Accepted in December 2007, to be published in Physical Review B15


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

    SEMICONDUCTORS II: SURFACES, INTERFACES, MICROSTRUCTURES, AND RELATED TOPICS

Intersublevel polaron dephasing in self-assembled quantum dots
E. A. Zibik, T. Grange, B. A. Carpenter, R. Ferreira, G. Bastard, N. Q. Vinh, P. J. Phillips, M. J. Steer, M. Hopkinson, J. W. Cockburn, M. S. Skolnick, and L. R. Wilson
[abstract]

Electron-electron interaction in one- and two-dimensional ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As
D. Neumaier, M. Schlapps, U. Wurstbauer, J. Sadowski, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, and D. Weiss
[abstract]

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

Cooling rate dependence of the glass transition at free surfaces
S. Streit-Nierobisch, C. Gutt, M. Paulus, and M. Tolan
[abstract]

ARTICLES

    ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE: WIDE-BAND, NARROW-BAND, AND STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS

Symmetry-induced singularities of the dispersion surface curvature and high sensitivities of a photonic crystal
Wei Jiang and Ray T. Chen

First-principles study of the adsorption of atomic and molecular hydrogen on BC$_{ 2}$N nanotubes
J. Rossato, R. J. Baierle, T. M. Schmidt, and A. Fazzio
[abstract]

Theory of the orbital-selective Mott transition in ferromagnetic YTiO$_3$ under high pressure
L. Craco, M. S. Laad, S. Leoni, and H. Rosner
[abstract]

Mott transition in one dimension: Benchmarking dynamical cluster approaches
Matthias Balzer, Werner Hanke, and Michael Potthoff
[abstract]

Energy transfer to Gd$^{3+}$ from the self-trapped exciton in ScPO$_4$:Gd$^{3+}$: Dynamics and application to quantum cutting
Y. Zhou, S. P. Feofilov, J. Y. Jeong, D. A. Keszler, and R. S. Meltzer

\textit{In situ} characterization of the ferroelectric transition in BaTiO$_3$ by EELS and comparison with \textit{ab initio} methods
V. Gallegos-Orozco, R. Mart\'{\i}nez-S\'{a}nchez, and F. Espinosa-Maga\~{n}a

Electronic spectra and crystal field analysis of Yb$^{2+}$ in SrCl$_{2}$
Zaifa Pan, Chang-kui Duan, and Peter A. Tanner

Spectral functions of two-dimensional systems with coupling of electrons to collective or localized spin degrees of freedom
A. A. Katanin and V. Yu. Irkhin
[abstract]

Superfluid-insulator transition and fermion pairing in Bose-Fermi mixtures
Kun Yang
[abstract]

Magnetic $g$ tensors for the $^{4}I_{15/2}$ and $^{4}I_{13/2}$ states of Er$^{3+}$:Y$_2$SiO$_5$
Yongchen Sun, Thomas B\"{o}ttger, C. W. Thiel, and R. L. Cone
[abstract]

Optimized norm-conserving Hartree-Fock pseudopotentials for plane-wave calculations
W. A. Al-Saidi, E. J. Walter, and A. M. Rappe
[abstract]

Quenching Bloch oscillations in a strongly correlated material: Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory
J. K. Freericks
[abstract]

Two-step-wise interpretation of highly asymmetric, grazing angle (e,2e) on solids: A real momentum spectroscopy for surfaces and overlayers
A. Liscio, A. Ruocco, G. Stefani, and S. Iacobucci

Cluster model and band structure calculations of V$_2$O$_5$: Reduced V$^{5+}$ symmetry and many-body effects of electron correlation
R. J. O. Mossanek, A. Mocellin, M. Abbate, B. G. Searle, P. T. Fonseca, and E. Morikawa

Magnetic and transport behavior of Ni-substituted GdBaCo$_2$O$_{5+\delta}$ perovskite
A. Bharathi, P. Yasodha, N. Gayathri, A. T. Satya, R. Nagendran, N. Thirumurugan, C. S. Sundar, and Y. Hariharan

Renormalization group flow of quartic perturbations in graphene: Strong coupling and large-$N$ limits
Joaqu\ ' { \ i} n E. Drut and Dam Thanh Son
[abstract]

Nd$^{3+}\rightarrow$ Yb$^{3+}$ resonant energy transfer in the ferroelectric Sr$_{0.6}$Ba$_{0.4}$Nb$_2$O$_6$ laser crystal
U. Caldi\~{n}io, D. Jaque, E. Mart\'{\i}n-Rodr\'{\i}guez, M. O. Ram\'{\i}rez, J. Garc\'{\i}a Sol\'{e}, A. Speghini, and M. Bettinelli

Electrical and magnetic properties of hexagonal BaTiO$_{3-\delta}$
T. Kolodiazhnyi, A. A. Belik, S. C. Wimbush, and H. Haneda
[abstract]

\textit{Ab initio} study of SrFe$_{x}$Ti$_{1-x}$O$_{3}$: Jahn-Teller distortion and electronic structure
V. E. Alexandrov, J. Maier, and R. A. Evarestov
[abstract]

Kondo behavior in the asymmetric Anderson model: Analytic approach
V\ ' { a} clav Jani\v{s} and Pavel Augustinsk\'{y}
[abstract]

Divide-and-conquer density functional theory on hierarchical real-space grids: Parallel implementation and applications
Fuyuki Shimojo, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Static screening and delocalization effects in the Hubbard-Anderson model
Peter Henseler, Johann Kroha, and Boris Shapiro
[abstract]

Quantifying the importance of orbital over spin correlations in $\delta$-Pu within density-functional theory
Per S\"{o}derlind
[abstract]

Experimental observation of light refraction going from negative to positive in the visible region at the pure air/Au interface
Yun-Hua Wu, Wen Gu, Yue-Rui Chen, Xiao-Fan Li, Xiao-Song Zhu, Peng Zhou, Jing Li, Yu-Xiang Zheng, and Liang-Yao Chen

Green's function of quasiparticles in Calogero model and quantum hydrodynamics
D. B. Gutman
[abstract]

Rare-earth - boron bonding and 4f state trends in $\mathcal{R}B_4$ tetraborides
Z. P. Yin and W. E. Pickett
[abstract]

KCrF$_3$: Electronic structure and magnetic and orbital ordering from first principles
Gianluca Giovannetti, Serena Margadonna, and Jeroen van den Brink
[abstract]

Phase diagram of the anisotropic multichannel Kondo Hamiltonian revisited
Avraham Schiller and Lorenzo De Leo
[abstract]

Nodal Pulay terms for accurate diffusion quantum Monte Carlo forces
A. Badinski, P. D. Haynes, and R. J. Needs
[abstract]

\textit{Ab initio} electronic structure and correlations in pristine and potassium-doped molecular crystals of copper phthalocyanine
Gianluca Giovannetti, Geert Brocks, and Jeroen van den Brink
[abstract]

Convexity of the self-energy functional in the variational cluster approximation
Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, David S\'en\'echal, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
[abstract]

Electronic structures of hexagonal $R$MnO$_3$ ($R$=Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) thin films: Optical spectroscopy and first-principles calculations
Woo Seok Choi, Dong Geun Kim, Sung Seok A. Seo, Soon Jae Moon, Daesu Lee, Jung Hyuk Lee, Ho Sik Lee, Deok-Yong Cho, Yoon Sang Lee, Pattukkannu Murugavel, Jaejun Yu, and Tae Won Noh

Aharanov-Bohm effect for the edge states of zigzag carbon nanotubes
K. Sasaki, M. Suzuki, and R. Saito
[abstract]

Dynamical correlations across the spin-state transition in LaCoO$_3$
L. Craco and E. M\"uller-Hartmann
[abstract]

Cohesive energy curves for noble gas solids calculated by adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theory
Judith Harl and Georg Kresse
[abstract]

Transition from thin-film to bulk properties of metamaterials
Carsten Rockstuhl, Thomas Paul, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch, Thomas Zentgraf, Todd P. Meyrath, and Harald Giessen
[abstract]

Broadband dielectric response of CaCu$_3$Ti$_4$O$_{12}$: From dc to the electronic transition regime
Ch. Kant, T. Rudolf, F. Mayr, S. Krohns, P. Lunkenheimer, S. G. Ebbinghaus, and A. Loidl
[abstract]

Charge transfer at the metal-insulator transition in V$_2$O$_3$ thin films by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
C. F. Hague, J.-M. Mariot, V. Ilakovac, R. Delaunay, M. Marsi, M. Sacchi, J.-P. Rueff, and W. Felsch
[abstract]

Combined experimental and theoretical investigation of optical, structural, and electronic properties of CH$_3$NH$_3$Sn$X_3$ thin films ($X$=Cl,Br)
Fabio Chiarella, Andrea Zappettini, Francesca Licci, Ivo Borriello, Giovanni Cantele, Domenico Ninno, Antonio Cassinese, and Ruggero Vaglio
[abstract]

Optical absorption and electronic band structure first-principles calculations of $\alpha$-glycine crystals
M. Z. S. Flores, V. N. Freire, R. P. dos Santos, G. A. Farias, E. W. S. Caetano, M. C. F. de Oliveira, J. R. L. Fernandez, L. M. R. Scolfaro, M. J. B. Bezerra, T. M. Oliveira, G. A. Bezerra, B. S. Cavada, and H. W. Leite Alves
[abstract]

Doped carrier formulation of the $t-J$ model: Projection constraint and the effective Kondo-Heisenberg lattice representation
Rafael T. Pepino, Alvaro Ferraz, and Evgueny Kochetov
[abstract]

Many-body local fields theory of quasiparticle properties in a three-dimensional electron liquid
George E. Simion and Gabriele F. Giuliani
[abstract]

Specific heat of a one-dimensional interacting Fermi system: Role of anomalies
Andrey V. Chubukov, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Ronojoy Saha
[abstract]

Cellular dynamical mean-field theory of the periodic Anderson model
Lorenzo De Leo, Marcello Civelli, and Gabriel Kotliar
[abstract]

Critical conductance of a one-dimensional doped Mott insulator
M. Garst, D. S. Novikov, Ady Stern, and L. I. Glazman
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS I: BULK

Path-integral molecular dynamics simulation of 3$C$-SiC
Rafael Ram\'{\i}rez, Carlos P. Herrero, Eduardo R. Hern\'{a}ndez, and Manuel Cardona
[abstract]

High-pressure electronic structure and phase transitions in monoclinic InSe: X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and density functional theory
D. Errandonea, D. Mart{\'i}nez-Garc{\'i}a, A. Segura, J. Haines, E. Machado-Charry, E. Canadell, J. C. Chervin, and A. Chevy

Elastic constants of silicon materials calculated as a function of temperature using a parametrization of the second-generation reactive empirical bond-order potential
J. David Schall, Guangtu Gao, and Judith A. Harrison

Structure and stability of small compact self-interstitial clusters in crystalline silicon
Sangheon Lee and Gyeong S. Hwang

Indirect generation of quadrupole polaritons from dark excitons in Cu$_2$O
J. I. Jang, Y. Sun, and J. B. Ketterson
[abstract]

Temperature dependence of the triplet diffusion and quenching rates in films of an Ir(ppy)$_{3}$-cored dendrimer
J. C. Ribierre, A. Ruseckas, I. D. W. Samuel, S. V. Staton, and P. L. Burn

Theory of high-density optical effects on polaritons in Cu$_2$O: Bistability and optical hysteresis
Oleksiy Roslyak and Joseph L. Birman
[abstract]

Doped semiconductors as half-metallic materials: Experiments and first-principles calculations of CoTi$_{1-x}$$M$$_x$Sb ($M$=Sc,V,Cr,Mn,Fe)
Benjamin Balke, Gerhard H. Fecher, Andrei Gloskovskii, Joachim Barth, Kristian Kroth, Claudia Felser, Rosa Robert, and Anke Weidenkaff
[abstract]

Consistent set of band parameters for the group-III nitrides AlN, GaN, and InN
Patrick Rinke, M. Winkelnkemper, A. Qteish, D. Bimberg, J. Neugebauer, and M. Scheffler
[abstract]

Structure and energetics of $c$-Si/$a$-SiO$_2$ systems: Planar interfaces and embedded Si nanocrystals
LingTi Kong and Laurent J. Lewis
[abstract]

Polar semiconductor ZnO under inplane tensile strain
Zeyad Alahmed and Huaxiang Fu
[abstract]

Deep-level transient spectroscopy study of the $E$ center in $n$-Si and partially relaxed $n$-Si$_{0.9}$Ge$_{0.1}$ alloy layers
M. Mamor, M. Elzain, K. Bouziane, and S. H. Al Harthi

Bound magnetic polarons in the very dilute regime
Yu. G. Kusrayev, K. V. Kavokin, G. V. Astakhov, W. Ossau, and L. W. Molenkamp
[abstract]

High temperature thermoelectric efficiency in Ba$_8$Ga$_{16}$Ge$_{30}$
Eric S. Toberer, M. Christensen, B. B. Iversen, and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Dissociation of B--H pairs in diamond as enhanced by electronic excitation and electron capture: Computational modeling
J. P. Goss and P. R. Briddon
[abstract]

Quasiequilibrium optical nonlinearities from spin-polarized carriers in GaAs
Arjun Joshua and V. Venkataraman
[abstract]

Magneto-optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As: An \textit{ab initio} determination
Alessandro Stroppa, Silvia Picozzi, Alessandra Continenza, MiYoung Kim, and Arthur J. Freeman
[abstract]

Microscopic derivation of Frenkel excitons in second quantization
Monique Combescot and Walter Pogosov
[abstract]

All-optical coherent control of electrical currents in centrosymmetric semiconductors
Marko Spasenovi\'{c}, Markus Betz, Louis Costa, and Henry M. van Driel
[abstract]

Computer simulation of the $60^{\circ}$ dislocation interaction with vacancy cluster in silicon
Chengxiang Li, Qingyuan Meng, Kangyou Zhong, and Chaoying Wang
[abstract]

Crystallographically oriented Co and Ni nanocrystals inside ZnO formed by ion implantation and postannealing
Shengqiang Zhou, K. Potzger, J. von Borany, R. Gr\"{o}tzschel, W. Skorupa, M. Helm, and J. Fassbender
[abstract]

Spin-glass-like behavior in single-crystalline Cu$_{0.44}$In$_{0.48}$Cr$_{1.95}$Se$_4$
H. Duda, E. Maci\k{a}\.{z}ek, T. Gro\'{n}, S. Mazur, A. W. Pacyna, A. Wa\'{s}kowska, T. Mydlarz, and A. Gilewski

Fluorescence-detected magnetic resonance in organic systems: A pair-density matrix formalism approach
L. Hachani, A. Benfredj, S. Romdhane, M. Mejatty, J. L. Monge, and H. Bouchriha
[abstract]

Device spectroscopy of magnetic field effects in a polyfluorene organic light-emitting diode
T. D. Nguyen, J. Rybicki, Y. Sheng, and M. Wohlgenannt
[abstract]

Finite mobility effects on the radiative efficiency limit of $pn$-junction solar cells
Julian Mattheis, J\ " { u} rgen H. Werner, and Uwe Rau
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS II: SURFACES, INTERFACES, MICROSTRUCTURES, AND RELATED TOPICS

Electron-vortex separation in quantum dots
E. Anisimovas, M. B. Tavernier, and F. M. Peeters
[abstract]

Structural, electronic, and energetic properties of SiC[111]/ZrB$_{2}$[0001] heterojunctions: A first-principles density functional theory study
Po-Liang Liu, A. V. G. Chizmeshya, and John Kouvetakis

Trapping Abelian anyons in fractional quantum Hall droplets
Zi-Xiang Hu, Xin Wan, and Peter Schmitteckert
[abstract]

Near-field optical spectroscopy of GaAs/Al$_y$Ga$_{1-y}$As quantum dot pairs grown by high-temperature droplet epitaxy
Robert Pomraenke, Christoph Lienau, Yuriy I. Mazur, Zhiming M. Wang, Baolai Liang, Georgiy G. Tarasov, and Gregory. J. Salamo
[abstract]

Spin relaxation at the singlet-triplet crossing in a quantum dot
Vitaly N. Golovach, Alexander Khaetskii, and Daniel Loss
[abstract]

Hartree-Fock calculations of a finite inhomogeneous quantum wire
Jiang Qian and Bertrand I. Halperin
[abstract]

Statistics of the polariton condensate
Paolo Schwendimann and Antonio Quattropani

Donor-donor interaction mediated by cavity photons and its relation to interactions mediated by excitons and polaritons
G. F. Quinteiro
[abstract]

Electronic coupling in organic-inorganic semiconductor hybrid structures with type-II energy level alignment
S. Blumstengel, S. Sadofev, C. Xu, J. Puls, R. L. Johnson, H. Glowatzki, N. Koch, and F. Henneberger
[abstract]

Coherent defect-assisted multiphonon intraband carrier relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots
A. N. Poddubny and S. V. Goupalov
[abstract]

Origin of complex impact craters on native oxide coated silicon surfaces
Juha Samela, Kai Nordlund, Vladimir N. Popok, and Eleanor E. B. Campbell
[abstract]

Datta-Das-type spin-field-effect transistor in the nonballistic regime
Munekazu Ohno and Kanji Yoh

Linearly polarized `fine structure' of the bright exciton state in individual CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots
H. Htoon, M. Furis, S. A. Crooker, S. Jeong, and V. I. Klimov

Transient quantum evolution of two-dimensional electrons under photoexcitation of a deep center
F. T. Vasko, A. Hernandez-Cabrera, and P. Aceituno
[abstract]

Gap theory of rectification in ballistic three-terminal conductors
Andrew N. Jordan and Markus B\"{u}ttiker
[abstract]

Strong and weak coupling limits in optics of quantum well excitons
C. Creatore and A. L. Ivanov
[abstract]

First-order coherent resonant tunneling through an interacting coupled-quantum-dot interferometer: Generic quantum rate equations and current noise
Bing Dong, X. L. Lei, and Norman J. M. Horing
[abstract]

Paired composite-fermion wave functions
G. M\"{o}ller and S. H. Simon
[abstract]

Formation of a quasistationary state by scattering of wave packets on a finite lattice
Yu. G. Peisakhovich and A. A. Shtygashev

Spin-projected unrestricted Hartree-Fock ground states for harmonic quantum dots
U. De Giovannini, F. Cavaliere, R. Cenni, M. Sassetti, and B. Kramer
[abstract]

Dark current analysis of quantum cascade detectors by magnetoresistance measurements
Aurore Gomez, Nicolas P\'{e}r\'{e}-Laperne, Louis-Anne de Vaulchier, C\ ' { e} dric Koeniguer, Angela Vasanelli, Alexandro Nedelcu, Xavier Marcadet, Yves Guldner, and Vincent Berger
[abstract]

Multiscale electrostatic analysis of silicon nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) via heterogeneous quantum models
Yang Xu and N. R. Aluru
[abstract]

Quantum to classical transition of the charge relaxation resistance of a mesoscopic capacitor
Simon E. Nigg and Markus B\"{u}ttiker
[abstract]

Formation of a quasistationary state by Gaussian wave packet scattering on a lattice of $N$ identical delta potentials
Yu. G. Peisakhovich and A. A. Shtygashev

Five- and six-electron quantum rings in a magnetic field
Y. M. Liu, G. M. Huang, and T. Y. Shi
[abstract]

Pseudopotential calculations of band gaps and band edges of short-period (InAs)$_n$/(GaSb)$_m$ superlattices with different substrates, layer orientations, and interfacial bonds
Paulo Piquini, Alex Zunger, and Rita Magri
[abstract]

Large vacuum Rabi splitting in a multiple quantum well GaN-based microcavity in the strong-coupling regime
Gabriel Christmann, Rapha\ " el Butt\'{e}, Eric Feltin, Anas Mouti, Pierre A. Stadelmann, Antonio Castiglia, Jean-Fran\ c{ c} ois Carlin, and Nicolas Grandjean
[abstract]

Decoherence of coupled electron spins via nuclear spin dynamics in quantum dots
W. Yang and R. B. Liu
[abstract]

Complex behavior of biexcitons in GaN quantum dots due to a giant built-in polarization field
D. Simeonov, A. Dussaigne, R. Butt\'{e}, and N. Grandjean

Electronic properties and stabilities of bulk and low-index surfaces of SnO in comparison with SnO$_{2}$: A first-principles density functional approach with an empirical correction of van der Waals interactions
Yuhua Duan

Interacting dynamic Wannier-Stark ladder driven by a periodic pulse train
Ken-ichi Hino, Xiao Min Tong, and Nobuyuki Toshima
[abstract]

Transport through constricted quantum Hall edge systems: Beyond the quantum point contact
Siddhartha Lal
[abstract]

Light-mass Bragg cavity polaritons in planar quantum dot lattices
E. M. Kessler, M. Grochol, and C. Piermarocchi
[abstract]

Quantum transport length scales in silicon-based semiconducting nanowires: Surface roughness effects
Aur\ ' { e} lien Lherbier, Martin P. Persson, Yann-Michel Niquet, Fran\ c{ c} ois Triozon, and Stephan Roche
[abstract]

Polarization kinetics of semiconductor microcavities investigated with a Boltzman approach
Huy Thien Cao, T. D. Doan, D. B. Tran Thoai, and H. Haug
[abstract]

Tip-enhanced secondary emission of a semiconductor quantum dot
I. D. Rukhlenko, A. V. Fedorov, A. V. Baranov, T. S. Perova, and K. Berwick
[abstract]

Experimental studies of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the first excited Landau level
W. Pan, J. S. Xia, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, C. Vicente, E. D. Adams, N. S. Sullivan, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West

Optimizing organic photovoltaics using tailored heterojunctions: A photoinduced absorption study of oligothiophenes with low band gaps
R. Schueppel, K. Schmidt, C. Uhrich, K. Schulze, D. Wynands, J. L. Br\'{e}das, E. Brier, E. Reinold, H.-B. Bu, P. Baeuerle, B. Maennig, M. Pfeiffer, and K. Leo
[abstract]

Stabilizing mechanism of the dipolar structure and its effects on formation of carriers in wurtzite \{0001\} films: InN and ZnO
Jung-Hwan Song, Toru Akiyama, and Arthur J. Freeman
[abstract]

Semianalytical model for simulation of electronic properties of narrow-gap strained semiconductor quantum nanostructures
J. Even, F. Dor\'{e}, C. Cornet, and L. Pedesseau

Biperiodic superlattices and the transparent state
D. W. L. Sprung, L. W. A. Vanderspek, W. Van Dijk, J. Martorell, and C. Pacher
[abstract]

Band-edge photoluminescence and reflectivity of nonpolar (11$\bar{2}$0) and semipolar (11$\bar{2}$2) GaN formed by epitaxial lateral overgrowth on sapphire
T. G\"{u}hne, Z. Bougrioua, S. La\"{u}gt, M. Nemoz, P. Venn\'{e}gu\`{e}s, B. Vinter, and M. Leroux

Adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime: Exact results at the Toulouse limit
Avraham Schiller and Alessandro Silva
[abstract]

Energetics of Mg and B adsorption on polar zinc oxide surfaces from first principles
Kazume Nishidate, Masahito Yoshizawa, and Masayuki Hasegawa
[abstract]

Non-Abelian spin-orbit gauge: Persistent spin helix and quantum square ring
Son-Hsien Chen and Ching-Ray Chang
[abstract]

Coulomb blockade of a three-terminal quantum dot
Robert Andrzej \.{Z}ak and Karsten Flensberg
[abstract]

Self-assembly and ordering mechanisms of Ge islands on prepatterned Si(001)
A. Pascale, I. Berbezier, A. Ronda, and P. C. Kelires

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

Temperature dependence of the structural parameters of gold nanoparticles investigated with EXAFS
T. Comaschi, A. Balerna, and S. Mobilio
[abstract]

Absence of an insulator-metal transition in Rb$_4$C$_{60}$ up to 2 GPa
Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Thomas W\r{a}gberg, Tatiana L. Makarova, and Bertil Sundqvist

Spin tunneling in multilayer spintronic devices
S. G. Tan, M. B. A. Jalil, S. Bala Kumar, and G.-C. Liang

Antiferromagnetic ordering in one-dimensional dangling-bond wires on a hydrogen-terminated C(001)surface: A density-functional study
Jun-Hyung Cho and Jin-Ho Choi
[abstract]

Hydrogen on graphene: Electronic structure, total energy, structural distortions, and magnetism from first-principles calculations
D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein
[abstract]

Commensurate growth and diminishing substrate influence in a multilayer film of a tris(thieno)hexaazatriphenylene derivative on Au(111) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy
Sieu D. Ha, Qing Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, and Antoine Kahn

Valley polarization effects on localization in graphene Landau levels
A. L. C. Pereira and P. A. Schulz
[abstract]

Periodic trends in the geometric structures of 13-atom metal clusters
Yan Sun, Min Zhang, and Ren\ ' { e} Fournier
[abstract]

Heat transport through plasmonic interactions in closely spaced metallic nanoparticle chains
Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Karl Joulain, J\ ' { e} r\ ' { e} mie Drevillon, and Cl\ ' { e} ment Le Goff

Unoccupied states of individual silver clusters and chains on Ag(111)
A. Sperl, J. Kr\"{o}ger, N. N\'{e}el, H. Jensen, R. Berndt, A. Franke, and E. Pehlke
[abstract]

First-principles investigation of Ag-Cu alloy surfaces in an oxidizing environment
Simone Piccinin, Catherine Stampfl, and Matthias Scheffler
[abstract]

Electronic superlattices in corrugated graphene
A. Isacsson, L. M. Jonsson, J. M. Kinaret, and M. Jonson
[abstract]

Hybrid density functional study of armchair SiC nanotubes
Kazi M. Alam and Asok K. Ray

Photoemission momentum mapping and wave function analysis of surface and bulk states on flat Cu(111) and stepped Cu(443) surfaces: A two-photon photoemission study
M. Hengsberger, F. Baumberger, H. J. Neff, T. Greber, and J. Osterwalder
[abstract]

Monte Carlo and density functional theory analysis of the distribution of gold and palladium atoms on Au/Pd(111) alloys
Jorge A. Boscoboinik, Craig Plaisance, Matthew Neurock, and Wilfred T. Tysoe

Frequency- and electric-field-dependent conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotube networks of varying density
Hua Xu, Shixong Zhang, Steven M. Anlage, Liangbing Hu, and George Gr\"{u}ner
[abstract]

Influence of random roughness on the Casimir force at small separations
P. J. van Zwol, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson

Microscopic thickness determination of thin graphite films formed on SiC from quantized oscillation in reflectivity of low-energy electrons
H. Hibino, H. Kagashima, F. Maeda, M. Nagase, Y. Kobayashi, and H. Yamaguchi

Effect of absorption on terahertz surface plasmon polaritons propagating along periodically corrugated metal wires
Linfang Shen, Xudong Chen, Yu Zhong, and Krishna Agarwal
[abstract]

Three-dimensional analysis of the geometrical rectifying properties of asymmetric metal-vacuum-metal junctions and extension for energy conversion
A. Mayer, M. S. Chung, B. L. Weiss, N. M. Miskovsky, and P. H. Cutler
[abstract]

Double-segregation effect in Ag$_{x}$Pd$_{1-x}$/Ru(0001) thin film nanostructures
Tobias Marten, Olle Hellman, Andrei V. Ruban, Weine Olovsson, Charlotte Kramer, Jan P. Godowski, Lone Bech, Zheshen Li, Jens Onsgaard, and Igor A. Abrikosov
[abstract]

Conformational change of tetrahydroxyquinone molecules deposited on Ag(111)
Mathieu Abel, Vincent Oison, Mathieu Koudia, and Louis Porte
[abstract]

Growth of isolated clusters in the gas phase: Experiment and molecular dynamics simulations
S\ ' { e} bastien Rives, Alain Catherinot, Fr\ ' { e} d\ ' { e} ric Dumas-Bouchiat, Corinne Champeaux, Arnaud Videcoq, and Riccardo Ferrando
[abstract]

Electronic structure of a Mn$_6$ (s=4) single molecule magnet grafted on Au(111)
U. del Pennino, V. Corradini, R. Biagi, V. De Renzi, F. Moro, D. W. Boukhvalov, G. Panaccione, M. Hochstrasser, C. Carbone, C. J. Milios, and E. K. Brechin

Interface effects in the Ni 2$p$ x-ray photoelectron spectra of NiO thin films grown on oxide substrates
I. Preda, A. Guti\'{e}rrez, M. Abbate, F. Yubero, J. M\'{e}ndez, L. Alvarez, and L. Soriano

Depth distribution function calculated by quantum scattering theory
Hiroshi Shinotsuka, Hiroko Arai, and Takashi Fujikawa
[abstract]

Functionalization of carbon-based nanostructures with light transition-metal atoms for hydrogen storage
E. Durgun, S. Ciraci, and T. Yildirim
[abstract]

Theory of Rayleigh scattering from metallic carbon nanotubes
Ermin Mali\'{c}, Matthias Hirtschulz, Frank Milde, Yang Wu, Janina Maultzsch, Tony F. Heinz, Andreas Knorr, and Stephanie Reich
[abstract]

Efficiency of optical spin injection and spin loss from a diluted magnetic semiconductor ZnMnSe to CdSe nonmagnetic quantum dots
D Dagnelund, I. A. Buyanova, W. M. Chen, A. Murayama, T. Furuta, K. Hyomi, I. Souma, and Y. Oka

Calculating interaction between a highly charged high-speed ion and a solid surface
Yoshiyuki Miyamoto and Hong Zhang
[abstract]

Structure determination of monolayer-by-monolayer grown La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$ thin films and the onset of magnetoresistance
R. Herger, P. R. Willmott, C. M. Schlep\"{u}tz, M. Bj\"{o}rck, S. A. Pauli, D. Martoccia, B. D. Patterson, D. Kumah, R. Clarke, Y. Yacoby, and M. D\"{o}beli
[abstract]

Using granular film to suppress charge leakage in a single-electron latch
Alexei O. Orlov, Xiangning Luo, Kameshwar K. Yadavalli, Igor S. Beloborodov, and Gregory L. Snider

Absolute forbidden bands and waveguiding in two-dimensional phononic crystal plates
J. O. Vasseur, P. A. Deymier, B. Djafari-Rouhani, Y. Pennec, and A-C. Hladky-Hennion
[abstract]

Ionization from image states around nanotubes
G. A. Bocan, N. R. Arista, J. L. Gervasoni, and S. Segui
[abstract]

Thermal boundary resistance and thermal conductivity of multiwalled carbon nanotube
Ravi Prasher

Influence of material properties on extraordinary optical transmission through hole arrays
Sergio G. Rodrigo, F. J. Garc\'{\i}a-Vidal, and L. Mart\'{\i}n-Moreno
[abstract]

Local coordination of Mn atoms at the Mn:Ge(111) interface from photoelectron diffraction experiments
A. Verdini, A. Cossaro, L. Floreano, A. Morgante, A. Goldoni, D. Ghidoni, A. Sepe, S. Pagliara, and L. Sangaletti
[abstract]

Kink ordering and organized growth of Co clusters on a stepped Au(111) surface: A combined grazing-incidence x-ray scattering and STM study
Fr\ ' { e} d\ ' { e} ric Leroy, Gilles Renaud, Antoine L\'{e}toublon, Stanislas Rohart, Yann Girard, Vincent Repain, Sylvie Rousset, Alessandro Coati, and Yves Garreau
[abstract]

Orientation of C$_{60}$ molecules in the (3$\sqrt{3}\times3\sqrt3$)$R$30$^{\circ}$and ($\sqrt13\times\sqrt13$)$R$14$^{\circ}$ phases of C$_{60}$/Ge(111) single layers: STM microscopy
Mattia Fanetti, Luca Gavioli, Cinzia Cepek, and Massimo Sancrotti

Solidification kinetics of Fe$_{0.5}$Pt$_{0.5}$ clusters in an Ar carrier gas: Molecular dynamics simulations
N. L\"{u}mmen and T. Kraska

Thermodynamics and mechanism of metal-induced crystallization in immiscible alloy systems: Experiments and calculations on Al/a-Ge and Al/a-Si bilayers
Z. M. Wang, J. Y. Wang, L. P. H. Jeurgens, and E. J. Mittemeijer

Analytical approach to phonons and electron-phonon interactions in single-walled armchair carbon nanotubes
B. S. Kandemir and T. Altanhan
[abstract]

Kinetics-driven anisotropic growth of pentacene thin films
Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Jerzy T. Sadowski, Yasunori Fujikawa, Kazuo Nakajima, and Toshio Sakurai

Electric transport and magnetic properties in multilayer graphene
Masaaki Nakamura and Lila Hirasawa
[abstract]

Singularities in core-level spectra near metallic surfaces
V. Despoja, M. \v{S}unji\'{c}, and L. Maru\v{s}i\'{c}
[abstract]

Inelastic light scattering by longitudinal acoustic phonons in thin silicon layers: From membranes to silicon-on-insulator structures
J. Groenen, F. Poinsotte, A. Zwick, C. M. Sotomayor Torres, M. Prunnila, and J. Ahopelto
[abstract]

Dynamic dielectric response and electron-energy-loss spectra of individual single-walled BN nanotubes
Vl. A. Margulis, E. E. Muryumin, and E. A. Gaiduk
[abstract]

Brillouin and Raman scattering from the acoustic vibrations of spherical particles with a size comparable to the wavelength of the light
M. Montagna
[abstract]

Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces
Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Sebastian Volz, Carsten Henkel, Karl Joulain, and Jean-Jacques Greffet
[abstract]

Pressure-induced deformation of the C$_{60}$ fullerene in Rb$_6$C$_{60}$ and Cs$_6$C$_{60}$
R. Poloni, M. V. Fernandez-Serra, S. Le Floch, S. De Panfilis, P. Toulemonde, D. Machon, W. Crichton, S. Pascarelli, and A. San-Miguel
[abstract]

Nonequilibrium Langevin approach to quantum optics in semiconductor microcavities
S. Portolan, O. Di Stefano, S. Savasta, F. Rossi, and R. Girlanda
[abstract]

BRIEF REPORTS

    ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE: WIDE-BAND, NARROW-BAND, AND STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS

Orbital excitations in YTiO$_3$ and LaTiO$_3$ probed by resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering
C. Ulrich, G. Ghiringhelli, A. Piazzalunga, L. Braicovich, N. B. Brookes, H. Roth, T. Lorenz, and B. Keimer
[abstract]

Fractionalization in a square-lattice model with time-reversal symmetry
B. Seradjeh, C. Weeks, and M. Franz
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS I: BULK

Diffusion mechanism of Zn in InP and GaP from first principles
A. H\"{o}glund, S. Mirbt, and C. W. M. Castleton
[abstract]

Disorder-induced rapid localization of electron-hole plasmas in highly excited In$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$N mixed crystals
Daisuke Hirano, Takeshi Tayagaki, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Band anticrossing in highly mismatched Sn$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x}$ semiconducting alloys
K. Alberi, J. Blacksberg, L. D. Bell, S. Nikzad, K. M. Yu, O. D. Dubon, and W. Walukiewicz

Enhancing hole concentration in AlN by Mg-O codoping: \textit{Ab initio} study
R. Q. Wu, L. Shen, M. Yang, Z. D. Sha, Y. Q. Cai, Y. P. Feng, Z. G. Huang, and Q. Y. Wu
[abstract]

Ferromagnetism observed in pristine SnO$_2$ thin films
Nguyen Hoa Hong, Nathalie Poirot, and Joe Sakai

Coupled force-balance and particle-occupation rate equations for high-field electron transport
X. L. Lei
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS II: SURFACES, INTERFACES, MICROSTRUCTURES, AND RELATED TOPICS

Size dependence of the wavefunction of self-assembled InAs quantum dots from time-resolved optical measurements
Jeppe Johansen, S{ \ o} ren Stobbe, Ivan S. Nikolaev, Toke Lund-Hansen, Philip T. Kristensen, J{ \ o} rn M. Hvam, Willem L. Vos, and Peter Lodahl
[abstract]

Quenched magnetic moment in Mn-doped amorphous Si films
Li Zeng, E. Helgren, M. Rahimi, F. Hellman, R. Islam, B. J. Wilkens, R. J. Culbertson, and David J. Smith
[abstract]

Exciton condensate at a total filling factor of one in Corbino two-dimensional electron bilayers
L. Tiemann, J. G. S. Lok, W. Dietsche, K. von Klitzing, K. Muraki, D. Schuh, and W. Wegscheider
[abstract]

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

Effect of interface band structure on hot-electron attenuation lengths in Au thin films
A. J. Stollenwerk, E. J. Spadafora, J. J. Garramone, R. J. Matyi, R. L. Moore, and V. P. LaBella
[abstract]

Defect-induced circulating thermal current in graphene with nanosized width
Masahiro Morooka, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Kazuyuki Watanabe
[abstract]

Local transport gap in C$_{60}$ nanochains on a pentacene template
D. B. Dougherty, W. Jin, W. G. Cullen, G. Dutton, J. E. Reutt-Robey, and S. W. Robey

Aluminum nanowires: Influence of work hardening on conductance histograms
I. K. Yanson, O. I. Shklyarevskii, J. M. van Ruitenbeek, and S. Speller
[abstract]

Transport properties of transition-metal-encapsulated Si cages
Lingzhu Kong and James R. Chelikowsky
[abstract]

Structural, electronic, cohesive and elastic properties of diamondlike allotropes of crystalline C$_4$$_0$
Andrey N. Enyashin and Alexander L. Ivanovskii

van der Waals frictional drag induced by liquid flow in low-dimensional systems
A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson
[abstract]

Phonon transmission through defects in carbon nanotubes from first principles
N. Mingo, D. A. Stewart, D. A. Broido, and D. Srivastava
[abstract]

COMMENTS

Reply to ``Comment on `Evidence for strong electronic correlations in the spectra of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$' ''
Z. V. Pchelkina, I. A. Nekrasov, Th. Pruschke, S. Suga, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Vollhardt