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• 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.

Radiation trapping in nuclear resonant scattering of x rays A. I. Chumakov, J. Metge, A. Q. Baron, R. Rüffer, Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, H. Grünsteudel, and H. F. Grünsteudel pp. R8455-R8458 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Glass transition of polystyrene near the surface studied by slow-positron-annihilation spectroscopy Y. C. Jean, Renwu Zhang, H. Cao, Jen-Pwu Yuan, Chia-Ming Huang, B. Nielsen, and P. Asoka-Kumar pp. R8459-R8462 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Model for nonexponential nuclear relaxation in highly doped magnetic glasses I. P. Goudemond, J. M. Keartland, M. J. Hoch, and G. A. Saunders pp. R8463-R8466 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Solitonic approach to the dimerization problem in correlated one-dimensional systems Jiři Málek, Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, Gernot Paasch, and Karen Hallberg pp. R8467-R8470 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Density-matrix renormalization-group study of one-dimensional acoustic phonons L. G. Caron and S. Moukouri pp. R8471-R8474 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local Jahn-Teller distortion in La1-xSrxMnO3 observed by pulsed neutron diffraction Despina Louca, T. Egami, E. L. Brosha, H. Röder, and A. R. Bishop pp. R8475-R8478 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Ferromagnetism in the large-U Hubbard model Thomas Obermeier, Thomas Pruschke, and Joachim Keller pp. R8479-R8482 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct observation of two-dimensional self-focusing of spin waves in magnetic films M. Bauer, C. Mathieu, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, P. A. Kolodin, S. Sure, H. Dötsch, V. Grimalsky, Yu. Rapoport, and A. N. Slavin pp. R8483-R8486 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

13C NMR study of nesting instability in α-(BEDT-TTF)2RbHg(SCN)4 K. Miyagawa, A. Kawamoto, and K. Kanoda pp. R8487-R8490 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic interfaces in Fe-based nanocrystalline alloys determined by Mössbauer spectrometry A. Ślawska-Waniewska and J. M. Grenèche pp. R8491-R8494 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local lattice distortions and thermal transport in perovskite manganites J. L. Cohn, J. J. Neumeier, C. P. Popoviciu, K. J. McClellan, and Th. Leventouri pp. R8495-R8498 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Room-temperature dipole ferromagnetism in linear-self-assembling mesoscopic Fe particle arrays Akira Sugawara and M. R. Scheinfein pp. R8499-R8502 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of a fluctuation-enhanced magnetoresistance in Ni81Fe19/Ag multilayers at high current density C. T. Rogers, L. S. Kirschenbaum, P. D. Beale, S. E. Russek, and S. C. Sanders pp. R8503-R8506 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Effect of light irradiation on Fiske resonances and the Josephson effect in high-Tc junctions J. Elly, M. G. Medici, A. Gilabert, F. Schmidl, P. Seidel, A. Hoffmann, and Ivan K. Schuller pp. R8507-R8510 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Weak pseudogap in crystals of Pb2Sr2(Y,Ca)Cu3O8+δ Ya-Wei Hsueh, B. W. Statt, M. Reedyk, J. S. Xue, and J. E. Greedan pp. R8511-R8514 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ac effect in the conductance of mesoscopic normal-metal–superconductor structures V. N. Antonov and Hideaki Takayanagi pp. R8515-R8517 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron transport in mesoscopic disordered superconductor–normal-metal–superconductor junctions Athanassios Bardas and Dmitri V. Averin pp. R8518-R8521 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gliding dislocations in a driven vortex lattice Stefan Scheidl and Valerii M. Vinokur pp. R8522-R8525 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electric and magnetic properties and phase diagram of a series of organic superconductors λ-BETS2GaXzY4-z [BETS=bis(ethylenedithiotetraselenafulvalene; X,Y=F, Cl, Br; 0<z<2)] Hayao Kobayashi, Hiroki Akutsu, Emiko Arai, Hisashi Tanaka, and Akiko Kobayashi pp. R8526-R8529 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Normal-state Hall effect and the insulating resistivity of high-Tc cuprates at low temperatures Yoichi Ando, G. S. Boebinger, A. Passner, N. L. Wang, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, I. E. Trofimov, and F. F. Balakirev pp. R8530-R8534 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Diffuse x-ray scattering of Ag–13.4 at. % Al S. Y. Yu, B. Schönfeld, and G. Kostorz pp. 8535-8541 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Environment-dependent interatomic potential for bulk silicon Martin Z. Bazant, Efthimios Kaxiras, and J. F. Justo pp. 8542-8552 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles calculations on the atomic and electronic structure of κ-Al2O3 Y. Yourdshahyan, C. Ruberto, L. Bengtsson, and B. I. Lundqvist pp. 8553-8558 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution x-ray diffraction and topographic study of ferroelectric domains and absolute structural polarity of KTiOPO4 via anomalous scattering Z. W. Hu, P. A. Thomas, and P. Q. Huang pp. 8559-8565 [View PDF (810 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic hardening of C60: A heat-diffusion central-peak model P. Dolinar and W. Schranz pp. 8566-8574 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tight-binding computations of elastic anisotropy of Fe, Xe, and Si under compression Ronald E. Cohen, L. Stixrude, and Evgeny Wasserman pp. 8575-8589 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric relaxation of calcite-type carbonate salts: Defect structure and defect dipole dynamics in polycrystalline magnesite A. N. Papathanassiou and J. Grammatikakis pp. 8590-8598 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles and semiempirical calculations for F centers in KNbO3 R. I. Eglitis, N. E. Christensen, E. A. Kotomin, A. V. Postnikov, and G. Borstel pp. 8599-8604 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Nature of vibrational excitations in vitreous silica S. N. Taraskin and S. R. Elliott pp. 8605-8622 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact ground state of the Frenkel-Kontorova model with repeated parabolic potential. I. Basic results R. B. Griffiths, H. J. Schellnhuber, and H. Urbschat pp. 8623-8630 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact ground state of the Frenkel-Kontorova model with repeated parabolic potential. II. Numerical treatment T. Scheidsteger, H. Urbschat, R. B. Griffiths, and H. J. Schellnhuber pp. 8631-8637 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	From neutral oligoanilines to polyanilines: A theoretical investigation of the chain-length dependence of the electronic and optical properties J. Libert, J. Cornil, D. A. dos Santos, and J. L. Brédas pp. 8638-8650 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex pinning and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics Naomichi Hatano and David R. Nelson pp. 8651-8673 [View PDF (2912 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light amplification and absorption in a random medium J. Heinrichs pp. 8674-8682 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-transition behavior of n-alkanes on nanostructured polytetrafluorethylene films:  Brillouin spectroscopic and calorimetric investigations on pentacosane J. K. Krüger, R. Jiménez, K.-P. Bohn, and C. Fischer pp. 8683-8690 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Acoustic-phonon dispersion in CdTe at 7.5 GPa M. H. Krisch, A. Mermet, A. San Miguel, F. Sette, C. Masciovecchio, G. Ruocco, and R. Verbeni pp. 8691-8694 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-diffusion of manganese in nonstoichiometric manganous sulphide J. Gilewicz-Wolter, M. Danielewski, and S. Mrowec pp. 8695-8701 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of the dimer-oscillator model with Fano damping U. Herfort and M. Wagner pp. 8702-8713 [View PDF (409 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonzero-temperature transport near quantum critical points Kedar Damle and Subir Sachdev pp. 8714-8733 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency phonon dynamics and spin-lattice relaxation time in the incommensurate phase at low temperatures A. P. Levanyuk, S. A. Minyukov, J. Etrillard, and B. Toudic pp. 8734-8742 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromigration-induced void drift and coalescence: Simulations and a dynamic scaling theory Kevin M. Crosby, R. Mark Bradley, and Hervé Boularot pp. 8743-8751 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

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PrRu2Si2: A giant anisotropic induced magnet with a singlet crystal-field ground state A. M. Mulders, A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, P. C. Gubbens, A. A. Moolenaar, B. Fåk, E. Ressouche, K. Prokeš, A. A. Menovsky, and K. H. Buschow pp. 8752-8759 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of an antiferromagnet near the quantum critical point:  Application to LaCuO2.5 B. Normand and T. M. Rice pp. 8760-8773 [View PDF (3139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range resonating-valence-bond state of even-spin ladders: A recurrent variational approach Germán Sierra and Miguel A. Martín-Delgado pp. 8774-8785 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-spin resonance in spin-1 planar magnetic chains N. Papanicolaou, A. Orendáčová, and M. Orendáč pp. 8786-8798 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternating spin chains with singlet ground states Takahiro Fukui and Norio Kawakami pp. 8799-8806 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic magnetism from crystals to amorphous structures in Fe, Co, and Ni Y. Kakehashi, T. Uchida, and M. Yu pp. 8807-8818 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron study of mesoscopic magnetic clusters: Mn12O12 M. Hennion, L. Pardi, I. Mirebeau, E. Suard, R. Sessoli, and A. Caneschi pp. 8819-8827 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-field resistivity anomaly and low-field response of the canted antiferromagnetism in unsubstituted and Ba-substituted LaMnO3+δ within the insulating regime Amitava Chakraborty, Dipten Bhattacharya, and H. S. Maiti pp. 8828-8835 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature-dependent valence-band photoemission spectra of La1-xSrxMnO3 T. Saitoh, A. Sekiyama, K. Kobayashi, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, D. D. Sarma, Y. Takeda, and M. Takano pp. 8836-8840 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	RKKY interaction in the nearly nested Fermi liquid D. N. Aristov and S. V. Maleyev pp. 8841-8848 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relationship between magnetism, topology, and reactivity of Rh clusters Saroj K. Nayak, S. E. Weber, P. Jena, K. Wildberger, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, V. S. Stepanyuk, and W. Hergert pp. 8849-8854 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalies in the antiferromagnetic phase of the metamagnet FeBr2 M. Pleimling and W. Selke pp. 8855-8862 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Demagnetization of spin systems at low temperature J. Marro and J. A. Vacas pp. 8863-8866 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Syntheses and magnetic properties of Tb3Fe29-xCrx compounds Xiu-Feng Han, Hong-Ge Pan, Hong-Li Liu, Fu-Ming Yang, and Yi-Wei Zheng pp. 8867-8875 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical approach to the Heisenberg antiferromagnet with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor exchange Holger Köhler and Klaus W. Becker pp. 8876-8885 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum internal modes of solitons in a one-dimensional easy-plane antiferromagnet in a strong magnetic field B. A. Ivanov and A. K. Kolezhuk pp. 8886-8893 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grain-boundary structure and magnetic behavior in nanocrystalline ball-milled iron L. Del Bianco, A. Hernando, E. Bonetti, and E. Navarro pp. 8894-8901 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of oxygen content on the structural, magnetotransport, and magnetic properties of LaMnO3+δ C. Ritter, M. R. Ibarra, J. M. De Teresa, P. A. Algarabel, C. Marquina, J. Blasco, J. García, S. Oseroff, and S-W. Cheong pp. 8902-8911 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eu-Eu exchange interaction and Eu distribution in Pb1-xEuxTe from magnetization steps Ewout ter Haar, Valdir Bindilatti, Nei F. Oliveira, G. H. McCabe, Y. Shapira, Z. Golacki, S. Charar, M. Averous, and E. J. McNiff pp. 8912-8918 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interlayer exchange coupling: Effect of the cap J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, P. Bruno, I. Turek, and P. Weinberger pp. 8919-8927 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple model calculation of volume magnetostriction in rare-earth-Mn2 cubic Laves phases at T=0 K. Kulakowski and A. del Moral pp. 8928-8932 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ESR of Gd3+ in the Kondo-lattice compound YbAgCu4 and its reference compounds RAgCu4 (R=Y,Lu) P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, S. B. Oseroff, J. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, A. Cornelius, and M. F. Hundley pp. 8933-8937 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the sublattice magnetization in the quasi-two-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet La2CuO4 M. Matsumura, M. Mali, J. Roos, and D. Brinkmann pp. 8938-8944 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical critical behavior of spin models with long-range interactions Erik Luijten and Henk W. Blöte pp. 8945-8958 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic order and chemical bonding in the high-TC molecule-based cyanide magnets CsM[Cr(CN)6] (M=Mn, Ni) from first principles V. Eyert, B. Siberchicot, and M. Verdaguer pp. 8959-8969 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of conductivity in the presence of structural defects: Application to spin dependence of conductivity in cobalt T. C. Schulthess, W. H. Butler, X.-G. Zhang, D. M. Nicholson, and J. M. MacLaren pp. 8970-8977 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Momentum distribution and final-state effects in liquid 4He K. H. Andersen, W. G. Stirling, and H. R. Glyde pp. 8978-8987 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Damping of interfacial waves in 3He-4He layered mixtures Sviatoslav S. Sokolov, Guo-Qiang Hai, and Nelson Studart pp. 8988-8996 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and energetics of mixed 4He-3He drops M. Barranco, M. Pi, S. M. Gatica, E. S. Hernández, and J. Navarro pp. 8997-9003 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductors with short coherence length S. Stintzing and W. Zwerger pp. 9004-9014 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface bound-state energies in dx2-y2 and other unconventional superconductors M. B. Walker, P. Pairor, and M. E. Zhitomirsky pp. 9015-9020 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic properties of the yttriumdicarbide superconductors YC2, Y1-xThxC2, Y1-xCaxC2 (0<x<~0.3) Th. Gulden, R. W. Henn, O. Jepsen, R. K. Kremer, W. Schnelle, A. Simon, and C. Felser pp. 9021-9029 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Valence-band and resonance-photoemission study of La2CuO4+x single crystals A. A. Zakharov, H. Nylén, M. Qvarford, I. Lindau, M. Leandersson, M. B. Tsetlin, and M. N. Mikheeva pp. 9030-9037 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature and magnetic field dependence of the induced magnetization in macroscopic samples due to the proximity effect Yu. N. Ovchinnikov, B. I. Ivlev, R. J. Soulen, J. H. Claassen, W. E. Fogle, and J. H. Colwell pp. 9038-9051 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of gap anisotropy upon the electronic structure around a superconducting vortex Nobuhiko Hayashi, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida pp. 9052-9063 [View PDF (2073 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Onset of flux penetration into a type-II superconductor disk A. V. Kuznetsov, D. V. Eremenko, and V. N. Trofimov pp. 9064-9070 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defects in two- and three-dimensional soft lattices: Application to vortices in layered superconductors Ernst Helmut Brandt pp. 9071-9081 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-resolution photoemission study of metallic, insulating, and superconducting BEDT-TTF salts A. Sekiyama, T. Susaki, A. Fujimori, T. Sasaki, N. Toyota, T. Kondo, G. Saito, M. Tsunekawa, T. Iwasaki, T. Muro, T. Matsushita, S. Suga, H. Ishii, and T. Miyahara pp. 9082-9090 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stripes, pseudogaps, and Van Hove nesting in the three-band t-J model R. S. Markiewicz pp. 9091-9105 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static and dynamic properties of stacked Josephson junctions: Analytic solution V. M. Krasnov and D. Winkler pp. 9106-9115 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting gap anisotropy and phonon anomalies in single crystal NdBa2Cu3O7-x O. V. Misochko, K. Kuroda, and N. Koshizuka pp. 9116-9121 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional density-functional approach to the Abrikosov vortex lattice melting J. M. Roco and E. Bruno pp. 9122-9128 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Far-infrared investigation of the pseudogap in underdoped Pb2Sr2(Y/Ca)Cu3O8 M. Reedyk, T. Timusk, Y.-W. Hsueh, B. W. Statt, J. S. Xue, and J. E. Greedan pp. 9129-9133 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Raman scattering in antiferromagnets Dirk K. Morr and Andrey V. Chubukov pp. 9134-9152 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural, transport, and magnetic properties of PrBa2-xSrxCu3O7-δ Y. G. Zhao, S. Y. Xiong, Y. P. Li, B. Zhang, S. S. Fan, B. Yin, J. W. Li, S. Q. Guo, W. H. Tang, G. H. Rao, D. J. Dong, B. S. Cao, and B. L. Gu pp. 9153-9157 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]