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ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.

•	Formation energy and lattice relaxation for point defects in Li and Al R. Benedek, L. H. Yang, C. Woodward, and B. I. Min pp. 2607-2612 [View Page Images , PDF (1134 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equation of state of lithium deuteride from neutron diffraction under high pressure J. M. Besson, G. Weill, G. Hamel, R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday, and S. Hull pp. 2613-2619 [View Page Images , PDF (1282 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Algebraic scaling of material strength W. A. Curtin and H. Scher pp. 2620-2627 [View Page Images , PDF (1259 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Melting, growth, and faceting of lead precipitates in aluminum L. Grb, J. Bohr, H. H. Andersen, A. Johansen, E. Johnson, L. Sarholt-Kristensen, and I. K. Robinson pp. 2628-2637 [View Page Images , PDF (1576 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Switching in KNbO3 single crystals containing cooperatively ordered impurity dipoles S. G. Ingle and J. G. Dupare pp. 2638-2647 [View Page Images , PDF (1121 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray-absorption near-edge structure of transition-metal zinc-blende semiconductors: Calculation versus experimental data and the pre-edge feature David A. McKeown pp. 2648-2653 [View Page Images , PDF (1012 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio molecular-cluster study of the (TlI)n crystal P. Otto, F. Wagner, and H. P. Beck pp. 2654-2661 [View Page Images , PDF (1151 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous-x-ray-scattering study of local order in bcc Fe0.53Cr0.47 L. Reinhard, J. L. Robertson, S. C. Moss, G. E. Ice, P. Zschack, and C. J. Sparks pp. 2662-2676 [View Page Images , PDF (2720 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of liquid carbon measured by femtosecond spectroscopy D. H. Reitze, H. Ahn, and M. C. Downer pp. 2677-2693 [View Page Images , PDF (3240 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the dynamics of a two-dimensional dislocation-mediated melting Ch. Simon, I. Rosenman, F. Batallan, C. Lartigue, and J. F. Legrand pp. 2694-2698 [View Page Images , PDF (728 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the singular free energy for triglycine selenate and triglycine sulfate ferroelectrics B. Westwański, A. Ogaza, and B. Fugiel pp. 2699-2703 [View Page Images , PDF (768 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free-energy amplitudes and a critical invariant for uniaxial ferroelectrics B. Westwański and B. Fugiel pp. 2704-2708 [View Page Images , PDF (624 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Embedded-cluster study of Cu+-induced lattice relaxation in alkali halides Jun Zuo, Ravindra Pandey, and A. Barry Kunz pp. 2709-2711 [View Page Images , PDF (458 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Anomalous localization in a nonuniformly disordered medium E. Altshuler and E. Shimshoni pp. 2712-2716 [View Page Images , PDF (922 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transmission through a Thue-Morse chain Y. Avishai and D. Berend pp. 2717-2724 [View Page Images , PDF (1231 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Freezing in a two-dimensional Glauber system under continuous cooling Stephen Cornell, Kimmo Kaski, and Robin Stinchcombe pp. 2725-2738 [View Page Images , PDF (2332 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and electronic properties of the liquid polyvalent elements. IV. The pentavalent semimetals and trends across the periodic table J. Hafner and W. Jank pp. 2739-2749 [View Page Images , PDF (1617 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermally activated relaxation processes in vitreous silica: An investigation by Brillouin scattering at high pressures D. Tielbürger, R. Merz, R. Ehrenfels, and S. Hunklinger pp. 2750-2760 [View Page Images , PDF (1972 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical multiple-scattering calculation of nonlinear elastic constants of disordered solids T. K. Ballabh, M. Paul, T. R. Middya, and A. N. Basu pp. 2761-2771 [View Page Images , PDF (1534 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.

•	Effect of trapping on transport coherence Ivan Barvk and Pavel Heman pp. 2772-2778 [View Page Images , PDF (677 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition in the one-dimensional quantum roughening model Rosario Fazio, Giuseppe Falci, and Gaetano Giaquinta pp. 2779-2785 [View Page Images , PDF (1010 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of H-D isotopic substitution on the protonic conductivity of LiNbO3 S. Klauer, M. Wo¨hlecke, and S. Kapphan pp. 2786-2799 [View Page Images , PDF (2540 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear spin-spin relaxation of isotopic impurities in solid hydrogen M. Rall, D. Zhou, Erika G. Kisvarsanyi, and N. S. Sullivan pp. 2800-2808 [View Page Images , PDF (1468 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivities of a clathrate with and without guest molecules Marek Zakrzewski and Mary Anne White pp. 2809-2817 [View Page Images , PDF (1333 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon anomalies in β-phase NixAl1-x alloys G. L. Zhao and B. N. Harmon pp. 2818-2824 [View Page Images , PDF (1086 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature-dependent femtosecond dephasing of vibronic lines in a Nile-blue-doped polymer system S. Nakanishi, H. Ohta, N. Makimoto, H. Itoh, and M. Kawase pp. 2825-2829 [View Page Images , PDF (800 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Magnetic interactions, weak ferromagnetism, and field-induced transitions in Nd2NiO4 X. Batlle, X. Obradors, and B. Martnez pp. 2830-2843 [View Page Images , PDF (2438 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature ESR and magnetic behavior of CrCl3- and NiCl2-based intercalation and bi-intercalation compounds S. Chehab, P. Biensan, S. Flandrois, and J. Amiell pp. 2844-2854 [View Page Images , PDF (1743 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization, Curie temperature, and magnetic anisotropy of strained (111) Ni/Au superlattices J. R. Childress, C. L. Chien, and A. F. Jankowski pp. 2855-2862 [View Page Images , PDF (1339 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-order transition in the hexagonal-close-packed lattice with vector spins H. T. Diep pp. 2863-2867 [View Page Images , PDF (738 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin and orbital contributions to surface magnetism in 3d elements Olle Eriksson, A. M. Boring, R. C. Albers, G. W. Fernando, and B. R. Cooper pp. 2868-2875 [View Page Images , PDF (1443 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Square Ising model with second-neighbor interactions and the Ising chain in a transverse field Marcelo D. Grynberg and B. Tanatar pp. 2876-2882 [View Page Images , PDF (1187 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of the two-dimensional XY model Rajan Gupta and Clive F. Baillie pp. 2883-2898 [View Page Images , PDF (2236 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible Néel orderings of the Kagomé antiferromagnet A. B. Harris, C. Kallin, and A. J. Berlinsky pp. 2899-2919 [View Page Images , PDF (2689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron powder-diffraction study of Pr2Fe17 and Pr2Fe17N2.9 O. Isnard, S. Miraglia, J. L. Soubeyroux, D. Fruchart, and J. Pannetier pp. 2920-2926 [View Page Images , PDF (861 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Gd3+ EPR study of NH4Ce(SO4)2⋅4H2O and NH4Sm(SO4)2⋅4H2O single crystals: Structural phase transitions and the systematics of the zero-field-splitting parameter in Gd3+-doped isostructural NH4R(SO4)2⋅4H2O (R=La,Ce,Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu) single crystals Sushil K. Misra and Xiaochuan Li pp. 2927-2933 [View Page Images , PDF (1170 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total energies and magnetic moments in Fe, V, and ordered FeV V. L. Moruzzi and P. M. Marcus pp. 2934-2938 [View Page Images , PDF (815 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of magnetic order in UPdSn R. A. Robinson, A. C. Lawson, J. W. Lynn, and K. H. Buschow pp. 2939-2944 [View Page Images , PDF (820 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Tracing the cause of the absence of singular behavior in the response of condensed liquid 4He C. Carraro and A. S. Rinat pp. 2945-2949 [View Page Images , PDF (711 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the environment on the Coulomb blockade in submicrometer normal-metal tunnel junctions A. N. Cleland, J. M. Schmidt, and John Clarke pp. 2950-2961 [View Page Images , PDF (1885 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for antiferromagnetic order in UBe13 via magnetovolume effects A. de Visser, N. H. van Dijk, K. Bakker, J. J. Franse, A. Lacerda, J. Flouquet, Z. Fisk, and J. L. Smith pp. 2962-2968 [View Page Images , PDF (1177 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation spectrum of the vapor-liquid 4He interface K. A. Gernoth and M. L. Ristig pp. 2969-2980 [View Page Images , PDF (1842 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-field Hall voltage in the anyon superconductor James E. Hetrick and Yutaka Hosotani pp. 2981-2985 [View Page Images , PDF (768 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean-field treatment of the hybridization influence on narrow-band superconductivity Gloria M. Japiassú, Mucio A. Continentino, and Amós Troper pp. 2986-2992 [View Page Images , PDF (913 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface studies of spin-polarized atomic hydrogen L. Pollack, S. Buchman, and T. J. Greytak pp. 2993-3002 [View Page Images , PDF (1728 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of current direction on the dynamics of Josephson-junction arrays L. L. Sohn, M. S. Rzchowski, J. U. Free, M. Tinkham, and C. J. Lobb pp. 3003-3012 [View Page Images , PDF (1636 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Circularly-symmetric-soliton motion in an annular Josephson junction Qianghua Wang, Wei Wang, and Xixian Yao pp. 3013-3017 [View Page Images , PDF (761 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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de Haas–van Alphen studies of the organic superconductors α-(ET)2(NH4)Hg(SCN)4 and κ-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2 [with ET = bis(ethelenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene] J. Wosnitza, G. W. Crabtree, H. H. Wang, U. Geiser, J. M. Williams, and K. D. Carlson pp. 3018-3025 [View Page Images , PDF (1342 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical studies of untwinned Y2Ba4Cu6+nO14+n(n=1,2): Interpretation of superconducting gaps B. Bucher, J. Karpinski, E. Kaldis, and P. Wachter pp. 3026-3036 [View Page Images , PDF (1832 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Raman scattering in insulating YBa2Cu3O6 as a probe of its electronic structure E. T. Heyen, J. Kircher, and M. Cardona pp. 3037-3047 [View Page Images , PDF (2059 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum nucleation and thermal activation of vortex rings in high-Tc superconductors H. Jiang, A. Widom, Y. Huang, T. Yuan, C. Vittoria, D. B. Chrisey, and J. S. Horwitz pp. 3048-3053 [View Page Images , PDF (702 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic-vortex-flux production and retention in grain-oriented YBa2Cu3O7 Liwen Liu, J. S. Kouvel, and T. O. Brun pp. 3054-3058 [View Page Images , PDF (810 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiferromagnetic correlations and nuclear magnetic relaxation in high-Tc superconductors: A critical reexamination A. J. Millis and H. Monien pp. 3059-3076 [View Page Images , PDF (2930 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure dependence of Tc and Hc2 of YBa2Cu4O8 J. J. Scholtz, E. N. van Eenige, R. J. Wijngaarden, and R. Griessen pp. 3077-3082 [View Page Images , PDF (894 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pinning-force scaling and magnetic relaxation in doped Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films L. W. Song, M. Yang, E. Chen, and Y. H. Kao pp. 3083-3092 [View Page Images , PDF (1508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Constraints on the temperature dependence of the magnetic penetration depth of superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x from measurements of the low-temperature specific heat S. E. Stupp, W. C. Lee, J. Giapintzakis, and D. M. Ginsberg pp. 3093-3097 [View Page Images , PDF (713 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Restoration of superconducting properties of proton-implanted ceramic YBa2Cu3O7-x by annealing in oxygen Katsuhiro Yokota, Takeshi Kura, Saichi Katayama, Mitsukazu Ochi, Mitsuaki Murakami, Akiyoshi Chayahara, and Mamoru Satho pp. 3098-3102 [View Page Images , PDF (928 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.

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Determination of the structural distortions corresponding to the q1- and q2-type modulations in niobium triselenide NbSe3 Sander van Smaalen, Jan L. de Boer, Auke Meetsma, Heinz Graafsma, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu, Alex Darovskikh, Philip Coppens, and F. Levy pp. 3103-3106 [View Page Images , PDF (638 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Extended states in finite one-dimensional, disordered, highly doped, ItransR-polyacetylene chains F. C. Lavarda, D. S. Galvo, and B. Laks pp. 3107-3110 [View Page Images , PDF (539 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagating microscopic temperature fluctuations in a dense helium fluid at 13.3 K W. Montfrooij, L. A. de Graaf, and I. M. de Schepper pp. 3111-3114 [View Page Images , PDF (583 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.

•	Exact diffusion constant in a lattice-gas wind-tree model on a Bethe lattice Guihua Zhang and J. K. Percus pp. 3115-3116 [View Page Images , PDF (247 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Exchange-field penetration into a tunnel barrier: Spin selection in electron tunneling from a paramagnet to a ferromagnet N. Garca and A. Hernando pp. 3117-3118 [View Page Images , PDF (355 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagrams at diamagnetic phase transitions B. Grushko, A. Gordon, I. D. Vagner, and P. Wyder pp. 3119-3121 [View Page Images , PDF (495 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-m spin excitations in the one-dimensional Ising ferromagnet [(CH3)3NH]FeCl3⋅2H2O Donald N. Haines, K. Ravindran, and John E. Drumheller pp. 3122-3125 [View Page Images , PDF (603 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	EPR study of the phase transition in Mn2+-doped ammonium hydrogen oxalate hemihydrate single crystals V. K. Jain and Veena Kapoor pp. 3126-3128 [View Page Images , PDF (340 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic ordering in the three-dimensional frustrated Heisenberg model J. R. Thomson, Hong Guo, D. H. Ryan, M. J. Zuckermann, and Martin Grant pp. 3129-3132 [View Page Images , PDF (636 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Superconducting properties of indium in the restricted geometry of porous Vycor glass M. J. Graf, T. E. Huber, and C. A. Huber pp. 3133-3136 [View Page Images , PDF (643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gutzwiller wave function for a model of strongly interacting bosons Werner Krauth, Michel Caffarel, and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud pp. 3137-3140 [View Page Images , PDF (580 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic energy of the Abrikosov flux-line lattice for anisotropic superconductors: Low inductions Edson Sardella pp. 3141-3144 [View Page Images , PDF (426 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rigorous theorems on off-diagonal long-range order in the negative-U Hubbard model Guang-Shan Tian pp. 3145-3148 [View Page Images , PDF (604 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Test for nonreciprocal circular birefringence in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 S. Spielman, J. S. Dodge, K. Fesler, L. W. Lombardo, M. M. Fejer, T. H. Geballe, and A. Kapitulnik pp. 3149-3151 [View Page Images , PDF (484 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat of Tl monolayer and bilayer superconducting phases Bal K. Agrawal, J. S. Negi, P. S. Yadav, and S. Agrawal pp. 3152-3155 [View Page Images , PDF (521 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Local structure of the axial Fe3+ center in the K+ site of a KTaO3 crystal Zheng Wen-Chen pp. 3156-3157 [View Page Images , PDF (325 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetism

Unusual field-induced transition in a frustrated itinerant antiferromagnet R. Ballou, B. Ouladdiaf, P. J. Brown, M. D. Nunez Regueiro, and C. Lacroix pp. 3158-3160 [View Page Images , PDF (408 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ab initio calculation of local magnetic moments and the crystal field in scrR2Fe14B (scrR=Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er) K. Hummler and M. Fähnle pp. 3161-3163 [View Page Images , PDF (539 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Collective excitations and sum rules for the Hubbard model in the spin-density-wave regime H. Monien and K. S. Bedell pp. 3164-3167 [View Page Images , PDF (628 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bosonization with constraints: Application to the one-dimensional t-J model D. Schmeltzer and A. R. Bishop pp. 3168-3171 [View Page Images , PDF (456 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Charge distribution in Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 E. M. Haines and J. L. Tallon pp. 3172-3175 [View Page Images , PDF (518 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ion-size effect on Tc in (R1-xPrx)Ba2Cu3O7-y systems (R=Nd, Eu, Gd, Dy, Y, Er, and Yb) Yunhui Xu and Weiyan Guan pp. 3176-3179 [View Page Images , PDF (581 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]