• BRIEF REPORTS
  • 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
• 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
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Influence of pressure on structural and magnetic phase transitions in La0.835Sr0.165MnO3   K. Kamenev, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, Z. Arnold, and O. Mikulina pp. 2285-2287 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of molecular orientational angles in the low-temperature phase of C60 O. Blaschko, G. Krexner, Ch. Maier, and R. Karawatzki pp. 2288-2291 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of elastic Green’s functions for lattices with cavities J. Schiøtz and A. E. Carlsson pp. 2292-2294 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structures of hydrogen at megabar pressures Kazutaka Nagao, Hitose Nagara, and Satoshi Matsubara pp. 2295-2298 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Individual pair displacements in Fe46.5Ni53.5 and Fe22.5Ni77.5 J. S. Faulkner pp. 2299-2301 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice instability in the solid-state amorphization of Fe(Al) solid solutions by mechanical alloying H. W. Sheng, Y. H. Zhao, Z. Q. Hu, and K. Lu pp. 2302-2305 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Stimulated emission of phonons in a ruby fiber P. A. Fokker, W. D. Koster, J. I. Dijkhuis, H. W. de Wijn, L. Lu, R. S. Meltzer, and W. M. Yen pp. 2306-2308 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear Jahn-Teller effect: A connected-moments approach Jay D. Mancini, Janice D. Prie, Yu Zhou, and Samuel P. Bowen pp. 2309-2311 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	1/r2 t-J model in a magnetic field James T. Liu and D. F. Wang pp. 2312-2315 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge ordering via electron-electron interactions in the colossal-magnetoresistive manganites S. K. Mishra, Rahul Pandit, and Sashi Satpathy pp. 2316-2319 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature specific heat of a random Heisenberg chain in the large-S limit I. Avgin and D. L. Huber pp. 2320-2321 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic spin-glass behavior in La1.96Sr0.04CuO4 Ravi Sachidanandam and Amnon Aharony pp. 2322-2323 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-Tc magnetically ordered phase of SrRuO3 P. A. Joy, S. K. Date, and P. S. Anil Kumar pp. 2324-2327 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irreversibility crossover in the H-T phase diagram of a Cd1-xMnxTe spin glass F. Bernardot and C. Rigaux pp. 2328-2331 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange anisotropy and the antiferromagnetic surface order parameter D. Lederman, J. Nogués, and Ivan K. Schuller pp. 2332-2335 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat capacity as a probe of surface phase transitions in thin antiferromagnetic films R. E. Camley pp. 2336-2339 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism in one dimension: Fe on Cu(111) J. Shen, R. Skomski, M. Klaua, H. Jenniches, S. Sundar Manoharan, and J. Kirschner pp. 2340-2343 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling of electrons in conventional and half-metallic systems: Towards very large magnetoresistance A. M. Bratkovsky pp. 2344-2347 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	14N nuclear quadrupole double resonance at zero magnetic field in the smectic C and nematic mesophases of HpAB E. Anoardo and D. J. Pusiol pp. 2348-2351 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous zero-field muon spin relaxation in highly disordered magnets D. R. Noakes and G. M. Kalvius pp. 2352-2355 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Fluctuational dissipation in YBa2Cu3O7-δ in tilted magnetic fields S. Sarti, D. Neri, E. Silva, R. Fastampa, and M. Giura pp. 2356-2359 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended impurity potential in a dx2-y2 superconductor A. P. Kampf and T. P. Devereaux pp. 2360-2363 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleation-controlled vortex entry in a square-columnar Josephson-junction array D.-X. Chen, J. J. Moreno, and A. Hernando pp. 2364-2367 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frustration effects on supercurrents in annular arrays of superconductors J. Yi and M. Y. Choi pp. 2368-2371 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant oscillations of coupling strength in Mo/Si multilayers with constant semiconductor thickness Nina Ya. Fogel, Oleg G. Turutanov, Anatoly S. Sidorenko, and Evgeny I. Buchstab pp. 2372-2375 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex lattice disorder in untwinned single-crystal YBa2Cu3O7-δ W. J. Kossler, A. D. Goonewardene, A. J. Greer, D. Ll. Williams, E. Koster, D. R. Harshman, J. Z. Liu, and R. N. Shelton pp. 2376-2378 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic transition near the peak effect in CeRu2 N. R. Dilley, J. Herrmann, S. H. Han, and M. B. Maple pp. 2379-2382 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-phonon contribution to thermopower in Si-doped superconducting Bi compounds J. Giraldo, J. E. Rodríguez, and A. Mariño pp. 2383-2386 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle injection effect of a YBa2Cu3O7-y film with double injector geometry H. Arie, E. Kume, and I. Iguchi pp. 2387-2390 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	EPR study of Gd3+-doped RbR(SO4)2⋅4H2O (R=Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu) single crystals:  Phase transitions and spin-Hamiltonian parameters Sushil K. Misra and Lucjan E. Misiak pp. 2391-2398 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum electrodynamics of the internal source x-ray holographies: Bremsstrahlung, fluorescence, and multiple-energy x-ray holography Gerald A. Miller and Larry B. Sorensen pp. 2399-2416 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consequences of lattice expansive strain gradients on hydrogen loading in palladium A. De Ninno, V. Violante, and A. La Barbera pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Point defect movement and annealing in collision cascades K. Nordlund and R. S. Averback pp. 2421-2431 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equation of state of the hard-disc solid E. Velasco and L. Mederos pp. 2432-2440 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for subpicosecond thermal spikes in the formation of tetrahedral amorphous carbon N. A. Marks pp. 2441-2446 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical analysis of x-ray absorption near-edge structure of transition-metal aqueous complexes in solution at the metal K edge M. Benfatto, J. A. Solera, J. Chaboy, M. G. Proietti, and J. García pp. 2447-2452 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of the thermoelastic martensitic transformation in a NiTi alloy driven by temperature variation and external stress K. F. Liang, Z. C. Lin, P. C. Fung, and J. X. Zhang pp. 2453-2462 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Piezoelectric effects in quasicrystals Chengzheng Hu, Renhui Wang, Di-Hua Ding, and Wenge Yang pp. 2463-2468 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamically stable one-component quasicrystals: A density-functional survey of relative stabilities A. R. Denton and J. Hafner pp. 2469-2482 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of chromium-doped fluoroindate glasses C. R. Mendonça, B. J. Costa, Y. Messaddeq, and S. C. Zilio pp. 2483-2487 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Raman- and infrared-active phonons in hexagonal YMnO3: Experiment and lattice-dynamical calculations M. N. Iliev, H.-G. Lee, V. N. Popov, M. V. Abrashev, A. Hamed, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu pp. 2488-2494 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the crystal field on the Raman intensity of C60 fullerites V. G. Hadjiev, P. M. Rafailov, H. Jantoljak, C. Thomsen, and M. K. Kelly pp. 2495-2500 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subpicosecond dynamics of excitons and photoexcited intrinsic polarons in the quasi-one-dimensional solid PtCl G. S. Kanner, G. F. Strouse, B. I. Swanson, M. Sinclair, J. P. Jiang, and N. Peyghambarian pp. 2501-2509 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Hierarchy of equations of motion for nonlinear coherent excitations applied to magnetic vortices F. G. Mertens, H. J. Schnitzer, and A. R. Bishop pp. 2510-2520 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Order versus disorder in the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagomé lattice using exact spectra analysis P. Lecheminant, B. Bernu, C. Lhuillier, L. Pierre, and P. Sindzingre pp. 2521-2529 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy properties of regularly depleted spin ladders Takahiro Fukui, Manfred Sigrist, and Norio Kawakami pp. 2530-2541 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoemission spectra of the t-J model in one and two dimensions: Similarities and differences R. Eder and Y. Ohta pp. 2542-2550 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman scattering from frustrated quantum spin chains Wolfram Brenig pp. 2551-2555 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure and magnetism in Ru-based perovskites I. I. Mazin and D. J. Singh pp. 2556-2571 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions in the two-dimensional XY model with random phases: A Monte Carlo study J. Maucourt and D. R. Grempel pp. 2572-2579 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay of magnetic and hydrogen orders in the laves hydride YMn2H4.3 I. N. Goncharenko, I. Mirebeau, A. V. Irodova, and E. Suard pp. 2580-2584 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-density-wave state in (TMTSF)2PF6: A 77Se NMR study at high magnetic fields S. Valfells, P. Kuhns, A. Kleinhammes, J. S. Brooks, W. Moulton, S. Takasaki, J. Yamada, and H. Anzai pp. 2585-2593 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of transition-metal thin films: A nonperturbative theory A. Lessard, T. H. Moos, and W. Hübner pp. 2594-2604 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Easy-axis distribution in disordered magnetic materials R. Iglesias and H. Rubio pp. 2605-2610 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	EPR studies of phase transitions in cadmium calcium acetate hexahydrate as a function of different paramagnetic impurity-ion concentrations F. A. Oguama, H. Shields, and D. K. De pp. 2611-2616 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange and anisotropy effects on spin waves in epitaxial Co films M. Grimsditch, Eric E. Fullerton, and R. L. Stamps pp. 2617-2622 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupling between the ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic orders in YMnO3 Z. J. Huang, Y. Cao, Y. Y. Sun, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu pp. 2623-2626 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magneto-optic constants of hcp and fcc Co films R. M. Osgood, K. T. Riggs, Amy E. Johnson, J. E. Mattson, C. H. Sowers, and S. D. Bader pp. 2627-2634 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and structural properties of erbium films G. Helgesen, Y. Tanaka, J. P. Hill, P. Wochner, Doon Gibbs, C. P. Flynn, and M. B. Salamon pp. 2635-2645 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface and interface phase transitions in thin magnetic films with frustrated exchange interactions D. Spišák and J. Hafner pp. 2646-2660 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic dichroism in uv photoemission from valence bands: Geometries where the three-step model of photoemission predicts null results D. Venus pp. 2661-2667 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth and magnetic properties of CoxNi1-x and FexNi1-x ultrathin films on Cu(100) F. O. Schumann, S. Z. Wu, G. J. Mankey, and R. F. Willis pp. 2668-2675 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong temperature dependence of the interlayer exchange coupling strength in Co/Cu/Co sandwiches N. Persat and A. Dinia pp. 2676-2679 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of nonlinear magneto-optical imaging of magnetic domains and domain walls A. V. Petukhov, I. L. Lyubchanskii, and Th. Rasing pp. 2680-2687 [View PDF (2836 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bistable magnetic resonance of conduction electrons in InP Laurent Binet and Didier Gourier pp. 2688-2697 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spreading of damage in the quantum S=1 / 2 Heisenberg ferromagnet I. V. Rojdestvenski, M. L. Lyra, and U. M. Costa pp. 2698-2702 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Representation of the t-J model via spin-charge variables Evgueny Kochetov and Vladimir Yarunin pp. 2703-2711 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesoscopic spin tunneling dynamics in an elastic medium V. Yu. Golyshev and A. F. Popkov pp. 2712-2716 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopic study of bound magnetic polaron formation and the metal-semiconductor transition in EuB6 P. Nyhus, S. Yoon, M. Kauffman, S. L. Cooper, Z. Fisk, and J. Sarrao pp. 2717-2721 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Plasma waves in anisotropic superconducting films below and above the plasma frequency Mauro M. Doria, Gilberto Hollauer, F. Parage, and O. Buisson pp. 2722-2731 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supercurrents through SNS proximity-induced junctions Herman J. Fink pp. 2732-2737 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of suppression of the inelastic scattering rate on the penetration depth and conductivity in a dx2-y2 superconductor E. Schachinger, J. P. Carbotte, and F. Marsiglio pp. 2738-2750 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium superconductivity in spin-polarized superconducting tunneling junctions Claudio Grimaldi and Peter Fulde pp. 2751-2763 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-carrying states in superconducting multilayers with Josephson interlayer coupling for temperatures close to Tc0: A microscopic theory Sergey V. Kuplevakhsky and Sergey V. Naydenov pp. 2764-2778 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface transparency of superconductor/ferromagnetic multilayers J. Aarts, J. M. Geers, E. Brück, A. A. Golubov, and R. Coehoorn pp. 2779-2787 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal phase diagram for vortex states of layered superconductors in strong magnetic fields Jun Hu and A. H. MacDonald pp. 2788-2799 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions of the flux-line lattice in high-temperature superconductors with weak columnar and point disorder Yadin Y. Goldschmidt pp. 2800-2808 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometrical locking of the irreversible magnetic moment to the normal of a thin-plate superconductor A. A. Zhukov, G. K. Perkins, Yu. V. Bugoslavsky, and A. D. Caplin pp. 2809-2819 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flux expulsion and reversible magnetization in the stripe phase superconductor La1.45Nd0.40Sr0.15CuO4 J. E. Ostenson, S. Bud’ko, M. Breitwisch, D. K. Finnemore, N. Ichikawa, and S. Uchida pp. 2820-2823 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-diffraction studies and bond valence sums of charge neutrally doped Nd1-2xCaxThxBa2Cu3O7-δ P. Lundqvist, Ö. Rapp, R. Tellgren, and I. Bryntse pp. 2824-2830 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Synthesis, structure, and XPS characterization of the stoichiometric phase Sr2CuO2F2 J. L. Kissick, C. Greaves, P. P. Edwards, V. M. Cherkashenko, E. Z. Kurmaev, S. Bartkowski, and M. Neumann pp. 2831-2835 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nontrivial infrared structure in (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics I. J. Aitchison, G. Amelino-Camelia, M. Klein-Kreisler, N. E. Mavromatos, and D. McNeill pp. 2836-2842 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle bands in the realistic bilayer cuprates Wei-Guo Yin and Chang-De Gong pp. 2843-2846 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman-active phonons in Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+d: Phonon assignment and charge-redistribution effects Minoru Osada, Masato Kakihana, Mikael Käll, Lars Börjesson, Atsuyoshi Inoue, and Masatomo Yashima pp. 2847-2851 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface and interface study on MBE-grown Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4 thin films by photoemission spectroscopy and tunnel spectroscopy H. Yamamoto, M. Naito, and H. Sato pp. 2852-2859 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural inhomogeneities observed in YBa2Cu3O7-δ crystals with optimal transport properties V. M. Browning, E. F. Skelton, M. S. Osofsky, S. B. Qadri, J. Z. Hu, L. W. Finger, and P. Caubet pp. 2860-2870 [View PDF (1561 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Experimental test of theories describing the magnetic ac susceptibility of differently shaped superconducting films: Rectangles, squares, disks, and rings patterned from YBa2Cu3O7-δ films Th. Herzog, H. A. Radovan, P. Ziemann, and E. H. Brandt pp. 2871-2881 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “1H NMR observation of the critical slowing down in ammonium chloride” Roman Goc and J. Wąsicki pp. 2882 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Superheating fields of superconductors: Asymptotic analysis and numerical results [Phys. Rev. B 53, 5650 (1996)] Andrew J. Dolgert, S. John Di Bartolo, and Alan T. Dorsey pp. 2883 [View PDF (54 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Ab initio studies of high-pressure structural transformations in silica [Phys. Rev. B 55, 3465 (1997)] B. B. Karki, M. C. Warren, L. Stixrude, G. J. Ackland, and J. Crain pp. 2884 [View PDF (54 kB) ]