Volume 70, Issue 16

15 October 2004

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

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Efficient localized basis set for quantum Monte Carlo calculations on condensed matter

D. Alfè and M. J. Gillan

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161101(R) (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

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Evidence for a structurally-driven insulator-to-metal transition in ${VO}_{2}$ : A view from the ultrafast timescale

A. Cavalleri, Th. Dekorsy, H. H. W. Chong, J. C. Kieffer, and R. W. Schoenlein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161102(R) (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

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Evolution of local electronic states from a metal to a correlated insulator in a $Ni S_{2 - x} {Se}_{x}$ solid solution

K. Iwaya, Y. Kohsaka, S. Satow, T. Hanaguri, S. Miyasaka, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161103(R) (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Spin currents, spin populations, and dielectric function of noncentrosymmetric semiconductors

Emmanuel I. Rashba

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161201(R) (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

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Injection and strong current channeling in organic disordered media

Eduard Tutiš, Ivo Batistić, and Detlef Berner

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161202(R) (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

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Enhancing $T_{c}$ in ferromagnetic semiconductors

S. Das Sarma, E. H. Hwang, and D. J. Priour, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161203(R) (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

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

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Spin-orbit scattering and time-reversal symmetry: Detection of a spin by tunneling

M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161301(R) (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

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Ballistic spin interferometer using the Rashba effect

Takaaki Koga, Junsaku Nitta, and Marc van Veenhuizen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161302(R) (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

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Unified treatment of current-induced instabilities on $Si$ surfaces

Tong Zhao, John D. Weeks, and Daniel Kandel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161303(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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Penetration of electronic perturbations of dilute nitrogen impurities deep into the conduction band of ${GaP}_{1 - x} N_{x}$

S. V. Dudiy, P. R. C. Kent, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161304(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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Intraband relaxation via polaron decay in InAs self-assembled quantum dots

E. A. Zibik, L. R. Wilson, R. P. Green, G. Bastard, R. Ferreira, P. J. Phillips, D. A. Carder, J-P. R. Wells, J. W. Cockburn, M. S. Skolnick, M. J. Steer, and M. Hopkinson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161305(R) (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

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Compressibility of a two-dimensional electron gas under microwave radiation

M. G. Vavilov, I. A. Dmitriev, I. L. Aleiner, A. D. Mirlin, and D. G. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161306(R) (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

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Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities in the nondegenerate parametric oscillation regime: Analogy with the optical parametric oscillator

A. Baas, J.-Ph. Karr, M. Romanelli, A. Bramati, and E. Giacobino

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161307(R) (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

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Electronic structure of the substitutional versus interstitial manganese in $GaN$

Z. S. Popovic, S. Satpathy, and W. C. Mitchel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161308(R) (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

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Quantum model of electronic transport in superlattice minibands

Christophe Minot

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161309(R) (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

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Giant polarization anisotropy in optical transitions of free-standing $InP$ nanowires

M. P. Persson and H. Q. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161310(R) (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

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Spin swap versus double occupancy in quantum gates

T. A. Kaplan and C. Piermarocchi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161311(R) (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

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Electron spectral functions of reconstructed quantum Hall edges

A. Melikidze and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161312(R) (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

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Control of electron-spin coherence using Landau level quantization in a two-dimensional electron gas

V. Sih, W. H. Lau, R. C. Myers, A. C. Gossard, M. E. Flatté, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161313(R) (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

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Local mode frequencies of the $N_{As} − {In}_{Ga}$ nearest-neighbor pair in $(Ga, In) (As, N)$ alloys

H. Ch. Alt and Y. V. Gomeniuk

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161314(R) (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

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Hybridization of Cr $3 d - N$ $2 p - Ga$ $4 s$ in the wide band-gap diluted magnetic semiconductor ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Cr}_{x} N$

J. J. Kim, H. Makino, K. Kobayashi, Y. Takata, T. Yamamoto, T. Hanada, M. W. Cho, E. Ikenaga, M. Yabashi, D. Miwa, Y. Nishino, K. Tamasaku, T. Ishikawa, S. Shin, and T. Yao

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161315(R) (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Ultrafast light-induced dichroism in silver nanoparticles

M. H. G. Miranda, E. L. Falcão-Filho, J. J. Rodrigues, Jr, Cid B. de Araújo, and L. H. Acioli

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161401(R) (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

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Role of lattice registry in the full collapse and twist formation of carbon nanotubes

Bin Liu, Min-Feng Yu, and Yonggang Huang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161402(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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In situ grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering real-time monitoring of the role of humidity during the structural formation of templated silica thin films

Alain Gibaud, Sandrine Dourdain, Oleg Gang, and Benjamin M. Ocko

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161403(R) (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

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Three-pulse photon-echo spectroscopy as a probe of the photoexcited electronic state manifold in coupled electron-phonon systems

A. Piryatinski, S. Tretiak, P. W. Fenimore, A. Saxena, R. L. Martin, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. B 70, 161404(R) (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Theory of resonant Raman scattering in one-dimensional electronic systems

D.-W. Wang, A. J. Millis, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165101 (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

Dynamical properties of the Anderson impurity model within a diagrammatic pseudoparticle approach

S. Kirchner, J. Kroha, and P. Wölfle

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165102 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Single Mott transition in the multiorbital Hubbard model

A. Liebsch

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165103 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Three-dimensional photonic crystals by holographic lithography using the umbrella configuration: Symmetries and complete photonic band gaps

D. C. Meisel, M. Wegener, and K. Busch

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165104 (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

First-principles study of $Na Al H_{4}$ and ${Na}_{3} Al H_{6}$ complex hydrides

A. Peles, J. A. Alford, Zhu Ma, Li Yang, and M. Y. Chou

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165105 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Convergence of the ab initio many-body expansion for the cohesive energy of solid mercury

Beate Paulus, Krzysztof Rosciszewski, Nicola Gaston, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Hermann Stoll

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165106 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Anomalous phase in one-dimensional, multilayer, periodic structures with birefringent materials

A. Mandatori, C. Sibilia, M. Bertolotti, S. Zhukovsky, J. W. Haus, and M. Scalora

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165107 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Ab initio simulations of the electrical and optical properties of shock-compressed ${SiO}_{2}$

Yann Laudernet, Jean Clérouin, and Stéphane Mazevet

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165108 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

Infinite-layer $La Ni O_{2}$ : ${Ni}^{1 +}$ is not ${Cu}^{2 +}$

K.-W. Lee and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165109 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

Density-functional study of charge doping in ${WO}_{3}$

Andrew D. Walkingshaw, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165110 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Electronic structure of the antiferromagnetic $B 1$ -structured FeO

M. Alfredsson, G. David Price, C. R. A. Catlow, S. C. Parker, R. Orlando, and J. P. Brodholt

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165111 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Singular dynamics and pseudogap formation in the underscreened Kondo impurity and Kondo lattice models

S. Florens

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165112 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Causality in the propagation of transient electromagnetic waves in a left-handed medium

Tie Jun Cui and Jin Au Kong

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165113 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Fermi-surface topology of rare-earth dihydrides

C. Koitzsch, J. Hayoz, M. Bovet, F. Clerc, L. Despont, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165114 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Resonant x-ray scattering as a probe of toroidal moments in centrosymmetric systems

S. Di Matteo

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165115 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Finite-element analysis of disorder effects in photonic crystals

W. R. Frei and H. T. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165116 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Semiconductors I: bulk

Tight-binding study of structure and vibrations of amorphous silicon

J. L. Feldman, N. Bernstein, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, and M. J. Mehl

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165201 (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Photoinduced phase transition in tetrathiafulvalene- $p$ -chloranil observed in femtosecond reflection spectroscopy

H. Okamoto, Y. Ishige, S. Tanaka, H. Kishida, S. Iwai, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165202 (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Disorder in diluted spin systems

S. Hilbert and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165203 (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Hyperfine spectroscopy of muonium in 4H and 6H silicon carbide

R. L. Lichti, W. A. Nussbaum, and K. H. Chow

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165204 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Stabilization of half metallicity in Mn-doped silicon upon Ge alloying

S. Picozzi, F. Antoniella, A. Continenza, A. MoscaConte, A. Debernardi, and M. Peressi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165205 (2004) - Published 18 October, 2004

First-principles study of the origin of retarded diffusion of boron in silicon in the presence of germanium

Liguo Wang, Paulette Clancy, and C. S. Murthy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165206 (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Time-dependent energy transfer rates in a conjugated polymer guest-host system

L. M. Herz, C. Silva, A. C. Grimsdale, K. Müllen, and R. T. Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165207 (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Temperature dependence of disorder accumulation and amorphization in Au-ion-irradiated $6 H − Si C$

W. Jiang, Y. Zhang, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165208 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

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

Levitation of the quantum Hall extended states in the $B \to 0$ limit

Th. Koschny and L. Schweitzer

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165301 (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Temperature effect as an essential factor in scanning tunneling microscopy studies demonstrated by the analysis of an oxygen-adsorbed $Si (111) − 7 \times 7$ surface

Yasuaki Konishi, Shoji Yoshida, Yasuyuki Sainoo, Osamu Takeuchi, and Hidemi Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165302 (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

Oxidized surface structure and oxidation kinetics of the C-terminated $6 H − Si C (000 \bar{1}) − (2 \times 2)$ surface

Y. Hoshino, R. Fukuyama, and Y. Kido

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165303 (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

Relationship between single quantum-dot intermittency and fluorescence intensity decays from collections of dots

Inhee Chung and Moungi G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165304 (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

Oscillatory ac conductivity and photoconductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas: Quasiclassical transport beyond the Boltzmann equation

I. A. Dmitriev, A. D. Mirlin, and D. G. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165305 (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

Spin-orbit effects on reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy

R. A. Vázquez-Nava, Bernardo S. Mendoza, and C. Castillo

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165306 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Mobility and carrier density in materials with anisotropic conductivity revealed by van der Pauw measurements

O. Bierwagen, R. Pomraenke, S. Eilers, and W. T. Masselink

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165307 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Charge and spin distributions in ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As ∕ GaAs$ ferromagnetic multilayers

S. C. P. Rodrigues, L. M. R. Scolfaro, J. R. Leite, I. C. da Cunha Lima, G. M. Sipahi, and M. A. Boselli

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165308 (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

Surface states and annihilation characteristics of positrons trapped at the (100) and (111) surfaces of silicon

N. G. Fazleev, J. L. Fry, and A. H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165309 (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

Quantum Hall smectics, sliding symmetry, and the renormalization group

Michael J. Lawler and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165310 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Microwave-induced magnetotransport phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems: Importance of electrodynamic effects

S. A. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165311 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Calculation of bulk third-harmonic generation from crystalline Si with the simplified bond hyperpolarizability model

H. J. Peng and D. E. Aspnes

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165312 (2004) - Published 18 October, 2004

Illumination effects in holographic imaging of the electrostatic potential of defects and $p n$ junctions in transmission electron microscopy

L. Houben, M. Luysberg, and T. Brammer

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165313 (2004) - Published 18 October, 2004

Insights into microstructural evolution from nanocrystalline $Sn O_{2}$ thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition

Z. W. Chen, J. K. L. Lai, and C. H. Shek

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165314 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

Current noise of a single-electron transistor coupled to a nanomechanical resonator

A. D. Armour

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165315 (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

Persistent currents in a multicomponent Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid: Application to a mesoscopic semiconductor ring with spin-orbit interaction

M. Pletyukhov and V. Gritsev

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165316 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Anisotropy of interband transitions in InAs quantum wires: An atomistic theory

Marco Califano and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165317 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Longitudinal conductance of mesoscopic Hall samples with arbitrary disorder and periodic modulations

Chenggang Zhou and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165318 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

${SrTiO}_{3} ∕ Si (001)$ epitaxial interface: A density functional theory study

I. N. Yakovkin and M. Gutowski

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165319 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Nitrogen bonding structure in ultrathin silicon oxynitride films on Si(100) prepared by plasma nitridation

Yu Kwon Kim, Hyun Seok Lee, H. W. Yeom, Doo-Yeol Ryoo, Sang-Bum Huh, and Jeong-Gun Lee

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165320 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Si epitaxial growth on Br-Si(100): How steric repulsive interactions influence overlayer development

G. J. Xu and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165321 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Anomalous temperature and excitation power dependence of cathodoluminescence from $InAs$ quantum dots

Keiichirou Akiba, Naoki Yamamoto, Vincenzo Grillo, Akira Genseki, and Yoshio Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165322 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Surface structure of phosphorus-terminated $Ga P (001) − (2 \times 1)$

N. Kadotani, M. Shimomura, and Y. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165323 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Quantitative evaluation of $Si O_{2} ∕ Si$ interfaces using high-resolution high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy

N. Nakanishi, Y. Kikuchi, T. Yamazaki, E. Okunishi, K. Watanabe, and I. Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165324 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Valley splitting in low-density quantum-confined heterostructures studied using tight-binding models

Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Seungwon Lee

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165325 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

$M_{n + 1} A X_{n}$ phases in the $Ti − Si − C$ system studied by thin-film synthesis and ab initio calculations

J.-P. Palmquist, S. Li, P. O. Å. Persson, J. Emmerlich, O. Wilhelmsson, H. Högberg, M. I. Katsnelson, B. Johansson, R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, L. Hultman, and U. Jansson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 165401 (2004) - Published 1 October, 2004