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Physical Review B – 1 March 2000
Volume 61, Issue 10

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Ferroelectric PbTiO3/BaTiO3 superlattices:  Growth anomalies and confined modes
F. Le Marrec, R. Farhi, M. El Marssi, J. L. Dellis, M. G. Karkut, and D. Ariosa
pp. R6447-R6450 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Non-Gaussian behavior of crystalline and amorphous phases of polyethylene
T. Kanaya, U. Buchenau, S. Koizumi, I. Tsukushi, and K. Kaji
pp. R6451-R6454 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Magnetism

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Antiferromagnetic spin flop and exchange bias
J. Nogués, L. Morellon, C. Leighton, M. R. Ibarra, and Ivan K. Schuller
pp. R6455-R6458 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Magnons in real materials from density-functional theory
Ralph Gebauer and Stefano Baroni
pp. R6459-R6462 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Finite-size effects in nickel nanowire arrays
L. Sun, P. C. Searson, and C. L. Chien
pp. R6463-R6466 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Relative positions of the 2Δ peaks in Raman and tunneling spectra of d-wave superconductors
Andrey V. Chubukov, Nathan Gemelke, and Ar. Abanov
pp. R6467-R6470 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Heat capacity and transport studies of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8
J. L. Tallon, J. W. Loram, G. V. M. Williams, and C. Bernhard
pp. R6471-R6474 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Charge confinement on the CuO2 planes in slightly overdoped YBa2Cu3O7-δ and the role of metallic chains
N. E. Hussey, H. Takagi, Y. Iye, S. Tajima, A. I. Rykov, and K. Yoshida
pp. R6475-R6478 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Phenomenological model for history effects and metastability in weakly pinned superconductors
G. Ravikumar, K. V. Bhagwat, V. C. Sahni, A. K. Grover, S. Ramakrishnan, and S. Bhattacharya
pp. R6479-R6482 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Magnetic coherence in cuprate superconductors
Dirk K. Morr and David Pines
pp. R6483-R6486 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Effect of hydrostatic and chemical pressure on the exchange interaction in magnetic borocarbide superconductors
H. Michor, M. El-Hagary, L. Naber, E. Bauer, and G. Hilscher
pp. R6487-R6490 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Elastic study of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the layered organic superconductors κ-(BEDT-TTF)2X
K. Frikach, M. Poirier, M. Castonguay, and K. D. Truong
pp. R6491-R6494 [View PDF (59 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Epitaxial-strain-stabilized ordering in Au1-xNix alloy thin films grown by MBE
G. Abadias, I. Schuster, A. Marty, and B. Gilles
pp. 6495-6506 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Synchrotron-radiation x-ray multiple diffraction applied to the study of electric-field-induced strain in an organic nonlinear optical material
L. H. Avanci, L. P. Cardoso, J. M. Sasaki, S. E. Girdwood, K. J. Roberts, D. Pugh, and J. N. Sherwood
pp. 6507-6514 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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X-ray-absorption fine structure determination of pressure-induced bond-angle changes in ReO3
B. Houser and R. Ingalls
pp. 6515-6520 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Stability and structural properties of the SC16 phase of ZnS under high pressure
A. Qteish and M. Parrinello
pp. 6521-6524 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Local relaxation around Fe3+ in fluorides: Influence on electronic properties
J. A. Aramburu, J. I. Paredes, M. T. Barriuso, and M. Moreno
pp. 6525-6534 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Extended and accurate determination of the melting curves of argon, helium, ice (H2O), and hydrogen (H2)
Frédéric Datchi, Paul Loubeyre, and René LeToullec
pp. 6535-6546 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Anomalous dielectric aftereffect in ferroelectric KH2PO4
J. Gilchrist
pp. 6547-6558 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Crystal structure and ferroelectric properties of ABi2Ta2O9(A=Ca, Sr, and Ba)
Y. Shimakawa, Y. Kubo, Y. Nakagawa, S. Goto, T. Kamiyama, H. Asano, and F. Izumi
pp. 6559-6564 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Optical properties of strongly coupled Yb2+ and CN- ions in alkali halide crystals: Electronic absorption and emission
C. P. An, Volkmar Dierolf, and Fritz Luty
pp. 6565-6573 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Positron confinement in ultrafine embedded particles: Quantum-dot-like state in an Fe-Cu alloy
Y. Nagai, M. Hasegawa, Z. Tang, A. Hempel, K. Yubuta, T. Shimamura, Y. Kawazoe, A. Kawai, and F. Kano
pp. 6574-6578 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Lattice model for kinetics and grain-size distribution in crystallization
Mario Castro, Angel Sánchez, and Francisco Domínguez-Adame
pp. 6579-6586 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Landau theory of structures in tetragonal-orthorhombic ferroelastics
A. E. Jacobs
pp. 6587-6595 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Error analysis of XAFS measurements
H. J. Krappe and H. H. Rossner
pp. 6596-6610 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Hydrogen and deuterium site separation in fcc-based mixed-isotope rare-earth hydrides
T. J. Udovic, Q. Huang, and J. J. Rush
pp. 6611-6616 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Relative energetics and structural properties of zirconia using a self-consistent tight-binding model
Stefano Fabris, Anthony T. Paxton, and Michael W. Finnis
pp. 6617-6630 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in electrodeposited single-crystal bismuth films
F. Y. Yang, Kai Liu, Kimin Hong, D. H. Reich, P. C. Searson, C. L. Chien, Y. Leprince-Wang, Kui Yu-Zhang, and Ke Han
pp. 6631-6636 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Site selectivity and bonding in the β-phase aluminides: Studies of RuAl, PdAl, and Pd and Ru dopants in NiAl
Million Daniel, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Dale Brewe, Michael J. Mehl, Douglas Pease, and Joseph I. Budnick
pp. 6637-6644 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity of one-dimensional Fibonacci quasicrystals
Enrique Maciá
pp. 6645-6653 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Glassy dynamics in supercooled-liquid and glassy ethanol: A molecular dynamics study
M. A. González, E. Enciso, F. J. Bermejo, and M. Bée
pp. 6654-6666 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Size and confinement effects on the glass transition behavior of polystyrene/o-terphenyl polymer solutions
Joon-Yong Park and Gregory B. McKenna
pp. 6667-6676 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Role of grain boundaries as phonon diffraction gratings in the theory of thermal conductivity
M. Omini and A. Sparavigna
pp. 6677-6688 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Confirmation of membrane electroporation from flicker noise
S. De, R. Basu, and P. Nandy
pp. 6689-6691 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Heuristic model for slow relaxation of excess conductance in electron glasses
A. Vaknin, Z. Ovadyahu, and M. Pollak
pp. 6692-6695 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Atomistic simulations of solid-phase epitaxial growth in silicon
Noam Bernstein, Michael J. Aziz, and Efthimios Kaxiras
pp. 6696-6700 [View PDF (211 kB)]

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

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Optimal phonon approach to the spin Peierls model with nonadiabatic spin-phonon coupling
Barry Friedman
pp. 6701-6705 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Ewald summation of electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics of a three-dimensional system with periodicity in two directions
A. Grzybowski, E. Gwóźdź, and A. Bródka
pp. 6706-6712 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Implications of finite-size and surface effects on nanosize intercalation materials
M. N. Obrovac and J. R. Dahn
pp. 6713-6719 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Ab initio phonon dispersions of wurtzite AlN, GaN, and InN
Claudia Bungaro, Krzysztof Rapcewicz, and J. Bernholc
pp. 6720-6725 [View PDF (466 kB)]

Magnetism

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Nonlinear susceptibility of superparamagnets with a general anisotropy energy
J. L. García-Palacios, P. Jönsson, and P. Svedlindh
pp. 6726-6733 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Magnetic relaxation in a classical spin chain
D. Hinzke and U. Nowak
pp. 6734-6740 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Low-energy excitations of spin-Peierls chains with modified bond impurities
D. Augier, J. Riera, and D. Poilblanc
pp. 6741-6746 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a one-dimensional spin-orbital model
Chigak Itoi, Shaojin Qin, and Ian Affleck
pp. 6747-6756 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Calculation of Neel temperature for S=1/2 Heisenberg quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets
V. Yu. Irkhin and A. A. Katanin
pp. 6757-6764 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Effects of a magnetic field on the one-dimensional spin-orbital model
Yu-Li Lee and Yu-Wen Lee
pp. 6765-6774 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Sign rules for anisotropic quantum spin systems
R. F. Bishop, D. J. J. Farnell, and J. B. Parkinson
pp. 6775-6779 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Existence of massive singlet excitations in an antiferromagnetic alternating chain with S=1/2
S. S. Aplesnin
pp. 6780-6784 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Distribution of Kondo temperatures in a thin film
A. Crépieux and C. Lacroix
pp. 6785-6789 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Pressure-dependent resistivity and magnetoresistivity of erbium
Mark Ellerby, Keith A. McEwen, Ernst Bauer, Robert Hauser, and Jens Jensen
pp. 6790-6797 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Hyperfine interaction study of (Fe1-xCox)3P compounds
L. Häggström, P. James, O. Eriksson, Hui-ping Liu, M. Trosko, K. Szymański, and L. Dobrzyński
pp. 6798-6804 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and strain in Ni/Cu/Ni60Cu40/Cu(001)
G. Lauhoff, C. A. F. Vaz, J. A. C. Bland, J. Lee, and T. Suzuki
pp. 6805-6810 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Magnetization reversal dynamics in epitaxial spin-valve structures
W. Y. Lee, A. Samad, T. A. Moore, J. A. C. Bland, and B. C. Choi
pp. 6811-6815 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Muon spin resonance study of transverse spin freezing in a-FexZr100-x
D. H. Ryan, J. M. Cadogan, and J. van Lierop
pp. 6816-6820 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the CeNi1-xCux Kondo system with spin-glass-like behavior favored by hybridization
J. García Soldevilla, J. C. Gómez Sal, J. A. Blanco, J. I. Espeso, and J. Rodríguez Fernández
pp. 6821-6825 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of hematite nanoparticles
Franz Bødker, Mikkel F. Hansen, Christian Bender Koch, Kim Lefmann, and Steen Mørup
pp. 6826-6838 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Magnetic and structural properties of an octanuclear Cu(II) S=1/2 mesoscopic ring: Susceptibility and NMR measurements
A. Lascialfari, Z. H. Jang, F. Borsa, D. Gatteschi, A. Cornia, D. Rovai, A. Caneschi, and P. Carretta
pp. 6839-6847 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Magnetic behavior of monoatomic Co wires on Pd(110)
R. Robles, J. Izquierdo, and A. Vega
pp. 6848-6853 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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First-principles asymptotics for the oscillatory exchange coupling in Co/Cu/Co of (100), (110), and (111) orientations
N. N. Lathiotakis, B. L. Györffy, and B. Újfalussy
pp. 6854-6865 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Magnetism and electron redistribution effects at Ni/Co interfaces
S. S. Dhesi, H. A. Dürr, E. Dudzik, G. van der Laan, and N. B. Brookes
pp. 6866-6870 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Magnetic domain reversal in ultrathin Co(001) films probed by giant magnetoresistance measurements
S. P. Li, A. Samad, W. S. Lew, Y. B. Xu, and J. A. C. Bland
pp. 6871-6875 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Interface effects on magnetoresistance and magnetic-field-reduced Raman scattering in magnetite
Jian-Min Li, A. C. H. Huan, Liang Wang, You-Wei Du, and Duan Feng
pp. 6876-6878 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Many-body electron origin for the forced magnetostriction in iron-rich Y2Fe17 and Y2Fe14B itinerant ferromagnets
A. del Moral, C. Abadía, and B. García-Landa
pp. 6879-6888 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Copper antiferromagnetic resonance in Gd2CuO4: Evidence for coherent crystal-structure distortions
V. A. Pashchenko, S. Huant, A. A. Stepanov, and P. Wyder
pp. 6889-6895 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Magnetic and transport properties of Pr0.65Ca0.21Sr0.14MnO3 and Pr0.65Ba0.35MnO3 single crystals
M. M. Savosta, J. Hejtmánek, Z. Jirák, M. Maryško, P. Novák, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
pp. 6896-6901 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Optical investigations of the charge gap in orbital-ordered La1/2Sr3/2MnO4
J. H. Jung, J. S. Ahn, Jaejun Yu, T. W. Noh, Jinhyoung Lee, Y. Moritomo, I. Solovyev, and K. Terakura
pp. 6902-6906 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Structure of spin polarons in the spin-fermion model for CuO2 planes
Jan Bała and Andrzej M. Oleś
pp. 6907-6917 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Analytical calculation of the finite-size crossover spectrum of the anisotropic two-channel Kondo model
Gergely Zaránd and Jan von Delft
pp. 6918-6933 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Spin-flip transition rate due to electron-magnon scattering in ferromagnetic thin films
Shang Yuan Ren and John D. Dow
pp. 6934-6939 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Field-induced dx2-y2+idxy state and marginal stability of high-Tc superconductors
A. V. Balatsky
pp. 6940-6944 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Critical scaling of the ac conductivity for a superconductor above Tc
Robert A. Wickham and Alan T. Dorsey
pp. 6945-6957 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Periodic vortex pinning with magnetic and nonmagnetic dots: The influence of size
A. Hoffmann, P. Prieto, and Ivan K. Schuller
pp. 6958-6965 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Superconducting “metals” and “insulators”
Smitha Vishveshwara, T. Senthil, and Matthew P. A. Fisher
pp. 6966-6981 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Harmonic calculations and measurements of the irreversibility field using a vibrating sample magnetometer
Ian J. Daniel and Damian P. Hampshire
pp. 6982-6993 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Charge-charge correlation functions in the Emery three-band model
Ivan Kupčić
pp. 6994-7004 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Cutoff length in the logarithmic interaction between a vortex-antivortex pair in quench-condensed superconducting Bi films
M. M. Rosario, Yu. Zadorozhny, and Y. Liu
pp. 7005-7011 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Absence of Andreev reflections and Andreev bound states above the critical temperature
Y. Dagan, A. Kohen, G. Deutscher, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 7012-7016 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Critical current from dynamical boundary instability for fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays
Beom Jun Kim and Petter Minnhagen
pp. 7017-7020 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and spin diffusion in the mixed state of type-II layered superconductors
G. B. Furman, L. Frenkel Ben-Yakar, A. I. Shames, C. Korn, and S. D. Goren
pp. 7021-7027 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended attractive Hubbard model for large nearest-neighbor repulsion
A. A. Aligia
pp. 7028-7032 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Probing the order parameter of the layered organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br by ac susceptibility measurements
M. Pinterić, S. Tomić, M. Prester, D. Drobac, O. Milat, K. Maki, D. Schweitzer, I. Heinen, and W. Strunz
pp. 7033-7038 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Frequency-dependent relaxation rate in superconducting YBa2Cu3O6+δ
A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian
pp. 7039-7043 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Vortex-lattice activation energy deduced from irreversibility lines for (PrBa2Cu3-xGaxO7)M/(YBa2Cu3O7)N superlattices
D. Ravelosona, J. P. Contour, and N. Bontemps
pp. 7044-7048 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Raman scattering in YBa2Cu4O8 and PrBa2Cu4O8: Indications of pseudogap effects in nonsuperconducting PrBa2Cu4O8
J. Bäckström, M. Rübhausen, M. Käll, L. Börjesson, A. P. Litvinchuk, M. Kakihana, M. Osada, and B. Dabrowski
pp. 7049-7054 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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XAFS study of the low-temperature tetragonal phase of La2-xBaxCuO4: Disorder, stripes, and Tc suppression at x=0.125
D. Haskel, E. A. Stern, F. Dogan, and A. R. Moodenbaugh
pp. 7055-7076 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Quasiclassical theory of superconductivity: A multiple-interface geometry
A. Shelankov and M. Ozana
pp. 7077-7100 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Sr2RuO4 under high magnetic fields parallel to the conducting plane
E. Ohmichi, Y. Maeno, S. Nagai, Z. Q. Mao, M. A. Tanatar, and T. Ishiguro
pp. 7101-7107 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Electron-electron relaxation in two-dimensional impure superconductors
Michael Reizer
pp. 7108-7117 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Conduction-electron spin resonance in the superconductor K3C60
N. M. Nemes, J. E. Fischer, G. Baumgartner, L. Forró, T. Fehér, G. Oszlányi, F. Simon, and A. Jánossy
pp. 7118-7121 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Electronic Raman scattering on the underdoped HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ high-Tc superconductor: The symmetry of the order parameter
A. Sacuto, J. Cayssol, P. Monod, and D. Colson
pp. 7122-7129 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Magnetic order in La1.9Sr0.1CuO4 from two-magnon Raman scattering
Y. Lin, J. Sichelschmidt, J. E. Eldridge, and T. Wahlbrink
pp. 7130-7134 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Nonglassy relaxation by double kinks in YBa2Cu3O7-δ with columnar defects
D. Niebieskikwiat, L. Civale, C. A. Balseiro, and G. Nieva
pp. 7135-7141 [View PDF (180 kB)]
 
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