Volume 77, Issue 19

15 May 2008

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deconfined quantum criticality driven by Dirac fermions in SU(2) antiferromagnets

Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195101 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dual fermion approach to susceptibility of correlated lattice fermions

S. Brener, H. Hafermann, A. N. Rubtsov, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195105 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Renormalization group for phases with broken discrete symmetry near quantum critical points

P. Jakubczyk, P. Strack, A. A. Katanin, and W. Metzner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195120 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecule-based system with coexisting conductivity and magnetism and without magnetic inorganic ions

M. M. Matsushita, H. Kawakami, T. Sugawara, and M. Ogata

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195208 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Characterization of graphene through anisotropy of constant-energy maps in angle-resolved photoemission

M. Mucha-Kruczyński, O. Tsyplyatyev, A. Grishin, E. McCann, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Aaron Bostwick, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195403 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single-particle relaxation time versus transport scattering time in a two-dimensional graphene layer

E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195412 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Graphene via large $N$ : A renormalization group study

Matthew S. Foster and Igor L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195413 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic structure and Fermi surface of $Sn ∕ Cu (100) − (3 \sqrt{2} \times \sqrt{2}) R 45 °$

J. Martínez-Blanco, V. Joco, J. Fujii, P. Segovia, and E. G. Michel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195418 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Solid-state dewetting-mediated aggregation of nanoparticles

J. S. Palmer, P. Swaminathan, S. Babar, and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195422 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vertical and lateral force mapping on the $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ surface by dynamic force microscopy

Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Takashi Namikawa, Koutaro Miki, Masayuki Abe, and Seizo Morita

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195424 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth of multilayer ice films and the formation of cubic ice imaged with STM

Konrad Thürmer and Norman C. Bartelt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195425 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vacancy-induced magnetism in graphene and graphene ribbons

J. J. Palacios, J. Fernández-Rossier, and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195428 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of anomalous quantum Hall effects in graphene

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195430 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Li- and B-decorated cis-polyacetylene: A computational study

S. Li and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193101 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Fine structure splitting of isoelectronic bound excitons in nitrogen-doped GaAs

Takashi Kita, Yukihiro Harada, and Osamu Wada

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193102 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Diagonal charge-density-wave state in the insulating spin-glass phase of ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} Cu O_{4}$

O. P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193103 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Evidence of local effects in anomalous refraction and focusing properties of dodecagonal photonic quasicrystals

Emiliano Di Gennaro, Carlo Miletto, Salvatore Savo, Antonello Andreone, Davide Morello, Vincenzo Galdi, Giuseppe Castaldi, and Vincenzo Pierro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193104 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Magneto-optical study of the spin-polarized electronic states in multiferroic $Tb Mn O_{3}$

M. Bastjan, S. G. Singer, G. Neuber, S. Eller, N. Aliouane, D. N. Argyriou, S. L. Cooper, and M. Rübhausen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193105 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Electrical transport in single-crystalline ${Li}_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$ : A two-band Luttinger liquid exhibiting Bose metal behavior

C. A. M. dos Santos, M. S. da Luz, Yi-Kuo Yu, J. J. Neumeier, J. Moreno, and B. D. White

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193106 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

From unconventional insulating behavior towards conventional magnetism in the intermediate-valence compound ${SmB}_{6}$

J. Derr, G. Knebel, D. Braithwaite, B. Salce, J. Flouquet, K. Flachbart, S. Gabáni, and N. Shitsevalova

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193107 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Transmission of images with subwavelength resolution to distances of several wavelengths in the microwave range

Pavel A. Belov, Yan Zhao, Simon Tse, Pekka Ikonen, Mário G. Silveirinha, Constantin R. Simovski, Sergei Tretyakov, Yang Hao, and Clive Parini

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193108 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Analytic study of charge tunneling through DNA under dissipation

Juyeon Yi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193109 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Efficient calculation of the exact exchange energy in periodic systems using a truncated Coulomb potential

James Spencer and Ali Alavi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193110 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Structure and electronic properties of ${Mo}_{3} Pt$ , ${MoPt}_{2}$ , and ${MoPt}_{3}$ : First-principles calculations

M. Stojković, V. Koteski, J. Belošević-Čavor, B. Cekić, D. Stojić, and V. Ivanovski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193111 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Enhancement of phonon effects in photoexcited states of one-dimensional Mott insulators

Hiroaki Matsueda, Akihiro Ando, Takami Tohyama, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193112 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Features of interband absorption in the dielectric function of narrow-gap semiconductors

L. A. Falkovsky

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193201 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Dynamics of nonlinear blue photoluminescence and Auger recombination in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Hideki Yasuda and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193202 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Dynamics of biexciton localization in ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N$ mixed crystals under exciton resonant excitation

Daisuke Hirano, Takeshi Tayagaki, Yoichi Yamada, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193203 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

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

Dopant stability and strain states in Co and Mn-doped Ge (001) epitaxial films

B. A. Collins, Y. S. Chu, L. He, Y. Zhong, and F. Tsui

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193301 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Spin Hall effect in a symmetric quantum well by a random Rashba field

C. P. Moca, D. C. Marinescu, and S. Filip

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193302 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Experimental investigation of exciton-LO-phonon couplings in CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanorods

Holger Lange, Mikhail Artemyev, Ulrike Woggon, Tore Niermann, and Christian Thomsen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193303 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Tunable Aharonov-Anandan phase in transport through mesoscopic hole rings

M. Pletyukhov and U. Zülicke

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193304 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Robust strongly modulated transmission of a T-shaped structure with local Rashba interaction

K. Shen and M. W. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193305 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Two-path transport measurements on a triple quantum dot

M. C. Rogge and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193306 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Effect of electron-electron scattering on spin dephasing in a high-mobility low-density two-dimensional electron gas

X. Z. Ruan, H. H. Luo, Yang Ji, Z. Y. Xu, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193307 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Sharp magnetic field dependence of the two-dimensional Hall coefficient induced by classical memory effects

A. P. Dmitriev and V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193308 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Aharonov-Bohm-Casher ring dot as a flux-tunable resonant tunneling diode

R. Citro and F. Romeo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193309 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Absence of charge-density waves on the dense $Pb / Ge (111) − β − \sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ surface

Harumo Morikawa, Iwao Matsuda, and Shuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193310 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Multiscale theory of valley splitting in the conduction band of a quantum well

Sucismita Chutia, S. N. Coppersmith, and Mark Friesen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193311 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Tunable hybridization between electronic states of graphene and a metal surface

Alexander Grüneis and Denis V. Vyalikh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193401 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Nonradiative exciton energy transfer in hybrid organic-inorganic heterostructures

S. Chanyawadee, P. G. Lagoudakis, R. T. Harley, D. G. Lidzey, and M. Henini

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193402 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Quantum kinetic equation and universal conductance fluctuations in graphene

K. Kechedzhi, O. Kashuba, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193403 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Refraction of surface plasmon-polaritons at Au-Al boundaries observed by scanning near-field optical microscopy

Tazuko Kitazawa, Shintaro Miyanishi, Yoshiteru Murakami, Kunio Kojima, and Akira Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193404 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Exciton fine structure in a single carbon nanotube revealed through spectral diffusion

Kazunari Matsuda, Tadashi Inoue, Yoichi Murakami, Shigeo Maruyama, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193405 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Conductance of a copper-nanotube bundle interface: Impact of interface geometry and wave-function interference

Steven Compernolle, Geoffrey Pourtois, Bart Sorée, Wim Magnus, Liviu F. Chibotaru, and Arnout Ceulemans

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193406 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Effective $π$ -electron Hamiltonian for small-radius nanotubes: Interpretation of curvature-induced conductivity

Péter Szakács, Péter R. Surján, Debashis Mukherjee, and Sanghamitra Das

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193407 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

$H_{2}$ reactivity on strained pseudomorphic monolayers of Cu and Pd on Ru(0001)

G. Laurent, H. F. Busnengo, P. Rivière, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193408 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Breakdown of spatial inversion symmetry in core-level photoemission of Pt(001)

S.-W. Yu and J. G. Tobin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193409 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Edge-dependent selection rules in magic triangular graphene flakes

J. Akola, H. P. Heiskanen, and M. Manninen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 193410 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

ARTICLES

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deconfined quantum criticality driven by Dirac fermions in SU(2) antiferromagnets

Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195101 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Density-functional theory study of the effects of atomic impurity on the band edges of monoclinic ${WO}_{3}$

Muhammad N. Huda, Yanfa Yan, Chang-Yoon Moon, Su-Huai Wei, and Mowafak M. Al-Jassim

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195102 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Influence of $s p − d$ hybridization on the electronic structure of Al-Mn alloys

A. K. Shukla, C. Biswas, R. S. Dhaka, S. C. Das, P. Krüger, and S. R. Barman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195103 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Effect of disorder on various physical properties of ${Co}_{2} CrAl$ Heusler alloy films: Experiment and theory

Y. V. Kudryavtsev, V. N. Uvarov, V. A. Oksenenko, Y. P. Lee, J. B. Kim, Y. H. Hyun, K. W. Kim, J. Y. Rhee, and J. Dubowik

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195104 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dual fermion approach to susceptibility of correlated lattice fermions

S. Brener, H. Hafermann, A. N. Rubtsov, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195105 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Luttinger liquid fixed point for a two-dimensional flat Fermi surface

Vieri Mastropietro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195106 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Electron and spin transport in the presence of a complex absorbing potential

Fatih Doğan, Wonkee Kim, C. M. Blois, and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195107 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Anderson impurity model in a semiconductor

Martin R. Galpin and David E. Logan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195108 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Highly efficient spatiotemporal coherent control in nanoplasmonics on a nanometer-femtosecond scale by time reversal

Xiangting Li and Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195109 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Optical excitation of nuclear spin coherence in a ${Tm}^{3 +} : YAG$ crystal

A. Louchet, Y. Le Du, F. Bretenaker, T. Chanelière, F. Goldfarb, I. Lorgeré, J.-L. Le Gouët, O. Guillot-Noël, and Ph. Goldner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195110 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Effect of non-Fermi liquid behavior on the temperature dependence of the amplitude of de Haas-van Alphen oscillations

P. Schlottmann

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195111 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Calculations of strain-modified anatase ${TiO}_{2}$ band structures

Lukas Thulin and John Guerra

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195112 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Bosonization approach to the mixed-valence two-channel Kondo problem

A. Iucci and C. J. Bolech

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195113 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Low-energy collective dynamics of charge stripes in the doped nickelate ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} Ni O_{4 + δ}$ observed with optical conductivity measurements

J. Lloyd-Hughes, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and M. B. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195114 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Zone-center instability of C(5,0) carbon nanotubes inside $Al P O_{4} − 5$ channels

M. V. Fernández-Serra and X. Blase

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195115 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Ab initio simulation of photoemission spectroscopy in solids: Plane-wave pseudopotential approach with applications to normal-emission spectra of Cu(001) and Cu(111)

Nataša Stojić, Andrea Dal Corso, Bo Zhou, and Stefano Baroni

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195116 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Symmetries of the eigenstates in an anisotropic photonic crystal

G. Alagappan, X. W. Sun, and H. D. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195117 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Nuclear quadrupole moment of the ${}^{99}T c$ ground state

Leonardo Errico, Germán Darriba, Mario Rentería, Zhengning Tang, Heike Emmerich, and Stefaan Cottenier

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195118 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Retrieving the dielectric function of diamond from valence electron energy-loss spectroscopy

L. Zhang, R. Erni, J. Verbeeck, and G. Van Tendeloo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195119 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Renormalization group for phases with broken discrete symmetry near quantum critical points

P. Jakubczyk, P. Strack, A. A. Katanin, and W. Metzner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195120 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Subwavelength imaging from a multilayered structure containing interleaved nonspherical metal-dielectric composites

Lihong Shi and Lei Gao

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195121 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Spin-charge separation in transport through Luttinger liquid rings

S. Friederich and V. Meden

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195122 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Coulomb correlation in the presence of spin-orbit coupling: Application to plutonium

Jean-Pierre Julien, Jian-Xin Zhu, and R. C. Albers

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195123 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Electronic structure and effects of dynamical electron correlation in ferromagnetic bcc Fe, fcc Ni, and antiferromagnetic NiO

Oki Miura and Takeo Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195124 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Electron-density dependence of double-plasmon excitations in simple metals

S. Huotari, C. Sternemann, W. Schülke, K. Sturm, H. Lustfeld, H. Sternemann, M. Volmer, A. Gusarov, H. Müller, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195125 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Optical absorption study by ab initio downfolding approach: Application to GaAs

Kazuma Nakamura, Yoshihide Yoshimoto, Ryotaro Arita, Shinji Tsuneyuki, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195126 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Nonlinear frequency conversion in two-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals solved by a plane-wave-based transfer-matrix method

Jingjuan Li, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Dao-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195127 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Peierls ground state and excitations in the electron-lattice correlated system ${(EDO-TTF)}_{2} X$

M. Tsuchiizu and Y. Suzumura

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195128 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Theory of ac anomalous Hall conductivity in $d$ -electron systems

T. Tanaka and H. Kontani

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195129 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Plasmonic band gap cavities on biharmonic gratings

Askin Kocabas, S. Seckin Senlik, and Atilla Aydinli

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195130 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Polarization-resolved phonon-assisted optical transitions of bound excitons in wurtzite GaN

A. A. Toropov, Yu. E. Kitaev, T. V. Shubina, P. P. Paskov, J. P. Bergman, B. Monemar, and A. Usui

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195201 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Terahertz emission from ultrafast optical orientation of spins in semiconductors: Experiment and theory

F. Nastos, R. W. Newson, J. Hübner, H. M. van Driel, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195202 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Creation and identification of the two spin states of dicarbon antisite defects in $4 H -SiC$

J. W. Steeds, W. Sullivan, S. A. Furkert, G. A. Evans, and P. J. Wellmann

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195203 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Identification of antisite carbon split-interstitial defects in $4 H -SiC$

J. W. Steeds and W. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195204 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Simultaneous measurement of electronic and vibrational dynamics to clarify a geometrical relaxation process in a conjugated polymer

Juan Du, Zhuan Wang, Wei Feng, Katsumi Yoshino, and Takayoshi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195205 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Optical absorption band at $5.8 eV$ associated with the $E_{γ}^{'}$ centers in amorphous silicon dioxide: Optical absorption and EPR measurements

S. Agnello, G. Buscarino, F. M. Gelardi, and R. Boscaino

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195206 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Fano factor and nonuniformities affecting charge transport in semiconductors

M. J. Harrison, D. S. McGregor, and F. P. Doty

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195207 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecule-based system with coexisting conductivity and magnetism and without magnetic inorganic ions

M. M. Matsushita, H. Kawakami, T. Sugawara, and M. Ogata

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195208 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Carbon-nitrogen molecules in GaAs and GaP

Sukit Limpijumnong, Pakpoom Reunchan, Anderson Janotti, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195209 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Ab initio investigation of phosphorus diffusion paths in germanium

C. Janke, R. Jones, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195210 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Effective temperature for hopping transport in a Gaussian density of states

F. Jansson, S. D. Baranovskii, F. Gebhard, and R. Österbacka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195211 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Pentacene homojunctions: Electron and hole transport properties and related photovoltaic responses

Kentaro Harada, Moritz Riede, Karl Leo, Olaf R. Hild, and C. Michael Elliott

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195212 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Carrier-induced disordering dynamics in InSb studied with density functional perturbation theory

P. B. Hillyard, D. A. Reis, and K. J. Gaffney

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195213 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

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

Simulation of J-aggregate microcavity photoluminescence

Paolo Michetti and Giuseppe C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195301 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Coulomb effects in open quantum dots within the random-phase approximation

V. Moldoveanu and B. Tanatar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195302 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Influence of the mirrors on the strong coupling regime in planar GaN microcavities

F. Réveret, P. Disseix, J. Leymarie, A. Vasson, F. Semond, M. Leroux, and J. Massies

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195303 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Polarization memory decay spectroscopy of photoexcitations in $π$ -conjugated polymers: Evidence for excimers

Sanjeev Singh, Tomer Drori, and Z. Valy Vardeny

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195304 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Dynamics-controlled truncation scheme for quantum optics and nonlinear dynamics in semiconductor microcavities

S. Portolan, O. Di Stefano, S. Savasta, F. Rossi, and R. Girlanda

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195305 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Bloch oscillations and nonlinear transport in a one-dimensional semiconductor superlattice

S. K. Lyo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195306 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Adsorption of diatomic molecules on iron tape-porphyrin: A comparative study

Tien Quang Nguyen, Mary Clare Sison Escaño, Nobuaki Shimoji, Hiroshi Nakanishi, and Hideaki Kasai

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195307 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Entanglement between remote spin-qubits in one dimension by scattering in the real-space Anderson model

M. Habgood, J. H. Jefferson, and G. A. D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195308 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Ge-induced $(1 \times 2)$ surface reconstruction on GaAs(001): A precursor to As segregation

Akihiro Ohtake, Jun Nara, Tetsuji Yasuda, and Noriyuki Miyata

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195309 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Barrier height at $(Ba, Sr) {TiO}_{3} / Pt$ interfaces studied by photoemission

R. Schafranek, S. Payan, M. Maglione, and A. Klein

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195310 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Relaxation of electron-hole pairs by coherent emission of LO-phonons in the quantum kinetic regime measured in CdZnTe quantum wells

S. Cronenberger, C. Brimont, O. Crégut, K. Kheng, H. Mariette, M. Gallart, B. Hönerlage, and P. Gilliot

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195311 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Effects of interaction-induced second Landau level mixing in the $ν = 1$ quantum Hall effect

Mats Horsdal

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195312 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Double quantum dot as detector of spin bias

Qing-feng Sun, Yanxia Xing, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195313 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Unipolar transport and interface charge transfer in nanostructured CdTe/polymer hybrid films

Robert Meier, Robert C. Word, Athavan Nadarajah, and R. Könenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195314 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Interference effects in the counting statistics of electron transfers through a double quantum dot

Sven Welack, Massimiliano Esposito, Upendra Harbola, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195315 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Iterative real-time path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport

S. Weiss, J. Eckel, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195316 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Impurity segregation and ordering in $Si / {SiO}_{2} / {HfO}_{2}$ structures

A. G. Marinopoulos, K. van Benthem, S. N. Rashkeev, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195317 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Optical polarization in columnar InAs/GaAs quantum dots: 8-band $k \cdot p$ calculations

Toshio Saito, Hiroji Ebe, Yasuhiko Arakawa, Takaaki Kakitsuka, and Mitsuru Sugawara

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195318 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Electronic properties in a two-dimensional disordered electron liquid: Spin-valley interplay

I. S. Burmistrov and N. M. Chtchelkatchev

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195319 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Adiabatic charge and spin pumping through quantum dots with ferromagnetic leads

Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale, and Jürgen König

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195320 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Direct and defect-assisted electron tunneling through ultrathin ${SiO}_{2}$ layers from first principles

Joongoo Kang, Yong-Hoon Kim, Junhyeok Bang, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195321 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

High-spatial-resolution near-field photoluminescence and imaging of whispering-gallery modes in semiconductor microdisks with embedded quantum dots

A. M. Mintairov, Y. Chu, Y. He, S. Blokhin, A. Nadtochy, M. Maximov, V. Tokranov, S. Oktyabrsky, and J. L. Merz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195322 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Electronic properties and electron dynamics of the $Si (001) (2 \times 1)$ surface with C-defects

S. Tanaka and K. Tanimura

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195323 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Scaling of multiexciton lifetimes in semiconductor nanocrystals

V. I. Klimov, J. A. McGuire, R. D. Schaller, and V. I. Rupasov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195324 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Quantum confinement effect in Si/Ge core-shell nanowires: First-principles calculations

Li Yang, Ryza N. Musin, Xiao-Qian Wang, and M. Y. Chou

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195325 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Coherent control of tunneling in driven tight-binding chains: Perturbative analysis

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195326 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Contrasting morphologies of O-rich ZnO epitaxy on Zn- and O-polar thin film surfaces: Phase-field model

Yan-Mei Yu and Bang-Gui Liu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195327 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Retrieving effective parameters for metamaterials at oblique incidence

Christoph Menzel, Carsten Rockstuhl, Thomas Paul, Falk Lederer, and Thomas Pertsch

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195328 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Supergap anomalies in cotunneling between normal-superconducting and between two superconducting leads via a small quantum dot

V. V. Mkhitaryan and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195329 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Critical behavior of repulsive dimers on square lattices at $2 ∕ 3$ monolayer coverage

F. Romá, J. L. Riccardo, and A. J. Ramirez-Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195401 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Structure of carbon nanospheres prepared by chlorination of cobaltocene: Experiment and modeling

N. A. Katcho, P. Zetterström, E. Lomba, J. F. Marco, E. Urones-Garrote, D. Ávila-Brande, A. Gómez-Herrero, L. C. Otero-Díaz, and A. R. Landa-Cánovas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195402 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Characterization of graphene through anisotropy of constant-energy maps in angle-resolved photoemission

M. Mucha-Kruczyński, O. Tsyplyatyev, A. Grishin, E. McCann, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Aaron Bostwick, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195403 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

First principles calculations of the electronic and geometric structure of ${Ag}_{27} {Cu}_{7}$ nanoalloy

Marisol Alcántara Ortigoza and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195404 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Nanostructured gold films as broadband terahertz antireflection coatings

Andreas Thoman, Andreas Kern, Hanspeter Helm, and Markus Walther

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195405 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Ab initio study of polarizability and induced charge densities in multilayer graphene films

E. K. Yu, D. A. Stewart, and S. Tiwari

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195406 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Electrodynamics study of plasmonic bonding and antibonding forces in a bisphere

Jack Ng, Ross Tang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195407 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

First-principles calculations of atomic and electronic structure of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ (001) and (011) surfaces

R. I. Eglitis and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195408 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Electrostatic interactions between graphene layers and their environment

J. Sabio, C. Seoánez, S. Fratini, F. Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto, and F. Sols

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195409 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Repulsive interaction and contrast inversion in noncontact atomic force microscopy imaging of adsorbates

P. Rahe, R. Bechstein, J. Schütte, F. Ostendorf, and A. Kühnle

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195410 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Average density of states in disordered graphene systems

Shangduan Wu, Lei Jing, Qunxiang Li, Q. W. Shi, Jie Chen, Haibin Su, Xiaoping Wang, and Jinlong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195411 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single-particle relaxation time versus transport scattering time in a two-dimensional graphene layer

E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195412 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Graphene via large $N$ : A renormalization group study

Matthew S. Foster and Igor L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195413 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Size-dependent modifications of the first-order Raman spectra of nanostructured rutile ${TiO}_{2}$

Varghese Swamy

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195414 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Substrate-limited electron dynamics in graphene

S. Fratini and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195415 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Tunneling through molecules and quantum dots: Master-equation approaches

Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195416 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Density-functional investigation of metal-silicon cage clusters $M {Si}_{n}$ ( $M = Sc$ , Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn; $n = 8 - 16$ )

Ling-ju Guo, Gao-feng Zhao, Yu-zong Gu, Xia Liu, and Zhi Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195417 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic structure and Fermi surface of $Sn ∕ Cu (100) − (3 \sqrt{2} \times \sqrt{2}) R 45 °$

J. Martínez-Blanco, V. Joco, J. Fujii, P. Segovia, and E. G. Michel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195418 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Comparison between experimental surface data and bulk structure models for quasicrystalline AlPdMn: Average atomic densities and chemical compositions

Baris Unal, C. J. Jenks, and P. A. Thiel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195419 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Disorder-induced transverse delocalization in ropes of carbon nanotubes

M. Ferrier, A. Chepelianskii, S. Guéron, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195420 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Quantum transport of Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of a spatially modulated magnetic field

M. Tahir and K. Sabeeh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195421 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Solid-state dewetting-mediated aggregation of nanoparticles

J. S. Palmer, P. Swaminathan, S. Babar, and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195422 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Electromagnetic response and pseudo-zero-mode Landau levels of bilayer graphene in a magnetic field

T. Misumi and K. Shizuya

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195423 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vertical and lateral force mapping on the $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ surface by dynamic force microscopy

Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Takashi Namikawa, Koutaro Miki, Masayuki Abe, and Seizo Morita

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195424 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vacancy-induced magnetism in graphene and graphene ribbons

J. J. Palacios, J. Fernández-Rossier, and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195428 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Grain boundary effects on plastic deformation and fracture mechanisms in Cu nanowires: Molecular dynamics simulations

Ajing Cao, Yueguang Wei, and En Ma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195429 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Step-edge sputtering through grazing incidence ions investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

Alex Redinger, Yudi Rosandi, Herbert M. Urbassek, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195436 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Light circulation and weaving in periodically patterned structures

David Crouse, Eric Jaquay, Abdur Maikal, and Alastair P. Hibbins

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195437 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Stability of ultrathin alumina layers on NiAl(110)

J. P. Pierce, N. C. Bartelt, R. Stumpf, and K. F. McCarty

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195438 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Crystal size controlled deformation mechanism: Breakdown of dislocation mediated plasticity in single nanocrystals under geometric confinement

Dipanjan Sen and Markus J. Buehler

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195439 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Strain-induced Raman-mode shift in single-wall carbon nanotubes: Calculation of force constants from molecular-dynamics simulations

Wei Yang, Ru-Zhi Wang, and Hui Yan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195440 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by impedance barriers: Dependence on angle of incidence

A. Yu. Nikitin, G. Brucoli, F. J. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195441 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Correlation between metal-insulator transition characteristics and electronic structure changes in vanadium oxide thin films

Dmitry Ruzmetov, Sanjaya D. Senanayake, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, and Shriram Ramanathan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195442 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Energy-gap modulations of graphene ribbons under external fields: A theoretical study

C. Ritter, S. S. Makler, and A. Latgé

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195443 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Low-frequency modes in the Raman spectrum of $s p − s p^{2}$ nanostructured carbon

C. S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, A. Baserga, L. Ravagnan, P. Piseri, C. Lenardi, M. Tommasini, A. Milani, D. Fazzi, C. E. Bottani, and P. Milani

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195444 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Assessing the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof exchange-correlation density functional revised for metallic bulk and surface systems

M. Ropo, K. Kokko, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195445 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Band-gap analysis of one-dimensional photonic crystals and conditions for gap closing [Phys. Rev. B 73, 125104 (2006)]

Inna Nusinsky and Amos A. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 77, 199901 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Erratum: Kinetic energy functional for a two-dimensional electron system [Phys. Rev. B 76, 195103 (2007)]

M. Koivisto and M. J. Stott

Phys. Rev. B 77, 199902 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Publisher's Note: Monte Carlo simulations of charge carrier mobility in semiconducting polymer field-effect transistors [Phys. Rev. B 76, 155202 (2007)]

Lemi Demeyu, Sven Stafström, and Mulugeta Bekele

Phys. Rev. B 77, 199903 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Erratum: Scattering-matrix analysis of periodically patterned multilayers with asymmetric unit cells and birefringent media [Phys. Rev. B 77, 035324 (2008)]

Marco Liscidini, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 77, 199904 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008