• BRIEF REPORTS
  • 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

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Isotope effect on the rotational tunneling transitions of methyl groups in glassy polymers A. J. Moreno, A. Alegría, J. Colmenero, and B. Frick pp. 5983-5986 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grain-size limit of polycrystalline materials N. X. Sun and K. Lu pp. 5987-5989 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Homogeneous broadening of absorption lines in ferroelastic crystal NdGaO3 studied by four-wave-mixing spectroscopy Shunsuke Nakanishi and Hiroshi Itoh pp. 5990-5993 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrete fronts and quasirectangular solitons S. Darmanyan, A. Kobyakov, F. Lederer, and L. Vázquez pp. 5994-5997 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Connectivity of energy bands in crystals L. Michel and J. Zak pp. 5998-6001 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption intensities of zero-phonon double transitions involving para-H2–ortho-H2 pairs in solid hydrogen A. P. Mishra and T. K. Balasubramanian pp. 6002-6005 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Wilson-renormalization-group approach of the principal chiral model around two dimensions B. Delamotte, D. Mouhanna, and P. Lecheminant pp. 6006-6009 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics and antiferromagnetic short-range order in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model S. Winterfeldt and D. Ihle pp. 6010-6012 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum coherence oscillations in antiferromagnetic chains Marius Grigorescu and Mahi R. Singh pp. 6013-6016 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-dependent Coulomb blockade in ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet double tunnel junctions Hiroshi Imamura, Saburo Takahashi, and Sadamichi Maekawa pp. 6017-6020 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiferromagnetic resonance in the cubic perovskite KNiF3 H. Yamaguchi, K. Katsumata, M. Hagiwara, M. Tokunaga, H. L. Liu, A. Zibold, D. B. Tanner, and Y. J. Wang pp. 6021-6023 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Finite density of states in a mixed state of a dx2-y2+idxy superconductor W. Mao and A. V. Balatsky pp. 6024-6026 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin polarons in triangular antiferromagnets Matthias Vojta pp. 6027-6030 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous transport in normal-superconducting and ferromagnetic-superconducting nanostructures R. Seviour, C. J. Lambert, and A. F. Volkov pp. 6031-6034 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Test of first-principle calculations of charge transfer and electron-hole distribution in oxide superconductors by precise measurements of structure factors Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, and J. Tafto pp. 6035-6038 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteresis in mesoscopic superconducting disks: The Bean-Livingston barrier P. Singha Deo, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters pp. 6039-6042 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Disorder, metastability, and history dependence in transformations of a vortex lattice S. S. Banerjee, N. G. Patil, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover, S. Bhattacharya, P. K. Mishra, G. Ravikumar, T. V. Chandrasekhar Rao, V. C. Sahni, M. J. Higgins, C. V. Tomy, G. Balakrishnan, and D. Mck. Paul pp. 6043-6046 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic impurity scattering effects on Tc and Hc2 in YBa2Cu3Ox J.-Y. Lin, S. J. Chen, S. Y. Chen, C. F. Chang, H. D. Yang, S. K. Tolpygo, M. Gurvitch, Y. Y. Hsu, and H. C. Ku pp. 6047-6050 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Ne intercalated C60: Diffusion kinetics B. Morosin, Zhongbo Hu, J. D. Jorgensen, Simine Short, J. E. Schirber, and G. H. Kwei pp. 6051-6057 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural transformations in a simple-hexagonal Hg-Sn alloy under pressure V. F. Degtyareva, O. Degtyareva, M. Winzenick, and W. B. Holzapfel pp. 6058-6062 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Commensurately modulated structure of 4Hb-TaSe2 determined by x-ray crystal-structure refinement Jens Lüdecke, Sander van Smaalen, Albert Spijkerman, Jan L. de Boer, and Gerrit A. Wiegers pp. 6063-6071 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic defects in the ordered compound B2-NiAl: A combination of ab initio electron theory and statistical mechanics B. Meyer and M. Fähnle pp. 6072-6082 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental and theoretical study of Li3N at high pressure Allen C. Ho, Maurice K. Granger, Arthur L. Ruoff, P. E. Van Camp, and V. E. Van Doren pp. 6083-6086 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Empirical cluster expansion models of cation order-disorder in A(B1/3′,B2/3″)O3 perovskites B. P. Burton pp. 6087-6091 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Site-selective spectroscopy of the Ho3+ dimer centers in CaF2 and SrF2 crystals Marjorie Mujaji and J. D. Comins pp. 6092-6099 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleation theory, the escaping processes, and nonlinear stability J. A. Gonzalez and F. A. Oliveira pp. 6100-6105 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder-induced critical phenomena in hysteresis: Numerical scaling in three and higher dimensions Olga Perković, Karin A. Dahmen, and James P. Sethna pp. 6106-6119 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural stability of lithium manganese oxides S. K. Mishra and G. Ceder pp. 6120-6130 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic behavior of the hexagonal axial ratio for the d transition metals Jane X. Zheng-Johansson, Olle Eriksson, and Börje Johansson pp. 6131-6138 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Holography with γ rays: Simulations versus experiment for α-57Fe P. Korecki, J. Korecki, and W. Karaś pp. 6139-6152 [View PDF (5075 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Molecular-dynamics study of liquid mercury in the density region between metal and nonmetal Tomonari Sumi, Eisaku Miyoshi, and Kiyoshi Tanaka pp. 6153-6158 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transmission and reflection studies of periodic and random systems with gain Xunya Jiang and C. M. Soukoulis pp. 6159-6166 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Features in the speckle correlations of light scattered from volume-disordered dielectric media V. Malyshkin, A. R. McGurn, and A. A. Maradudin pp. 6167-6176 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	EPR study of chemically synthesized polypyrroles soluble in organic solvents J. S. Baeck, K. S. Jang, E. J. Oh, and J. Joo pp. 6177-6181 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Anharmonic line shift and linewidth of the Raman mode in covalent semiconductors G. Lang, K. Karch, M. Schmitt, P. Pavone, A. P. Mayer, R. K. Wehner, and D. Strauch pp. 6182-6188 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman spectroscopy investigation of lanthanide-filled and unfilled skutterudites G. S. Nolas and C. A. Kendziora pp. 6189-6192 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local lattice distortions in La1-xSrxMnO3 studied by pulsed neutron scattering Despina Louca and T. Egami pp. 6193-6204 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced Seebeck coefficient from carrier-induced vibrational softening David Emin pp. 6205-6210 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic nuclear-resonance photon scattering from a single crystal of NaNO2 Y. Finkelstein, R. Moreh, O. Shahal, and V. Volterra pp. 6211-6216 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Optical conductivity of colossal-magnetoresistance compounds: Role of orbital degeneracy in the ferromagnetic phase Peter Horsch, Janez Jaklič, and Frank Mack pp. 6217-6228 [View PDF (1466 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature static and dynamic behavior of the two-dimensional easy-axis Heisenberg model M. E. Gouvêa, G. M. Wysin, S. A. Leonel, A. S. Pires, T. Kamppeter, and F. G. Mertens pp. 6229-6238 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface spin-flop and discommensuration transitions in antiferromagnets C. Micheletti, R. B. Griffiths, and J. M. Yeomans pp. 6239-6249 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical study of the spin-1 Ashkin-Teller model M. Badehdah, S. Bekhechi, A. Benyoussef, and B. Ettaki pp. 6250-6255 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic ferromagnetism without exchange splitting J. E. Hirsch pp. 6256-6265 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation spectrum of the S=1/2 quantum spin ladder with frustration: Elementary quasiparticles and many-particle bound states V. N. Kotov, O. P. Sushkov, and R. Eder pp. 6266-6277 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Full-potential generalized gradient approximation calculations of spiral spin-density waves in γ-Fe D. M. Bylander and Leonard Kleinman pp. 6278-6281 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature thermodynamic properties of molecular magnetic chains M. Affronte, A. Caneschi, C. Cucci, D. Gatteschi, J. C. Lasjaunias, C. Paulsen, M. G. Pini, A. Rettori, and R. Sessoli pp. 6282-6293 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin fluctuation nearby magnetically unstable point in Li1-xZnxV2O4 N. Fujiwara, H. Yasuoka, and Y. Ueda pp. 6294-6300 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impurity corrections to the thermodynamics in spin chains using a transfer-matrix DMRG method Stefan Rommer and Sebastian Eggert pp. 6301-6308 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossover from thermal hopping to quantum tunneling in Mn12Ac S. P. Kou, J. Q. Liang, Y. B. Zhang, X. B. Wang, and F. C. Pu pp. 6309-6316 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant two-magnon Raman scattering at high pressures in the layered antiferromagnetic NiPS3 S. S. Rosenblum and R. Merlin pp. 6317-6320 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic-scale magnetic modeling of oxide nanoparticles R. H. Kodama and A. E. Berkowitz pp. 6321-6336 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic information in the light diffracted by a negative dot array of Fe P. Vavassori, V. Metlushko, R. M. Osgood, M. Grimsditch, U. Welp, G. Crabtree, Wenjun Fan, S. R. Brueck, B. Ilic, and P. J. Hesketh pp. 6337-6343 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum oscillations of the spin density in magnetic multilayers J. Mathon, A. Umerski, Murielle Villeret, and R. B. Muniz pp. 6344-6350 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-period oscillation in the magnetic coupling through chromium in a magnetic multilayer: Bulk issues Dale D. Koelling pp. 6351-6367 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic nanosphere in a magnetic field: An exact solution D. N. Aristov pp. 6368-6372 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface magnetism of 3d transition metals A. M. Niklasson, B. Johansson, and H. L. Skriver pp. 6373-6382 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interlayer exchange coupling between two ferromagnets with finite thickness separated by a nonmetallic spacer Jun-Zhong Wang and Bo-Zang Li pp. 6383-6389 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarons and phase separation in lanthanum-based manganese perovskites: A 139La and 55Mn NMR study G. Papavassiliou, M. Fardis, M. Belesi, M. Pissas, I. Panagiotopoulos, G. Kallias, D. Niarchos, C. Dimitropoulos, and J. Dolinsek pp. 6390-6394 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge ordering in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 (x>~0.75) studied by electron-energy-loss spectroscopy Y. Murakami, D. Shindo, H. Chiba, M. Kikuchi, and Y. Syono pp. 6395-6399 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar-potential effect in an integrable Kondo model Yupeng Wang and Ulrich Eckern pp. 6400-6410 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of electronic Raman scattering in nearly antiferromagnetic Fermi liquids T. P. Devereaux and A. P. Kampf pp. 6411-6420 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-yield saturation effects in L-edge x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectra of Fe, Co, and Ni Reiko Nakajima, J. Stöhr, and Y. U. Idzerda pp. 6421-6429 [View PDF (480 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Superconductivity in the Hubbard model with pair hopping Stanisław Robaszkiewicz and Bogdan R. Bułka pp. 6430-6437 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of phase fluctuations on the single-particle properties of underdoped cuprates Hyok-Jon Kwon and Alan T. Dorsey pp. 6438-6448 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extreme type-II superconductors in a magnetic field: A theory of critical fluctuations Zlatko Tes̆anović pp. 6449-6474 [View PDF (550 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay between superconductivity and flux phase in the t-J model E. Cappelluti and R. Zeyher pp. 6475-6486 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistive-state anomaly in superconducting nanostructures K. Yu. Arutyunov, D. A. Presnov, S. V. Lotkhov, A. B. Pavolotski, and L. Rinderer pp. 6487-6498 [View PDF (952 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear hydrodynamics and tilt modulus of flux-line liquids Panayotis Benetatos and M. Cristina Marchetti pp. 6499-6516 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron-scattering study of static antiferromagnetic correlations in La2-xSrxCu1-yZnyO4 Hiroyuki Kimura, Kazuma Hirota, Hiroki Matsushita, Kazuyoshi Yamada, Yasuo Endoh, Seung-Hun Lee, Charles F. Majkrzak, Ross Erwin, Gen Shirane, Martin Greven, Young S. Lee, Marc A. Kastner, and Robert J. Birgeneau pp. 6517-6523 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Healing length near surfaces of anisotropic superconductors E. Polturak, O. Nesher, and G. Koren pp. 6524-6527 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared study of crystal-field excitations in NdBa2Cu3O6 A. A. Martin, T. Ruf, M. Cardona, S. Jandl, D. Barba, V. Nekvasil, M. Diviš, and T. Wolf pp. 6528-6533 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of YBa2Cu3O7-δ in a self-consistent approach: Comparison with quantum Monte Carlo simulations and experiments G. Hildebrand, E. Arrigoni, C. Gröber, and W. Hanke pp. 6534-6544 [View PDF (626 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absence of three-dimensional XY behavior in the magnetic penetration depth of YBa2Cu3O7-δ films Kathleen M. Paget, Brent R. Boyce, and Thomas R. Lemberger pp. 6545-6549 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermopower in Y1-xCaxBa2-xLaxCu3Oy and Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3-xCoxOy V. E. Gasumyants, M. V. Elizarova, and I. B. Patrina pp. 6550-6556 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Normal-state anomalies in the transport and magnetic properties in the (La1-xPrx)1.85Sr0.15CuO4 system and their correlation with Tc suppression: A signature of the effects of orthorhombic distortions J. E. Musa, S. García, M. Rothier de Amaral, H. Salim de Amorim, B. Giordanengo, E. M. Baggio-Saitovitch, P. J. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, W. B. Yelon, and S. K. Malik pp. 6557-6562 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Thermally induced dimensional crossover in single-crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox [Phys. Rev. B 52, 3765 (1995)] Yoichi Ando, Seiki Komiya, Yasutoshi Kotaka, and Kohji Kishio pp. 6563 [View PDF (35 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Localized modes in an anharmonic diamond-structure chain [Phys. Rev. B 58, 8391 (1998)] A. Franchini, V. Bortolani, and R. F. Wallis pp. 6563 [View PDF (19 kB) ]