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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
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  • Superfluidity and superconductivity
• ARTICLES
  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
  • Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems
  • Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.
  • Magnetism
  • Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Microwave transmission through a periodic three-dimensional metal-wire network containing random scatterers M. Stoytchev and A. Z. Genack pp. R8617-R8621 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Single-crystal neutron-diffraction study of a structural phase transitioninduced by a magnetic field in La1-xSrxMnO3 A. J. Campbell, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, and G. J. McIntyre pp. R8622-R8625 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Localization in a rough billiard: A σ-model formulation Klaus M. Frahm pp. R8626-R8629 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Conductivity of the two-dimensional Coulomb glass A. Pérez-Garrido, M. Ortuño, E. Cuevas, J. Ruiz, and M. Pollak pp. R8630-R8633 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Polaron effective mass from Monte Carlo simulations P. E. Kornilovitch and E. R. Pike pp. R8634-R8637 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fröhlich-interaction-induced multiphonon Raman scattering in SrCuO2sand Sr0.5 Ca0.5 CuO2s M. V. Abrashev, A. P. Litvinchuk, C. Thomsen, and V. N. Popov pp. R8638-R8641 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Chemical disorder and charge transport in ferromagnetic manganites W. E. Pickett and D. J. Singh pp. R8642-R8645 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-impurity Kondo problem for correlated electrons Karen Hallberg and Reinhold Egger pp. R8646-R8649 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetoresistance in GdNi: Magnetic-polaronic-like effect near the Curie temperature and low-temperature sign reversal R. Mallik, E. V. Sampathkumaran, P. L. Paulose, and V. Nagarajan pp. R8650-R8653 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonanalytical magnetoresistance, the third angular effect, and a methodto investigate Fermi surfaces in quasi-two-dimensional conductors A. G. Lebed and N. N. Bagmet pp. R8654-R8657 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Switching of the gapped singlet spin-liquid state to an antiferromagnetically ordered state in Sr(Cu1-xZnx)2O3 M. Azuma, Y. Fujishiro, M. Takano, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi pp. R8658-R8661 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

K-edge resonant x-ray magnetic scattering from a transition-metal oxide: NiO J. P. Hill, C.-C. Kao, and D. F. McMorrow pp. R8662-R8665 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local lattice distortion during the spin-state transition in LaCoO3 S. Yamaguchi, Y. Okimoto, and Y. Tokura pp. R8666-R8669 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Low-temperature specific heat of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br in the superconducting state Y. Nakazawa and K. Kanoda pp. R8670-R8673 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Field dependence of the specific heat of single-crystal HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ A. Carrington, C. Marcenat, F. Bouquet, D. Colson, A. Bertinotti, J. F. Marucco, and J. Hammann pp. R8674-R8677 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phonon mode coupling in superconducting LuNi2B2C C. Stassis, M. Bullock, J. Zarestky, P. Canfield, A. I. Goldman, G. Shirane, and S. M. Shapiro pp. R8678-R8681 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Josephson junctions with alternating critical current density R. G. Mints and V. G. Kogan pp. R8682-R8684 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitation of Josephson plasma and vortex oscillation modes in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ in parallel magnetic fields Y. Matsuda, M. B. Gaifullin, K. Kumagai, K. Kadowaki, T. Mochiku, and K. Hirata pp. R8685-R8688 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of midgap states in d-wave superconductors on the flux quantization in tricrystal rings Manoj P. Samanta and Supriyo Datta pp. R8689-R8692 [View PDF (1082 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Vortex lattice transitions in borocarbides V. G. Kogan, M. Bullock, B. Harmon, P. Miranovic-acute, Lj. Dobrosavljevic-acute-Grujic-acute, P. L. Gammel, and D. J. Bishop pp. R8693-R8696 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Josephson-junction thermodynamics and the superconducting phase transitionin a SQUID device Alec Maassen van den Brink and H. Dekker pp. R8697-R8700 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

In-plane and out-of-plane transport properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x epitaxial films: Fluctuations and transition into a vortex solid state D. V. Livanov, E. Milani, G. Balestrino, and C. Aruta pp. R8701-R8704 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Angular dependence of the first-order vortex-lattice phase transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 B. Schmidt, M. Konczykowski, N. Morozov, and E. Zeldov pp. R8705-R8708 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nature of the vortex liquid in Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy T. Tsuboi, T. Hanaguri, and A. Maeda pp. R8709-R8712 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron-irradiation effects on the V-I characteristics of YBa2Cu3O7-δ twinned crystals:Linking transport results in a variety of copper oxide superconductors Brandon Brown, J. M. Roberts, J. Tate, and J. W. Farmer pp. R8713-R8716 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local vortex mobility below the irreversibility line of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8:t A 205Tl NMR study of the transverse relaxation in single crystals E. G. Nikolaev, J. Witteveen, M. de Kok, and H. B. Brom pp. R8717-R8720 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Theoretical investigation of the structure of κ-Al2O3 Y. Yourdshahyan, U. Engberg, L. Bengtsson, B. I. Lundqvist, and B. Hammer pp. 8721-8725 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic Mn d-configuration change in the La1-xCaxMnO3 system: A Mn K-edge XAS study M. Croft, D. Sills, M. Greenblatt, C. Lee, S.-W. Cheong, K. V. Ramanujachary, and D. Tran pp. 8726-8732 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metric tensor as the dynamical variable for variable-cell-shape molecular dynamics Ivo Souza and JoséLuís Martins pp. 8733-8742 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant OH- photodissociation in alkali halide crystals L. Gomes and S. P. Morato pp. 8743-8754 [View PDF (469 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subnanometric-scale motion of the modulation wave in incommensurate solids studied by two-dimensional exchange-difference NMR J. Dolinsek and G. Papavassiliou pp. 8755-8765 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of epitaxial ferroelectric superlattices Y. Kim, R. A. Gerhardt, and A. Erbil pp. 8766-8775 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical slowing down and dispersion of avalanche upconversion dynamics Q. Shu and S. C. Rand pp. 8776-8783 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Short-range order, bulk moduli, and physical trends in c-Si1-xCx alloys P. C. Kelires pp. 8784-8787 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoinduced anisotropy in vitreous As2S3:mA reflectance-difference study A. V. Kolobov, V. Lyubin, T. Yasuda, M. Klebanov, and K. Tanaka pp. 8788-8792 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of Mössbauer absorption spectra for decagonal AlCuCo P. Kramer, A. Quandt, Th. Schneider, and H. Teuscher pp. 8793-8800 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculations of partial molar properties in the single-site approximation A. V. Ruban and H. L. Skriver pp. 8801-8807 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of the electronic structure of AlPd and Al70Pd20Mn10 M. Zurkirch, M. De Crescenzi, M. Erbudak, M. Hochstrasser, and A. R. Kortan pp. 8808-8811 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Stationary self-localized magnons in Heisenberg antiferromagnets J. Ohishi, M. Kubota, K. Kawasaki, and S. Takeno pp. 8812-8820 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Friedel oscillations in the force constants of metals Peter J. Feibelman pp. 8821-8828 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary-condition effects in anharmonic lattice dynamics: Existence criteria for intrinsic localized modes from extended-mode properties D. Bonart, T. Rössler, and J. B. Page pp. 8829-8846 [View PDF (358 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman and Fourier-transform infrared photoacoustic spectra of granular ZrO2 Liu Fangxin, Yang Jinlong, and Zhao Tianpeng pp. 8847-8851 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path renormalization of quasiperiodic generalized Fibonacci chains Dieter Walther and Ralph v. Baltz pp. 8852-8866 [View PDF (648 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional theory of freezing of quantum liquids at zero temperature using exact liquid-state linear response C. N. Likos, Saverio Moroni, and Gaetano Senatore pp. 8867-8880 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Different mechanisms of nonlinear quenching of luminescence D. A. Zubenko, M. A. Noginov, V. A. Smirnov, and I. A. Shcherbakov pp. 8881-8886 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Stimulated cooperative Jahn-Teller effect in TmPO4 P. Morin and Z. Kazei pp. 8887-8893 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying excited states and low-temperature properties of an alternating spin-1–spin-1/2 chain: A density-matrix renormalization-group study Swapan K. Pati, S. Ramasesha, and Diptiman Sen pp. 8894-8904 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural, magnetic, and transport properties of the giant magnetoresistive perovskites La2/3Ca1/3Mn1-xAlxO3-δ J. Blasco, J. García, J. M. de Teresa, M. R. Ibarra, J. Perez, P. A. Algarabel, C. Marquina, and C. Ritter pp. 8905-8910 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective potential for a scalar field in three dimensions: Ising model in the ferromagnetic phase M. M. Tsypin pp. 8911-8917 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field dependence of macroscopic quantum tunnelingand coherence of ferromagnetic particles Gwang-Hee Kim and Dae Sung Hwang pp. 8918-8927 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational and density-matrix renormalization-group studies of the frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg S=1 quantum spin chain A. Kolezhuk, R. Roth, and U. Schollwöck pp. 8928-8939 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Normalization factors for magnetic relaxation of small-particle systems in a nonzero magnetic field Ll. Balcells, O. Iglesias, and A. Labarta pp. 8940-8944 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism and superconductivity of Fe/Nb/Fe trilayers Th. Mühge, K. Westerholt, H. Zabel, N. N. Garif'yanov, Yu. V. Goryunov, I. A. Garifullin, and G. G. Khaliullin pp. 8945-8954 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	g-factor formulas of 3d5 ions in trigonal-symmetry fields and their applications M. G. Zhao and Y. Lei pp. 8955-8960 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR study of deuteron interbond motion in CsDSO4 D. Arcon, R. Blinc, J. Dolinsek, and L. A. Shuvalov pp. 8961-8966 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral hole-burning study of hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole interactions of 243Am3+ in CaWO4 G. K. Liu, Jin Huang, and M. M. Abraham pp. 8967-8972 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic transition in perovskite Mn oxides at T=0 Jie Jiang, Jinming Dong, and D. Y. Xing pp. 8973-8981 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-field magnetoresistance in diverse magnetic phases of γ-Fe80-xNixCr20 alloys G. Sinha, R. D. Barnard, and A. K. Majumdar pp. 8982-8989 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetric magneto-optic response in anisotropic thin films R. M. Osgood, B. M. Clemens, and R. L. White pp. 8990-8996 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Possible contribution of direct exchange to the superfluidity of 3He J. E. Hirsch pp. 8997-9006 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlations between normal-state properties and superconductivity J. E. Hirsch pp. 9007-9024 [View PDF (503 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Visualization of longitudinal and transverse currents in a Josephson medium by polarized neutrons G. P. Gordeev, L. A. Akselrod, S. L. Ginzburg, V. N. Zabenkin, and I. M. Lazebnik pp. 9025-9034 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characteristics of two-dimensional vortex dynamics from XY-type models with Ginzburg-Landau dynamics Anna Jonsson and Petter Minnhagen pp. 9035-9046 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge transport through superconductor/Anderson-insulator interfaces Aviad Frydman and Zvi Ovadyahu pp. 9047-9057 [View PDF (442 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice vibrations and electron-phonon coupling in superconducting quarternary borocarbides: An inelastic neutron-scattering investigation F. Gompf, W. Reichardt, H. Schober, B. Renker, and M. Buchgeister pp. 9058-9066 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistance anomaly and excess voltage in inhomogeneous superconducting aluminum thin films M. Park, M. S. Isaacson, and J. M. Parpia pp. 9067-9076 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition-temperature features of layered superconductors T. A. Mamedov, M. de Llano, and T. Firat pp. 9077-9087 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	c-axis Josephson tunneling in twinned and untwinned YBCO-Pb Junctions C. O'Donovan, M. D. Lumsden, B. D. Gaulin, and J. P. Carbotte pp. 9088-9093 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear response and collective oscillations in superconductors with d-wave pairing S. N. Artemenko and A. G. Kobelkov pp. 9094-9097 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic flux noise in superconducting rings and disks close to the superconducting transition S. A. L. Foulds, J. Smithyman, G. F. Cox, C. M. Muirhead, and R. G. Humphreys pp. 9098-9106 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical exponents of the superconducting transition in granular YBa2Cu3O7-δ R. J. Joshi, R. B. Hallock, and J. A. Taylor pp. 9107-9119 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature-dependent modulation amplitude of the CuO2 superconducting lattice in La2CuO4.1 A. Lanzara, N. L. Saini, A. Bianconi, J. L. Hazemann, Y. Soldo, F. C. Chou, and D. C. Johnston pp. 9120-9124 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal expansion of superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 T. Asahi, H. Suzuki, M. Nakamura, H. Takano, and J. Kobayashi pp. 9125-9129 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Relation of the superstructure modulation and extra-oxygen local-structural distortion in Bi2.1-yPbySr1.9-xLaxCuOz Mao Zhiqiang, Xu Gaojie, Zhang Shuyuan, Tan Shun, Lu Bin, Tian Mingliang, Fan Chenggao, Xu Cunyi, and Zhang Yuheng pp. 9130-9135 [View PDF (587 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical phonons in the orthorhombic double-chain Sr1-xCaxCuO2 (x=0, 0.5) M. V. Abrashev, A. P. Litvinchuk, C. Thomsen, and V. N. Popov pp. 9136-9141 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy level statistics of the two-dimensional Hubbard model at low filling Henrik Bruus and Jean-Christian Angl`es d'Auriac pp. 9142-9159 [View PDF (452 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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X-ray absorption spectroscopy of detwinned PrxY1-xBa2Cu3O7-y single crystals:Electronic structure and hole distribution M. Merz, N. Nücker, E. Pellegrin, P. Schweiss, S. Schuppler, M. Kielwein, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, C. T. Chen, V. Chakarian, Y. U. Idzerda, and A. Erb pp. 9160 [View PDF (368 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]