Accepted in January 2008, to be published in Physical Review B15


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Quasiparticle spectral function in doped graphene: Electron-electron interaction effects in ARPES
E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS I: BULK

Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of the neutral nitrogen vacancy in diamond
S. Felton, A. M. Edmonds, M. E. Newton, P. M. Martineau, D. Fisher, and D. J. Twitchen
[abstract]

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

Oscillatory changes in the tunneling magnetoresistance effect in semiconductor quantum-dot spin valves
K. Hamaya, M. Kitabatake, K. Shibata, M. Jung, M. Kawamura, S. Ishida, T. Taniyama, K. Hirakawa, Y. Arakawa, and T. Machida
[abstract]

Activation gaps of fractional quantum Hall effect in the second Landau level
H. C. Choi, W. Kang, S. Das Sarma, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
[abstract]

Conductance quantization and snake states in graphene magnetic waveguides
T. K. Ghosh, A. De Martino, W. H\"{a}usler, L. Dell'Anna, and R. Egger
[abstract]

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

In-line holography and coherent diffractive imaging with x-ray waveguides
L. De Caro, C. Giannini, D. Pelliccia, C. Mocuta, T. H. Metzger, A. Guagliardi, A. Cedola, I. Burkeeva, and S. Lagomarsino

Plasmons and the spectral function of graphene
Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Giovanni Borghi, Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea, and A. H. MacDonald
[abstract]

Continuum model of polygonization of carbon nanotubes
Dmitry Golovaty and Shannon Talbott
[abstract]

Charge transport and inhomogeneity near the minimum conductivity point in graphene
Sungjae Cho and Michael S. Fuhrer

Theory of snake states in graphene
P. Rakyta, L. Oroszl\'{a}ny, A. Korm\'{a}nyos, C. J. Lambert, and J. Cserti
[abstract]

Formation of single- and double-layer silicon in slit pores
Tetsuya Morishita, Kengo Nishio, and Masuhiro Mikami
[abstract]

ARTICLES

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

Unconventional resistivity at the border of metallic antiferromagnetism in NiS$_2$
P. G. Niklowitz, P. L. Alireza, M. J. Steiner, G. G. Lonzarich, D. Braithwaite, G. Knebel, J. Flouquet, and J. A. Wilson
[abstract]

Polarized reflectivity of $\beta$-Sr$_{0.17}$V$_2$O$_{5}$
V. Ta Phuoc, C. Sellier, E. Janod, and C. Marin
[abstract]

Local band gap modulations in non-stoichiometric V$_2$O$_3$ films probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
V. Simic-Milosevic, N. Nilius, H.-P. Rust, and H.-J. Freund

\textit{Ab initio} Wannier-function-based correlated calculations of Born effective charges of crystalline Li$_{2}$O and LiCl
Priya Sony and Alok Shukla
[abstract]

Local electronic structure and magnetic properties of LaMn$_{0.5}$Co$_{0.5}$O$_3$ studied by x-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy
T. Burnus, Z. Hu, H. H. Hsieh, V. L. J. Joly, P. A. Joy, M. W. Haverkort, Hua Wu, A. Tanaka, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, and L. H. Tjeng
[abstract]

Bias voltage dependence on the vibronic electric current
Tomomi Shimazaki and Yoshihiro Asai

Density-density propagator for one-dimensional interacting spinless fermions with nonlinear dispersion and calculation of the Coulomb drag resistivity
A. V. Rozhkov
[abstract]

Charge disproportionation and dynamics in $\theta$-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$CsZn(SCN)$_{4}$
R. Chiba, K. Hiraki, T. Takahashi, H. M. Yamamoto, and T. Nakamura
[abstract]

Edge states and the integer quantum Hall conductance in spin-chiral ferromagnetic kagom\'{e} lattice
Zhigang Wang and Ping Zhang
[abstract]

Atomic adsorption on the (020) surface of $\alpha$-Pu: A density functional study
Raymond Atta-Fynn and Asok K. Ray

Theory of extraordinary light transmission through arrays of subwavelength slits
B. Sturman, E. Podivilov, and M. Gorkunov
[abstract]

Local lattice structure change in PrNiO$_3$ across the metal-insulator transition: X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy and \textit{ab initio} calculations
M. Acosta-Alejandro, J. Mustre de Le\'{o}n, M. Medarde, Ph. Lacorre, K. Konder, and P. A. Montano
[abstract]

Electron localization function for two-dimensional systems
E. R{\"{a}}s{\"{a}}nen, A. Castro, and E. K. U. Gross
[abstract]

Orbital hybridization and spin polarization in the resonant $1s$ photoexcitations of $\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$
Pieter Glatzel, Alessandro Mirone, Sigrid G. Eeckhout, Marcin Sikora, and Gabriele Giuli

Effect of the boundary shape in the effective theory of fractional quantum Hall edges
D. C. Cabra and N. E. Grandi
[abstract]

Theoretical importance of $t_{2g}$-$e_g$ hybridization in transition metal oxides
Sylvain Landron and Marie-Bernadette Lepetit
[abstract]

Electronic structure and lattice vibrations of Ca$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$: A hybrid density functional study
C. H. Patterson
[abstract]

Band structure and associated electromagnetic fields in one-dimensional photonic crystals with left-handed materials
M. de Dios-Leyva and O. E. Gonz\'{a}lez-Vasquez

Electron energy-loss study of the electronic structure of atomic scale SrTiO$_3$-SrMnO$_3$-LaMnO$_3$ superlattices
Amish B. Shah, Xiaofang Zhai, Bin Jiang, Jian-Guo Wen, James N. Eckstein, and Jian-Min Zuo

Single-particle dynamics in the vicinity of the Mott-Hubbard metal-to-insulator transition
Micha{ \ l} Karski, Carsten Raas, and G\ " { o} tz S. Uhrig
[abstract]

Self-doping instability of the Wigner-Mott insulator
S. Pankov and V. Dobrosavljevi\'{c}
[abstract]

Charge and spin excitation spectra in the one-dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping
S. Nishimoto, T. Shirakawa, and Y. Ohta
[abstract]

Electronic structure of cation-deficient CoO from first principles
U. D. Wdowik and K. Parlinski
[abstract]

Electronic structure at the C$_{60}$/metal interface: An angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles study
A. Tamai, A. P. Seitsonen, F. Baumberger, M. Hengsberger, Z.-X. Shen, T. Greber, and J. Osterwalder
[abstract]

Tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations of radiation-induced fragmentation of C$_{60}$
L\ ' or\ ' and Horv\'ath and Titus A. Beu
[abstract]

X-ray spectroscopic study of the electronic structure of Y$_{1-x}$Pr$_x$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$
H. Yamaoka, H. Oohashi, I. Jarrige, T. Terashima, Y. Zou, H. Mizota, S. Sakakura, T. Tochio, Y. Ito, E. Ya Sherman, and A. Kotani
[abstract]

Inelastic neutron scattering from PrFe$_4$P$_{12}$ at low temperatures and under high magnetic fields
J.-G. Park, D. T. Adroja, K. A. McEwen, M. Kohgi, and K. Iwasa
[abstract]

Effects of Breit interaction on the $L_{2,3}$ x-ray absorption near-edge structures of 3$d$ transition metals
Hidekazu Ikeno and Isao Tanaka
[abstract]

One-particle spectral properties of the $t$-$J$-$V$ model on the triangular lattice near charge order
M. Bejas, A. Greco, A. Muramatsu, and A. Foussats
[abstract]

Adapting approximate-memory potentials for time-dependent density functional theory
Yair Kurzweil and Roi Baer

Electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity of metals under conditions of laser-induced electron-phonon nonequilibrium
Zhibin Lin, Leonid V. Zhigilei, and Vittorio Celli

Electronic structure and properties of Li-insertion materials: Li$_2$RuO$_3$ and RuO$_2$
M. D. Johannes, A. M. Stux, and K. E. Swider-Lyons
[abstract]

Phase diagram of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping
S. Nishimoto, K. Sano, and Y. Ohta
[abstract]

Screened Coulomb interaction in the maximally localized Wannier basis
Takashi Miyake and F. Aryasetiawan
[abstract]

PBE+$U$ calculations of the Jahn-Teller effect in PrO$_{2}$
Fabien Tran, Johannes Schweifer, Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz, and Pavel Nov\'{a}k
[abstract]

Scaling of ac electrical conductivity of powders under compression
M. Creyssels, E. Falcon, and B. Castaing
[abstract]

Half semimetallic antiferromagnetism in the Sr$_2$Cr$T$O$_6$ system ($T$=Os, Ru)
K.-W. Lee and W. E. Pickett
[abstract]

Identification of the carbon antisite in SiC: EPR of $^{13}$C enriched crystals
Pavel G. Baranov, Ivan V. Ilyin, Alexandra A. Soltamova, and Eugene N. Mokhov
[abstract]

Electronic structure and orbital ordering of SrRu$_{1-x}$Ti$_x$O$_3$: GGA+$U$ investigations
Pao-An Lin, Horng-Tay Jeng, and Chen-Shiung Hsue
[abstract]

First principles $T$-matrix calculations for Auger spectra of hydrocarbon systems
Yoshifumi Noguchi, Soh Ishii, Kaoru Ohno, Igor Solovyev, and Taizo Sasaki
[abstract]

One-dimensional structured ultrasonic metamaterials with simultaneously negative dynamic density and modulus
Y. Cheng, J. Y. Xu, and X. J. Liu

Localized polarons and doorway vibrons in finite quantum structures
H. Fehske, G. Wellein, J. Loos, and A. R. Bishop
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS I: BULK

Transport in the metallic regime of Mn-doped III-V semiconductors
Louis-Fran\ c{ c} ois Arsenault, B. Movaghar, P. Desjardins, and A. Yelon
[abstract]

Dynamics of electron-nuclear and heteronuclear polarization transfers in optically oriented semi-insulating InP:Fe
Atsushi Goto, Kenjiro Hashi, Tadashi Shimizu, and Shinobu Ohki
[abstract]

Evolution of magnetic circular dichroism of pure ZnTe in magnetic field: Spectral similarity between undoped and Cr-doped ZnTe
Hongming Weng, Jinming Dong, Tomoteru Fukumura, Masashi Kawasaki, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
[abstract]

Planar Hall effect and uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy in Mn $\delta$-doped GaAs/$p$-AlGaAs heterostructures
A. M. Nazmul, H. T. Lin, S. N. Tran, S. Ohya, and M. Tanaka

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering for the organic semiconductor copper phthalocyanine
C. N. Kodituwakku, C. A. Burns, A. H. Said, H. Sinn, X. Wang, T. Gog, D. M. Casa, and M. Tuel

Structure and band gaps of Ga-(V) semiconductors: The challenge of Ga pseudopotentials
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld and Peter A. Schultz
[abstract]

Influence of the statistical shift of Fermi level on the conductivity behavior in microcrystalline silicon
Sanjay K. Ram, Satyendra Kumar, and P. Roca i Cabarrocas

Colossal positive magnetoresistance in a doped nearly magnetic semiconductor
Rongwei Hu, K. J. Thomas, Y. Lee, T. Vogt, E. S. Choi, V. F. Mitrovi\'{c}, R. P. Hermann, F. Grandjean, P. C. Canfield, J. W. Kim, A. I. Goldman, and C. Petrovic
[abstract]

Vibrational properties of the H-N-H complex in dilute III-N-V alloys: Infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory
S. Kleekajai, F. Jiang, K. Colon, M. Stavola, W. B. Fowler, K. R. Martin, A. Polimeni, M. Capizzi, Y. G. Hong, H. P. Xin, C. W. Tu, G. Bais, S. Rubini, and F. Martelli

Diffusion-enhanced hole transport in thin polymer light-emitting diodes
N. I. Craciun, J. J. Brondijk, and P. W. M. Blom

Time-dependent density-functional theory for ultrafast interband excitations
V. Turkowski and C. A. Ullrich
[abstract]

Bi isoelectronic impurities in GaAs
S. Francoeur, S. Tixier, E. Young, T. Tiedje, and A. Mascarenhas
[abstract]

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

Diffraction and electron energy loss to plasmons in silicon slabs
Zachary H. Levine
[abstract]

P-associated defects in the high-$\kappa$ insulators HfO$_2$ and ZrO$_2$ revealed by electron spin resonance
A. Stesmans, K. Clem\'{e}r, and V. V. Afanas'ev

Hanle effect near boundaries: Diffusion-induced lineshape inhomogeneity
Hans-Andreas Engel
[abstract]

Geometry and diameter dependence of the electronic and physical properties of GaN nanowires from first principles
Damien J. Carter, Julian D. Gale, Bernard Delley, and Catherine Stampfl
[abstract]

Tunable terahertz amplification in optically excited biased semiconductor superlattices: Influence of excited excitonic states
Dawei Wang, Aizhen Zhang, Lijun Yang, and Marc M. Dignam
[abstract]

Time-dependent approach to electron pumping in open quantum systems
G. Stefanucci, S. Kurth, A. Rubio, and E. K. U. Gross
[abstract]

Long nuclear spin polarization decay times controlled by optical pumping in individual quantum dots
M. N. Makhonin, A. I. Tartakovskii, A. Van'kov, I. Drouzas, T. Wright, J. Skiba-Szymanska, A. Russell, V. I. Fal'ko, M. S. Skolnick, H.-Y. Liu, and M. Hopkinson
[abstract]

Theory of conserved spin current and its application to a two-dimensional hole gas
Ping Zhang, Zhigang Wang, Junren Shi, Di Xiao, and Qian Niu
[abstract]

Model for monitoring of a charge qubit using a radio-frequency quantum point contact including experimental imperfections
Neil P. Oxtoby, Jay Gambetta, and H. M. Wiseman
[abstract]

Comparative study of the adsorption and dissociation of vinylacetic acid and acrylic acid on silicon (001)
P. P. Favero, A. C. Ferraz, and R. Miotto
[abstract]

Shot noise and tunnel magnetoresistance in multilevel quantum dots: Effects of cotunneling
I. Weymann and J. Barna\'{s}
[abstract]

Transport through correlated quantum dots using the functional renormalization group
Michael Weyrauch and Dieter Sibold
[abstract]

Nonparabolic coupled Poisson-Schr{\"o}dinger solutions for quantized electron accumulation layers: Band bending, charge profile, and subbands at InN surfaces
P. D. C. King, T. D. Veal, and C. F. McConville
[abstract]

Berry-phase effects in transport through single Jahn-Teller molecules
Maximilian G. Schultz, Tamara S. Nunner, and Felix von Oppen
[abstract]

Functional photonic superstructures: Coherent formation of active-passive photonic band gap heterostructures and photonic subbands
S. M. Sadeghi, W. Li, X. Li, and W.-P. Huang
[abstract]

Manifestation of spin-orbit interaction in tunneling between two-dimensional electron layers
I. V. Rozhansky and N. S. Averkiev
[abstract]

Spin filtering and spin Hall accumulation in an interferometric ballistic nanojunction with Rashba spin-orbit interaction
S. Bellucci and P. Onorato
[abstract]

Cyclotron motion and magnetic focusing in semiconductor quantum wells with spin-orbit coupling
John Schliemann
[abstract]

First-principles investigation of an epitaxial silicon oxynitride layer on a $6H$-SiC(0001) surface
Peter Kr\"{u}ger, Bj\ " { o} rn Baumeier, and Johannes Pollmann
[abstract]

Quantum interference of surface states in bismuth nanowires probed by the Aharonov-Bohm oscillatory behavior of the magnetoresistance
A. Nikolaeva, D. Gitsu, L. Konopko, M. J. Graf, and T. E. Huber

Excitons in wurtzite AlGaN/GaN quantum-well heterostructures
E. P. Pokatilov, D. L. Nika, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese

Contact dependence of the conductance of H$_2$ molecular junctions from first principles
K. H. Khoo, J. B. Neaton, H. J. Choi, and Steven G. Louie

Quantum dynamics in electron-nuclei coupled spin system in quantum dots: Bunching, revival, and quantum correlation in electron-spin measurements
\ " { O} zg\ " { u} r \c{C}ak{\i}r and Toshihide Takagahara
[abstract]

Perturbation of the magneto-optical properties of nanocrystalline CdSSe
Donny Magana, Xing Wei, and Geoffrey F. Strouse
[abstract]

Role of the dopant in silicon on the dynamics of a single adsorbed molecule
M. Lastapis, M. Martin, D. Riedel, and G. Dujardin

Comparative study of screened interlayer interactions in the Coulomb drag effect in bilayer electron systems
R. Asgari, B. Tanatar, and B. Davoudi
[abstract]

Current fluctuations in the transient regime: An exact formulation for mesoscopic systems
Zimin Feng, Joseph Maciejko, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo
[abstract]

Metal-organic-silicon nanoscale contacts
Adam J. Dickie and Robert A. Wolkow
[abstract]

Impurities and geometrical effects on the electron energy spectrum of quantum rings
G. A. Farias, M. H. Degani, J. A. K. Freire, J. Costa e Silva, and R. Ferreira
[abstract]

High harmonics generated in semiconductor nanostructures by the coupled dynamics of optical interband and intraband excitations
D. Golde, T. Meier, and S. W. Koch
[abstract]

Optimal laser control of double quantum dots
E. R\"{a}s\"{a}nen, A. Castro, J. Werschnik, A. Rubio, and E. K. U. Gross
[abstract]

Effects of aluminum incorporation on band alignment at the SiO$_2$/HfO$_2$ interface
Onise Sharia, Alexander A. Demkov, Gennadi Bersuker, and B. H. Lee

Field-induced modulation of the conductance, thermoelectric power, and magnetization in ballistic coupled double quantum wires under a tilted magnetic field
Danhong Huang, S. K. Lyo, K. J. Thomas, and M. Pepper
[abstract]

Magnetotransport in low-density $p$-Si/SiGe heterostructures: From metal through hopping insulator to Wigner glass
I. L. Drichko, A. M. Dyakonov, I. Yu. Smirnov, A. V. Suslov, Y. M. Galperin, V. Vinokur, M. Myronov, O. A. Mironov, and D. R. Leadley
[abstract]

Entanglement of static and flying qubits in degenerate mesoscopic systems
M. Habgood, J. H. Jefferson, A. Ram\v{s}ak, D. G. Pettifor, and G. A. D. Briggs
[abstract]

Anisotropic spatial structure of deep acceptor states in GaAs and GaP: Cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy, atomistic tight-binding model, and envelope-function effective-mass model
C. \c{C}elebi, P. M. Koenraad, A. Yu. Silov, W. Van Roy, A. M. Monakhov, J.-M. Tang, and M. E. Flatt\'{e}
[abstract]

Synchrotron x-ray and optical studies of the structure of HgSe semiconductor nanoclusters confined in zeolite L and zeolite Y
A. M. M. Abeykoon, M. Castro-Colin, E. V. Anokhina, M. N. Iliev, W. Donner, A. J. Jacobson, and S. C. Moss
[abstract]

Revealing exciton-exciton couplings in semiconductors using multidimensional four-wave mixing signals
Lijun Yang and Shaul Mukamel
[abstract]

Energy transfer in close-packed PbS nanocrystalline films
V. Rinnerbauer, H.-J. Egelhaaf, K. Hingerl, P. Zimmer, S. Werner, T. Warming, A. Hoffmann, M. Kovalenko, W. Heiss, G. Hesser, and F. Schaffler
[abstract]

Intermixing during growth of InAs self-assembled quantum dots on InP: A photoluminescence and tight-binding investigation
C. Dion, P. Desjardins, N. Shtinkov, M D. Robertson, F. Schiettekatte, P. J. Poole, and S. Raymond

Transient magnetotransport through a quantum wire
Vidar Gudmundsson, Gunnar Thorgilsson, Chi-Shung Tang, and Valeriu Moldoveanu
[abstract]

Surface effects on the energetic and spintronic properties of InP nanowires diluted with Mn: First-principles calculations
T. M. Schmidt
[abstract]

Quantum mechanical approach to decoherence and relaxation generated by fluctuating environment
S. A. Gurvitz and D. Mozyrsky
[abstract]

Growth of isolated and embedded Cu-containing chalcopyrite clusters and nanocrystals by dry processing
D. Fuertes Marr\'{o}n, S. Lehmann, and M. Ch. Lux-Steiner
[abstract]

Optical properties of free-standing GaAs semiconductor nanowires and their dependence on the growth direction
P. Redli\'{n}ski and F. M. Peeters
[abstract]

Competition between bulk and interface plasmonic modes in valence electron energy-loss spectroscopy of ultrathin SiO$_{2}$ gate stacks
M. Couillard, A. Yurtsever, and D. A. Muller
[abstract]

Monolayer oxidation on Si(001)-(2$\times$1) studied by means of reflectance difference spectroscopy
S. Ohno, H. Kobayashi, F. Mitobe, T. Suzuki, K. Shudo, and M. Tanaka
[abstract]

Spin relaxation due to the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism in intrinsic and $p$-type GaAs quantum wells from a fully microscopic approach
J. Zhou and M. W. Wu
[abstract]

Dielectric quantification of conductivity limitations due to nanofiller size in conductive powders and nanocomposites
L. J. Huijbregts, H. B. Brom, J. C. M. Brokken-Zijp, W. E. Kleinjan, and M. A. J. Michels
[abstract]

Tailoring current flow patterns through molecular wires using shaped optical pulses
GuangQi Li, Sven Welack, Michael Schreiber, and Ulrich Kleinekath\"{o}fer
[abstract]

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

Hidden surface states on pristine and H-passivated Ni(111): Angle-resolved photoemission and density-functional calculations
Jorge Lobo-Checa, Taichi Okuda, Matthias Hengsberger, Luc Patthey, Thomas Greber, Peter Blaha, and J\ " { u} rg Osterwalder
[abstract]

Theoretical analysis of the Faraday effect in zigzag carbon nanotubes
Abbas Zarifi and Thomas Garm Pedersen

Density functional theory study of mercury adsorption on metal surfaces
Janice A. Steckel
[abstract]

Theory of local electronic properties and finite-size effects in nanoscale open chains
Andre M. C. Souza and Hans Herrmann
[abstract]

Spin transport in proximity-induced ferromagnetic graphene
H\ r{ a} vard Haugen, Daniel Huertas-Hernando, and Arne Brataas
[abstract]

Inelastic light scattering study of the $\nu=1$ quantum Hall ferromagnet
A. S. Zhuravlev, A. B. Van'kov, L. V. Kulik, I. V. Kukushkin, V. E. Kirpichev, J. H. Smet, K. v.Klitzing, V. Umansky, and W. Wegscheider
[abstract]

Surface structure and water adsorption on Fe$_3$O$_4$(111): Spin-density functional theory and on-site Coulomb interactions
M. E. Grillo, M. W. Finnis, and W. Ranke
[abstract]

Plasmon molecules in overlapping nanovoids
I. Romero, T. V. Teperik, and F. J. Garc\'{\i}a de Abajo
[abstract]

Low-energy structures of K atoms in expanded K$_3$C$_{60}$ monolayers: \textit{Ab initio} pseudopotential density-functional calculations
Young-Moo Byun, Hyoung Joon Choi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen
[abstract]

Time-varying tip-sample force measurements confirm steady-state dynamics in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy
Ozgur Sahin

Growth, atomic structure, and vibrational properties of MnO ultrathin films on Pt(111)
Ch. Hagendorf, S. Sachert, B. Bochmann, K. Kostov, and W. Widdra

Huge negative differential conductance in Au-H$_2$ molecular nanojunctions
A. Halbritter, P. Makk, Sz. Csonka, and G. Mih\'{a}ly
[abstract]

Quantum conductance of graphene nanoribbons with edge defects
T. C. Li and Shao-Ping Lu
[abstract]

First-principles study of the geometric and electronic structure of Au$_{13}$ clusters: Importance of the prism motif
Mathis Gruber, Georg Heimel, Lorenz Romaner, Jean-Luc Br\'{e}das, and Egbert Zojer

Step line tension and step morphological evolution on the Si(111) ($1\times1$) surface
K. L. Man, A. B. Pang, M. S. Altman, T. Stasevich, F. Szalma, and T. L. Einstein

Phonon dispersions and vibrational properties of monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene: Density-functional perturbation theory
Jia-An Yan, W. Y. Ruan, and M. Y. Chou
[abstract]

Boundary conditions for Dirac fermions on a terminated honeycomb lattice
A. R. Akhmerov and C. W. J. Beenakker
[abstract]

Static structure factor for graphene in a magnetic field
K. Shizuya
[abstract]

Defect evolution in oxide nanophases: The case of a zigzag-like TiO$_x$ phase on Pt(111)
Francesco Sedona, Gaetano Granozzi, Giovanni Barcaro, and Alessandro Fortunelli

Electronic band structure of carbon nanotube superlattices from first-principles calculations
A. Ayuela, L. Chico, and W. Jask\'{o}lski
[abstract]

Optical forces on interacting plasmonic nanoparticles in a focused Gaussian beam
Zhipeng Li, Mikael K\"{a}ll, and Hongxing Xu

CO/Pt(111): GGA density functional study of site preference for adsorption
M. Alaei, H. Akbarzadeh, H. Gholizadeh, and S. de Gironcoli
[abstract]

Inversion asymmetry spin splitting in self-assembled quantum rings
Fabr\ ' { i} zio M. Alves, C. Trallero-Giner, V. Lopez-Richard, and G. E. Marques
[abstract]

Coupled plasmon resonances in monolayers of metal nanoparticles and nanoshells
Boris N. Khlebtsov, Vitaliy A. Khanadeyev, Jian Ye, Daniel W. Mackowski, Gustaaf Borghs, and Nikolai G. Khlebtsov

Origin of a surface state above the Fermi level on Ge(001) and Si(001) studied by temperature-dependent ARPES and LEED
P. E. J. Eriksson, M. Adell, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, and R. I. G. Uhrberg
[abstract]

Enhanced dispersion interaction between quasi-one-dimensional conducting collinear structures
Angela White and John F. Dobson
[abstract]

Probing high-pressure properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes through fullerene encapsulation
Ch. Caillier, D. Machon, A. San-Miguel, R. Arenal, G. Montagnac, H. Cardon, M. Kalbac, M. Zukalova, and L. Kavan
[abstract]

Coverage dependence of Sb/Si(111) adsorption and desorption modes: Interplay between chemical interactions and site transitions
H. Guesmi, L. Lapena, G. Tr\'{e}glia, and P. M\"{u}ller

Effect of particle size and surface structure on adsorption of O and OH on platinum nanoparticles: A first-principles study
B. C. Han, C. R. Miranda, and G. Ceder

Curvature effects on the $E_{33}$ and $E_{44}$ exciton transitions in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes
Erik H. Haroz, Sergei M. Bachilo, R. Bruce Weisman, and Stephen K. Doorn

Optical properties of gold films and the Casimir force
V. B. Svetovoy, P. J. van Zwol, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson
[abstract]

Geometries, stabilities, and reactions of carbon clusters: Towards a microscopic theory of fullerene formation
Yusuke Ueno and Susumu Saito
[abstract]

Observation of Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations in a graphene ring
Saverio Russo, Jeroen B. Oostinga, Dominique Wehenkel, Hubert B. Heersche, Samira Shams Sobhani, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, and Alberto F. Morpurgo

Alloying in Ge(Si)/Si(001) self-assembled islands during their growth and capping: XPS and AFM study
M. De Seta, G. Capellini, and F. Evangelisti

Sudden decay of indirect exchange coupling between magnetic atoms on carbon nanotubes
D. F. Kirwan, C. G. Rocha, A. T. Costa, and M. S. Ferreira
[abstract]

Structure and energetics of Ni and Au nanoclusters deposited on the (001), (110), and (111) surfaces of Au and Ni: A molecular dynamics study
De Nyago Tafen and Laurent J. Lewis
[abstract]

Magnetic dipole contribution to near-field radiative heat transfer
Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Marine Laroche, Sebastian Volz, and Jean-Jacques Greffet
[abstract]

First-principles investigation of structural and electronic properties of ultrathin Bi films
Yu. M. Koroteev, G. Bihlmayer, E. V. Chulkov, and S. Bl\"{u}gel
[abstract]

Kinetic phase diagram for island nucleation and growth during homoepitaxy
P. A. Mulheran and M. Basham

Transport properties of double-walled carbon nanotube quantum dots
Shidong Wang and Milena Grifoni
[abstract]

Atomistic calculations of interface elastic properties in noncoherent metallic bilayers
Changwen Mi, Sukky Jun, Demitris A. Kouris, and Sung Youb Kim
[abstract]

Atomic-scale self-organization of Fe nanostripes on stepped Cu(111) surfaces: Molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations
N. N. Negulyaev, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, P. Bruno, and J. Kirschner
[abstract]

Multiple-scattering theoretical approach to scanning tunneling microscopy
Kamal K. Saha, J\ " { u} rgen Henk, Arthur Ernst, and Patrick Bruno
[abstract]

Electronic and optical properties of polyicosahedral Si nanostructures: A first-principles study
Kengo Nishio, Taisuke Ozaki, Tetsuya Morishita, Wataru Shinoda, and Masuhiro Mikami
[abstract]

Carbon nanotubes in helically modulated potentials
P. J. Michalski and E. J. Mele
[abstract]

Combinatorial high-energy x-ray microbeam study of the size-dependent oxidation of Pd nanoparticles on MgO(100)
P. Nolte, A. Stierle, N. Kasper, N. Y. Jin-Phillipp, H. Reichert, A. R\"{u}hm, J. Okasinski, H. Dosch, and S. Sch\"{o}der
[abstract]

Negative stiffness and enhanced damping of individual multiwalled carbon nanotubes
H. W. Yap, R. S. Lakes, and R. W. Carpick

Linear and nonlinear second-order polarizabilities of hemispherical and sector-shaped metal nanoparticles
J. Jayabalan, Manoranjan P. Singh, Arup Banerjee, and K. C. Rustagi
[abstract]

Bond stiffening in small nanoclusters and its consequences for mechanical and thermal properties
Raghani Pushpa, Umesh Waghmare, and Shobhana Narasimhan
[abstract]

Incoherent transport through molecules on silicon in the vicinity of a dangling bond
Hassan Raza, Kirk H. Bevan, and Diego Kienle
[abstract]

Adsorption-induced gap states of $h$-BN on metal surfaces
A. B. Preobrajenski, S. A. Krasnikov, A. S. Vinogradov, May Ling Ng, T. K\"{a}\"{a}mbre, A. A. Cafolla, and N. M{\aa}rtensson
[abstract]

Enhancing the conductance of a two-electron nanomechanical oscillator
J. R. Johansson, L. G. Mourokh, A. Yu. Smirnov, and Franco Nori
[abstract]

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Origin of the light green color and electronic ground state of LaCrO$_{3}$
Khuong P. Ong, Peter Blaha, and Ping Wu

Relationship of Li$_2$WO$_4$ to the scheelite tungstate scintillators: Electronic structure and atomic positions from density-functional calculations
D. J. Singh
[abstract]

Design of kinetic functionals for many-body electron systems: Combining analytical theory with Monte Carlo sampling of electronic configurations
Luca M. Ghiringhelli and Luigi Delle Site
[abstract]

Gutzwiller density functional theory for correlated electron systems
K. M. Ho, J. Schmalian, and C. Z. Wang
[abstract]

    SEMICONDUCTORS I: BULK

Rapid annealing of the vacancy-oxygen center and the divacancy center by diffusing hydrogen in silicon
J. H. Bleka, I. Pintilie, E. V. Monakhov, B. S. Avset, and B. G. Svensson
[abstract]

High-resolution photoluminescence measurement of the isotopic-mass dependence of the lattice parameter of silicon
A. Yang, M. Steger, H. J. Lian, M. L. W. Thewalt, M. Uemura, A. Sagara, K. M. Itoh, E. E. Haller, J. W. Ager III, S. A. Lyon, M. Konuma, and M. Cardona
[abstract]

Comparison of the atomic structure of InP amorphized by electronic or nuclear ion energy-loss processes
C. S. Schnohr, P. Kluth, A. P. Byrne, G. J. Foran, and M. C. Ridgway
[abstract]

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

Resonant Fibonacci quantum well structures in one-dimension
A. N. Poddubny, L. Pilozzi, M. M. Voronov, and E. L. Ivchenko
[abstract]

Spatial anisotropy of polariton amplification in planar semiconductor microcavities induced by polarization anisotropy
Stefan Schumacher
[abstract]

Far-field second-harmonic fingerprint of twinning in single ZnO rods
S. W. Liu, H. J. Zhou, A. Ricca, R. Tian, and Min Xiao

Current-voltage characteristics of semiconductor/ferromagnet junctions in the spin-blockade regime
Yuriy V. Pershin and Massimiliano Di Ventra
[abstract]

Molecular dynamics simulations of the metallic behavior of the Si(001) surface at high temperatures
B. C. Pan and H. Y. He
[abstract]

Highly efficient single-photon emission from single quantum dots within a two-dimensional photonic band-gap structure
M. Kaniber, A. Laucht, T. H\"{u}rlimann, M. Bichler, R. Meyer, M.-C. Amann, and J. J. Finley
[abstract]

Electron spin dynamics due to hyperfine coupling in quantum dots
L. M. Woods, T. L. Reinecke, and A. K. Rajagopal
[abstract]

Universal interacting crossover regime in two-dimensional quantum dots
Ganpathy Murthy
[abstract]

Valence band orbital polarization in III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors
A. A. Freeman, K. W. Edmonds, G. van der Laan, R. P. Campion, A. W. Rushforth, N. R. S. Farley, T. K. Johal, C. T. Foxon, B. L. Gallagher, A. Rogalev, and F. Wilhelm
[abstract]

Application of continuous measurement theory to the current through quantum dots
J\ ' { o} zsef Zsolt Bern\'{a}d, Andr\ ' { a} s Bodor, Tam\ ' { a} s Geszti, and Lajos Di\'{o}si
[abstract]

Pauli-spin-blockade transport through a silicon double quantum dot
H. W. Liu, T. Fujisawa, Y. Ono, H. Inokawa, A. Fujiwara, K. Takashina, and Y. Hirayama

Negative magnetopolarization in thermally annealed self-assembled quantum dots
E. Margapoti, L. Worschech, S. Mahapatra, K. Brunner, A. Forchel, Fabrizio M. Alves, V. Lopez-Richard, G. E. Marques, and C. Bougerol
[abstract]

    SURFACE PHYSICS, LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED TOPICS

Large electromechanical response in silicon nanowires predicted from first-principles electronic structure calculations
R. Rurali, X. Cartoix\`{a}, and D. S. Galv\~{a}o
[abstract]

Metal contacts in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors: Beyond the Schottky barrier paradigm
J. J. Palacios, P. Tarakeshwar, and Dae M. Kim
[abstract]

Modeling the destruction of realistic nanotube emitters: Relative role of charging and temperature
Savas Berber and David Tom\'{a}nek
[abstract]

Stochastic theory for lineshape broadening in quasielastic He atom scattering with interacting adsorbates
R. Mart{\'i}nez-Casado, J. L. Vega, A. S. Sanz, and S. Miret-Art\'{e}s
[abstract]

First-principles study of a hybrid carbon material: Imperfect fullerenes covalently bonded to defective single-walled carbon nanotubes
Tiezhu Meng, Chong-Yu Wang, and Shan-Ying Wang
[abstract]

Controllable spin transport in ferromagnetic graphene junctions
Takehito Yokoyama
[abstract]

Waveguiding and plasmon resonances in two-dimensional photonic lattices of gold and silver nanowires
M. A. Schmidt, L. N. Prill Sempere, H. K. Tyagi, C. G. Poulton, and P. St. J. Russell
[abstract]

Characteristic vibrational modes of a single vacancy in a zigzag carbon nanotube
H. Y. He and B. C. Pan
[abstract]

Kinetics of island formation in organic film growth
D. Y. Zhong, M. Hirtz, W. C. Wang, R. F. Dou, L. F. Chi, and H. Fuchs

Self-assembly, structure, and electronic properties of a quasiperiodic lead monolayer
J. Ledieu, L. Leung, L. H. Wearing, R. McGrath, T. A. Lograsso, D. Wu, and V. Fourn\'{e}e
[abstract]

Structure of an ultrathin aluminum oxide layer grown on a NiAl(110) substrate
T. Nishimura, Y. Hoshino, T. Okazawa, and Y. Kido

Low-energy nonresonant x-ray scattering of C$_{60}$
Paul Chow and Barry Friedman

Electron-electron interactions on the edge states of graphene: A many-body configuration interaction study
Sudipta Dutta, S. Lakshmi, and Swapan K. Pati
[abstract]

Friedel oscillations of density of states in a one-dimensional Mott insulator and incommensurate charge-density wave or superconductor
A. M. Tsvelik
[abstract]

COMMENTS

Comment on ``Enhanced transmission of light through a gold film due to excitation of standing surface-plasmon Bloch waves''
J. Weiner

Reply to ``Comment on `Enhanced transmission of light through a gold film due to excitation of standing surface-plasmon Bloch waves'''
Igor I. Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung

ERRATA

Erratum: Structure of neutral aluminum clusters Al$_n$ ($2 \leq n \leq 23$): Genetic algorithm tight-binding calculations [Phys. Rev. B 73}, 125431 (2006)]
Feng-chuan Chuang, C. Z. Wang, and K. H. Ho