D. Niesner, Th. Fauster, J. I. Dadap, N. Zaki, K. R. Knox, P.-C. Yeh, R. Bhandari, R. M. Osgood, M. Petrović, and M. Kralj

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081402(R) (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

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Competition between thermally activated and tip-induced hopping of indium atoms on Si(100)

Martin Setvín, Jakub Javorský, Zsolt Majzik, Pavel Sobotík, Pavel Kocán, and Ivan Ošt’ádal

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081403(R) (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

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Spin-selective transport through helical molecular systems

R. Gutierrez, E. Díaz, R. Naaman, and G. Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081404(R) (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

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Surface plasmon enhanced absorption and suppressed transmission in periodic arrays of graphene ribbons

A. Yu. Nikitin, F. Guinea, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno

Phys. Rev. B 85, 081405(R) (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Lattice instability and elastic dispersion due to the rattling motion in the type-I clathrate Ba $_{8}$ Ga $_{16}$ Sn $_{30}$

Isao Ishii, Yasuhiko Suetomi, Takahiro K. Fujita, Koichiro Suekuni, Tomoo Tanaka, Toshiro Takabatake, Takashi Suzuki, and Marcos A. Avila

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085101 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Magnetic properties of the doped spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ honeycomb-lattice compound In $_{3}$ Cu $_{2}$ VO $_{9}$

Y. J. Yan, Z. Y. Li, T. Zhang, X. G. Luo, G. J. Ye, Z. J. Xiang, P. Cheng, L. J. Zou, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085102 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Symmetry-protected topological phases in noninteracting fermion systems

Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085103 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Fermi surface reconstruction in CeTe $_{2}$ induced by charge density waves investigated via angle resolved photoemission

J.-S. Kang, D. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Jihoon Hwang, Han-Koo Lee, H.-D. Kim, B. H. Min, K. E. Lee, Y. S. Kwon, J. W. Kim, Kyoo Kim, B. H. Kim, and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085104 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Continuous magnetic and structural phase transitions in Fe $_{1 + y}$ Te

I. A. Zaliznyak, Z. J. Xu, J. S. Wen, J. M. Tranquada, G. D. Gu, V. Solovyov, V. N. Glazkov, A. I. Zheludev, V. O. Garlea, and M. B. Stone

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085105 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Charge-gap formation in the insulating states of $A$ V $_{10}$ O $_{15}$ ( $A$ = Ba, Sr)

M. Hoshino, T. Kajita, T. Kanzaki, M. Uchida, Y. Tokura, and T. Katsufuji

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085106 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Linear-scaling DFT + $U$ with full local orbital optimization

David D. O’Regan, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Mike C. Payne, and Arash A. Mostofi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085107 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Crystal structure and physical properties of $^{243}$ AmPd $_{5}$ Al $_{2}$

J.-C. Griveau, K. Gofryk, D. Bouëxière, E. Colineau, and J. Rebizant

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085108 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Magnetic Compton profiles of Fe and Ni corrected by dynamical electron correlations

D. Benea, J. Minár, L. Chioncel, S. Mankovsky, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085109 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Electric-field-induced shift of the Mott metal-insulator transition in thin films

D. Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085110 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

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Unusually long free carrier lifetime and metal-insulator band offset in vanadium dioxide

Chris Miller, Mark Triplett, Joel Lammatao, Joonki Suh, Deyi Fu, Junqiao Wu, and Dong Yu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085111 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Size effects on thermoelectricity in a strongly correlated oxide

J. Ravichandran, A. K. Yadav, W. Siemons, M. A. McGuire, V. Wu, A. Vailionis, A. Majumdar, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085112 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Renormalization group approach to time-dependent transport through correlated quantum dots

D. M. Kennes, S. G. Jakobs, C. Karrasch, and V. Meden

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085113 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Multiorbital Kondo physics of Co in Cu hosts

Brigitte Surer, Matthias Troyer, Philipp Werner, Tim O. Wehling, Andreas M. Läuchli, Aljoscha Wilhelm, and Alexander I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085114 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Ground-state phases of the frustrated spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ $J_{1}$ – $J_{2}$ – $J_{3}$ Heisenberg ferromagnet ( $J_{1} < 0$ ) on the honeycomb lattice with $J_{3} = J_{2} > 0$

P. H. Y. Li, R. F. Bishop, D. J. J. Farnell, J. Richter, and C. E. Campbell

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085115 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Sampling and squeezing electromagnetic waves through subwavelength ultranarrow regions or openings

Mário G. Silveirinha and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085116 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Spin thermopower in interacting quantum dots

Tomaž Rejec, Rok Žitko, Jernej Mravlje, and Anton Ramšak

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085117 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Complex charge ordering in CeRuSn

R. Feyerherm, E. Dudzik, S. Valencia, J. A. Mydosh, Y.-K. Huang, W. Hermes, and R. Pöttgen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085120 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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Symmetry breaking via orbital-dependent reconstruction of electronic structure in detwinned NaFeAs

Y. Zhang, C. He, Z. R. Ye, J. Jiang, F. Chen, M. Xu, Q. Q. Ge, B. P. Xie, J. Wei, M. Aeschlimann, X. Y. Cui, M. Shi, J. P. Hu, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085121 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Multifractal nature of the surface local density of states in three-dimensional topological insulators with magnetic and nonmagnetic disorder

Matthew S. Foster

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085122 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Coexistence of charge-density wave and ferromagnetism in Ni $_{2}$ MnGa

S. W. D’Souza, Abhishek Rai, J. Nayak, M. Maniraj, R. S. Dhaka, S. R. Barman, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, and Aparna Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085123 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

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Signature of antiferromagnetic long-range order in the optical spectrum of strongly correlated electron systems

C. Taranto, G. Sangiovanni, K. Held, M. Capone, A. Georges, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085124 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Enhancement of light-matter interactions in slow-wave metasurfaces

Shiyi Xiao, Qiong He, Xueqin Huang, Shiwei Tang, and Lei Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085125 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Efficient $G W$ calculations for SnO $_{2}$ , ZnO, and rubrene: The effective-energy technique

J. A. Berger, Lucia Reining, and Francesco Sottile

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085126 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Optical methods for the evaluation of the thermal ionization barrier of lanthanide excited states in luminescent materials

M. Fasoli, A. Vedda, E. Mihóková, and M. Nikl

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085127 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Ab initio study of $2 p$ core-level x-ray photoemission spectra in ferromagnetic transition metals

Manabu Takahashi and Jun-ichi Igarashi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085128 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Time and spatially resolved quench of the fermionic Hubbard model showing restricted equilibration

Florian Goth and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085129 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Ferromagnetic quantum singularities and small pseudogap formation in Heusler type Fe $_{2 + x}$ V $_{1 - x}$ Al

T. Naka, K. Sato, M. Taguchi, T. Nakane, F. Ishikawa, Yuh Yamada, Y. Takaesu, T. Nakama, and A. Matsushita

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085130 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Orbital degrees of freedom as origin of magnetoelectric coupling in magnetite

Kunihiko Yamauchi and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085131 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Isotropic Landau levels of Dirac fermions in high dimensions

Yi Li, Kenneth Intriligator, Yue Yu, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085132 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Wigner-Mott scaling of transport near the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition

M. M. Radonjić, D. Tanasković, V. Dobrosavljević, K. Haule, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085133 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Hybrid functional study of band structures of GaAs $_{1 - x}$ N $_{x}$ and GaSb $_{1 - x}$ N $_{x}$ alloys

Ville Virkkala, Ville Havu, Filip Tuomisto, and Martti J. Puska

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085134 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

Extracting $E$ versus $\vec{k}$ effective band structure from supercell calculations on alloys and impurities

Voicu Popescu and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085201 (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

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Accurate description of charge transport in organic field effect transistors using an experimentally extracted density of states

W. S. C. Roelofs, S. G. J. Mathijssen, R. A. J. Janssen, D. M. de Leeuw, and M. Kemerink

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085202 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

First-principles studies of the electronic properties of native and substitutional anionic defects in bulk iron pyrite

Jun Hu, Yanning Zhang, Matt Law, and Ruqian Wu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085203 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Cation off-stoichiometry leads to high $p$ -type conductivity and enhanced transparency in Co $_{2}$ ZnO $_{4}$ and Co $_{2}$ NiO $_{4}$ thin films

A. Zakutayev, T. R. Paudel, P. F. Ndione, J. D. Perkins, S. Lany, A. Zunger, and D. S. Ginley

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085204 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Optical properties of PbTe and PbSe

Chinedu E. Ekuma, David J. Singh, J. Moreno, and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085205 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Effect of pulse error accumulation on dynamical decoupling of the electron spins of phosphorus donors in silicon

Zhi-Hui Wang, Wenxian Zhang, A. M. Tyryshkin, S. A. Lyon, J. W. Ager, E. E. Haller, and V. V. Dobrovitski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085206 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Role of lone pair electrons in determining the optoelectronic properties of BiCuOSe

S. Sallis, L. F. J. Piper, J. Francis, J. Tate, H. Hiramatsu, T. Kamiya, and H. Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085207 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of thermal spin-charge coupling in electronic systems

Benedikt Scharf, Alex Matos-Abiague, Igor Žutić, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085208 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in a flat band ferromagnet

An Zhao and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085209 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Annealing dynamics of irradiation-induced defects in high-purity silicon in the presence of hydrogen

J. H. Bleka, H. Malmbekk, E. V. Monakhov, B. G. Svensson, and B. S. Avset

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085210 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Distribution of localized states from fine analysis of electron spin resonance spectra of organic semiconductors: Physical meaning and methodology

Andrey S. Mishchenko, Hiroyuki Matsui (松井弘之), and Tatsuo Hasegawa (長谷川達生)

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085211 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

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

Negative trion emission spectrum in stacked quantum dots: External electric field and valence band mixing

W. J. Pasek and B. Szafran

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085301 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Semiconductor qubits based on fluorine implanted ZnMgSe/ZnSe quantum-well nanostructures

Y. M. Kim, D. Sleiter, K. Sanaka, Y. Yamamoto, J. Meijer, K. Lischka, and A. Pawlis

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085302 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Rashba effect in type-II resonant tunneling diodes enhanced by in-plane magnetic fields

J. Silvano de Sousa and J. Smoliner

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085303 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Isospin of topological defects in Dirac systems

Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085304 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Evidence for the formation of quasibound states in an asymmetrical quantum point contact

Phillip M. Wu, Peng Li, Hao Zhang, and A. M. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085305 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Electronic states and magnetic structure at the Co $_{3}$ O $_{4}$ (110) surface: A first-principles study

Jia Chen and Annabella Selloni

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085306 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Gate bias polarity dependent H migration and O vacancy generation through Si $=$ O–H complex formation in SiO $_{2}$ /Si(100)

Koichi Kato

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085307 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Probing atomic-scale friction on reconstructed surfaces of single-crystal semiconductors

M. Goryl, J. Budzioch, F. Krok, M. Wojtaszek, M. Kolmer, L. Walczak, J. Konior, E. Gnecco, and M. Szymonski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085308 (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

Theory of electronic properties and quantum spin blockade in a gated linear triple quantum dot with one electron spin each

Chang-Yu Hsieh, Yun-Pil Shim, and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085309 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Free-carrier absorption in quantum cascade structures

F. Carosella, C. Ndebeka-Bandou, R. Ferreira, E. Dupont, K. Unterrainer, G. Strasser, A. Wacker, and G. Bastard

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085310 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Spin resonance in a quantum wire: Anomalous effects of an applied magnetic field

Ar. Abanov, V. L. Pokrovsky, W. M. Saslow, and P. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085311 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Stability of Ge on Si (1 1 10) surfaces and the role of dimer tilting

Daniele Scopece, Francesco Montalenti, and Matthew J. Beck

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085312 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Strongly anisotropic spin relaxation revealed by resonant spin amplification in (110) GaAs quantum wells

M. Griesbeck, M. M. Glazov, E. Ya. Sherman, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, C. Schüller, and T. Korn

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085313 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Effect of surface stoichiometry on the band gap of the pyrite FeS $_{2}$ (100) surface

Y. N. Zhang, J. Hu, M. Law, and R. Q. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085314 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Direct observation of quantum confinement of Si nanocrystals in Si-rich nitrides

P. D. Nguyen, D. M. Kepaptsoglou, Q. M. Ramasse, and A. Olsen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085315 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Three-terminal thermoelectric transport under broken time-reversal symmetry

O. Entin-Wohlman and A. Aharony

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085401 (2012) - Published 1 February, 2012

Newton black films as wetting systems

Pedro Tarazona, Hector Martínez, Enrique Chacón, and Fernando Bresme

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085402 (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

Tuning the electronic structure of ultrathin crystalline silica films on Ru(0001)

R. Włodarczyk, M. Sierka, J. Sauer, D. Löffler, J. J. Uhlrich, X. Yu, B. Yang, I. M. N. Groot, S. Shaikhutdinov, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085403 (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

Adsorption of oxygen-containing functional groups on free and supported graphene using point contact

Qian Wang, D. X. Ye, Y. Kawazoe, and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085404 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Multimode metal-insulator-metal waveguides: Analysis and experimental characterization

Chien-I Lin and Thomas K. Gaylord

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085405 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Spin-dependent Klein tunneling in graphene: Role of Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪), Jan Bundesmann, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085406 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Elastic and plastic anisotropy after straining of nanocrystalline palladium

D. V. Bachurin and P. Gumbsch

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085407 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Large enhancement of thermoelectric effects in a double quantum dot system due to interference and Coulomb correlation phenomena

Piotr Trocha and Józef Barnaś

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085408 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Green's function method for line defects and gapless modes in topological insulators: Beyond the semiclassical approach

Ken Shiozaki and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085409 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

van der Waals density functional study of CO $_{2}$ binding in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

Keith G. Ray, David Olmsted, Ning He, Yao Houndonougbo, Brian B. Laird, and Mark Asta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085410 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Interwall screening and excitons in double-wall carbon nanotubes

Yuh Tomio, Hidekatsu Suzuura, and Tsuneya Ando

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085411 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Physisorption of benzene on a tin dioxide surface: van der Waals interaction

Matti Viitala, Mikael Kuisma, and Tapio T. Rantala

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085412 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of metallocene multiple-decker sandwich nanowires

C. Morari, H. Allmaier, F. Beiuşeanu, T. Jurcuţ, and L. Chioncel

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085413 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Thermodynamics, spin-charge separation, and correlation functions of spin- $1 / 2$ fermions with repulsive interaction

J. Y. Lee, X. W. Guan, K. Sakai, and M. T. Batchelor

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085414 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Tunneling transport through superconducting wires with Majorana bound states

B. H. Wu and J. C. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085415 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Metal-dielectric-metal surface plasmon-polariton resonators

Anu Chandran, Edward S. Barnard, Justin S. White, and Mark L. Brongersma

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085416 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Observation of linear solid-solid phase transformation in silicon nanoparticles

Kevin Mantey, Aiping Zhu, Jack Boparai, Munir Nayfeh, Charles Marsh, and Ghassan Al Chaar

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085417 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Exciton-phonon coupling in individual ZnTe nanorods studied by resonant Raman spectroscopy

Q. Zhang, J. Zhang, M. I. B. Utama, B. Peng, M. de la Mata, J. Arbiol, and Qihua Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085418 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Electron self-energy effects on chiral symmetry breaking in graphene

J. González

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085420 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Directing self-assembly of nanostructures kinetically: Patterning and the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier

Chuan-Fu Lin, Ajmi B. H. Hammouda, Hung-Chih Kan, N. C. Bartelt, and R. J. Phaneuf

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085421 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Nonmagnetic and magnetic thiolate-protected Au $_{25}$ superatoms on Cu(111), Ag(111), and Au(111) surfaces

Xi Chen, Mikkel Strange, and Hannu Häkkinen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085422 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Universal conductance fluctuations in indium tin oxide nanowires

Ping-Yu Yang, L. Y. Wang, Yao-Wen Hsu, and Juhn-Jong Lin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085423 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Channeling of charge carrier plasmons in carbon nanotubes

C. Kramberger, F. Roth, R. Schuster, R. Kraus, M. Knupfer, E. Einarsson, S. Maruyama, D. J. Mowbray, A. Rubio, and T. Pichler

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085424 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Influence of water on the electronic structure of metal-supported graphene: Insights from van der Waals density functional theory

Xiao Li (李晓), Ji Feng (冯济), Enge Wang (王恩哥), Sheng Meng (孟胜), Jiří Klimeš, and Angelos Michaelides

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085425 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Chlorination of carbon nanotubes

Dogan Erbahar and Savas Berber

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085426 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

First-principles studies of spin-orbit and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the {Cu $_{3}$ } single-molecule magnet

J. F. Nossa, M. F. Islam, C. M. Canali, and M. R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085427 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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Twisting graphene nanoribbons into carbon nanotubes

O. O. Kit, T. Tallinen, L. Mahadevan, J. Timonen, and P. Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085428 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Empty cage to three-dimensional structural transition in nanoparticles of III-V compound semiconductors: The finding of magic (AlP) $_{13}$ and (GaP) $_{32}$

Prabhsharan Kaur, S. S. Sekhon, and Vijay Kumar

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085429 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Spin freezing by Anderson localization in one-dimensional semiconductors

C. Echeverría-Arrondo and E. Ya. Sherman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085430 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Multiphonon relaxation of moderately excited carriers in Si/SiO $_{2}$ nanocrystals

A. S. Moskalenko, J. Berakdar, A. N. Poddubny, A. A. Prokofiev, I. N. Yassievich, and S. V. Goupalov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085432 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Role of applied bias and tip electronic structure in the scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

G. Teobaldi, E. Inami, J. Kanasaki, K. Tanimura, and A. L. Shluger

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085433 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Effect of electron-electron interaction on surface transport in the Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ family of three-dimensional topological insulators

H. K. Pal, V. I. Yudson, and D. L. Maslov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 085439 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

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Erratum: Graphene production by laser shot on graphene oxide: An ab initio prediction [Phys. Rev. B 85, 033402 (2012)]

Hong Zhang and Yoshiyuki Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. B 85, 089901 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Influence of strain on anisotropic thermoelectric transport in Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ and Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. B 84, 165214 (2011)]

N. F. Hinsche, B. Yu. Yavorsky, I. Mertig, and P. Zahn

Phys. Rev. B 85, 089902 (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

Publisher's Note: Probing atomic-scale friction on reconstructed surfaces of single-crystal semiconductors [Phys. Rev. B 85, 085308 (2012)]

M. Goryl, J. Budzioch, F. Krok, M. Wojtaszek, M. Kolmer, L. Walczak, J. Konior, E. Gnecco, and M. Szymonski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 089903 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012