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Physical Review B – 15 December 2009
Volume 80, Issue 24

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.

X-ray photoemission studies of the metal-insulator transition in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy
Y. Segal, J. H. Ngai, J. W. Reiner, F. J. Walker, and C. H. Ahn
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241107(R) [View PDF (668 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Effect of dimensionality on the charge-density wave in few-layer 2H-NbSe2
Matteo Calandra, I. I. Mazin, and Francesco Mauri
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241108(R) [View PDF (362 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Berry-phase theory of polar discontinuities at oxide-oxide interfaces
Massimiliano Stengel and David Vanderbilt
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241103(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
Half-metallic spin dynamics at a single LaMnO3/SrMnO3 interface studied with nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr effect
Naoki Ogawa, Takuya Satoh, Yasushi Ogimoto, and Kenjiro Miyano
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
241104(R) [View PDF (940 kB)]
Microwave stabilization of edge transport and zero-resistance states
A. D. Chepelianskii and D. L. Shepelyansky
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241308(R) [View PDF (415 kB)]
Large oscillations in the photoluminescence spectra of a GaAs quantum well in external magnetic fields: A direct measurement of charge transfer in an electron bilayer system
V. V. Solovyev, S. Schmult, W. Dietsche, and I. V. Kukushkin
Published 17 December 2009 (4 pages)
241310(R) [View PDF (359 kB)]
Cyclotron effect on coherent spin precession of two-dimensional electrons
M. Griesbeck, M. M. Glazov, T. Korn, E. Ya. Sherman, D. Waller, C. Reichl, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, and C. Schüller
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
241314(R) [View PDF (173 kB)]
Direct evidence of the step-edge buckling at the Au/Si(557)-1×2 surface
J.-H. Han, H. S. Kim, H. N. Hwang, B. Kim, S. Chung, J. W. Chung, and C. C. Hwang
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
241401(R) [View PDF (512 kB)]
Breakdown of the N=0 quantum Hall state in graphene: Two insulating regimes
L. Zhang, J. Camacho, H. Cao, Y. P. Chen, M. Khodas, D. E. Kharzeev, A. M. Tsvelik, T. Valla, and I. A. Zaliznyak
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241412(R) [View PDF (641 kB)]
Optical phonon mixing in bilayer graphene with a broken inversion symmetry
Jun Yan, Theresa Villarson, Erik A. Henriksen, Philip Kim, and Aron Pinczuk
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
241417(R) [View PDF (297 kB)]
Ohmic contacts on silicon carbide: The first monolayer and its electronic effect
Zhongchang Wang, Susumu Tsukimoto, Mitsuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Ito, Masanori Murakami, and Yuichi Ikuhara
Published 1 December 2009 (12 pages)
245303 [View PDF (2,107 kB)]
Fluctuations of spin transport through chaotic quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling
Jacob J. Krich
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
245313 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Graphene on Pt(111): Growth and substrate interaction
Peter Sutter, Jerzy T. Sadowski, and Eli Sutter
Published 8 December 2009 (10 pages)
245411 [View PDF (818 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Fermi surface of α-uranium at ambient pressure
D. Graf, R. Stillwell, T. P. Murphy, J.-H. Park, M. Kano, E. C. Palm, P. Schlottmann, J. Bourg, K. N. Collar, J. C. Cooley, J. C. Lashley, J. Willit, and S. W. Tozer
Published 4 December 2009 (4 pages)
241101(R) [View PDF (799 kB)]
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Room-temperature magnetism in LaVO3/SrVO3 superlattices by geometrically confined doping
U. Lüders, W. C. Sheets, A. David, W. Prellier, and R. Frésard
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241102(R) [View PDF (251 kB)]
Berry-phase theory of polar discontinuities at oxide-oxide interfaces
Massimiliano Stengel and David Vanderbilt
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241103(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
Half-metallic spin dynamics at a single LaMnO3/SrMnO3 interface studied with nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr effect
Naoki Ogawa, Takuya Satoh, Yasushi Ogimoto, and Kenjiro Miyano
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
241104(R) [View PDF (940 kB)]
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Superelastic metal-insulator phase transition in single-crystal VO2 nanobeams
W. Fan, S. Huang, J. Cao, E. Ertekin, C. Barrett, D. R. Khanal, J. C. Grossman, and J. Wu
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
241105(R) [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Fermi surface of Co(0001) and initial-state linewidths determined by soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
M. Mulazzi, J. Miyawaki, A. Chainani, Y. Takata, M. Taguchi, M. Oura, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and S. Shin
Published 15 December 2009 (4 pages)
241106(R) [View PDF (456 kB)]
X-ray photoemission studies of the metal-insulator transition in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy
Y. Segal, J. H. Ngai, J. W. Reiner, F. J. Walker, and C. H. Ahn
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241107(R) [View PDF (668 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Effect of dimensionality on the charge-density wave in few-layer 2H-NbSe2
Matteo Calandra, I. I. Mazin, and Francesco Mauri
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241108(R) [View PDF (362 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
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Anomalous nonergodic scaling in adiabatic multicritical quantum quenches
Shusa Deng, Gerardo Ortiz, and Lorenza Viola
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
241109(R) [View PDF (655 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Elucidating the role of hyperfine interactions on organic magnetoresistance using deuterated aluminium tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)
N. J. Rolfe, M. Heeney, P. B. Wyatt, A. J. Drew, T. Kreouzis, and W. P. Gillin
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241201(R) [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Long-range order instead of phase separation in large lattice-mismatch isovalent AX-BX systems
Xiuwen Zhang, Giancarlo Trimarchi, Mayeul d’Avezac, and Alex Zunger
Published 15 December 2009 (4 pages)
241202(R) [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Observation of the magnetic soft mode in (Cd,Mn)Te quantum wells using spin-flip Raman scattering
C. Kehl, G. V. Astakhov, K. V. Kavokin, Yu. G. Kusrayev, W. Ossau, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Geurts
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
241203(R) [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Identification of individual 13C isotopes of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond by combining the polarization studies of nuclear spins and first-principles calculations
Adam Gali
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
241204(R) [View PDF (190 kB)]

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

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Mesoscopic magnetoelectric effect in chaotic quantum dots
M. L. Polianski
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
241301(R) [View PDF (129 kB)]
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In-plane noncollinear exchange coupling mediated by helical edge states in quantum spin Hall systems
Jinhua Gao, Weiqiang Chen, X. C. Xie, and Fu-chun Zhang
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
241302(R) [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Entangled photons on demand: Erasing which-path information with sidebands
W. A. Coish and J. M. Gambetta
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241303(R) [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Upstanding Rashba spin in honeycomb lattices: Electrically reversible surface spin polarization
Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪) and Ching-Ray Chang (張慶瑞)
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241304(R) [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Electron density dependence of the spin Hall effect in GaAs probed by scanning Kerr rotation microscopy
S. Matsuzaka, Y. Ohno, and H. Ohno
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
241305(R) [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Controlling the charge environment of single quantum dots in a photonic-crystal cavity
N. Chauvin, C. Zinoni, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, L. Balet, B. Alloing, L. H. Li, and A. Fiore
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
241306(R) [View PDF (870 kB)]
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Decoherence and relaxation of single-electron excitations in quantum Hall edge channels
P. Degiovanni, Ch. Grenier, and G. Fève
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
241307(R) [View PDF (258 kB)]
Microwave stabilization of edge transport and zero-resistance states
A. D. Chepelianskii and D. L. Shepelyansky
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241308(R) [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Momentum-resolved tunneling into the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian edges
Alexander Seidel and Kun Yang
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241309(R) [View PDF (202 kB)]
Large oscillations in the photoluminescence spectra of a GaAs quantum well in external magnetic fields: A direct measurement of charge transfer in an electron bilayer system
V. V. Solovyev, S. Schmult, W. Dietsche, and I. V. Kukushkin
Published 17 December 2009 (4 pages)
241310(R) [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Particle-hole symmetry breaking and the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect
Hao Wang, D. N. Sheng, and F. D. M. Haldane
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241311(R) [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Evidence of interlayer correlation in spin excitations of quantum Hall bilayers with negligible tunneling
Biswajit Karmakar, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
241312(R) [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the crossover between the near-infrared Er and defect-related photoluminescence bands of Ge-rich Er-doped SiO2 layers
A. Kanjilal, L. Rebohle, S. Prucnal, M. Voelskow, W. Skorupa, and M. Helm
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
241313(R) [View PDF (385 kB)]
Cyclotron effect on coherent spin precession of two-dimensional electrons
M. Griesbeck, M. M. Glazov, T. Korn, E. Ya. Sherman, D. Waller, C. Reichl, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, and C. Schüller
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
241314(R) [View PDF (173 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Direct evidence of the step-edge buckling at the Au/Si(557)-1×2 surface
J.-H. Han, H. S. Kim, H. N. Hwang, B. Kim, S. Chung, J. W. Chung, and C. C. Hwang
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
241401(R) [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Dynamical response functions and collective modes of bilayer graphene
Giovanni Borghi, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
241402(R) [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Linear scaling between momentum and spin scattering in graphene
C. Józsa, T. Maassen, M. Popinciuc, P. J. Zomer, A. Veligura, H. T. Jonkman, and B. J. van Wees
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
241403(R) [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Signature of electronic excitations in the Raman spectrum of graphene
Oleksiy Kashuba and Vladimir I. Fal’ko
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
241404(R) [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Excited states of biological chromophores studied using many-body perturbation theory: Effects of resonant-antiresonant coupling and dynamical screening
Yuchen Ma, Michael Rohlfing, and Carla Molteni
Published 4 December 2009 (4 pages)
241405(R) [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Electrical properties of the graphene/4H-SiC (0001) interface probed by scanning current spectroscopy
S. Sonde, F. Giannazzo, V. Raineri, R. Yakimova, J.-R. Huntzinger, A. Tiberj, and J. Camassel
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
241406(R) [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Three-fold diffraction symmetry in epitaxial graphene and the SiC substrate
D. A. Siegel, S. Y. Zhou, F. El Gabaly, A. K. Schmid, K. F. McCarty, and A. Lanzara
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
241407(R) [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Nanoscale spin structures dominated by magnetoelastic interactions around dislocation cores as seen via spin-polarized STM
Luis Berbil-Bautista, Stefan Krause, Matthias Bode, Antonio Badía-Majós, César de la Fuente, Roland Wiesendanger, and José Ignacio Arnaudas
Published 14 December 2009 (4 pages)
241408(R) [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Giant spin rotation under quasiparticle-photoelectron conversion: Joint effect of sublattice interference and spin-orbit coupling
Ferdinand Kuemmeth and Emmanuel I. Rashba
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241409(R) [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Shape-tunable electronic properties of monohydride and trihydride [112]-oriented Si nanowires
Abraham Hmiel and Yongqiang Xue
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241410(R) [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Scaling of the quantum Hall plateau-plateau transition in graphene
A. J. M. Giesbers, U. Zeitler, L. A. Ponomarenko, R. Yang, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, and J. C. Maan
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
241411(R) [View PDF (194 kB)]
Breakdown of the N=0 quantum Hall state in graphene: Two insulating regimes
L. Zhang, J. Camacho, H. Cao, Y. P. Chen, M. Khodas, D. E. Kharzeev, A. M. Tsvelik, T. Valla, and I. A. Zaliznyak
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
241412(R) [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Emergence of local magnetic moments in doped graphene-related materials
P. Venezuela, R. B. Muniz, A. T. Costa, D. M. Edwards, S. R. Power, and M. S. Ferreira
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
241413(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Observation of the Kohn anomaly near the K point of bilayer graphene
D. L. Mafra, L. M. Malard, S. K. Doorn, Han Htoon, J. Nilsson, A. H. Castro Neto, and M. A. Pimenta
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
241414(R) [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Quantum scattering time and its implications on scattering sources in graphene
X. Hong, K. Zou, and J. Zhu
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
241415(R) [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling on a two-dimensional circular Fermi contour
TeYu Chien, Emile D. L. Rienks, Maria Fuglsang Jensen, Philip Hofmann, and E. W. Plummer
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
241416(R) [View PDF (417 kB)]
Optical phonon mixing in bilayer graphene with a broken inversion symmetry
Jun Yan, Theresa Villarson, Erik A. Henriksen, Philip Kim, and Aron Pinczuk
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
241417(R) [View PDF (297 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Nonlocal permittivity from a quasistatic model for a class of wire media
Stanislav I. Maslovski and Mário G. Silveirinha
Published 1 December 2009 (10 pages)
245101 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Momentum-sector-selective metal-insulator transition in the eight-site dynamical mean-field approximation to the Hubbard model in two dimensions
Emanuel Gull, Olivier Parcollet, Philipp Werner, and Andrew J. Millis
Published 1 December 2009 (13 pages)
245102 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Electronic state and cage distortion in the room-temperature stable electride [Ca24Al28O64]4+(O2−)2−x(e−)2x as probed by 27Al NMR
K. Matsuda, Y. Konaka, Y. Maniwa, S. Matsuishi, and H. Hosono
Published 2 December 2009 (5 pages)
245103 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the energy band and quasiparticle effective mass of the two-dimensional Fermi fluid
N. D. Drummond and R. J. Needs
Published 3 December 2009 (8 pages)
245104 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Charge disproportionation in RNiO3 perovskites (R=rare earth) from high-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy
M. Medarde, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, B. Delley, F. Vernay, J. Mesot, M. Sikora, J. A. Alonso, and M. J. Martínez-Lope
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
245105 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Magnetic spin resonance in CeB6
S. V. Demishev, A. V. Semeno, A. V. Bogach, N. A. Samarin, T. V. Ishchenko, V. B. Filipov, N. Yu. Shitsevalova, and N. E. Sluchanko
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
245106 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Transport statistics of interacting double dot systems: Coherent and non-Markovian effects
Gernot Schaller, Gerold Kießlich, and Tobias Brandes
Published 9 December 2009 (21 pages)
245107 [View PDF (879 kB)]
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Interplay of electronic correlations and lattice instabilities in BaVS3
Kwang-Yong Choi, Dirk Wulferding, Helmuth Berger, and Peter Lemmens
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
245108 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Magnetic phases of two-component ultracold bosons in an optical lattice
A. Hubener, M. Snoek, and W. Hofstetter
Published 11 December 2009 (6 pages)
245109 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Dynamical mean-field theory for the Bose-Hubbard model
Wen-Jun Hu and Ning-Hua Tong
Published 11 December 2009 (11 pages)
245110 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Ensemble interpretation of L(S)DA+U
Igor Chaplygin
Published 11 December 2009 (11 pages)
245111 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Van Hove singularities in the paramagnetic phase of the Hubbard model: DMFT study
Rok Žitko, Janez Bonča, and Thomas Pruschke
Published 16 December 2009 (8 pages)
245112 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Zn-impurity effects on quasiparticle scattering in La2−xSrxCuO4 studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
T. Yoshida, Seiki Komiya, X. J. Zhou, K. Tanaka, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, Yoichi Ando, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
Published 18 December 2009 (7 pages)
245113 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Low-energy collective electronic excitations in Pd metal
V. M. Silkin, I. P. Chernov, Yu. M. Koroteev, and E. V. Chulkov
Published 21 December 2009 (7 pages)
245114 [View PDF (1,689 kB)]
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Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface
Andrea Alù
Published 21 December 2009 (5 pages)
245115 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Approximating strongly correlated wave functions with correlator product states
Hitesh J. Changlani, Jesse M. Kinder, C. J. Umrigar, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
245116 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Localized surface-plasmon resonances and negative refractive index in nanostructured electromagnetic metamaterials
J. Parsons, E. Hendry, J. R. Sambles, and W. L. Barnes
Published 23 December 2009 (6 pages)
245117 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Attractive Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice: Quantum Monte Carlo study
K. L. Lee (李健伦), K. Bouadim, G. G. Batrouni, F. Hébert, R. T. Scalettar, C. Miniatura, and B. Grémaud
Published 23 December 2009 (10 pages)
245118 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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First-principles thermodynamic framework for the evaluation of thermochemical H2O- or CO2-splitting materials
B. Meredig and C. Wolverton
Published 28 December 2009 (8 pages)
245119 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Properties of constraint-based single-point approximate kinetic energy functionals
V. V. Karasiev, R. S. Jones, S. B. Trickey, and Frank E. Harris
Published 31 December 2009 (17 pages)
245120 [View PDF (349 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Resonant stimulated Brillouin scattering of orthoexcitons in Cu2O
Christian Sandfort, Jan Brandt, Dietmar Fröhlich, Giorgio Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, Manfred Bayer, and Heinrich Stolz
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
245201 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Photoluminescence study of the carbon antisite-vacancy pair in 4H- and 6H-SiC
J. W. Steeds
Published 7 December 2009 (14 pages)
245202 [View PDF (3,752 kB)]
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Properties of hydrogen and hydrogen–vacancy complexes in the rutile phase of titanium dioxide
F. Filippone, G. Mattioli, P. Alippi, and A. Amore Bonapasta
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
245203 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Stress-modulated optical spin injection in bulk Si and GaAs semiconductors
J. L. Cabellos, Cuauhtémoc Salazar, and Bernardo S. Mendoza
Published 7 December 2009 (5 pages)
245204 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Ion-irradiation-induced selective bond rearrangements in amorphous GeTe thin films
R. De Bastiani, E. Carria, S. Gibilisco, M. G. Grimaldi, A. R. Pennisi, A. Gotti, A. Pirovano, R. Bez, and E. Rimini
Published 9 December 2009 (6 pages)
245205 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Theory of near-gap second harmonic generation in centrosymmetric magnetic semiconductors: Europium chalcogenides
A. B. Henriques, E. Abramof, and P. H. O. Rappl
Published 9 December 2009 (8 pages)
245206 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Spin-polarized transport current in n-type codoped ZnO thin films measured by Andreev spectroscopy
Karen A. Yates, Anthony J. Behan, James R. Neal, David S. Score, Harry J. Blythe, Gillian A. Gehring, Steve M. Heald, Will R. Branford, and Lesley F. Cohen
Published 10 December 2009 (5 pages)
245207 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Near Kohn anomalies in the phonon dispersion relations of lead chalcogenides
Ondrej Kilian, Guy Allan, and Ludger Wirtz
Published 11 December 2009 (7 pages)
245208 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Formation and structure of vacancy defects in silicon: Combined Metropolis Monte Carlo, tight-binding molecular dynamics, and density functional theory calculations
Sangheon Lee, Robert J. Bondi, and Gyeong S. Hwang
Published 14 December 2009 (6 pages)
245209 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Multiband k⋅p models for strained zincblende crystals: Application to the fine structure of ZnO
F. Michelini, N. Cavassilas, R. Hayn, and M. Szczap
Published 15 December 2009 (9 pages)
245210 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Molecular motion and mobility in an organic single crystal: Raman study and model
Z. Q. Ren, L. E. McNeil, Shubin Liu, and C. Kloc
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
245211 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Theory of doping properties of Ag acceptors in ZnO
O. Volnianska, P. Boguslawski, J. Kaczkowski, P. Jakubas, A. Jezierski, and E. Kaminska
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
245212 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Four-wave-mixing theory for two-photon generation of excitons in Cu2O
I. V. Beloussov, J. B. Ketterson, and Y. Sun
Published 23 December 2009 (13 pages)
245213 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Variable range hopping in the Coulomb glass
Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry
Published 28 December 2009 (7 pages)
245214 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Fabrication of ZnO thin film transistors by atomic force microscopy nanolithogrophy through zinc thin films
Jeff T. H. Tsai, Ben H. B. Lee, and Ming S. Yang
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
245215 [View PDF (386 kB)]

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

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Intersubband cavity polaritons: The role of higher photonic modes
M. Załużny and W. Zietkowski
Published 1 December 2009 (15 pages)
245301 [View PDF (689 kB)]
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Effect of As preadsorption on InAs nanowire heteroepitaxy on Si(111): A first-principles study
Hiroaki Koga
Published 1 December 2009 (6 pages)
245302 [View PDF (541 kB)]
Ohmic contacts on silicon carbide: The first monolayer and its electronic effect
Zhongchang Wang, Susumu Tsukimoto, Mitsuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Ito, Masanori Murakami, and Yuichi Ikuhara
Published 1 December 2009 (12 pages)
245303 [View PDF (2,107 kB)]
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Two mesoscopic models of two interacting electrons: Exact results
Dibyendu Roy
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
245304 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quantitative analysis of density-dependent transport in tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene single-crystal transistors: Intrinsic properties and trapping
H. Xie, H. Alves, and A. F. Morpurgo
Published 4 December 2009 (7 pages)
245305 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance oscillations in multilayer systems: Triple quantum wells
S. Wiedmann, N. C. Mamani, G. M. Gusev, O. E. Raichev, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal
Published 4 December 2009 (9 pages)
245306 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-enhanced transient and stationary drift currents of oscillating Bloch electrons in superlattices and limits of average-particle description in relation to Monte Carlo simulations
N. V. Demarina, E. Mohler, A. Lisauskas, and H. G. Roskos
Published 7 December 2009 (10 pages)
245307 [View PDF (916 kB)]
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Full counting statistics of quantum point contacts with time-dependent transparency
Jin Zhang, Y. Sherkunov, N. d’Ambrumenil, and B. Muzykantskii
Published 7 December 2009 (12 pages)
245308 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Atomistic simulation of CdTe solid-liquid coexistence equilibria
Chuck Henager, Jr. and James R. Morris
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
245309 [View PDF (1,658 kB)]
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Decoherence in quantum dots due to real and virtual transitions: A nonperturbative calculation
Thomas Grange
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
245310 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Propagation scheme for nonequilibrium dynamics of electron transport in nanoscale devices
Alexander Croy and Ulf Saalmann
Published 9 December 2009 (10 pages)
245311 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of percolation transitions in a semiconductor composite
D. Azulay, O. Millo, E. Savir, J. P. Conde, and I. Balberg
Published 10 December 2009 (20 pages)
245312 [View PDF (643 kB)]
Fluctuations of spin transport through chaotic quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling
Jacob J. Krich
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
245313 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Three- to two-dimensional transition in electrostatic screening of point charges at semiconductor surfaces studied by scanning tunneling microscopy
A. Laubsch, K. Urban, and Ph. Ebert
Published 14 December 2009 (8 pages)
245314 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Analysis of current-voltage characteristics of Fe/MgO/GaAs junctions using self-consistent field modeling
Y. J. Park, M. C. Hickey, M. J. Van Veenhuizen, J. Chang, D. Heiman, and J. S. Moodera
Published 14 December 2009 (7 pages)
245315 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Coherence of resonant-tunneling transport in terahertz quantum-cascade lasers
Sushil Kumar and Qing Hu
Published 15 December 2009 (14 pages)
245316 [View PDF (732 kB)]
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Theory of quasiparticle scattering in a two-dimensional system of helical Dirac fermions: Surface band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator
Xiaoting Zhou, Chen Fang, Wei-Feng Tsai, and JiangPing Hu
Published 18 December 2009 (12 pages)
245317 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Weak localization and mobility in ZnO nanostructures
Edward M. Likovich, Kasey J. Russell, Eric W. Petersen, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Published 18 December 2009 (7 pages)
245318 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Optical cleaning owing to the bulk photovoltaic effect
B. Sturman, M. Kösters, D. Haertle, C. Becher, and K. Buse
Published 18 December 2009 (10 pages)
245319 [View PDF (964 kB)]
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Excitonic absorption in asymmetric double quantum wells in an intense terahertz field: Coulombic coupling and Stark effects
J.-Z. Zhang and D. Allsopp
Published 21 December 2009 (16 pages)
245320 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Absence of ferromagnetic-transport signatures in epitaxial paramagnetic and superparamagnetic Zn0.95Co0.05O films
S. Ye, V. Ney, T. Kammermeier, K. Ollefs, S. Zhou, H. Schmidt, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, and A. Ney
Published 23 December 2009 (7 pages)
245321 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Nanowires with surface disorder: Giant localization length and dynamical tunneling in the presence of directed chaos
J. Feist, A. Bäcker, R. Ketzmerick, J. Burgdörfer, and S. Rotter
Published 28 December 2009 (14 pages)
245322 [View PDF (707 kB)]
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Entanglement generation through an open quantum dot: Exact two-electron scattering state in the Anderson model
Takashi Imamura, Akinori Nishino, and Naomichi Hatano
Published 29 December 2009 (8 pages)
245323 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Raman spectroscopy of wurtzite and zinc-blende GaAs nanowires: Polarization dependence, selection rules, and strain effects
I. Zardo, S. Conesa-Boj, F. Peiro, J. R. Morante, J. Arbiol, E. Uccelli, G. Abstreiter, and A. Fontcuberta i Morral
Published 31 December 2009 (11 pages)
245324 [View PDF (981 kB)]
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Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures
D. Spirkoska, J. Arbiol, A. Gustafsson, S. Conesa-Boj, F. Glas, I. Zardo, M. Heigoldt, M. H. Gass, A. L. Bleloch, S. Estrade, M. Kaniber, J. Rossler, F. Peiro, J. R. Morante, G. Abstreiter, L. Samuelson, and A. Fontcuberta i Morral
Published 31 December 2009 (9 pages)
245325 [View PDF (1,277 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Carrier heating in light-emitting quantum-dot heterostructures at low injection currents
Janik Wolters, Matthias-René Dachner, Ermin Malić, Marten Richter, Ulrike Woggon, and Andreas Knorr
Published 2 December 2009 (7 pages)
245401 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Mapping the electronic structures of a metalloporphyrin molecule on Au(111) by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy
Howon Kim, Won-joon Son, Won Jun Jang, Jong Keon Yoon, Seungwu Han, and Se-Jong Kahng
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
245402 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Water adsorption on the α-Al2O3(0001) surface
P. Thissen, G. Grundmeier, S. Wippermann, and W. G. Schmidt
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
245403 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Single nitrogen dyad magnetoluminescence in GaAs
S. Marcet, C. Ouellet-Plamondon, J. F. Klem, and S. Francoeur
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
245404 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for plasmonic eigenvalues
Daniel Grieser, Hannes Uecker, Svend-Age Biehs, Oliver Huth, Felix Rüting, and Martin Holthaus
Published 4 December 2009 (8 pages)
245405 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Casimir interaction between a perfect conductor and graphene described by the Dirac model
M. Bordag, I. V. Fialkovsky, D. M. Gitman, and D. V. Vassilevich
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
245406 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Electronic structure and surface-mediated metastability of Bi films on Si(111)-7×7 studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
G. Bian, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
Published 7 December 2009 (5 pages)
245407 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Magnetism and magnetotransport in disordered graphene
T. G. Rappoport, Bruno Uchoa, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 7 December 2009 (7 pages)
245408 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Lateral hopping of CO molecules on Pt(111) surface by femtosecond laser pulses
M. Hayashi, Y. Ootsuka, M. Paulsson, B. N. J. Persson, and H. Ueba
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
245409 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Dephasing rate formula in the many-body context
Doron Cohen, Jan von Delft, Florian Marquardt, and Yoseph Imry
Published 8 December 2009 (11 pages)
245410 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Graphene on Pt(111): Growth and substrate interaction
Peter Sutter, Jerzy T. Sadowski, and Eli Sutter
Published 8 December 2009 (10 pages)
245411 [View PDF (818 kB)]
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Vacancy formation on stepped Cu(100) accelerated with STM: Molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations
S. V. Kolesnikov, A. L. Klavsyuk, and A. M. Saletsky
Published 9 December 2009 (7 pages)
245412 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Controlling polarization twisting of light resulting from surface plasmon interactions with threefold symmetric nanostructures
B. Ashall, B. Vohnsen, M. Berndt, and D. Zerulla
Published 9 December 2009 (5 pages)
245413 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Quantum pumping in graphene
E. Prada, P. San-Jose, and H. Schomerus
Published 10 December 2009 (5 pages)
245414 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Slowing hot-carrier relaxation in graphene using a magnetic field
P. Plochocka, P. Kossacki, A. Golnik, T. Kazimierczuk, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, and M. Potemski
Published 10 December 2009 (5 pages)
245415 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Indexing of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes from Raman spectroscopy
T. Michel, M. Paillet, D. Nakabayashi, M. Picher, V. Jourdain, J. C. Meyer, A. A. Zahab, and J.-L. Sauvajol
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
245416 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Optical properties of zinc selenide clusters from first-principles calculations
Sachin P. Nanavati, V. Sundararajan, Shailaja Mahamuni, Vijay Kumar, and S. V. Ghaisas
Published 14 December 2009 (9 pages)
245417 [View PDF (758 kB)]
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Pokrovsky-Talapov model at finite temperature: A renormalization-group analysis
A. Lazarides, O. Tieleman, and C. Morais Smith
Published 15 December 2009 (7 pages)
245418 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Spectral properties of Cs and Ba on Cu(111) at very low coverage: Two-photon photoemission spectroscopy and electronic structure theory
S. Achilli, M. I. Trioni, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, V. Sametoglu, N. Pontius, A. Winkelmann, A. Kubo, J. Zhao, and H. Petek
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
245419 [View PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Tunable ultrafast control of plasmonic coupling to gold films
Nir Rotenberg, Jan N. Caspers, and Henry M. van Driel
Published 15 December 2009 (8 pages)
245420 [View PDF (1,499 kB)]
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Molecular mechanics investigations of carbon nanotube and graphene sheet interaction
Mahamadou Seydou, Sophie Marsaudon, Julien Buchoux, Jean Pierre Aimé, and Anne Marie Bonnot
Published 15 December 2009 (7 pages)
245421 [View PDF (864 kB)]
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Hydrogenation of bilayer graphene and the formation of bilayer graphane from first principles
O. Leenaerts, B. Partoens, and F. M. Peeters
Published 15 December 2009 (6 pages)
245422 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Lithium incorporation into a silica thin film: Scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory
Jan Frederik Jerratsch, Niklas Nilius, Hans-Joachim Freund, Umberto Martinez, Livia Giordano, and Gianfranco Pacchioni
Published 16 December 2009 (8 pages)
245423 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Thermal van der Waals interaction between graphene layers
G. Gómez-Santos
Published 16 December 2009 (8 pages)
245424 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Ring patterns in high-current field emission from carbon nanotubes
Mickaël Marchand, Catherine Journet, Christophe Adessi, and Stephen T. Purcell
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
245425 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Adsorbate-induced restructuring of Pb mesas grown on vicinal Si(111) in the quantum regime
Alexander Ako Khajetoorians, Wenguang Zhu, Jisun Kim (김지선), Shengyong Qin, Holger Eisele, Zhenyu Zhang, and Chih-Kang Shih
Published 18 December 2009 (6 pages)
245426 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Polarization-induced renormalization of molecular levels at metallic and semiconducting surfaces
J. M. Garcia-Lastra, C. Rostgaard, A. Rubio, and K. S. Thygesen
Published 21 December 2009 (7 pages)
245427 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Ultrafast vibrational motion of carbon nanotubes in different pH environments
Kotaro Makino, Atsushi Hirano, Kentaro Shiraki, Yutaka Maeda, and Muneaki Hase
Published 21 December 2009 (5 pages)
245428 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Tomography of molecular nanographene double layers using scanning tunneling microscopy
C. Seifert, D. Skuridina, X. Dou, K. Müllen, N. Severin, and J. P. Rabe
Published 21 December 2009 (4 pages)
245429 [View PDF (1,409 kB)]
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Narrow depression in the density of states at the Dirac point in disordered graphene
L. Schweitzer
Published 21 December 2009 (6 pages)
245430 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Time-dependent density-functional study of field emission from tipped carbon nanotubes
J. A. Driscoll and K. Varga
Published 22 December 2009 (4 pages)
245431 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Transition from ballistic to diffusive behavior of graphene ribbons in the presence of warping and charged impurities
J. W. Klos, A. A. Shylau, I. V. Zozoulenko, Hengyi Xu, and T. Heinzel
Published 22 December 2009 (12 pages)
245432 [View PDF (977 kB)]
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Hartman effect and spin precession in graphene
R. A. Sepkhanov, M. V. Medvedyeva, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 22 December 2009 (5 pages)
245433 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Electronic properties of the n-doped hydrogenated silicon (100) surface and dehydrogenated structures at 5 K
Amandine Bellec, Damien Riedel, Gérald Dujardin, Ouarda Boudrioua, Laurent Chaput, Louise Stauffer, and Philippe Sonnet
Published 23 December 2009 (6 pages)
245434 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Plasmonics in graphene at infrared frequencies
Marinko Jablan, Hrvoje Buljan, and Marin Soljačić
Published 23 December 2009 (7 pages)
245435 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Magnetism in strained graphene dots
J. Viana-Gomes, Vitor M. Pereira, and N. M. R. Peres
Published 29 December 2009 (11 pages)
245436 [View PDF (1,102 kB)]
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Piezoresistive response of epoxy composites with carbon nanoparticles under tensile load
Malte H. G. Wichmann, Samuel T. Buschhorn, Jan Gehrmann, and Karl Schulte
Published 29 December 2009 (8 pages)
245437 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Surface energies of stoichiometric FePt and CoPt alloys and their implications for nanoparticle morphologies
Antje Dannenberg, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, and Peter Entel
Published 29 December 2009 (15 pages)
245438 [View PDF (651 kB)]
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Quasiparticle interference on the surface of the topological insulator Bi2Te3
Wei-Cheng Lee, Congjun Wu, Daniel P. Arovas, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 29 December 2009 (5 pages)
245439 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Thermoelectric performance of granular semiconductors
Andreas Glatz and I. S. Beloborodov
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
245440 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Quantum wire junctions breaking time-reversal invariance
Brando Bellazzini, Mihail Mintchev, and Paul Sorba
Published 31 December 2009 (10 pages)
245441 [View PDF (201 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Superelastic metal-insulator phase transition in single-crystal VO2 nanobeams [Phys. Rev. B 80, 241105(R) (2009)]
W. Fan, S. Huang, J. Cao, E. Ertekin, C. Barrett, D. R. Khanal, J. C. Grossman, and J. Wu
Published 30 December 2009 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
 
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