Solid State Communications

Editor-in-Chief: A. Pinczuk Dept. of Appl. Physics & Appl. Mathematics, and Dept. of Physics, Columbia University, 550 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA, Executive Editorial Board: H. Akai Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-Cho, 560-0043 Toyonaka-Shi, Japan, S. Das Sarma Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, A.H. MacDonald Dept. of Physics, University of Texas, Mail Stop C 1600, Austin, TX 78712, USA, P. Sheng Dept. of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, A.K. Sood Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, 560012 Bangalore, India, C. Tejedor de Paz Depto. de Ingenieria Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Francisco Tomás Y Valiente, 11, 28049 Madrid, Spain, Editorial Board: E. Andrei Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8, USA, G.E.W. Bauer Kavli Inst. of NanoScience, Theoretical Physics Group, Technische Universiteit Delft, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, Netherlands, L. Brey ICMM, CSIC, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 3, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain, J.A. Brum Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab., Brazilian Association on Synchrotron Light Laborat, C.P. 6192, 13087-970 Campinas (SP), Brazil, P. Chaddah University Campus, Consortium for Scientific Research, Khandwa Road, 452017 Indore, India, J.R. Chelikowsky Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station (C0200), Austin, TX 78712-0027, USA, X.-H. Chen Dept. of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, 230026 Hefei, China, K. Ensslin Solid State Physics Lab., Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, CH 8093 Zurich, Switzerland, V. Fal'ko Dept. of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK, J. Fontcuberta Inst. De Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Cataluny, Spain, R. Gebauer Condensed Matter Section, The Abdus Salam Intnl. Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 1-34151 Trieste,, M. Grynberg Inst. of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland, R.J. Haug Institut für Festkörperphysik, Abteilung Nanostrukturen, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstrße 2, D-30167 Hannover, Germany, P. Hawrylak Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada, M. Heiblum Dept. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel, H. Hosono Materials and Structures Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-Ku, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan, E.L. Ivchenko A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Inst., Russian Academy of Sciences, Politechnicheskaya 26, 194021 St.. Petersburg, Russian Federation, L.V. Keldysh P.N. Lebedev Physical Inst., Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospect 53, 117924 Moscow, Russian Federation, T. Kimura Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, 560-8531 Osaka, Japan, C. Lacroix CNRS, Institut Néel, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France, A. Lichtenstein I. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, 20355 Hamburg, Germany, D.J. Lockwood Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada, Y.E. Lozovik Inst. of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fizicheskaya 5, Troitzk, 142190 Moscow, Russian Federation, R. Merlin Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA, S. Miyashita Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033 Bunkyo-Ku, Japan, A. Morpurgo DPMC and GAP, Université de Genève, 24, quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH1211 Geneva, Switzerland, T.T.M. Palstra Materials Science Center, Zernike Inst. for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands, F. Peeters Campus Middelheim, Condensed Matter Theory, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium, V. Pellegrini Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, piazza Dei Cavalieri, 56126 Pisa, Italy, R.T. Phillips Cavendish Lab., University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EE, UK, J.F. Sadoc Lab. de Physique Solides, Université Paris-Sud (Paris XI), 15 rue Georges Clemenceau bat. 510, 91405 Orsay, France, E.V. Sampathkumaran Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road