Volume 86, Issue 16

15 October 2012

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Asymmetric electron and hole transport in a high-mobility $n$ -type conjugated polymer

Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, Martijn Kuik, Yoann Olivier, Vincent Lemaur, Jérôme Cornil, Simone Fabiano, Maria Antonietta Loi, and Paul W. M. Blom

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165203 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Inelastic scattering in nanoscale devices: One-shot current-conserving lowest-order approximation

H. Mera, M. Lannoo, C. Li, N. Cavassilas, and M. Bescond

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161404(R) (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

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Quantum circuits for measuring Levin-Wen operators

N. E. Bonesteel and D. P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165113 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

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Defects and high bulk resistivities in the Bi-rich tetradymite topological insulator Bi $_{2 + x}$ Te $_{2 - x}$ Se

Shuang Jia, Haim Beidenkopf, Ilya Drozdov, M. K. Fuccillo, Jungpil Seo, Jun Xiong, N. P. Ong, Ali Yazdani, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165119 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

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Truncated configuration interaction expansions as solvers for correlated quantum impurity models and dynamical mean-field theory

Dominika Zgid, Emanuel Gull, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165128 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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Origin of gate hysteresis in $p$ -type Si-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures

A. M. Burke, D. E. J. Waddington, D. J. Carrad, R. W. Lyttleton, H. H. Tan, P. J. Reece, O. Klochan, A. R. Hamilton, A. Rai, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and A. P. Micolich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165309 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

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Quantum Hall transitions: An exact theory based on conformal restriction

E. Bettelheim, I. A. Gruzberg, and A. W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165324 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Nonequilibrium dynamics across an impurity quantum critical point due to quantum quenches

Marco Schiró

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161101(R) (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

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Orbital ordering under reduced symmetry in transition metal perovskites: Oxygen vacancy in SrTiO $_{3}$

Chungwei Lin, Chandrima Mitra, and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161102(R) (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

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Electrical control of the Kondo effect in a helical edge liquid

Erik Eriksson, Anders Ström, Gargee Sharma, and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161103(R) (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

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Transformation electronics: Tailoring the effective mass of electrons

Mário G. Silveirinha and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161104(R) (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

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Single Dirac cone on the Cs-covered topological insulator surface Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ (0001)

Christoph Seibel, Henriette Maaß, Minoru Ohtaka, Sebastian Fiedler, Christian Jünger, Chul-Hee Min, Hendrik Bentmann, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, and Friedrich Reinert

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161105(R) (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

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Finite-size effect of antiferromagnetic transition and electronic structure in LiFePO $_{4}$

G. J. Shu, M. W. Wu, and F. C. Chou

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161106(R) (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

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Projective non-Abelian statistics of dislocation defects in a $Z_{N}$ rotor model

Yi-Zhuang You and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161107(R) (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

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Nearly flat Andreev bound states in superconductor-topological insulator hybrid structures

Mahmoud Lababidi and Erhai Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161108(R) (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

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Generalized Gibbs ensemble and work statistics of a quenched Luttinger liquid

Balázs Dóra, Ádám Bácsi, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161109(R) (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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Strong correlations at topological insulator surfaces and the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence

Manuel J. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161110(R) (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Spatially resolved photocarrier energy relaxation in low-doped bulk GaAs

T. Kiessling, J.-H. Quast, A. Kreisel, T. Henn, W. Ossau, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161201(R) (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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

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Single quantum dot photocurrent spectroscopy in the cavity quantum electrodynamics regime

P. Gold, M. Gschrey, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. Forchel, M. Kamp, and S. Reitzenstein

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161301(R) (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

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Influence of the atomic-scale structure on the exciton fine-structure splitting in InGaAs and GaAs quantum dots in a vertical electric field

Jun-Wei Luo, Ranber Singh, Alex Zunger, and Gabriel Bester

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161302(R) (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

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Hole spin mode locking and coherent dynamics in a largely inhomogeneous ensemble of $p$ -doped InAs quantum dots

F. Fras, B. Eble, B. Siarry, F. Bernardot, A. Miard, A. Lemaître, C. Testelin, and M. Chamarro

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161303(R) (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

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Chirped laser excitation of quantum dot excitons coupled to a phonon bath

A. Debnath, C. Meier, B. Chatel, and T. Amand

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161304(R) (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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Quenching of the transient miniband photoconductivity in semiconductor superlattices due to a cancellation of field acceleration by Bragg reflection

T. Ihara, J. R. Cardenas, Y. Sakasegawa, R. Ferreira, G. Bastard, and K. Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161305(R) (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Spin Hall effect in graphene due to random Rashba field

A. Dyrdał and J. Barnaś

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161401(R) (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

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High-temperature behavior of supported graphene: Electron-phonon coupling and substrate-induced doping

Søren Ulstrup, Marco Bianchi, Richard Hatch, Dandan Guan, Alessandro Baraldi, Dario Alfè, Liv Hornekær, and Philip Hofmann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161402(R) (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

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Reentrant formation of magnetic polarons in quantum dots

J. M. Pientka, R. Oszwałdowski, A. G. Petukhov, J. E. Han, and Igor Žutić

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161403(R) (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

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Inelastic scattering in nanoscale devices: One-shot current-conserving lowest-order approximation

H. Mera, M. Lannoo, C. Li, N. Cavassilas, and M. Bescond

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161404(R) (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

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Nonergodicity and microscopic symmetry breaking of the conductance fluctuations in disordered mesoscopic graphene

G. Bohra, R. Somphonsane, N. Aoki, Y. Ochiai, R. Akis, D. K. Ferry, and J. P. Bird

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161405(R) (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Electrically controlled magnetization in ferromagnet-topological insulator heterostructures

Yuriy G. Semenov, Xiaopeng Duan, and Ki Wook Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161406(R) (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Spin-valley optical selection rule and strong circular dichroism in silicene

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161407(R) (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

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Screening and collective modes in gapped bilayer graphene

C. Triola and E. Rossi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161408(R) (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

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Hyperfine-induced decoherence in triangular spin-cluster qubits

Filippo Troiani, Dimitrije Stepanenko, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161409(R) (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

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Finite-frequency noise in a quantum point contact between helical edge states

J.-R. Souquet and P. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161410(R) (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Massless or heavy due to two-fold symmetry: Surface-state electrons at W(110)

K. Miyamoto, A. Kimura, T. Okuda, K. Shimada, H. Iwasawa, H. Hayashi, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, and M. Donath

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161411(R) (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Density fluctuation effects on the exciton condensate in double-layer graphene

D. S. L. Abergel, R. Sensarma, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161412(R) (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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Singular response to a dopant of an evaporating crystal surface

Vladislav Popkov and Paolo Politi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161413(R) (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

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Appearance of the minority $d_{z^{2}}$ surface state and disappearance of the image-potential state: Criteria for clean Fe(001)

Christian Eibl, Anke B. Schmidt, and Markus Donath

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161414(R) (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

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Dephasing of $G$ -band phonons in single-wall carbon nanotubes probed via impulsive stimulated Raman scattering

J.-H. Kim, K.-J. Yee, Y.-S. Lim, L. G. Booshehri, E. H. Hároz, and J. Kono

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161415(R) (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

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Long-distance spin transport in high-mobility graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

P. J. Zomer, M. H. D. Guimarães, N. Tombros, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. B 86, 161416(R) (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Compositional disorder and transport peculiarities in the amorphous indium oxides

U. Givan and Z. Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165101 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

K-edge x-ray absorption spectra in transition-metal oxides beyond the single-particle approximation: Shake-up many-body effects

M. Calandra, J. P. Rueff, C. Gougoussis, D. Céolin, M. Gorgoi, S. Benedetti, P. Torelli, A. Shukla, D. Chandesris, and Ch. Brouder

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165102 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Coherent perfect absorption in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

Simin Feng and Klaus Halterman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165103 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Scaling of non-Ohmic conduction in strongly correlated systems

D. Talukdar, U. N. Nandi, A. Poddar, P. Mandal, and K. K. Bardhan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165104 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Hubbard $U$ and Hund exchange $J$ in transition metal oxides: Screening versus localization trends from constrained random phase approximation

Loïg Vaugier, Hong Jiang, and Silke Biermann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165105 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Thermopower of an SU(4) Kondo resonance under an SU(2) symmetry-breaking field

P. Roura-Bas, L. Tosi, A. A. Aligia, and P. S. Cornaglia

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165106 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Ferromagnetic state in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model

Robert Peters and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165107 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Intrinsic spin Hall effect in monolayers of group-VI dichalcogenides: A first-principles study

Wanxiang Feng, Yugui Yao, Wenguang Zhu, Jinjian Zhou, Wang Yao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165108 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

van der Waals density functional for solids

Torbjörn Björkman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165109 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Fractional spin Josephson effect and electrically controlled magnetization in quantum spin Hall edges

Qinglei Meng, Vasudha Shivamoggi, Taylor L. Hughes, Matthew J. Gilbert, and Smitha Vishveshwara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165110 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Dimensional crossover of spin chains in a transverse staggered field: An NMR study

F. Casola, T. Shiroka, V. Glazkov, A. Feiguin, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi, A. Zheludev, H.-R. Ott, and J. Mesot

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165111 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Fermi surface sheet-dependent band splitting in Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$ revealed by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Shanyu Liu, Hongming Weng, Daixiang Mou, Wentao Zhang, Quansheng Wu, Junfeng He, Guodong Liu, Lin Zhao, Haiyun Liu, Xiaowen Jia, Yingying Peng, Shaolong He, Xiaoli Dong, Jun Zhang, Z. Q. Mao, Chuangtian Chen, Zuyan Xu, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, and X. J. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165112 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum circuits for measuring Levin-Wen operators

N. E. Bonesteel and D. P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165113 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Enhanced thermoelectric response of hole-doped La $_{2}$ NiO $_{4 + δ}$ from ab initio calculations

Victor Pardo, Antia S. Botana, and Daniel Baldomir

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165114 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Redirecting focus in CuInSe $_{2}$ research towards selenium-related defects

L. E. Oikkonen, M. G. Ganchenkova, A. P. Seitsonen, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165115 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Strongly correlated topological superconductors and topological phase transitions via Green's function

Zhong Wang and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165116 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Abrupt change in the energy gap of superconducting Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals with hole doping

W. Malaeb, T. Shimojima, Y. Ishida, K. Okazaki, Y. Ota, K. Ohgushi, K. Kihou, T. Saito, C. H. Lee, S. Ishida, M. Nakajima, S. Uchida, H. Fukazawa, Y. Kohori, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, C.-T. Chen, S. Watanabe, H. Ikeda, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165117 (2012) - Published 10 October, 2012

Theory of dielectric nanofilms in strong ultrafast optical fields

Vadym Apalkov and Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165118 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

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Defects and high bulk resistivities in the Bi-rich tetradymite topological insulator Bi $_{2 + x}$ Te $_{2 - x}$ Se

Shuang Jia, Haim Beidenkopf, Ilya Drozdov, M. K. Fuccillo, Jungpil Seo, Jun Xiong, N. P. Ong, Ali Yazdani, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165119 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Guided-mode phonon-polaritons in suspended waveguides

Scott A. Holmstrom, Todd H. Stievater, Marcel W. Pruessner, Doewon Park, William S. Rabinovich, Jacob B. Khurgin, Christopher J. K. Richardson, Subramaniam Kanakaraju, Lynn C. Calhoun, and Reza Ghodssi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165120 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Interaction-enhanced magnetically ordered insulating state at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator

Maxim Kharitonov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165121 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Electronic structure and optical conductivities of 20 MAX-phase compounds

Yuxiang Mo, Paul Rulis, and W. Y. Ching

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165122 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Electronic properties of multiple adjacent $δ$ -doped Si:P layers: The approach to monolayer confinement

A. Budi, D. W. Drumm, M. C. Per, A. Tregonning, S. P. Russo, and L. C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165123 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Screened Coulomb interactions of localized electrons in transition metals and transition-metal oxides

Bi-Ching Shih, Tesfaye A. Abtew, Xun Yuan, Wenqing Zhang, and Peihong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165124 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Magnetic-field-induced dimensional crossover in the organic metal $α$ -(BEDT-TTF) $_{2}$ KHg(SCN) $_{4}$

P. D. Grigoriev, M. V. Kartsovnik, and W. Biberacher

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165125 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Pseudogap-related charge dynamics in the layered nickelate $R_{2 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ NiO $_{4}$ ( $x \sim 1$ )

M. Uchida, Y. Yamasaki, Y. Kaneko, K. Ishizaka, J. Okamoto, H. Nakao, Y. Murakami, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165126 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Theory of a quantum critical phenomenon in a topological insulator: (3+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics in solids

Hiroki Isobe and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165127 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

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Truncated configuration interaction expansions as solvers for correlated quantum impurity models and dynamical mean-field theory

Dominika Zgid, Emanuel Gull, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165128 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Adiabatic continuity between Hofstadter and Chern insulator states

Ying-Hai Wu, J. K. Jain, and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165129 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Lensing system and Fourier transformation using epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

M. Navarro-Cía, M. Beruete, M. Sorolla, and N. Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165130 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Evolution of Eu $^{2 +}$ spin dynamics in Ba $_{1 - x}$ Eu $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

P. F. S. Rosa, C. Adriano, W. Iwamoto, T. M. Garitezi, T. Grant, Z. Fisk, and P. G. Pagliuso

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165131 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Threshold behavior of the Einstein oscillator, electron-phonon interaction, band-edge absorption, and small hole polarons in LiNbO $_{3}$ :Mg crystals

Feifei Xin, Zhaohui Zhai, Xiaojie Wang, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu, and Guoquan Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165132 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Elementary formula for the Hall conductivity of interacting systems

Titus Neupert, Luiz Santos, Claudio Chamon, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165133 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Correlated metallic state in honeycomb lattice: Orthogonal Dirac semimetal

Yin Zhong, Ke Liu, Yong-Qiang Wang, and Hong-Gang Luo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165134 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of the lowest energy excitations in the Mott insulator compound YVO $_{3}$ : Evidence for Hubbard-type excitons

Fabio Novelli, Daniele Fausti, Julia Reul, Federico Cilento, Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht, Agung A. Nugroho, Thomas T. M. Palstra, Markus Grüninger, and Fulvio Parmigiani

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165135 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Lifshitz transition in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

K.-S. Chen, Z. Y. Meng, T. Pruschke, J. Moreno, and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165136 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

Meaning of reaction orders in polymer:fullerene solar cells

Thomas Kirchartz and Jenny Nelson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165201 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Improved quantitative description of Auger recombination in crystalline silicon

Armin Richter, Stefan W. Glunz, Florian Werner, Jan Schmidt, and Andres Cuevas

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165202 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Asymmetric electron and hole transport in a high-mobility $n$ -type conjugated polymer

Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, Martijn Kuik, Yoann Olivier, Vincent Lemaur, Jérôme Cornil, Simone Fabiano, Maria Antonietta Loi, and Paul W. M. Blom

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165203 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Efficient optical pumping of organic-inorganic heterostructures for nonlinear optics

V. M. Agranovich, D. M. Basko, and G. C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165204 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Physical properties of transparent perovskite oxides (Ba,La)SnO $_{3}$ with high electrical mobility at room temperature

Hyung Joon Kim, Useong Kim, Tai Hoon Kim, Jiyeon Kim, Hoon Min Kim, Byung-Gu Jeon, Woong-Jhae Lee, Hyo Sik Mun, Kwang Taek Hong, Jaejun Yu, Kookrin Char, and Kee Hoon Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165205 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Fundamental limitations of hot-carrier solar cells

A. P. Kirk and M. V. Fischetti

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165206 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Attracting shallow donors: Hydrogen passivation in (Al,Ga,In)-doped ZnO

M. Matsubara, M. N. Amini, R. Saniz, D. Lamoen, and B. Partoens

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165207 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Electronic and magnetic properties of Gd-doped EuO

Masao Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165208 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

Hybrid density functional study of the structural, bonding, and electronic properties of bismuth vanadate

Kyoung E. Kweon and Gyeong S. Hwang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165209 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Analysis of electronic subgap states in amorphous semiconductor oxides based on the example of Zn-Sn-O systems

Wolfgang Körner, Peter Gumbsch, and Christian Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165210 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Computational design of low-band-gap double perovskites

Robert F. Berger and Jeffrey B. Neaton

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165211 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

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

Electron spin orientation under in-plane optical excitation in GaAs quantum wells

S. Pfalz, R. Winkler, N. Ubbelohde, D. Hägele, and M. Oestreich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165301 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Infrared conductivity of hole accumulation and depletion layers in (Ga,Mn)As- and (Ga,Be)As-based electric field-effect devices

B. C. Chapler, S. Mack, L. Ju, T. W. Elson, B. W. Boudouris, E. Namdas, J. D. Yuen, A. J. Heeger, N. Samarth, M. Di Ventra, R. A. Segalman, D. D. Awschalom, F. Wang, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165302 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Accelerated molecular dynamics study of the $GaAs (001) β 2 (2 \times 4) / c (2 \times 8)$ surface

Yangzheng Lin and Kristen A. Fichthorn

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165303 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Wave pattern induced by a localized obstacle in the flow of a one-dimensional polariton condensate

P.-É. Larré, N. Pavloff, and A. M. Kamchatnov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165304 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Inhomogeneous longitudinal electric field-induced anomalous Hall conductivity in a ferromagnetic two-dimensional electron gas

Ankur Sensharma and Sudhansu S. Mandal

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165305 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Optical control of the spin state of two Mn atoms in a quantum dot

L. Besombes, C. L. Cao, S. Jamet, H. Boukari, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165306 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Surface organization of homoepitaxial InP films grown by metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy

A. Gocalinska, M. Manganaro, E. Pelucchi, and D. D. Vvedensky

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165307 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Anisotropy of spin polarization and spin accumulation in Si/Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ /ferromagnet tunnel devices

S. Sharma, S. P. Dash, H. Saito, S. Yuasa, B. J. van Wees, and R. Jansen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165308 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Origin of gate hysteresis in $p$ -type Si-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures

A. M. Burke, D. E. J. Waddington, D. J. Carrad, R. W. Lyttleton, H. H. Tan, P. J. Reece, O. Klochan, A. R. Hamilton, A. Rai, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and A. P. Micolich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165309 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Enhancement and narrowing of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations due to built-in electric field in stacked type-II ZnTe/ZnSe quantum dots: Spectral analysis

B. Roy, H. Ji, S. Dhomkar, F. J. Cadieu, L. Peng, R. Moug, M. C. Tamargo, Y. Kim, D. Smirnov, and I. L. Kuskovsky

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165310 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

Decay of Shockley surface state by randomly adsorbed Bi atoms at Ag(111) surfaces

Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Yuki Aoki, and Hiroyuki Hirayama

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165311 (2012) - Published 11 October, 2012

Electric control of the exciton fine structure in nonparabolic quantum dots

Erik Welander and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165312 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Surface states scattering from a step defect in the topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$

Jin An and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165313 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Particle entanglement spectra for quantum Hall states on lattices

Antoine Sterdyniak, Nicolas Regnault, and Gunnar Möller

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165314 (2012) - Published 12 October, 2012

Role of intermolecular coupling and electron-nuclear coupling in the photophysics of oligothiophenes

M. A. Saidani, A. Benfredj, S. Romdhane, F. Kouki, and H. Bouchriha

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165315 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Conditions for formation of germanium quantum dots in amorphous matrices by MeV ions: Comparison with standard thermal annealing

I. Bogdanović-Radović, M. Buljan, M. Karlušić, N. Skukan, I. Božičević, M. Jakšić, N. Radić, G. Dražić, and S. Bernstorff

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165316 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Coupled electron–heat transport in nonuniform thin film semiconductor structures

V. G. Karpov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165317 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Intrinsic oscillations of spin current polarization in a paramagnetic resonant tunneling diode

P. Wójcik, J. Adamowski, M. Wołoszyn, and B. J. Spisak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165318 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Numerical analysis of carrier multiplication mechanisms in nanocrystalline and bulk forms of PbSe and PbS

Kirill A. Velizhanin and Andrei Piryatinski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165319 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Onset temperature for the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the $ν_{t} = 1$ bilayer quantum Hall state

D. Terasawa, A. Fukuda, T. Morikawa, Y. D. Zheng, A. Sawada, and Z. F. Ezawa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165320 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Nonlinear emission properties of an optically anisotropic GaN-based microcavity

Jacques Levrat, Georg Rossbach, Amélie Dussaigne, Gatien Cosendey, Marlene Glauser, Munise Cobet, Raphaël Butté, Nicolas Grandjean, Henryk Teisseyre, Michał Boćkowski, Izabella Grzegory, and Tadeusz Suski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165321 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Effects of the interfacial polarization on tunneling in surface coupled quantum dots

Kuljit S. Virk, David R. Reichman, and Mark S. Hybertsen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165322 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Interaction of excitons with carriers accelerated by the electric field of a surface acoustic wave in type-II GaAs/AlAs superlattices

D. V. Gulyaev and K. S. Zhuravlev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165323 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Hall transitions: An exact theory based on conformal restriction

E. Bettelheim, I. A. Gruzberg, and A. W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165324 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Spin-polarized surface states on Br/Ge(111)-(1 $\times$ 1): Surface spin polarization without heavy elements

Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Shinichiro Hatta, Nobuhiko Kawai, Akinobu Mori, Yasuo Takeichi, Koichiro Yaji, Hiroshi Okuyama, and Tetsuya Aruga

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165325 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Electronic and vibrational signatures of Stone-Wales defects in graphene: First-principles analysis

Sharmila N. Shirodkar and Umesh V. Waghmare

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165401 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Initial- and final-state effects on screening and branching ratio in $2 p$ x-ray absorption of size-selected free $3 d$ transition metal clusters

K. Hirsch, V. Zamudio-Bayer, J. Rittmann, A. Langenberg, M. Vogel, T. Möller, B. v. Issendorff, and J. T. Lau

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165402 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Carrier-mediated long-range ferromagnetism in electron-doped Fe-C $_{4}$ and Fe-N $_{4}$ incorporated graphene

Alex Taekyung Lee, Joongoo Kang, Su-Huai Wei, K. J. Chang, and Yong-Hyun Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165403 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Spin-polarized tunneling current through a thin film of a topological insulator in a parallel magnetic field

Sergey S. Pershoguba and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165404 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Tracking quasiparticle energies in graphene with near-field optics

Phillip E. C. Ashby and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165405 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Size-dependent evolution of the atomic vibrational density of states and thermodynamic properties of isolated Fe nanoparticles

B. Roldan Cuenya, L. K. Ono, J. R. Croy, K. Paredis, A. Kara, H. Heinrich, J. Zhao, E. E. Alp, A. T. DelaRiva, A. Datye, E. A. Stach, and W. Keune

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165406 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Spin transmission control in helical magnetic fields

Henri Saarikoski, Tobias Dollinger, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165407 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Dynamics of coupled plasmon polariton wave packets excited at a subwavelength slit in optically thin metal films

Lei-Ming Wang, Lingxiao Zhang, Tamar Seideman, and Hrvoje Petek

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165408 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

$^{4}$ He adsorbed outside a single carbon nanotube

M. C. Gordillo and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165409 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Designing a symmetry-protected molecular device

C. A. Büsser and A. E. Feiguin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165410 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Valley-based field-effect transistors in graphene

M.-K. Lee, N.-Y. Lue, C.-K. Wen, and G. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165411 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Steplike electric conduction in a classical two-dimensional electron system through a narrow constriction in a microchannel

Moto Araki and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165412 (2012) - Published 8 October, 2012

Conductivity of suspended graphene at the Dirac point

I. V. Gornyi, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165413 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Acoustic energy dissipation and thermalization in carbon nanotubes: Atomistic modeling and mesoscopic description

William M. Jacobs, David A. Nicholson, Hagit Zemer, Alexey N. Volkov, and Leonid V. Zhigilei

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165414 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Evidence for charging effects in CdTe/CdMgTe quantum point contacts

M. Czapkiewicz, V. Kolkovsky, P. Nowicki, M. Wiater, T. Wojciechowski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Wróbel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165415 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Band structure of plasmons and optical absorption enhancement in graphene on subwavelength dielectric gratings at infrared frequencies

T. R. Zhan, F. Y. Zhao, X. H. Hu, X. H. Liu, and J. Zi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165416 (2012) - Published 9 October, 2012

Graphene flakes with defective edge terminations: Universal and topological aspects, and one-dimensional quantum behavior

Igor Romanovsky, Constantine Yannouleas, and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165440 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Conductance fingerprints of noncollinear magnetic states in single-atom contacts: A first-principles Wannier-functions study

Björn Hardrat, Frank Freimuth, Stefan Heinze, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 165449 (2012) - Published 31 October, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Cleavage surface of the BaFe $_{2 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ As $_{2}$ and Fe $_{y}$ Se $_{1 - x}$ Te $_{x}$ superconductors: A combined STM plus LEED study”

M. Cordin, P. Amann, A. Menzel, E. Bertel, M. Baranov, S. Diehl, J. Redinger, and C. Franchini

Phys. Rev. B 86, 167401 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012