Volume 62, Issue 16

15 October 2000

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Semiconductors I: bulk

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Transition path for the $B 3 ⇌ B 1$ phase transformation in semiconductors

Miguel A. Blanco, J. M. Recio, A. Costales, and Ravindra Pandey

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10599(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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High-pressure $Cmca$ and hcp phases of germanium

K. Takemura, U. Schwarz, K. Syassen, M. Hanfland, N. E. Christensen, D. L. Novikov, and I. Loa

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10603(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Ga-related defect in as-grown Zn-doped GaN: An optically detected magnetic resonance study

P. N. Hai, W. M. Chen, I. A. Buyanova, B. Monemar, H. Amano, and I. Akasaki

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10607(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Ultrafast dynamics of the photo-induced magneto-optical Kerr effect in CdTe at room temperature

A. V. Kimel, V. V. Pavlov, R. V. Pisarev, V. N. Gridnev, F. Bentivegna, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10610(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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

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Structural modifications of the ${Gd}_{2} O_{3} (110)$ films on GaAs(100)

C. Steiner, B. Bolliger, M. Erbudak, M. Hong, A. R. Kortan, J. Kwo, and J. P. Mannaerts

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10614(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Geometry, statistics, and asymptotics of quantum pumps

J. E. Avron, A. Elgart, G. M. Graf, and L. Sadun

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10618(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Koster-Slater model for the interface-state problem

M. Di Ventra, C. Berthod, and N. Binggeli

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10622(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Conspicuous influence of hole-subband mixing on Fano-resonance profiles of excitons in a wide quantum well

Ken-ichi Hino

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10626(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Large transconductance oscillations in a single-well vertical Aharonov-Bohm interferometer

Vincenzo Piazza, Fabio Beltram, Werner Wegscheider, Chi-Te Liang, and M. Pepper

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10630(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Canted ground state in artificial molecules at high magnetic fields

L. Martín-Moreno, L. Brey, and C. Tejedor

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10633(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Detection of quantum noise

U. Gavish, Y. Levinson, and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10637(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Spin-lattice relaxation in semimagnetic CdMnTe/CdMgTe quantum wells

A. V. Scherbakov, A. V. Akimov, D. R. Yakovlev, W. Ossau, G. Landwehr, T. Wojtowicz, G. Karczewski, and J. Kossut

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10641(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Stochastic ripening of one-dimensional nanostructures

Seong Jin Koh and Gert Ehrlich

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10645(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Epitaxial growth of Cu on Cu(001): Experiments and simulations

Itay Furman, Ofer Biham, Jiang-Kai Zuo, Anna K. Swan, and John F. Wendelken

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10649(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Electrical transport through carbon nanotube junctions created by mechanical manipulation

Henk W. Ch. Postma, Mark de Jonge, Zhen Yao, and Cees Dekker

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10653(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Evaluation of alkali-induced band-bending inhomogeneity and charge transfer trend from core-level analysis

V. De Renzi, R. Biagi, U. del Pennino, M. Pedio, A. Goldoni, and R. Larciprete

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10657(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Step bunching on the vicinal GaN(0001) surface

M. V. Ramana Murty, P. Fini, G. B. Stephenson, Carol Thompson, J. A. Eastman, A. Munkholm, O. Auciello, R. Jothilingam, S. P. DenBaars, and J. S. Speck

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10661(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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Gearlike rolling motion mediated by commensurate contact: Carbon nanotubes on HOPG

M. R. Falvo, J. Steele, R. M. Taylor, II, and R. Superfine

Phys. Rev. B 62, R10665(R) (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

ARTICLES

Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

Current-spin-density-functional study of persistent currents in quantum rings

S. Viefers, P. Singha Deo, S. M. Reimann, M. Manninen, and M. Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10668 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Adaptive sampling approach to the negative-sign problem in the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method

Yoshihiro Asai

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10674 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Ground-state properties of the two-dimensional disordered Hubbard model

Gaëtan Caldara, Bhargavi Srinivasan, and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10680 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Third-order renormalization group applied to the attractive one-dimensional Fermi gas

Paolo Carta

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10687 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Theory of light propagation in strongly modulated photonic crystals: Refractionlike behavior in the vicinity of the photonic band gap

M. Notomi

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10696 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Decoherence of Schrödinger cat states in a Luttinger liquid

P. Degiovanni and S. Peysson

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10706 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

$M_{4, 5}$ resonant Raman scattering with final $4 p - 4 d$ holes in Te, La, and Gd: Trends of the many-body effects

L. Braicovich, G. van der Laan, A. Tagliaferri, G. Ghiringhelli, F. Borgatti, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10723 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

First-principles study of ground, excitonic, and hole states in ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{3}$

W. C. Mackrodt and H. J. Gotsis

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10728 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Valence-band structure of the skutterudite compounds ${CoAs}_{3},$ ${CoSb}_{3},$ and ${RhSb}_{3}$ studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

H. Anno, K. Matsubara, T. Caillat, and J.-P. Fleurial

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10737 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Optical phonons in a quarter-filled one-dimensional Hubbard model

Philippe Maurel and Marie-Bernadette Lepetit

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10744 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Four-band extended Hubbard Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional cuprate ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{3} :$ Distribution of oxygen holes and its relation to strong intersite Coulomb interaction

R. Neudert, S.-L. Drechsler, J. Málek, H. Rosner, M. Kielwein, Z. Hu, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, N. Nücker, M. Merz, S. Schuppler, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, M. Domke, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10752 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Charge separation of excitons and the radiative recombination process in ${PbBr}_{2}$ crystals

Masanobu Iwanaga, Masayuki Watanabe, and Tetsusuke Hayashi

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10766 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Emittance fluctuations in a mesoscopic diffusive conductor

Tiago De Jesus, Hong Guo, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10774 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Quasilinear magnetoresistance in an almost two-dimensional band structure

A. J. Schofield and J. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10779 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Electrical conductivity of ${SrTi}_{1 - x} {Ru}_{x} O_{3}$

R. F. Bianchi, J. A. G. Carrió, S. L. Cuffini, Y. P. Mascarenhas, and R. M. Faria

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10785 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Photon avalanche effect in ${LaCl}_{3} : \Pr^{3 +}$

Delena Bell Gatch, W. M. Dennis, and William M. Yen

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10790 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Coexistence of two components in the optical spectra of ${CeTiO}_{3.04}$ in the antiferromagnetic metallic phase

T. Katsufuji and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10797 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Spectroscopy of near-stoichiometric ${LiNbO}_{3} : M g O, C r$ crystals under high pressure

A. Kamińska, A. Suchocki, L. Arizmendi, D. Callejo, F. Jaque, and M. Grinberg

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10802 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Electronic band structure of the layered compound $Td - {WTe}_{2}$

J. Augustin, V. Eyert, Th. Böker, W. Frentrup, H. Dwelk, C. Janowitz, and R. Manzke

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10812 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Semiconductors I: bulk

Oxygen and dioxygen centers in Si and Ge: Density-functional calculations

J. Coutinho, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, and S. Öberg

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10824 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Vacancy defects in p-type $6 H - SiC$ created by low-energy electron irradiation

H. J. von Bardeleben, J. L. Cantin, L. Henry, and M. F. Barthe

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10841 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Quantum mechanical effects in (Ga,In)(As,N) alloys

A. Al-Yacoub and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10847 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Many-body theory of pump-probe spectra for highly excited semiconductors

T. J. Inagaki, T. Iida, and M. Aihara

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10852 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Raman scattering from phonon-polaritons in GaN

K. Torii, M. Ono, T. Sota, T. Azuhata, S. F. Chichibu, and S. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10861 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Hole conductivity and compensation in epitaxial GaN:Mg layers

U. Kaufmann, P. Schlotter, H. Obloh, K. Köhler, and M. Maier

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10867 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Three independent methods for intermediate Jahn-Teller coupling

L. Martinelli, G. Bevilacqua, J. Rivera-Iratchet, M. A. de Orúe, O. Mualin, E. E. Vogel, and J. Cartes

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10873 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Effect of indium doping on transient transport phenomena in semi-insulating GaAs

V. Kažukauskas, J. Storasta, and J.-V. Vaitkus

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10882 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

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

Effect of growth rate on the size, composition, and optical properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

P. B. Joyce, T. J. Krzyzewski, G. R. Bell, T. S. Jones, S. Malik, D. Childs, and R. Murray

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10891 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Shell effects in quantum dots: A semiclassical approach

Subhasis Sinha, R. Shankar, and M. V. N. Murthy

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10896 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Evanescent states in thin silicon films and their significance

J. U. Kim and Hong H. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10902 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Magnetoresistance and electronic structure of asymmetric $GaAs / {Al}_{0.3} {Ga}_{0.7} As$ double quantum wells in an in-plane or tilted magnetic field

O. N. Makarovskii, L. Smrčka, P. Vašek, T. Jungwirth, M. Cukr, and L. Jansen

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10908 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Theoretical calculations of shallow impurity states in deformed quantum wires with an application to porous silicon

F. Buonocore, D. Ninno, and G. Iadonisi

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10914 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Anisotropic magnetotransport in a rectangular antidot superlattice: Classical and semiclassical aspects

R. Onderka, M. Suhrke, and U. Rössler

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10918 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Anderson model out of equilibrium: Zero-bandwidth limit

R. Allub and C. R. Proetto

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10923 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Effects of interactions and disorder in the two-dimensional chiral metal

J. J. Betouras and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10931 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Phonon-mediated drag at ν=1/2: A test of the Chern-Simons composite-fermion theory

Martin C. Bønsager, Yong Baek Kim, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10940 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Bias and temperature dependence of the 0.7 conductance anomaly in quantum point contacts

A. Kristensen, H. Bruus, A. E. Hansen, J. B. Jensen, P. E. Lindelof, C. J. Marckmann, J. Nygård, C. B. Sørensen, F. Beuscher, A. Forchel, and M. Michel

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10950 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Transient analysis of organic electrophosphorescence: I. Transient analysis of triplet energy transfer

M. A. Baldo and S. R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10958 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Transient analysis of organic electrophosphorescence. II. Transient analysis of triplet-triplet annihilation

M. A. Baldo, C. Adachi, and S. R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10967 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Spin-dynamic field coupling in strongly terahertz-field-driven semiconductors: Local inversion symmetry breaking

Kristinn Johnsen

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10978 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Effects of monolayer AlAs insertion in modulation doped ${G a A s / A l}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ quantum-well structures

Q. X. Zhao, S. Wongmanerod, M. Willander, P. O. Holtz, E. Selvig, and B. O. Fimland

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10984 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Mechanism for photoluminescence in an ${In}_{y} {As}_{1 - y} {N / I n}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ single quantum well

J. C. Fan, W. K. Hung, Y. F. Chen, J. S. Wang, and H. H. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10990 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Spectroscopy and trapping dynamics in ${WS}_{2}$ nanoclusters

J. M. Huang, R. A. Laitinen, and D. F. Kelley

Phys. Rev. B 62, 10995 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Multiphonon resonant Raman scattering in nanocrystals

R. Rodríguez-Suárez, E. Menéndez-Proupin, C. Trallero-Giner, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11006 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Quantum size effect in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots

R. Heitz, O. Stier, I. Mukhametzhanov, A. Madhukar, and D. Bimberg

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11017 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Homogeneous line broadening in individual semiconductor quantum dots by temperature fluctuations

M. Arzberger and M.-C. Amann

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11029 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Cascade evolution and radiative recombination of quantum dot multiexcitons studied by time-resolved spectroscopy

E. Dekel, D. V. Regelman, D. Gershoni, E. Ehrenfreund, W. V. Schoenfeld, and P. M. Petroff

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11038 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Clarification of the $GaP (001) (2 \times 4)$ Ga-rich reconstruction by scanning tunneling microscopy and ab initio theory

K. Lüdge, P. Vogt, O. Pulci, N. Esser, F. Bechstedt, and W. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11046 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Plastic deformations of boron-nitride nanotubes: An unexpected weakness

Peihong Zhang and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11050 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Lattice curvature generation in graded ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} A s / G a A s$ buffer layers

M. Natali, F. Romanato, E. Napolitani, D. De Salvador, and A. V. Drigo

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11054 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Band-gap modifications of $β - {FeSi}_{2}$ with lattice distortions corresponding to the epitaxial relationships on Si(111)

D. B. Migas and Leo Miglio

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11063 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Beyond spatial averaging: Simulations of near-field scanning spectroscopy of quantum structures with interfacial roughness

Omar Di Stefano, Salvatore Savasta, Giovanna Martino, and Raffaello Girlanda

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11071 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Determination of the transverse X-point effective mass in AlAs and its pressure dependence

Hyunsik Im, P. C. Klipstein, R. Grey, and G. Hill

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11076 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Carrier thermalization within a disordered ensemble of self-assembled quantum dots

A. Patanè, A. Levin, A. Polimeni, L. Eaves, P. C. Main, M. Henini, and G. Hill

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11084 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Density, ${sp}^{3}$ fraction, and cross-sectional structure of amorphous carbon films determined by x-ray reflectivity and electron energy-loss spectroscopy

A. C. Ferrari, A. Libassi, B. K. Tanner, V. Stolojan, J. Yuan, L. M. Brown, S. E. Rodil, B. Kleinsorge, and J. Robertson

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11089 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Magnetic moments of Ni monolayers and small ground-state Ni clusters at the Al (001) surface

R. Robles, R. C. Longo, A. Vega, and L. J. Gallego

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11104 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

X-ray scattering and atomic force microscopy study of melting of Langmuir-Blodgett films

J. K. Basu, M. K. Sanyal, M. Mukherjee, and S. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11109 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Scanning tunneling spectra of impurities in the Fe(001) surface

N. Papanikolaou, B. Nonas, S. Heinze, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11118 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000

Surface characterization study of Ag, AgO, and ${Ag}_{2} O$ using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy

Gar B. Hoflund, Zoltan F. Hazos, and Ghaleb N. Salaita

Phys. Rev. B 62, 11126 (2000) - Published 15 October, 2000