Volume 86, Issue 15

J. D. Fletcher, M. Kataoka, S. P. Giblin, Sunghun Park, H.-S. Sim, P. See, D. A. Ritchie, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, H. E. Beere, and T. J. B. M. Janssen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155311 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Spin polarization of entangled and mixed electron states in a beam splitter geometry coupled to an electron reservoir

Luis A. González-Árraga, Bertrand Berche, and Ernesto Medina

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155312 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Sharp exponential band tails in highly disordered lead sulfide quantum dot arrays

Peter T. Erslev, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Jianbo Gao, Matthew C. Beard, Arthur J. Frank, Jao van de Lagemaat, Justin C. Johnson, and Joseph M. Luther

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155313 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh mobility and nonsaturating magnetoresistance in Heusler topological insulators

Chandra Shekhar, Siham Ouardi, Ajaya K. Nayak, Gerhard H. Fecher, Walter Schnelle, and Claudia Felser

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155314 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Many-body Green's function study of coumarins for dye-sensitized solar cells

Carina Faber, Ivan Duchemin, Thierry Deutsch, and Xavier Blase

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155315 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Breakdown of the $k$ -conservation rule in quantized Auger recombination in Si $_{1 - x}$ Ge $_{x}$ nanocrystals

Kei Ueda, Takeshi Tayagaki, Masatoshi Fukuda, Minoru Fujii, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155316 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Quantum oscillation of Rashba spin splitting in topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ induced by the quantum size effects of Pb adlayers

Hong Yang, Xiangyang Peng, Xiaolin Wei, Wenliang Liu, Wenguang Zhu, Di Xiao, G. Malcolm Stocks, and Jianxin Zhong

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155317 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Exchange interactions in Cd $_{1 - x}$ Mn $_{x}$ Te wide quantum wells

C. Rice, L. C. Smith, J. J. Davies, D. Wolverson, M. Wiater, G. Karczewski, and T. Wojtowicz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155318 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Charge transport in amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors

W. Chr. Germs, W. H. Adriaans, A. K. Tripathi, W. S. C. Roelofs, B. Cobb, R. A. J. Janssen, G. H. Gelinck, and M. Kemerink

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155319 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Unconventional Hall effect near charge neutrality point in a two-dimensional electron-hole system

O. E. Raichev, G. M. Gusev, E. B. Olshanetsky, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretsky, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155320 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Tuning of $L 1_{0}$ atomic order in Co-Pt nanoparticles: Ab initio insights

Roman V. Chepulskii and W. H. Butler

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155401 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Experimental verification of contact-size estimates in point-contact spectroscopy on superconductor/ferromagnet heterocontacts

J. Gramich, P. Brenner, C. Sürgers, H. v. Löhneysen, and G. Goll

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155402 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Phase coherent transport in graphene nanoribbons and graphene nanoribbon arrays

S. Minke, J. Bundesmann, D. Weiss, and J. Eroms

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155403 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Adsorption of small gold clusters on the $h$ -BN/Rh(111) nanomesh

Hans Peter Koch, Robert Laskowski, Peter Blaha, and Karlheinz Schwarz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155404 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Phases of the excitonic condensate in two-layer graphene

Yevhen F. Suprunenko, Vadim Cheianov, and Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155405 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Electron transport through single endohedral Ce@C $_{82}$ metallofullerenes

Satoshi Kaneko, Lu Wang, Guangfu Luo, Jing Lu, Shigeru Nagase, Satoru Sato, Michio Yamada, Zdenek Slanina, Takeshi Akasaka, and Manabu Kiguchi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155406 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Spin polarization and $g$ -factor enhancement in graphene nanoribbons in a magnetic field

S. Ihnatsenka and I. V. Zozoulenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155407 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Velocity weakening and possibility of aftershocks in nanoscale friction experiments

E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155408 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Infrared magnetospectroscopy of graphite in tilted fields

N. A. Goncharuk, L. Nádvorník, C. Faugeras, M. Orlita, and L. Smrčka

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155409 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Electronic charge redistribution in LaAlO $_{3}$ (001) thin films deposited at SrTiO $_{3}$ (001) substrate: First-principles analysis and the role of stoichiometry

Alexandre Sorokine, Dmitry Bocharov, Sergei Piskunov, and Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155410 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Inelastic shot noise characteristics of nanoscale junctions from first principles

R. Avriller and T. Frederiksen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155411 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Manifestation of chiral tunneling at a tilted graphene $p$ - $n$ junction

Redwan N. Sajjad, S. Sutar, J. U. Lee, and Avik W. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155412 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Decay rates of a molecule in the vicinity of a spherical surface of an isotropic magnetodielectric material

H. Y. Chung (鍾弘毅), P. T. Leung (梁培德), and D. P. Tsai (蔡定平)

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155413 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Effect of carrier mobility on magnetothermoelectric transport properties of graphene

Xinfei Liu, Deqi Wang, Peng Wei, Lijun Zhu, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155414 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Interacting electrons on trilayer honeycomb lattices

Michael M. Scherer, Stefan Uebelacker, Daniel D. Scherer, and Carsten Honerkamp

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155415 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

Predicting the electronic structure of weakly interacting hybrid systems: The example of nanosized peapod structures

Matus Milko, Peter Puschnig, and Claudia Draxl

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155416 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

Bucky-diamond versus onion-like carbon: End of graphitization

Qian Xu and Xiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155417 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

Nonequilibrium transport with self-consistent renormalized contacts for a single-molecule nanodevice with electron-vibron interaction

H. Ness and L. K. Dash

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155418 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Interaction of a graphene sheet with a ferromagnetic metal plate

Anh D. Phan, N. A. Viet, Nikolai A. Poklonski, Lilia M. Woods, and Chi H. Le

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155419 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Poisson noise induced switching in driven micromechanical resonators

J. Zou, S. Buvaev, M. Dykman, and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155420 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Self-assembly mechanisms of short atomic chains on single-layer graphene and boron nitride

V. Ongun Özçelik and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155421 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Chemical tip fingerprinting in scanning probe microscopy of an oxidized Cu(110) surface

J. Bamidele, Y. Kinoshita, R. Turanský, S. H. Lee, Y. Naitoh, Y. J. Li, Y. Sugawara, I. Štich, and L. Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155422 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Probing spin-charge relation by magnetoconductance in one-dimensional polymer nanofibers

A. Choi, K. H. Kim, S. J. Hong, M. Goh, K. Akagi, R. B. Kaner, N. N. Kirova, S. A. Brazovskii, A. T. Johnson, D. A. Bonnell, E. J. Mele, and Y. W. Park

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155423 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Towards equilibration and thermalization between finite quantum systems: Unitary emulation of dephasing effects and inelastic interactions

Manas Kulkarni, Kunal L. Tiwari, and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155424 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Observation of a two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of annealed SrTiO $_{3}$ single crystals by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

R. Di Capua, M. Radovic, G. M. De Luca, I. Maggio-Aprile, F. Miletto Granozio, N. C. Plumb, Z. Ristic, U. Scotti di Uccio, R. Vaglio, and M. Salluzzo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155425 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Faraday rotation in bilayer and trilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime

Takahiro Morimoto, Mikito Koshino, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155426 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Disorder effects on resonant tunneling transport in GaAs/(Ga,Mn)As heterostructures

Christian Ertler and Walter Pötz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155427 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Tunable artificial chirality with extraordinary transmission metamaterials

Mohamed Boutria, Rachid Oussaid, Daniel Van Labeke, and Fadi Issam Baida

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155428 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Two Anderson impurities in a two-dimensional host with Rashba spin-orbit interaction

T. I. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155429 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Defects and inhomogeneities in Fe $_{3}$ O $_{4}$ (111) thin film growth on Pt(111)

A. Sala, H. Marchetto, Z.-H. Qin, S. Shaikhutdinov, Th. Schmidt, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155430 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Stability of Majorana fermions in proximity-coupled topological insulator nanowires

A. M. Cook, M. M. Vazifeh, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155431 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Graphene on cubic and hexagonal SiC: A comparative theoretical study

O. Pankratov, S. Hensel, P. Götzfried, and M. Bockstedte

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155432 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Zener tunneling in the electrical transport of quasimetallic carbon nanotubes

Gaston Kané, Michele Lazzeri, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155433 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Contact effects of nickel and copper on electron transport through graphene

Hongmei Liu, Hisashi Kondo, and Takahisa Ohno

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155434 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Electronic ground-state properties of strained graphene

H. Rostami and Reza Asgari

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155435 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Semimetal-antiferromagnetic insulator transition in graphene induced by biaxial strain

Sung-Hoon Lee, Sungjin Kim, and Kinam Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155436 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Gas phase interactions at the surface of bare and gold nanoparticle decorated gallium nitride nanowires by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy

Ishwar B. Niraula, Blaise-Alexis F. Kengne, and David N. McIlroy

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155437 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

First-principles investigation of transient dynamics of molecular devices

Lei Zhang, Yanxia Xing, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155438 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Finite-difference method for transport of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in a ribbon geometry

Alexis R. Hernández and Caio H. Lewenkopf

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155439 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Interaction-induced enhancement of $g$ factor in graphene

A. V. Volkov, A. A. Shylau, and I. V. Zozoulenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155440 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Independence of plasmonic near-field enhancements to illumination beam profile

Matthew R. Foreman, Yonatan Sivan, Stefan A. Maier, and Peter Török

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155441 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Creation of entangled states in coupled quantum dots via adiabatic rapid passage

C. Creatore, R. T. Brierley, R. T. Phillips, P. B. Littlewood, and P. R. Eastham

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155442 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Dynamics of Ti, N, and TiN $_{x}$ ( $x = 1 - 3$ ) admolecule transport on TiN(001) surfaces

D. G. Sangiovanni, D. Edström, L. Hultman, V. Chirita, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155443 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Atomistic theoretical study of electronic and polarization properties of single and vertically stacked elliptical InAs quantum dots

Muhammad Usman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155444 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Noncommutative Kubo formula: Applications to transport in disordered topological insulators with and without magnetic fields

Yu Xue and Emil Prodan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155445 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Stabilization of carbon nanotubes by filling with inner tubes: An optical spectroscopy study on double-walled carbon nanotubes under hydrostatic pressure

B. Anis, K. Haubner, F. Börrnert, L. Dunsch, M. H. Rümmeli, and C. A. Kuntscher

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155454 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Magnetic configuration, electronic structure, and stability of the low-index surfaces of $η$ -Mn $_{3}$ N $_{2}$ : A first-principles study

Andrzej Kędziorski and M. Carmen Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155455 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Transport through a quantum spin Hall quantum dot

Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. B 86, 155456 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: PuPt $_{2}$ In $_{7}$ : A computational and experimental investigation [Phys. Rev. B 86, 115137 (2012)]

H. B. Rhee, F. Ronning, J.-X. Zhu, E. D. Bauer, J. N. Mitchell, P. H. Tobash, B. L. Scott, J. D. Thompson, Yu Jiang, C. H. Booth, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 86, 159901 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Erratum: Excitonic and biexcitonic properties of single GaN quantum dots modeled by 8-band $k \cdot p$ theory and configuration-interaction method [Phys. Rev. B 79, 245330 (2009)]

Stanko Tomić and Nenad Vukmirović

Phys. Rev. B 86, 159902 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Erratum: Oxidation-enhanced annealing of implantation-induced Z $_{1 / 2}$ centers in 4H-SiC: Reaction kinetics and modeling [Phys. Rev. B 86, 075205 (2012)]

L. S. Løvlie and B. G. Svensson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 159903 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Erratum: Resonant finite-size impurities in graphene, unitary limit, and Friedel oscillations [Phys. Rev. B 86, 115442 (2012)]

V. V. Mkhitaryan and E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 159904 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Publisher's Note: Collective excitations and stability of the excitonic phase in the extended Falicov-Kimball model [Phys. Rev. B 86, 155134 (2012)]

D. I. Golosov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 159905 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012