Volume 85, Issue 11

W. Al-Sawai, B. Barbiellini, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, P. E. Mijnarends, R. S. Markiewicz, S. Kaprzyk, S. Wakimoto, M. Fujita, S. Basak, H. Lin, Yung Jui Wang, S. W. H. Eijt, H. Schut, K. Yamada, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115109 (2012) - Published 13 March, 2012

Topological charge pumping effect by the magnetization dynamics on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators

Hiroaki T. Ueda, Akihito Takeuchi, Gen Tatara, and Takehito Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115110 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Spectroscopic investigations of Eu $^{3 +}$ :Y $_{2}$ SiO $_{5}$ for quantum memory applications

B. Lauritzen, N. Timoney, N. Gisin, M. Afzelius, H. de Riedmatten, Y. Sun, R. M. Macfarlane, and R. L. Cone

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115111 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Kondo-Anderson transitions

S. Kettemann, E. R. Mucciolo, I. Varga, and K. Slevin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115112 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Numerical renormalization group for the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model: A conspiracy of errors

Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115113 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Prediction of optical properties of $F$ centers in oxides from quasiparticle excitations

Sergio Tosoni, Daniel Fernandez Hevia, Jesús Perez Peña, and Francesc Illas

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115114 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Diffusion Monte Carlo for fermions with replica reduction

Myung-Hoon Chung and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115115 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Integrability in anyonic quantum spin chains via a composite height model

Paata Kakashvili and Eddy Ardonne

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115116 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Quantum criticality for extended nodes on a Bethe lattice in the large connectivity limit

James M. Murray, Adrian Del Maestro, and Zlatko Tešanović

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115117 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

Magnetic properties of PdAs $_{2}$ O $_{6}$ : A dilute spin system with an unusually high Néel temperature

M. Reehuis, T. Saha-Dasgupta, D. Orosel, J. Nuss, B. Rahaman, B. Keimer, O. K. Andersen, and M. Jansen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115118 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

Wick theorem for general initial states

R. van Leeuwen and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115119 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

High-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy study of Kondo metals: SmSn $_{3}$ and Sm $_{0.9}$ La $_{0.1}$ Sn $_{3}$

Hitoshi Yamaoka, Patrik Thunström, Ignace Jarrige, Kenya Shimada, Naohito Tsujii, Masashi Arita, Hideaki Iwasawa, Hirokazu Hayashi, Jian Jiang, Takafumi Habuchi, Daisuke Hirayama, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, Urara Murao, Shingo Hosoya, Akira Tamaki, and Hideaki Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115120 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

Distribution of cations in wurtzitic In $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ N and In $_{x}$ Al $_{1 - x}$ N alloys: Consequences for energetics and quasiparticle electronic structures

Luiz Cláudio de Carvalho, André Schleife, Jürgen Furthmüller, and Friedhelm Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115121 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Gaussian charge-transfer charge distributions for non-self-consistent electronic structure calculations

M. Marsman, G. Jordan, L.-E. Hintzsche, Y.-S. Kim, and G. Kresse

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115122 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Spin accumulation encoded in electronic noise for mesoscopic billiards with finite tunneling rates

J. G. G. S. Ramos, A. L. R. Barbosa, D. Bazeia, and M. S. Hussein

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115123 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Asymptotic behavior of the Kohn-Sham exchange potential at a metal surface

Zhixin Qian

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115124 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Effects of Eu doping on SmB $_{6}$ single crystals

Sunmog Yeo, Kimyung Song, Namjung Hur, Z. Fisk, and Pedro Schlottmann

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115125 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Distinguishing Coulomb and electron-phonon interactions for massless Dirac fermions

J. P. F. LeBlanc, Jungseek Hwang, and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115126 (2012) - Published 28 March, 2012

Nature of the hole states in Li-doped NiO

Hungru Chen and John H. Harding

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115127 (2012) - Published 28 March, 2012

Competing orders in Na $_{x}$ CoO $_{2}$ from strong correlations on a two-particle level

Lewin Boehnke and Frank Lechermann

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115128 (2012) - Published 28 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of nonlocal exchange in the electronic structure of correlated oxides

Federico Iori, Matteo Gatti, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115129 (2012) - Published 28 March, 2012

Bethe ansatz and ordinary differential equation correspondence for degenerate Gaudin models

Omar El Araby, Vladimir Gritsev, and Alexandre Faribault

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115130 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Mean free path of a suddenly created fast electron moving in a degenerate electron gas

I. Nagy and P. M. Echenique

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115131 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum phase transitions in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model

M. Hohenadler, Z. Y. Meng, T. C. Lang, S. Wessel, A. Muramatsu, and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115132 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Structural and electronic properties of the two-dimensional superconductor CuS with 1 $\frac{1}{3}$ -valent copper

I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115133 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Coherent potential approximation as a voltage probe

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, A. V. Vedyayev, K. D. Belashchenko, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115134 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Real-space Green's function calculations of Compton profiles

Brian A. Mattern, Gerald T. Seidler, Joshua J. Kas, Joseph I. Pacold, and John J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115135 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Atomic and itinerant effects at the transition-metal x-ray absorption $K$ pre-edge exemplified in the case of V $_{2}$ O $_{3}$

P. Hansmann, M. W. Haverkort, A. Toschi, G. Sangiovanni, F. Rodolakis, J. P. Rueff, M. Marsi, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115136 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Ferrimagnetism in Fe-rich NbFe $_{2}$

T. D. Haynes, I. Maskery, M. W. Butchers, J. A. Duffy, J. W. Taylor, S. R. Giblin, C. Utfeld, J. Laverock, S. B. Dugdale, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, C. Pfleiderer, M. Hirschberger, A. Neubauer, W. Duncan, and F. M. Grosche

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115137 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Optical properties of metamaterials: Influence of electric multipoles, magnetoelectric coupling, and spatial dispersion

N. Guth, B. Gallas, J. Rivory, J. Grand, A. Ourir, G. Guida, R. Abdeddaim, C. Jouvaud, and J. de Rosny

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115138 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-orbit coupling and its effects in organic solids

Z. G. Yu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115201 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Magnetic field and nanostructuring effects on the thermoelectric performance of bismuth

Adrian Popescu, Lilia M. Woods, and George S. Nolas

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115202 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Interference mechanism of magnetoresistance in variable-range hopping conduction: The effect of paramagnetic electron spins and continuous spectrum of scatterer energies

A. V. Shumilin and V. I. Kozub

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115203 (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

Interface-driven phase separation in multifunctional materials: The case of the ferromagnetic semiconductor GeMn

Emmanuel Arras, Frédéric Lançon, Ivetta Slipukhina, Éric Prestat, Mauro Rovezzi, Samuel Tardif, Andrey Titov, Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud, Francesco d’Acapito, André Barski, Vincent Favre-Nicolin, Matthieu Jamet, Joël Cibert, and Pascal Pochet

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115204 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficiency and rate of spontaneous emission in organic electroluminescent devices

Mauro Furno, Rico Meerheim, Simone Hofmann, Björn Lüssem, and Karl Leo

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115205 (2012) - Published 21 March, 2012

Analytical bond-order potential for the cadmium telluride binary system

D. K. Ward, X. W. Zhou, B. M. Wong, F. P. Doty, and J. A. Zimmerman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115206 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

Impurity scattering in the bulk of topological insulators

Cheung Chan and Tai-Kai Ng

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115207 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

Lattice thermal conductivity of (Bi $_{1 - x}$ Sb $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ alloys with embedded nanoparticles

N. A. Katcho, N. Mingo, and D. A. Broido

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115208 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

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

Transformation of the Ag(111) surface state due to molecule-surface interaction with ordered organic molecular monolayers

N. L. Zaitsev, I. A. Nechaev, P. M. Echenique, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115301 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Theoretical model obtained in momentum space for charge transport in a system consisting of noninteracting polarons

F. Marsusi and J. Sabbaghzadeh

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115302 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Decoherence and dynamical decoupling control of nitrogen vacancy center electron spins in nuclear spin baths

Nan Zhao, Sai-Wah Ho, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115303 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Excited-state spectroscopy of single lateral self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot molecules

M. Heldmaier, M. Seible, C. Hermannstädter, M. Witzany, R. Roßbach, M. Jetter, P. Michler, L. Wang, A. Rastelli, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115304 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Role of anisotropy in the Förster energy transfer from a semiconductor quantum well to an organic crystalline overlayer

S. Kawka and G. C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115305 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Intrinsic spin swapping

Severin Sadjina, Arne Brataas, and A. G. Mal'shukov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115306 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Electronic bound states in the continuum above (Ga,In)(As,N)/(Al,Ga)As quantum wells

Asaf Albo, Dan Fekete, and Gad Bahir

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115307 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Model anisotropic quantum Hall states

R.-Z. Qiu, F. D. M. Haldane, Xin Wan, Kun Yang, and Su Yi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115308 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Polaron master equation theory of the quantum-dot Mollow triplet in a semiconductor cavity-QED system

C. Roy and S. Hughes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115309 (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

Diffusion of nuclear spin polarization in a quantum Hall electron system

T. Nakajima and S. Komiyama

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115310 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Polarization fluctuation dominated electrical transport processes of polymer-based ferroelectric field effect transistors

Satyaprasad P Senanayak, S. Guha, and K. S. Narayan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115311 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Quantum lifetime of two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field

Scott Dietrich, Sergey Vitkalov, D. V. Dmitriev, and A. A. Bykov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115312 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

Quadrupolar spectra of nuclear spins in strained In $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As quantum dots

Ceyhun Bulutay

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115313 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

Weak antilocalization and electron-electron interaction effects in Cu-doped Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ films

Y. Takagaki, B. Jenichen, U. Jahn, M. Ramsteiner, and K.-J. Friedland

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115314 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

Spin dynamics of dark polariton solitons

Albrecht Werner, Oleg A. Egorov, and Falk Lederer

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115315 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

Signatures of quantum phase transitions in parallel quantum dots: Crossover from local moment to underscreened spin-1 Kondo physics

Arturo Wong, W. Brian Lane, Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva, Kevin Ingersent, Nancy Sandler, and Sergio E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115316 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

Phonon-limited mobility in $n$ -type single-layer MoS $_{2}$ from first principles

Kristen Kaasbjerg, Kristian S. Thygesen, and Karsten W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115317 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

Role of interband and photoinduced absorption in the nonlinear refraction and absorption of resonantly excited PbS quantum dots around 1550 nm

Abdoulghafar Omari, Iwan Moreels, Francesco Masia, Wolfgang Langbein, Paola Borri, Dries Van Thourhout, Pascal Kockaert, and Zeger Hens

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115318 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

Optically controlled phase gate for two spin qubits in coupled quantum dots

Li-Bo Chen, L. J. Sham, and Edo Waks

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115319 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

Optimal thermoelectric figure of merit in Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ /Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ quantum dot nanocomposites

Jun Zhou, Yuanyuan Wang, Jeff Sharp, and Ronggui Yang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115320 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Real-space entanglement spectrum of quantum Hall systems

J. Dubail, N. Read, and E. H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115321 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Light transport through disordered layers of dense gallium arsenide submicron particles

T. van der Beek, P. Barthelemy, P. M. Johnson, D. S. Wiersma, and A. Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115401 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Electromagnetic cloaking of cylindrical objects by multilayer or uniform dielectric claddings

Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos and Pekka Alitalo

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115402 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Energy relaxation for hot Dirac fermions in graphene and breakdown of the quantum Hall effect

A. M. R. Baker, J. A. Alexander-Webber, T. Altebaeumer, and R. J. Nicholas

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115403 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Fermi-level pinning can determine polarity in semiconductor nanorods

Philip W. Avraam, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Paul Tangney, and Peter D. Haynes

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115404 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Magnetic structure of hydrogen-induced defects on graphene

J. O. Sofo, Gonzalo Usaj, P. S. Cornaglia, A. M. Suarez, A. D. Hernández-Nieves, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115405 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

One-dimensional physics in transition-metal nanowires: Renormalization group and bosonization analysis

Jun-ichi Okamoto and A. J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115406 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Dangling bonds and magnetism of grain boundaries in graphene

M. A. Akhukov, A. Fasolino, Y. N. Gornostyrev, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115407 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Field-induced quantum Hall ferromagnetism in suspended bilayer graphene

H. J. van Elferen, A. Veligura, E. V. Kurganova, U. Zeitler, J. C. Maan, N. Tombros, I. J. Vera-Marun, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115408 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Transport calculations based on density functional theory, Friedel's sum rule, and the Kondo effect

Philipp Tröster, Peter Schmitteckert, and Ferdinand Evers

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115409 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Polarization dependence of x-ray absorption spectra in graphene

M. T. Chowdhury, R. Saito, and M. S. Dresselhaus

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115410 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Selective focusing of electrons and holes in a graphene-based superconducting lens

S. Gómez, P. Burset, W. J. Herrera, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115411 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Equilibrium-reduced density matrix formulation: Influence of noise, disorder, and temperature on localization in excitonic systems

Jeremy M. Moix, Yang Zhao, and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115412 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Optical phonon modes in ordered core-shell CdSe/CdS nanorod arrays

Andrea Giugni, Gobind Das, Alessandro Alabastri, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Marco Zanella, Isabella Franchini, Enzo Di Fabrizio, and Roman Krahne

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115413 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Submersion of potassium clusters in helium nanodroplets

Lukas An der Lan, Peter Bartl, Christian Leidlmair, Harald Schöbel, Stephan Denifl, Tilmann D. Märk, Andrew M. Ellis, and Paul Scheier

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115414 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Smooth gauge for topological insulators

Alexey A. Soluyanov and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115415 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Charge fluctuations in single-electron tunneling oscillations

C. Negri and F. Pistolesi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115416 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

First-principles theoretical investigation of monoatomic and dimer Mn adsorption on noble metal (111) surfaces

Francisco Muñoz, Aldo H. Romero, Jose Mejía-López, and J. L. Morán-López

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115417 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Symmetry classification of energy bands in graphene

E. Kogan and V. U. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115418 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Producing ripple topographies by ion bombardment with codeposition of impurities: A curvature-dependent sputter yield is not required

R. Mark Bradley

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115419 (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

Lifetime of magnetic excitations in supported ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chains

J. P. Gauyacq and N. Lorente

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115420 (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

Avoiding metallic walls: Use of modal superposition in plasmonic waveguides to reduce propagation loss

Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115421 (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

Channeling of low-energy ions on hydrogen-covered single-crystal surfaces

Robert D. Kolasinski, Norman C. Bartelt, Josh A. Whaley, and Thomas E. Felter

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115422 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Theory of spin-orbit coupling in bilayer graphene

S. Konschuh, M. Gmitra, D. Kochan, and J. Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115423 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferromagnetic order of nuclear spins coupled to conduction electrons: A combined effect of electron-electron and spin-orbit interactions

Robert Andrzej Żak, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 85, 115424 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012