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Fast in situ x-ray-diffraction studies of chemical reactions: A synchrotron view of the hydration of tricalcium aluminate A. C. Jupe, X. Turrillas, P. Barnes, S. L. Colston, C. Hall, D. Häusermann, and M. Hanfland pp. R14697-R14700 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Lattice dynamics of RbC60 in its rotator, polymer, and dimer phase: A neutron-scattering investigation B. Renker, H. Schober, F. Gompf, R. Heid, and E. Ressouche pp. R14701-R14704 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Calculation of the turnover in the vibrational frequencies of solid hydrogen at high pressures Marcel I. Scheerboom and Jan A. Schouten pp. R14705-R14708 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ferromagnetism-induced reentrant structural transition and phase diagram of the lightly doped insulator La1-xSrxMnO3 (x<~0.17) H. Kawano, R. Kajimoto, M. Kubota, and H. Yoshizawa pp. R14709-R14712 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Temperature dependence of the spin-Peierls energy gap and anomalous line shapes in CuGeO3 Michael C. Martin, G. Shirane, Y. Fujii, M. Nishi, O. Fujita, J. Akimitsu, M. Hase, and K. Uchinokura pp. R14713-R14716 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analytical results for a hole in an antiferromagnet Y. M. Li, N. d'Ambrumenil, L. Yu, and Z. B. Su pp. R14717-R14720 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron-scattering and susceptibility study of spin chains and spin ladders in (Sr0.8Ca0.2)14Cu24O41 R. S. Eccleston, M. Azuma, and M. Takano pp. R14721-R14724 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Muon-spin-relaxation studies of magnetic order in heavily doped La2-xSrxNiO4+δ K. H. Chow, P. A. Pattenden, S. J. Blundell, W. Hayes, F. L. Pratt, Th. Jestädt, M. A. Green, J. E. Millburn, M. J. Rosseinsky, B. Hitti, S. R. Dunsiger, R. F. Kiefl, C. Chen, and A. J. Chowdhury pp. R14725-R14728 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crossover from O(3) to O(4) behavior in weakly frustrated antiferromagnets Andrey V. Chubukov and Oleg A. Starykh pp. R14729-R14732 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Raman-scattering evidence for free spinons in the one-dimensional spin-½ chains of Sr2CuO3 and SrCuO2 O. V. Misochko, S. Tajima, C. Urano, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida pp. R14733-R14736 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct observation of particle-hole mixing in the superconducting state by angle-resolved photoemission J. C. Campuzano, H. Ding, M. R. Norman, M. Randeira, A. F. Bellman, T. Yokoya, T. Takahashi, H. Katayama-Yoshida, T. Mochiku, and K. Kadowaki pp. R14737-R14740 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct observation of optical magnons in YBa2Cu3O6.2 D. Reznik, P. Bourges, H. F. Fong, L. P. Regnault, J. Bossy, C. Vettier, D. L. Milius, I. A. Aksay, and B. Keimer pp. R14741-R14744 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-precision penetration-depth measurement of YBa2Cu3O7-δ as a function of oxygen content A. Fuchs, W. Prusseit, P. Berberich, and H. Kinder pp. R14745-R14748 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Josephson plasma resonance in a single-layered cuprate Bi2(Sr,  La)2CuOy S. Sakamoto, A. Maeda, T. Hanaguri, Y. Kotaka, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, Y. Matsushita, M. Hasegawa, H. Takei, H. Ikeda, and R. Yoshizaki pp. R14749-R14752 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Doping dependence of the O 1s core-level photoemission in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O superconductors M. Qvarford, S. Söderholm, G. Chiaia, R. Nyholm, J. N. Andersen, I. Lindau, U. O. Karlsson, L. Leonyuk, A. Nilsson, and N. Mårtensson pp. R14753-R14756 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analysis of the lock-in transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals through microwave dissipation H. Enriquez, N. Bontemps, P. Fournier, A. Kapitulnik, A. Maignan, and A. Ruyter pp. R14757-R14760 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nature of the electronic states in the layered perovskite noncuprate superconductor Sr2RuO4 M. Schmidt, T. R. Cummins, M. Bürk, D. H. Lu, N. Nücker, S. Schuppler, and F. Lichtenberg pp. R14761-R14764 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Heat-diffusion central peak in the dielectric susceptibility of ferroelectric materials M. Fally, W. Schranz, and D. Havlik pp. 14769-14772 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ion-beam mixing induced by atomic and cluster bombardment in the electronic stopping-power regime M. Beranger, P. Thevenard, R. Brenier, B. Canut, S. M. Ramos, A. Brunelle, S. Della Negra, Y. Le Beyec, E. Balanzat, and T. Tombrello pp. 14773-14781 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory and numerical simulations of defect ordering in irradiated materials D. Walgraef, J. Lauzeral, and N. M. Ghoniem pp. 14782-14794 [View PDF (559 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irradiation effects in Ag-Fe bilayers: Ion-beam mixing, recrystallization, and surface roughening Alejandro Crespo-Sosa, Peter Schaaf, Wolfgang Bolse, Klaus-Peter Lieb, Matthias Gimbel, Ulrich Geyer, and Cristiana Tosello pp. 14795-14805 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational properties of the layered semiconductor germanium sulfide under hydrostatic pressure: Theory and experiment H. C. Hsueh, M. C. Warren, H. Vass, G. J. Ackland, S. J. Clark, and J. Crain pp. 14806-14817 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characteristics of sensitized emission in laser crystals V. Lupei, A. Lupei, and G. Boulon pp. 14818-14827 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impact fragmentation of an ideal brittle crystal Yoshinori Hayakawa pp. 14828-14833 [View PDF (573 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Second-order phase transition in crystals with long-range correlated quenched defects A. L. Korzhenevskii, K. Herrmanns, and W. Schirmacher pp. 14834-14842 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport properties of waves in absorbing random media with microstructure D. Livdan and A. A. Lisyansky pp. 14843-14848 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of heat treatment on the tunneling states in neutron-irradiated quartz V. Keppens and C. Laermans pp. 14849-14861 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral function for a conducting sheet containing circular inclusions B. R. Djordjević, J. H. Hetherington, and M. F. Thorpe pp. 14862-14871 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteresis, avalanches, and disorder-induced critical scaling: A renormalization-group approach Karin Dahmen and James P. Sethna pp. 14872-14905 [View PDF (577 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Curvature of acoustic slowness surface of anisotropic solids near symmetry axes A. L. Shuvalov and A. G. Every pp. 14906-14916 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal charge-transfer effects in the lattice dynamics of classical ionic crystals Claus Falter, Georg A. Hoffmann, and Michael Klenner pp. 14917-14921 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model applied to chains of finite length Fernando L. Vos, Daniel P. Aalberts, and Wim van Saarloos pp. 14922-14928 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time evolution of models described by a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation P. K. Datta and K. Kundu pp. 14929-14936 [View PDF (1275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency electrical noise in Ni: The effects of magnetic fluctuations N. Giordano pp. 14937-14940 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second-harmonic generation in magnetic colloids by orientation of the nanoparticles J. Lenglet, A. Bourdon, J.-C. Bacri, R. Perzynski, and G. Demouchy pp. 14941-14956 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Nonlinear self-localized magnetoelastic surface waves in antiferromagnetic media Igor E. Dikshtein and Sung-Ho Suck Salk pp. 14957-14965 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational evidence for spin liquids in frustrated lattices D. M. Deaven and D. S. Rokhsar pp. 14966-14970 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Peierls lattice fluctuations of pure and Si- and Zn-substituted CuGeO3 J. P. Schoeffel, J. P. Pouget, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 14971-14979 [View PDF (706 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation and aging in Ising systems D. Walton pp. 14980-14986 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variation of f-electron localization in diluted US and UTe J. Schoenes, O. Vogt, J. Löhle, F. Hulliger, and K. Mattenberger pp. 14987-14995 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic excitations in the sinusoidal spin phase of Er and Tm S. H. Liu and J. F. Cooke pp. 14996-15003 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics in the linear-chain S=1 antiferromagnet Ni(C3H10N2)2N3(ClO4) A. Zheludev, S. E. Nagler, S. M. Shapiro, L. K. Chou, D. R. Talham, and M. W. Meisel pp. 15004-15009 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of Pm in NdNi K. Nishimura, K. Mori, S. Ohya, S. Muto, and Y. Isikawa pp. 15010-15013 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain-wall dynamics in aligned bound Sm2Fe17 D.-X. Chen, V. Skumryev, and J. M. Coey pp. 15014-15022 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant magnetoresistance and microstructures in CoAg granular films fabricated using ion-beam co-sputtering technique H. Sang, N. Xu, J. H. Du, G. Ni, S. Y. Zhang, and Y. W. Du pp. 15023-15026 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and transport properties of NiFe/Ag and Co/NiFe/Co/Ag multilayers C. Cowache, B. Dieny, A. Chamberod, D. Benizri, F. Berthet, S. Auffret, L. Giacomoni, and S. Nossov pp. 15027-15035 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interlayer magnetic coupling: The torque method V. Drchal, J. Kudrnovský, I. Turek, and P. Weinberger pp. 15036-15044 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magneto-optic properties and ferromagnetism of (In,Mn)As/(In,Al)As/(Ga,Al)Sb heterostructures P. Fumagalli and H. Munekata pp. 15045-15053 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuterium site occupancy in YDx by magic-angle-spinning NMR Natalie L. Adolphi, John J. Balbach, Mark S. Conradi, J. T. Markert, R. M. Cotts, and P. Vajda pp. 15054-15062 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions in a spin-1 model with plaquette interaction on the square lattice C. Buzano, L. R. Evangelista, and A. Pelizzola pp. 15063-15070 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local properties at Fe and Co impurities in Nb1-xMox alloys R. N. Nogueira and H. M. Petrilli pp. 15071-15078 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kondo effect in flux phases Carlos R. Cassanello and Eduardo Fradkin pp. 15079-15094 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman response in doped antiferromagnets P. Prelovšek and J. Jaklič pp. 15095-15098 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant magnetoresistive behavior near the metamagnetic transition in Ce(Fe0.93Ru0.07)2 H. P. Kunkel, X. Z. Zhou, P. A. Stampe, J. A. Cowen, and Gwyn Williams pp. 15099-15105 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size-dependence study of the spin glass CuMn (1%) N. van der Post, J. A. Mydosh, J. M. van Ruitenbeek, and I. K. Yanson pp. 15106-15112 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical and magnetic properties of Fe3-zAlzO4 (z<0.06) A. Kozłowski, P. Metcalf, Z. Kąkol, and J. M. Honig pp. 15113-15118 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sharp photoemission spectra in the quantum antiferromagnet S. Sorella pp. 15119-15128 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Shadow wave function for liquid and solid 3He F. Pederiva, S. A. Vitiello, K. Gernoth, S. Fantoni, and L. Reatto pp. 15129-15135 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac properties of an anisotropic layered superconductor S. E. Shafranjuk, M. Tachiki, and T. Yamashita pp. 15136-15146 [View PDF (270 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic thermal conductivity and the Wiedemann-Franz law for unconventional superconductors M. J. Graf, S-K. Yip, J. A. Sauls, and D. Rainer pp. 15147-15161 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of gate voltage on critical current in controllable superconductor–normal-metal–superconductor Josephson junctions Anatoly F. Volkov and Hideaki Takayanagi pp. 15162-15167 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution from BCS superconductivity to Bose condensation: Calculation of the zero-temperature phase coherence length F. Pistolesi and G. C. Strinati pp. 15168-15192 [View PDF (533 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors Michel J. Gingras and David A. Huse pp. 15193-15200 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of diffusive boundaries on surface superconductivity in unconventional superconductors D. F. Agterberg and M. B. Walker pp. 15201-15205 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational theory of elastic manifolds with correlated disorder and localization of interacting quantum particles Thierry Giamarchi and Pierre Le Doussal pp. 15206-15225 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity in amorphous Ta/Ge multilayers H. J. Trodahl, H. L. Johnson, A. B. Kaiser, C. K. Subramaniam, B. J. Ruck, and P. Lynam pp. 15226-15230 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-liquid regimes for spin chains coupled to phonons: Phonon density wave versus magnetic order A. S. Ioselevich pp. 15231-15244 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rare-earth ion size effect on resistivity, susceptibility, and superconductivity of RBa2Cu3-xZnxO7-y (R= Yb, Er, Y, Dy, Gd, Eu, Sm, and Nd) Yunhui Xu, S. S. Ata-Allah, M. G. Berger, and O. Glück pp. 15245-15253 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature properties and specific anisotropy of pure anisotropically paired superconductors Yu. S. Barash and A. A. Svidzinsky pp. 15254-15264 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex dynamics in YBa2Cu3O7-δ superconducting films: Experimental evidence for an instability in the vortex system at high current densities Z. L. Xiao and P. Ziemann pp. 15265-15271 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Thermal fluctuation effects on the magnetization above and below the superconducting transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 crystals in the weak magnetic field limit J. Mosqueira, E. G. Miramontes, C. Torrón, J. A. Campá, I. Rasines, and Félix Vidal pp. 15272-15280 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac magnetic hysteresis loops of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O 110-K-phase superconductors and the effect of microstructural alteration N. Harish Kumar and V. Seshu Bai pp. 15281-15291 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle lifetimes and signatures of the superconductor order-parameter symmetry in phonon linewidths D. Coffey and L. Coffey pp. 15292-15299 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave-induced dc voltages in a YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystal D. C. Ling, J. T. Chen, and L. E. Wenger pp. 15300-15304 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex structure and resistive transitions in high-Tc superconductors E. A. Jagla and C. A. Balseiro pp. 15305-15312 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reversible magnetization and anisotropy in YBa2Cu4O8 Ming Xu, Junghyun Sok, J. E. Ostenson, D. K. Finnemore, and B. Dabrowski pp. 15313-15315 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex structure in d-wave superconductors M. Ichioka, N. Hayashi, N. Enomoto, and K. Machida pp. 15316-15326 [View PDF (477 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase separation and valence instabilities in cuprate superconductors: Effective one-band-model approach M. E. Simón and A. A. Aligia pp. 15327-15334 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Structural phase transitions in bulk YBa2Cu3O6+x with x=0.35 and x=0.36 H. F. Poulsen, M. von Zimmermann, J. R. Schneider, N. H. Andersen, P. Schleger, J. Madsen, R. Hadfield, H. Casalta, Ruixing Liang, P. Dosanjh, and W. Hardy pp. 15335-15344 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]