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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
  • Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems
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  • 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.

Multiscale modeling approach for calculating grain-boundary energies from first principles O. A. Shenderova, D. W. Brenner, A. A. Nazarov, A. E. Romanov, and L. H. Yang pp. R3181-R3184 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nitrogen-driven sp3 to sp2 transformation in carbon nitride materials Jiangtao Hu, Peidong Yang, and Charles M. Lieber pp. R3185-R3188 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron-diffraction study of the Jahn-Teller transition in stoichiometric LaMnO3 J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, M. Hennion, F. Moussa, A. H. Moudden, L. Pinsard, and A. Revcolevschi pp. R3189-R3192 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Temperature dependence of the photoluminescence in polymeric solid C60 U. D. Venkateswaran, D. Sanzi, A. M. Rao, P. C. Eklund, L. Marques, J.-L. Hodeau, and M. Núñez-Regueiro pp. R3193-R3196 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Vanishing of the negative-sign problem of quantum Monte Carlo simulations in one-dimensional frustrated spin systems Tota Nakamura pp. R3197-R3200 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetization plateau in an S=3 / 2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with anisotropy Tôru Sakai and Minoru Takahashi pp. R3201-R3204 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Structural properties and charge-ordering transition in LaSr2Mn2O7 J. Q. Li, Y. Matsui, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura pp. R3205-R3208 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Composition-driven spin-reorientation transition in ferromagnetic alloy films A. Dittschar, M. Zharnikov, W. Kuch, M.-T. Lin, C. M. Schneider, and J. Kirschner pp. R3209-R3212 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Modification of the Landau-Lifshitz equation in the presence of a spin-polarized current in colossal- and giant-magnetoresistive materials Ya. B. Bazaliy, B. A. Jones, and Shou-Cheng Zhang pp. R3213-R3216 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Huge anisotropic magnetostriction in La1-xSrxCoO3-δ (x>~0.3): Field-induced orbital instability M. R. Ibarra, R. Mahendiran, C. Marquina, B. García-Landa, and J. Blasco pp. R3217-R3220 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Self-generated flux in Josephson junctions with alternating critical current density R. G. Mints pp. R3221-R3224 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superconducting d-wave junctions: The disappearance of the odd ac components Tomas Löfwander, Göran Johansson, Magnus Hurd, and Göran Wendin pp. R3225-R3228 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of modulated magnetic long-range order in La1.88Sr0.12CuO4 T. Suzuki, T. Goto, K. Chiba, T. Shinoda, T. Fukase, H. Kimura, K. Yamada, M. Ohashi, and Y. Yamaguchi pp. R3229-R3232 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase separation and weak ferromagnetism in lightly-oxygen-doped La2CuO4+x single crystals in low magnetic fields A. A. Zakharov, A. A. Nikonov, and O. E. Parfionov pp. R3233-R3236 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Out-of-plane Hall effect in YBa2Cu3O7-δ: Vortex-glass behavior and scaling of c-axis and Hall resistivities Yu. Eltsev and Ö. Rapp pp. R3237-R3240 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Charge localization and stripes in a two-dimensional three-band Peierls-Hubbard model Z. G. Yu, J. Zang, J. T. Gammel, and A. R. Bishop pp. R3241-R3244 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence of dx2-y2 symmetry in the tunneling conductance density of states of Tl2Ba2CuO6 L. Ozyuzer, Z. Yusof, J. F. Zasadzinski, R. Mogilevsky, D. G. Hinks, and K. E. Gray pp. R3245-R3248 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nature of vortex lattice disordering at the onset of the peak effect X. S. Ling, J. E. Berger, and D. E. Prober pp. R3249-R3252 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Nonhydrostatic compression of elastically anisotropic polycrystals. I. Hydrostatic limits of 4:1 methanol-ethanol and paraffin oil J. W. Otto, J. K. Vassiliou, and G. Frommeyer pp. 3253-3263 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonhydrostatic compression of elastically anisotropic polycrystals. II. Direct compression and plastic deformation J. W. Otto, J. K. Vassiliou, and G. Frommeyer pp. 3264-3272 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Delocalization of the effective interaction for inner-shell ionization in crystals M. P. Oxley and L. J. Allen pp. 3273-3282 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanical deformation of atomic-scale metallic contacts: Structure and mechanisms Mads R. Sørensen, Mads Brandbyge, and Karsten W. Jacobsen pp. 3283-3294 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of basis set quality on the prediction of structures, energies, and properties of amorphous tetrahedral carbon Peter A. Schultz and E. B. Stechel pp. 3295-3304 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural changes, clustering, and photoinduced phase segregation in Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 D. E. Cox, P. G. Radaelli, M. Marezio, and S-W. Cheong pp. 3305-3314 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual physical properties of KCu7-xS4 at diffusive one-dimensional ordering transitions Y.-K. Kuo, M. J. Skove, D. T. Verebelyi, H. Li, R. Mackay, S.-J. Hwu, M.-H. Whangbo, and J. W. Brill pp. 3315-3325 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental evidence for a continuous phase transition in a multidimensional ferroelectric P. Czarnecki, A. Katrusiak, I. Szafraniak, and J. Wąsicki pp. 3326-3332 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and electronic properties of neutral and charged silicalike clusters James R. Chelikowsky pp. 3333-3339 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Undercooling-induced metastable A15 phase in the Re-W system from drop-tube processing S. Tournier, B. Vinet, A. Pasturel, I. Ansara, and P. J. Desré pp. 3340-3344 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental determination of the phase-transition critical exponents α and η by integrating methods C. Voges and H. Pfnür pp. 3345-3355 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption spectroscopy of R3+(R=Pr,Nd) ion pairs in CsCdCl3 Samar Jana and Ranajit K. Mukherjee pp. 3356-3364 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Determination of local structure in nanophase palladium by x-ray-absorption spectroscopy F. Boscherini, S. de Panfilis, and J. Weissmüller pp. 3365-3374 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear dc response in composites: A percolative study Abhijit Kar Gupta and Asok K. Sen pp. 3375-3388 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Liquid-to-glass transition in glycerol: A 1H rotating-frame spin-lattice relaxation study Luiz G. Mendes, M. Engelsberg, Inês C. de Souza, and Ricardo E. de Souza pp. 3389-3395 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-resolved fluorescence line narrowing in Yb3+-doped fluoroindate glasses I. R. Martín, V. D. Rodríguez, U. R. Rodríguez-Mendoza, and V. Lavín pp. 3396-3401 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Intrinsic resonant modes for a one-dimensional lattice with a soft optic mode S. A. Kiselev, R. Lai, and A. J. Sievers pp. 3402-3405 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrasonic properties of silica aerogels at low temperatures Ying Xie and J. R. Beamish pp. 3406-3410 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cyclotron resonance in uniaxial polar crystals with complex structure D. E. Brancus and G. Stan pp. 3411-3417 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-pressure Raman-scattering study of germanium diselenide Z. V. Popović, Z. Jakšić, Y. S. Raptis, and E. Anastassakis pp. 3418-3422 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path-integral effective-potential method applied to extended x-ray-absorption fine-structure cumulants Toshihiko Yokoyama pp. 3423-3432 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Modulational instability of nonlinear spin waves in easy-axis antiferromagnetic chains R. Lai and A. J. Sievers pp. 3433-3443 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic susceptibility and phase diagram of CuGe1-xSixO3 single crystals B. Grenier, J.-P. Renard, P. Veillet, C. Paulsen, R. Calemczuk, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 3444-3453 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization plateau in the S=1 / 2 Heinsenberg spin chain with next-nearest-neighbor and alternating nearest-neighbor interactions Keisuke Totsuka pp. 3454-3465 [View PDF (516 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic exchange scattering amplitude studied using magnetic EXAFS D. Ahlers and G. Schütz pp. 3466-3473 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the perpendicular giant magnetoresistance of Co/Cu(001) two-dimensional lateral superlattices Murielle Villeret, J. Mathon, R. B. Muniz, and J. d’Albuquerque e Castro pp. 3474-3477 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic phase transitions and the magnetothermal properties of gadolinium S. Yu. Dan’kov, A. M. Tishin, V. K. Pecharsky, and K. A. Gschneidner pp. 3478-3490 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	k-dependent exchange splitting of empty bands in nickel F. Schedin, D. R. Warburton, G. Thornton, and M. A. Hoyland pp. 3491-3494 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-mean-field numerical studies in FexZn1-xF2 E. P. Raposo and M. D. Coutinho-Filho pp. 3495-3511 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of the transverse field on the bond-diluted mixed Ising spin system with single-ion anisotropy Shi-Lei Yan and Chuan-Zhang Yang pp. 3512-3517 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-hole Green’s functions in insulating copper oxides at nonzero temperature J. van den Brink and O. P. Sushkov pp. 3518-3524 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology and magnetic properties of submonolayer Gd films M. Gajdzik, T. Trappmann, C. Sürgers, and H. v. Löhneysen pp. 3525-3530 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and magnetic properties of Fe/V (110) superlattices P. Isberg, P. Granberg, E. B. Svedberg, B. Hjörvarsson, R. Wäppling, and P. Nordblad pp. 3531-3538 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous spin fluctuation in vanadium spinel LiV2O4 studied by 7Li-NMR N. Fujiwara, H. Yasuoka, and Y. Ueda pp. 3539-3542 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of nuclear-quadrupole-resonance spectrum of incommensurate phases: The case of bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulfone J. Schneider, C. Schürrer, A. Wolfenson, and A. Brunetti pp. 3543-3551 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hybrid beat in nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, U. van Bürck, W. Potzel, P. Schindelmann, E. Gerdau, O. Leupold, J. Metge, H. D. Rüter, and G. V. Smirnov pp. 3552-3561 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-loop renormalization-group analysis of a complex model with stable fixed point: Critical exponents up to ε3 and ε4 A. I. Mudrov and K. B. Varnashev pp. 3562-3576 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Thermally activated Hall creep of flux lines from a columnar defect D. A. Gorokhov and G. Blatter pp. 3577-3585 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum depinning of a pancake vortex from a columnar defect D. A. Gorokhov and G. Blatter pp. 3586-3592 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical transport in a superconducting niobium nitride ultrathin granular film: A disordered two-dimensional Josephson-junction array Mark W. Johnson and Alan M. Kadin pp. 3593-3601 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge effects in a frustrated Josephson-junction array with modulated couplings E. Granato, J. M. Kosterlitz, and M. V. Simkin pp. 3602-3608 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of linear defects on the field distribution in thin superconductors Mahesh Chandran pp. 3609-3614 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pinning by an antidot lattice: The problem of the optimum antidot size V. V. Moshchalkov, M. Baert, V. V. Metlushko, E. Rosseel, M. J. Van Bael, K. Temst, Y. Bruynseraede, and R. Jonckheere pp. 3615-3622 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Phase diagram of vortices in the quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductor α-(BEDT-TTF)2NH4Hg(SCN)4: A system of pancake vortices with out-of-plane coupling dominated by the electromagnetic energy Hiromi Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, and Kazushi Kanoda pp. 3623-3634 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological model for organic superconductors Stavros Theodorakis pp. 3635-3639 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of UPt3 in the superconducting state Andreas Amann, Ana Celia Mota, M. Brian Maple, and Hilbert v. Löhneysen pp. 3640-3649 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle tunneling spectra of the high-Tc mercury cuprates: Implications of the d-wave two-dimensional van Hove scenario J. Y. Wei, C. C. Tsuei, P. J. van Bentum, Q. Xiong, C. W. Chu, and M. K. Wu pp. 3650-3662 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex phase diagram of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: c-axis superconducting correlation in the different vortex phases M. F. Goffman, J. A. Herbsommer, F. de la Cruz, T. W. Li, and P. H. Kes pp. 3663-3667 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron spin resonance of Gd3+ in the normal state of RNi2B2C (R=Y,Lu) P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, S. B. Oseroff, P. C. Canfield, E. M. Baggio-Saitovitch, and D. Sanchez pp. 3668-3671 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Unoccupied electronic structure of Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Ba2Cu3O4Cl2: Experiment and theory S. Haffner, R. Neudert, M. Kielwein, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, K. Ruck, G. Krabbes, J. Fink, H. Rosner, R. Hayn, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, Z. Hu, M. Domke, and G. Kaindl pp. 3672-3678 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlled modification of interfacial strain and twinning in YBa2Cu3O7-δ films on vicinal SrTiO3 (001) J. Brötz, H. Fuess, T. Haage, and J. Zegenhagen pp. 3679-3682 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of granular superconductivity in polycrystalline Sm2-xCexCuO4-y H. A. Blackstead, R. F. Jardim, P. Beeli, D. B. Pulling, and A. K. Heilman pp. 3683-3689 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]