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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
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  • Magnetism
  • Superfluidity and superconductivity
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Dual alkali-metal-ion channel structures in poly(p-phenylenevinylene) Guomin Mao, M. J. Winokur, and F. E. Karasz pp. R463-R467 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Enhanced local moment formation in a chiral Luttinger liquid Philip Phillips and Nancy Sandler pp. R468-R471 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Itinerant and local-moment antiferromagnetism in V2-yO3: A NMR study S. Langenbuch, M. W. Pieper, P. Metcalf, and J. M. Honig pp. R472-R475 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Size dependence of Kondo scattering in point contacts: Fe impurities in Cu N. van der Post, F. L. Mettes, J. A. Mydosh, J. M. van Ruitenbeek, and I. K. Yanson pp. R476-R479 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Giant-magnetoresistance anomaly associated with a magnetization process in UFe4Al8 G. Bonfait, M. Godinho, P. Estrela, A. P. Gonçalves, M. Almeida, and J. C. Spirlet pp. R480-R483 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase transition in the three-dimensional ±J Ising spin glass N. Kawashima and A. P. Young pp. R484-R487 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local moments coupled to a strongly correlated electron chain S. Moukouri, Liang Chen, and L. G. Caron pp. R488-R491 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Impurity state in the Haldane gap for an S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with bond doping Xiaoqun Wang and Steffen Mallwitz pp. R492-R495 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

NMR investigation of the electronic structure of the RbC60 polymer phase K. -F. Thier, G. Zimmer, M. Mehring, and F. Rachdi pp. R496-R499 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermodynamical properties of an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin system on a fractal lattice of dimension between one and two P. Tomczak pp. R500-R501 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spatiotemporal dynamics of domain-wall solitons in the fully frustrated Josephson-junction ladder arrays Won Gyu Choe and Seunghwan Kim pp. R502-R505 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Screening in Josephson-junction ladders Ing-Jye Hwang, Seungoh Ryu, and D. Stroud pp. R506-R509 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Muon-spin-rotation studies of HoNi2B2C L. P. Le, R. H. Heffner, J. D. Thompson, D. E. MacLaughlin, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, A. Amato, R. Feyerherm, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, P. C. Canfield, and B. K. Cho pp. R510-R513 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Critical and noncritical behavior of the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition Mark Friesen pp. R514-R517 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Transition temperature and a spatial dependence of the superconducting gap for multilayer high-temperature superconductors Krzysztof Byczuk and Jozef Spałek pp. R518-R521 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Theory of the c-axis penetration depth in the cuprates R. J. Radtke, V. N. Kostur, and K. Levin pp. R522-R525 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effects of intrabilayer coupling on the magnetic properties of YBa2 Cu3O6 Anders W. Sandvik and Douglas J. Scalapino pp. R526-R529 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Scaling in spin susceptibility of high-Tc cuprates: A model with nondegenerate fermions George A. Levin and Khandker F. Quader pp. R530-R533 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase separation and softening of the O2, 3 in-phase mode in the YBa2Cu3Ox superconductors N. Poulakis, D. Palles, E. Liarokapis, K. Conder, E. Kaldis, and K. A. Müller pp. R534-R537 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Percolation transition of the vortex lattice and c-axis resistivity in high-temperature superconductors E. A. Jagla and C. A. Balseiro pp. R538-R541 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Observation of liquid carbon on diamond films under pulsed IR and UV laser irradiation P. Tosin, W. Lüthy, and H. P. Weber pp. 543-546 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean escape depth of signal photoelectrons ejected from solids by polarized x rays I. S. Tilinin pp. 547-555 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-pressure melting curves of alkali halides Reinhard Boehler, Marvin Ross, and David B. Boercker pp. 556-563 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-similarity of dielectric relaxation and conductivity in cross-linking systems R. Casalini, A. Livi, P. A. Rolla, G. Levita, and D. Fioretto pp. 564-568 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of pressure on the atomic volume of Zn, Cd, and Hg up to 75 GPa Olaf Schulte and Wilfried B. Holzapfel pp. 569-580 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen ordering in superstoichiometric rare-earth hydrides for a system with an energy-constants ratio p=V2/V1<1: LaH2+x I. G. Ratishvili and P. Vajda pp. 581-587 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference between Judd-Ofelt and Wybourne-Downer mechanisms in the 5D0-7FJ (J=2,4) transitions of Sm2+ in solids Masanori Tanaka and Takashi Kushida pp. 588-593 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological model of elastic distortions near the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3 M. L. Plumer pp. 594-599 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-field gradients at 111Cd in delafossite oxides ABO2 (A=Ag, Cu; B=Al, Cr, Fe, In, Nd, Y) R. N. Attili, M. Uhrmacher, K. P. Lieb, L. Ziegeler, M. Mekata, and E. Schwarzmann pp. 600-608 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Collective dynamics in glasses and its relation to the low-temperature anomalies Andreas Heuer and Robert J. Silbey pp. 609-619 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of strong short-range order in (Fe0.2Co0.8)75SixB25-x amorphous alloys from EXAFS spectroscopy M. L. Fdez-Gubieda, I. Orúe, F. Plazaola, and J. M. Barandiarán pp. 620-628 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective-medium theory for the electric-field dependence of the hopping conductivity of disordered solids P. E. Parris and B. D. Bookout pp. 629-635 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and thermodynamic properties of liquid transition metals: An embedded-atom-method approach G. M. Bhuiyan, M. Silbert, and M. J. Stott pp. 636-645 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Failure of fiber bundles with local load sharing Shu-dong Zhang and E-Jiang Ding pp. 646-654 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Landau damping and lifting of vibrational degeneracy in metallic potassium fulleride J. Winter and H. Kuzmany pp. 655-661 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muonium localization in solid krypton V. Storchak, S. F. Cox, S. P. Cottrell, J. H. Brewer, G. D. Morris, and N. V. Prokof’ev pp. 662-667 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Monte Carlo method for obtaining the ground-state properties of quantum spin systems J. P. Neirotti and M. J. de Oliveira pp. 668-673 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange interactions and magnetism of Co2+ in Zn1-xCoxTe M. Zielinski, C. Rigaux, A. Lemaître, A. Mycielski, and J. Deportes pp. 674-685 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the second length scale found above TN in UO2 G. M. Watson, B. D. Gaulin, Doon Gibbs, T. R. Thurston, P. J. Simpson, S. M. Shapiro, G. H. Lander, Hj. Matzke, S. Wang, and M. Dudley pp. 686-698 [View PDF (493 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	UxM1-xPt3 (M=Y, Lu, In) compounds with the AuCu3 structure K. Sievers, E.-W. Scheidt, and G. R. Stewart pp. 699-702 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cationic and magnetic order in LiNiO2- and NiO-type Li-Ni mixed oxides C. B. Azzoni, A. Paleari, V. Massarotti, M. Bini, and D. Capsoni pp. 703-709 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum version of a spherical model: Crossover from quantum to classical critical behavior Thomas Vojta pp. 710-714 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universality class of non-Fermi-liquid behavior in mixed-valence systems Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu pp. 715-725 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution magnetic x-ray diffraction from neodymium D. Watson, E. M. Forgan, W. J. Nuttall, W. G. Stirling, and D. Fort pp. 726-730 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-field distribution in systems with dipolar interparticle interaction D. V. Berkov pp. 731-734 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamic properties of one-dimensional spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains: Green’s-function approach Shu-Qing Bao, Hu Zhao, Jue-Lian Shen, and Guo-Zhen Yang pp. 735-740 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum dynamical calculations on the magnetization reversal in clusters of spin-1/2 particles: Resonant coherent quantum tunneling D. García-Pablos, N. García, P. A. Serena, and H. De Raedt pp. 741-746 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective excitations in itinerant spiral magnets A. P. Kampf pp. 747-757 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature magnetic structure of UNiGe A. Purwanto, V. Sechovský, L. Havela, R. A. Robinson, H. Nakotte, Allen C. Larson, K. Prokeš, E. Brück, and F. R. de Boer pp. 758-765 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Connection between giant magnetoresistance and structure in molecular-beam epitaxy and sputtered Fe/Cr superlattices José M. Colino, Ivan K. Schuller, R. Schad, C. D. Potter, P. Beliën, G. Verbanck, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede pp. 766-769 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic excitations and effects of magnetic fields on the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3 José Riera and Sergio Koval pp. 770-774 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weak ferromagnetism in the low-temperature tetragonal phase of the cuprates J. Stein, O. Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony pp. 775-784 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal Coulomb interactions and the magnetic anisotropies in the low-temperature phases of the cuprates Jürgen Stein pp. 785-790 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Paramagnetic Meissner effect in Nb P. Kostić, B. Veal, A. P. Paulikas, U. Welp, V. R. Todt, C. Gu, U. Geiser, J. M. Williams, K. D. Carlson, and R. A. Klemm pp. 791-801 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nature of the magnetic order in superconducting and nonsuperconducting HoNi2-xCoxB2C J. W. Lynn, Q. Huang, A. Santoro, R. J. Cava, J. J. Krajewski, and W. F. Peck pp. 802-808 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Response of niobium-based superconducting tunnel junctions in the soft-x-ray region 0.15–6.5 keV P. Verhoeve, N. Rando, J. Verveer, A. Peacock, A. van Dordrecht, P. Videler, M. Bavdaz, D. J. Goldie, T. Lederer, F. Scholze, G. Ulm, and R. Venn pp. 809-817 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diagrammatic derivation of Bose condensate fractions Tilo Wettig and A. D. Jackson pp. 818-827 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagram of a model of correlated hopping of electrons in a lattice of Berry molecules Giuseppe Santoro, Nicola Manini, Alberto Parola, and Erio Tosatti pp. 828-836 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman-scattering and weak-ferromagnetism studies in Eu2CuO4 A. D. Alvarenga, D. Rao, J. A. Sanjurjo, E. Granado, I. Torriani, C. Rettori, S. Oseroff, J. Sarrao, and Z. Fisk pp. 837-842 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tilt instabilities and multiple coexisting vortex orientations in flux-line liquids Anh Kiet Nguyen and Asle Sudbo/ pp. 843-855 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-phonon coupling in the single-layer extended t-J model B. Normand, H. Kohno, and H. Fukuyama pp. 856-870 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen dependence of the transport properties of Nd1.78Ce0.22CuO4±δ X. Q. Xu, S. N. Mao, Wu Jiang, J. L. Peng, and R. L. Greene pp. 871-875 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic-neutron-scattering study of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O6.97 P. Bourges, L. P. Regnault, Y. Sidis, and C. Vettier pp. 876-885 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-shift Raman scattering features in superconducting YBa2Cu3O6+x D. Salamon, P. Abbamonte, Ran Liu, M. V. Klein, W. C. Lee, D. M. Ginsberg, I. I. Tartakovskii, and B. W. Veal pp. 886-891 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	c-axis negative magnetoresistance and fluctuation conductivity of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox single crystals Katsufumi Hashimoto, Koichi Nakao, Hiroyuki Kado, and Naoki Koshizuka pp. 892-895 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative and Hall quantum creep in YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films A. J. van Dalen, R. Griessen, J. C. Martinez, P. Fivat, J.-M. Triscone, and O/. Fischer pp. 896-899 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear effective barriers for flux diffusion and critical current density of HgBa2Ca2Cu3Ox based upon ac susceptibility measurement S. Y. Ding, J. Li, H. M. Shao, J. W. Lin, C. Ren, and X. X. Yao pp. 900-904 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Scaling of the thermoelectric power in a wide temperature range in Bi2Sr2Ca1-xNdxCu2Oy (x=0–0.5): Experiment and interpretation V. E. Gasumyants, N. V. Ageev, E. V. Vladimirskaya, V. I. Smirnov, A. V. Kazanskiy, and V. I. Kaydanov pp. 905-910 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle structure and coherent propagation in the t-Jz-J⊥ model Junwu Gan and Per Hedegård pp. 911-919 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxidation state of Ce in Pb2Sr2Ce1-xCaxCu3O8 S. Skanthakumar and L. Soderholm pp. 920-926 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grain-boundary-induced magneto-far-infrared resonances in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films H.-T. S. Lihn, E.-J. Choi, S. Kaplan, H. D. Drew, Qi Li, and D. B. Fenner pp. 927-931 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic superconductivity: The role of van Hove singularities E. Cappelluti and L. Pietronero pp. 932-944 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of magnetic coupling in La2CuO4 Jordi Casanovas, Jaime Rubio, and Francesc Illas pp. 945-951 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Thermal hysteresis effects in the ferroelectric-ferroelastic phase transition in [N(CH3)4]2ZnI4’’ P. E. Tomaszewski pp. 952-953 [View PDF (26 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]