Volume 86, Issue 19

Satoshi Tsutsui, Hiroshi Uchiyama, John P. Sutter, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Masaichiro Mizumaki, Naomi Kawamura, Tomoya Uruga, Hitoshi Sugawara, Jun-ichi Yamaura, Akira Ochiai, Takumi Hasegawa, Norio Ogita, Masayuki Udagawa, and Hideyuki Sato

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195115 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Density-waves instability and a skyrmion lattice on the surface of strong topological insulators

Yuval Baum and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195116 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Density of states and magnetic correlations at a metal-Mott insulator interface

M. Jiang, G. G. Batrouni, and R. T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195117 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Phase diagram of the asymmetric Hubbard model and an entropic chromatographic method for cooling cold fermions in optical lattices

E. A. Winograd, R. Chitra, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195118 (2012) - Published 13 November, 2012

Ab initio study of the two-dimensional metallic state at the surface of SrTiO $_{3}$ : Importance of oxygen vacancies

Juan Shen, Hunpyo Lee, Roser Valentí, and Harald O. Jeschke

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195119 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Observation of field-induced polarization of valleys in $p$ -type Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ single crystals

Z. J. Yue, C. B. Zhu, S. X. Dou, and X. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195120 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Image-charge-induced localization of molecular orbitals at metal-molecule interfaces: Self-consistent $G W$ calculations

M. Strange and K. S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195121 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Symmetry-protected topological phases in spin ladders with two-body interactions

Zheng-Xin Liu, Zhen-Biao Yang, Yong-Jian Han, Wei Yi, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195122 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Momentum distribution and Compton profile by the ab initio GW approximation

Valerio Olevano, Andrey Titov, Massimo Ladisa, Keijo Hämäläinen, Simo Huotari, and Markus Holzmann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195123 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Photoemission evidence for crossover from Peierls-like to Mott-like transition in highly strained VO $_{2}$

J. Laverock, A. R. H. Preston, D. Newby, Jr., K. E. Smith, S. Sallis, L. F. J. Piper, S. Kittiwatanakul, J. W. Lu, S. A. Wolf, M. Leandersson, and T. Balasubramanian

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195124 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Magnetic translation algebra with or without magnetic field in the continuum or on arbitrary Bravais lattices in any dimension

Claudio Chamon and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195125 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Superconducting proximity effect on the edge of fractional topological insulators

Meng Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195126 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Giant third-order magneto-optical rotation in ferromagnetic EuO

Masakazu Matsubara, Andreas Schmehl, Jochen Mannhart, Darrell G. Schlom, and Manfred Fiebig

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195127 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

SU(3) Anderson impurity model: A numerical renormalization group approach exploiting non-Abelian symmetries

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Arne Alex, Jan von Delft, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195128 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Topological phase transitions driven by next-nearest-neighbor hopping in two-dimensional lattices

W. Beugeling, J. C. Everts, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195129 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Multiplet resonance lifetimes in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering involving shallow core levels

L. Andrew Wray, Wanli Yang, Hiroshi Eisaki, Zahid Hussain, and Yi-De Chuang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195130 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Spin-orbit coupling in iridium-based 5 $d$ compounds probed by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

J. P. Clancy, N. Chen, C. Y. Kim, W. F. Chen, K. W. Plumb, B. C. Jeon, T. W. Noh, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195131 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Ordering and multiple phase transitions in ultrathin nickelate superlattices

Danilo Puggioni, Alessio Filippetti, and Vincenzo Fiorentini

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195132 (2012) - Published 21 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structure and physical properties of the layered iron oxychalcogenide BaFe $_{2}$ Se $_{2}$ O

Hechang Lei (雷和畅), Hyejin Ryu (류혜진), V. Ivanovski, J. B. Warren, A. I. Frenkel, B. Cekic, Wei-Guo Yin (尹卫国), and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195133 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Pressure-induced suppression of charge order and nanosecond valence dynamics in Fe $_{2}$ OBO $_{3}$

G. R. Hearne, W. N. Sibanda, E. Carleschi, V. Pischedda, and J. P. Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195134 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Ab initio Bethe-Salpeter calculations of the x-ray absorption spectra of transition metals at the $L$ -shell edges

J. Vinson and J. J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195135 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Covalency, double-counting, and the metal-insulator phase diagram in transition metal oxides

Xin Wang, M. J. Han, Luca de' Medici, Hyowon Park, C. A. Marianetti, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195136 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Efficient simulation of infinite tree tensor network states on the Bethe lattice

Wei Li, Jan von Delft, and Tao Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195137 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Ultrafast dynamics of reversible photoinduced phase transitions in rubidium manganese hexacyanoferrate investigated by midinfrared CN vibration spectroscopy

Akifumi Asahara, Makoto Nakajima, Ryo Fukaya, Hiroko Tokoro, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, and Tohru Suemoto

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195138 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Defects and localization in chemically-derived graphene

L. Ćirić, A. Sienkiewicz, R. Gaál, J. Jaćimović, C. Vâju, A. Magrez, and L. Forró

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195139 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Effect of point defects on the electronic density of states of ScN studied by first-principles calculations and implications for thermoelectric properties

Sit Kerdsongpanya, Björn Alling, and Per Eklund

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195140 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Fractional power-law behavior and its origin in iron-chalcogenide and ruthenate superconductors: Insights from first-principles calculations

Z. P. Yin, K. Haule, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195141 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Physical properties of Ba $_{2}$ Mn $_{2}$ Sb $_{2}$ O single crystals

J. Li, C. E. Ekuma, I. Vekhter, M. Jarrell, J. Moreno, S. Stadler, A. B. Karki, and R. Jin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195142 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Stoichiometry, structure, and transport in the quasi-one-dimensional metal Li $_{0.9}$ Mo $_{6}$ O $_{17}$

J. L. Cohn, P. Boynton, J. S. Triviño, J. Trastoy, B. D. White, C. A. M. dos Santos, and J. J. Neumeier

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195143 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Spin-assisted covalent bond mechanism in “charge-ordering” perovskite oxides

Antonio Cammarata and James M. Rondinelli

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195144 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Probing guided modes in a monolayer colloidal crystal on a flat metal film

Sergei G. Romanov, Nicolas Vogel, Karina Bley, Katharina Landfester, Clemens K. Weiss, Sergej Orlov, Alexander V. Korovin, Gennady P. Chuiko, Alois Regensburger, Alexandra S. Romanova, Arian Kriesch, and Ulf Peschel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195145 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Hamiltonian theory of fractionally filled Chern bands

Ganpathy Murthy and R. Shankar

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195146 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Unusual temperature dependence of the spectral weight near the Fermi level of NdNiO $_{3}$ thin films

E. F. Schwier, R. Scherwitzl, Z. Vydrovà, M. García-Fernández, M. Gibert, P. Zubko, M. G. Garnier, J.-M. Triscone, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195147 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Semiconductors I: bulk

Optical absorption and DFT calculations in $L$ -aspartic acid anhydrous crystals: Charge carrier effective masses point to semiconducting behavior

A. M. Silva, B. P. Silva, F. A. M. Sales, V. N. Freire, E. Moreira, U. L. Fulco, E. L. Albuquerque, F. F. Maia, Jr., and E. W. S. Caetano

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195201 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Evidence of N substitution by Mn in GaN

L. M. C. Pereira, U. Wahl, J. G. Correia, S. Decoster, L. M. Amorim, M. R. da Silva, J. P. Araújo, and A. Vantomme

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195202 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Phosphorescence superradiance in a Pt-containing $π$ -conjugated polymer

Bagrat Khachatryan, Tho D. Nguyen, Z. Valy Vardeny, and Eitan Ehrenfreund

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195203 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Real-space distribution of the Hall current densities and their spin polarization in nonmagnetic zinc-blende semiconductors

Pavel Středa and Václav Drchal

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195204 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Formation and destabilization of Ga interstitials in GaAsN: Experiment and theory

P. Laukkanen, M. P. J. Punkkinen, J. Puustinen, H. Levämäki, M. Tuominen, K. Schulte, J. Dahl, J. Lång, H. L. Zhang, M. Kuzmin, K. Palotas, B. Johansson, L. Vitos, M. Guina, and K. Kokko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195205 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Quantitative theory of the oxygen vacancy and carrier self-trapping in bulk TiO $_{2}$

Peter Deák, Bálint Aradi, and Thomas Frauenheim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195206 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Predicting the band gap of ternary oxides containing 3 $d^{10}$ and 3 $d^{0}$ metals

J. A. McLeod, A. Moewes, D. A. Zatsepin, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. Wypych, I. Bobowska, A. Opasinska, and S. O. Cholakh

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195207 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Temperature dependence of band gaps in semiconductors: Electron-phonon interaction

J. Bhosale, A. K. Ramdas, A. Burger, A. Muñoz, A. H. Romero, M. Cardona, R. Lauck, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195208 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Configuring pnicogen rings in skutterudites for low phonon conductivity

Hang Chi, Hyoungchul Kim, John C. Thomas, Xianli Su, Stephen Stackhouse, Massoud Kaviany, Anton Van der Ven, Xinfeng Tang, and Ctirad Uher

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195209 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Phonon-induced dephasing of chromium color centers in diamond

T. Müller, I. Aharonovich, Z. Wang, X. Yuan, S. Castelletto, S. Prawer, and M. Atatüre

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195210 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

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

Thermopower in oxide heterostructures: The importance of being multiple-band conductors

A. Filippetti, P. Delugas, M. J. Verstraete, I. Pallecchi, A. Gadaleta, D. Marré, D. F. Li, S. Gariglio, and V. Fiorentini

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195301 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Mesoscopic spin-orbit effect in the semiconductor nanostructure electron $g$ factor

M. A. Toloza Sandoval, A. Ferreira da Silva, E. A. de Andrada e Silva, and G. C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195302 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Spin transistors based on spatial control of electron spins in double quantum wells

Pawel Pfeffer and Wlodek Zawadzki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195303 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Observation of a highly spin-polarized topological surface state in GeBi $_{2}$ Te $_{4}$

K. Okamoto, K. Kuroda, H. Miyahara, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, Z. S. Aliev, M. B. Babanly, I. R. Amiraslanov, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, D. A. Samorokov, T. V. Menshchikova, E. V. Chulkov, and A. Kimura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195304 (2012) - Published 6 November, 2012

Excitons in cores of exciton-polariton vortices

Nina S. Voronova and Yurii E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195305 (2012) - Published 6 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Destruction and recurrence of excitons by acoustic shock waves on picosecond time scales

T. Berstermann, C. Brüggemann, A. V. Akimov, M. Bombeck, D. R. Yakovlev, N. A. Gippius, A. V. Scherbakov, I. Sagnes, J. Bloch, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195306 (2012) - Published 6 November, 2012

Excitons in molecular crystals from first-principles many-body perturbation theory: Picene versus pentacene

Pierluigi Cudazzo, Matteo Gatti, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195307 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Determination of valence-band offset at cubic CdSe/ZnTe type-II heterojunctions: A combined experimental and theoretical approach

Daniel Mourad, Jan-Peter Richters, Lionel Gérard, Régis André, Joël Bleuse, and Henri Mariette

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195308 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dependence of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction on the quantum well width

M. P. Walser, U. Siegenthaler, V. Lechner, D. Schuh, S. D. Ganichev, W. Wegscheider, and G. Salis

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195309 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Anomalous double-layer step formation on Si(100) in hydrogen process ambient

Sebastian Brückner, Henning Döscher, Peter Kleinschmidt, Oliver Supplie, Anja Dobrich, and Thomas Hannappel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195310 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Electrostatic effects and band bending in doped topological insulators

Dimitrios Galanakis and Tudor D. Stanescu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195311 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation

Arka Majumdar, Armand Rundquist, Michal Bajcsy, Vaishno D. Dasika, Seth R. Bank, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195312 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatial dynamics of stepwise homogeneously pumped polariton condensates

Franziska Veit, Marc Aßmann, Manfred Bayer, Andreas Löffler, Sven Höfling, Martin Kamp, and Alfred Forchel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195313 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Induced currents in the quantum Hall regime: Energy storage, persistence, and $I$ - $V$ characteristics

M. J. Smith, A. Usher, C. D. H. Williams, A. Shytov, A. S. Sachrajda, A. Kam, and Z. R. Wasilewski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195314 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Temperature-dependent internal photoemission probe for band parameters

Yan-Feng Lao and A. G. Unil Perera

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195315 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Entanglement of electron spins and geometric phases in the diamond color center coupled to the P1 center

M. Hebbache

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195316 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Antiband instability on vicinal Si(111) under the condition of diffusion-limited sublimation

V. Usov, S. Stoyanov, C. O Coileain, O. Toktarbaiuly, and I. V. Shvets

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195317 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structure and zero-dimensional polariton spectrum of natural defects in GaAs/AlAs microcavities

Joanna M. Zajac and Wolfgang Langbein

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195401 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Model of ripples in graphene

L. L. Bonilla and A. Carpio

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195402 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Coherent control of double-dot molecules using Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux

Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu, Wei-Min Zhang, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195403 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Electronic structure of assembled graphene nanoribbons: Substrate and many-body effects

Liangbo Liang and Vincent Meunier

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195404 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Optical signatures of the tunable band gap and valley-spin coupling in silicene

L. Stille, C. J. Tabert, and E. J. Nicol

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195405 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

First-principles transport calculation method based on real-space finite-difference nonequilibrium Green's function scheme

Tomoya Ono, Yoshiyuki Egami, and Kikuji Hirose

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195406 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Metallic behavior in low-dimensional honeycomb SiB crystals: A first-principles prediction of atomic structure and electronic properties

Anders Hansson, F. de Brito Mota, and Roberto Rivelino

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195416 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Influence of the surface dipole layer and Pauli repulsion on band energies and doping in graphene adsorbed on metal surfaces

Julian Gebhardt, Francesc Viñes, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195431 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Scattering at magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities on surfaces with strong spin-orbit coupling

D. Lükermann, S. Sologub, H. Pfnür, C. Klein, M. Horn-von Hoegen, and C. Tegenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195432 (2012) - Published 28 November, 2012

Induced polarization and electronic properties of carbon-doped boron nitride nanoribbons

J. Beheshtian, A. Sadeghi, M. Neek-Amal, K. H. Michel, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195433 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Using gate-modulated Raman scattering and electron-phonon interactions to probe single-layer graphene: A different approach to assign phonon combination modes

D. L. Mafra, J. Kong, K. Sato, R. Saito, M. S. Dresselhaus, and P. T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 195434 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Luttinger liquid physics and spin-flip scattering on helical edges [Phys. Rev. B 85, 081106(R) (2012)]

M. Hohenadler and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 86, 199901 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Publisher's Note: Determination of valence-band offset at cubic CdSe/ZnTe type-II heterojunctions: A combined experimental and theoretical approach [Phys. Rev. B 86, 195308 (2012)]

Daniel Mourad, Jan-Peter Richters, Lionel Gérard, Régis André, Joël Bleuse, and Henri Mariette

Phys. Rev. B 86, 199902 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Erratum: Ultrafast optical studies of ordered poly(3-thienylene-vinylene) films [Phys. Rev. B 85, 235201 (2012)]

E. Olejnik, B. Pandit, T. Basel, E. Lafalce, C.-X. Sheng, C. Zhang, X. Jiang, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. B 86, 199903 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Erratum: Theory of interfacial plasmon-phonon scattering in supported graphene [Phys. Rev. B 86, 165422 (2012)]

Zhun-Yong Ong and Massimo V. Fischetti

Phys. Rev. B 86, 199904 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012