Volume 74, Issue 23

F. Kronast, R. Ovsyannikov, A. Vollmer, H. A. Dürr, W. Eberhardt, P. Imperia, D. Schmitz, G. M. Schott, C. Ruester, C. Gould, G. Schmidt, K. Brunner, M. Sawicki, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235213 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Raman scattering study of $H_{2}$ in Si

M. Hiller, E. V. Lavrov, and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235214 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Electron heating in the conduction band of insulators irradiated by ultrashort laser pulses

H. Bachau, A. N. Belsky, P. Martin, A. N. Vasil’ev, and B. N. Yatsenko

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235215 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Ab initio study of $Γ − X$ intervalley scattering in GaAs under pressure

Jelena Sjakste, Valeriy Tyuterev, and Nathalie Vast

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235216 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Magnetic-field-induced second-harmonic generation in the diluted magnetic semiconductors ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} Te$

I. Sänger, B. Kaminski, D. R. Yakovlev, R. V. Pisarev, M. Bayer, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Kossut

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235217 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of transition-metal-doped $3 C$ and $4 H$ silicon carbide

M. S. Miao and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235218 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Electric-field-controlled conductance of “metallic” polymers in a transistor structure

Fang-Chi Hsu, Vladimir N. Prigodin, and Arthur J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235219 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

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

Precursor mechanism for interaction of bulk interstitial atoms with $Si (100)$

Xiao Zhang, Min Yu, Charlotte T. M. Kwok, Ramakrishnan Vaidyanathan, Richard D. Braatz, and Edmund G. Seebauer

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235301 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Kinetic equations for hopping processes of small polarons under spin-orbit coupling

V. V. Bryksin, H. Böttger, and P. Kleinert

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235302 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Use of dynamical coupling for improved quantum state transfer

A. O. Lyakhov and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235303 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Real-time synchrotron x-ray studies of low- and high-temperature nitridation of $c$ -plane sapphire

Yiyi Wang, Ahmet S. Özcan, Gözde Özaydin, Karl F. Ludwig, Jr., Anirban Bhattacharyya, Theodore D. Moustakas, Hua Zhou, Randall L. Headrick, and D. Peter Siddons

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235304 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Mechanisms of size-dependent shape evolution of one-dimensional nanostructure growth

Bing Wang, Yuhua Yang, Ningsheng Xu, and Guowei Yang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235305 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Determination of conduction band offsets in type-II ${In}_{0.27} {Ga}_{0.73} Sb ∕ {In}_{x} {Al}_{1 - x} {As}_{y} {Sb}_{1 - y}$ heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy

E. R. Glaser, R. Magno, B. V. Shanabrook, and J. G. Tischler

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235306 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Degradation of electron-hole entanglement by spin-orbit coupling

J. H. Bardarson and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235307 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

$R$ -matrix theory for magnetotransport properties in semiconductor devices

Thushari Jayasekera, Michael A. Morrison, and Kieran Mullen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235308 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Quantum master equation for electron transport through quantum dots and single molecules

Upendra Harbola, Massimiliano Esposito, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235309 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Cavity-assisted generation of entangled photon pairs by a quantum-dot cascade decay

F. Troiani, J. I. Perea, and C. Tejedor

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235310 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Surface electronic structures of the Eu- and Ca-induced so-called $Si (111) − (5 \times 1)$ reconstructions

Kazuyuki Sakamoto, P. E. J. Eriksson, A. Pick, Nobuo Ueno, and R. I. G. Uhrberg

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235311 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Control of the supercurrent through a parallel-coupled double quantum dot system

Hui Pan and Tsung-Han Lin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235312 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Spin and charge optical conductivities in spin-orbit coupled systems

Jesús A. Maytorena, Catalina López-Bastidas, and Francisco Mireles

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235313 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Weak localization correction to the density of transmission eigenvalues in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling for a chaotic quantum dot

Benjámin Béri and József Cserti

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235314 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Spin states and persistent currents in mesoscopic rings: Spin-orbit interactions

J. S. Sheng and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235315 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Magnetoresistance of a quantum dot with spin-active interfaces

Audrey Cottet and Mahn-Soo Choi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235316 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Impurity conduction in phosphorus-doped buried-channel silicon-on-insulator field-effect transistors at temperatures between 10 and $295 K$

Yukinori Ono, Jean-Francois Morizur, Katsuhiko Nishiguchi, Kei Takashina, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kazuma Hiratsuka, Seiji Horiguchi, Hiroshi Inokawa, and Yasuo Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235317 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Interplay between elastic interactions and kinetic processes in stepped Si (001) homoepitaxy

Wei Hong, Zhenyu Zhang, and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235318 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Landau level mixing in the $ν = 5 ∕ 2$ fractional quantum Hall state

Arkadiusz Wójs and John J. Quinn

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235319 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

From quantum point contacts to quantum wires: Density-functional calculations with exchange and correlation effects

Peter Jaksch, Irina Yakimenko, and Karl-Fredrik Berggren

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235320 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Dielectric mismatch effect on the exciton states in cylindrical nanowires

A. F. Slachmuylders, B. Partoens, W. Magnus, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235321 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Persistent spin helix in Rashba-Dresselhaus two-dimensional electron systems

Ming-Hao Liu, Kuo-Wei Chen, Son-Hsien Chen, and Ching-Ray Chang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235322 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Fano resonance and persistent current in mesoscopic open rings: Influence of coupling and Aharonov-Bohm flux

Vassilios Vargiamidis and Hariton M. Polatoglou

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235323 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Direct and indirect excitons and magnetic polarons in $Cd Se ∕ Cd Mg Se ∕ Cd Mn Se$ semimagnetic double quantum wells

I. I. Reshina, S. V. Ivanov, D. N. Mirlin, I. V. Sedova, and S. V. Sorokin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235324 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Electronic transport in quantum cascade structures at equilibrium

C. Koeniguer, G. Dubois, A. Gomez, and V. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235325 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Simultaneous measurement of the de Haas-van Alphen and the Shubnikov-de Haas effect in a two-dimensional electron system

N. Ruhe, J. I. Springborn, Ch. Heyn, M. A. Wilde, and D. Grundler

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235326 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Experimental characterization of optical-gap solitons in a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of a corrugated semiconductor planar waveguide

S.-P. Gorza, D. Taillaert, R. Baets, B. Maes, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235327 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

State-to-state exciton dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

Samuel L. Sewall, Ryan R. Cooney, Kevin E. H. Anderson, Eva A. Dias, and Patanjali Kambhampati

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235328 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Normal and inverse spin-valve effect in organic semiconductor nanowires and the background monotonic magnetoresistance

Sandipan Pramanik, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Garre, and Marc Cahay

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235329 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Ab initio quantum force field for simulations of nanostructures

A. G. Donchev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235401 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Dilute Cu nanostructure stabilized by substrate-mediated interactions on $Cu (111)$ : Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Jolanta M. Rogowska and Mieczysław Maciejewski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235402 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Effect of long-range correlation on the metal-insulator transition in a disordered molecular crystal

Mikael Unge and Sven Stafström

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235403 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Charge injection into discrete states of individual electroluminescent Au nanoclusters

Jose I. Gonzalez, Tom Vosch, and Robert M. Dickson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235404 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Enhanced transmission with coaxial nanoapertures: Role of cylindrical surface plasmons

Michael I. Haftel, Carl Schlockermann, and G. Blumberg

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235405 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Clean and pyrrole-functionalized Si- and C-terminated SiC surfaces: First-principles calculations of geometry and energetics compared with LEED and XPS

M. Preuss, F. Bechstedt, W. G. Schmidt, J. Sochos, B. Schröter, and W. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235406 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Core-electron x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the evolution of nearly flat, terraced, homogeneously H-terminated $Si (100)$ during prolonged exposure to air at room temperature

G. F. Cerofolini, C. Galati, S. Reina, L. Renna, N. Spinella, and G. G. Condorelli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235407 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Chemical bonding, interface strength, and oxygen $K$ electron-energy-loss near-edge structure of the $Cu ∕ {Al}_{2} O_{3}$ interface

Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Takeo Sasaki, Shingo Tanaka, Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Takahisa Yamamoto, Masanori Kohyama, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235408 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Electron-phonon correlation effects in molecular transistors

C. A. Balseiro, P. S. Cornaglia, and D. R. Grempel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235409 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Elastic relaxations and interactions on metallic vicinal surfaces: Testing the dipole model

G. Prévot and B. Croset

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235410 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Nonlinear elastic and electronic properties of ${Mo}_{6} S_{3} I_{6}$ nanowires

I. Vilfan and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235411 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

STM study of hydroxyl formation at $O ∕ Ag (110)$

L. Savio, M. Smerieri, L. Vattuone, A. Gussoni, C. Tassistro, and M. Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235412 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Spintronic properties of carbon-based one-dimensional molecular structures

E. Durgun, R. T. Senger, H. Sevinçli, H. Mehrez, and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235413 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Ground states of diatomic molecules adsorbed on single-walled carbon nanotubes

Yi Ding and Jun Ni

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235414 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Collision dynamics of nanoscale Lennard-Jones clusters

Marco Kalweit and Dimitris Drikakis

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235415 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Structural and electronic properties of $4 Å$ carbon nanotubes on $Si (001)$ surfaces

G. W. Peng, A. C. H. Huan, L. Liu, and Y. P. Feng

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235416 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene

Csaba Tőke, Paul E. Lammert, Vincent H. Crespi, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235417 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Force and energy dissipation variations in noncontact atomic force spectroscopy of composite carbon nanotube systems

A. Ilie, J. S. Bendall, O. Kubo, J. Sloan, and M. L. H. Green

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235418 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Detailed analysis of the Raman response of $n$ -doped double-wall carbon nanotubes

H. Rauf, T. Pichler, R. Pfeiffer, F. Simon, H. Kuzmany, and V. N. Popov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235419 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Self-assembly of two-dimensional nanoclusters observed with STM: From surface molecules to surface superstructure

Canhua Liu, Iwao Matsuda, Marie D’angelo, Shuji Hasegawa, Jun Okabayashi, Satoshi Toyoda, and Masaharu Oshima

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235420 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Simultaneous generation of second and third optical harmonics on a metal grating

A. V. Andreev, A. A. Korneev, L. S. Mukina, M. M. Nazarov, I. R. Prudnikov, and A. P. Shkurinov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235421 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Electron scattering in a multiwall carbon nanotube bend junction studied by scanning tunneling microscopy

L. Tapasztó, P. Nemes-Incze, Z. Osváth, Al. Darabont, Ph. Lambin, and L. P. Biró

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235422 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Planar array of semiconducting nanotubes in an external electric field: Collective screening and polarizability

T. A. Sedrakyan, E. G. Mishchenko, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235423 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Galvinoxyl monolayers on Au(111) studied by STM, EPR, and cyclic voltammetry

Natascha Niermann, Tesfaye Hailu Degefa, Lorenz Walder, Vitali Zielke, Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff, Jens Onsgaard, and Sylvia Speller

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235424 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Near-field enhancement and subwavelength imaging in the optical region using a pair of two-dimensional arrays of metal nanospheres

P. Alitalo, C. Simovski, A. Viitanen, and S. Tretyakov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235425 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid correlations and Fabry-Perot interference in conductance and finite-frequency shot noise in a single-walled carbon nanotube

Patrik Recher, Na Young Kim, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235438 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Noncontact atomic force microscopy simulator with phase-locked-loop controlled frequency detection and excitation

Laurent Nony, Alexis Baratoff, Dominique Schär, Oliver Pfeiffer, Adrian Wetzel, and Ernst Meyer

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235439 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Role of high-order Fourier terms for stability of monolayer-surface structures: Numerical simulations

Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235440 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Calculation of thermodynamic and mechanical properties of silicon nanostructures using the local phonon density of states

Z. Tang and N. R. Aluru

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235441 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Electric near-field enhancement of a sharp semi-infinite conical probe: Material and cone angle dependence

Anatoliy V. Goncharenko, Juen-Kai Wang, and Yia-Chung Chang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235442 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Electron transport in disordered graphene

P. M. Ostrovsky, I. V. Gornyi, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235443 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Surface and interface structures of epitaxial ${ZrO}_{2}$ films on $Pt (111)$ : Experiment and density-functional theory calculations

K. Meinel, A. Eichler, S. Förster, K.-M. Schindler, H. Neddermeyer, and W. Widdra

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235444 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Nanocables made of a transition metal wire and boron nitride sheath: Density functional calculations

Chih-Kai Yang, Jijun Zhao, and Jian Ping Lu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 235445 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Real-space description of current-constrained molecular junctions [Phys. Rev. B 74, 155305 (2006)]

Anna Painelli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 239901 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Publisher's Note: Ab initio quantum force field for simulations of nanostructures [Phys. Rev. B 74, 235401 (2006)]

A. G. Donchev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 239902 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Erratum: Monte Carlo analysis of terahertz oscillations of photoexcited carriers in $GaAs$ $p − i − n$ structures [Phys. Rev. B 74, 165305 (2006)]

A. Reklaitis

Phys. Rev. B 74, 239903 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Erratum: Nanowire formation during catalyst assisted chemical vapor deposition [Phys. Rev. B 72, 085417 (2005)]

Q. X. Liu, C. X. Wang, N. S. Xu, and G. W. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 239904 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Erratum: Excited states of ring-shaped $(InGa) As$ quantum dots in a $GaAs ∕ (AlGa) As$ quantum well [Phys. Rev. B 72, 085309 (2005)]

F. Pulizzi, D. Walker, A. Patanè, L. Eaves, M. Henini, D. Granados, J. M. Garcia, V. V. Rudenkov, P. C. M. Christianen, J. C. Maan, P. Offermans, P. M. Koenraad, and G. Hill

Phys. Rev. B 74, 239905 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006