• 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
• ERRATA

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Quantitative density-functional study of nested fullerenes M. I. Heggie, M. Terrones, B. R. Eggen, G. Jungnickel, R. Jones, C. D. Latham, P. R. Briddon, and H. Terrones pp. 13339-13342 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impurity-induced phase transition in quantum paraelectrics Y. G. Wang, W. Kleemann, W. L. Zhong, and L. Zhang pp. 13343-13346 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-pressure elastic properties of liquid and solid ammonia T. Kume, M. Daimon, S. Sasaki, and H. Shimizu pp. 13347-13350 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Limits on the continuum-percolation transport exponents I. Balberg pp. 13351-13354 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Total energy calculations of the lattice properties of cubic and hexagonal diamond B. R. Wu and Ji-an Xu pp. 13355-13358 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal properties of intrinsically disordered LiNbO3 crystals at low temperatures E. Pérez-Enciso and S. Vieira pp. 13359-13362 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bubble model for positronium annihilation in liquids Tapas Mukherjee, Subir Kumar Das, Bichitra Nandi Ganguly, and Binayak Dutta-Roy pp. 13363-13366 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Symmetry properties of magnetization in the Hubbard model at finite temperatures Gang Su and Masuo Suzuki pp. 13367-13370 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of the compounds CuGeO3 and α′-NaV2O5 at nonzero temperatures K. Fabricius and U. Löw pp. 13371-13374 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Derivation of the t-J model: Electron spectrum and exchange interactions in narrow energy bands V. Yu. Irkhin pp. 13375-13378 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic phase transition in (La,Na) manganites M. M. Savosta, V. A. Borodin, P. Novák, Z. Jirák, J. Hejtmánek, and M. Maryško pp. 13379-13381 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of winding numbers in quantum Monte Carlo simulations Patrik Henelius, S. M. Girvin, and Anders W. Sandvik pp. 13382-13385 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Modification of the rare-earth magnetic moment upon hydrogen absorption in R-Fe intermetallics probed by Fe K-edge x-ray magnetic circular dichroism J. Chaboy, L. M. García, F. Bartolomé, H. Maruyama, A. Marcelli, and L. Bozukov pp. 13386-13389 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Growth of the normal-flow instability of a vortex array in two-component HeII E. Infeld and T. Lenkowska-Czerwińska pp. 13390-13392 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Damping of the vortex motion in the electron-doped superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuOx R. P. Huebener and F. Gollnik pp. 13393-13394 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting and normal-state properties of nonavalent fullerides Y. Iwasa, M. Kawaguchi, H. Iwasaki, T. Mitani, N. Wada, and T. Hasegawa pp. 13395-13398 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	c-axis resistivity and high-Tc superconductivity N. Kumar, T. P. Pareek, and A. M. Jayannavar pp. 13399-13402 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic induction of high angular momentum pairing symmetry Wonkee Kim, Jian-Xin Zhu, and C. S. Ting pp. 13403-13405 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudogap above Tc in a model with dx2-y2 pairing Jan R. Engelbrecht, Alexander Nazarenko, Mohit Randeria, and Elbio Dagotto pp. 13406-13409 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of broken-time-reversal-symmetry pairing state in d-wave superconductors with nonmagnetic impurities Jian-Xin Zhu, Wonkee Kim, and C. S. Ting pp. 13410-13413 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coexistence of band Jahn-Teller distortion and superconductivity in correlated systems Haranath Ghosh, Manidipa Mitra, S. N. Behera, and S. K. Ghatak pp. 13414-13417 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the 4-eV optical transition in YBa2Cu3O6 Marcel E. Bijlsma, Herbert Wormeester, Dave H. Blank, Edward Span, Arend van Silfhout, and Horst Rogalla pp. 13418-13421 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic behavior of the in-plane penetration depth in d-wave cuprates C. Panagopoulos, J. R. Cooper, and T. Xiang pp. 13422-13425 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation between hole density and oxygen excess in the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ superconductor P. Ghigna, G. Spinolo, G. Flor, and N. Morgante pp. 13426-13429 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Melting of Pb nanocrystals Kevin F. Peters, Jerome B. Cohen, and Yip-Wah Chung pp. 13430-13438 [View PDF (774 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermochemical reduction of yttria-stabilized-zirconia crystals: Optical and electron microscopy B. Savoini, C. Ballesteros, J. E. Muñoz Santiuste, R. González, and Y. Chen pp. 13439-13447 [View PDF (1132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Voronoi polyhedra and Delaunay simplexes in the structural analysis of molecular-dynamics-simulated materials Witold Brostow, Mieczyslaw Chybicki, Robert Laskowski, and Jaroslaw Rybicki pp. 13448-13458 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Site preferences and formation energies of substitutional Si, Nb, Mo, Ta, and W solid solutions in L10 Ti-Al C. Woodward, S. Kajihara, and L. H. Yang pp. 13459-13470 [View PDF (399 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixed hyperfine and electron-phonon interaction in the Zeeman spectra of H- local modes in CaF2:Ho3+ Glynn D. Jones and Nicholas M. Strickland pp. 13471-13476 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Luminescence and resonant Raman scattering of color centers in irradiated crystalline L-alanine E. Winkler, P. Etchegoin, A. Fainstein, and C. Fainstein pp. 13477-13484 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the P-T phase diagram of Zr in different approximations for the exchange-correlation energy S. A. Ostanin and V. Yu. Trubitsin pp. 13485-13490 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of phase structures in semiconducting SnWO4 powders by Mössbauer and Raman spectroscopies J. L. Solis, J. Frantti, V. Lantto, L. Häggström, and M. Wikner pp. 13491-13500 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Self-consistent quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the structure of the liquid-vapor interface of a eutectic indium-gallium alloy Stuart A. Rice and Meishan Zhao pp. 13501-13507 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carbon-carbon torsional barriers driving the fast dynamics in glass-forming polymers J. Colmenero and A. Arbe pp. 13508-13513 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of fast-ion-conducting lithium and sodium borate glasses by neutron diffraction and reverse Monte Carlo simulations J. Swenson, L. Börjesson, and W. S. Howells pp. 13514-13526 [View PDF (1191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of a three-component model phase diagram by catastrophe theory J. Gaite, J. Margalef-Roig, and S. Miret-Artés pp. 13527-13534 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic localization in dispersive stratified media with random loss and gain A. A. Asatryan, N. A. Nicorovici, L. C. Botten, C. Martijn de Sterke, P. A. Robinson, and R. C. McPhedran pp. 13535-13549 [View PDF (600 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlithographic nanowire-array tunnel device: Fabrication, zero-bias anomalies, and Coulomb blockade D. N. Davydov, J. Haruyama, D. Routkevitch, B. W. Statt, D. Ellis, M. Moskovits, and J. M. Xu pp. 13550-13553 [View PDF (688 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Nonequivalence of general tensor force and Clark, Gazis, and Wallis angular force models V. Ramamurthy pp. 13554-13563 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological solitons and dislocations in two- and three-dimensional anisotropic crystals P. L. Christiansen, A. V. Savin, and A. V. Zolotaryuk pp. 13564-13572 [View PDF (821 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics of phase transformation in complex systems Ge Yu, S. T. Lee, and J. K. Lai pp. 13573-13582 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagating nature in chaotic systems H. N. Nazareno, J. A. Gonzalez, and Ivan F. Costa pp. 13583-13588 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman study of the ferroelastic phase transition in K3Na(SeO4)2 Marceli Kaczmarski and Bogusław Mróz pp. 13589-13598 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of hydrogen diffusion in LaNi5.0H6.0 and LaNi4.8Sn0.2H5.8 G. Majer, U. Kaess, and R. C. Bowman pp. 13599-13603 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Dipolar interaction and magnetic ordering in granular metallic materials D. Altbir, P. Vargas, J. d’Albuquerque e Castro, and U. Raff pp. 13604-13609 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elementary excitations of Heisenberg ferrimagnetic spin chains Shoji Yamamoto, S. Brehmer, and H.-J. Mikeska pp. 13610-13616 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of the four-dimensional spin glass in a magnetic field Giorgio Parisi, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, and Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo pp. 13617-13623 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic magnetic properties of light rare-earth diantimonides S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, C. H. Mielke, and A. H. Lacerda pp. 13624-13638 [View PDF (369 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-classical transition of the escape rate of a uniaxial spin system in an arbitrarily directed field D. A. Garanin, X. Martínez Hidalgo, and E. M. Chudnovsky pp. 13639-13654 [View PDF (1180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible magnetic ground state in the perovskite SrCoO3 Min Zhuang, Weiyi Zhang, An Hu, and Naiben Ming pp. 13655-13659 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tight-binding parameters and exchange integrals of Ba2Cu3O4Cl2 H. Rosner, R. Hayn, and J. Schulenburg pp. 13660-13666 [View PDF (624 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of resistance and magnetoresistance of nanogranular Co-Ag films A. Gerber, A. Milner, I. Ya. Korenblit, M. Karpovsky, A. Gladkikh, and A. Sulpice pp. 13667-13673 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of the magnetization depth profile of Fe/Cu(100) films upon thermal annealing J. Shen, Ch. V. Mohan, P. Ohresser, M. Klaua, and J. Kirschner pp. 13674-13680 [View PDF (2216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic moments, coupling, and interface interdiffusion in Fe/V(001) superlattices M. M. Schwickert, R. Coehoorn, M. A. Tomaz, E. Mayo, D. Lederman, W. L. O’Brien, Tao Lin, and G. R. Harp pp. 13681-13691 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Quantitative study of the interdependence OF interface structure and giant magnetoresistance in polycrystalline Fe/Cr superlattices R. Schad, P. Beliën, G. Verbanck, C. D. Potter, H. Fischer, S. Lefebvre, M. Bessiere, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede pp. 13692-13697 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrasonic evidence of a spin-Peierls transition in α′-NaV2O5 P. Fertey, M. Poirier, M. Castonguay, J. Jegoudez, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 13698-13701 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metal-insulator transition accompanied with a charge ordering in the one-dimensional t-J′ model Tetsuya Mutou, Naokazu Shibata, and Kazuo Ueda pp. 13702-13705 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	U doping effects in (Ce1-xUx)NiSn J.-G. Park, M. Očko, and K. A. McEwen pp. 13706-13711 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Phase diagrams, critical, and multicritical behavior of hard-core Bose-Hubbard models Christian Pich and Erwin Frey pp. 13712-13728 [View PDF (359 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dual theory of the superfluid-Bose-glass transition in the disordered Bose-Hubbard model in one and two dimensions Igor F. Herbut pp. 13729-13742 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon-mediated unconventional superconductivity in strongly correlated systems Georgios Varelogiannis pp. 13743-13764 [View PDF (396 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluxon lattice oscillations in layered superconductors S. E. Shafranjuk, M. Tachiki, and T. Yamashita pp. 13765-13772 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic-scattering rate on thermal conductivity of a dx2-y2 superconductor E. Schachinger and J. P. Carbotte pp. 13773-13780 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical evidence for SO(5) symmetry and superspin multiplets in the two-dimensional t-J model Robert Eder, Werner Hanke, and Shou-Cheng Zhang pp. 13781-13789 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiexcitations and superconductivity in the t-J model on a ladder Ikuo Ichinose and Tetsuo Matsui pp. 13790-13799 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic melting and decoupling of the vortex lattice in layered superconductors Stefan Scheidl and Valerii M. Vinokur pp. 13800-13810 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase intergrowth effects on the magnetic and transport properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy thin films grown in situ by laser ablation C. Maréchal, R. M. Defourneau, I. Rosenman, J. Perrière, and Ch. Simon pp. 13811-13816 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions in thin mesoscopic superconducting disks V. A. Schweigert and F. M. Peeters pp. 13817-13832 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurements and modeling of the microwave impedance in high-Tc grain-boundary Josephson junctions: Fluxon generation and rf Josephson-vortex dynamics Y. M. Habib, C. J. Lehner, D. E. Oates, L. R. Vale, R. H. Ono, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus pp. 13833-13844 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-density inhomogeneity throughout the thickness of superconducting films and its effect on their irreversible magnetic properties R. Prozorov, E. B. Sonin, E. Sheriff, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun pp. 13845-13853 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flux-line lattices in artificially layered superconductors A. M. Thompson and M. A. Moore pp. 13854-13860 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Point defects in the flux-line lattice of superconductors Enrick Olive and Ernst Helmut Brandt pp. 13861-13871 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hall effect of YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystals R. Jin and H. R. Ott pp. 13872-13877 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current transport through low-angle grain boundaries in high-temperature superconductors A. Gurevich and E. A. Pashitskii pp. 13878-13893 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modeling flux-flow dissipation from randomly placed strong-pinning sites and comparison with ion-irradiated cuprate superconductors K. E. Gray, D. G. Steel, J. D. Hettinger, and M. M. Eddy pp. 13894-13898 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiquantum vortices in conventional superconductors with columnar defects near the upper critical field Gregory M. Braverman, Sergey A. Gredeskul, and Yshai Avishai pp. 13899-13906 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Damage morphology along ion traces in Au-irradiated Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox D. X. Huang, Y. Sasaki, S. Okayasu, T. Aruga, K. Hojou, and Y. Ikuhara pp. 13907-13914 [View PDF (623 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrochemistry and staging in La2CuO4+δ P. Blakeslee, R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou, R. Christianson, M. A. Kastner, Y. S. Lee, and B. O. Wells pp. 13915-13921 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure effect in the Hg-based superconductors: A structural study R. Gatt, J. S. Olsen, L. Gerward, I. Bryntse, A. Kareiva, I. Panas, and L. G. Johansson pp. 13922-13928 [View PDF (485 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Pressure-dependent electrical resistivity of RCo2 compounds (R=rare earth) [Phys. Rev. B 57, 2904 (1998)] R. Hauser, E. Bauer, and E. Gratz pp. 13929 [View PDF (26 kB) ]