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Atypical extended electronic states in an infinite Vicsek fractal: An exact result Arunava Chakrabarti and Bibhas Bhattacharyya pp. R12625-R12628 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stacking characteristics of graphene shells in carbon nanotubes X. Sun, C. -H. Kiang, M. Endo, K. Takeuchi, T. Furuta, and M. S. Dresselhaus pp. R12629-R12632 [View PDF (4115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pressure and temperature diagram of polymerized fullerite L. Marques, J. -L. Hodeau, M. Núñez-Regueiro, and M. Perroux pp. R12633-R12636 [View PDF (1295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Determination of the local molecular structure in amorphous polyaniline M. J. Winokur and B. R. Mattes pp. R12637-R12640 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Time-domain observation of nuclear contributions to the optical nonlinearities of glasses Inuk Kang, Sylvia Smolorz, Todd Krauss, Frank Wise, B. G. Aitken, and N. F. Borrelli pp. R12641-R12644 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coupled spin-boson systems far from equilibrium M. I. Salkola, A. R. Bishop, V. M. Kenkre, and S. Raghavan pp. R12645-R12648 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetization of Cu2(C5H12N2)2Cl4: A Heisenberg spin-ladder system C. A. Hayward, D. Poilblanc, and L. P. Lévy pp. R12649-R12652 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quasiparticle energy dispersion in doped two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets T. Xiang and J. M. Wheatley pp. R12653-R12656 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Some exact results for the multicomponent t-J model Antimo Angelucci and Sandro Sorella pp. R12657-R12660 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Long-range interactions and nonextensivity in ferromagnetic spin models Sergio A. Cannas and Francisco A. Tamarit pp. R12661-R12664 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Intrinsic localized spin-wave modes in antiferromagnetic chains with single-ion easy-axis anisotropy R. Lai, S. A. Kiselev, and A. J. Sievers pp. R12665-R12668 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Exact two-spinon dynamical correlation function of the one-dimensional Heisenberg model A. H. Bougourzi, M. Couture, and M. Kacir pp. R12669-R12672 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of magnetic circular dichroism in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the L3 edge of gadolinium metal M. H. Krisch, F. Sette, U. Bergmann, C. Masciovecchio, R. Verbeni, J. Goulon, W. Caliebe, and C. C. Kao pp. R12673-R12676 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Noncollinear order contribution to the exchange coupling in Fe/Cr(001) superlattices M. Freyss, D. Stoeffler, and H. Dreyssé pp. R12677-R12680 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Determination of spin direction in the spin-flop phase of Cr2O3 M. Fiebig, D. Fröhlich, and H. -J. Thiele pp. R12681-R12684 [View PDF (6644 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Giant magnetoresistance: Comparison of band-structure and interfacial-roughness contributions T. N. Todorov, E. Yu. Tsymbal, and D. G. Pettifor pp. R12685-R12688 [View PDF (436 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crossover from charge-localized state to charge-ordered state in Pr2 / 3Ca1 / 3MnO3 J. M. De Teresa, M. R. Ibarra, C. Marquina, P. A. Algarabel, and S. Oseroff pp. R12689-R12692 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ginzburg-Landau equations for a mixed s+d symmetry superconductor with nonmagnetic impurities Wang Xu, Wonkee Kim, Yong Ren, and C. S. Ting pp. R12693-R12696 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum melting of a two-dimensional vortex lattice at zero temperature A. Rozhkov and D. Stroud pp. R12697-R12700 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlocal effects in mesoscopic superconducting aluminum structures C. Strunk, V. Bruyndoncx, V. V. Moshchalkov, C. Van Haesendonck, Y. Bruynseraede, and R. Jonckheere pp. R12701-R12704 [View PDF (408 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase-dependent magnetoconductance fluctuations in a chaotic Josephson junction P. W. Brouwer and C. W. Beenakker pp. R12705-R12708 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Non-Fermi-liquid behavior due to short-range order Ross H. McKenzie and David Scarratt pp. R12709-R12712 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Signature of the d-wave gap parameter in the field dependence of the electrothermal conductivity of high-Tc superconductors up to Tc M. Houssa, M. Ausloos, and M. Pekala pp. R12713-R12716 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Flux pinning in YaBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films with ordered arrays of columnar defects J. -Y. Lin, M. Gurvitch, S. K. Tolpygo, A. Bourdillon, S. Y. Hou, and Julia M. Phillips pp. R12717-R12720 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effects of Zn doping on the anisotropic penetration depth of YBa2Cu3O7 C. Panagopoulos, J. R. Cooper, N. Athanassopoulou, and J. Chrosch pp. R12721-R12724 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Vortex localization in single crystals of Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ with columnar defects E. R. Nowak, S. Anders, H. M. Jaeger, J. A. Fendrich, W. K. Kwok, R. Mogilevsky, and D. G. Hinks pp. R12725-R12728 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Observation of interference effects due to multiple reflection of fluorescent x rays in an organic thin film Yoshio Suzuki, Yuji C. Sasaki, and Yasushi Tomioka pp. 12729-12732 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic theory of the rhombohedral phase and transition to the monoclinic phase of solid C70 A. V. Nikolaev and K. H. Michel pp. 12733-12743 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic search of materials with high-temperature structural phase transitions: Application to space group P212121 J. M. Igartua, M. I. Aroyo, and J. M. Perez-Mato pp. 12744-12752 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total-energy study of electronic structure and mechanical behavior of C15 Laves phase compounds: NbCr2 and HfV2 Alim Ormeci, F. Chu, John M. Wills, T. E. Mitchell, R. C. Albers, D. J. Thoma, and S. P. Chen pp. 12753-12762 [View PDF (1146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localization transition in three dimensions: Monte Carlo simulation of a nonlinear σ model Thomas Dupré pp. 12763-12774 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mössbauer investigation of intermixing during ball milling of Fe0.3Cr0.7 and Fe0.5W0.5 powder mixtures G. Le Caër, P. Delcroix, T. D. Shen, and B. Malaman pp. 12775-12786 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mössbauer study of the Fe-Si phases produced by Fe implantation followed by ion-beam-induced epitaxial crystallization J. Desimoni, F. H. Sánchez, M. B. Fernández van Raap, X. W. Lin, H. Bernas, and C. Clerc pp. 12787-12792 [View PDF (529 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Metal-insulator transition and localization in quasicrystalline Al70.5Pd21Re8.5-xMnx alloys Q. Guo and S. J. Poon pp. 12793-12797 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical transition in sliding charge-density waves with quenched disorder Lee-Wen Chen, Leon Balents, Matthew P. Fisher, and M. Cristina Marchetti pp. 12798-12806 [View PDF (2579 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-electron scattering rate in disordered mesoscopic systems Ya. M. Blanter pp. 12807-12819 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay between strength of disorder and the measure of chaos in the propagation of carriers P. E. de Brito, Jorge A. Gonzalez, and H. N. Nazareno pp. 12820-12823 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral representations of the electron energy loss in composite media Ronald Fuchs, Rubén G. Barrera, and José Luis Carrillo pp. 12824-12834 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Acoustical polarons and bipolarons in two dimensions G. A. Farias, W. B. da Costa, and F. M. Peeters pp. 12835-12840 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state energy of an exciton-(LO) phonon system in two and three dimensions: General outline and three-dimensional case B. Gerlach and F. Luczak pp. 12841-12851 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General properties of a polaron in motion Wang Kelin, Wang Yi, and Wan Shaolong pp. 12852-12858 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state of a dissipative two-level system: Coupled-cluster approximation W. H. Wong and C. F. Lo pp. 12859-12865 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carbon dependence of Raman mode frequencies in Si1-x-yGexCy alloys M. Meléndez-Lira, J. Menéndez, W. Windl, O. F. Sankey, G. S. Spencer, S. Sego, R. B. Culbertson, A. E. Bair, and T`. L. Alford pp. 12866-12872 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric matrix calculation of the differential cross section for plasmon excitation and application to electron diffraction T. W. Josefsson, R. L. Cobal, and L. J. Allen pp. 12873-12879 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended model of the channel diffusivity in the rutile structure K. Ruebenbauer, U. D. Wdowik, M. Kwater, and J. T. Kowalik pp. 12880-12891 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zig-zag version of the Frenkel-Kontorova model P. L. Christiansen, A. V. Savin, and A. V. Zolotaryuk pp. 12892-12902 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1/f noise in nonlinear inhomogeneous systems U. N. Nandi, C. D. Mukherjee, and K. K. Bardhan pp. 12903-12914 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron paramagnetic resonance of tetrahedral Fe3+ in Bi4Ge3O12 single crystals A. Martín, D. Bravo, E. Diéguez, and F. J. López pp. 12915-12920 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Comparison of vortex normal modes in easy-plane ferromagnets and antiferromagnets G. M. Wysin and A. R. Völkel pp. 12921-12931 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of magnetic dipolar interactions on the interchain spin-wave dispersion in CsNiF3 M. Baehr, M. Winkelmann, P. Vorderwisch, M. Steiner, C. Pich, and F. Schwabl pp. 12932-12937 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Columnar dimer and plaquette resonating-valence-bond orders in the quantum dimer model P. W. Leung, K. C. Chiu, and Karl J. Runge pp. 12938-12945 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction: A mean-field Schwinger-boson study L. O. Manuel, C. J. Gazza, A. E. Trumper, and H. A. Ceccatto pp. 12946-12952 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction across a tunneling junction out of equilibrium N. F. Schwabe, R. J. Elliott, and Ned S. Wingreen pp. 12953-12968 [View PDF (368 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay of the spin-density-wave state and magnetic field in the organic conductor α-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4 Takahiko Sasaki, Andrei G. Lebed, Tetsuo Fukase, and Naoki Toyota pp. 12969-12978 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of chromium chalcogenide spinels: Cd1-xAgxCr2Se4 and Hg1-xAgxCr2Se4 J. M. Ferreira and M. D. Coutinho-Filho pp. 12979-12992 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of pressure on Kondo insulators Xiao-hua Xu, Zheng-zhong Li, and Ming-wen Xiao pp. 12993-12999 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Kondo disorder and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in UCu5-xPdx and CeCu5.9Au0.1 O. O. Bernal, D. E. MacLaughlin, A. Amato, R. Feyerherm, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, R. H. Heffner, L. P. Le, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, B. Andraka, H. v. Löhneysen, O. Stockert, and H. R. Ott pp. 13000-13008 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiferromagnetic exchange in two-leg spin-1/2 ladders D. C. Johnston pp. 13009-13016 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dependence of magnetization reversal on the crystallite size in MnBi thin films: Experiment, theory, and computer simulation U. Nowak, U. Rüdiger, P. Fumagalli, and G. Güntherodt pp. 13017-13019 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin density and magnetism of rare-earth nickel borocarbides: RNi2B2C Z. Zeng, D. E. Ellis, Diana Guenzburger, and E. Baggio-Saitovitch pp. 13020-13029 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of annealing on the magnetoresistance and structure of Fe/Cr(110) superlattices Jose M. Colino, Ivan K. Schuller, V. Korenivski, and K. V. Rao pp. 13030-13033 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Fano resonances on the interlayer coupling in magnetic multilayers Byungchan Lee and Yia-Chung Chang pp. 13034-13041 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	MgO codoping-induced change in the site distribution of Cr3+ ions in LiNbO3 J. Díaz-Caro, J. García-Solé, D. Bravo, J. A. Sanz-García, F. J. López, and F. Jaque pp. 13042-13046 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact-diagonalization method for correlated-electron models Canio Noce and Mario Cuoco pp. 13047-13051 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relationship between spin order and transport and magnetotransport properties in La0.67Ca0.33Mn1-xAlxOy compounds G. Turilli and F. Licci pp. 13052-13057 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetotransport and magnetism in single-crystal PrBa2Cu3O7-δ V. M. Browning, M. S. Osofsky, J. M. Byers, A. C. Ehrlich, and F. Dosseul pp. 13058-13062 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical calculation of the magnetodielectric anisotropy effect in magnetic fluids J. Shobaki, S. Musameh, F. Rawwagah, and N. A. Yusuf pp. 13063-13071 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Spin-up and nucleation of vortices in superfluid 4He Igor Aranson and Victor Steinberg pp. 13072-13082 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum electrodynamics of type-II superconductors in the mixed state: The dc and ac response B. Plaçais, P. Mathieu, Y. Simon, E. B. Sonin, and K. B. Traito pp. 13083-13096 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical susceptibility of a thermally excited neutral Fermi-liquid film M. M. Calbi, S. M. Gatica, and E. S. Hernández pp. 13097-13104 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral properties of the boson-fermion model in the superconducting state T. Kostyrko and J. Ranninger pp. 13105-13120 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing theory of polarons in real and momentum space S. Dzhumanov, A. A. Baratov, and S. Abboudy pp. 13121-13128 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational state based on the Bethe-ansatz solution and a correlated singlet liquid state in the one-dimensional t-J model Kenji Kobayashi, Chikaomi Ohe, and Kaoru Iguchi pp. 13129-13137 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting properties of the attractive Hubbard model: A slave-boson study Bogdan R. Bul/ka and Stanisl/aw Robaszkiewicz pp. 13138-13151 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field-driven superconductor-insulator transition in granular In/InOx films Kijoon Kim and Hu-Jong Lee pp. 13152-13157 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hole dispersion and symmetry of the superconducting order parameter for underdoped CuO2 bilayers and the three-dimensional antiferromagnets Alexander Nazarenko and Elbio Dagotto pp. 13158-13166 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral properties of the t-J model in the presence of hole-phonon interaction Bumsoo Kyung, Sergei I. Mukhin, Vladimir N. Kostur, and Richard A. Ferrell pp. 13167-13174 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional Shapiro steps in electron interference in the presence of nonclassical microwaves A. Vourdas pp. 13175-13183 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity enhancement in thin films of niobium in superconducting double-barrier structures P. V. Komissinski and G. A. Ovsyannikov pp. 13184-13187 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface superconductivity in the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3 N. Keller, J. L. Tholence, A. Huxley, and J. Flouquet pp. 13188-13195 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortices at planar defects in layered superconductors A. Gurevich, M. Benkraouda, and John R. Clem pp. 13196-13206 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge tunneling of vortices in superconducting thin films Roberto Iengo and Giancarlo Jug pp. 13207-13214 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical state of periodically arranged superconducting-strip lines in perpendicular fields Y. Mawatari pp. 13215-13221 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral flow, Magnus force, and mutual friction via the geometric optics limit of Andreev reflection Michael Stone pp. 13222-13229 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	EXAFS study of local structure at the alkali ions in superconducting K2RbC60, K2CsC60, Rb2CsC60, and Rb3C60 G. Nowitzke, G. Wortmann, H. Werner, and R. Schlögl pp. 13230-13241 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR study in the superconducting silicon clathrate compound NaxBaySi46 Fumihiko Shimizu, Yutaka Maniwa, Kiyoshi Kume, Hitoshi Kawaji, Shoji Yamanaka, and Mitsuo Ishikawa pp. 13242-13246 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-efficiency frequency generation in a periodic array of Josephson junctions Yu. M. Ivanchenko pp. 13247-13260 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivity of oxygen-deficient YBa2Cu3O6+x A. V. Inyushkin, A. N. Taldenkov, and T. G. Uvarova pp. 13261-13268 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism for magnetic-flux generation in grain boundaries of YBa2Cu3O7-x M. B. Walker pp. 13269-13274 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density of states and order parameter in dirty anisotropic superconductors Sergei V. Pokrovsky and Valery L. Pokrovsky pp. 13275-13287 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doping and van Hove singularity dependence of Raman background in dx2-y2 superconductors D. Branch and J. P. Carbotte pp. 13288-13294 [View PDF (469 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Contrasting dynamic spin susceptibility models and their relation to high-temperature superconductivity H.-B. Schüttler and M. R. Norman pp. 13295-13305 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport properties in the calcium-doped Nd-Ce-Cu-O system X. H. Chen, K. Q. Ruan, Y. Feng, C. Y. Wang, L. Z. Cao, Y. B. Jia, and Y. H. Zhang pp. 13306-13310 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angle-resolved photoemission study of Sr2RuO4 T. Yokoya, A. Chainani, T. Takahashi, H. Ding, J. C. Campuzano, H. Katayama-Yoshida, M. Kasai, and Y. Tokura pp. 13311-13318 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental observation of the lock-in transition in a Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ crystal near the lower critical field S. Koleśnik, T. Skośkiewicz, J. Igalson, and Z. Tarnawski pp. 13319-13323 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]