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Physical Review B – 1 November 1998
Volume 58, Issue 17

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Successive structural transitions coupled with magnetotransport properties in LaSr2Mn2O7
T. Kimura, R. Kumai, Y. Tokura, J. Q. Li, and Y. Matsui
pp. 11081-11084 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Dislocation nucleation and defect structure during surface indentation
Cynthia L. Kelchner, S. J. Plimpton, and J. C. Hamilton
pp. 11085-11088 [View PDF (263 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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X-ray studies of the melting and freezing phase transitions for gallium in a porous glass
E. V. Charnaya, C. Tien, K. J. Lin, and Yu. A. Kumzerov
pp. 11089-11092 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Devitrification of the Ni80B20 metallic glass
J. M. Riveiro and P. Muñiz
pp. 11093-11095 [View PDF (63 kB)]

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

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Freezing of spinodal decomposition by irreversible chemical growth reactions
Michael Schulz and Benjamin Paul
pp. 11096-11098 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Crossover temperature from tunneling to thermal activation in neutron-irradiated quartz
D. A. Parshin and C. Laermans
pp. 11099-11102 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Average kinetic energy of atoms in a solid measured with resonant nuclear reactions
M. Berheide, W. H. Schulte, H.-W. Becker, L. Borucki, M. Buschmann, N. Piel, C. Rolfs, G. E. Mitchell, and J. S. Schweitzer
pp. 11103-11106 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Magnetism

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Exact and statistical self-similarity in magnetoconductance fluctuations: A unified picture
R. P. Taylor, A. P. Micolich, R. Newbury, J. P. Bird, T. M. Fromhold, J. Cooper, Y. Aoyagi, and T. Sugano
pp. 11107-11110 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance study of a thin α-tungsten film
A. Stolovits, A. Sherman, T. Avarmaa, O. Meier, and M. Sisti
pp. 11111-11114 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Differential approximants: An accurate interpolation from high-temperature series expansions to low-temperature behavior in two-dimensional ferromagnets
M. Roger
pp. 11115-11118 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Lattice coherence versus incoherent metal in the lattice n-channel Kondo model
P. D. Sacramento and V. R. Vieira
pp. 11119-11122 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Double-exchange model with background superexchange interactions: Phase diagrams of La1-xAxMnO3 manganites
Hongsuk Yi and Jaejun Yu
pp. 11123-11126 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of the premartensitic transition in Ni2MnGa alloys
F. Zuo, X. Su, and K. H. Wu
pp. 11127-11130 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Heat-capacity investigation on magnetism in UNi2Al3
Naoyuki Tateiwa, Noriaki Sato, and Takemi Komatsubara
pp. 11131-11133 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Evidence of finite-size effects in an S=1/2 Heisenberg linear chain LiV2O5 studied by 51V NMR
N. Fujiwara, H. Yasuoka, M. Isobe, and Y. Ueda
pp. 11134-11137 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Unidirectional anisotropy in ultrathin transition-metal films
R. Skomski, H.-P. Oepen, and J. Kirschner
pp. 11138-11141 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Spin-flip effects on the current-in-plane magnetotransport in magnetic multilayers with arbitrary magnetization alignments
R. Y. Gu, D. Y. Xing, and Z. D. Wang
pp. 11142-11145 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Giant-magnetoresistance calculation for {111} Co/Cu/Co spin valves
R. H. Brown, D. M. C. Nicholson, W. H. Butler, X.-G. Zhang, W. A. Shelton, T. C. Schulthess, and J. M. MacLaren
pp. 11146-11149 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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ESR study of Fe-doped Ca3Co2O6: Isolated spin state of Fe3+ and anomalous D parameter caused by exchange interaction
H. Kageyama, K. Yoshimura, K. Kosuge, H. Nojiri, K. Owari, and M. Motokawa
pp. 11150-11152 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Specific heat peaks observed up to 16 T on the melting line of vortex matter in DyBa2Cu3O7
Bernard Revaz, Alain Junod, and Andreas Erb
pp. 11153-11156 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Angular dependence of the latent heat of vortex-lattice melting in untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-δ
A. Schilling, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, U. Welp, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree
pp. 11157-11160 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Current-voltage scaling of chiral and gauge-glass models of two-dimensional superconductors
Enzo Granato
pp. 11161-11164 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Resistively shunted superconducting quantum point contacts
D. V. Averin, A. Bardas, and H. T. Imam
pp. 11165-11168 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Anomalous magnetization and field-driven disordering transition of a vortex lattice in untwinned YBa2Cu3Oy
Terukazu Nishizaki, Tomoyuki Naito, and Norio Kobayashi
pp. 11169-11172 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nanosized superconducting constrictions
M. Poza, E. Bascones, J. G. Rodrigo, N. Agraït, S. Vieira, and F. Guinea
pp. 11173-11176 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Finite-voltage shot noise in normal-metal–superconductor junctions
A. L. Fauchère, G. B. Lesovik, and G. Blatter
pp. 11177-11180 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Vortex structure in d-wave superconductors
J. J. Vicente Alvarez, C. A. Balseiro, and Gustavo C. Buscaglia
pp. 11181-11184 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Coexistence of the hot-spot effect and flux-flow instability in high-Tc superconducting films
Z. L. Xiao, E. Y. Andrei, and P. Ziemann
pp. 11185-11188 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Unusual features in the nonlinear microwave surface impedance of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films
A. P. Kharel, A. V. Velichko, J. R. Powell, A. Porch, M. J. Lancaster, and R. G. Humphreys
pp. 11189-11192 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Probing the susceptibility χ′(q) in cuprates using Ni impurities
Dirk K. Morr, Jörg Schmalian, Raivo Stern, and Charles P. Slichter
pp. 11193-11196 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Observation of bound surface states in grain-boundary junctions of high-temperature superconductors
L. Alff, A. Beck, R. Gross, A. Marx, S. Kleefisch, Th. Bauch, H. Sato, M. Naito, and G. Koren
pp. 11197-11200 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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High-temperature superconducting YSr2Cu3O7.5 under pressure
Y. Cao, T. L. Hudson, Y. S. Wang, S. H. Xu, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu
pp. 11201-11203 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Oxidation state of copper in optimally oxygen-doped 1:2:3 Ca-La-Ba-Cu-O superconductors
A. Knizhnik, C. G. Kuper, and Y. Eckstein
pp. 11204-11206 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Room-temperature single-electron charging and surface polarization in tunneling spectroscopy of high-Tc superconducting thin films
R. T. Kao, S. J. Wang, S. P. Chen, J. Y. Juang, K. H. Wu, T. M. Uen, and Y. S. Gou
pp. 11207-11210 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Incommensurate magnetism in PrBa2Cu3O6.92
J. P. Hill, A. T. Boothroyd, N. H. Andersen, E. Brecht, and Th. Wolf
pp. 11211-11214 [View PDF (93 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Inclusion of local structure effects in theoretical x-ray resonant scattering amplitudes using ab initio x-ray-absorption spectra calculations
J. O. Cross, M. Newville, J. J. Rehr, L. B. Sorensen, C. E. Bouldin, G. Watson, T. Gouder, G. H. Lander, and M. I. Bell
pp. 11215-11225 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Grain-boundary component in W-Ga composites: A way towards skeleton structures
W. Krauss and H. Gleiter
pp. 11226-11231 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Damage and track morphology in LiF crystals irradiated with GeV ions
K. Schwartz, C. Trautmann, T. Steckenreiter, O. Geiß, and M. Krämer
pp. 11232-11240 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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First-principles determination of the Σ=13 {510} symmetric tilt boundary structure in silicon and germanium
J. R. Morris, Z.-Y. Lu, D. M. Ring, J.-B. Xiang, K.-M. Ho, C. Z. Wang, and Chong-Long Fu
pp. 11241-11245 [View PDF (739 kB)]
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Plastic behavior of nanophase metals studied by molecular dynamics
H. Van Swygenhoven and A. Caro
pp. 11246-11251 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Simulation of martensitic microstructural evolution in zirconium
U. Pinsook and G. J. Ackland
pp. 11252-11257 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Static strengths of Ta and U under ultrahigh pressures
S. T. Weir, J. Akella, C. Ruddle, T. Goodwin, and L. Hsiung
pp. 11258-11265 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Pressure-induced phase transitions in solid Si, SiO2, and Fe: Performance of local-spin-density and generalized-gradient-approximation density functionals
Aleš Zupan, Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz, and John P. Perdew
pp. 11266-11272 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Landau model for uniaxial systems with complex order parameter
M. Latković and A. Bjeliš
pp. 11273-11284 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Nonlocal electron-positron correlations in solids within the weighted density approximation
A. Rubaszek, Z. Szotek, and W. M. Temmerman
pp. 11285-11302 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Perturbed angular correlation study of the thiospinel β-In2S3
L. Aldon, M. Uhrmacher, C. Branci, L. Ziegeler, J. Roth, P. Schaaf, H. Metzner, J. Olivier-Fourcade, and J. C. Jumas
pp. 11303-11312 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Calibration and interpretation of Mössbauer isomer shift of the 81-keV transition in 133Cs
H. Muramatsu, E. Tanaka, H. Ishii, H. Ito, M. Misawa, T. Miura, Y. Fujita, K. Omata, S. Muto, M. Koizumi, A. Osa, T. Sekine, M. Yanaga, K. Endo, H. Nakahara, and M. Fujioka
pp. 11313-11321 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Medium-range order around titanium in a silicate glass studied by neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution
L. Cormier, P. H. Gaskell, G. Calas, and A. K. Soper
pp. 11322-11330 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Structure of mixed alkali phosphate glasses by neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy
J. Swenson, A. Matic, A. Brodin, L. Börjesson, and W. S. Howells
pp. 11331-11337 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Fermi surfaces and anomalous transport in quasicrystals
S. Roche and T. Fujiwara
pp. 11338-11344 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Local atomic structure and the valence band structure of the rhombic-triacontahedral quasicrystal, its 1/1 approximant, and the Mackay-icosahedral quasicrystal in the Al-Mg-Pd alloy system
Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Uichiro Mizutani, Shinji Yamaguchi, Toshiharu Fukunaga, Takayuki Mizuno, and Nobuo Tanaka
pp. 11345-11353 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Hopping conductivity of a nearly 1D fractal: A model for conducting polymers
A. N. Samukhin, V. N. Prigodin, L. Jastrabík, and A. J. Epstein
pp. 11354-11370 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Effect of nonlinearity of the evolution equation on the spinodal decomposition process in alloys
Toru Ujihara and Kozo Osamura
pp. 11371-11376 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Experimental studies of nonlinear continuous waves and pulses in disordered media showing Anderson localization
Vernon A. Hopkins, L. C. Krysac, and J. D. Maynard
pp. 11377-11385 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Solitons in crystalline polyethylene: A chain surrounded by immovable neighbors
A. V. Savin and L. I. Manevitch
pp. 11386-11400 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Amorphization-induced strong localization of electronic states in CsPbBr3 and CsPbCl3 studied by optical absorption measurements
S. Kondo, T. Sakai, H. Tanaka, and T. Saito
pp. 11401-11407 [View PDF (119 kB)]

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

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Vibrational properties of Pu and Ga in a Pu-Ga alloy from neutron-resonance Doppler spectroscopy
J. Eric Lynn, George H. Kwei, Walter J. Trela, Vincent W. Yuan, Barbara Cort, Raymond J. Martinez, and Fidel A. Vigil
pp. 11408-11415 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Inelastic-neutron-scattering study of the sine-Gordon breather interactions in isotopic mixtures of 4-methyl-pyridine
F. Fillaux, C. J. Carlile, and G. J. Kearley
pp. 11416-11419 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Electronic structure of B2O3 glass studied by one- and two-dimensional electron-spin-echo envelope modulation spectroscopy
Yiannis Deligiannakis, Loukas Astrakas, George Kordas, and Robert A. Smith
pp. 11420-11434 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Phonon Raman scattering in R1-xAxMnO3+δ (R=La,Pr; A=Ca,Sr)
E. Granado, N. O. Moreno, A. García, J. A. Sanjurjo, C. Rettori, I. Torriani, S. B. Oseroff, J. J. Neumeier, K. J. McClellan, S.-W. Cheong, and Y. Tokura
pp. 11435-11440 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Direct observation of localized dipolar excitations on rough nanostructured surfaces
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Vadim A. Markel, Victor Coello, W. Kim, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
pp. 11441-11448 [View PDF (3,083 kB)]
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Resistance of Josephson-junction arrays at low temperatures
L. B. Ioffe and B. N. Narozhny
pp. 11449-11457 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Magnetism

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Intrinsic localized spin waves in classical one-dimensional spin systems: Studies of their interactions
S. Rakhmanova and D. L. Mills
pp. 11458-11464 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the two-dimensional Heisenberg classical honeycomb lattice
Jacques Curély, Francesc Lloret, and Miguel Julve
pp. 11465-11483 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Field-dependent thermodynamics and quantum critical phenomena in the dimerized spin system Cu2(C5H12N2)2Cl4
Norbert Elstner and Rajiv R. P. Singh
pp. 11484-11487 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Modeling ionic diffusion in magnetic systems
J. J. Torres, P. L. Garrido, and J. Marro
pp. 11488-11492 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of Co/Rh (001) multilayers studied by x-ray magnetic-circular dichroism
M. A. Tomaz, E. Mayo, D. Lederman, E. Hallin, T. K. Sham, W. L. O’Brien, and G. R. Harp
pp. 11493-11500 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Critical behavior of a 19-vertex model with full frustration
Yasushi Honda and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi
pp. 11501-11506 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Domain-wall dynamics, pinning, and nucleation in ultrathin epitaxial Fe films
R. P. Cowburn, J. Ferré, S. J. Gray, and J. A. C. Bland
pp. 11507-11513 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Chirality tunneling in mesoscopic antiferromagnetic domain walls
B. A. Ivanov, A. K. Kolezhuk, and V. E. Kireev
pp. 11514-11518 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Polaronic effects on the resistivity of manganite thin films
Michael Ziese and Chatchai Srinitiwarawong
pp. 11519-11525 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Magnetism and microstructure in epitaxial TbFe2 (111) thin films
M. Huth and C. P. Flynn
pp. 11526-11533 [View PDF (776 kB)]
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Magnetism of atomically thin fcc Fe overlayers on an expanded fcc lattice: Cu84Al16(100)
Waldemar A. A. Macedo, Fausto Sirotti, Giancarlo Panaccione, Axel Schatz, Werner Keune, Wagner N. Rodrigues, and Giorgio Rossi
pp. 11534-11538 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Magnetic anisotropies in dot arrays: Shape anisotropy versus coupling
M. Grimsditch, Y. Jaccard, and Ivan K. Schuller
pp. 11539-11543 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Muon spin relaxation in a superparamagnet: Field dynamics in Cu98Co2
R. I. Bewley and R. Cywinski
pp. 11544-11551 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Renormalized couplings and scaling correction amplitudes in the N-vector spin models on the sc and the bcc lattices
P. Butera and M. Comi
pp. 11552-11569 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Dynamics of a quantum control-not gate for an ensemble of four-spin molecules at room temperature
Gennady P. Berman, Gary D. Doolen, Gustavo V. López, and Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich
pp. 11570-11576 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Magnetic dichroism in valence-band photoemission spectroscopy of disordered bcc FexCo1-x alloys
S. Ostanin and H. Ebert
pp. 11577-11582 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Phase diagram of manganese oxides
Ryo Maezono, Sumio Ishihara, and Naoto Nagaosa
pp. 11583-11596 [View PDF (1,964 kB)]
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Resistivity and magnetotransport in CrO2 films
Katsuhiko Suzuki and P. M. Tedrow
pp. 11597-11602 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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13C NMR and static magnetic susceptibility in C60 superconductors: Possible influence of Kondo impurity
Y. Maniwa, N. Muroga, N. Sato, H. Tou, H. Shimoda, Y. Iwasa, H. Mitani, K. Kikuchi, S. Suzuki, Y. Achiba, M. Kosaka, K. Tanigaki, X. Chen, and M. M. Labes
pp. 11603-11606 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Deep-inelastic response of liquid helium
S. Moroni, S. Fantoni, and A. Fabrocini
pp. 11607-11612 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Vertex-corrected perturbation theory for the electron-phonon problem with nonconstant density of states
J. K. Freericks, V. Zlatić, Woonki Chung, and Mark Jarrell
pp. 11613-11623 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Spin and vortex dynamics and electromagnetic propagation in the spontaneous vortex phase
T. K. Ng and C. M. Varma
pp. 11624-11630 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Zone-diagonal-dominated transport in high-Tc cuprates
L. B. Ioffe and A. J. Millis
pp. 11631-11637 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Chain model for the spiral instability of the force-free configuration in thin superconducting films
Yu. A. Genenko, P. Troche, J. Hoffmann, and H. C. Freyhardt
pp. 11638-11651 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Cavity perturbation by superconducting films in microwave magnetic and electric fields
D.-N. Peligrad, B. Nebendahl, C. Kessler, M. Mehring, A. Dulčić, M. Požek, and D. Paar
pp. 11652-11671 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of a local mixed state induced by a small ferromagnetic particle in Y-Ba-Cu-O films: Extremely low energy barrier for formation of vortex-antivortex pairs
A. S. Mel’nikov, Yu. N. Nozdrin, I. D. Tokman, and P. P. Vysheslavtsev
pp. 11672-11675 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Current-voltage characteristics of semiconductor-coupled superconducting weak links with large electrode separations
Mason Thomas, Hans-Richard Blank, Ki C. Wong, Herbert Kroemer, and Evelyn Hu
pp. 11676-11684 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Fiske steps in annular Josephson junctions with trapped flux quanta
C. Nappi, R. Cristiano, and M. P. Lisitskii
pp. 11685-11691 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Second-peak effect in a superconducting (Tl, Bi)-1212 single crystal by ac susceptibility: Evidence for vortex plastic behavior
T. Aouaroun and Ch. Simon
pp. 11692-11697 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Nuclear-magnetic-resonance investigation of the itinerant nearly antiferromagnetic behavior in superconducting Zr2(Co1-xNix)
M. Takekuni, H. Sugita, and S. Wada
pp. 11698-11702 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Superconducting mesoscopic square loop
V. M. Fomin, V. R. Misko, J. T. Devreese, and V. V. Moshchalkov
pp. 11703-11715 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Spin gap in the normal state of Pr-doped and oxygen-deficient RBa2Cu3O7 superconductors
S. J. Liu and Weiyan Guan
pp. 11716-11720 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Electronic Raman scattering in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ single crystals: Analysis of the superconducting state
A. Sacuto, R. Combescot, N. Bontemps, C. A. Müller, V. Viallet, and D. Colson
pp. 11721-11733 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Doping dependence of normal- and superconducting-state transport properties of Nd2-xCexCuO4±y thin films
F. Gollnik and M. Naito
pp. 11734-11752 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Electronic Raman scattering in Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ: Symmetry of the order parameter, oxygen doping effects, and normal-state scattering
L. V. Gasparov, P. Lemmens, N. N. Kolesnikov, and G. Güntherodt
pp. 11753-11760 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Angle dependence of magnetization in a single-domain YBa2Cu3Ox sphere
B. A. Tent, D. Qu, Donglu Shi, W. J. Bresser, P. Boolchand, and Zhi-Xiong Cai
pp. 11761-11767 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Local structural features of the superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ system: A polarized Cu K-edge XAS study
N. L. Saini, A. Lanzara, A. Bianconi, and H. Oyanagi
pp. 11768-11773 [View PDF (127 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Model of c-axis resistivity of high-Tc cuprates”
Lei Zheng, Xuefeng Sun, Xiao-Guang Li, and Yuheng Zhang
pp. 11774-11775 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Model of c-axis resistivity of high-Tc cuprates”’
S. L. Cooper and D. Pines
pp. 11776 [View PDF (25 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dielectric properties of triglycine selenate ferroelectric near the phase-transition temperature [Phys. Rev. B 57, 777 (1998)]
B. Fugiel and M. Mierzwa
pp. 11777 [View PDF (18 kB)]
 
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