Volume 77, Issue 23

Daniele Ercolani, Giorgio Biasiol, Emiliano Cancellieri, Marcello Rosini, Carlo Jacoboni, Franco Carillo, Stefan Heun, Lucia Sorba, and Frithjof Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235307 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Femtosecond demagnetization and hot-hole relaxation in ferromagnetic ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

J. Wang, Ł. Cywiński, C. Sun, J. Kono, H. Munekata, and L. J. Sham

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235308 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Using spin bias to manipulate and measure spin in quantum dots

Hai-Zhou Lu and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235309 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Exciton broadening and spin dynamics in III-V/II-VI:Mn heterovalent double quantum wells

A. A. Toropov, Ya. V. Terent’ev, P. S. Kop’ev, S. V. Ivanov, T. Koyama, K. Nishibayashi, A. Murayama, Y. Oka, A. Golnik, and J. A. Gaj

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235310 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoresistance of antidot lattices with grain boundaries

S. Klinkhammer, Hengyi Xu, T. Heinzel, U. Gennser, G. Faini, C. Ulysse, and A. Cavanna

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235311 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Mapping of quantum well eigenstates with semimagnetic probes

Ł. Kłopotowski, A. Gruszczyńska, E. Janik, M. Wiater, P. Kossacki, G. Karczewski, and T. Wojtowicz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235312 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Phase diagram for condensation of microcavity polaritons: From theory to practice

F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, J. M. J. Keeling, J. Kasprzak, R. André, P. B. Littlewood, and Le Si Dang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235313 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Correlated persistent currents in a stack of semiconductor quantum rings

Bartłomiej Szafran

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235314 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Polarized emission from GaN/AlN quantum dots: Single-dot spectroscopy and symmetry-based theory

R. Bardoux, T. Guillet, B. Gil, P. Lefebvre, T. Bretagnon, T. Taliercio, S. Rousset, and F. Semond

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235315 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Cotunneling current affected by spin-polarized wire molecules in networked gold nanoparticles

Tadashi Sugawara, Masaru Minamoto, Michio M. Matsushita, Patrick Nickels, and Susumu Komiyama

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235316 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Effect of magnetic defects and dimensionality on the spin dynamics of GeMn systems: Electron spin resonance measurements

O. Kazakova, R. Morgunov, J. Kulkarni, J. Holmes, and L. Ottaviano

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235317 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Coulomb blockade for an oscillating tunnel junction

N. Pauget, F. Pistolesi, and M. Houzet

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235318 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Hopping conduction in strongly insulating states of a diffusive bent quantum Hall junction

L. Steinke, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter, and M. Grayson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235319 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Ca-induced intermediate reconstructions on the Si(111) surface

A. Z. AlZahrani and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235320 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Size dependent, state-resolved studies of exciton-phonon couplings in strongly confined semiconductor quantum dots

D. M. Sagar, Ryan R. Cooney, Samuel L. Sewall, Eva A. Dias, Mirela M. Barsan, Ian S. Butler, and Patanjali Kambhampati

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235321 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Staircase model of GaSb(001) $(1 \times 3)$ and $c (2 \times 6)$ phases

O. Romanyuk, V. M. Kaganer, R. Shayduk, B. P. Tinkham, and W. Braun

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235322 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Multivalley spin relaxation in the presence of high in-plane electric fields in $n$ -type GaAs quantum wells

P. Zhang, J. Zhou, and M. W. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235323 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Micrometer x-ray diffraction study of ${VO}_{2}$ films: Separation between metal-insulator transition and structural phase transition

Bong-Jun Kim, Yong Wook Lee, Sungyeoul Choi, Jung-Wook Lim, Sun Jin Yun, Hyun-Tak Kim, Tae-Ju Shin, and Hwa-Sick Yun

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235401 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Quantum and transport conductivities in monolayer graphene

H. M. Dong, W. Xu, Z. Zeng, T. C. Lu, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235402 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Reduction of Fermi velocity in folded graphene observed by resonance Raman spectroscopy

Zhenhua Ni, Yingying Wang, Ting Yu, Yumeng You, and Zexiang Shen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235403 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Light diffraction from colloidal crystals with low dielectric constant modulation: Simulations using single-scattering theory

Alexander Tikhonov, Rob D. Coalson, and Sanford A. Asher

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235404 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Multilevel system in ac-driven fields: Symmetries and dynamics in a self-assembled quantum lens

Arezky H. Rodríguez, L. Meza-Montes, C. Trallero-Giner, and S. E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235405 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Valley-dependent optoelectronics from inversion symmetry breaking

Wang Yao, Di Xiao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235406 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Complex electron-phonon driven lattice dynamics in ultrasmall-radius (5,0) carbon nanotubes

K.-P. Bohnen, R. Heid, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235407 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Speciation of deeply buried ${TiO}_{x}$ nanolayers with grazing-incidence x-ray fluorescence combined with a near-edge x-ray absorption fine-structure investigation

Beatrix Pollakowski, Burkhard Beckhoff, Falk Reinhardt, Stefan Braun, and Peter Gawlitza

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235408 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Recombination dynamics in wurtzite InP nanowires

S. Crankshaw, S. Reitzenstein, L. C. Chuang, M. Moewe, S. Münch, C. Böckler, A. Forchel, and C. Chang-Hasnain

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235409 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Electron-electron interactions in highly disordered two-dimensional systems

K. E. J. Goh, M. Y. Simmons, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235410 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Tuning of energy levels and optical properties of graphene quantum dots

Z. Z. Zhang, Kai Chang, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235411 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Ripples in epitaxial graphene on the Si-terminated SiC(0001) surface

F. Varchon, P. Mallet, J.-Y. Veuillen, and L. Magaud

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235412 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Effect of adsorbed hydrogen on the stability of titanium atoms on aluminum surfaces

R. Stumpf, R. Bastasz, J. A. Whaley, and W. P. Ellis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235413 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of gauge-field interaction on fermion transport in two dimensions: Hartree conductivity correction and dephasing

T. Ludwig, I. V. Gornyi, A. D. Mirlin, and P. Wölfle

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235414 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Magnetoresistance in bilayer graphene via ferromagnet proximity effects

Y. G. Semenov, J. M. Zavada, and K. W. Kim

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235415 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Modeling spin interactions in carbon peapods using a hybrid density functional theory

Ling Ge, Barbara Montanari, John H. Jefferson, David G. Pettifor, Nicholas M. Harrison, and G. Andrew D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235416 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Density functional study of $⟨ 110 ⟩$ -oriented thin silicon nanowires

Pavel B. Sorokin, Pavel V. Avramov, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Dmitry G. Kvashnin, Sergey G. Ovchinnikov, and Alexander S. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235417 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Spatial adiabatic passage in a realistic triple well structure

J. H. Cole, A. D. Greentree, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235418 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Energetics of carbon peapods: Elliptical deformation of nanotubes and aggregation of encapsulated $C_{60}$

Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235419 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Andreev conductance in the $d + i d^{'}$ -wave superconducting states of graphene

Yongjin Jiang, Dao-Xin Yao, Erica W. Carlson, Han-Dong Chen, and JiangPing Hu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235420 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Raman and infrared properties and layer dependence of the phonon dispersions in multilayered graphene

Jin-Wu Jiang, Hui Tang, Bing-Shen Wang, and Zhao-Bin Su

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235421 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Near-band-edge recombinations in multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes: Cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence spectroscopy measurements

P. Jaffrennou, J. Barjon, T. Schmid, L. Museur, A. Kanaev, J.-S. Lauret, C. Y. Zhi, C. Tang, Y. Bando, D. Golberg, B. Attal-Tretout, F. Ducastelle, and A. Loiseau

Phys. Rev. B 77, 235422 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008