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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Nitrogen doping in purely sp2 bonded forms of carbon G. Jungnickel, P. K. Sitch, Th. Frauenheim, B. R. Eggen, M. I. Heggie, C. D. Latham, and C. S. Cousins pp. R661-R665 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Antiferroelectric phase transition in Rb3D(SO4)2 single crystals studied by 87Rb NMR A. Titze, G. Hinze, and R. Böhmer pp. R666-R669 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Coulomb-glass-like behavior of ultrathin films of metals G. Martinez-Arizala, C. Christiansen, D. E. Grupp, N. Marković, A. M. Mack, and A. M. Goldman pp. R670-R672 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Surface properties of aperiodic Ising quantum chains Joachim Hermisson and Uwe Grimm pp. R673-R676 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dipolar superferromagnetism in monolayer nanostripes of Fe(110) on vicinal W(110) surfaces J. Hauschild, H. J. Elmers, and U. Gradmann pp. R677-R680 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

CeRh3B2: A ferromagnet with anomalously large Ce 5d spin and orbital magnetic moments A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, J.-P. Sanchez, Th. Tschentscher, and P. Lejay pp. R681-R684 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Search for spin-slip lockins using tailored impurity layers M. J. Conover, C. P. Flynn, Assunta Vigliante, and Doon Gibbs pp. R685-R688 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Exchange splittings of Mn- and Sb-derived states by spin-resolved valence-band photoemission of MnSb Oliver Rader, Akio Kimura, Nozomu Kamakura, Ki-Seok An, Akito Kakizaki, Shintaro Miyanishi, Hiroyuki Akinaga, Masafumi Shirai, Kenya Shimada, and Atsushi Fujimori pp. R689-R692 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

X-ray scattering at FeCo(001) surfaces and the crossover between ordinary and normal transitions Uwe Ritschel pp. R693-R695 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Short-period oscillations in photoemission from Cu films on Co(100) R. Kläsges, D. Schmitz, C. Carbone, W. Eberhardt, P. Lang, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs pp. R696-R699 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ultrafast nonequilibrium spin dynamics in a ferromagnetic thin film Ganping Ju, A. Vertikov, A. V. Nurmikko, C. Canady, Gang Xiao, R. F. Farrow, and A. Cebollada pp. R700-R703 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Plasmon excitations in nondegenerate quasi-one-dimensional electron systems Sviatoslav S. Sokolov and Nelson Studart pp. R704-R707 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Competition between surface barriers and bulk pinning in a Nd2-xCexCuO4-y single crystal down to T/Tc=0.02 M. C. de Andrade, N. R. Dilley, F. Ruess, and M. B. Maple pp. R708-R711 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Localized holes in superconducting lanthanum cuprate P. C. Hammel, B. W. Statt, R. L. Martin, F. C. Chou, D. C. Johnston, and S-W. Cheong pp. R712-R715 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum phase transitions in Josephson-junction chains M.-S. Choi, J. Yi, M. Y. Choi, J. Choi, and S.-I. Lee pp. R716-R719 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Noise probes of underlying static correlation lengths in the superconducting peak effect M. W. Rabin, R. D. Merithew, M. B. Weissman, M. J. Higgins, and S. Bhattacharya pp. R720-R723 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamics of time-reversal-symmetry-breaking vortices in unconventional superconductors Z. D. Wang and Qiang-Hua Wang pp. R724-R727 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-field study of normal-state magnetotransport in Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ A. W. Tyler, Yoichi Ando, F. F. Balakirev, A. Passner, G. S. Boebinger, A. J. Schofield, A. P. Mackenzie, and O. Laborde pp. R728-R731 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orthorhombicity mixing of s- and d-gap components in YBa2Cu3O7 without involving the chains G. Varelogiannis pp. R732-R735 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Voltage jumps in current-voltage characteristics of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ superconducting films: Evidence for flux-flow instability under the influence of self-heating Z. L. Xiao, P. Voss-de Haan, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian pp. R736-R739 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Relative stability, structure, and elastic properties of several phases of pure zirconia J. K. Dewhurst and J. E. Lowther pp. 741-747 [View PDF (348 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local structure at the manganese site in mixed-valence manganites G. Subías, J. García, J. Blasco, and M. G. Proietti pp. 748-754 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computer-simulation study of high-temperature phase stability in iron Yu. N. Osetsky and A. Serra pp. 755-763 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of point defects in high-density luminescent crystals: Oxygen in barium fluoride J. M. Vail, E. Emberly, T. Lu, M. Gu, and R. Pandey pp. 764-772 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic topological and structural transition in AuIn2 under pressure B. K. Godwal, A. Jayaraman, S. Meenakshi, R. S. Rao, S. K. Sikka, and V. Vijayakumar pp. 773-776 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric properties of triglycine selenate ferroelectric near the phase-transition temperature B. Fugiel and M. Mierzwa pp. 777-782 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency dielectric dispersion in ferroelectric crystals J. F. Araújo, J. Mendes Filho, F. E. Melo, F. V. Letelier, and A. S. Chaves pp. 783-788 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical stability of the polarization in a thin semiconducting ferroelectric Yukio Watanabe pp. 789-804 [View PDF (375 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling and metastable behavior in uniaxial ferroelectrics J. R. Fernández del Castillo, B. Noheda, N. Cereceda, J. A. Gonzalo, T. Iglesias, and J. Przeslawski pp. 805-810 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystal characterization and optical spectroscopy of Ti3+-doped CaGdAlO4 crystals Nobuhiro Kodama and Mitsuo Yamaga pp. 811-817 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio theory of optical transitions of point defects in SiO2 Gianfranco Pacchioni and Gianluigi Ierańo pp. 818-832 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum corrections to the simulated properties of solids Robert J. Hardy, Daniel J. Lacks, and Ramesh C. Shukla pp. 833-838 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Universality and its origins at the amorphous solidification transition Weiqun Peng, Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart, and Annette Zippelius pp. 839-847 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Annihilation characteristics of positrons in a polymer containing silver nanoparticles M. Mukherjee, D. Chakravorty, and P. M. Nambissan pp. 848-856 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of disordered Fe-V alloys J. C. Krause, C. Paduani, J. Schaff, and M. I. da Costa pp. 857-861 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free energy and vibrational entropy difference between ordered and disordered Ni3Al R. Ravelo, J. Aguilar, M. Baskes, J. E. Angelo, B. Fultz, and Brad Lee Holian pp. 862-869 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localization length in a random magnetic field J. A. Vergés pp. 870-878 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Vibrational studies on CO2 up to 40 GPa by Raman spectroscopy at room temperature H. Olijnyk and A. P. Jephcoat pp. 879-888 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Debye-Waller factors of alkali halides C. K. Shepard, J. G. Mullen, and G. Schupp pp. 889-897 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonons in nanocrystalline Ni3Fe H. Frase, B. Fultz, and J. L. Robertson pp. 898-905 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic two-level states and relaxations observed in a computer model of amorphous Ni81B19 Leon D. van Ee, Barend J. Thijsse, and Jilt Sietsma pp. 906-913 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular-orbital and molecular-dynamics study of mercury Tomonari Sumi, Eisaku Miyoshi, Yoshiko Sakai, and Osamu Matsuoka pp. 914-918 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Real-time dynamics of soliton diffusion S. M. Alamoudi, D. Boyanovsky, and F. I. Takakura pp. 919-940 [View PDF (492 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution spectroscopy of the impurity-induced Q3(0) transition of solid parahydrogen Robert M. Dickson, Takamasa Momose, Teresa J. Byers, and Takeshi Oka pp. 941-949 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variation of intermolecular interaction and local lattice distortion of parahydrogen crystals upon vibrational excitation Robert M. Dickson and Takeshi Oka pp. 950-955 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	From one to two dimensions in quantum spin systems A. Fledderjohann, K.-H. Mütter, M.-S. Yang, and M. Karbach pp. 956-963 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean-field theory for the spin-ladder system Xi Dai and Zhao-bin Su pp. 964-969 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear muffin-tin orbital calculation of local electronic and magnetic properties in (Fe1-xNix)4N (0<~x<~1.0) Yong Kong and Fashen Li pp. 970-977 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weak ferromagnetism in two-dimensional bilayered Sr3-xCaxRu2O7 S. Ikeda, Y. Maeno, and T. Fujita pp. 978-986 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multichannel Kondo effect in an interacting electron system:  Exact results for the low-temperature thermodynamics Mats Granath and Henrik Johannesson pp. 987-992 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-electron theory of core-level photoemission from ferromagnets J. G. Menchero pp. 993-1000 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin polarization and many-body effects in Ni 3p core-level photoemission J. G. Menchero pp. 1001-1006 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Averaging of an alternating magnetic field and spin quantum tunneling J. L. van Hemmen and W. F. Wreszinski pp. 1007-1013 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism, structure, and morphology of ultrathin Fe films on Cu3Au(100) B. Feldmann, B. Schirmer, A. Sokoll, and M. Wuttig pp. 1014-1023 [View PDF (512 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	139La NMR in lanthanum manganites: Indication of the presence of magnetic polarons from spectra and nuclear relaxations G. Allodi, R. De Renzi, and G. Guidi pp. 1024-1034 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions and elementary excitations in a zigzag-like spin system A. A. Zvyagin pp. 1035-1039 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital magnetism at the surfaces of 3d transition metals J. L. Rodríguez-López, J. Dorantes-Dávila, and G. M. Pastor pp. 1040-1045 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature properties of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with bond alternation Masanori Kohno, Minoru Takahashi, and Masayuki Hagiwara pp. 1046-1051 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetotransport in perovskite series Lan-nxCa1+nxMnnO3n+1 ferromagnets H. Asano, J. Hayakawa, and M. Matsui pp. 1052-1056 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization dependence of the magnetic fluctuations in Cr below TN P. Böni, B. J. Sternlieb, G. Shirane, B. Roessli, J. E. Lorenzo, and S. A. Werner pp. 1057-1065 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-diffraction study of stripe order in La2NiO4+δ with δ=2 / 15 P. Wochner, J. M. Tranquada, D. J. Buttrey, and V. Sachan pp. 1066-1078 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling conductance and magnetoresistance of ferromagnet/ferromagnetic insulator (semiconductor)/ferromagnet junctions Yun Li, Bo-Zang Li, Wu-Shou Zhang, and Dao-Sheng Dai pp. 1079-1084 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization reversal in nanostructured Co/Pd multilayers Sug-Bong Choe and Sung-Chul Shin pp. 1085-1089 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance and exchange coupling in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction with ferromagnetic layers of finite thickness Xiangdong Zhang, Bo-Zang Li, Wushou Zhang, and Fu-Cho Pu pp. 1090-1096 [View PDF (436 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of spin-flip scattering on current-in-plane giant magnetoresistance Jian Chen and Selman Hershfield pp. 1097-1101 [View PDF (524 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reexamination of the microscopic couplings of the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet CuGeO3 K. Fabricius, A. Klümper, U. Löw, B. Büchner, T. Lorenz, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 1102-1107 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Force-detected electron-spin resonance: Adiabatic inversion, nutation, and spin echo K. Wago, D. Botkin, C. S. Yannoni, and D. Rugar pp. 1108-1114 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear-spin relaxation in magnetic rings A. Lascialfari, D. Gatteschi, A. Cornia, U. Balucani, M. G. Pini, and A. Rettori pp. 1115-1123 [View PDF (995 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin and charge dynamics in the hole-doped one-dimensional-chain–ladder composite material Sr14Cu24O41: Cu NMR/NQR studies Masashi Takigawa, Naoki Motoyama, Hiroshi Eisaki, and Shinichi Uchida pp. 1124-1140 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth of a flat Mn monolayer on Ag(001) P. Schieffer, C. Krembel, M. C. Hanf, and G. Gewinner pp. 1141-1146 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Electron-electron relaxation in two-dimensional and layered superconductors Michael Reizer pp. 1147-1153 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of finite size on the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in two-dimensional arrays of proximity-coupled junctions S. T. Herbert, Y. Jun, R. S. Newrock, C. J. Lobb, K. Ravindran, H.-K. Shin, D. B. Mast, and S. Elhamri pp. 1154-1163 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic self-field entry into a current-carrying type-II superconductor. III. General criterion of penetration for an external field of arbitrary direction Yu. A. Genenko, A. V. Snezhko, P. Troche, J. Hoffmann, and H. C. Freyhardt pp. 1164-1172 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional Josephson-junction arrays: Static magnetic response R. De Luca, T. Di Matteo, A. Tuohimaa, and J. Paasi pp. 1173-1180 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting states and depinning transitions of Josephson ladders Mauricio Barahona, Steven H. Strogatz, and Terry P. Orlando pp. 1181-1199 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of London penetration depth from holographic images of superconducting vortices: The influence of specimen thickness J. Bonevich, D. Capacci, K. Harada, H. Kasai, T. Matsuda, R. Patti, G. Pozzi, and A. Tonomura pp. 1200-1205 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron localization effects on the low-temperature high-field magnetoresistivity of three-dimensional amorphous superconductors A. V. Samoilov, N.-C. Yeh, and C. C. Tsuei pp. 1206-1213 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy barriers, structure, and two-stage melting of microclusters of vortices Yu. E. Lozovik and E. A. Rakoch pp. 1214-1225 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental lattice dependence of the density of states in alkali fullerides J. Robert, P. Petit, T. Yildirim, and J. E. Fischer pp. 1226-1230 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermopower anisotropy of highly underdoped and slightly overdoped RBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystals C. Sułkowski, T. Plackowski, and W. Sadowski pp. 1231-1235 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural stability of Sr2RuO4 M. Braden, W. Reichardt, S. Nishizaki, Y. Mori, and Y. Maeno pp. 1236-1240 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of 2sqrt[2]×2sqrt[2] oxygen ordered superstructures in YBa2Cu3O6+x A. A. Aligia, S. Koval, and R. Migoni pp. 1241-1247 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fano effect in the a-b plane of Nd1.96Ce0.04CuO4+y: Evidence of phonon interaction with a polaronic background S. Lupi, M. Capizzi, P. Calvani, B. Ruzicka, P. Maselli, P. Dore, and A. Paolone pp. 1248-1252 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Angular dependence of the disorder crossover in the vortex lattice of Bi2.15Sr1.85CaCu2O8+δ by muon spin rotation and torque magnetometry C. M. Aegerter, J. Hofer, I. M. Savić, H. Keller, S. L. Lee, C. Ager, S. H. Lloyd, and E. M. Forgan pp. 1253-1258 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In situ temperature-dependent x-ray-absorption spectroscopic studies for the mercury-based superconductors Seong-Ju Hwang, Jin-Ho Choy, and Nam Hwi Hur pp. 1259-1265 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the zero-bias conductance peaks observed ubiquitously in high-Tc superconductors Chia-Ren Hu pp. 1266-1276 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic flux profiles in Bi1.2Pb0.3Sr1.5Ca2Cu3Oy and NdBa2Cu3O7-δ superconductors and a simulation by critical-state models N. Hari Babu, T. Rajasekharan, and V. Seshu Bai pp. 1277-1283 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoconductance due to variable-range hopping in quasi-two-dimensional systems: Application to PrBa2Cu3O7-δ R. B. Thompson and M. Singh pp. 1284-1291 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the phase difference between the Raman tensor elements of the A1g-like phonons in SmBa2Cu3O7-δ T. Strach, J. Brunen, B. Lederle, J. Zegenhagen, and M. Cardona pp. 1292-1297 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]