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Physical Review B – 1 November 1999
Volume 60, Issue 17

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Surface relaxation in ferroelectric perovskites
Kenji Ishikawa and Takatoshi Uemori
pp. 11841-11845 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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High-pressure studies of MgTe using first-principle electronic-structure calculations
Chhanda Basu Chaudhuri, G. Pari, Abhijit Mookerjee, and A. K. Bhattacharyya
pp. 11846-11847 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Composition dependence of phase transition observed by 23Na NMR spin-lattice relaxation in Na1-xAgxNO2 mixed crystals
J. K. Jung, O. H. Han, and S. H. Choh
pp. 11848-11850 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Partial pair correlation functions of liquid water
László Pusztai
pp. 11851-11854 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Pronounced asymmetry in the crystallization behavior during constant heating and cooling of a bulk metallic glass-forming liquid
Jan Schroers, Andreas Masuhr, William L. Johnson, and Ralf Busch
pp. 11855-11858 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Unified approach to the constraint counting theory of glasses
R. Aravinda Narayanan and A. Kumar
pp. 11859-11862 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Direct evidence of positron trapping at polar groups in a polymer-blend system
Y. Nagai, T. Nonaka, M. Hasegawa, Y. Kobayashi, C. L. Wang, W. Zheng, and C. Zhang
pp. 11863-11866 [View PDF (46 kB)]

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

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Measurements of host-guest interaction energies in a calixarene supramolecular complex
R. Caciuffo, R. Galeazzi, A. J. Horsewill, A. Ikram, and F. Ugozzoli
pp. 11867-11870 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Scanning phononic lattices with ultrasound
R. E. Vines, J. P. Wolfe, and A. V. Every
pp. 11871-11874 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Infrared-active phonons of LaMnO3 and CaMnO3
I. Fedorov, J. Lorenzana, P. Dore, G. De Marzi, P. Maselli, P. Calvani, S.-W. Cheong, S. Koval, and R. Migoni
pp. 11875-11878 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Magnetic ordering effects in the Raman spectra of La1-xMn1-xO3
E. Granado, A. García, J. A. Sanjurjo, C. Rettori, I. Torriani, F. Prado, R. D. Sánchez, A. Caneiro, and S. B. Oseroff
pp. 11879-11882 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Magnetism

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Symmetry origin of the phase transitions and phase separation in manganites at low doping
Fan Zhong and Z. D. Wang
pp. 11883-11886 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic mean-field model with unusual precritical exponents
Shelomo I. Ben-Abraham and Aleksey Nudelman
pp. 11887-11890 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Three-magnon contribution to the spin correlation function in integer-spin antiferromagnetic chains
M. D. P. Horton and Ian Affleck
pp. 11891-11893 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Inadequacy of the asymptotic approximation for the interlayer coupling in Fe/Ag/Fe and Fe/Au/Fe (001) trilayers
A. T. Costa, Jr., J. d’Albuquerque e Castro, M. S. Ferreira, and R. B. Muniz
pp. 11894-11897 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Spin-phonon avalanches in Mn12 acetate
E. del Barco, J. M. Hernandez, M. Sales, J. Tejada, H. Rakoto, J. M. Broto, and E. M. Chudnovsky
pp. 11898-11901 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Effect of unidirectional anisotropy on the ferromagnetic resonance in ferrite nanoparticles
V. P. Shilov, Yu. L. Raikher, J.-C. Bacri, F. Gazeau, and R. Perzynski
pp. 11902-11905 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Dynamics of magnetization reversal in thin polycrystalline Ni80Fe20 films
B. C. Choi, W. Y. Lee, A. Samad, and J. A. C. Bland
pp. 11906-11909 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Disorder, ordering, and superstructures of (FePt) and (CoPt) on Pt substrates
L. Szunyogh, P. Weinberger, and C. Sommers
pp. 11910-11913 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Isotope and pressure effects in manganites: Important experimental constraints on the physics of manganites
Guo-meng Zhao, K. Conder, H. Keller, and K. A. Müller
pp. 11914-11917 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Enhanced tunneling magnetoresistance of Fe-Al2O3 granular films in the Coulomb blockade regime
T. Zhu and Y. J. Wang
pp. 11918-11921 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Electron-spin-resonance line broadening around the magnetic phase transition in manganites
F. Rivadulla, M. A. López-Quintela, L. E. Hueso, J. Rivas, M. T. Causa, C. Ramos, R. D. Sánchez, and M. Tovar
pp. 11922-11925 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Supercooling across first-order phase transitions induced by density variation
P. Chaddah and S. B. Roy
pp. 11926-11928 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Superconducting phase transition and gauge dependence
Claude de Calan and Flavio S. Nogueira
pp. 11929-11931 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Phonon profiles in superconducting YNi2B2C and LuNi2B2C
J. Zarestky, C. Stassis, A. Goldman, P. Canfield, G. Shirane, and S. Shapiro
pp. 11932-11934 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Josephson frequency singularity in the noise of normal-metal–superconductor junctions
Gordey B. Lesovik, Thierry Martin, and Julien Torrès
pp. 11935-11938 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Irreversible magnetization of pin-free type-II superconductors
Ernst Helmut Brandt
pp. 11939-11942 [View PDF (103 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Structural stability of some possible phases of SiC2N4
J. E. Lowther
pp. 11943-11946 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Suppression of the structural phase transition in CeCu6 by pressure and Au doping
K. Grube, W. H. Fietz, U. Tutsch, O. Stockert, and H. v. Löhneysen
pp. 11947-11953 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of epitaxial deformation and the hcp-bcc transition of alkali metals
Weixue Li and Tzuchiang Wang
pp. 11954-11962 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Different crystal chemistries of the 117Cd⃗117In and 111mCd⃗111Cd probes in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 studied by the time-differential perturbed-angular-correlation technique
Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Yukihiro Murakami, Tadashi Saito, Akihiko Yokoyama, Shin-ichi Uehara, Seiichi Shibata, and Yoichi Kawase
pp. 11963-11970 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Atomic-scale simulations of the mechanical deformation of nanocrystalline metals
J. Schiøtz, T. Vegge, F. D. Di Tolla, and K. W. Jacobsen
pp. 11971-11983 [View PDF (705 kB)]
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X-ray excitation fluorescence spectra of the Eu2+-stabilized VK center in alkaline-earth fluoride mixed-crystal systems
K. Kawano, T. Ohya, T. Tsurumi, K. Katoh, and R. Nakata
pp. 11984-11992 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Multiple-scattering theory for three-dimensional periodic acoustic composites
M. Kafesaki and E. N. Economou
pp. 11993-12001 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of the stress singularity at a corner
Oskar Vafek and Mark O. Robbins
pp. 12002-12006 [View PDF (387 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Ab initio study of boron doping in tetrahedral amorphous carbon
A. Gambirasio and M. Bernasconi
pp. 12007-12014 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Two mechanisms, three stages of the localization of light in a disordered dielectric structure with photonic band gaps
Wei Jiang and Changde Gong
pp. 12015-12022 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Conductivity enhancement in PbI2-AgI-AgPO3 glasses by diffraction experiments and reverse Monte Carlo modeling
J. Swenson, A. Matic, C. Gejke, L. Börjesson, W. S. Howells, and M. J. Capitan
pp. 12023-12032 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Theory of thermopower in disordered mixed crystals: Application to Si-Ge systems
P. J. Lin-Chung and A. K. Rajagopal
pp. 12033-12044 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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High-permittivity ionic glass predicted from mode-coupling calculations
H. C. Chen, S. D. Wilke, and J. Bosse
pp. 12045-12050 [View PDF (114 kB)]

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

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Dipole polarization and charge transfer effects in the lattice dynamics and dielectric properties of ionic crystals
Claus Falter, Michael Klenner, Georg A. Hoffmann, and Frank Schnetgöke
pp. 12051-12060 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics and inelastic neutron scattering from sillimanite and kyanite Al2SiO5
Mala N. Rao, S. L. Chaplot, Narayani Choudhury, K. R. Rao, R. T. Azuah, W. T. Montfrooij, and S. M. Bennington
pp. 12061-12068 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Spin picture of the one-dimensional Hubbard model: Two-fluid structure and phase dynamics
Arianna Montorsi and Vittorio Penna
pp. 12069-12078 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Electron-phonon quantum kinetics in the strong-coupling regime
D. Steinbach, G. Kocherscheidt, M. U. Wehner, H. Kalt, M. Wegener, K. Ohkawa, D. Hommel, and V. M. Axt
pp. 12079-12090 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Excited states in one-dimensional quantum crystals
A. I. Karasevskii and V. V. Lubashenko
pp. 12091-12098 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Electronic transport properties in random one-dimensional chains containing mesoscopic-ring defects
X. Huang
pp. 12099-12106 [View PDF (289 kB)]

Magnetism

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Temperature dependence of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy constants and spin-reorientation transition in the single-ion one-sublattice system
Yu Ming-hui and Zhang Zhi-dong
pp. 12107-12115 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Numerical renormalization-group study of spin correlations in one-dimensional random spin chains
T. Hikihara, A. Furusaki, and M. Sigrist
pp. 12116-12124 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Thermodynamical properties of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain coupled to phonons
Rainer W. Kühne and Ute Löw
pp. 12125-12133 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Dimer–resonating valence bond state of the four-leg Heisenberg ladder: Interference among resonances
M. Roncaglia, G. Sierra, and M. A. Martin-Delgado
pp. 12134-12137 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Mixed-spin systems: Coexistence of the Haldane gap and antiferromagnetic long-range order
Indrani Bose and Emily Chattopadhyay
pp. 12138-12142 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Correlation of anomalous Hall resistivity, magnetoresistance, and magnetization in thin films of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3
J. C. Chen, S. C. Law, L. C. Tung, C. C. Chi, and Weiyan Guan
pp. 12143-12148 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the Anderson lattice
Ben Hur Bernhard and Claudine Lacroix
pp. 12149-12154 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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EPR linewidths in La1-xCaxMnO3: 0<~x<~1
D. L. Huber, G. Alejandro, A. Caneiro, M. T. Causa, F. Prado, M. Tovar, and S. B. Oseroff
pp. 12155-12161 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Magnetic anisotropy, first-order-like metamagnetic transitions, and large negative magnetoresistance in single-crystal Gd2PdSi3
S. R. Saha, H. Sugawara, T. D. Matsuda, H. Sato, R. Mallik, and E. V. Sampathkumaran
pp. 12162-12165 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Static universality class for gadolinium
S. Srinath and S. N. Kaul
pp. 12166-12176 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Magnetic anisotropy of Fe6 and Fe10 molecular rings by cantilever torque magnetometry in high magnetic fields
A. Cornia, A. G. M. Jansen, and M. Affronte
pp. 12177-12183 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Specific heat and magnetic order in LaMnO3+δ
L. Ghivelder, I. Abrego Castillo, M. A. Gusmão, J. A. Alonso, and L. F. Cohen
pp. 12184-12190 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Magnetic phase diagrams of L1-xAxMnO3 manganites (L=Pr,Sm; A=Ca,Sr)
C. Martin, A. Maignan, M. Hervieu, and B. Raveau
pp. 12191-12199 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic study of heterogeneous CoxAg1-x films by resonance and magnetometric techniques
Yu. G. Pogorelov, G. N. Kakazei, J. B. Sousa, A. F. Kravets, N. A. Lesnik, M. M. Pereira de Azevedo, M. Malinowska, and P. Panissod
pp. 12200-12206 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Magnetic hysteresis based on dipolar interactions in granular magnetic systems
Paolo Allia, Marco Coisson, Marcelo Knobel, Paola Tiberto, and Franco Vinai
pp. 12207-12218 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Finite frequency dynamics of magnetic domain walls
Han-Ting Wang and S. T. Chui
pp. 12219-12225 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Influence of uncorrelated overlayers on the magnetism in thin itinerant-electron films
J. H. Wu, T. Herrmann, and W. Nolting
pp. 12226-12233 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Charge-magnetic roughness correlations in an Fe/Gd multilayer
C. S. Nelson, G. Srajer, J. C. Lang, C. T. Venkataraman, S. K. Sinha, H. Hashizume, N. Ishimatsu, and N. Hosoito
pp. 12234-12238 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Dependence of the dielectric function and electronic properties on the Co layer thickness in giant-magnetoresistance Co/Au multilayers
C. Christides, S. Stavroyiannis, D. Niarchos, M. Gioti, and S. Logothetidis
pp. 12239-12245 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Shot noise in ferromagnetic single-electron tunneling devices
B. R. Bułka, J. Martinek, G. Michałek, and J. Barnaś
pp. 12246-12255 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Martensitic transformation induced by magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy for Co-Fe alloys
Toshiro Tanaka, Migaku Takahashi, and Shizuo Kadowaki
pp. 12256-12263 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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High-frequency response and reversal dynamics of two-dimensional magnetic dot arrays
R. L. Stamps and R. E. Camley
pp. 12264-12269 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic resonance in as-deposited and annealed Fe-SiO2 heterogeneous thin films
A. Butera, J. N. Zhou, and J. A. Barnard
pp. 12270-12278 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Spin fluctuations in the ruthenium oxides RuO2, SrRuO3, CaRuO3, and Sr2RuO4 probed by Ru NMR
H. Mukuda, K. Ishida, Y. Kitaoka, K. Asayama, R. Kanno, and M. Takano
pp. 12279-12285 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Muon-spin-relaxation studies of magnetic order and dynamics of the n=2 Ruddlesden-Popper phases Sr2RMn2O7 (R=Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho)
R. I. Bewley, S. J. Blundell, B. W. Lovett, Th. Jestädt, F. L. Pratt, K. H. Chow, W. Hayes, P. D. Battle, M. A. Green, J. E. Millburn, M. J. Rosseinsky, L. E. Spring, and J. F. Vente
pp. 12286-12293 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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29Si NMR study on the stoichiometry of the silicon clathrate Na8Si46
Ganesh K. Ramachandran, Paul F. McMillan, Jason Diefenbacher, Jan Gryko, Jianjun Dong, and Otto F. Sankey
pp. 12294-12298 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Magnetic coupling induced by hole doping in perovskites La1-xCaxMnO3: A neutron scattering study
F. Moussa, M. Hennion, G. Biotteau, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Pinsard, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 12299-12308 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Boundary Kondo problem in the integrable t-J model
Jianhui Dai and Yupeng Wang
pp. 12309-12316 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Effects of Ga doping in the colossal magnetoresistance material La0.67Ca0.33MnO3
Young Sun, Xiaojun Xu, Lei Zheng, and Yuheng Zhang
pp. 12317-12321 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Estimation of the charge carrier localization length from Gaussian fluctuations in the magneto-thermopower of La0.6Y0.1Ca0.3MnO3
S. Sergeenkov, H. Bougrine, M. Ausloos, and A. Gilabert
pp. 12322-12328 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of weakly doped antiferromagnets
I. R. Pimentel, F. Carvalho Dias, L. M. Martelo, and R. Orbach
pp. 12329-12334 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Angle-resolved photoemission study of untwinned PrBa2Cu3O7: Undoped CuO2 plane and doped CuO3 chain
T. Mizokawa, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, A. Ino, A. Fujimori, M. Goto, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, M. Tagami, K. Yoshida, A. I. Rykov, Y. Siohara, K. Tomimoto, and S. Tajima
pp. 12335-12341 [View PDF (375 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Variational methods for 4He using a modern He-He potential
S. A. Vitiello and K. E. Schmidt
pp. 12342-12348 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Liquid 4He near the superfluid transition in the presence of a heat current and gravity
Rudolf Haussmann
pp. 12349-12372 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Renormalization-group theory for rotating 4He near the superfluid transition
Rudolf Haussmann
pp. 12373-12387 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Dynamic renormalization group theory of superfluid helium films
A. D. Armour and R. M. Bowley
pp. 12388-12399 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Magnetic-field effects on the density of states of orthorhombic superconductors
E. Schachinger and J. P. Carbotte
pp. 12400-12409 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Density-induced BCS to Bose-Einstein crossover
N. Andrenacci, A. Perali, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati
pp. 12410-12418 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Cherenkov resonances in vortex dissipation in superconductors
B. I. Ivlev, S. Mejía-Rosales, and M. N. Kunchur
pp. 12419-12423 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Magnetic field and temperature dependence of the intrinsic resistance steps in the mixed state of the cuprate superconductor Nd2-xCexCuOy
O. M. Stoll, R. P. Huebener, S. Kaiser, and M. Naito
pp. 12424-12428 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Pairing via index theorem
Dung-Hai Lee
pp. 12429-12431 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Microwave spectra of d-wave superconductors
C. T. Rieck, K. Scharnberg, and J. Ruvalds
pp. 12432-12442 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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High dynamic exponents in vortex glass transitions: Dependence of critical scaling on the electric-field range
Patrick Voss-de Haan, Gerhard Jakob, and Hermann Adrian
pp. 12443-12447 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Vortex dynamics in Ta-Ge films with columnar defects
J. C. Abele, H. J. Trodahl, B. J. Ruck, A. F. Lopez, L. J. Törnquist, T. R. Lee, and S. M. Robinson
pp. 12448-12453 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Vortex avalanches in Nb thin films: Global and local magnetization measurements
P. Esquinazi, A. Setzer, D. Fuchs, Y. Kopelevich, E. Zeldov, and C. Assmann
pp. 12454-12461 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Anomalous Raman shift in the ternary fullerides with t1g states
X. H. Chen, T. Takenobu, T. Muro, H. Fudo, and Y. Iwasa
pp. 12462-12466 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of Bi2Sr2CuOx single crystals
S. I. Vedeneev, A. G. M. Jansen, E. Haanappel, and P. Wyder
pp. 12467-12474 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Resistive upper critical fields and irreversibility lines of optimally doped high-Tc cuprates
Yoichi Ando, G. S. Boebinger, A. Passner, L. F. Schneemeyer, T. Kimura, M. Okuya, S. Watauchi, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, K. Tamasaku, N. Ichikawa, and S. Uchida
pp. 12475-12479 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Partial filling of columnar defects by vortices as seen in measurements of the c-axis critical current of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
A. Yurgens, M. Konczykowski, N. Mros, D. Winkler, and T. Claeson
pp. 12480-12484 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the conductivity of YBa2Cu3O7-δ films in the vicinity of the superconducting transition:  Effect of Tc inhomogeneity
D. V. Shantsev, M. E. Gaevski, R. A. Suris, A. V. Bobyl, V. E. Gasumyants, and O. L. Shalaev
pp. 12485-12494 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Magnetotransport in Bi2Sr2Ca1-xYxCu2O8+δ single crystals: From the underdoped to the overdoped regime
A. Wahl, D. Thopart, G. Villard, A. Maignan, Ch. Simon, J. C. Soret, L. Ammor, and A. Ruyter
pp. 12495-12501 [View PDF (152 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Equivalence of the p-degenerate and ordinary Blume-Emery-Griffiths models
Theodore W. Burkhardt
pp. 12502-12503 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Reply to “Equivalence of the p-degenerate and ordinary Blume-Emery-Griffiths models”
Per-Anker Lindgård
pp. 12504 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Comment on “Direct observation of the superconducting energy gap developing in the conductivity spectra of niobium”
J. Halbritter
pp. 12505-12506 [View PDF (122 kB)]
 
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