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  • Magnetism
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Contribution of floppy modes to the heat capacity jump and fragility in chalcogenide glasses Gerardo G. Naumis pp. R9205-R9208 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Lattice dynamics and reduced thermal conductivity of filled skutterudites J. L. Feldman, D. J. Singh, I. I. Mazin, D. Mandrus, and B. C. Sales pp. R9209-R9212 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Electron correlation effects and magnetic ordering at the Gd(0001) surface A. B. Shick, W. E. Pickett, and C. S. Fadley pp. R9213-R9216 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pressure-induced phase segregation in single-crystal La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (x=0.32) J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and J. F. Mitchell pp. R9217-R9220 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamics of surface magnetization on a nanosecond time scale Fausto Sirotti, Simone Girlando, Pilar Prieto, Luca Floreano, Giancarlo Panaccione, and Giorgio Rossi pp. R9221-R9224 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Breakdown of the lattice polaron picture in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 single crystals S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura pp. R9225-R9228 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct evidence of phase segregation and magnetic-field-induced structural transition in Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 by neutron diffraction C. Ritter, R. Mahendiran, M. R. Ibarra, L. Morellon, A. Maignan, B. Raveau, and C. N. Rao pp. R9229-R9232 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orbital character of O-2p unoccupied states near the Fermi level in CrO2 C. B. Stagarescu, X. Su, D. E. Eastman, K. N. Altmann, F. J. Himpsel, and A. Gupta pp. R9233-R9236 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Temperature dependent changes of the Mn 3d and 4p bands near Tc in colossal magnetoresistance systems: XANES study of La1-xCaxMnO3 F. Bridges, C. H. Booth, G. H. Kwei, J. J. Neumeier, and G. A. Sawatzky pp. R9237-R9240 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

SIN and SIS tunneling in cuprates Ar. Abanov and Andrey V. Chubukov pp. R9241-R9244 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Absence of a zero-temperature vortex solid phase in strongly disordered superconducting Bi films J. A. Chervenak and J. M. Valles pp. R9245-R9248 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Periodic magnetization instabilities in a superconducting Nb film with a square lattice of Ni dots A. Terentiev, D. B. Watkins, L. E. De Long, L. D. Cooley, D. J. Morgan, and J. B. Ketterson pp. R9249-R9252 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Oxygen-ordering superstructures in NdBa2Cu3O6.5 single crystals investigated by hard-x-ray diffraction T. Frello, N. H. Andersen, J. Madsen, A. B. Abrahamsen, M. v. Zimmermann, T. Niemöller, J. R. Schneider, and Th. Wolf pp. R9253-R9256 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Contrasting oxygen and copper isotope effects in YBa2Cu4O8 superconducting and normal states G. V. Williams, D. J. Pringle, and J. L. Tallon pp. R9257-R9260 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Shear-induced vortex decoupling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 crystals B. Khaykovich, D. T. Fuchs, K. Teitelbaum, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, T. Tamegai, S. Ooi, M. Konczykowski, R. A. Doyle, and S. F. Rycroft pp. R9261-R9264 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin dynamics in the low-temperature tetragonal phase of ≅1 / 8 doped single crystal La1.67Eu0.2Sr0.13CuO4 B. J. Suh, P. C. Hammel, M. Hücker, B. Büchner, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi pp. R9265-R9268 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of the Josephson plasma reflectivity edge in the infrared region in Bi-based superconducting cuprates T. Motohashi, J. Shimoyama, K. Kitazawa, K. Kishio, K. M. Kojima, S. Uchida, and S. Tajima pp. R9269-R9272 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Suppression and enhancement of the critical current in multiterminal superconductor–normal-metal–superconductor mesoscopic structures R. Seviour and A. F. Volkov pp. R9273-R9276 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Effect of pressure on site-symmetry distortions of Mn5+ and Cr4+ in Y2SiO5 Yongrong Shen, Toni Riedener, and Kevin L. Bray pp. 9277-9286 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equation of state data for gold in the pressure range <10 TPa Dimitri Batani, Antonio Balducci, Daniele Beretta, Andrea Bernardinello, Thorsten Löwer, Michel Koenig, Alessandra Benuzzi, Bernard Faral, and Tom Hall pp. 9287-9294 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second metastable DX center in CdF2:Ga crystals B. Koziarska-Glinka, A. Barcz, L. Arizmendi, and A. Suchocki pp. 9295-9299 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Maximum entropy method of obtaining thermodynamic properties from quantum Monte Carlo simulations Carey Huscroft, Richard Gass, and Mark Jarrell pp. 9300-9306 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	87Rb NMR study of phase transitions below room temperature in a LiK0.9Rb0.1SO4 mixed crystal H. J. Kim, D. Y. Jeong, B. Zalar, R. Blinc, and S. H. Choh pp. 9307-9313 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Hubbard corrections in a tight-binding Hamiltonian for Se: Effects on the band structure, local order, and dynamics E. Lomba, D. Molina, and M. Alvarez pp. 9314-9321 [View PDF (396 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular-dynamics simulation of the structure and diffusion properties of liquid silicon Z. G. Zhu and C. S. Liu pp. 9322-9326 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo simulations of the distribution of Ar and other noble-gas atoms in high-pressure solid N2 E. P. van Klaveren, J. P. Michels, and J. A. Schouten pp. 9327-9335 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio based modeling of i-AlPdMn Alexander Quandt and Veit Elser pp. 9336-9344 [View PDF (805 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interfacial reaction, amorphization transition, and associated elastic instability studied by molecular dynamics simulations in the Ni-Ta system Q. Zhang, W. S. Lai, and B. X. Liu pp. 9345-9355 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistive and calorimetric investigations of an insulating quasicrystal i-AlPdRe J. J. Préjean, J. C. Lasjaunias, C. Berger, and A. Sulpice pp. 9356-9364 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field distributions and effective-medium approximation for weakly nonlinear media Yves-Patrick Pellegrini pp. 9365-9372 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast detection of charged photocarriers in conjugated polymers Daniel Moses, Arthur Dogariu, and Alan J. Heeger pp. 9373-9379 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Reduction of energy absorption by phonons and spin waves in a disordered solid due to localization J. B. Sokoloff pp. 9380-9386 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of isotopic disorder on the Raman spectra of crystals: Theory and ab initio calculations for diamond and germanium Nathalie Vast and Stefano Baroni pp. 9387-9392 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpreting the real part of the dielectric permittivity contributed by mobile ions in ionically conducting materials K. L. Ngai and R. W. Rendell pp. 9393-9398 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zeeman study of H- local modes of Kramers rare-earth ions in CaF2 and SrF2 N. M. Strickland and Glynn D. Jones pp. 9399-9413 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disturbance spreading in incommensurate and quasiperiodic systems Bambi Hu, Baowen Li, and Peiqing Tong pp. 9414-9418 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociation dynamics of HeRh2+ in field-ion microscopy J. T. Lin, J. M. Yuan, S. C. Smith, and S. H. Lin pp. 9419-9426 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of excited electrons in copper and ferromagnetic transition metals: Theory and experiment R. Knorren, K. H. Bennemann, R. Burgermeister, and M. Aeschlimann pp. 9427-9440 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	EPR, ENDOR, and optical spectroscopy of the tetragonal Yb3+ center in KMgF3 M. L. Falin, V. A. Latypov, B. N. Kazakov, A. M. Leushin, H. Bill, and D. Lovy pp. 9441-9448 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Switching between different vortex states in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets due to an ac magnetic field Yuri Gaididei, Till Kamppeter, Franz G. Mertens, and A. R. Bishop pp. 9449-9452 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagram of S=1 / 2 XXZ chain with next-nearest-neighbor interaction Shunsaku Hirata and Kiyohide Nomura pp. 9453-9456 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental study of the spin density of metastable fcc ferromagnetic Fe-Cu alloys L. E. Bove, C. Petrillo, F. Sacchetti, and G. Mazzone pp. 9457-9466 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature properties of the Yb-based heavy-fermion antiferromagnets YbPtIn, YbRhSn, and YbNiGa O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, R. Cardoso, S. Mederle, R. Borth, B. Buschinger, F. M. Grosche, Y. Grin, G. Sparn, and F. Steglich pp. 9467-9474 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nitrogen gas–solid reaction process and basic magnetism of the interstitially modified rare-earth 3d transition-metal nitrides R2Fe17N3 (R=Y, Ce, Nd, Sm) and Y2Co17N3 Keiichi Koyama and Hironobu Fujii pp. 9475-9493 [View PDF (751 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetostatic modes of lateral metal magnetic superlattices Cheng Jia, Xuan-Zhang Wang, and Shu-Chen Lü pp. 9494-9500 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous spin susceptibility and magnetic polaron formation in the double-exchange systems Hongsuk Yi, N. H. Hur, and Jaejun Yu pp. 9501-9505 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-driven reorientation in ultrathin ferromagnetic films with uniaxial anisotropy H. P. Oepen, Y. T. Millev, H. F. Ding, S. Pütter, and J. Kirschner pp. 9506-9512 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of anisotropic magnetic polarons in La0.94Sr0.06MnO3 by neutron scattering and comparison with Ca-doped manganites M. Hennion, F. Moussa, G. Biotteau, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Pinsard, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 9513-9522 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-spin-resonance study of Na1-xLixV2O5 M. Lohmann, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, E. Morré, M. Dischner, and C. Geibel pp. 9523-9526 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reentrant spin-Peierls transition in Mg-Doped CuGeO3 V. Kiryukhin, Y. J. Wang, S. C. LaMarra, R. J. Birgeneau, T. Masuda, I. Tsukada, and K. Uchinokura pp. 9527-9531 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase separation and charge ordering in doped manganite perovskites: Projection perturbation and mean-field approaches Shun-Qing Shen and Z. D. Wang pp. 9532-9541 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double-exchange selection rule for the c-axis conductivity in layered La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 single crystals below Tc Qing’An Li, K. E. Gray, J. F. Mitchell, A. Berger, and R. Osgood pp. 9542-9548 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb blockade versus intergrain resistance in colossal magnetoresistive manganite granular films M. García-Hernández, F. Guinea, A. de Andrés, J. L. Martínez, C. Prieto, and L. Vázquez pp. 9549-9552 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnon damping by magnon-phonon coupling in manganese perovskites Pengcheng Dai, H. Y. Hwang, Jiandi Zhang, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, S.-W. Cheong, C. Kloc, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura pp. 9553-9557 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics of spin S=1/2 antiferromagnetic uniform and alternating-exchange Heisenberg chains D. C. Johnston, R. K. Kremer, M. Troyer, X. Wang, A. Klümper, S. L. Bud’ko, A. F. Panchula, and P. C. Canfield pp. 9558-9606 [View PDF (982 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo for quantum spin and boson systems M. Ulmke and R. T. Scalettar pp. 9607-9612 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Colossal magnetoresistance and hyperfine interactions in iron-doped La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 B. Hannoyer, G. Marest, J. M. Greneche, Ravi Bathe, S. I. Patil, and S. B. Ogale pp. 9613-9620 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for two-band magnetotransport in half-metallic chromium dioxide S. M. Watts, S. Wirth, S. von Molnár, A. Barry, and J. M. Coey pp. 9621-9628 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	55Mn NMR spectrum in a noncollinear antiferromagnet RbMnBr3 Aleksey M. Tikhonov and Sergei V. Petrov pp. 9629-9632 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic interlayer coupling in ferromagnet/insulator/ferromagnet structures C. L. Platt, M. R. McCartney, F. T. Parker, and A. E. Berkowitz pp. 9633-9641 [View PDF (1215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nature of coupling and origin of coercivity in giant magnetoresistance NiO-Co-Cu-based spin valves Harsh Deep Chopra, David X. Yang, P. J. Chen, D. C. Parks, and W. F. Egelhoff pp. 9642-9652 [View PDF (1802 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange-bias effect in Fe/Cr(211) double superlattice structures J. S. Jiang, G. P. Felcher, A. Inomata, R. Goyette, C. Nelson, and S. D. Bader pp. 9653-9656 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystal-field studies of magnetic susceptibility, hyperfine, and specific heat properties of a Ho2Ti2O7 single crystal Y. M. Jana and D. Ghosh pp. 9657-9664 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-phase behavior in strained thin films of hole-doped manganites Amlan Biswas, M. Rajeswari, R. C. Srivastava, Y. H. Li, T. Venkatesan, R. L. Greene, and A. J. Millis pp. 9665-9668 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical and magneto-optical properties of RFe2 (R=Gd,Tb,Ho,Lu) and GdCo2 S. J. Lee, R. J. Lange, P. C. Canfield, B. N. Harmon, and D. W. Lynch pp. 9669-9676 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Monte Carlo studies of two-dimensional phases of helium using a shadow wave function B. Krishnamachari and G. V. Chester pp. 9677-9685 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing correlations in a generalized Hubbard model for the cuprates Liliana Arrachea and A. A. Aligia pp. 9686-9689 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle localization in superconductors with spin-orbit scattering T. Senthil and Matthew P. Fisher pp. 9690-9698 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thin superconducting disk with field-dependent critical current: Magnetization and ac susceptibilities D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, and T. H. Johansen pp. 9699-9706 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of carrier distribution on superconducting characteristics of the multilayered high-Tc cuprate (Cu0.6C0.4)Ba2Ca3Cu4O12+y: 63Cu-NMR study Y. Tokunaga, K. Ishida, Y. Kitaoka, K. Asayama, K. Tokiwa, A. Iyo, and H. Ihara pp. 9707-9710 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic flux distribution in a three-dimensional inductive network of Josephson junctions A. Tuohimaa, J. Paasi, T. Tarhasaari, T. Di Matteo, and R. De Luca pp. 9711-9718 [View PDF (440 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle diffusion in tantalum using superconducting tunnel junctions Th. Nussbaumer, Ph. Lerch, E. Kirk, A. Zehnder, R. Füchslin, P. F. Meier, and H. R. Ott pp. 9719-9728 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Barrier-induced enhancement of Andreev reflection for minority-spin quasiparticles in ferromagnetic metal/insulator/superconductor ballistic junctions A. Dimoulas pp. 9729-9733 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex states in superconducting rings B. J. Baelus, F. M. Peeters, and V. A. Schweigert pp. 9734-9747 [View PDF (728 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Andreev reflections in the pseudogap state of cuprate superconductors Han-Yong Choi, Yunkyu Bang, and David K. Campbell pp. 9748-9751 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Carrier relaxation, pseudogap, and superconducting gap in high-Tc cuprates: A Raman scattering study M. Opel, R. Nemetschek, C. Hoffmann, R. Philipp, P. F. Müller, R. Hackl, I. Tüttő, A. Erb, B. Revaz, E. Walker, H. Berger, and L. Forró pp. 9752-9774 [View PDF (1306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling-driven tilt modes of the O octahedra in La2-xSrxCuO4: Strong dependence on doping F. Cordero, R. Cantelli, and M. Ferretti pp. 9775-9781 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thickness dependence of the superconducting transition temperature of La2-xSrxCuO4 films X. J. Chen, H. Q. Lin, and C. D. Gong pp. 9782-9785 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frequency dependence of harmonic susceptibilities in high-temperature superconductors M. J. Qin and C. K. Ong pp. 9786-9792 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac response of Hg-based superconductors: Surface barrier and bulk pinning contributions L. Fàbrega, A. Sin, A. Calleja, and J. Fontcuberta pp. 9793-9799 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the variable-range vortex hopping in Bi2Sr2Ca1-xYxCu2O8 with columnar defects J. C. Soret, V. Ta Phuoc, L. Ammor, A. Ruyter, R. De Sousa, E. Olive, G. Villard, A. Wahl, and Ch. Simon pp. 9800-9808 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of thermal fluctuations on Cherenkov radiation from fluxons in dissipative Josephson systems A. A. Antonov, A. L. Pankratov, A. V. Yulin, and J. Mygind pp. 9809-9819 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Structural and superconducting properties of R1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-δ with 0.50>~x>~0.00” J. L. Tallon and G. V. Williams pp. 9820-9822 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]