http://prb.aps.org/ Recent articles in Physical Review B en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-06T22:15:05-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-06T22:15:05-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205406 Author(s): Tokushi Kizuka and Kosuke Monna<br/>Platinum (Pt) wires of single-atom width were produced by the retraction of a Pt nanotip from contact with a Pt plate at room temperature inside a transmission electron microscope. The distance between the nanotip and the plate was controlled using a conductance feedback system, as a result of which...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205406] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Tokushi Kizuka and Kosuke Monna 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205406 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205406 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205406 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205405 Author(s): E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma<br/>We derive the plasmon dispersion in doped double-layer graphene (DLG), made of two parallel graphene monolayers with carrier densities n_{1} and n_{2} , respectively, and an interlayer separation of d . The linear chiral gapless single-particle energy dispersion of graphene leads to DLG plasmon prop...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205405] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205405 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205405 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205405 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205305 Author(s): V. G. Dubrovskii, N. V. Sibirev, G. E. Cirlin, A. D. Bouravleuv, Yu. B. Samsonenko, D. L. Dheeraj, H. L. Zhou, C. Sartel, J. C. Harmand, G. Patriarche, and F. Glas<br/>We study theoretically and experimentally nonlinear effects during the “vapor-liquid-solid” growth of semiconductor nanowires. Nonlinear growth equation considered contains kinetic coefficients from the surface and sidewall diffusion which can be of either signs. We predict four possible growth ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205305] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 V. G. Dubrovskii, N. V. Sibirev, G. E. Cirlin, A. D. Bouravleuv, Yu. B. Samsonenko, D. L. Dheeraj, H. L. Zhou, C. Sartel, J. C. Harmand, G. Patriarche, and F. Glas 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205305 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205305 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205305 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205202 Author(s): F. V. Kyrychenko and C. A. Ullrich<br/>The static conductivity of the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ga_{1−x} Mn_{x} As is calculated using an equation of motion approach for the current response combined with time-dependent density-functional theory to account for Hartree and exchange interactions within the hole gas. We find that the...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205202] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 F. V. Kyrychenko and C. A. Ullrich 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205202 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205202 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205202 Semiconductors I: bulk Semiconductors I: bulk http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205201 Author(s): Hideo Kishida, Hisashi Takamatsu, Ken Fujinuma, and Hiroshi Okamoto<br/>Ferroelectricity in an organic charge-transfer compound, tetrathiafulvalene- p -chloranil (TTF-CA), originating from the one-dimensional valence and lattice instabilities, has been investigated by an electroreflectance (ER) method. Microscopic ER spectroscopy in the visible region enables real-space...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205201] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Hideo Kishida, Hisashi Takamatsu, Ken Fujinuma, and Hiroshi Okamoto 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205201 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205201 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205201 Semiconductors I: bulk Semiconductors I: bulk http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205107 Author(s): Edan Scriven and B. J. Powell<br/>We calculate the parameters for Hubbard models of κ-(BEDT-TTF)_{2} X and β-(BEDT-TTF)_{2} X . We use density-functional theory (DFT) to calculate the interactions between holes in dimers of the organic molecule bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) for 23 experimental geometries taken f...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205107] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Edan Scriven and B. J. Powell 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205107 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205107 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 205107 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201402 Author(s): T. Vekua<br/>Low-temperature dependence of specific heat of one-dimensional multicomponent systems at the commensurate-incommensurate phase transition point is studied. It is found that for canonical systems, with a fixed total number of particles, low-temperature specific heat linearly depends on temperature wi...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201402] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 T. Vekua 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201402 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201402 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 201402 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195409 Author(s): R. Świrkowicz, M. Wierzbicki, and J. Barnaś<br/>Charge transport accompanied by heat transfer through a single-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads with noncollinear magnetic moments is studied theoretically in the linear and nonlinear transport regimes. Calculations performed in the framework of nonequilibrium Green’s function form...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195409] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 R. Świrkowicz, M. Wierzbicki, and J. Barnaś 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195409 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195409 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 195409 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195408 Author(s): Gursoy B. Akguc and Jiangbin Gong<br/>Elastic wave characteristics of the heat conduction in low-temperature thin wires can be studied via a wave scattering formalism. A reaction matrix formulation of heat conductance modeled by elastic wave scattering is advocated. This formulation allows us to treat thin wires with arbitrary surface d...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195408] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Gursoy B. Akguc and Jiangbin Gong 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195408 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195408 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 195408 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195201 Author(s): Yu-Chieh Wen, Tsung-Shine Ko, Tien-Chang Lu, Hao-Chung Kuo, Jen-Inn Chyi, and Chi-Kuang Sun<br/>Using piezoelectric wurtzite semiconductor with accurate control of the crystal cut, we investigate the photogeneration of coherent shear acoustic phonons through anisotropic piezoelectric coupling. Theoretical study suggests the dominant contribution of the piezoelectric effect to the shear phonon ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195201] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Yu-Chieh Wen, Tsung-Shine Ko, Tien-Chang Lu, Hao-Chung Kuo, Jen-Inn Chyi, and Chi-Kuang Sun 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195201 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195201 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 195201 Semiconductors I: bulk Semiconductors I: bulk http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195107 Author(s): R. J. O. Mossanek, M. Abbate, P. T. Fonseca, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and Y. Tokura<br/>Core-level and valence-band optical spectra provide important information on highly correlated systems. The former corresponds to transitions from the core level to the conduction band, and it is usually related to the unoccupied electronic structure. The later corresponds to transitions from the va...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195107] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 R. J. O. Mossanek, M. Abbate, P. T. Fonseca, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and Y. Tokura 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195107 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195107 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 195107 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195106 Author(s): Peijun Yao, C. Van Vlack, A. Reza, M. Patterson, M. M. Dignam, and S. Hughes<br/>We introduce the complex band structure and a medium-dependent (Green’s function) quantum-optics formalism to study the enhanced spontaneous emission factors and Lamb shifts from a quantum dot or atom near the surface of a slow-light metamaterial waveguide. Using a realistic loss factor of γ/2π=...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 195106] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Peijun Yao, C. Van Vlack, A. Reza, M. Patterson, M. M. Dignam, and S. Hughes 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195106 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195106 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 195106 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.193404 Author(s): Sankaran Lakshmi, Stephan Roche, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti<br/>We report on the possibility for a spin-valve effect driven by edge defect engineering of zigzag graphene nanoribbons. Based on a mean-field spin-unrestricted Hubbard model, electronic band structures and conductance profiles are derived, using a self-consistent scheme to include gate-induced charge...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 193404] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Sankaran Lakshmi, Stephan Roche, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.193404 Phys. Rev. B 80, 193404 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 193404 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.193403 Author(s): I. Razado-Colambo, H. M. Zhang, and R. I. G. Uhrberg<br/>The electronic structure of H/Ge(111)1×1 was investigated using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Spectra were measured along the high-symmetry lines of the 1×1 surface Brillouin zone. In the Γ [over ¯] −K [over ¯] −M [over ¯] direction, two surface states, labeled a and a^{′} ,...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 193403] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 I. Razado-Colambo, H. M. Zhang, and R. I. G. Uhrberg 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.193403 Phys. Rev. B 80, 193403 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 193403 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.184407 Author(s): Cenke Xu<br/>We study the classical and quantum phase transitions of Sp(4) spin systems on three-dimensional stacked square and triangular lattices. We present general Ginzburg-Landau field theories for various types of Sp(4) spin orders with different ground-state manifolds such as CP(3), S^{7} /Z_{2} , Grassma...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 184407] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Cenke Xu 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.184407 Phys. Rev. B 80, 184407 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 184407 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180503 Author(s): Yue Zou (邹悦), Gil Refael, and Jongsoo Yoon<br/>The magnetically driven superconductor-insulator transition in amorphous thin films (e.g., InO and Ta) exhibits several mysterious phenomena, such as a putative metallic phase and a huge magnetoresistance peak. Unfortunately, several conflicting categories of theories, particularly quantum-vortex co...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180503] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Yue Zou (邹悦), Gil Refael, and Jongsoo Yoon 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180503 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180503 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 180503 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180406 Author(s): C. D. Batista<br/>We derive the exact ground states for a one-dimensional family of S=1/2 XXZ Hamiltonians on the zigzag ladder. These states exhibit true long-range spiral order that spontaneously breaks the U(1) invariance of the Hamiltonian. Besides breaking a continuous symmetry in d=1 , this spiral ordering has ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180406] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 C. D. Batista 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180406 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180406 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 180406 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174507 Author(s): Zhi Wang and Shiping Feng<br/>The anisotropy in the microwave conductivity of the ortho-II YBa_{2} Cu_{3} O_{6.50} is studied within the kinetic-energy driven superconducting mechanism. The ortho-II YBa_{2} Cu_{3} O_{6.50} is characterized by a periodic alternative of filled and empty b [over ̂] -axis CuO chains. By considering...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 174507] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Zhi Wang and Shiping Feng 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174507 Phys. Rev. B 80, 174507 text/html article Physical Review B 80 17 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 174507 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174506 Author(s): Yoshihiro Eto, Atsushi Kawamoto, Noriaki Matsunaga, Kazushige Nomura, Kaoru Yamamoto, and Kyuya Yakushi<br/>We assessed the infrared-absorption spectra and ^{13} C -NMR measurements in a layered organic salt, β^{′} -(BEDT-TTF)(TCNQ), which exhibits antiferromagnetic transitions at 20 and 3 K. The former originates from the spin in the bis-(ethylenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) layers, while the...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 174506] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Yoshihiro Eto, Atsushi Kawamoto, Noriaki Matsunaga, Kazushige Nomura, Kaoru Yamamoto, and Kyuya Yakushi 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174506 Phys. Rev. B 80, 174506 text/html article Physical Review B 80 17 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 174506 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174505 Author(s): Kai-Yu Yang, Wei-Qiang Chen, T. M. Rice, and Fu-Chun Zhang<br/>The checkerboard pattern in the differential conductance maps on underdoped cuprates appears when the scanning tunneling microscopy is placed above the O sites in the outermost CuO_{2} plane. In this position the interference between tunneling paths through the apical ions above the neighboring Cu s...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 174505] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Kai-Yu Yang, Wei-Qiang Chen, T. M. Rice, and Fu-Chun Zhang 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174505 Phys. Rev. B 80, 174505 text/html article Physical Review B 80 17 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 174505 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.172402 Author(s): Kohji Nakamura, Riki Shimabukuro, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman<br/>First-principles full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave studies reveal that a surface magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) modification by an external electric field arises from a dipole formation mechanism. The precise calculations demonstrate that the formation of dipoles on Fe(001) surface...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 172402] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Kohji Nakamura, Riki Shimabukuro, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.172402 Phys. Rev. B 80, 172402 text/html article Physical Review B 80 17 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 172402 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.172401 Author(s): A. Mascaraque, L. Aballe, J. F. Marco, T. O. Menteş, F. El Gabaly, C. Klein, A. K. Schmid, K. F. McCarty, A. Locatelli, and J. de la Figuera<br/>Co islands and films are characterized by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism photoemission electron microscopy. The spatial resolution capabilities of the technique together with atomic growth control permit obtaining perfectly flat triangular islands with a given thickness (3 ML), very close to an a...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 172401] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 A. Mascaraque, L. Aballe, J. F. Marco, T. O. Menteş, F. El Gabaly, C. Klein, A. K. Schmid, K. F. McCarty, A. Locatelli, and J. de la Figuera 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.172401 Phys. Rev. B 80, 172401 text/html article Physical Review B 80 17 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 172401 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205404 Author(s): Robert Lovrinčić and Annemarie Pucci<br/>Thickness-dependent infrared spectra measured during growth of Cr on diamond C(100) under ultrahigh vacuum conditions reveal a structural phase transition from a discontinuous phase to the crystalline bulk one with Drude-type optical properties. The thickness of 2.5 nm of the observed phase transiti...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205404] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Robert Lovrinčić and Annemarie Pucci 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205404 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205404 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 205404 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205304 Author(s): V. V. Nikolaev, N. S. Averkiev, M. M. Sobolev, I. M. Gadzhiyev, I. O. Bakshaev, M. S. Buyalo, and E. L. Portnoi<br/>We report unambiguous observation of the formation of mixed electronic states in an ensemble of self-assembled vertically aligned quantum dots at room temperature. Three closely spaced layers containing stacked In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots are placed in the active region of a two-section semiconductor...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205304] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 V. V. Nikolaev, N. S. Averkiev, M. M. Sobolev, I. M. Gadzhiyev, I. O. Bakshaev, M. S. Buyalo, and E. L. Portnoi 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205304 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205304 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 205304 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205303 Author(s): T. Auer, R. Oulton, A. Bauschulte, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, S. Yu. Verbin, R. V. Cherbunin, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck<br/>We present a comprehensive investigation of the electron-nuclear system of negatively charged InGaAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) under the influence of weak external magnetic fields (up to 3 mT). We demonstrate that, in contrast to conventional semiconductor systems, these small fields ha...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205303] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 T. Auer, R. Oulton, A. Bauschulte, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, S. Yu. Verbin, R. V. Cherbunin, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205303 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205303 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 205303 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205302 Author(s): Dimitrie Culcer, Łukasz Cywiński, Qiuzi Li, Xuedong Hu, and S. Das Sarma<br/>There has been significant progress in the implementation and manipulation of singlet-triplet qubits in GaAs quantum dots. Given the considerably longer spin coherence times measured in Si, considerable interest has been generated recently in Si quantum dots. The physics of these systems is consider...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205302] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Dimitrie Culcer, Łukasz Cywiński, Qiuzi Li, Xuedong Hu, and S. Das Sarma 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205302 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205302 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 205302 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205106 Author(s): R. L. Ahlefeldt, A. Smith, and M. J. Sellars<br/>The structure of the ^{7} F_{0} → ^{5} D_{0} transition of Eu^{3+} in EuCl_{3} ⋅6H_{2} O is investigated in crystals with three different isotopic compositions [natural abundance (0.2% ^{18} O , 0.01% ^{2} H ), 1.9% ^{18} O , and 0.06% ^{2} H ]. Raman-heterodyne-detected NMR is used to identify ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 205106] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 R. L. Ahlefeldt, A. Smith, and M. J. Sellars 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205106 Phys. Rev. B 80, 205106 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 205106 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195407 Author(s): T. Søndergaard and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi<br/>Electromagnetic resonances of triangular-groove gold gratings illuminated with monochromatic light are studied theoretically. The calculations performed are based on the Green’s-function surface-integral equation method with the periodic Green’s function. Local-field-enhancement spectra and near...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195407] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 T. Søndergaard and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195407 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195407 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 195407 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195406 Author(s): Vincent Juvé, Mattia Scardamaglia, Paolo Maioli, Aurélien Crut, Samy Merabia, Laurent Joly, Natalia Del Fatti, and Fabrice Vallée<br/>The cooling dynamics of glass-embedded noble metal nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 4 to 26 nm were studied using ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy. Measurements were performed probing away from the surface plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles to avoid spurious effects due to glass heatin...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 195406] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Vincent Juvé, Mattia Scardamaglia, Paolo Maioli, Aurélien Crut, Samy Merabia, Laurent Joly, Natalia Del Fatti, and Fabrice Vallée 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195406 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195406 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 195406 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195306 Author(s): Nguyen Duy Vy, H. Thien Cao, D. B. Tran Thoai, and H. Haug<br/>The semiclassical approach consisting of Boltzmann equations for the excited states and the ground state supplemented by a Master equation for the probability distribution of the condensate population is solved for picosecond pulsed microcavity polaritons. With the simple birth- and death-type Maste...<br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 195306] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Nguyen Duy Vy, H. Thien Cao, D. B. Tran Thoai, and H. Haug 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195306 Phys. Rev. B 80, 195306 text/html article Physical Review B 80 19 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 195306 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics