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Special issues

• Dynamics of low dimensional systems
• Liquid/Solid interfaces - structure and dynamics from spectroscopy and simulations
• Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Single Molecule Biophysics
• Strongly correlated electron systems
• Physics in one dimension
• Ultrathin layers of graphene
• Liquid matter
• Molecular switches at surfaces

Regular articles

• Papers: Liquids, Soft Matter and Biological Physics
• Papers: Surface, Interface and Atomic-Scale Science
• Papers: Nanostructures and Nanoelectronics
• Papers: Solid Structure and Lattice Dynamics
• Papers: Electronic Structure
• Papers: Correlated Electrons
• Papers: Superconductors and Metals
• Papers: Semiconductors
• Papers: Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics
• Papers: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• Viewpoints

Special issue: Dynamics of low dimensional systems

Ab initio characterization of graphene nanoribbons and of their polymer precursors
Rengin Pekoz, Xinliang Feng and Davide Donadio

Phonon dispersion of quasi-freestanding graphene on Pt(111)
Antonio Politano, Antonio Raimondo Marino and Gennaro Chiarello

Plasmon tsunamis on metallic nanoclusters
Amand A Lucas and Marijan Sunjic

Tuning the plasmon energy of palladium-hydrogen systems by varying the hydrogen concentration
Vyacheslav M Silkin, Muino Ricardo Diez, I P Chernov, Evgueni V Chulkov and Pedro M Echenique

Weakly bound finite systems: (⁴He)_N-Rb₂(³Σ_u), clustering structures from a quantum Monte Carlo approach
D Lopez-Duran, R Rodriguez-Cantano, T Gonzalez-Lezana, G Delgado-Barrio, P Villarreal, E Yurtsever and F A Gianturco

Multiphonon atom-surface scattering from corrugated surfaces: derivation of the inelastic scattering spectrum for diffraction states
Branko Gumhalter

Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in surface diffusion of interacting adsorbates
Helen Pennate-Rodriguez, Ruth Martinez-Casado, German Rojas-Lorenzo, Angel S Sanz and Salvador Miret-Artes

Assessing the composition of hetero-epitaxial islands via morphological analysis: an analytical model matching GeSi/Si(001) data
Riccardo Gatti, Fabio Pezzoli, Francesca Boioli, Francesco Montalenti and Leo Miglio

Probing the non-pairwise interactions between CO molecules moving on a Cu(111) surface
Pepijn R Kole, Holly Hedgeland, Andrew Peter Jardine, William (Bill) Allison, John Ellis and Gil Alexandrowicz

Carbon sp chains in graphene nanoholes
Ivano E Castelli, Nicola Ferri, Giovanni Onida and Nicola Manini

Fast emission dynamics in droplet epitaxy GaAs ring/disks integrated on Si
Lucia Cavigli, Sergio Bietti, Marco Abbarchi, Claudio Somaschini, Anna Vinattieri, Massimo Gurioli, Alexey Fedorov, Giovanni Isella, Emanuele Grilli and Stefano Sanguinetti

Elastic fields and moduli in defected graphene
Riccardo Dettori, Emiliano Cadelano and Luciano Colombo

First-principles phonon calculations of Fe⁴⁺ impurity in SrTiO₃
E Blokhin, E A Kotomin and J Maier

Special issue: Dynamics of low dimensional systems

Temperature dependence in atom-surface scattering
Eli Pollak and Joseph R Manson

Density functional study of the decomposition pathways of SiH₃ and GeH₃ at the Si(100) and Ge(100) surfaces
Michele Ceriotti, Francesco Montalenti and Marco Bernasconi

Vibrational dynamics and surface structure of Bi(111) from helium atom scattering measurements
M Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, A Tamtoegl, P Kraus, K H Rieder and Wolfgang E Ernst

Zero-phonon lines of systems with different dimensions and unconventional vibronic interactions
Vladimir V Hizhnyakov

A theoretical study of rotational and translational diffusion dynamics of molecules with a six-fold point symmetry adsorbed on a hexagonal lattice by neutron scattering
Irene Calvo-Almazan, Salvador Miret-Artes and Peter Fouquet

Surface phonons on Pb(111)
I Yu Sklyadneva, Rolf Heid, K-P Bohnen, P M Echenique and E V Chulkov

Comparative study of vibrations in submonolayer structures of potassium on Pt(111)
Galina G Rusina, Sergey V Eremeev, S D Borisova and Evgueni V Chulkov

Double and triple ionization of silver clusters by electron impact
Avik Halder, Anthony Liang, Chunrong Yin and Vitaly V Kresin

Scattering of O₂ from a graphite surface
W W Hayes, Junepyo Oh, Takahiro Kondo, Keitaro Arakawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Junji Nakamura and Joseph R Manson

Vibrations of Au₁₃ and FeAu₁₂ nanoparticles and the limits of the Debye temperature concept
Ghazal Shafai, Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza and Talat Shanaz Rahman

A kinetic Monte Carlo approach to investigate antibiotic translocation through bacterial porins
Matteo Ceccarelli, Attilio V Vargiu and Paolo Ruggerone

Magnetic properties and relaxation dynamics of a frustrated Ni₇ molecular nanomagnet
E Garlatti, S Carretta, M Affronte, E C Sanudo, G Amoretti and P Santini

Using evidence from nanocavities to assess the vibrational properties of external surfaces
Gian Franco Cerofolini, Federico Corni, S Frabboni, G Ottaviani, E Romano, R Tonini and D Narducci

Special issue: Liquid/Solid interfaces - structure and dynamics from spectroscopy and simulations

Vibrational spectrum at water surface: a hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics molecular dynamics approach
Tatsuya Ishiyama, Hideaki Takahashi and Akihiro Morita

Effect of a thioalkane capping layer on the first hyperpolarizability of gold and silver nanoparticles
Yara El Harfouch, Emmanuel Benichou, Franck Bertorelle, Isabelle Russier-Antoine, Christian Jonin, Noelle Lascoux and Pierre F Brevet

Salt effects on water/hydrophobic liquid interfaces: a molecular dynamics study
Chao Zhang and Paolo Carloni

Oxide/water interfaces: how the surface chemistry modifies interfacial water properties
Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Michiel Sprik and Marialore Sulpizi

DFT-based simulations of SFG spectra involving methyl stretching vibrations: effect of the molecular model on the deduced molecular orientation and comparison with an analytical approach
F Cecchet, D Lis, Y Caudano, A A Mani, A Peremans, B Champagne and J Guthmuller

A theoretical study of the sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy of the carbon tetrachloride/water interface
Anthony J Green, Angela Perry, Preston B Moore and Brian Space

Strain relief and disorder in commensurate water layers formed on Pd(111)
F McBride, A Omer, C M Clay, L Cummings, G R Darling and A Hodgson

Towards modelling the vibrational signatures of functionalized surfaces: carboxylic acids on H-Si(111) surfaces
Conrard Giresse Tetsassi Feugmo, Benoit Champagne, Yves Caudano, Francesca Cecchet, Yves J Chabal and Vincent Liegeois

The interfacial structure of water/protonated α-Al₂O₃ (11-20) as A function of pH
Jaeho Sung, Yuen Ron Shen and G A Waychunas

Special issue: Liquid/Solid interfaces - structure and dynamics from spectroscopy and simulations

Predicting the acidity constant of a goethite hydroxyl group from first principles
Kevin Leung and Louise Criscenti

Special issue: Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Single Molecule Biophysics

Single molecule conductance determinations on HS(CH₂)₄O(CH₂)₄SH and HS(CH₂)₂O(CH₂)₂O(CH₂)₂SH, and comparison with alkanedithiols of the same length
Lisa Scullion, Edmund Leary, Simon Higgins and Richard J Nichols

Electrical detection of single pollen allergen particles using electrode-embedded microchannels
Chihiro Kawaguchi, Tetsuya Noda, Makusu Tsutsui, Masateru Taniguchi, Satoyuki Kawano and Tomoji Kawai

Effects of cytosine methylation on DNA charge transport
Joshua Hihath, Shaoyin Guo, Peiming Zhang and Nongjian Tao

Biochemistry and semiconductor electronics – The next big hit for silicon?
Stuart Lindsay

Stability of an aqueous quadrupole micro-trap
Jae Hyun Park and Predrag S Krstic

Mapping the intracellular distribution of carbon nanotubes after targeted delivery to carcinoma cells using confocal Raman imaging as a label-free technique
C Lamprecht, N Gierlinger, Elena Heister, B Unterauer, B Plochberger, M Brameshuber, P Hinterdorfer, S Hild and A Ebner

An approach to measure electromechanical properties of atomic and molecular junctions
Ilya V Pobelov, Gabor Meszaros, Koji Yoshida, Artem Mishchenko, Murat Gulcur, Martin R Bryce and Thomas Wandlowski

Metal atomic contact under electrochemical potential control
Manabu Kiguchi and Kei Murakoshi

High-fidelity chemical patterning on oxide-free germanium
J Nathan Hohman, Moonhee Kim, Jeffrey A Lawrence, Patrick D McClanahan and Paul S Weiss

Quasi 3D imaging of DNA-gold nanoparticle tetrahedral structures
Avigail Stern, Dvir Rotem, Inna Popov and Danny Porath

Electron transport properties of single molecular junctions under mechanical modulations
Jianfeng Zhou, Cunlan Guo and Bingqian Xu

Effect of electrostatics on aggregation of prion protein Sup35 peptide
Alexander M Portillo, Alexey V Krasnoslobodtsev and Yuri Lyubchenko

Rectification in substituted atomic wires: a theoretical insight
Yoshihiro Asai

Special issue: Strongly correlated electron systems

High energy pseudogap and its evolution with doping in Fe-based superconductors as revealed by optical spectroscopy
N L Wang, W Z Hu, Z G Chen, R H Yuan, G Li, G F Chen and T Xiang

Structural investigations on YbRh₂Si₂: from atomic to macroscopic length scale
Steffen Wirth, S Ernst, R Cardoso-Gil, H Borrmann, Silvia Seiro, Cornelius Krellner, Christoph Geibel, Stefan Kirchner, U Burkhardt, Yuri Grin and Frank Steglich

Magnetism, f-electron localization and superconductivity in 122-type heavy-fermion metals
Frank Steglich, Julia Arndt, Oliver Stockert, Sven Friedemann, Manuel Brando, Christoph Klingner, Cornelius Krellner, Christoph Geibel and Steffen Wirth

Special issue: Physics in one dimension

Local density of states of the one-dimensional spinless fermion model
Eric Jeckelmann

Special issue: Physics in one dimension

Local spectral properties of Luttinger liquids: scaling versus nonuniversal energy scales
Dirk Schuricht, Sabine Andergassen and Volker Meden

Special issue: Ultrathin layers of graphene

Optimizing long-range order, bandgap and group velocities for graphene on close-packed metal surfaces
Fabian D Natterer, Stefano Rusponi, Marco Papagno, Carlo Carbone and Harald Brune

Physics of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001)
Hiroyuki Kageshima, Hiroki Hibino and Shinichi Tanabe

Special issue: Liquid matter

Water and other tetrahedral liquids: order, anomalies and solvation
B Shadrack Jabes, Divya Nayar, Debdas Dhabal, Valeria Molinero and Charusita Chakravarty

A density-functional theory study of microphase formation in binary gaussian mixtures
Marcello Carta, Davide Pini, Alberto Parola and Luciano Reatto

Microcanonical determination of the interface tension of flat and curved interfaces from Monte Carlo simulations
Andreas Troster and Kurt Binder

Phase diagrams of particles with dissimilar patches: X junctions and Y junctions
Jose M Tavares and Paulo I C Teixeira

Fluid–fluid demixing of off-critical colloid-polymer systems confined between parallel plates
Elizabeth A G Jamie, Roel P A Dullens and Dirk G A L Aarts

The unbearable heaviness of colloids: facts, surprises, and puzzles in sedimentation
Roberto Piazza, Stefano Buzzaccaro and Eleonora Secchi

Exploring water and other liquids at negative pressure
Frederic Caupin, Anraud Arvengas, Kristina Davitt, Mouna El Mekki, Claire Ramboz, David A Sessoms and Abraham D Stroock

The configurational space of colloidal patchy polymers with heterogeneous sequences
Ivan Coluzza and Christoph Dellago

Repeated sorption of water in SBA-15 investigated by means of in-situ small-angle X-ray scattering
Maxim Erko, Dirk Wallacher, Gerhard H Findenegg and Oskar Paris

The effects of topology on the structural, dynamical and mechanical properties of network-forming materials
Mark Wilson

Transition of the hydration state of a surfactant accompanying structural transitions of self-assembled aggregates
Mafumi Hishida and Koichiro Tanaka

Surface tension of electrolyte-air interface: a Monte-Carlo study
Alexandre Diehl, Alexandre Pereira dos Santos and Yan Levin

Diffusion coefficient and shear viscosity of rigid water models
Sami Tazi, Alexandru Botan, Mathieu Salanne, Virginie Marry, Pierre Turq and Benjamin Rotenberg

Phase behaviour of colloidal assemblies on 2D corrugated substrates
Samir El Shawish, Emmanuel Trizac and Jure Dobnikar

Structural properties of dendrimer-colloid mixtures
Dominic A Lenz, Ronald Blaak and Christos N Likos

Comparing light-induced colloidal quasicrystals with different rotational symmetries
Michael Schmiedeberg and Holger Stark

Hydrogen bond network relaxation in aqueous polyelectrolyte solutions: the effect of temperature
Stefano Sarti, Domenico Truzzolillo and Federico Bordi

Equilibrium concentration profiles and sedimentation kinetics of colloidal gels under gravitational stress
Stefano Buzzaccaro, Eleonora Secchi, Giovanni Brambilla, Roberto Piazza and Luca Cipelletti

Hydrodynamic and viscoelastic effects in polymer diffusion
Jean Farago, Hendrik Meyer, Joerg Baschnagel and Alexander N Semenov

The capillary interaction between two vertical cylinders
Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella

Special issue: Molecular switches at surfaces

Reversible switching of single tin phthalocyanine molecules on the InAs(111)A surface
C Nacci, K Kanisawa and S Foelsch

Vibrational heating in single-molecule switches: an energy dependent density of states approach
Thomas Brumme, Rafael Gutierrez and Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Carbon nanotubes as substrates for molecular spiropyran-based switches
Ermin Malic, Antonio Setaro, Pascal Bluemmel, Carlos F Sanz-Navarro, Pablo Ordejon, Stephanie Reich and Andreas Knorr

Ultrafast dynamics of dithienylethenes differently linked to the surface of TiO₂ nanoparticles
Lars Dworak, Marc Zastrow, Gehad Zeyat, Karola Rueck-Braun and Josef Wachtveitl

Special issue: Molecular switches at surfaces

Optically and thermally induced molecular switching processes at metal surfaces
Petra Tegeder

Papers: Liquids, Soft Matter and Biological Physics

The structure of liquid SnTe under pressure
Andreas Hinzmann, Ayano Chiba and Kazuhiko Tsuji
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Simulation of fluid–solid coexistence via thermodynamic integration using a modified cell model
Michael Nayhouse, Ankur M Amlani, Vincent R Heng and G Orkoulas
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Surface, Interface and Atomic-Scale Science

Morphology of monolayer films on quasicrystalline surfaces from the phase field crystal model
Joerg Rottler, Michael Greenwood and Benedikt Ziebarth
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Surface nucleation and growth in the system of interacting particles
Zdenek Chvoj and Zdenka Chromcova
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Buckling instability of circular double-layered graphene sheets
Toshiaki Natsuki, Jin-Xing Shi and Qing-Qing Ni
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Gap opening in the zero Landau level in gapped graphene: pseudo-Zeeman splitting in an angular magnetic field
M Tahir and Kashif Sabeeh
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Nanostructures and Nanoelectronics

On the temperature dependence of ballistic Coulomb drag in nanowires
Mag I Muradov and Vadim L Gurevich
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

The effects of magnetopolaron on the energy gap opening in graphene
Wei-Ping Li, Zi-Wu Wang, Ji-Wen Yin and Yi-Fu Yu
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Solid Structure and Lattice Dynamics

Vibrational properties and phase transitions in II-VI materials: lattice dynamics, ab initio studies and inelastic neutron scattering measurements
Tista Basak, Mala N Rao, M K Gupta and Samrath L Chaplot
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Pressure-induced structural change in orthorhombic perovskite GdMnO₃
Chuanlong Lin, Yufeng Zhang, Jing Liu, Xiaodong Li, Yanchun Li, Linyun Tang and Lun Xiong
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Structural investigations on an amorphous Se₉₀Te₁₀ alloy produced by mechanical alloying considering EXAFS, cumulant expansion and RMC simulations
Isabela M Kostrzepa, Mariana C Siqueira, Kleber D Machado, Gabriel A Maciel, Dario F Sanchez and Silvio Francisco Brunatto
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Negative thermal expansion in crystals with the zincblende structure: an EXAFS study of CdTe
All Naglaa Abd el , Giusepe Dalba, Djibril Diop, Paolo Fornasini, R Grisenti, O Mathon, Francesco Rocca, Bridinette Thiodjio Sendja and Marco Vaccari
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Reappearance of ferroelectric soft modes in the paraelectric phase of Pb_1-xCa_xTiO₃ at high pressures: Raman and x-ray diffraction studies
Abhisek Basu, Amreesh Chandra, A K Tyagi and Goutam Dev Mukherjee
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Phonon properties of CoSb₂ single crystals
Nenad Lazarevic, M M Radonjic, Rongwei Hu, Darko Tanaskovic, Cedomir Petrovic and Zoran V Popovic
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Temperature dependence of Cr³⁺:YAG zero phonon lines
Marco Marceddu, Marianna Manca, Pier Carlo Ricci and Alberto Anedda
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Electronic Structure

Electronic structure study of ultra thin Ag(111) films modified by Si(111) substrate and by the √3 x √3-Ag₂Bi surface
Manami Ogawa, P M Sheverdyaeva, P Moras, D Topwal, A Harasawa, K Kobayashi, C Carbone and I Matsuda
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

An order-N electronic structure theory with generalized eigen-value equations and its application to a ten-million-atom system
Takeo Hoshi, Susumu Yamamoto, Takeo Fujiwara, Tomohiro Sogabe and Shao-Liang Zhang
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Pressure-induced phase transition in LiLuF₄:Pr³⁺ investigated by optical technique
Agata Lazarowska, Sebastian Mahlik, Marek Krosnicki, Marek Grinberg and Michal Malinowski
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Modelling impurity-assisted chain creation in noble-metal break junctions
Napoli Solange Di, Alexander Thiess, Stefan Bluegel and Y Mokrousov
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Correlated Electrons

Exact entanglement studies of strongly correlated systems: role of long-range interactions and symmetries of the system
Shaon Sahoo, V M L Durga Prasad Goli, S Ramasesha and Diptiman Sen
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Evolution from non-Fermi liquid Kondo lattice to intermediate valence behaviour in CeRhSn_{1-x}In_{x}
Andrzej Slebarski, Marcin Fijalkowski and Jerzy Goraus
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Many-electron scattering applied to atomic point contacts
Shane McDermott and J C Greer
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Papers: Superconductors and Metals

Large local disorder in the superconducting K_0.8Fe_1.6Se₂ studied by extended x-ray absorption fine structure
A Iadecola, Boby Joseph, L Simonelli, A Puri, Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Hiroyuki Takeya, Yoshihiko Takano and Naurang Lal Saini
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

The superconducting transition temperatures of Fe_1+xSe_1–y, Fe_1+xSe_1–yTe_y and (K/Rb/Cs)_zFe_2–xSe₂
Dale R Harshman and Anthony T Fiory
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Anomalous interlayer magnetoresistance in bilayer crystals
Michael F Smith
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Papers: Semiconductors

Valence band mixing of cubic GaN/AlN quantum dots
Carlos Segarra, Juan Ignacio Climente and Josep Planelles
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Structural, vibrational and optical studies on an amorphous Se₉₀P₁₀ alloy produced by mechanical alloying
E C Oliveira, E Deflon, Kleber D Machado, T G Silva and A S Mangrich
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Optical spectroscopy study of damage induced in 4H-SiC by swift-heavy ion irradiations
S Sorieul, X Kerbiriou, J-M Costantini, L Gosmain, G Calas and Christina Trautmann
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics

Temperature-dependant electrical, elastic and magnetic properties of sol-gel synthesized Bi_0.9Ln_0.1FeO₃ (Ln = Nd, Sm)
Jason A Schiemer, R L Withers, Michael A Carpenter, Yun Liu, Jianli Wang, Lasse Noren, Qian Li and Wayne D Hutchison
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Phase transitions and incommensurability in the layered semiconductor TlInS₂—an NMR study
Alexander M Panich, Dmitry Mogilyansky and Rauf Sardarly
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Papers: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Current-induced exchange interactions and effective temperature in localized moment systems
Sebastian Diaz and Alvaro S Nunez
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Magnetic properties of the spin \it S=1/2 Heisenberg chain with hexamer modulation of exchange
M Shahri Naseri, Giorgi I Japaridze, Saeed Mahdavifar and S Farjami Shayesteh
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Evidence of interactions in Co-HfO₂ granular films
Megha Chadha and Vivian Ng
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Observation of Griffiths phase in antiferromagnetic La_0.32Eu_0.68MnO₃
A Karmakar, Subham Majumdar, S Kundu, Tapan K Nath and Saurav Giri
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Exchange interactions and T_c in rhenium doped silicon: DFT, DFT+U and Monte Carlo calculations
Malgorzata Wierzbowska
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Magnetic structure of the ferromagnetic new ternary silicide Nd₅CoSi₂
C Mayer, E Gaudin, S Gorsse, F Porcher, G Andre and B Chevalier
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Viewpoints

Can spinpolarized photoemission measure spin properties in condensed matter?
Juerg Osterwalder
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012