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Physical Review B – 1 April 2000
Volume 61, Issue 13

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Distorted-wave approach to reference-beam x-ray diffraction in transmission cases
Qun Shen
pp. 8593-8597 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Transient ordered states in the Fe-Co-Al ternary alloy
Jun Ni and Binglin Gu
pp. 8598-8601 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Intermediate scaling regime for multilayer epitaxial growth
Richard S. Ross and Mark F. Gyure
pp. 8602-8605 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Analytical approximation for calculation of the short-range order in disordered alloys with nonpair atomic interactions
R. V. Chepulskii
pp. 8606-8609 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Dependence of the conductivity on the concentration and the hopping frequency of charge carriers in fluoride glasses
M. Sural and A. Ghosh
pp. 8610-8613 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Tight-binding models on branched structures
R. Burioni, D. Cassi, I. Meccoli, and S. Regina
pp. 8614-8617 [View PDF (53 kB)]

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

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Quadratic solitons in nonlinear dynamical lattices
Vladimir V. Konotop and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 8618-8621 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Debye-Waller factors of copper, silver, and lead
C. K. Shepard, J. G. Mullen, and G. Schupp
pp. 8622-8624 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Ab initio lattice dynamics of sapphire
R. Heid, D. Strauch, and K.-P. Bohnen
pp. 8625-8627 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Phonon spectral function for an interacting electron-phonon system
J. E. Han and O. Gunnarsson
pp. 8628-8630 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Effective mass of the E⊗e Jahn-Teller polaron in comparison with the Holstein polaron
Yasutami Takada
pp. 8631-8634 [View PDF (198 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetism and spin dynamics in the cluster compound [Cr4S(O2CCH3)8(H2O)4](NO3)2⋅H2O
Y. Furukawa, M. Luban, F. Borsa, D. C. Johnston, A. V. Mahajan, L. L. Miller, D. Mentrup, J. Schnack, and A. Bino
pp. 8635-8638 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Quantum tunneling and quantum-classical transitions in large spin systems
Bambi Hu, De-gang Zhang, and Bo-zang Li
pp. 8639-8642 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Stability under pressure and magnetic field of the ferromagnetic-insulating phase in lightly doped La1-xSrxMnO3 crystals
B. Martínez, R. Senis, Ll. Balcells, V. Laukhin, J. Fontcuberta, L. Pinsard, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 8643-8646 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Magnetic anisotropy energy and the anisotropy of the orbital moment of Ni in Ni/Pt multilayers
F. Wilhelm, P. Poulopoulos, P. Srivastava, H. Wende, M. Farle, K. Baberschke, M. Angelakeris, N. K. Flevaris, W. Grange, J.-P. Kappler, G. Ghiringhelli, and N. B. Brookes
pp. 8647-8650 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Critical behavior in La0.5Sr0.5CoO3
S. Mukherjee, P. Raychaudhuri, and A. K. Nigam
pp. 8651-8653 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Microscopic derivation of the Landau-Lifschitz equation for ferromagnetic relaxation
D. R. Fredkin and A. Ron
pp. 8654-8655 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Smart structure for tailoring the magneto-optical Kerr effect
Z. Liu, S. M. Zhou, G. Q. Xia, S. Y. Wang, R. J. Zhang, Y. X. Zheng, L. Y. Chen, and J. T. Song
pp. 8656-8658 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Role of confined phonons in thin-film superconductivity
E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, and M. A. Stroscio
pp. 8659-8662 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spin-charge recombination and superconductivity in the t-J model
Sanjoy K. Sarker
pp. 8663-8666 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Quasiparticle resonant states induced by a unitary impurity in a d-wave superconductor
Jian-Xin Zhu, T. K. Lee, C. S. Ting, and Chia-Ren Hu
pp. 8667-8670 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Coherence effects in conventional layered superconductors
S. P. Zhao
pp. 8671-8674 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance properties of Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+δ superconducting thin films grown on vicinal substrates
Y. Z. Zhang, R. Deltour, J.-F. de Marneffe, Y. L. Qin, L. Li, Z. X. Zhao, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. Wyder
pp. 8675-8678 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Electronic properties of CePd2Si2 under pressure
S. Raymond and D. Jaccard
pp. 8679-8682 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Pseudogap phase in the U(1) gauge theory with incoherent spinon pairs
Xi Dai, Yue Yu, Tao Xiang, and Zhao-bin Su
pp. 8683-8686 [View PDF (58 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transition in a ferroelectric perovskite: The structure of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3
B. Noheda, J. A. Gonzalo, L. E. Cross, R. Guo, S.-E. Park, D. E. Cox, and G. Shirane
pp. 8687-8695 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Full ab initio geometry optimization of all known crystalline phases of Si3N4
W. Y. Ching, Lizhi Ouyang, and Julian D. Gale
pp. 8696-8700 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Transition to a crystalline high-pressure phase in α-GeO2 at room temperature
J. Haines, J. M. Léger, and C. Chateau
pp. 8701-8706 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Stress concentration near a surface step and shear localization
S. Brochard, P. Beauchamp, and J. Grilhé
pp. 8707-8713 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Dislocation pinning by glissile interstitial loops in a nickel crystal: A molecular-dynamics study
D. Rodney and G. Martin
pp. 8714-8725 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Pressure-induced structural changes in ZnS
Serge Desgreniers, Luc Beaulieu, and Ian Lepage
pp. 8726-8733 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Explicit Gibbs free energy equation of state applied to the carbon phase diagram
Laurence E. Fried and W. Michael Howard
pp. 8734-8743 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Proposal for a hardness measurement technique without indentor by gas-cluster-beam bombardment
Zinetulla Insepov, Rafael Manory, Jiro Matsuo, and Isao Yamada
pp. 8744-8752 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Thermal and elastic properties of solid neon
Dominic Acocella, George K. Horton, and E. Roger Cowley
pp. 8753-8758 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Anomalous metallic lithium phases: Identification by ESR, ENDOR, and the bistable Overhauser effect
C. Vigreux, P. Loiseau, L. Binet, and D. Gourier
pp. 8759-8770 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Modeling the electrical conductivity of icosahedral quasicrystals
Enrique Maciá
pp. 8771-8777 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Role of low-frequency vibrations on sound propagation in glasses at intermediate temperature
A. Criado, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, C. Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, M. Grimsditch, H. E. Fischer, S. M. Bennington, and R. S. Eccleston
pp. 8778-8783 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Direct computation of the free volume fraction in amorphous polymers from positron lifetime measurements
P. Bandžuch, J. Krištiak, O. Šauša, and J. Zrubcová
pp. 8784-8792 [View PDF (104 kB)]

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

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High-pressure lattice dynamics and thermoelasticity of MgO
B. B. Karki, R. M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni
pp. 8793-8800 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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High-pressure infrared spectroscopy of solid oxygen
Yuichi Akahama and Haruki Kawamura
pp. 8801-8805 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ab initio structure and zone-center phonons in LiNbO3
V. Caciuc, A. V. Postnikov, and G. Borstel
pp. 8806-8813 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Electron diffraction studies of phonon and static disorder in SrTiO3
Renhui Wang, Yimei Zhu, and S. M. Shapiro
pp. 8814-8822 [View PDF (895 kB)]
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Condensation kinetics for bosonic excitons interacting with a thermal phonon bath
L. Bányai, P. Gartner, O. M. Schmitt, and H. Haug
pp. 8823-8834 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Kinks in a periodically modulated disordered system
Eva Majerníková, Jaroslav Riedel, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 8835-8842 [View PDF (220 kB)]

Magnetism

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Modulated magnetic structure and spin waves in hexagonal CsCuCl3-type antiferromagnets
A. L. Sukstanskii, E. P. Stefanovskii, S. A. Reshetnyak, and V. N. Varyukhin
pp. 8843-8850 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Spin Hamiltonians for small Ni clusters
E. Viitala, H. Häkkinen, M. Manninen, and J. Timonen
pp. 8851-8855 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Quantum phase interference for quantum tunneling in spin systems
J.-Q. Liang, H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten, D. K. Park, and F.-C. Pu
pp. 8856-8862 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phase diagrams of mixed-spin chains with period 4 using the nonlinear σ model
Ken’ichi Takano
pp. 8863-8870 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Fate of spinons in spontaneously dimerized spin-1/2 ladders
Dave Allen, Fabian H. L. Essler, and Alexander A. Nersesyan
pp. 8871-8877 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Disorder to order transition in the magnetic and electronic properties of URh2Ge2
S. Süllow, S. A. M. Mentink, T. E. Mason, R. Feyerherm, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh
pp. 8878-8887 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Angular dependence and interfacial roughness in exchange-biased ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers
Joo-Von Kim, R. L. Stamps, B. V. McGrath, and R. E. Camley
pp. 8888-8894 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Temperature and field dependence of the phase separation, structure, and magnetic ordering in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.47, 0.50, and 0.53)
Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn, R. W. Erwin, A. Santoro, D. C. Dender, V. N. Smolyaninova, K. Ghosh, and R. L. Greene
pp. 8895-8905 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of magnetic interactions in correlated systems
M. I. Katsnelson and A. I. Lichtenstein
pp. 8906-8912 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Evidence for fast oscillations vanishing at the spin-density-wave–metal transition in Bechgaard salts
D. Vignolles, J. P. Ulmet, A. Audouard, M. J. Naughton, and J. M. Fabre
pp. 8913-8916 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Transport mechanism in polycrystalline La0.825Sr0.175Mn1-xCuxO3
Li Pi, Lei Zheng, and Yuheng Zhang
pp. 8917-8921 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Magnetic excitations in heavy-fermion CePd2Si2
N. H. van Dijk, B. Fåk, T. Charvolin, P. Lejay, and J. M. Mignot
pp. 8922-8931 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Observation of an exchange-split alloy surface state
F. Schedin, L. Hewitt, P. Morrall, V. N. Petrov, G. Thornton, and G. Y. Guo
pp. 8932-8935 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Isotope effects and charge-gap formation in the charge-ordered phase of colossal magnetoresistance manganites
Unjong Yu, Yu. V. Skrypnyk, and B. I. Min
pp. 8936-8940 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic properties of the colossal magnetoresistance perovskite La0.85Ca0.15MnO3
M. V. Lobanov, A. M. Balagurov, V. Ju. Pomjakushin, P. Fischer, M. Gutmann, A. M. Abakumov, O. G. D’yachenko, E. V. Antipov, O. I. Lebedev, and G. Van Tendeloo
pp. 8941-8949 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Effects of oxygen isotope and stoichiometry on the structural and transport properties of La0.65Ca0.35MnO3-δ
A. K. Heilman, Y. Y. Xue, Y. Y. Sun, R. L. Meng, Y. S. Wang, B. Lorenz, C. W. Chu, J. P. Franck, and Weimin Chen
pp. 8950-8954 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Exchange biasing and low-field magnetoresistance in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3/La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 bilayers
H. B. Peng, X. X. Zhang, Z. Xie, H. J. Tao, B. Xu, H. Liu, and B. R. Zhao
pp. 8955-8959 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Specific heat and optical birefringence of Fe0.25Zn0.75F2
W. C. Barber and D. P. Belanger
pp. 8960-8965 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Resonant x-ray scattering studies of the magnetic structure near the surface of an antiferromagnet
G. M. Watson, Doon Gibbs, G. H. Lander, B. D. Gaulin, L. E. Berman, Hj. Matzke, and W. Ellis
pp. 8966-8975 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Magnetic microwires as macrospins in a long-range dipole-dipole interaction
L. C. Sampaio, E. H. C. P. Sinnecker, G. R. C. Cernicchiaro, M. Knobel, M. Vázquez, and J. Velázquez
pp. 8976-8983 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Brillouin study of long-wavelength spin waves in quasimonatomic Co films with uniaxial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Akihiro Murayama, Kyoko Hyomi, James Eickmann, and Charles M. Falco
pp. 8984-8992 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Evidence for nonclassical critical behavior of a one-dimensional incommensurately modulated crystal: A 35Cl NQR study of bis(4-chlorophenyl)sulfone
F. Decker and J. Petersson
pp. 8993-9000 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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One-dimensional fermions with incommensuration
Diptiman Sen and Siddhartha Lal
pp. 9001-9013 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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High magnetic field study of lattice and magnetic effects on the charge-melting transition in L1/2Ca1/2MnO3 perovskites
M. Respaud, A. Llobet, C. Frontera, C. Ritter, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, M. Goiran, and J. L. García-Muñoz
pp. 9014-9018 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Triplet superconductivity in a one-dimensional ferromagnetic t-J model
G. I. Japaridze and E. Müller-Hartmann
pp. 9019-9027 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic properties of La0.7Pb0.3(Mn1-xFex)O3 (0<~x<~0.3) giant magnetoresistance perovskites
J. Gutiérrez, A. Peña, J. M. Barandiarán, J. L. Pizarro, T. Hernández, L. Lezama, M. Insausti, and T. Rojo
pp. 9028-9035 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Theory of scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a magnetic adatom on a metallic surface
Avraham Schiller and Selman Hershfield
pp. 9036-9046 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance in doped magnetic tunnel junctions: Effect of spin scattering and impurity-assisted transport
R. Jansen and J. S. Moodera
pp. 9047-9050 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Effects of dilute Zn impurities on the uniform magnetic susceptibility of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
N. Bulut
pp. 9051-9054 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Path-integral Monte Carlo simulation of helium at negative pressures
Gregory H. Bauer, David M. Ceperley, and Nigel Goldenfeld
pp. 9055-9060 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Distribution functions in nonequilibrium theory of superconductivity and Andreev spectroscopy in unconventional superconductors
Matthias Eschrig
pp. 9061-9076 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Quantum fluctuations and the c-axis optical conductivity of high-Tc superconductors
L. B. Ioffe and A. J. Millis
pp. 9077-9087 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Microwave conductivity due to impurity scattering in a d-wave superconductor
A. J. Berlinsky, D. A. Bonn, R. Harris, and C. Kallin
pp. 9088-9094 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Incommensurate charge fluctuations in a d-wave superconductor
Khee-Kyun Voo, W. C. Wu, Jian-Xin Li, and T. K. Lee
pp. 9095-9100 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Dynamics of adiabatic Andreev levels in microwave-irradiated superconducting single-mode contacts
N. I. Lundin
pp. 9101-9108 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Loss of π-junction behavior in an interacting impurity Josephson junction
Aashish A. Clerk and Vinay Ambegaokar
pp. 9109-9112 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Irreversibility line of overdoped Bi2+xSr2-(x+y)Cu1+yO6±δ at ultralow temperatures and high magnetic fields
A. Morello, A. G. M. Jansen, R. S. Gonnelli, and S. I. Vedeneev
pp. 9113-9117 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Metastability line in the phase diagram of vortices in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
B. Sas, F. Portier, K. Vad, B. Keszei, L. F. Kiss, N. Hegman, I. Puha, S. Mészáros, and F. I. B. Williams
pp. 9118-9121 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Josephson vortices at tricrystal boundaries
V. G. Kogan, J. R. Clem, and J. R. Kirtley
pp. 9122-9129 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Magnetoelastic model for the relaxation of lanthanide ions in YBa2Cu3O7-δ observed by neutron scattering
Stephen W. Lovesey and Urs Staub
pp. 9130-9139 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Electronic structure of YBa2Cu3Ox and YBa2Cu4O8 studied by soft-x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies
J.-H. Guo, S. M. Butorin, N. Wassdahl, J. Nordgren, P. Berastegut, and L.-G. Johansson
pp. 9140-9144 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of granular superconducting metals in a strong magnetic field
I. S. Beloborodov, K. B. Efetov, and A. I. Larkin
pp. 9145-9161 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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c-axis tunneling in YBa2Cu3O7-δ/PrBa2Cu3O7-δ superlattices
J. C. Martínez, A. Schattke, M. Jourdan, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian
pp. 9162-9165 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Confinement and Bose condensation in gauge theory of high-Tc superconductors
Naoto Nagaosa and Patrick A. Lee
pp. 9166-9175 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Simulation and study of the percolation effect in the magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature superconducting composites
E. Bruneel, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, I. Van Driessche, and S. Hoste
pp. 9176-9180 [View PDF (116 kB)]
 
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