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ARTICLES

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

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Simultaneous laser-induced fluorescence and quadrupole-mass-spectroscopy studies of electron-stimulated desorption of ground-state lithium atoms from lithium fluoride crystals N. Seifert, D. Liu, A. Barnes, R. Albridge, Q. Yan, N. Tolk, W. Husinsky, and G. Betz pp. 7653-7658 [View Page Images , PDF (1144 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular-dynamics simulation of stress relaxation on a triangular lattice Witold Brostow and Josef Kubát pp. 7659-7667 [View Page Images , PDF (1715 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron- and x-ray-diffraction measurements of the bulk modulus of boron R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday, D. R. Allan, J. M. Besson, G. Hamel, P. Grima, and S. Hull pp. 7668-7673 [View Page Images , PDF (1068 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anelastic (dielectric) relaxation of point defects at any concentration, with blocking effects and formation of complexes F. Cordero pp. 7674-7685 [View Page Images , PDF (2099 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of semi-empirical potential functions for silicon and germanium Stephen J. Cook and Paulette Clancy pp. 7686-7699 [View Page Images , PDF (2647 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic instability of crystals caused by static atom displacement: A mechanism for solid-state amorphization J. Koike pp. 7700-7704 [View Page Images , PDF (936 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular dynamics of silicon indentation J. S. Kallman, W. G. Hoover, C. G. Hoover, A. J. De Groot, S. M. Lee, and F. Wooten pp. 7705-7709 [View Page Images , PDF (1298 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dislocation nucleation and crack stability: Lattice Green’s-function treatment of cracks in a model hexagonal lattice S. J. Zhou, A. E. Carlsson, and Robb Thomson pp. 7710-7719 [View Page Images , PDF (2008 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase stability of wüstite at high pressure from first-principles linearized augmented plane-wave calculations Donald G. Isaak, Ronald E. Cohen, Michael J. Mehl, and David J. Singh pp. 7720-7731 [View Page Images , PDF (2361 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Time-differential perturbed-angular-correlation studies of the amorphous Cu-Hf alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and melt spinning I. Kanazawa, T. Oguchi, T. Ohata, K. Tokumitsu, Y. Sakurai, S. Nanao, and T. Iwashita pp. 7732-7735 [View Page Images , PDF (636 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple theory of electronic-structure calculations for amorphous transition-metal alloys Y. Kakehashi, H. Tanaka, and M. Yu pp. 7736-7746 [View Page Images , PDF (1605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural stabilization, linear conductances, and pseudogaps in compartmentalized solids, liquids, and glasses J. C. Phillips pp. 7747-7759 [View Page Images , PDF (2763 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray creation and activation of electron spin resonance in vitreous silica F. L. Galeener, D. B. Kerwin, A. J. Miller, and J. C. Mikkelsen pp. 7760-7779 [View Page Images , PDF (3814 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bragg remnants in stratified random media C. Martijn de Sterke and R. C. McPhedran pp. 7780-7787 [View Page Images , PDF (1349 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path-integral Monte Carlo study of a model adsorbate with internal quantum states D. Marx, P. Nielaba, and K. Binder pp. 7788-7804 [View Page Images , PDF (3475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Normal vibrations and Jahn-Teller effect for polymers and quasi-one-dimensional systems Ivanka Milošević and Milan Damnjanović pp. 7805-7818 [View Page Images , PDF (1930 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Active subclusters in percolative hopping transport Kendall Mallory pp. 7819-7826 [View Page Images , PDF (1409 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear transport of vibrational energy in a random molecular chain A. V. Zolotaryuk, K. H. Spatschek, and O. Kluth pp. 7827-7839 [View Page Images , PDF (2157 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stepwise phase modulation of recoilless gamma radiation in a coincidence experiment: Gamma echo Ilkka Tittonen, Mikk Lippmaa, Panu Helistö, and Toivo Katila pp. 7840-7846 [View Page Images , PDF (1172 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explicit orbits for renormalization maps for Green functions on fractal lattices W. A. Schwalm and M. K. Schwalm pp. 7847-7858 [View Page Images , PDF (1951 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic correlations of the classical and quantum Toda lattices A. Cuccoli, M. Spicci, V. Tognetti, and R. Vaia pp. 7859-7868 [View Page Images , PDF (1510 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational analysis of benitoite (BaTiSi3O9) and the Si3O9 ring Charles C. Kim, M. I. Bell, and D. A. McKeown pp. 7869-7877 [View Page Images , PDF (1728 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Magnetic structure of ordered FeAl and FeV V. L. Moruzzi and P. M. Marcus pp. 7878-7884 [View Page Images , PDF (1098 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin canting, surface magnetization, and finite-size effects in γ-Fe2O3 particles F. T. Parker, M. W. Foster, D. T. Margulies, and A. E. Berkowitz pp. 7885-7891 [View Page Images , PDF (1158 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic first-order phase transition and crossover associated with random anisotropy in crystalline DyxY1-xAl2 A. del Moral, J. I. Arnaudas, P. M. Gehring, M. B. Salamon, C. Ritter, E. Joven, and J. Cullen pp. 7892-7896 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of spin waves for magnetic-overlayer systems Qiang Hong and Qiaoli Yang pp. 7897-7902 [View Page Images , PDF (976 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled-cluster method for quantum lattices: Application to square S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets Frank E. Harris pp. 7903-7909 [View Page Images , PDF (1111 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spiral states in the three-band Hubbard model: A Hartree-Fock and variational quantum Monte Carlo approach F. F. Assaad pp. 7910-7918 [View Page Images , PDF (1526 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse and longitudinal spin correlations in a-Fe92Zr7Sn Hong Ren and D. H. Ryan pp. 7919-7924 [View Page Images , PDF (1023 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diluted and random-bond Ising model for the Fe-Al disordered alloys E. Mina, A. Boho´rquez, Ligia E. Zamora, and G. A. Pe´rez Alcazar pp. 7925-7928 [View Page Images , PDF (732 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg systems Pedro de Vries and Hans De Raedt pp. 7929-7937 [View Page Images , PDF (1441 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distortions, excitations, and correlations of spins in a quantum antiferromagnet with a dynamic hole Y. M. Li, W. Y. Lai, Z. B. Su, and L. Yu pp. 7938-7943 [View Page Images , PDF (1003 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-field susceptibility of the antiferromagnetic square Ising lattice Stuart S. Burnett and Solomon Gartenhaus pp. 7944-7956 [View Page Images , PDF (2457 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Order of two-dimensional isotropic dipolar antiferromagnets C. Pich and F. Schwabl pp. 7957-7960 [View Page Images , PDF (577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-wave theory and finite-size scaling for the Heisenberg antiferromagnet Zheng Weihong and C. J. Hamer pp. 7961-7970 [View Page Images , PDF (1304 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small-amplitude solitary waves on a lattice subject to nonvanishing boundary conditions O. A. Chubykalo, V. V. Konotop, and L. Vázquez pp. 7971-7978 [View Page Images , PDF (1300 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory for a weak-coupling superconductor H. T. Stoof pp. 7979-7985 [View Page Images , PDF (1012 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle interferometer controlled by quantum-correlated Andreev reflection Hayato Nakano and Hideaki Takayanagi pp. 7986-7994 [View Page Images , PDF (1428 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Insulator, metal, or superconductor: The criteria Douglas J. Scalapino, Steven R. White, and Shoucheng Zhang pp. 7995-8007 [View Page Images , PDF (1739 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ba2-xKxPb1-yBiyO4-δ: Layered oxides with insulating or conducting properties and possible superconducting properties Marina Licheron and François Gervais pp. 8008-8015 [View Page Images , PDF (1510 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the surface boundary on the magnetization process in type-II superconductors Ryuzo Kato, Yoshihisa Enomoto, and Sadamichi Maekawa pp. 8016-8024 [View Page Images , PDF (1441 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of impure superconductors: Anderson versus Abrikosov and Gor’kov Yong-Jihn Kim and A. W. Overhauser pp. 8025-8029 [View Page Images , PDF (792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic textures of the three-band Hubbard Hamiltonian and their effect on the antiferromagnetic state Weiyi Zhang and K. H. Bennemann pp. 8030-8038 [View Page Images , PDF (1444 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural instabilities in the t-J model Anders Smith and Per Hedegård pp. 8039-8049 [View Page Images , PDF (1479 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistivity and superconductivity from anharmonic phonons G. D. Mahan and J. O. Sofo pp. 8050-8055 [View Page Images , PDF (1067 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic relaxation over the Bean-Livingston surface barrier L. Burlachkov pp. 8056-8064 [View Page Images , PDF (1637 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism and covalency in the two-dimensional three-band Peierls-Hubbard model K. Yonemitsu, A. R. Bishop, and J. Lorenzana pp. 8065-8075 [View Page Images , PDF (1786 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Correspondence between microwave and submillimeter absorptivity in epitaxial thin films of YBa2Cu3O7 D. Miller, P. L. Richards, S. Etemad, A. Inam, T. Venkatesan, B. Dutta, X. D. Wu, C. B. Eom, T. H. Geballe, N. Newman, and B. F. Cole pp. 8076-8088 [View Page Images , PDF (2642 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variation of the ab-plane normal-state resistance and the superconducting transition temperature of a YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystal to pressures of 13 GPa S. W. Tozer, J. L. Koston, and E. M. McCarron III pp. 8089-8095 [View Page Images , PDF (1315 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Determination of the intergrain critical-current distribution for polycrystalline (Tl,Pb)(Ba,Sr)2Ca2Cu3Oy superconductors from ac-susceptibility data Osvaldo F. Schilling, Katsuzo Aihara, Atsuko Soeta, Tomoichi Kamo, and Shin-pei Matsuda pp. 8096-8104 [View Page Images , PDF (1887 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defect chemistry and transport in YBa2Cu3O6+x J. Maier and H. L. Tuller pp. 8105-8110 [View Page Images , PDF (1080 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology-dependent intergranular behavior in high-Tc superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O T. B. Doyle and R. A. Doyle pp. 8111-8118 [View Page Images , PDF (1281 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High dielectric permittivity of ceramic and single-crystal PrBa2Cu3Ox G. P. Mazzara, S. Skirius, G. Cao, G. Chern, R. J. Clark, J. E. Crow, H. Mathias, J. W. O’Reilly, and L. R. Testardi pp. 8119-8123 [View Page Images , PDF (722 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical spin polarons M. J. Godfrey and J. M. Gunn pp. 8124-8130 [View Page Images , PDF (1143 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of d-wave energy-gap symmetry on Raman shifts E. J. Nicol, C. Jiang, and J. P. Carbotte pp. 8131-8139 [View Page Images , PDF (1476 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependences of the 340-, 440-, and 500-cm-1 Raman modes of YBa2Cu3Oy for 6.7≲ y≲7.0 E. Altendorf, X. K. Chen, J. C. Irwin, R. Liang, and W. N. Hardy pp. 8140-8150 [View Page Images , PDF (1871 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport properties of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4+δ crystals before and after reduction Wu Jiang, J. L. Peng, Z. Y. Li, and R. L. Greene pp. 8151-8155 [View Page Images , PDF (942 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Internal magnetic field in La2-xSrxCuO4:Gd observed by electron paramagnetic resonance C. Rettori, D. Rao, S. B. Oseroff, G. Amoretti, Z. Fisk, S-W. Cheong, D. Vier, S. Schultz, M. Tovar, R. D. Zysler, and J. E. Schirber pp. 8156-8166 [View Page Images , PDF (1664 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnon dispersion curve of antiferromagnetic Bi2CuO4 M. Aïn, G. Dhalenne, O. Guiselin, B. Hennion, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 8167-8171 [View Page Images , PDF (695 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muon-spin-relaxation studies of flux pinning in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 and Pb0.7Bi1.3Sr2CaCu2O8 W. D. Wu, A. Keren, L. P. Le, B. J. Sternlieb, G. M. Luke, Y. J. Uemura, P. Dosanjh, and T. M. Riseman pp. 8172-8186 [View Page Images , PDF (2899 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of plasmons in Nb-doped SrTiO3 François Gervais, Jean-Louis Servoin, Alexis Baratoff, Johannes G. Bednorz, and Gerd Binnig pp. 8187-8194 [View Page Images , PDF (1315 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Broken time-reversal symmetry in cuprate superconductors: The nonreciprocal polar Kerr effect K. B. Lyons, J. F. Dillon, S. J. Duclos, C. B. Eom, H. L. Kao, J. Kwo, Julia M. Phillips, and M. P. Siegal pp. 8195-8204 [View Page Images , PDF (1883 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon-self-energy effects due to an electronic mechanism in high-Tc superconductors E. J. Nicol and J. P. Carbotte pp. 8205-8211 [View Page Images , PDF (1119 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lower critical fields, critical currents, and flux creep in Pb2Sr2R1-xCaxCu3O8+y (R=Y,Dy) single crystals V. V. Metlushko, G. Güntherodt, V. V. Moshchalkov, Y. Bruynseraede, and M. M. Lukina pp. 8212-8223 [View Page Images , PDF (1859 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band analysis of the high-Tc prospects for CaNiN and related perovskite-type nitrides L. F. Mattheiss pp. 8224-8232 [View Page Images , PDF (1792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Optical studies of the a-, b-, and c-axis charge dynamics in YBa2Cu3O6+x S. L. Cooper, D. Reznik, A. Kotz, M. A. Karlow, R. Liu, M. V. Klein, W. C. Lee, J. Giapintzakis, D. M. Ginsberg, B. W. Veal, and A. P. Paulikas pp. 8233-8248 [View Page Images , PDF (2994 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure dependence of the band structure, density of states, Fermi surfaces, and optical properties of superconducting K3C60 Ming-Zhu Huang, Young-Nian Xu, and W. Y. Ching pp. 8249-8259 [View Page Images , PDF (2065 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Coupled-chain approximation for driven lattice-gas models György Szabó and Attila Szolnoki pp. 8260-8262 [View Page Images , PDF (561 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sputtering by a sum of impulses: The effect of finite track width D. Fenyo pp. 8263-8264 [View Page Images , PDF (305 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Nematic–smectic-A phase transition in ultrathin films of polymeric liquid crystal studied by x-ray reflectivity I. Entin, R. Goffer, D. Davidov, and I. Hersht pp. 8265-8268 [View Page Images , PDF (597 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Elastic stiffness constants of copper indium diselenide determined by neutron scattering René Fouret, Bernard Hennion, J. Gonzalez, and S. M. Wasim pp. 8269-8272 [View Page Images , PDF (576 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	1/z expansion for the Ising and Heisenberg models in an external field X. W. Jiang and R. S. Fishman pp. 8273-8276 [View Page Images , PDF (596 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of a Pake doublet in the 1H nuclear-magnetic-resonance spectrum of CeNiInHx K. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, Mita Sen, A. Ghoshray, and N. Chatterjee pp. 8277-8280 [View Page Images , PDF (646 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of magnetically derived crystal-field parameters in estimation of some properties of Dy2Ge2O7 A. Sengupta, D. Ghosh, and B. M. Wanklyn pp. 8281-8284 [View Page Images , PDF (736 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlations in the Trotter dimension in the transverse Ising spin-glass model Ferenc Pa´zma´ndi, Zbigniew Doman´ski, and Paul Erdo¨s pp. 8285-8288 [View Page Images , PDF (437 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic-field dependence of the phase-coherence length in the spin-density-wave state of tetramethyltetraselenafulvalinium nitrate, (TMTSF)2NO3 N. Biškup, M. Basletić, S. Tomić, B. Korin-Hamzić, K. Maki, K. Bechgaard, and J. M. Fabre pp. 8289-8292 [View Page Images , PDF (690 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Autocorrelation functions for Hermitian many-body systems: Necessary conditions M. Howard Lee pp. 8293-8295 [View Page Images , PDF (452 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic solution to the problem of magnetic films with a perpendicular surface anisotropy Amikam Aharoni pp. 8296-8297 [View Page Images , PDF (170 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Uniform magnetic susceptibility of the t-J model on the 4×4 lattice Francisco C. Alcaraz and Rajiv R. Singh pp. 8298-8300 [View Page Images , PDF (404 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity in the two-component anyon gas at finite temperature Jian Zhou and S. G. Chen pp. 8301-8304 [View Page Images , PDF (500 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistivity and susceptibility studies on UPd2-xPtxAl3 (x=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.5) K. Ghosh, S. Ramakrishnan, and Girish Chandra pp. 8305-8307 [View Page Images , PDF (403 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex-solid melting and depinning in superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O single crystals irradiated by 3-MeV protons W. Jiang, N.-C. Yeh, D. S. Reed, U. Kriplani, T. A. Tombrello, A. P. Rice, and F. Holtzberg pp. 8308-8311 [View Page Images , PDF (721 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox whiskers R. L. Jacobsen, T. M. Tritt, A. C. Ehrlich, and D. J. Gillespie pp. 8312-8315 [View Page Images , PDF (609 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-plane orientation of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox thin films on (110) SrTiO3 vicinal surfaces M. Kataoka, J. Tanimura, O. Wada, T. Ogama, K. Kuroda, T. Takami, and K. Kojima pp. 8316-8319 [View Page Images , PDF (930 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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