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  • 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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Elastic and inelastic scattering of 4d inner-shell electrons in (Y,Gd)2O3 studied by synchrotron-radiation excitation A. Moewes, T. Eskildsen, D. L. Ederer, J. Wang, J. McGuire, and T. A. Callcott pp. R8059-R8062 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-time clock NMR observation of the ferroelectric transition in the organic compound cyclohexane-1,1′-diacetic acid J. Dolinšek, D. Arčon, Hae Jin Kim, J. Seliger, V. Žagar, P. Vaněk, J. Kroupa, Z. Zikmund, and J. Petzelt pp. R8063-R8066 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Environment around Li in the LiAlSiO4 ionic conductor glass: A neutron-scattering and reverse Monte Carlo study L. Cormier, P. H. Gaskell, G. Calas, J. Zhao, and A. K. Soper pp. R8067-R8070 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dimensional-crossover behavior in randomly layered media Man-Chung Chan, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and Po-Wan Woo pp. R8071-R8074 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Exact results at the two-dimensional percolation point P. Kleban and R. M. Ziff pp. R8075-R8078 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Optical probe of anisotropic and incoherent charge dynamics in a layered ferromagnet: La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 T. Ishikawa, T. Kimura, T. Katsufuji, and Y. Tokura pp. R8079-R8082 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orbital magnetoresistance in the La2-xSrxCuO4 system F. F. Balakirev, I. E. Trofimov, S. Guha, Marta Z. Cieplak, and P. Lindenfeld pp. R8083-R8086 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin-1 XXZ chains in a staggered magnetic field Masayoshi Tsukano and Kiyohide Nomura pp. R8087-R8090 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Critical exponent in the magnetization curve of quantum spin chains Tôru Sakai and Minoru Takahashi pp. R8091-R8094 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Refinement of magnetic structures with x rays: Nd as a test case D. Watson, W. J. Nuttall, E. M. Forgan, S. C. Perry, and D. Fort pp. R8095-R8098 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anomalous lattice dynamics in intermediate-valence CeNi E. S. Clementyev, P. A. Alekseev, M. Braden, J.-M. Mignot, G. Lapertot, V. N. Lazukov, and I. P. Sadikov pp. R8099-R8102 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Colossal negative magnetoresistance in an antiferromagnet Julia Y. Chan, Susan M. Kauzlarich, Peter Klavins, Robert N. Shelton, and David J. Webb pp. R8103-R8106 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superparamagnetic behavior of structural domains in epitaxial ultrathin magnetite films F. C. Voogt, T. T. Palstra, L. Niesen, O. C. Rogojanu, M. A. James, and T. Hibma pp. R8107-R8110 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Asymmetry of domain nucleation and enhanced coercivity in exchange-biased epitaxial NiO/NiFe bilayers V. I. Nikitenko, V. S. Gornakov, L. M. Dedukh, Yu. P. Kabanov, A. F. Khapikov, A. J. Shapiro, R. D. Shull, A. Chaiken, and R. P. Michel pp. R8111-R8114 [View PDF (2708 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reentrant transition from an incipient charge-ordered state to a ferromagnetic metallic state in a rare-earth manganate Anthony Arulraj, Amlan Biswas, A. K. Raychaudhuri, C. N. Rao, P. M. Woodward, T. Vogt, D. E. Cox, and A. K. Cheetham pp. R8115-R8118 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Transverse force on a quantized vortex in a superconductor Michael R. Geller, Carlos Wexler, and David J. Thouless pp. R8119-R8122 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large hysteresis effect and reentrant behavior in DyNi2B2C at temperatures T<2 K Z. Q. Peng, K. Krug, and K. Winzer pp. R8123-R8126 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Intrinsic temperature dependences of transport coefficients within the hot-spot model for normal-state YBa2Cu3O7 J. Paaske and D. V. Khveshchenko pp. R8127-R8130 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Intrinsic resistivity and the SO(5) theory of high-temperature superconductors Daniel E. Sheehy and Paul M. Goldbart pp. R8131-R8134 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Multiple-valued c-axis critical current and phase locking in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals N. Mros, V. M. Krasnov, A. Yurgens, D. Winkler, and T. Claeson pp. R8135-R8138 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tunneling spectroscopy of the quasiparticle Andreev bound state in ion-irradiated YBa2Cu3O7-δ/Pb junctions M. Aprili, M. Covington, E. Paraoanu, B. Niedermeier, and L. H. Greene pp. R8139-R8142 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Flux-lattice melting and lowest-Landau-level fluctuations Stephen W. Pierson and Oriol T. Valls pp. R8143-R8145 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reentrant c-axis magnetoresistance in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ with columnar defects: Evidence for recoupling of the vortex liquid N. Morozov, M. P. Maley, L. N. Bulaevskii, and J. Sarrao pp. R8146-R8149 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetoresistance of a YBa2Cu3O7 Corbino disk: Probing geometrical contributions to the unconventional normal-state magnetoresistance of high-temperature superconductors W. Göb, W. Lang, and Roman Sobolewski pp. R8150-R8153 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	ESR study of the incommensurate phase in doped (NH4)2ZnCl4 Weigang Lang, Horacio A. Farach, Richard J. Creswick, and Charles P. Poole pp. 8155-8159 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1H NMR and 14N NQR study of the ferroelectric phase transition in (CH3)2NH2H2PO4 J. Seliger and V. Žagar pp. 8160-8165 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the dielectric constant of relaxor ferroelectrics Z.-Y. Cheng, R. S. Katiyar, X. Yao, and A. S. Bhalla pp. 8166-8177 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model for the pressure-optic coefficients in optical materials Gorachand Ghosh pp. 8178-8180 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Connections between the electron-energy-loss spectra, the local electronic structure, and the physical properties of a material: A study of nickel aluminum alloys David A. Muller, David J. Singh, and John Silcox pp. 8181-8202 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variable-temperature EPR study of Fe3+ in VO2 single crystals Sushil K. Misra, Serguei I. Andronenko, and Roza R. Andronenko pp. 8203-8210 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Microstructure, decomposition, and crystallization in Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glass Wei-Hua Wang, Q. Wei, and S. Friedrich pp. 8211-8217 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple-beam x-ray-diffraction studies of decagonal quasicrystals Rachel Eisenhower, Roberto Colella, and Benjamin Grushko pp. 8218-8222 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-order phase transitions by first-principles free-energy calculations: The melting of Al Gilles A. de Wijs, Georg Kresse, and Michael J. Gillan pp. 8223-8234 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static and dynamic properties of inhomogeneous elastic media on disordered substrate Dinko Cule and Terence Hwa pp. 8235-8253 [View PDF (1383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anharmonic dynamics in crystalline, glassy, and supercooled-liquid glycerol: A case study on the onset of relaxational behavior G. J. Cuello, F. J. Bermejo, R. Fayos, R. Fernández-Perea, A. Criado, F. Trouw, C. Tam, H. Schober, E. Enciso, and N. G. Almarza pp. 8254-8263 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Determining the Kapitza resistance and the thermal conductivity of polycrystals: A simple model Ce-Wen Nan and R. Birringer pp. 8264-8268 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Low-energy behavior of a random classical Heisenberg chain I. Avgin and D. L. Huber pp. 8269-8273 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localized magnon mode of in-plane magnetic vortices in easy-plane magnets G. M. Wysin, M. E. Gouvêa, and A. S. Pires pp. 8274-8284 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental and theoretical studies of finite-size effects in an S=1 / 2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain H. Asakawa, M. Matsuda, K. Minami, H. Yamazaki, and K. Katsumata pp. 8285-8289 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Random-mass Dirac fermions in doped spin-Peierls and spin-ladder systems: One-particle properties and boundary effects M. Steiner, M. Fabrizio, and Alexander O. Gogolin pp. 8290-8306 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics and transport in gapped one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets at nonzero temperatures Kedar Damle and Subir Sachdev pp. 8307-8339 [View PDF (661 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin diffusion and the spin-1/2 XXZ chain at T=∞ from exact diagonalization Klaus Fabricius and Barry M. McCoy pp. 8340-8347 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational invariance and order-parameter stiffness in frustrated quantum spin systems L. O. Manuel, A. E. Trumper, and H. A. Ceccatto pp. 8348-8353 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular-dynamics approach to itinerant magnetism with complex magnetic structures Y. Kakehashi, S. Akbar, and N. Kimura pp. 8354-8369 [View PDF (1966 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metamagnets in uniform and random fields Serge Galam, Carlos S. Yokoi, and Silvio R. Salinas pp. 8370-8374 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of the random-field Ising model in a transverse magnetic field T. Senthil pp. 8375-8380 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling solution of the overscreened multichannel Kondo model Ming Shaw, Xing-wei Zhang, and Duo Jin pp. 8381-8393 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic phase diagram of Ho/Er alloys R. A. Cowley, J. A. Simpson, C. Bryn-Jacobsen, R. C. Ward, M. R. Wells, and D. F. McMorrow pp. 8394-8407 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant reflectivity from a Ni(110) crystal: Magnetic effects at the Ni 2p edges using linearly and circularly polarized photons Maurizio Sacchi and Alessandro Mirone pp. 8408-8415 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance and magnetization study of thulium Mark Ellerby, Keith A. McEwen, and Jens Jensen pp. 8416-8423 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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X-ray magnetic-circular-dichroism probe of a noncollinear magnetic arrangement below the spin reorientation transition in Nd2Fe14B Jesús Chaboy, Luis M. García, Fernando Bartolomé, Augusto Marcelli, Giannantonio Cibin, Hiroshi Maruyama, Stefania Pizzini, Andrei Rogalev, Jeroen B. Goedkoop, and José Goulon pp. 8424-8429 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static susceptibilities of dipolar ferromagnets below Tc H. Schinz and F. Schwabl pp. 8430-8437 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of dipolar ferromagnets below Tc H. Schinz and F. Schwabl pp. 8438-8455 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universality of the spin-wave frequency in ferromagnets below Tc H. Schinz and F. Schwabl pp. 8456-8465 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference of a first-order transition with the formation of a spin-Peierls state in α′-NaV2O5 M. Köppen, D. Pankert, R. Hauptmann, M. Lang, M. Weiden, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich pp. 8466-8471 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions in the fully frustrated triangular XY model Sooyeul Lee and Koo-Chul Lee pp. 8472-8477 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical calculations of the B1g Raman spectrum of the two-dimensional Heisenberg model Anders W. Sandvik, Sylvain Capponi, Didier Poilblanc, and Elbio Dagotto pp. 8478-8493 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of the two-dimensional Ising model in a transverse field: A density-matrix renormalization calculation M. S. du Croo de Jongh and J. M. van Leeuwen pp. 8494-8500 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-dimensional antiferromagnetism in fluoro-gallium phthalocyanine-(BF4)0.25 Ichiro Hiromitsu, Nobuhisa Ikeda, Makoto Handa, and Takashi Ito pp. 8501-8508 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dynamics of phase stability and magnetic order in magnetoresistive La0.83Sr0.17Mn0.9857Fe0.02O3 A. Tkachuk, K. Rogacki, D. E. Brown, B. Dabrowski, A. J. Fedro, C. W. Kimball, B. Pyles, X. Xiong, Daniel Rosenmann, and B. D. Dunlap pp. 8509-8517 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Specific heat of liquid 3He under pressure in a restricted geometry R. Schrenk and R. König pp. 8518-8525 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotating vortex core: An instrument for detecting core excitations N. B. Kopnin and G. E. Volovik pp. 8526-8531 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling in the topological mechanism of superconductivity A. G. Abanov and P. B. Wiegmann pp. 8532-8548 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic derivation of the SO(5) symmetric Landau-Ginzburg potential C. P. Burgess, J. M. Cline, R. MacKenzie, and R. Ray pp. 8549-8559 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivity across a twin boundary in a d-wave superconductor M. E. Zhitomirsky and M. B. Walker pp. 8560-8565 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response of a dx2-y2 superconductor to a Zeeman magnetic field Kun Yang and S. L. Sondhi pp. 8566-8570 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-size effects in vortex localization Nadav M. Shnerb pp. 8571-8579 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Thermally activated dynamics of the tilts of the CuO6 octahedra, hopping of interstitial O, and possible instability towards the LTT phase in La2CuO4+δ F. Cordero, C. R. Grandini, G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, F. Trequattrini, and M. Ferretti pp. 8580-8589 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-field-gradient analysis of high-Tc superconductors Ivan Kupčić, Slaven Barišić, and Eduard Tutiš pp. 8590-8600 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural origin of misorientation-independent superconducting behavior at [001] twist boundaries in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Yimei Zhu, Q. Li, Y. N. Tsay, M. Suenaga, G. D. Gu, and N. Koshizuka pp. 8601-8608 [View PDF (1443 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two holes in a locally antiferromagnetic background: The role of retardation and Coulomb repulsion effects José Riera and Elbio Dagotto pp. 8609-8621 [View PDF (531 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Three-dimensional lowest-Landau-level theory applied to YBa2Cu3O7-δ magnetization and specific heat data: Implications for the critical behavior in the H-T plane Stephen W. Pierson, Oriol T. Valls, Zlatko Tešanović, and Michael A. Lindemann pp. 8622-8631 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiband model of high-Tc superconductors R. Combescot pp. 8632-8641 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SO(5) invariance and effective field theory for high-Tc superconductors C. P. Burgess and C. A. Lütken pp. 8642-8655 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron peak in the extended-saddle-point model of high-temperature superconductors A. A. Abrikosov pp. 8656-8661 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double sign reversal of the Hall effect in the mixed state of YBa2Cu3Ox K. Nakao, K. Hayashi, T. Utagawa, Y. Enomoto, and N. Koshizuka pp. 8662-8666 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interlayer coupling and superconducting properties of the triple-layer compound B0.6C0.4(Sr0.25Ba0.75)2Ca2Cu3O9 Mun-Seog Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, A. Iyo, K. Tokiwa, M. Tokumoto, and H. Ihara pp. 8667-8670 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry of the free states of an electron-doped Nd2-xCexCuO4-δ superconductor determined by x-ray-absorption spectroscopy A. Yu. Ignatov, A. A. Ivanov, A. P. Menushenkov, S. Iacobucci, and P. Lagarde pp. 8671-8679 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling spectroscopy of superconducting Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4-δ S. Kashiwaya, T. Ito, K. Oka, S. Ueno, H. Takashima, M. Koyanagi, Y. Tanaka, and K. Kajimura pp. 8680-8686 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of disorder on the vortex-lattice melting in twinned oxygen-deficient ortho-II YBa2Cu3Oy (y≈6.6) E. Rodríguez, A. Gou, B. Martínez, S. Piñol, and X. Obradors pp. 8687-8695 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR studies of overdoped Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-δ G. V. Williams, J. L. Tallon, R. Michalak, and R. Dupree pp. 8696-8701 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanisms of photodoping in oxygen-deficient YBa2Cu3Ox films studied by in situ transport measurements C. Stockinger, W. Markowitsch, W. Lang, W. Kula, and Roman Sobolewski pp. 8702-8708 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent interface properties of d- and s-wave superconductors A. M. Martin and James F. Annett pp. 8709-8716 [View PDF (722 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]