Volume 86, Issue 4

15 July 2012

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Orthogonal metals: The simplest non-Fermi liquids

Rahul Nandkishore, Max A. Metlitski, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045128 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Grand canonical finite-size numerical approaches: A route to measuring bulk properties in an applied field

Chisa Hotta and Naokazu Shibata

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041108(R) (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

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Strong and tunable mode coupling in carbon nanotube resonators

Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Harold B. Meerwaldt, Warner J. Venstra, Herre S. J. van der Zant, and Gary A. Steele

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041402(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Edge currents and nanopore arrays in zigzag and chiral graphene nanoribbons as a route toward high- $Z T$ thermoelectrics

Po-Hao Chang and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041406(R) (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

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Microscopic mechanisms for the Fermi-liquid behavior of Nb-doped strontium titanate

S. N. Klimin, J. Tempere, D. van der Marel, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045113 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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Coulomb gap triptychs, $\sqrt{2}$ effective charge, and hopping transport in periodic arrays of superconductor grains

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045135 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Electronic and geometric structure of the PTCDA/Ag(110) interface probed by angle-resolved photoemission

M. Wießner, D. Hauschild, A. Schöll, F. Reinert, V. Feyer, K. Winkler, and B. Krömker

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045417 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Changes in the $5 d$ photoionization spectra between atomic and solid Pb

D. Iablonskyi, M. Patanen, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041101(R) (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

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Mott versus Slater-type metal-insulator transition in Mn-substituted Sr $_{3}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

M. A. Hossain, B. Bohnenbuck, Y. D. Chuang, M. W. Haverkort, I. S. Elfimov, A. Tanaka, A. G. Cruz Gonzalez, Z. Hu, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, R. Mathieu, Y. Tokura, Y. Yoshida, L. H. Tjeng, Z. Hussain, B. Keimer, G. A. Sawatzky, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041102(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Andreev reflection in two-dimensional topological insulators with either conserved or broken time-reversal symmetry

Awadhesh Narayan and Stefano Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041104(R) (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

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Matrix-product-based projected wave functions ansatz for quantum many-body ground states

Chung-Pin Chou, Frank Pollmann, and Ting-Kuo Lee

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041105(R) (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

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Simplex solids in SU( $N$ ) Heisenberg models on the kagome and checkerboard lattices

Philippe Corboz, Karlo Penc, Frédéric Mila, and Andreas M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041106(R) (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Tunable charge and spin Seebeck effects in magnetic molecular junctions

Pablo S. Cornaglia, Gonzalo Usaj, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041107(R) (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

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Grand canonical finite-size numerical approaches: A route to measuring bulk properties in an applied field

Chisa Hotta and Naokazu Shibata

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041108(R) (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

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Suppression of $f$ -electron itinerancy in CeRu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$ by a strong magnetic field

Y. H. Matsuda, T. Nakamura, J. L. Her, S. Michimura, T. Inami, K. Kindo, and T. Ebihara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041109(R) (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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Strategy for finding a reliable starting point for $G_{0} W_{0}$ demonstrated for molecules

Thomas Körzdörfer and Noa Marom

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041110(R) (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Localization-delocalization transition of electrons at the percolation threshold of semiconductor GaAs $_{1 - x}$ N $_{x}$ alloys: The appearance of a mobility edge

K. Alberi, B. Fluegel, D. A. Beaton, A. J. Ptak, and A. Mascarenhas

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041201(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Mechanism for optical initialization of spin in NV $^{-}$ center in diamond

SangKook Choi, Manish Jain, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041202(R) (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

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

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Bunching visibility of optical parametric emission in a semiconductor microcavity

Vincenzo Ardizzone, Marco Abbarchi, Aristide Lemaitre, Isabelle Sagnes, Pascale Senellart, Jacqueline Bloch, Claude Delalande, Jerome Tignon, and Philippe Roussignol

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041301(R) (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

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Time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy of individual GaN nanowires

A. Gorgis, T. Flissikowski, O. Brandt, C. Chèze, L. Geelhaar, H. Riechert, and H. T. Grahn

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041302(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Signature of phase transitions in the disordered quantum spin Hall state from the entanglement spectrum

Matthew J. Gilbert, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041401(R) (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

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Strong and tunable mode coupling in carbon nanotube resonators

Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Harold B. Meerwaldt, Warner J. Venstra, Herre S. J. van der Zant, and Gary A. Steele

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041402(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Effect of an in-plane electric field on the magnetotransport in a helical metal

Huazhou Wei, Sung-Po Chao, and Vivek Aji

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041403(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Engineering gratings for light trapping in photovoltaics: The supercell concept

Emiliano R. Martins, Juntao Li, YiKun Liu, Jianying Zhou, and Thomas F. Krauss

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041404(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Nanoengineered nonuniform strain in graphene using nanopillars

M. Neek-Amal, L. Covaci, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041405(R) (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Edge currents and nanopore arrays in zigzag and chiral graphene nanoribbons as a route toward high- $Z T$ thermoelectrics

Po-Hao Chang and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041406(R) (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

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Heteroepitaxial growth of MgO(111) thin films on Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ (0001): Evidence of a wurtzite to rocksalt transformation

Carlos Martínez-Boubeta, Antía S. Botana, Victor Pardo, Daniel Baldomir, Aldrin Antony, Joan Bertomeu, Josep M. Rebled, Lluís López-Conesa, Sonia Estradé, and Francesca Peiró

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041407(R) (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

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Thermal rippling behavior of graphane

S. Costamagna, M. Neek-Amal, J. H. Los, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041408(R) (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Doping of adsorbed graphene from defects and impurities in SiO $_{2}$ substrates

Razvan A. Nistor, Marcelo A. Kuroda, Ahmed A. Maarouf, and Glenn J. Martyna

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041409(R) (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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Optical manifestations of symmetry breaking in bilayer graphene

D. S. L. Abergel and Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 041410(R) (2012) - Published 31 July, 2012

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Prediction and description of a chiral pseudogap phase

Rahul Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045101 (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

Strong side of weak topological insulators

Zohar Ringel, Yaacov E. Kraus, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045102 (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

Pressure-dependent electronic structures and orbital hybridization of Mn $3 d$ states in multiferroic BiMnO $_{3}$ : A combined x-ray absorption, x-ray emission, and resonant x-ray emission study

J. M. Chen, S. C. Haw, J. M. Lee, S. A. Chen, K. T. Lu, S. W. Chen, M. J. Deng, Y.-F. Liao, J. M. Lin, B. H. Chen, F. C. Chou, N. Hiraoka, H. Ishii, K. D. Tsuei, and Eugene Huang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045103 (2012) - Published 3 July, 2012

Tunable harmonic vibrations of quasi one-dimensional conductors induced by sliding charge-density waves

M. V. Nikitin, S. G. Zybtsev, and V. Ya. Pokrovskii

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045104 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Cluster dynamical mean field theory of quantum phases on a honeycomb lattice

Rong-Qiang He and Zhong-Yi Lu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045105 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

Phases and phase transitions in a $U (1) \times U (1)$ system with $θ = 2 π / 3$ mutual statistics

Scott D. Geraedts and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045106 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Numerical study of the conductivity of graphene monolayer within the effective field theory approach

P. V. Buividovich, E. V. Luschevskaya, O. V. Pavlovsky, M. I. Polikarpov, and M. V. Ulybyshev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045107 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Turbulence in a Bose-Einstein condensate of dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells

O. L. Berman, R. Ya. Kezerashvili, G. V. Kolmakov, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045108 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Rényi entropy, mutual information, and fluctuation properties of Fermi liquids

Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045109 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Correlated singlet phase in the one-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model

Sahinur Reja, Sudhakar Yarlagadda, and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045110 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Charge ordered state and structural distortions in Fe $_{2}$ OBO $_{3}$

Z. Chen, C. Ma, Y. J. Song, H. X. Yang, H. F. Tian, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045111 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Finite-size supercell correction schemes for charged defect calculations

Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Tapio T. Rantala, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045112 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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Microscopic mechanisms for the Fermi-liquid behavior of Nb-doped strontium titanate

S. N. Klimin, J. Tempere, D. van der Marel, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045113 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Real-time real-space TD-DFT for atoms: Benchmark computations on a nonspherical logarithmic grid

C. S. Cucinotta, D. Hughes, and P. Ballone

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045114 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Ground-state phase diagram of the quantum $J_{1} - J_{2}$ model on the square lattice

Fabio Mezzacapo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045115 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Electronic structure and optical, mechanical, and transport properties of the pure, electron-doped, and hole-doped Heusler compound CoTiSb

Siham Ouardi, Gerhard H. Fecher, Claudia Felser, Michael Schwall, S. Shahab Naghavi, Andrei Gloskovskii, Benjamin Balke, Jaroslav Hamrle, Kamil Postava, Jaromír Pištora, Shigenori Ueda, and Keisuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045116 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Geometric proof of the equality between entanglement and edge spectra

Brian Swingle and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045117 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Loop current order and $d$ -wave superconductivity: Some observable consequences

Andrea Allais and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045118 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Relaxation dynamics of the Kondo lattice model

Philipp Werner and Martin Eckstein

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045119 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Longitudinal chirality, enhanced nonreciprocity, and nanoscale planar one-way plasmonic guiding

Y. Mazor and Ben Z. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045120 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Deconfined quantum criticality and logarithmic violations of scaling from emergent gauge symmetry

Flavio S. Nogueira and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045121 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

Signatures of spin blockade in the optical response of a charged quantum dot

E. G. Kavousanaki and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045122 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

Quantum phase transition in a multicomponent anyonic Lieb-Liniger model

Raul A. Santos, Francis N. C. Paraan, and Vladimir E. Korepin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045123 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Metallic state in La-doped YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{y}$ thin films with $n$ -type charge carriers

S. W. Zeng, X. Wang, W. M. Lü, Z. Huang, M. Motapothula, Z. Q. Liu, Y. L. Zhao, A. Annadi, S. Dhar, H. Mao, W. Chen, T. Venkatesan, and Ariando

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045124 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Algebraic Bethe ansatz and tensor networks

V. Murg, V. E. Korepin, and F. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045125 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Microscopic theory of magnetism in the magnetocaloric material ${Fe}_{2}$ P $_{1 - x}$ T $_{x}$ ( $T = B$ and Si)

E. K. Delczeg-Czirjak, L. Bergqvist, O. Eriksson, Z. Gercsi, P. Nordblad, L. Szunyogh, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045126 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Photodoping and in-gap interface states across the metal-insulator transition in LaAlO $_{3}$ /SrTiO $_{3}$ heterostructures

Z. Ristic, R. Di Capua, F. Chiarella, G. M. De Luca, I. Maggio-Aprile, M. Radovic, and M. Salluzzo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045127 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Orthogonal metals: The simplest non-Fermi liquids

Rahul Nandkishore, Max A. Metlitski, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045128 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Pair superfluid and supersolid of correlated hard-core bosons on a triangular lattice

Hong-Chen Jiang, Liang Fu, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045129 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Multiorbital physics in Fermi liquids prone to magnetic order

Malte Behrmann, Christoph Piefke, and Frank Lechermann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045130 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Probing the surface states in Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ using the Shubnikov–de Haas effect

M. Petrushevsky, E. Lahoud, A. Ron, E. Maniv, I. Diamant, I. Neder, S. Wiedmann, V. K. Guduru, F. Chiappini, U. Zeitler, J. C. Maan, K. Chashka, A. Kanigel, and Y. Dagan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045131 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Transport properties of the metallic state of overdoped cuprate superconductors from an anisotropic marginal Fermi liquid model

J. Kokalj, N. E. Hussey, and Ross H. McKenzie

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045132 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Spin and charge states of Co in half-doped layered cobaltates La $_{1.5}$ Ca $_{0.5}$ CoO $_{4}$ and La $_{1.5}$ Sr $_{0.5}$ CoO $_{4}$

J. S. Lee, Hal. Q. Yamamoto, M. Uchida, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045133 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

High/low-moment phase transition in hexagonal Mn-Fe-P-Si compounds

N. H. Dung, L. Zhang, Z. Q. Ou, L. Zhao, L. van Eijck, A. M. Mulders, M. Avdeev, E. Suard, N. H. van Dijk, and Ekkes Brück

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045134 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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Coulomb gap triptychs, $\sqrt{2}$ effective charge, and hopping transport in periodic arrays of superconductor grains

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045135 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Scattering of hole excitations in a one-dimensional spinless quantum liquid

K. A. Matveev and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045136 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Photoinduced magnetic bound state in an itinerant correlated electron system with a spin-state degree of freedom

Yu Kanamori, Jun Ohara, and Sumio Ishihara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045137 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Measurements of Raman scattering by electrons in metals: The effects of electron-phonon coupling

Yu. S. Ponosov and S. V. Streltsov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045138 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Coarse-graining renormalization by higher-order singular value decomposition

Z. Y. Xie, J. Chen, M. P. Qin, J. W. Zhu, L. P. Yang, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045139 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

Re-examination of the SiGe Raman spectra: Percolation/one-dimensional-cluster scheme and ab initio calculations

O. Pagès, J. Souhabi, V. J. B. Torres, A. V. Postnikov, and K. C. Rustagi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045201 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Improved thermoelectric cooling based on the Thomson effect

G. Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer, Raghav Khanna, and Wolfgang Seifert

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045202 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

High-field magnetospectroscopy to probe the $1.4$ -eV Ni color center in diamond

P. Plochocka, O. Portugall, P. Y. Solane, E. Gheeraert, L. Ranno, E. Bustarret, N. Bruyant, I. Breslavetz, D. K. Maude, H. Kanda, and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045203 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Anomalous saturation effects due to optical spin depolarization in nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond nanocrystals

Robert Chapman and Taras Plakhotnik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045204 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Detailed calculation of the thermoelectric figure of merit in an $n$ -doped SiGe alloy

Iorwerth O. Thomas and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045205 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Free-to-bound recombination in near stoichiometric Cu $_{2}$ ZnSnS $_{4}$ single crystals

S. Levcenko, V. E. Tezlevan, E. Arushanov, S. Schorr, and T. Unold

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045206 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Electric field dependence of charge carrier hopping transport within the random energy landscape in an organic field effect transistor

I. I. Fishchuk, A. Kadashchuk, Mujeeb Ullah, H. Sitter, A. Pivrikas, J. Genoe, and H. Bässler

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045207 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Optical properties of bulk semiconductors and graphene/boron nitride: The Bethe-Salpeter equation with derivative discontinuity-corrected density functional energies

Jun Yan, Karsten W. Jacobsen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045208 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Mechanism of asymmetric lineshape broadening in GaAs $_{1 - x}$ N $_{x}$ Raman spectra

Aleksej Mialitsin, Brian Fluegel, Aaron Ptak, and Angelo Mascarenhas

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045209 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Route towards huge magnetoresistance in doped polymers

S. P. Kersten, S. C. J. Meskers, and P. A. Bobbert

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045210 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Comparative study of defect transition energy calculation methods: The case of oxygen vacancy in In $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ and ZnO

Wan-Jian Yin, Jie Ma, Su-Huai Wei, Mowafak M. Al-Jassim, and Yanfa Yan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045211 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Crystalline GeTe-based phase-change alloys: Disorder in order

Milos Krbal, Alexander V. Kolobov, Paul Fons, Junji Tominaga, S. R. Elliott, J. Hegedus, A. Giussani, K. Perumal, R. Calarco, T. Matsunaga, N. Yamada, K. Nitta, and T. Uruga

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045212 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Effect of thermal disorder on high figure of merit in PbTe

Hyoungchul Kim and Massoud Kaviany

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045213 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Enhanced solid-state multispin metrology using dynamical decoupling

L. M. Pham, N. Bar-Gill, C. Belthangady, D. Le Sage, P. Cappellaro, M. D. Lukin, A. Yacoby, and R. L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045214 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Optical effects of spin currents in semiconductors

Jing Wang, Sheng-Nan Ji, Bang-Fen Zhu, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045215 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Feedback mechanism for the stability of the band gap of CuInSe $_{2}$

Levent Gütay, David Regesch, Jes K. Larsen, Yasuhiro Aida, Valérie Depredurand, Alex Redinger, Sabina Caneva, Susan Schorr, Christiane Stephan, Julien Vidal, Silvana Botti, and Susanne Siebentritt

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045216 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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

Giant reflection band and anomalous negative transmission in a resonant dielectric grating slab: Application to a planar cavity

L. Pilozzi, D. Schiumarini, N. Tomassini, and A. D'Andrea

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045301 (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

Water adsorption on rutile TiO $_{2}$ (110) for applications in solar hydrogen production: A systematic hybrid-exchange density functional study

M. Patel, G. Mallia, L. Liborio, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045302 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Exciton storage in CdSe/CdS tetrapod semiconductor nanocrystals: Electric field effects on exciton and multiexciton states

Su Liu, Nicholas J. Borys, Jing Huang, Dmitri V. Talapin, and John M. Lupton

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045303 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Microscopic details of the integer quantum Hall effect in an anti-Hall bar

Christoph Uiberacker, Christian Stecher, and Josef Oswald

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045304 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Polarization-dependent light extinction in ensembles of polydisperse vertical semiconductor nanowires: A Mie scattering effective medium

Grzegorz Grzela, Djamila Hourlier, and Jaime Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045305 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Two-phonon process and hyperfine interaction limiting slow hole-spin relaxation time in InAs/GaAs quantum dots

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

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045306 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Magneto-photon-phonon interaction in a parabolically confined quantum dot in the presence of high magnetic fields and intense terahertz radiation fields

W. Y. Wang and W. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045307 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Electronic properties, doping, and defects in chlorinated silicon nanocrystals

A. Carvalho, S. Öberg, M. J. Rayson, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045308 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Control of plasmon dynamics in coupled plasmonic hybrid mode microcavities

N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, T. Zentgraf, and X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045309 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

In-plane magnetic field dependence of cyclotron relaxation time in a Si two-dimensional electron system

Tasuku Chiba, Ryuichi Masutomi, Kentarou Sawano, Yasuhiro Shiraki, and Tohru Okamoto

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045310 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Raman spectroscopy and strain mapping in individual ${Ge-Si}_{x}$ ${Ge}_{1 - x}$ core-shell nanowires

D. C. Dillen, K. M. Varahramyan, C. M. Corbet, and E. Tutuc

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045311 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Temperature dependence of polariton lasing in a crystalline anthracene microcavity

Michael Slootsky, Yifan Zhang, and Stephen R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045312 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

First-principles studies of the effect of (001) surface terminations on the electronic properties of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond

H. Pinto, R. Jones, D. W. Palmer, J. P. Goss, Amit K. Tiwari, P. R. Briddon, Nick G. Wright, Alton B. Horsfall, M. J. Rayson, and S. Öberg

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045313 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

High-field Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in the topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{2}$ Se

Jun Xiong, Yongkang Luo, YueHaw Khoo, Shuang Jia, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045314 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

Cavity quantum electrodynamics with a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic molecule

Arka Majumdar, Armand Rundquist, Michal Bajcsy, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045315 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Coherent exchange and double beam splitter oscillations in a triple quantum dot

G. C. Aers, S. A. Studenikin, G. Granger, A. Kam, P. Zawadzki, Z. R. Wasilewski, and A. S. Sachrajda

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045316 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Temperature-induced spin density wave in a magnetically doped topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$

Martha Lasia and Luis Brey

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045317 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Exciton localization and phonon sidebands in polar ZnO/MgZnO quantum wells

M. Lange, J. Kupper, C. P. Dietrich, M. Brandt, M. Stölzel, G. Benndorf, M. Lorenz, and M. Grundmann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045318 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Gate control of surface transport in MBE-grown topological insulator (Bi $_{1 - x}$ Sb $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ thin films

Sunao Shimizu, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Takafumi Hatano, Kei S. Takahashi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshihiro Iwasa, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045319 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Quantum plasmonics: Second-order coherence of surface plasmons launched by quantum emitters into a metallic film

Oriane Mollet, Serge Huant, Géraldine Dantelle, Thierry Gacoin, and Aurélien Drezet

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045401 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Indirect exchange interaction in fully metal-semiconductor separated single-walled carbon nanotubes revealed by electron spin resonance

M. Havlicek, W. Jantsch, Z. Wilamowski, K. Yanagi, H. Kataura, M. H. Rümmeli, H. Malissa, A. Tyryshkin, S. Lyon, A. Chernov, and H. Kuzmany

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045402 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Controlling surface plasmon polaritons by a static and/or time-dependent external magnetic field

V. Kuzmiak, S. Eyderman, and M. Vanwolleghem

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045403 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

High-current breakdown of the quantum Hall effect and electron heating in InSb/AlInSb

J. A. Alexander-Webber, A. M. R. Baker, P. D. Buckle, T. Ashley, and R. J. Nicholas

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045404 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Measurements of tunneling conduction to carbon nanotubes and its sensitivity to oxygen gas

A. Juutilainen, M. Ahlskog, and A. Volodin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045405 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Ultrafast and spatially resolved studies of charge carriers in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide

Rui Wang, Brian A. Ruzicka, Nardeep Kumar, Matthew Z. Bellus, Hsin-Ying Chiu, and Hui Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045406 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Magnetic spectrum of trigonally warped bilayer graphene: Semiclassical analysis, zero modes, and topological winding numbers

R. de Gail, M. O. Goerbig, and G. Montambaux

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045407 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Plasmonic effects on strong exciton-photon coupling in metal-insulator-metal microcavities

Shinji Hayashi, Yuta Ishigaki, and Minoru Fujii

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045408 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Local tunneling magnetoresistance control with surface-state confinement and external electric field

Pavel A. Ignatiev, Oleg O. Brovko, and Valeri S. Stepanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045409 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

Valley polarized electronic transmission through a line defect superlattice of graphene

Lü Xiao-Ling, Liu Zhe, Yao Hai-Bo, Jiang Li-Wei, Gao Wen-Zhu, and Zheng Yi-Song

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045410 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

Water does partially dissociate on the perfect TiO $_{2}$ (110) surface: A quantitative structure determination

D. A. Duncan, F. Allegretti, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045411 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Geometrical frustration of an argon monolayer adsorbed on the MgO (100) surface: An accurate periodic ab initio study

Denis Usvyat, Keyarash Sadeghian, Lorenzo Maschio, and Martin Schütz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045412 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Cooling of photoexcited carriers in graphene by internal and substrate phonons

Tony Low, Vasili Perebeinos, Raseong Kim, Marcus Freitag, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045413 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Tailoring resisitivity anisotropy of nanorippled metal films: Electrons surfing on gold waves

Daniele Chiappe, Andrea Toma, and Francesco Buatier de Mongeot

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045414 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Advanced optical effective medium modeling for a single layer of polydisperse ellipsoidal nanoparticles embedded in a homogeneous dielectric medium: Surface plasmon resonances

Johann Toudert, Lionel Simonot, Sophie Camelio, and David Babonneau

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045415 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Evaluation of endohedral doping of hydrogenated Si fullerenes as a route to magnetic Si building blocks

Dennis Palagin and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045416 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

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Electronic and geometric structure of the PTCDA/Ag(110) interface probed by angle-resolved photoemission

M. Wießner, D. Hauschild, A. Schöll, F. Reinert, V. Feyer, K. Winkler, and B. Krömker

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045417 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Current modulation by voltage control of the quantum phase in crossed graphene nanoribbons

K. M. Masum Habib and Roger K. Lake

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045418 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Peculiarities of dynamics of Dirac fermions associated with zero-mass lines

Timur Tudorovskiy and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045419 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Spin inelastic currents in molecular ring junctions

Dhurba Rai and Michael Galperin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045420 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Contactless microwave studies of weak localization in epitaxial graphene

Aneta Drabińska, Agnieszka Wołoś, Maria Kamińska, Wlodek Strupinski, and J. M. Baranowski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045421 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

First-principles calculations of surfactant-assisted growth of polar CaO(111) oxide film: The case of water-based surfactant

Xin Tan and Peter Zapol

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045422 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Ultrafast laser-induced electron emission from multiphoton to optical tunneling

M. Pant and L. K. Ang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045423 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Effect of surface steps on the diffusion of adsorbates investigated with angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

Dah-An Luh, Chi-Lu Chen, Xihui Liang, Cheng-Maw Cheng, and Ku-Ding Tsuei

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045424 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Enhanced thermoelectric properties in hybrid graphene/boron nitride nanoribbons

Kaike Yang, Yuanping Chen, Roberto D'Agosta, Yuee Xie, Jianxin Zhong, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045425 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Electronic structure of reconstructed Au(100): Two-dimensional and one-dimensional surface states

S. Bengió, V. Navarro, M. A. González-Barrio, R. Cortés, I. Vobornik, E. G. Michel, and A. Mascaraque

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045426 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Pronounced electron-phonon interactions in ultraclean suspended carbon nanotubes

Rohan Dhall, Shun-Wen Chang, Zuwei Liu, and Stephen B. Cronin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045427 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Emergence of localized in-gap states in conjugated polymers of branched topology

Shiyong Wang, Weihua Wang, and Nian Lin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045428 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Condensation of electron-hole pairs in a two-layer graphene system: Correlation effects

Yu. E. Lozovik, S. L. Ogarkov, and A. A. Sokolik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045429 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Quantitative study of spin-flip cotunneling transport in a quantum dot

Tai-Min Liu, Anh T. Ngo, Bryan Hemingway, Steven Herbert, Michael Melloch, Sergio E. Ulloa, and Andrei Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045430 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Structure and the Lamb-shift-like quantum splitting of the pseudo-zero-mode Landau levels in bilayer graphene

K. Shizuya

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045431 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Electron mean free path of tungsten and the electrical resistivity of epitaxial (110) tungsten films

Dooho Choi, Chang Soo Kim, Doron Naveh, Suk Chung, Andrew P. Warren, Noel T. Nuhfer, Michael F. Toney, Kevin R. Coffey, and Katayun Barmak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045432 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Coulomb-energy featured capture kinetics in graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors

Ming-Pei Lu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045433 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Slope selection-driven Ostwald ripening in ZnO thin film growth

A. González-González, C. Polop, and E. Vasco

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045434 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Superconductive proximity in a topological insulator slab and excitations bound to an axial vortex

A. Tagliacozzo, P. Lucignano, and F. Tafuri

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045435 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Evidence for spin memory in the electron phase coherence in graphene

A. A. Kozikov, D. W. Horsell, E. McCann, and V. I. Fal'ko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045436 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Role of $d$ orbitals in the Rashba-type spin splitting for noble-metal surfaces

Hyungjun Lee and Hyoung Joon Choi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045437 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Excitation, relaxation, and quantum diffusion of CO on copper

Jean Christophe Tremblay, Gernot Füchsel, and Peter Saalfrank

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045438 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Optical conductivity of bismuth-based topological insulators

P. Di Pietro, F. M. Vitucci, D. Nicoletti, L. Baldassarre, P. Calvani, R. Cava, Y. S. Hor, U. Schade, and S. Lupi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045439 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Nonlinear transport characteristics of mesoscopic tunnel junctions far from equilibrium

A. Glatz, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, and I. S. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045440 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Gating the charge state of single Fe dopants in the topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ with a scanning tunneling microscope

Can-Li Song, Ye-Ping Jiang, Yi-Lin Wang, Zhi Li, Lili Wang, Ke He, Xi Chen, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045441 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Atomic structure and spectroscopy of graphene edges on Ir(111)

Soo-hyon Phark, Jérôme Borme, A. León Vanegas, Marco Corbetta, Dirk Sander, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045442 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Two-dimensional materials with Dirac cones: Graphynes containing heteroatoms

Daniel Malko, Christian Neiss, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045443 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Role of pseudospin in quasiparticle interferences in epitaxial graphene probed by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy

P. Mallet, I. Brihuega, S. Bose, M. M. Ugeda, J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez, K. Kern, and J. Y. Veuillen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045444 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Charge transport gap in graphene antidot lattices

A. J. M. Giesbers, E. C. Peters, M. Burghard, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045445 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Progressive melting in confined one-dimensional C $_{60}$ chains

Colin Bousige, Stéphane Rols, Erwan Paineau, Stéphan Rouzière, Cristian Mocuta, Bart Verberck, Jonathan P. Wright, Hiromichi Kataura, and Pascale Launois

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045446 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Selective observation of local carrier dynamics at step bunches on vicinal TiO $_{2}$ (110) by time-resolved pump-probe second harmonic generation method

Hiroaki Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyauchi, and Goro Mizutani

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045447 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Long-range interactions between substitutional nitrogen dopants in graphene: Electronic properties calculations

Ph. Lambin, H. Amara, F. Ducastelle, and L. Henrard

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045448 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Electric-field-induced spin depolarization in graphene quantum dots

Wen-Long Ma and Shu-Shen Li

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045449 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Hybrid molecular dynamics and first-principles study on the work function of a Pt(111) electrode immersed in aqueous solution at room temperature

Sai Duan, Xin Xu, Zhong-Qun Tian, and Yi Luo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045450 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Transition-metal dispersion on carbon-doped boron nitride nanostructures: Applications for high-capacity hydrogen storage

Ming Chen, Yu-Jun Zhao, Ji-Hai Liao, and Xiao-Bao Yang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 045459 (2012) - Published 31 July, 2012