PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW B Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, APS Subscription Services please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1098-0121… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 2006-15(I) Physical Review B Editorial Policies and Practices ................................................... iii Physical Review B Information for Contributors ..................................................... vii Subject Matter Categories for Physical Review B .................................................... x BRIEF REPORTS Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Thermodynamic and transport properties of YTe3, LaTe3, and CeTe3 (4 pages) ......................... 033101 N. Ru and I. R. Fisher X-ray anomalous scattering investigation of BaVS3 (4 pages) ........................................ 033102 Sébastien Fagot, Pascale Foury-Leylekian, Sylvain Ravy, Jean-Paul Pouget, Émilio Lorenzo, Yves Joly, Martha Greenblatt, Maxim V. Lobanov, and Guerman Popov Interaction of polarized light with three-dimensional opal-based photonic crystals (4 pages) ............... 033103 A. V. Baryshev, A. B. Khanikaev, H. Uchida, M. Inoue, and M. F. Limonov Low-threshold and high-efficiency optical parametric oscillator using a one-dimensional single-defect photonic crystal with quadratic nonlinearity (4 pages) ...................................................... 033104 Fang-Fang Ren, Rui Li, Chen Cheng, Jing Chen, Ya-Xian Fan, Jianping Ding, and Hui-Tian Wang T duality in supersymmetric theory of disordered quantum systems (4 pages) ........................... 033105 A. Ossipov and V. E. Kravtsov Stability of the photonic band gap in the presence of disorder (4 pages) ............................... 033106 M. A. Kaliteevski, D. M. Beggs, S. Brand, R. A. Abram, and V. V. Nikolaev ͑ ͒ Interference effects due to commensurate electron trajectories and topological crossovers in TMTSF 2ClO4 (4 pages) ................................................................................... 033107 H. I. Ha, A. G. Lebed, and M. J. Naughton Subwavelength microwave imaging using an array of parallel conducting wires as a lens (4 pages) ......... 033108 Pavel A. Belov, Yang Hao, and Sunil Sudhakaran Oxidation and aging in U and Pu probed by spin-orbit sum rule analysis: Indications for covalent metal-oxide bonds (4 pages) ............................................................................. 033109 K. T. Moore, G. van der Laan, R. G. Haire, M. A. Wall, and A. J. Schwartz Semiconductors I: bulk Manganese on various lattice sites in ͑Ga,Mn͒As investigated using electron paramagnetic resonance (4 pages) ................................................................................... 033201 T. Weiers Copyright 2006 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW B THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2006-1(I) High-resolution photoemission study of the temperature-dependent c-f hybridization gap in the Kondo semiconductor YbB12 (4 pages) ................................................................ 033202 Y. Takeda, M. Arita, M. Higashiguchi, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, F. Iga, and T. Takabatake Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO: Density functional calculations (4 pages) ................ 033203 Lin-Hui Ye, A. J. Freeman, and B. Delley Electrical characterization of metastable carbon clusters in SiC: A theoretical study (4 pages) .............. 033204 A. Gali, N. T. Son, and E. Janzén Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Atomic structure of the Ga nanoclusters on Si͑111͒-͑7ϫ7͒ (4 pages) ................................. 033301 Akihiro Ohtake Roughness-induced energetic disorder at the metal/organic interface (4 pages) .......................... 033302 S. V. Novikov and G. G. Malliaras ͑ ͒ Multiple adsorption configurations of NH3 molecules on the Si 001 surface (4 pages) ................... 033303 Opti Naguan Chung, Hanchul Kim, Sukmin Chung, and Ja-Yong Koo Strong coupling of light with A and B excitons in GaN microcavities grown on silicon (4 pages) ........... 033304 I. R. Sellers, F. Semond, M. Leroux, J. Massies, P. Disseix, A-L. Henneghien, J. Leymarie, and A. Vasson Coherent control of lattice deformations in quantum wires by optical self-trapping (4 pages) ............... 033305 M. V. Katkov and C. Piermarocchi Magnetic-field-induced reduction of the exciton polarization splitting in InAs quantum dots (4 pages) ....... 033306 R. M. Stevenson, R. J. Young, P. See, D. G. Gevaux, K. Cooper, P. Atkinson, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields Modified Raman confinement model for Si nanocrystals (4 pages) .................................... 033307 Giuseppe Faraci, Santo Gibilisco, Paola Russo, Agata R. Pennisi, and Salvo La Rosa Energetic disorder at the metal-organic semiconductor interface (4 pages) .............................. 033308 S. V. Novikov and G. G. Malliaras Exciton g factor of type-II InP/GaAs single quantum dots (4 pages) .................................. 033309 M. P. F. de Godoy, P. F. Gomes, M. K. K. Nakaema, F. Iikawa, M. J. S. P. Brasil, R. A. Caetano, J. R. Madureira, J. R. R. Bortoleto, M. A. Cotta, E. Ribeiro, G. E. Marques, and A. C. R. Bittencourt Intrinsic Curie temperature bistability in ferromagnetic semiconductor resonant tunneling diodes (4 pages) ................................................................................... 033310 Swaroop Ganguly, A. H. MacDonald, L. F. Register, and S. Banerjee Formation of electric-field domains in GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs quantum cascade laser structures (4 pages) ........ 033311 S. L. Lu, L. Schrottke, S. W. Teitsworth, R. Hey, and H. T. Grahn Counting statistics and decoherence in coupled quantum dots (4 pages) ................................ 033312 G. Kießlich, P. Samuelsson, A. Wacker, and E. Schöll Tunneling resonances in quantum dots: Coulomb interaction modifies the width (4 pages) ................. 033313 Jens Könemann, Björn Kubala, Jürgen König, and Rolf J. Haug Spin accumulation in a ballistic Rashba bar (4 pages) .............................................. 033314 J. Yao and Z. Q. Yang (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW B THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2006-1(I) Room-temperature polariton luminescence from a bulk GaN microcavity (4 pages) ...................... 033315 R. Butté, G. Christmann, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, M. Mosca, M. Ilegems, and N. Grandjean Intrinsic oscillation of spin accumulation induced by Rashba spin-orbital interaction (4 pages) ............. 033316 J. Wang, K. S. Chan, and D. Y. Xing Quantum interference control of electrical currents and THz radiation in optically excited zinc-blende quantum wells (4 pages) .............................................................................. 033317 Jacob B. Khurgin Modulation of the Curie temperature in ferromagnetic/ferroelectric hybrid double quantum wells (4 pages) ................................................................................... 033318 N. Kim, H. Kim, J. W. Kim, S. J. Lee, and T. W. Kang Nonlinear dynamics of a dense two-dimensional dipolar exciton gas (4 pages) .......................... 033319 Ronen Rapaport, Gang Chen, and Steven H. Simon Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Analysis of transmission through small apertures in conducting films (4 pages) ......................... 033401 K. J. Webb and J. Li Local spin order in one-dimensional Kondo lattice model for band filling n=1/3 (4 pages) ................ 033402 Yuguang Chen and Hong Chen Unconventional Hall effect in oriented Ca3Co4O9 thin films (4 pages) ................................. 033403 H. W. Eng, P. Limelette, W. Prellier, Ch. Simon, and R. Frésard Self-avoiding random walks and the two-dimensional localization theorem (4 pages) ..................... 033404 Vipin Srivastava and K. Kremer Inherent features in the growth of perylene crystals on an oil substrate (4 pages) ........................ 033405 Xiangdong Liu and Matthias Wuttig Long jumps in one-dimensional surface self-diffusion: Rebound transitions (4 pages) ..................... 033406 Grazyna Antczak CO adsorption on Ce-Pt͑111͒ studied with LEED, XPS, and temperature programmed desorption (4 pages) ................................................................................... 033407 B. Vermang, M. Juel, and S. Raaen Causality of surface plasmon polariton emission processes (4 pages) .................................. 033408 G. Isfort, K. Schierbaum, and D. Zerulla Negative differential conductance and magnetoresistance oscillations due to spin accumulation in ferromagnetic double-island devices (4 pages) .................................................... 033409 Ireneusz Weymann and Józef Barnaś ARTICLES Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Free-electron generation in laser-irradiated dielectrics (6 pages) ...................................... 035101 B. Rethfeld Effective Hamiltonian near insulator-superfluid phase transitions (5 pages) ............................. 035102 Fei Zhou (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW B THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2006-1(I) Modeling the momentum distributions of annihilating electron-positron pairs in solids (12 pages) ........... 035103 I. Makkonen, M. Hakala, and M. J. Puska Intermittent polaron dynamics: Born-Oppenheimer approximation out of equilibrium (6