• 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.

•	Hydrogen atoms in KH2PO4 crystals S. D. Setzler, K. T. Stevens, L. E. Halliburton, M. Yan, N. P. Zaitseva, and J. J. DeYoreo pp. 2643-2646 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-precision determination of atomic positions in crystals: The case of 6H- and 4H-SiC A. Bauer, J. Kräußlich, L. Dressler, P. Kuschnerus, J. Wolf, K. Goetz, P. Käckell, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt pp. 2647-2650 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structures of H2S: Phases I′ and IV under high pressure H. Fujihisa, H. Yamawaki, M. Sakashita, K. Aoki, S. Sasaki, and H. Shimizu pp. 2651-2654 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single crystal of colloidal silica particles in a dilute aqueous dispersion as studied by a two-dimensional ultrasmall-angle x-ray scattering Toshiki Konishi and Norio Ise pp. 2655-2658 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sequence of martensitic transformations in Ni-Mn-Ga alloys V. A. Chernenko, C. Seguí, E. Cesari, J. Pons, and V. V. Kokorin pp. 2659-2662 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Sound-wave scattering in silica A. Wischnewski, U. Buchenau, A. J. Dianoux, W. A. Kamitakahara, and J. L. Zarestky pp. 2663-2666 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of electric-field-induced photoluminescence quenching in disordered molecular solids M. C. Vissenberg and M. J. de Jong pp. 2667-2670 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Temperature dependence of the Raman-active B1g and A1g modes in YNi2B2C T. Hirata and H. Takeya pp. 2671-2674 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Association of broad icosahedral Raman bands with substitutional disorder in SiB3 and boron carbide T. L. Aselage and D. R. Tallant pp. 2675-2678 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Stochastic resonance in an electron-spin–nuclear-spin system D. Gourier and D. Gerbault pp. 2679-2682 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Difficulties of weak localization theory for thin metal films with magnetic impurities Guohong Li, Mingling Chen, Guoliang Liu, Min Wang, Shiguang Wang, and Shousheng Yan pp. 2683-2686 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic resonance in the spin-Peierls compound α′-NaV2O5 S. Schmidt, W. Palme, B. Lüthi, M. Weiden, R. Hauptmann, and C. Geibel pp. 2687-2689 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bandwidth-controlled magnetic and electronic transitions in La0.5Ca0.5-xSrxMnO3 (0<~x<~0.5) distorted perovskite A. Sundaresan, P. L. Paulose, R. Mallik, and E. V. Sampathkumaran pp. 2690-2693 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of polarization and intensity oscillations in secondary electrons emitted from Ag/Fe(110) Takashi Furukawa and Kazuyuki Koike pp. 2694-2696 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge screening and magnetic anisotropy in metallic rare-earth systems V. Yu. Irkhin and Yu. P. Irkhin pp. 2697-2700 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic phase transition in two dimensions: An experimental study on a system of amorphous ultrathin-film multilayers Ch. V. Mohan, H. Kronmüller, and M. Kelsch pp. 2701-2704 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared spectra of giant magnetoresistance Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers S. Uran, M. Grimsditch, Eric E. Fullerton, and S. D. Bader pp. 2705-2708 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Order parameter and magnetic field of a vortex line pinned at a point defect: Ginzburg-Landau theory Mark Friesen and Paul Muzikar pp. 2709-2712 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic moment interaction in the anyon superconductor M. Eliashvili and G. Tsitsishvili pp. 2713-2716 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference effect heat conductance in a Josephson junction and its detection in an rf SQUID Glen D. Guttman, Eshel Ben-Jacob, and David J. Bergman pp. 2717-2719 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative dynamics of quantum vortices in superconducting arrays Mahn-Soo Choi, Sung-Ik Lee, and M. Y. Choi pp. 2720-2723 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic lattice in a random potential Eugene M. Chudnovsky and Ronald Dickman pp. 2724-2727 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudogaps: A third peak in the fermion spectral function Oleg Tchernyshyov pp. 2728-2731 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism of V, Mo, and Co surface impurities on Pb measured by their pair-breaking effect D. Garrett, H. Beckmann, and G. Bergmann pp. 2732-2734 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Ultrasonic study of the two-step martensitic phase transformation in Ni2MnGa T. E. Stenger and J. Trivisonno pp. 2735-2739 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of partial coherence on the scattering of x rays by matter S. K. Sinha, M. Tolan, and A. Gibaud pp. 2740-2758 [View PDF (680 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multichain Frenkel-Kontorova model for interfacial slip J. Röder, J. E. Hammerberg, B. L. Holian, and A. R. Bishop pp. 2759-2766 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of instability phenomena and order-disorder transition in CsCl-type crystals Yutaka Aikawa and Katsuhiko Fujii pp. 2767-2770 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground states of one-dimensional commensurate-incommensurate transition models with double-well interactions Aiguo Xu, Guangrui Wang, Shigang Chen, and Bambi Hu pp. 2771-2779 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral features of resonant radiative x-ray Raman scattering by polymers and solids Faris Gel’mukhanov and Hans Ågren pp. 2780-2792 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural instability and electronic excitations in Nb3Sn B. Sadigh and V. Ozoliņš pp. 2793-2800 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Experimental and theoretical study of the temperature and concentration dependence of the short-range order in Pt-V alloys David Le Bolloc’h, René Caudron, and Alphonse Finel pp. 2801-2811 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetic-freezing dynamics of the supercooled liquid state in 2-cyclooctylamino-5-nitropyridine J. Dolinšek, M. Koren, and R. Kind pp. 2812-2820 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface structures of cleaved icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn single quasicrystals after heat treatment Ph. Ebert, F. Yue, and K. Urban pp. 2821-2825 [View PDF (444 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plasmon-polariton fractal spectra in quasiperiodic multilayers M. S. Vasconcelos and E. L. Albuquerque pp. 2826-2833 [View PDF (701 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic features in the dynamic structure factor of the quasiperiodic period-doubling lattice Anathnath Ghosh and S. N. Karmakar pp. 2834-2840 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional tunable photonic crystals Alex Figotin, Yuri A. Godin, and Ilia Vitebsky pp. 2841-2848 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of magnetic moments in crystalline, quasicrystalline, and liquid Al-Mn alloys J. Hafner and M. Krajčí pp. 2849-2860 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Density of neutral solitons in weakly disordered Peierls chains M. V. Mostovoy, M. T. Figge, and J. Knoester pp. 2861-2871 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman spectroscopy of orthorhombic perovskitelike YMnO3 and LaMnO3 M. N. Iliev, M. V. Abrashev, H.-G. Lee, V. N. Popov, Y. Y. Sun, C. Thomsen, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu pp. 2872-2877 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons in metals Vitalyi E. Gusev and Oliver B. Wright pp. 2878-2888 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the elastic moduli of diamond: A Brillouin-scattering study E. S. Zouboulis, M. Grimsditch, A. K. Ramdas, and S. Rodriguez pp. 2889-2896 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Molecular-field approach to the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3 Ralph Werner and Claudius Gros pp. 2897-2903 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure-dependent electrical resistivity of RCo2 compounds (R= rare earth) R. Hauser, E. Bauer, and E. Gratz pp. 2904-2914 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Random and exchange anisotropy in consolidated nanostructured Fe and Ni: Role of grain size and trace oxides on the magnetic properties Jörg F. Löffler, Jürg P. Meier, Bernard Doudin, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, and Werner Wagner pp. 2915-2924 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Surface effects on the magnetic properties of ultrafine cobalt particles M. Respaud, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, A. R. Fert, L. Thomas, B. Barbara, M. Verelst, E. Snoeck, P. Lecante, A. Mosset, J. Osuna, T. Ould Ely, C. Amiens, and B. Chaudret pp. 2925-2935 [View PDF (462 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear magnetic relaxation in an Ising-like antiferromagnet CsCoCl3: Domain-wall dynamics T. Kohmoto, T. Goto, S. Maegawa, N. Fujiwara, Y. Fukuda, M. Kunitomo, and M. Mekata pp. 2936-2942 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiclassical size effects for the extraordinary Hall effect in magnetic sandwiches N. Ryzhanova, A. Vedyayev, A. Crépieux, and C. Lacroix pp. 2943-2949 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of giant magnetoresistance in laterally confined multilayers in the current-in-plane geometry Kingshuk Majumdar, Jian Chen, and Selman Hershfield pp. 2950-2954 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant magnetoresistance in Fe1-xCox/Cr(001) trilayers C. T. Yu, K. Westerholt, K. Theis-Bröhl, V. Leiner, Th. Zeidler, and H. Zabel pp. 2955-2962 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Voltage-controlled colossal magnetoresistance in manganite/normal-metal heterostructures M. Ziese, S. Sena, C. Shearwood, H. J. Blythe, M. R. Gibbs, and G. A. Gehring pp. 2963-2967 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-induced incommensurate-to-commensurate transition in Ba2CuGe2O7 A. Zheludev, S. Maslov, G. Shirane, Y. Sasago, N. Koide, and K. Uchinokura pp. 2968-2978 [View PDF (605 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of the t-J model in two- and three-dimensional lattices Zhe Chang pp. 2979-2990 [View PDF (379 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium Kondo impurity: Perturbation about an exactly solvable point Kingshuk Majumdar, Avraham Schiller, and Selman Hershfield pp. 2991-2999 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Electrons and cavitation in liquid helium J. Classen, C.-K. Su, M. Mohazzab, and H. J. Maris pp. 3000-3010 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Masses and phase structure in the Ginzburg-Landau model K. Kajantie, M. Karjalainen, M. Laine, and J. Peisa pp. 3011-3016 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hidden non-Abelian gauge symmetries in doped planar antiferromagnets K. Farakos and N. E. Mavromatos pp. 3017-3030 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state properties of the doped three-leg t-J ladder Steven R. White and D. J. Scalapino pp. 3031-3037 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling spectrum into a d-wave superconductor with a time-reversal-symmetry-broken surface state Jian-Xin Zhu and C. S. Ting pp. 3038-3044 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of anisotropy on the imaginary part of the conductivity in layered superconductors C. Jiang and J. P. Carbotte pp. 3045-3050 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Acoustic attenuation in a type-II superconductor at high magnetic fields G. M. Bruun, V. Nikos Nicopoulos, and N. F. Johnson pp. 3051-3057 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shapes of flux domains in the intermediate state of type-I superconductors Alan T. Dorsey and Raymond E. Goldstein pp. 3058-3072 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface instabilities and vortex transport in current-carrying superconductors I. Aranson and V. Vinokur pp. 3073-3083 [View PDF (1666 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat and critical fields of the organic superconductor β″-(BEDT-TTF)2SF5CH2CF2SO3 S. Wanka, J. Hagel, D. Beckmann, J. Wosnitza, J. A. Schlueter, J. M. Williams, P. G. Nixon, R. W. Winter, and G. L. Gard pp. 3084-3088 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological interpretations of the ac Hall effect in the normal state of YBa2Cu3O7 Anatoley T. Zheleznyak, Victor M. Yakovenko, H. D. Drew, and I. I. Mazin pp. 3089-3098 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hole motion in an arbitrary spin background: Beyond the minimal spin-polaron approximation Matthias Vojta and Klaus W. Becker pp. 3099-3107 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode separation of the Josephson plasma in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Itsuhiro Kakeya, Koichi Kindo, Kazuo Kadowaki, Saburo Takahashi, and Takashi Mochiku pp. 3108-3115 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic and spin-fluctuation-mediated inelastic Josephson tunneling between anisotropic superconductors Yung-mau Nie and L. Coffey pp. 3116-3122 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Onsager loop transition and first-order flux-line lattice melting in high-Tc superconductors A. K. Nguyen and A. Sudbø pp. 3123-3143 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Length-scale-dependent vortex-antivortex unbinding in epitaxial Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ films L. Miu, G. Jakob, P. Haibach, Th. Kluge, U. Frey, P. Voss-de Haan, and H. Adrian pp. 3144-3150 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex-liquid entanglement in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ films in the presence of quenched disorder L. Miu, G. Jakob, P. Haibach, F. Hillmer, H. Adrian, and C. C. Almasan pp. 3151-3155 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical bonding between host and guest in the (HgBr2)0.5Bi2Sr1.5-xLaxCa1.5Cu2Oy (x=0.0, 0.2, and 0.4) superconducting-insulating nanocomposite system Seong-Ju Hwang, Seung-Joo Kim, and Jin-Ho Choy pp. 3156-3163 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Pressure and temperature diagram of polymerized fullerite” Bertil Sundqvist pp. 3164-3165 [View PDF (30 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Pressure and temperature diagram of polymerized fullerite’ ” L. Marques, J-L. Hodeau, M. Núñez-Regueiro, and M. Perroux pp. 3166 [View PDF (24 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Computer model for transient grating experiments and its application to analysis of LiTaO3” H. J. Bakker pp. 3167-3168 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Effect of the form of the height-height correlation function on diffuse x-ray scattering from a self-affine surface [Phys. Rev. B 48, 2873 (1993)] G. Palasantzas and J. Krim pp. 3169 [View PDF (40 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Resistive transitions of thin film superconductors in a magnetic field [Phys. Rev. B 55, 15183 (1997)] M. H. Theunissen and P. H. Kes pp. 3169 [View PDF (40 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Positive moment of an inductively coupled Josephson-junction array [Phys. Rev. B 56, 6169 (1997)] Mahesh Chandran pp. 3170 [View PDF (40 kB) ]