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Physical Review B – 15 December 2009
Volume 80, Issue 23

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Nanoscale mechanical contacts probed with ultrashort acoustic and thermal waves
Thomas Dehoux, Oliver B. Wright, Roberto Li Voti, and Vitalyi E. Gusev
Published 8 December 2009 (5 pages)
235409 [View PDF (230 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Dynamic spin-Hall effect and driven spin helix for linear spin-orbit interactions
Mathias Duckheim, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Daniel Loss
Published 18 December 2009 (9 pages)
235327 [View PDF (509 kB)]
Carrier scattering, mobilities, and electrostatic potential in monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene
Wenjuan Zhu, Vasili Perebeinos, Marcus Freitag, and Phaedon Avouris
Published 2 December 2009 (8 pages)
235402 [View PDF (851 kB)]
Optical rotation of heavy hole spins by non-Abelian geometrical means
Hui Sun, Xun-Li Feng, Chunfeng Wu, Jin-Ming Liu, Shangqing Gong, and C. H. Oh
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
235404 [View PDF (256 kB)]
Quantum noise and entanglement generated by a local quantum quench
Benjamin Hsu, Eytan Grosfeld, and Eduardo Fradkin
Published 9 December 2009 (14 pages)
235412 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Theory of the magnetic-field-induced insulator in neutral graphene sheets
J. Jung and A. H. MacDonald
Published 10 December 2009 (10 pages)
235417 [View PDF (394 kB)]
Insulating conduction in Sn/Si(111): Possibility of a Mott insulating ground state and metallization/localization induced by carrier doping
Toru Hirahara, Taku Komorida, Yan Gu, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroshi Idzuchi, Harumo Morikawa, and Shuji Hasegawa
Published 11 December 2009 (7 pages)
235419 [View PDF (801 kB)]
Graphene growth by metal etching on Ru(0001)
E. Starodub, S. Maier, I. Stass, N. C. Bartelt, P. J. Feibelman, M. Salmeron, and K. F. McCarty
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
235422 [View PDF (1,375 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Fermi surfaces changes in La1−xSmxB6 and Ce1−xCaxB6 studied using the de Haas–van Alphen effect and magnetic susceptibility
R. G. Goodrich, D. P. Young, N. Harrison, C. Capan, and Z. Fisk
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
233101 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Polaronic trapping of electrons and holes by native defects in anatase TiO2
Benjamin J. Morgan and Graeme W. Watson
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
233102 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium conductance of asymmetric nanodevices in the Kondo regime
Eran Sela and Justin Malecki
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
233103 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Direct observation of the pressure-induced charge redistribution in BiNiO3 by x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Masaichiro Mizumaki, Naoki Ishimatsu, Naomi Kawamura, Masaki Azuma, Yuichi Shimakawa, Mikio Takano, and Takayuki Uozumi
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
233104 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Comparative study of bandwidths in copper delafossites from x-ray emission spectroscopy
D. Shin, J. S. Foord, D. J. Payne, T. Arnold, D. J. Aston, R. G. Egdell, K. G. Godinho, D. O. Scanlon, B. J. Morgan, G. W. Watson, E. Mugnier, C. Yaicle, A. Rougier, L. Colakerol, P. A. Glans, L. F. J. Piper, and K. E. Smith
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
233105 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Resonant level formed by tin in Bi2Te3 and the enhancement of room-temperature thermoelectric power
Christopher M. Jaworski, Vladimir Kulbachinskii, and Joseph P. Heremans
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
233201 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Influence of encapsulation temperature on Ge:P δ-doped layers
G. Scappucci, G. Capellini, and M. Y. Simmons
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
233202 [View PDF (414 kB)]

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

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Phase diagram of a polariton laser from cryogenic to room temperature
Raphaël Butté, Jacques Levrat, Gabriel Christmann, Eric Feltin, Jean-François Carlin, and Nicolas Grandjean
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
233301 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Effective-field theories for the ν=5/2 quantum Hall edge state
Alexey Boyarsky, Vadim Cheianov, and Jürg Fröhlich
Published 4 December 2009 (4 pages)
233302 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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GaAs(111) A and B surfaces in hydrazine sulfide solutions: Extreme polarity dependence of surface adsorption processes
V. L. Berkovits, V. P. Ulin, O. E. Tereshchenko, D. Paget, A. C. H. Rowe, P. Chiaradia, B. P. Doyle, and S. Nannarone
Published 18 December 2009 (4 pages)
233303 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Spontaneous spin polarization in geometrically constricted metal nanowires
R. Cortes-Huerto and P. Ballone
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
233304 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Effect of nanometer-sized grains on the superhardness of c-BC5: A first-principles study
R. F. Zhang, S. Veprek, and A. S. Argon
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
233401 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Surface and bulk contributions to the second-order nonlinear optical response of a gold film
Fu Xiang Wang, Francisco J. Rodríguez, Willem M. Albers, Risto Ahorinta, J. E. Sipe, and Martti Kauranen
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
233402 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Pulling long linear atomic chains from graphene: Molecular dynamics simulations
Yin Wang, Zheng-Zhe Lin, Wenxian Zhang, Jun Zhuang, and Xi-Jing Ning
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
233403 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Sensitivity of x-ray absorption spectroscopy to hydrogen bond topology
D. Nordlund, H. Ogasawara, K. J. Andersson, M. Tatarkhanov, M. Salmerón, L. G. M. Pettersson, and A. Nilsson
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
233404 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Band-gap scaling of graphene nanohole superlattices
Wei Liu, Z. F. Wang, Q. W. Shi, Jinlong Yang, and Feng Liu
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
233405 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Effective coordination number: A simple indicator of activation energies for NO dissociation on Rh(100) surfaces
Prasenjit Ghosh, Raghani Pushpa, Stefano de Gironcoli, and Shobhana Narasimhan
Published 15 December 2009 (4 pages)
233406 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Doping dependence of the Raman peaks intensity of graphene close to the Dirac point
C. Casiraghi
Published 23 December 2009 (3 pages)
233407 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Formation of nonbonding π electronic states of graphite due to Pt-C hybridization
Takahiro Kondo, Yosuke Iwasaki, Yujiro Honma, Yoshiteru Takagi, Susumu Okada, and Junji Nakamura
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
233408 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Ordered states of adatoms on graphene
Vadim V. Cheianov, Olav Syljuåsen, B. L. Altshuler, and Vladimir Fal’ko
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
233409 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Electric-field control of magnetic states, charge transfer, and patterning of adatoms on graphene: First-principles density functional theory calculations
Yun-Hao Lu, Lei Shi, Chun Zhang, and Yuan-Ping Feng
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
233410 [View PDF (331 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Position-dependent exact-exchange energy for slabs and semi-infinite jellium
C. M. Horowitz, L. A. Constantin, C. R. Proetto, and J. M. Pitarke
Published 1 December 2009 (10 pages)
235101 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Dynamic localization and transport in complex crystals
S. Longhi
Published 1 December 2009 (6 pages)
235102 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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(MnH9)2− salts with high hydrogen contents and unusual bonding: Density functional calculations
Michèle Gupta, Raju P. Gupta, and D. J. Singh
Published 1 December 2009 (5 pages)
235103 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Coherent and incoherent d band dispersions in SrVO3
M. Takizawa, M. Minohara, H. Kumigashira, D. Toyota, M. Oshima, H. Wadati, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, M. Lippmaa, M. Kawasaki, H. Koinuma, G. Sordi, and M. Rozenberg
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
235104 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Screening of 4f moments and delocalization in the compressed light rare earths
A. K. McMahan, R. T. Scalettar, and M. Jarrell
Published 2 December 2009 (11 pages)
235105 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Inverse Borrmann effect in photonic crystals
A. P. Vinogradov, Yu. E. Lozovik, A. M. Merzlikin, A. V. Dorofeenko, I. Vitebskiy, A. Figotin, A. B. Granovsky, and A. A. Lisyansky
Published 2 December 2009 (6 pages)
235106 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Crystal growth and composition-property relationship of Ce3Pd20Si6 single crystals
A. Prokofiev, J. Custers, M. Kriegisch, S. Laumann, M. Müller, H. Sassik, R. Svagera, M. Waas, K. Neumaier, A. M. Strydom, and S. Paschen
Published 3 December 2009 (8 pages)
235107 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Electronic structure and chemical bonding of nanocrystalline-TiC/amorphous-C nanocomposites
Martin Magnuson, Erik Lewin, Lars Hultman, and Ulf Jansson
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
235108 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Hybrid functional for correlated electrons in the projector augmented-wave formalism: Study of multiple minima for actinide oxides
F. Jollet, G. Jomard, B. Amadon, J. P. Crocombette, and D. Torumba
Published 3 December 2009 (8 pages)
235109 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Prediction of excitation energies for conjugated polymers using time-dependent density functional theory
Jianmin Tao, Sergei Tretiak, and Jian-Xin Zhu
Published 7 December 2009 (5 pages)
235110 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Bilayer splitting and c-axis coupling in bilayer manganites showing colossal magnetoresistance
C. Jozwiak, J. Graf, S. Y. Zhou, A. Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, and A. Lanzara
Published 7 December 2009 (7 pages)
235111 [View PDF (911 kB)]
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Phenomenology of ESR in heavy-fermion systems: Fermi-liquid and non-Fermi-liquid regimes
Peter Wölfle and Elihu Abrahams
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
235112 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Relationship between resistive switching characteristics and band diagrams of Ti/Pr1−xCaxMnO3 junctions
S. Asanuma, H. Akoh, H. Yamada, and A. Sawa
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
235113 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Magnetism and orbital ordering in an interacting three-band model: A dynamical mean-field study
Ching-Kit Chan, Philipp Werner, and Andrew J. Millis
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
235114 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Site-specific valence fluctuations in Eu3Pd20Ge6 studied via Mössbauer and x-ray absorption spectroscopies
Satoshi Tsutsui, Masaichiro Mizumaki, Yoshio Kobayashi, Jiro Kitagawa, and Toshiro Takabatake
Published 9 December 2009 (5 pages)
235115 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Modeling the directed transmission and reflection enhancements of the lasing surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation in active metamaterials
Zheng-Gao Dong, Hui Liu, Tao Li, Zhi-Hong Zhu, Shu-Ming Wang, Jing-Xiao Cao, Shi-Ning Zhu, and X. Zhang
Published 9 December 2009 (5 pages)
235116 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Krylov implementation of the hybridization expansion impurity solver and application to 5-orbital models
Andreas M. Läuchli and Philipp Werner
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
235117 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Complex band structures and effective medium descriptions of periodic acoustic composite systems
Xianyu Ao and C. T. Chan
Published 10 December 2009 (5 pages)
235118 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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First-principles study of zinc oxide honeycomb structures
M. Topsakal, S. Cahangirov, E. Bekaroglu, and S. Ciraci
Published 11 December 2009 (14 pages)
235119 [View PDF (1,497 kB)]
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Poynting vector, heating rate, and stored energy in structured materials: A first-principles derivation
M. G. Silveirinha
Published 15 December 2009 (11 pages)
235120 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Electronic structure and thermodynamic properties of Fe2VGa
Andrzej Ślebarski and Jerzy Goraus
Published 16 December 2009 (10 pages)
235121 [View PDF (1,247 kB)]
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Reaching optimal efficiencies using nanosized photoelectric devices
B. Rutten, M. Esposito, and B. Cleuren
Published 16 December 2009 (5 pages)
235122 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Orbital ordering in undoped manganites via a generalized Peierls instability
S. Yarlagadda, P. B. Littlewood, M. Mitra, and R. K. Monu
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235123 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Finite-difference frequency-domain method for the extraction of effective parameters of metamaterials
João T. Costa, Mário G. Silveirinha, and Stanislav I. Maslovski
Published 16 December 2009 (12 pages)
235124 [View PDF (1,432 kB)]
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Photonic crystal multiple diffraction observed by angular-resolved reflection measurements
Alexander Tikhonov, Justin Bohn, and Sanford A. Asher
Published 17 December 2009 (5 pages)
235125 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Bloch-state-based interpolation: An efficient generalization of the Shirley approach to interpolating electronic structure
David Prendergast and Steven G. Louie
Published 17 December 2009 (10 pages)
235126 [View PDF (1,231 kB)]
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Simulation of two-dimensional quantum systems using a tree tensor network that exploits the entropic area law
L. Tagliacozzo, G. Evenbly, and G. Vidal
Published 18 December 2009 (17 pages)
235127 [View PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Effective quasiparticle Hamiltonian based on Löwdin’s orthogonalization
R. Sakuma, T. Miyake, and F. Aryasetiawan
Published 18 December 2009 (8 pages)
235128 [View PDF (12,061 kB)]
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Disentangling thermal and nonthermal excited states in a charge-transfer insulator by time- and frequency-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy
Claudio Giannetti, Goran Zgrablic, Cristina Consani, Alberto Crepaldi, Damiano Nardi, Gabriele Ferrini, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi, and Fulvio Parmigiani
Published 23 December 2009 (7 pages)
235129 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Dynamic susceptibilities of the single-impurity Anderson model within an enhanced noncrossing approximation
Sebastian Schmitt, Torben Jabben, and Norbert Grewe
Published 29 December 2009 (14 pages)
235130 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Response of low quartz SiO2 to the presence of an external static electric field: A density functional theory study
Moussab Harb, Pierre Labéguerie, Isabelle Baraille, and Michel Rérat
Published 29 December 2009 (7 pages)
235131 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the large linear dichroism of herapathite
Lei Liang, Paul Rulis, Bart Kahr, and W. Y. Ching
Published 30 December 2009 (5 pages)
235132 [View PDF (519 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Hole drift mobility measurements in polycrystalline CuIn1−xGaxSe2
S. A. Dinca, E. A. Schiff, B. Egaas, R. Noufi, D. L. Young, and W. N. Shafarman
Published 2 December 2009 (12 pages)
235201 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Electron-hole recombination in disordered organic semiconductors: Validity of the Langevin formula
J. J. M. van der Holst, F. W. A. van Oost, R. Coehoorn, and P. A. Bobbert
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
235202 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Direct observation of the magnetic polaron
Vyacheslav G. Storchak, Oleg E. Parfenov, Jess H. Brewer, Peter L. Russo, Scott L. Stubbs, Roger L. Lichti, Dmitry G. Eshchenko, Elvezio Morenzoni, Tel’man G. Aminov, Vladimir P. Zlomanov, Alexander A. Vinokurov, R. L. Kallaher, and Stephan von Molnár
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235203 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Identification of two light-induced charge states of the oxygen vacancy in single-crystalline rutile TiO2
F. D. Brandão, M. V. B. Pinheiro, G. M. Ribeiro, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, and K. Krambrock
Published 22 December 2009 (7 pages)
235204 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Carrier dynamics in bulk ZnO. I. Intrinsic conductivity measured by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
Jason B. Baxter and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer
Published 30 December 2009 (6 pages)
235205 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Carrier dynamics in bulk ZnO. II. Transient photoconductivity measured by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy
Jason B. Baxter and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer
Published 30 December 2009 (10 pages)
235206 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Trivacancy and trivacancy-oxygen complexes in silicon: Experiments and ab initio modeling
V. P. Markevich, A. R. Peaker, S. B. Lastovskii, L. I. Murin, J. Coutinho, V. J. B. Torres, P. R. Briddon, L. Dobaczewski, E. V. Monakhov, and B. G. Svensson
Published 30 December 2009 (7 pages)
235207 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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First-principles study of the atomic and electronic structures of crystalline and amorphous B4C
V. I. Ivashchenko, V. I. Shevchenko, and P. E. A. Turchi
Published 31 December 2009 (9 pages)
235208 [View PDF (704 kB)]

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

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Superperiods in interference of e/3 Laughlin quasiparticles encircling filling 2/5 fractional quantum Hall island
Ping V. Lin, F. E. Camino, and V. J. Goldman
Published 1 December 2009 (7 pages)
235301 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Effect of confinement potential geometry on entanglement in quantum dot-based nanostructures
S. Abdullah, J. P. Coe, and I. D’Amico
Published 1 December 2009 (9 pages)
235302 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Chaotic Josephson oscillations of exciton-polaritons and their applications
D. D. Solnyshkov, R. Johne, I. A. Shelykh, and G. Malpuech
Published 2 December 2009 (5 pages)
235303 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Optical properties and optimization of electromagnetically induced transparency in strained InAs/GaAs quantum dot structures
D. Barettin, J. Houmark, B. Lassen, M. Willatzen, T. R. Nielsen, J. Mørk, and A.-P. Jauho
Published 2 December 2009 (9 pages)
235304 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Quasiparticle tunneling in the Moore-Read fractional quantum Hall state
Hua Chen, Zi-Xiang Hu, Kun Yang, E. H. Rezayi, and Xin Wan
Published 3 December 2009 (11 pages)
235305 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Counting statistics of cotunneling electrons
Clive Emary
Published 4 December 2009 (12 pages)
235306 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Stability and structure of rare-earth metal and Ba-induced reconstructions on a Si(100) surface
M. P. J. Punkkinen, M. Kuzmin, P. Laukkanen, R. E. Perälä, M. Ahola-Tuomi, J. Lång, M. Ropo, M. Pessa, I. J. Väyrynen, K. Kokko, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos
Published 4 December 2009 (9 pages)
235307 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Surface and interstitial transition barriers in rutile (110) surface growth
E. J. Sanville, L. J. Vernon, S. D. Kenny, R. Smith, Y. Moghaddam, C. Browne, and P. Mulheran
Published 7 December 2009 (9 pages)
235308 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Spin dynamics for wave packets in Rashba systems
Bailey C. Hsu and Jean-François S. Van Huele
Published 8 December 2009 (10 pages)
235309 [View PDF (747 kB)]
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MgN: A possible material for spintronic applications
A. Droghetti, N. Baadji, and S. Sanvito
Published 8 December 2009 (6 pages)
235310 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Photoresponse and morphology of pentacene thin films modified by oxidized and reduced diamond surfaces
W. Gajewski, M. Huth, F. Buth, B. Nickel, M. Stutzmann, and J. A. Garrido
Published 9 December 2009 (6 pages)
235311 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Adsorption structure of pyrazine on Si(100): Density-functional calculations
Sung Chul Jung and Myung Ho Kang
Published 15 December 2009 (7 pages)
235312 [View PDF (4,403 kB)]
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Organic-based microcavities with vibronic progressions: Linear spectroscopy
L. Fontanesi, L. Mazza, and G. C. La Rocca
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
235313 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Organic-based microcavities with vibronic progressions: Photoluminescence
L. Mazza, L. Fontanesi, and G. C. La Rocca
Published 15 December 2009 (7 pages)
235314 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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X-ray dynamical diffraction from partly relaxed epitaxial structures
A. I. Benediktovich, I. D. Feranchuk, and A. Ulyanenkov
Published 15 December 2009 (9 pages)
235315 [View PDF (1,126 kB)]
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Recombination dynamics and screening of the internal electric field in ZnO/ZnxMg1−xO multiple quantum wells
C. R. Hall, L. Dao, K. Koike, S. Sasa, H. H. Tan, M. Inoue, M. Yano, P. Hannaford, C. Jagadish, and J. A. Davis
Published 15 December 2009 (6 pages)
235316 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Universal zero-bias conductance for the single-electron transistor
M. Yoshida, A. C. Seridonio, and L. N. Oliveira
Published 16 December 2009 (22 pages)
235317 [View PDF (2,279 kB)]
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Universal zero-bias conductance through a quantum wire side-coupled to a quantum dot
A. C. Seridonio, M. Yoshida, and L. N. Oliveira
Published 16 December 2009 (13 pages)
235318 [View PDF (5,333 kB)]
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Carrier relaxation dynamics in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots
H. Kurtze, J. Seebeck, P. Gartner, D. R. Yakovlev, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, M. Bayer, and F. Jahnke
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235319 [View PDF (546 kB)]
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Valence holes as Luttinger spinor based qubits in quantum dots
Chang-Yu Hsieh, Ross Cheriton, Marek Korkusinski, and Pawel Hawrylak
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235320 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Three-level mixing and dark states in transport through quantum dots
Clive Emary, Christina Pöltl, and Tobias Brandes
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235321 [View PDF (3,541 kB)]
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Optically pumping hole spins in coupled quantum dot molecules into a steady state of high concurrence entanglement
Song Yang, Ming Gong, ChuanFeng Li, XuBo Zou, and GuangCan Guo
Published 16 December 2009 (7 pages)
235322 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Electronic structures of Mn-induced phases on GaN(0001)
Y. Qi, G. F. Sun, M. Weinert, and L. Li
Published 17 December 2009 (5 pages)
235323 [View PDF (678 kB)]
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Coverage dependence and surface atomic structure of Mn/Si(111)-√3×√3 studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy
J. Hirvonen Grytzelius, H. M. Zhang, and L. S. O. Johansson
Published 18 December 2009 (6 pages)
235324 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Analysis of charge-injection characteristics at electrode-organic interfaces: Case study of transition-metal oxides
Z. B. Wang, M. G. Helander, M. T. Greiner, J. Qiu, and Z. H. Lu
Published 18 December 2009 (9 pages)
235325 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Photoinduced magneto-optical Kerr effect and ultrafast spin dynamics in CdTe/CdMgTe quantum wells during excitation by shaped laser pulses
J. H. Versluis, A. V. Kimel, V. N. Gridnev, D. R. Yakovlev, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, J. Kossut, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing
Published 18 December 2009 (6 pages)
235326 [View PDF (5,544 kB)]
Dynamic spin-Hall effect and driven spin helix for linear spin-orbit interactions
Mathias Duckheim, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Daniel Loss
Published 18 December 2009 (9 pages)
235327 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Quantum pumping in deformable quantum dots
F. Romeo and R. Citro
Published 21 December 2009 (6 pages)
235328 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Variable stoichiometry in Sb-induced (2×4) reconstructions on GaAs(001)
Akihiro Ohtake, Motoi Hirayama, Jun Nakamura, and Akiko Natori
Published 23 December 2009 (9 pages)
235329 [View PDF (1,148 kB)]
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Edge-mode velocities and thermal coherence of quantum Hall interferometers
Zi-Xiang Hu, E. H. Rezayi, Xin Wan, and Kun Yang
Published 23 December 2009 (6 pages)
235330 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Systematic study of nonideal contacts in integer quantum Hall systems
Christoph Uiberacker, Christian Stecher, and Josef Oswald
Published 29 December 2009 (11 pages)
235331 [View PDF (5,142 kB)]
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Charge transport through O-deficient Au-MgO-Au junctions
M. M. Fadlallah, C. Schuster, U. Schwingenschlögl, I. Rungger, and U. Eckern
Published 29 December 2009 (7 pages)
235332 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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SiGe nanowires: Structural stability, quantum confinement, and electronic properties
Michele Amato, Maurizia Palummo, and Stefano Ossicini
Published 29 December 2009 (9 pages)
235333 [View PDF (774 kB)]
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Quasiresonant exciton spin orientation and alignment in a single quantum dot under zero and nonzero magnetic fields
R. Kaji, S. Adachi, T. Shindo, and S. Muto
Published 29 December 2009 (6 pages)
235334 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Detecting Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons via electron transport
Yueh-Nan Chen, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori
Published 30 December 2009 (5 pages)
235335 [View PDF (231 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Distance upon contact: Determination from roughness profile
P. J. van Zwol, V. B. Svetovoy, and G. Palasantzas
Published 1 December 2009 (5 pages)
235401 [View PDF (434 kB)]
Carrier scattering, mobilities, and electrostatic potential in monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene
Wenjuan Zhu, Vasili Perebeinos, Marcus Freitag, and Phaedon Avouris
Published 2 December 2009 (8 pages)
235402 [View PDF (851 kB)]
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Stability of the nanomartensitic phase in ultrathin Fe films on Cu(100)
A. Biedermann
Published 2 December 2009 (11 pages)
235403 [View PDF (1,333 kB)]
Optical rotation of heavy hole spins by non-Abelian geometrical means
Hui Sun, Xun-Li Feng, Chunfeng Wu, Jin-Ming Liu, Shangqing Gong, and C. H. Oh
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
235404 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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High-Q plasmonic resonators based on metal split nanocylinders
G. Della Valle, T. Søndergaard, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
235405 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Surface ordering of molecular structures by dispersion forces
Fabrizio Cleri
Published 7 December 2009 (6 pages)
235406 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Surface energies, work functions, and surface relaxations of low-index metallic surfaces from first principles
Nicholas E. Singh-Miller and Nicola Marzari
Published 7 December 2009 (9 pages)
235407 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Slow-light solitons in coupled asymmetric quantum wells via interband transitions
Chengjie Zhu and Guoxiang Huang
Published 7 December 2009 (9 pages)
235408 [View PDF (408 kB)]
Nanoscale mechanical contacts probed with ultrashort acoustic and thermal waves
Thomas Dehoux, Oliver B. Wright, Roberto Li Voti, and Vitalyi E. Gusev
Published 8 December 2009 (5 pages)
235409 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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First-principles calculation of the electronic properties of graphene clusters doped with nitrogen and boron: Analysis of catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction
Sheng-Feng Huang, Kiyoyuki Terakura, Taisuke Ozaki, Takashi Ikeda, Mauro Boero, Masaharu Oshima, Jun-ichi Ozaki, and Seizo Miyata
Published 8 December 2009 (12 pages)
235410 [View PDF (2,095 kB)]
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Nernst and Seebeck effects in a graphene nanoribbon
Yanxia Xing, Qing-feng Sun, and Jian Wang
Published 9 December 2009 (8 pages)
235411 [View PDF (869 kB)]
Quantum noise and entanglement generated by a local quantum quench
Benjamin Hsu, Eytan Grosfeld, and Eduardo Fradkin
Published 9 December 2009 (14 pages)
235412 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Diffusion barriers for Ag and Cu adatoms on the terraces and step edges on Cu(100) and Ag(100): An ab initio study
Handan Yildirim and Talat S. Rahman
Published 9 December 2009 (9 pages)
235413 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of NiAl(110) studied by high-resolution ion scattering combined with density functional calculations
Tetsuya Kogita, Masanori Kohyama, and Yoshiaki Kido
Published 9 December 2009 (7 pages)
235414 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Theory of thermopower in two-dimensional graphene
E. H. Hwang, E. Rossi, and S. Das Sarma
Published 9 December 2009 (5 pages)
235415 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the molecular and electronic structure of methanol on a TiO2(110) surface
Jin Zhao, Jinlong Yang, and Hrvoje Petek
Published 10 December 2009 (11 pages)
235416 [View PDF (1,240 kB)]
Theory of the magnetic-field-induced insulator in neutral graphene sheets
J. Jung and A. H. MacDonald
Published 10 December 2009 (10 pages)
235417 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Doping of C60-induced electronic states in BN nanopeapods: Ab initio simulations
Vladimir Timoshevskii and Michel Côté
Published 11 December 2009 (5 pages)
235418 [View PDF (435 kB)]
Insulating conduction in Sn/Si(111): Possibility of a Mott insulating ground state and metallization/localization induced by carrier doping
Toru Hirahara, Taku Komorida, Yan Gu, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroshi Idzuchi, Harumo Morikawa, and Shuji Hasegawa
Published 11 December 2009 (7 pages)
235419 [View PDF (801 kB)]
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Early-stage real-time dynamics of interlayer sp3-bond formation by visible-light irradiation of graphite
Keita Nishioka and Keiichiro Nasu
Published 14 December 2009 (8 pages)
235420 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Iron substitution in CdSe nanoparticles: Magnetic and optical properties
Shashi B. Singh, Mukta V. Limaye, Sadgopal K. Date, Shubha Gokhale, and Sulabha K. Kulkarni
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
235421 [View PDF (1,126 kB)]
Graphene growth by metal etching on Ru(0001)
E. Starodub, S. Maier, I. Stass, N. C. Bartelt, P. J. Feibelman, M. Salmeron, and K. F. McCarty
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
235422 [View PDF (1,375 kB)]
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Effect of electron-electron interactions on the Klein paradox in graphene-based double-barrier structures
Chunxu Bai, Yanling Yang, and Xiangdong Zhang
Published 15 December 2009 (6 pages)
235423 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Model of impurity segregation in graphene nanoribbons
S. R. Power, V. M. de Menezes, S. B. Fagan, and M. S. Ferreira
Published 16 December 2009 (5 pages)
235424 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Structural evolution of the sodium cluster anions Na20−-Na57−
Bernd Huber, Michael Moseler, Oleg Kostko, and Bernd v.Issendorff
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
235425 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Effects induced by single and multiple dopants on the transport properties in zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons
X. H. Zheng, I. Rungger, Z. Zeng, and S. Sanvito
Published 18 December 2009 (8 pages)
235426 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Effective treatment of charge and spin fluctuations in dynamical and static atom-surface interactions
M. A. Romero, F. Flores, and E. C. Goldberg
Published 21 December 2009 (13 pages)
235427 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Atomic-scale simulations on the sliding of incommensurate surfaces: The breakdown of superlubricity
Woo Kyun Kim and Michael L. Falk
Published 22 December 2009 (11 pages)
235428 [View PDF (1,689 kB)]
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Atomic and electronic structure of monolayer graphene on 6H-SiC(0001̅ )(3×3): A scanning tunneling microscopy study
F. Hiebel, P. Mallet, L. Magaud, and J.-Y. Veuillen
Published 23 December 2009 (9 pages)
235429 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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First-principles calculation of chiral current and quantum self-inductance of carbon nanotubes
Bin Wang, Ruilin Chu, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo
Published 28 December 2009 (5 pages)
235430 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Band-structure topologies of graphene: Spin-orbit coupling effects from first principles
M. Gmitra, S. Konschuh, C. Ertler, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, and J. Fabian
Published 28 December 2009 (5 pages)
235431 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Reduced work functions in gold electromigrated nanogaps
A. Mangin, A. Anthore, M. L. Della Rocca, E. Boulat, and P. Lafarge
Published 29 December 2009 (5 pages)
235432 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Femtosecond excitation correlation spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes: Analysis based on nonradiative multiexciton recombination processes
Yuhei Miyauchi, Kazunari Matsuda, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
Published 30 December 2009 (6 pages)
235433 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of C60 monolayers on Au(111)
J. A. Gardener, G. A. D. Briggs, and M. R. Castell
Published 30 December 2009 (9 pages)
235434 [View PDF (1,250 kB)]
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Atomic-scale friction experiments reconsidered in the light of rapid contact dynamics
S. Yu. Krylov and J. W. M. Frenken
Published 30 December 2009 (5 pages)
235435 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Experimental evidence for mixed dissociative and molecular adsorption of water on a rutile TiO2(110) surface without oxygen vacancies
L. E. Walle, A. Borg, P. Uvdal, and A. Sandell
Published 31 December 2009 (5 pages)
235436 [View PDF (268 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Half-metallicity in europium oxide conductively matched with silicon”
Andreas Schmehl, Venu Vaithyanathan, Alexander Herrnberger, Stefan Thiel, Christoph Richter, Tassilo Heeg, Martin Röckerath, Lena Fitting Kourkoutis, Sebastian Mühlbauer, Peter Böni, David A. Muller, Yuri Barash, Jürgen Schubert, Jochen Mannhart, and Darrell G. Schlom
Published 11 December 2009 (2 pages)
237301 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Half-metallicity in europium oxide conductively matched with silicon’ ”
Raghava P. Panguluri, T. S. Santos, J. S. Moodera, and B. Nadgorny
Published 11 December 2009 (2 pages)
237302 [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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