Volume 78, Issue 12

15 September 2008

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${Co}_{2} FeSi / GaAs / (Al, Ga) As$ spin light-emitting diodes: Competition between spin injection and ultrafast spin alignment

M. Ramsteiner, O. Brandt, T. Flissikowski, H. T. Grahn, M. Hashimoto, J. Herfort, and H. Kostial

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121303(R) (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

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Evidence of the role of contacts on the observed electron-hole asymmetry in graphene

B. Huard, N. Stander, J. A. Sulpizio, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121402(R) (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

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Interference oscillations of microwave photoresistance in double quantum wells

S. Wiedmann, G. M. Gusev, O. E. Raichev, T. E. Lamas, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121301(R) (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

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Finite-size errors in continuum quantum Monte Carlo calculations

N. D. Drummond, R. J. Needs, A. Sorouri, and W. M. C. Foulkes

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125106 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Metal-insulator transition in manganites: Changes in optical conductivity up to 22 eV

A. Rusydi, R. Rauer, G. Neuber, M. Bastjan, I. Mahns, S. Müller, P. Saichu, B. Schulz, S. G. Singer, A. I. Lichtenstein, D. Qi, X. Gao, X. Yu, A. T. S. Wee, G. Stryganyuk, K. Dörr, G. A. Sawatzky, S. L. Cooper, and M. Rübhausen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125110 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

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Temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the quantum corrections to the conductance of a network of quantum dots

Joern N. Kupferschmidt and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125313 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

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Spin filtering by a periodic spintronic device

Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Yasuhiro Tokura, and Shingo Katsumoto

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125328 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

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Long-range correlations in disordered graphene

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125401 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

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Hypothetical three-dimensional all- $s p^{2}$ carbon phase

G.-M. Rignanese and J.-C. Charlier

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125415 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

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

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Contribution of the electric quadrupole resonance in optical metamaterials

David J. Cho, Feng Wang, Xiang Zhang, and Y. Ron Shen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121101(R) (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

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Partial focusing by indefinite complementary metamaterials

Qiang Cheng, Ruopeng Liu, Jack J. Mock, Tie Jun Cui, and David R. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121102(R) (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

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Magnetothermal evidence of a partial gap at the Fermi surface of ${UPt}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

N. Johannsen, S. Süllow, A. V. Sologubenko, T. Lorenz, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121103(R) (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Dielectric properties and excitons for extended systems from hybrid functionals

Joachim Paier, Martijn Marsman, and Georg Kresse

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121201(R) (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

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

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Interference oscillations of microwave photoresistance in double quantum wells

S. Wiedmann, G. M. Gusev, O. E. Raichev, T. E. Lamas, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121301(R) (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

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Diffusionlike electric-field migration in the channel of organic field-effect transistors

Takaaki Manaka, Fei Liu, Martin Weis, and Mitsumasa Iwamoto

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121302(R) (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

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${Co}_{2} FeSi / GaAs / (Al, Ga) As$ spin light-emitting diodes: Competition between spin injection and ultrafast spin alignment

M. Ramsteiner, O. Brandt, T. Flissikowski, H. T. Grahn, M. Hashimoto, J. Herfort, and H. Kostial

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121303(R) (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

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Imaging of nanoislands in coherent grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering experiments

A. V. Zozulya, O. M. Yefanov, I. A. Vartanyants, K. Mundboth, C. Mocuta, T. H. Metzger, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, T. Boeck, and M. Schmidbauer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121304(R) (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

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Elastic interactions and kinetics during reversible submonolayer growth: Monte Carlo simulations

Jean-Noël Aqua and Thomas Frisch

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121305(R) (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Room-temperature superfluidity in graphene bilayers

Hongki Min, Rafi Bistritzer, Jung-Jung Su, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121401(R) (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

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Evidence of the role of contacts on the observed electron-hole asymmetry in graphene

B. Huard, N. Stander, J. A. Sulpizio, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121402(R) (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

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Intrinsic spin Hall effect in graphene: Numerical calculations in a multiorbital model

Seiichiro Onari, Yasuhito Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kontani, and Jun-ichiro Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121403(R) (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

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Dynamic structure in supported Pt nanoclusters: Real-time density functional theory and x-ray spectroscopy simulations

F. Vila, J. J. Rehr, J. Kas, R. G. Nuzzo, and A. I. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121404(R) (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

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Adsorbate cluster expansion for an arbitrary number of inequivalent sites

D. Lerch, O. Wieckhorst, L. Hammer, K. Heinz, and S. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121405(R) (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

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Electronic structure and thermodynamic stability of ${LaMnO}_{3}$ and ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ (001) surfaces: Ab initio calculations

Sergei Piskunov, Eugene Heifets, Timo Jacob, Eugene A. Kotomin, Donald E. Ellis, and Eckhard Spohr

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121406(R) (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

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Dramatic enhancement in energy harvesting for a narrow range of dimensions in piezoelectric nanostructures

M. S. Majdoub, P. Sharma, and T. Çağin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121407(R) (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

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Interplay between adsorbate-induced reconstruction and local strain: Formation of phases on the $Cu (110) − (2 \times 1) : O$ surface

Kirill Bobrov and Laurent Guillemot

Phys. Rev. B 78, 121408(R) (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

ARTICLES

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

Pair density functional theory utilizing the noninteracting reference system: An effective initial theory

Masahiko Higuchi and Katsuhiko Higuchi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125101 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Perturbative study of the Kitaev model with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking

Sébastien Dusuel, Kai Phillip Schmidt, Julien Vidal, and Rosa Letizia Zaffino

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125102 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Initial correlations in a nonequilibrium Falicov-Kimball model

Minh-Tien Tran

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125103 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Band touching from real-space topology in frustrated hopping models

Doron L. Bergman, Congjun Wu, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125104 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Orbital-spin order and the origin of structural distortion in ${MgTi}_{2} O_{4}$

S. Leoni, A. N. Yaresko, N. Perkins, H. Rosner, and L. Craco

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125105 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

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Finite-size errors in continuum quantum Monte Carlo calculations

N. D. Drummond, R. J. Needs, A. Sorouri, and W. M. C. Foulkes

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125106 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Understanding the electroluminescence emitted by single molecules in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments

John Buker and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125107 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Interaction of an electromagnetic wave with a cone-shaped invisibility cloak and polarization rotator

Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Bae-Ian Wu, and Hongsheng Chen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125108 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

From itinerant to local-moment antiferromagnetism in Kondo lattices: Adiabatic continuity versus quantum phase transitions

Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125109 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

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Metal-insulator transition in manganites: Changes in optical conductivity up to 22 eV

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125110 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Electronic structure of alkali-metal fluorides, oxides, and nitrides: Density-functional calculations including self-interaction corrections

Björn Baumeier, Peter Krüger, Johannes Pollmann, and Grigori V. Vajenine

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125111 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Optically generated small electron and hole polarons in nominally undoped and Fe-doped ${KNbO}_{3}$ investigated by transient absorption spectroscopy

S. Torbrügge, M. Imlau, B. Schoke, C. Merschjann, O. F. Schirmer, S. Vernay, A. Gross, V. Wesemann, and D. Rytz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125112 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Cylindrical superlens by a coordinate transformation

Min Yan, Wei Yan, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125113 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Breakdown of the Fermi-liquid regime in the two-dimensional Hubbard model from a two-loop field-theoretical renormalization group approach

Hermann Freire, Eberth Correa, and Alvaro Ferraz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125114 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Spin-charge separation in strongly interacting finite ladder rings

Julián Rincón, K. Hallberg, and A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125115 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Approximation to density functional theory for the calculation of band gaps of semiconductors

Luiz G. Ferreira, Marcelo Marques, and Lara K. Teles

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125116 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Optoelectronic bistability effect in semiconductors

Stefano Lagomarsino

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125201 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Spin-polarized tunneling through potential barriers at ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky contacts

D. L. Smith and P. P. Ruden

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125202 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Ultrafast electron cascades in semiconductors driven by intense femtosecond terahertz pulses

H. Wen, M. Wiczer, and A. M. Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125203 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Competing intermediates in the pressure-induced wurtzite to rocksalt phase transition in ZnO

Salah Eddine Boulfelfel and Stefano Leoni

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125204 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Thermoelectric performance of lanthanum telluride produced via mechanical alloying

Andrew F. May, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125205 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Interacting excitons described by an infinite series of composite-exciton operators

M. Combescot and O. Betbeder-Matibet

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125206 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Resonant hole polarons in GaAs and InP

J. N. Heyman, Nelson Coates, Sheila Nabanja, Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, and Fedir Kyrychenko

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125207 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

First-principles study of Fe and FeAl defects in SiGe alloys

A. Carvalho, J. Coutinho, R. Jones, J. Goss, M. Barroso, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125208 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

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

Influence of residual disorder on the anticrossing of Bloch modes probed in $k$ space

N. Le Thomas, V. Zabelin, R. Houdré, M. V. Kotlyar, and T. F. Krauss

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125301 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Microscopics of disordered two-dimensional electron gases under high magnetic fields: Equilibrium properties and dissipation in the hydrodynamic regime

Thierry Champel, Serge Florens, and Léonie Canet

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125302 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Theory of the excitation of the vibrational mode of an adatom-substrate system under a resonant laser field

Jie Ma (马杰), Enge Wang (王恩哥), Zhenyu Zhang (张振宇), and Biao Wu (吴飙)

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125303 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Magnetic oscillations of resistivity and absorption of radiation in quantum wells with two populated subbands

O. E. Raichev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125304 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Diamagnetic persistent currents for electrons in ballistic billiards subject to a point flux

Oleksandr Zelyak and Ganpathy Murthy

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125305 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Magnetoconductance of rectangular arrays of quantum rings

Orsolya Kálmán, Péter Földi, Mihály G. Benedict, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125306 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Half-metallicity in europium oxide conductively matched with silicon

Raghava P. Panguluri, T. S. Santos, E. Negusse, J. Dvorak, Y. Idzerda, J. S. Moodera, and B. Nadgorny

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125307 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Resonance fluorescence in driven quantum dots: Electron and photon correlations

Rafael Sánchez, Gloria Platero, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125308 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Kinetics of spin coherence of electrons in $n$ -type InAs quantum wells under intense terahertz laser fields

J. H. Jiang, M. W. Wu, and Y. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125309 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Theoretical determination of stable fourfold coordinated vacancy clusters in silicon

Sangheon Lee and Gyeong S. Hwang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125310 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Resonant energy transfer in quantum dots: Frequency-domain luminescent spectroscopy

S. Yu. Kruchinin, A. V. Fedorov, A. V. Baranov, T. S. Perova, and K. Berwick

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125311 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Spin-magnetophonon level splitting in semimagnetic quantum wells

V. L. Gurevich and M. I. Muradov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125312 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

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Temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the quantum corrections to the conductance of a network of quantum dots

Joern N. Kupferschmidt and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125313 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Entanglement generation via a completely mixed nuclear spin bath

H. Christ, J. I. Cirac, and G. Giedke

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125314 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Quantum condensation in electron-hole plasmas

D. Kremp, D. Semkat, and K. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125315 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Fractionalized quantum spin Hall effect

Michael W. Young, Sung-Sik Lee, and Catherine Kallin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125316 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Nanoscopic recombination processes in InGaN/GaN quantum wells emitting violet, blue, and green spectra

A. Kaneta, M. Funato, and Y. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125317 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Deterministic photon entangler using a charged quantum dot inside a microcavity

C. Y. Hu, W. J. Munro, and J. G. Rarity

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125318 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Correlating the microstructure of thin films of poly[5,5-bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2-bithiophene] with charge transport: Effect of dielectric surface energy and thermal annealing

Leslie H. Jimison, Alberto Salleo, Michael L. Chabinyc, David P. Bernstein, and Michael F. Toney

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125319 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Inelastic transport in the Coulomb blockade regime within a nonequilibrium atomic limit

Michael Galperin, Abraham Nitzan, and Mark A. Ratner

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125320 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Exciton fine structure in strain-free $GaAs / {Al}_{0.3} {Ga}_{0.7} As$ quantum dots: Extrinsic effects

M. Abbarchi, C. A. Mastrandrea, T. Kuroda, T. Mano, K. Sakoda, N. Koguchi, S. Sanguinetti, A. Vinattieri, and M. Gurioli

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125321 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Monte Carlo study of particle renormalizations in the presence of dissipative environments

Victor Kagalovsky and Baruch Horovitz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125322 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Fractional quantum Hall hierarchy and the second Landau level

Parsa Bonderson and J. K. Slingerland

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125323 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Optical probing of spin fluctuations of a single paramagnetic Mn atom in a semiconductor quantum dot

L. Besombes, Y. Leger, J. Bernos, H. Boukari, H. Mariette, J. P. Poizat, T. Clement, J. Fernández-Rossier, and R. Aguado

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125324 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Carrier multiplication yields in PbS and PbSe nanocrystals measured by transient photoluminescence

Gautham Nair, Scott M. Geyer, Liang-Yi Chang, and Moungi G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125325 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Microcavity exciton-polariton mediated Raman scattering: Experiments and theory

A. Bruchhausen, L. M. León Hilario, A. A. Aligia, A. M. Lobos, A. Fainstein, B. Jusserand, and R. André

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125326 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Spin polarizations and spin Hall currents in a two-dimensional electron gas with magnetic impurities

C. Gorini, P. Schwab, M. Dzierzawa, and R. Raimondi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125327 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

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Spin filtering by a periodic spintronic device

Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Yasuhiro Tokura, and Shingo Katsumoto

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125328 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Structure of the $GaP (001) − 4 \times 2 -In$ surface investigated with LEED, STM, photoelectron spectroscopy, and ab initio calculations

M. Shimomura, D. Ichikawa, G. P. Srivastava, K. Z. Liu, and Y. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125329 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Gated-charge force microscopy for imaging a surface-acoustic-wave-induced charge in a depleted one-dimensional channel

R. Crook, R. J. Schneble, M. Kataoka, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, C. G. Smith, C. J. B. Ford, and C. H. W. Barnes

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125330 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Long-range correlations in disordered graphene

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125401 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Additional levels between Landau bands due to vacancies in graphene: Towards defect engineering

A. L. C. Pereira and P. A. Schulz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125402 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Controlling the fluorescence lifetime of a single emitter on the nanoscale using a plasmonic superlens

L. S. Froufe-Pérez and R. Carminati

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125403 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Angular magnetoresistance oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors in the presence of a crystal superstructure

Anand Banerjee and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125404 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Size stability of nanostructures in Stranski-Krastanow systems under an electric field

Zhijun Huang and Cheng-hsin Chiu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125405 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Superstructures in arrays of rotated graphene layers: Electronic structure calculations

Eduardo Cisternas, Marcos Flores, and Patricio Vargas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125406 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Interaction of a $180 °$ ferroelectric domain wall with a biased scanning probe microscopy tip: Effective wall geometry and thermodynamics in Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire theory

Anna N. Morozovska, Sergei V. Kalinin, Eugene A. Eliseev, Venkatraman Gopalan, and Sergei V. Svechnikov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125407 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Substrate-enhanced $O_{2}$ adsorption and complexity in the Raman $G$ -band spectra of individual metallic carbon nanotubes

Anshu Gaur and Moonsub Shim

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125422 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Modeling of quantum point contacts in high magnetic fields and with current bias outside the linear response regime

S. Arslan, E. Cicek, D. Eksi, S. Aktas, A. Weichselbaum, and A. Siddiki

Phys. Rev. B 78, 125423 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Quantum many-body theory of qubit decoherence in a finite-size spin bath [Phys. Rev. B 78, 085315 (2008)]

Wen Yang and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 129901 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008