Volume 78, Issue 11

E. D. Bauer, C. Wang, V. R. Fanelli, J. M. Lawrence, E. A. Goremychkin, N. R. de Souza, F. Ronning, J. D. Thompson, A. V. Silhanek, V. Vildosola, A. M. Lobos, A. A. Aligia, S. Bobev, and J. L. Sarrao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115120 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Origin of large thermopower in ${LiRh}_{2} O_{4}$ : Calculation of the Seebeck coefficient by the combination of local density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory

R. Arita, K. Kuroki, K. Held, A. V. Lukoyanov, S. Skornyakov, and V. I. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115121 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Rearrangement of sodium ordering and its effect on physical properties in the ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ system

T. Wu, K. Liu, H. Chen, G. Wu, Q. L. Luo, J. J. Ying, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115122 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Coupled quantum wires: Explaining the observed localized states at the crossing of metallic and semiconducting nanotubes

D. Makogon, N. de Jeu, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115123 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Atomic-scale structure of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {In}_{x} P$ alloys measured with extended x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy

C. S. Schnohr, L. L. Araujo, P. Kluth, D. J. Sprouster, G. J. Foran, and M. C. Ridgway

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115201 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Metal-like heat conduction in laser-excited InSb probed by picosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction

P. Sondhauss, O. Synnergren, T. N. Hansen, S. E. Canton, H. Enquist, A. Srivastava, and J. Larsson

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115202 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Room-temperature spintronic effects in ${Alq}_{3}$ -based hybrid devices

V. Dediu, L. E. Hueso, I. Bergenti, A. Riminucci, F. Borgatti, P. Graziosi, C. Newby, F. Casoli, M. P. De Jong, C. Taliani, and Y. Zhan

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115203 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

First-principles study of phonons and related ground-state properties and spectra in ${Zn-IV-N}_{2}$ compounds

Tula R. Paudel and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115204 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Large impurity effects in rubrene crystals: First-principles calculations

L. Tsetseris and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115205 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Boundary criticality at the Anderson transition between a metal and a quantum spin Hall insulator in two dimensions

Hideaki Obuse, Akira Furusaki, Shinsei Ryu, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115301 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Double-exciton component of the cyclotron spin-flip mode in a quantum Hall ferromagnet

S. Dickmann and V. M. Zhilin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115302 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Near-field radiative heat transfer between a sphere and a substrate

Arvind Narayanaswamy, Sheng Shen, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115303 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Theory of intrinsic electric polarization and spin Hall current in spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor heterostructures

A. V. Rodina and A. Yu. Alekseev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115304 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Anomalous scaling and super-roughness in the growth of CdTe polycrystalline films

Angélica S. Mata, Silvio C. Ferreira, Jr., Igor R. B. Ribeiro, and Sukarno O. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115305 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Optically induced spin gates in coupled quantum dots using the electron-hole exchange interaction

Sophia E. Economou and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115306 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Bound-state third-order optical nonlinearities of germanium nanocrystals embedded in a silica host matrix

Hasan Yıldırım and Ceyhun Bulutay

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115307 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Effect of the shape and duration of excitation pulse on the dynamics of excitons and trions in quantum wells

P. Aceituno and A. Hernández-Cabrera

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115308 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Tip-induced band bending effect and local electronic structure of Al nanoclusters on Si(111)

H. Narita, A. Kimura, M. Taniguchi, M. Nakatake, T. Xie, S. Qiao, H. Namatame, S. Yang, L. Zhang, and E. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115309 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Iron silicide wires patterned by Bi nanolines on the H/Si(001) surface: Spin density functional calculations

R. H. Miwa, W. Orellana, and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115310 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Anomalous dephasing scattering rate of two-dimensional electrons in double quantum well structures

I. R. Pagnossin, A. K. Meikap, T. E. Lamas, G. M. Gusev, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115311 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Magnetic breakdown of cyclotron orbits in systems with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

A. A. Reynoso, Gonzalo Usaj, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115312 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Dephasing effects and shot noise in quantum Hall wires: Green’s function formalism

Alessandro Cresti and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115313 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Effects of bias cooling on charge states in heterostructures embedding self-assembled quantum dots

S. W. Lin, J. Du, C. Balocco, Q. P. Wang, and A. M. Song

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115314 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Electron transport through correlated molecules computed using the time-independent Wigner function: Two critical tests

Ioan Bâldea and Horst Köppel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115315 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Optical spectra of doubly charged quantum dot molecules in electric and magnetic fields

M. F. Doty, M. Scheibner, A. S. Bracker, I. V. Ponomarev, T. L. Reinecke, and D. Gammon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115316 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Conductance properties of rough quantum wires with colored surface disorder

Gursoy B. Akguc and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115317 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Layer interdependence of transport in an undoped electron-hole bilayer

Christian P. Morath, John A. Seamons, John L. Reno, and Mike P. Lilly

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115318 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Band structure of core-shell semiconductor nanowires

M.-E. Pistol and C. E. Pryor

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115319 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Gain and recombination dynamics in photodetectors made with quantum nanostructures: The quantum dot in a well and the quantum well

B. Movaghar, S. Tsao, S. Abdollahi Pour, T. Yamanaka, and M. Razeghi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115320 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Efficient generation of charges via below-gap photoexcitation of polymer-fullerene blend films investigated by terahertz spectroscopy

P. Parkinson, J. Lloyd-Hughes, M. B. Johnston, and L. M. Herz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115321 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride nanowires in the constant relaxation-time approximation

I. Bejenari and V. Kantser

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115322 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Theory of valence-band holes as Luttinger spinors in vertically coupled quantum dots

J. I. Climente, M. Korkusinski, G. Goldoni, and P. Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115323 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Collective excitations of strongly coupled bilayer charged Bose liquids in the third-frequency-moment sum rule

Murat Tas and B. Tanatar

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115324 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Dynamic photoconductive gain effect in shallow-etched AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wires

K.-D. Hof, C. Rossler, S. Manus, J. P. Kotthaus, A. W. Holleitner, D. Schuh, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115325 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Cylindrical two-dimensional electron gas in a transverse magnetic field

Giulio Ferrari, Andrea Bertoni, Guido Goldoni, and Elisa Molinari

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115326 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Mn-doped silicon nanowires: First-principles calculations

G. Giorgi, X. Cartoixà, A. Sgamellotti, and R. Rurali

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115327 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Wave packet dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin orbit coupling: Splitting and zitterbewegung

V. Ya. Demikhovskii, G. M. Maksimova, and E. V. Frolova

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115401 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Density functional study of surface-supported planar magic Ag nanoclusters

Ya-Ping Chiu, Ching-Ming Wei, and Chia-Seng Chang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115402 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Percolative spin-dependent transport in mesoscopic epitaxial Fe plaquettes of tailored connectivity

S. K. Bose, R. Sharma, and R. C. Budhani

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115403 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Electronic structure of graphene and doping effect on ${SiO}_{2}$

Yong-Ju Kang, Joongoo Kang, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115404 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Theoretical study of the electronic structure of fullerene-cubane cocrystals

V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, J. Kürti, and S. Pekker

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115405 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Quantum-critical relativistic magnetotransport in graphene

Markus Müller, Lars Fritz, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115406 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Hole burning in polycrystalline $C_{60}$ : An answer to the long pseudocoherent tails

María Belén Franzoni, Patricia R. Levstein, Jésus Raya, and Jérôme Hirschinger

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115407 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling the auxetic transition for carbon nanotube sheets

V. R. Coluci, L. J. Hall, M. E. Kozlov, M. Zhang, S. O. Dantas, D. S. Galvão, and R. H. Baughman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115408 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

On the formation of suspended noble-metal monatomic chains

A. Hasmy, L. Rincón, R. Hernández, V. Mujica, M. Márquez, and C. González

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115409 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Fidelity approach to the Hubbard model

L. Campos Venuti, M. Cozzini, P. Buonsante, F. Massel, N. Bray-Ali, and P. Zanardi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115410 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Penetration mechanisms of surface-adsorbed hydrogen atoms into bulk metals: Experiment and model

Markus Wilde and Katsuyuki Fukutani

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115411 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Nucleation and growth of tetracene films on silicon oxide

J. Shi and X. R. Qin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115412 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Long-range Josephson coupling through ferromagnetic graphene

Ali G. Moghaddam and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115413 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Excitonic two-photon absorption in semiconducting carbon nanotubes within an effective-mass approximation

Seiji Uryu, Hiroshi Ajiki, and Tsuneya Ando

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115414 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct generation of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons on a wire using electron bunches

P. W. Smorenburg, W. P. E. M. Op ’t Root, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115415 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Competition between particle formation and burrowing: Gold on bismuth

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

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115416 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Kekule-distortion-induced exciton instability in graphene

Raoul Dillenschneider

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115417 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Interstitial atoms in tungsten: Interaction with free surface and in situ determination of formation energy

I. M. Neklyudov, E. V. Sadanov, G. D. Tolstolutskaja, V. A. Ksenofontov, T. I. Mazilova, and I. M. Mikhailovskij

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115418 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Collective cyclotron motion of the relativistic plasma in graphene

Markus Müller and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115419 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Disorder and surface effects on work function of Ni-Pt metal gates

Guigui Xu, Qingyun Wu, Zhigao Chen, Zhigao Huang, Rongqin Wu, and Yuan Ping Feng

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115420 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Family of non-Abelian Kitaev models on a lattice: Topological condensation and confinement

H. Bombin and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115421 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Magnetoabsorption spectra of bilayer graphene ribbons with Bernal stacking

Y. C. Huang, C. P. Chang, and M. F. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115422 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Ionization of xenon Rydberg atoms at Au(111) surfaces: Effect of stray fields

D. D. Neufeld, H. R. Dunham, S. Wethekam, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115423 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

In situ neutron diffraction study of adsorbed carbon dioxide in a nanoporous material: Monitoring the adsorption mechanism and the structural characteristics of the confined phase

Th. A. Steriotis, K. L. Stefanopoulos, F. K. Katsaros, R. Gläser, A. C. Hannon, and J. D. F. Ramsay

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115424 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Study of the charge correlation function in one-dimensional Hubbard heterostructures

Y. Arredondo and H. Monien

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115425 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Density functional theory of graphene sheets

Marco Polini, Andrea Tomadin, Reza Asgari, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115426 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Growth mechanisms of vapor-born polymer films

I. J. Lee, Mira Yun, Sang-Min Lee, and Ja-Yeon Kim

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115427 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Magnetic structure of periodically meandered one-dimensional Fe nanowires

Susumu Shiraki, Hideki Fujisawa, Tetsuya Nakamura, Takayuki Muro, Masashi Nantoh, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115428 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Symmetry in full counting statistics, fluctuation theorem, and relations among nonlinear transport coefficients in the presence of a magnetic field

Keiji Saito and Yasuhiro Utsumi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115429 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Interaction and concerted diffusion of lithium in a (5,5) carbon nanotube

M. Khantha, N. A. Cordero, J. A. Alonso, M. Cawkwell, and L. A. Girifalco

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115430 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Nonequilibrium carriers in intrinsic graphene under interband photoexcitation

A. Satou, F. T. Vasko, and V. Ryzhii

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115431 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resonant low-energy electron scattering on short-range impurities in graphene

D. M. Basko

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115432 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Field-effect resistance of gated graphitic polymeric ribbons: Numerical simulations

Alessandro Cresti, Giuseppe Grosso, and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115433 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Spectroscopic signatures of massless gap opening in graphene

L. Benfatto and E. Cappelluti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115434 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Electron transfer and localization in endohedral metallofullerenes: Ab initio density functional theory calculations

Shenyuan Yang, Mina Yoon, Christian Hicke, Zhenyu Zhang, and Enge Wang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115435 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Possible electric-field-induced one-dimensional excitonic insulators in pairs of carbon nanotubes

Jay D. Sau and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 115436 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of MnO: $L_{2, 3}$ edge measurements and assessment of their interpretation”

F. Müller and S. Hüfner

Phys. Rev. B 78, 117101 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of MnO: $L_{2, 3}$ edge measurements and assessment of their interpretation’ ”

G. Ghiringhelli, M. Matsubara, C. Dallera, F. Fracassi, A. Tagliaferri, N. B. Brookes, A. Kotani, and L. Braicovich

Phys. Rev. B 78, 117102 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: X-ray diffraction and excitation photoluminescence analysis of ordered GaInP [Phys. Rev. B 58, 15355 (1998)]

R. L. Forrest, T. D. Golding, S. C. Moss, Y. Zhang, J. F. Geisz, J. M. Olson, A. Mascarenhas, P. Ernst, and C. Geng

Phys. Rev. B 78, 119901 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Publisher's Note: Density functional study of surface-supported planar magic Ag nanoclusters [Phys. Rev. B 78, 115402 (2008)]

Ya-Ping Chiu, Ching-Ming Wei, and Chia-Seng Chang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 119902 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008