Physical Review B – 1 June 2000
(Volume 61, Issue 22)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Direct determination of the phonon density of states in β-Sn
A. Barla, R. Rüffer, A. I. Chumakov, J. Metge, J. Plessel, and M. M. Abd-Elmeguid
pp. R14881-R14884 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling in α-NaV2O5
W. S. Bacsa, R. Lewandowska, A. Zwick, and P. Millet
pp. R14885-R14888 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

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Add to article collection Giant negative magnetoresistance effect in PbTe(Yb,Mn)
I. I. Ivanchik, D. R. Khokhlov, A. V. Morozov, A. A. Terekhov, E. I. Slyn’ko, V. I. Slyn’ko, A. de Visser, and W. D. Dobrowolski
pp. R14889-R14892 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Impurity relaxation mechanism for dynamic magnetization reversal in a single domain grain
Vladimir L. Safonov and H. Neal Bertram
pp. R14893-R14896 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Coercive mechanisms in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic bilayers
Zhanjie Li and Shufeng Zhang
pp. R14897-R14900 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Magnetoresistance of a domain wall at a submicron junction
Y. B. Xu, C. A. Vaz, A. Hirohata, H. T. Leung, C. C. Yao, J. A. Bland, E. Cambril, F. Rousseaux, and H. Launois
pp. R14901-R14904 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Very large magnetoresistance and coherent switching in half-metallic manganite tunnel junctions
Moon-Ho Jo, N. D. Mathur, N. K. Todd, and M. G. Blamire
pp. R14905-R14908 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Anomalous magnetic hysteresis of Gd and Fe moments in a Gd/Fe multilayer measured by hard x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
A. Koizumi, M. Takagaki, M. Suzuki, N. Kawamura, and N. Sakai
pp. R14909-R14912 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Magnetic-field-induced twin boundary motion in magnetic shape-memory alloys
Harsh Deep Chopra, Chunhai Ji, and V. V. Kokorin
pp. R14913-R14915 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Add to article collection Ordering wave vectors of metamagnetic states in HoNi2B2C: One dimension is not enough
C. Detlefs, F. Bourdarot, P. Burlet, P. Dervenagas, S. L. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield
pp. R14916-R14919 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Conductivity due to classical phase fluctuations in a model for high-Tc superconductors
S. Barabash, D. Stroud, and I.-J. Hwang
pp. R14924-R14927 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Dislocations and the critical endpoint of the melting line of vortex line lattices
Jan Kierfeld and Valerii Vinokur
pp. R14928-R14931 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Atomic disorder in the heavy fermion superconductor CeCu2+xSi2
Despina Louca, J. D. Thompson, J. M. Lawrence, R. Movshovich, C. Petrovic, J. L. Sarrao, and G. H. Kwei
pp. R14940-R14943 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Electron spin-lattice relaxation rate in Y(Gd)Ba2Cu4O8: Evidence for d-wave pairing in high-Tc materials
V. A. Atsarkin, V. V. Demidov, G. A. Vasneva, T. Fehér, A. Jánossy, and B. Dabrowski
pp. R14944-R14947 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Intrinsic Josephson effects in YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystals with various oxygen deficiencies
H. B. Wang, J. Chen, K. Nakajima, T. Yamashita, P. H. Wu, T. Nishizaki, K. Shibata, and N. Kobayashi
pp. R14948-R14951 [View PDF (645 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Observation of individual Josephson vortices in YBa2Cu3O7-δ bicrystal grain-boundary junctions
H. Xin, D. E. Oates, S. Sridhar, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
pp. R14952-R14955 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Carrier concentrations in Bi2Sr2-zLazCuO6+δ single crystals and their relation to the Hall coefficient and thermopower
Yoichi Ando, Y. Hanaki, S. Ono, T. Murayama, Kouji Segawa, N. Miyamoto, and Seiki Komiya
pp. R14956-R14959 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Evidence for a bulk Meissner state in the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8 from dc magnetization
C. Bernhard, J. L. Tallon, E. Brücher, and R. K. Kremer
pp. R14960-R14963 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Antiferromagnetic ordering of Ru and Gd in superconducting RuSr2GdCu2O8
J. W. Lynn, B. Keimer, C. Ulrich, C. Bernhard, and J. L. Tallon
pp. R14964-R14967 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

Add to article collection Origin of mist and hackle patterns in brittle fracture
A. Rabinovitch, G. Belizovsky, and D. Bahat
pp. 14968-14974 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental determination of pair interaction energies in a CoPt3 single crystal and phase-diagram calculations
E. Kentzinger, V. Parasote, V. Pierron-Bohnes, J. F. Lami, M. C. Cadeville, J. M. Sanchez, R. Caudron, and B. Beuneu
pp. 14975-14983 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Crystal structure of NiO under high pressure
T. Eto, S. Endo, M. Imai, Y. Katayama, and T. Kikegawa
pp. 14984-14988 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge transfer and charge conversion of K and N defect centers in Si3N4
Gianfranco Pacchioni and Davide Erbetta
pp. 15005-15010 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Melting as a dislocation-mediated phase transition
Leonid Burakovsky, Dean L. Preston, and Richard R. Silbar
pp. 15011-15018 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection First-principles study of native point defects in ZnO
A. F. Kohan, G. Ceder, D. Morgan, and Chris G. Van de Walle
pp. 15019-15027 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Order-disorder behavior in betaine arsenate studied by Raman scattering
Yu. I. Yuzyuk, J. Agostinho Moreira, A. Almeida, M. R. Chaves, Filipa Pinto, and A. Klöpperpieper
pp. 15035-15041 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ferroelectric phase transitions in films with depletion charge
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
pp. 15042-15050 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lattice dynamics and the ferroelectric phase transition in Sn2P2S6
M. B. Smirnov, J. Hlinka, and A. V. Solov’ev
pp. 15051-15060 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Add to article collection Surface-induced disorder in body-centered-cubic alloys
F. F. Haas, F. Schmid, and K. Binder
pp. 15077-15091 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Subharmonic generation in a driven asymmetric quantum well
A. A. Batista, B. Birnir, and M. S. Sherwin
pp. 15108-15113 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Add to article collection N-component Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian with cubic anisotropy: A six-loop study
José Manuel Carmona, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
pp. 15136-15151 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum impurity dynamics in two-dimensional antiferromagnets and superconductors
Matthias Vojta, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, and Subir Sachdev
pp. 15152-15184 [View PDF (410 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Raman scattering from magnetic excitations in the spin-ladder compounds CaV2O5 and MgV2O5
M. J. Konstantinović, Z. V. Popović, M. Isobe, and Y. Ueda
pp. 15185-15188 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic double structure for S=1 and S=1/2 mixed-spin systems
Yoshihiro Takushima, Akihisa Koga, and Norio Kawakami
pp. 15189-15195 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase diagram of the SU(8) quantum spin tube
J. de Gier, M. T. Batchelor, and M. Maslen
pp. 15196-15202 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Screening effect on the multipole moments in the Kondo system CexLa1-xB6
S. Nakamura, T. Goto, O. Suzuki, S. Kunii, and S. Sakatsume
pp. 15203-15212 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin and orbital contributions to the magnetic scattering of neutrons
K. Ayuel and P. F. de Châtel
pp. 15213-15220 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear spin dynamics in (ND4)2MnF5
R. van de Kamp, A. Krimmel, M. Mangold, and J. Pebler
pp. 15221-15227 [View PDF (443 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin-resolved appearance potential spectroscopy investigations on Fe/Cu(001) overlayers
V. Popescu, H. Ebert, L. Szunyogh, P. Weinberger, and M. Donath
pp. 15241-15245 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Heavy-fermion behavior in YbPtIn
D. Kaczorowski, B. Andraka, R. Pietri, T. Cichorek, and V. I. Zaremba
pp. 15255-15261 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge ordering and phase competition in the layered perovskite LaSr2Mn2O7
D. N. Argyriou, H. N. Bordallo, B. J. Campbell, A. K. Cheetham, D. E. Cox, J. S. Gardner, K. Hanif, A. dos Santos, and G. F. Strouse
pp. 15269-15276 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetism of 3d transition-metal monolayers on Cu(111) and Ag(111)
P. Krüger, M. Taguchi, and S. Meza-Aguilar
pp. 15277-15283 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Oxidation of the Fe(110) surface: An Fe3O4(111)/Fe(110) bilayer
H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Park, and E. Vescovo
pp. 15284-15287 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic and magnetic properties of the Co/Fe(001) interface and the role of oxygen
L. Duò, R. Bertacco, G. Isella, F. Ciccacci, and M. Richter
pp. 15294-15301 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nature of magnetization reversal in exchange-coupled polycrystalline NiO-Co bilayers
Harsh Deep Chopra, David X. Yang, P. J. Chen, H. J. Brown, L. J. Swartzendruber, and W. F. Egelhoff
pp. 15312-15320 [View PDF (1197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetorefractive and magnetic-linear-dichroism effect in exchange-biased spin valves
J. van Driel, F. R. de Boer, R. Coehoorn, G. H. Rietjens, and E. S. Heuvelmans-Wijdenes
pp. 15321-15326 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonperturbative approach of the principal chiral model between two and four dimensions
M. Tissier, D. Mouhanna, and B. Delamotte
pp. 15327-15330 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Soft x-ray magnetic scattering evidence for biquadratic coupling in Co/Cu multilayers
T. P. Hase, I. Pape, D. E. Read, B. K. Tanner, H. Dürr, E. Dudzik, G. van der Laan, C. H. Marrows, and B. J. Hickey
pp. 15331-15337 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Add to article collection Magnetic force microscopy of layered superconductors
Mark W. Coffey
pp. 15361-15369 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Suppression of the magnetic moment under the action of a transverse magnetic field in hard superconductors
L. M. Fisher, K. V. Il’enko, A. V. Kalinov, M. A. LeBlanc, F. Pérez-Rodríguez, S. E. Savel’ev, I. F. Voloshin, and V. A. Yampol’skii
pp. 15382-15391 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Comparison of superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 and copper oxides
E. V. Kuz’min, S. G. Ovchinnikov, and I. O. Baklanov
pp. 15392-15397 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Irreversibility fields of superconducting niobium alloys
D. N. Zheng, N. J. Ingle, and A. M. Campbell
pp. 15429-15435 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superconductivity and the valence state of the Sr site in defective Bi1.8Pb0.2Sr2CuOy
Yan Hongjie, Mao Zhiqiang, and Zhang Yuheng
pp. 15436-15441 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Long columnar defects with constant column size in 180-MeV Fe-irradiated Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox crystals
Daxiang Huang, Yukichi Sasaki, Izumi Hirabayashi, and Yuichi Ikuhara
pp. 15442-15449 [View PDF (693 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Critical chain length and superconductivity emergence in oxygen-equalized pairs of YBa2Cu3O6.30
P. Manca, S. Sanna, G. Calestani, A. Migliori, R. De Renzi, and G. Allodi
pp. 15450-15453 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effect of hydrostatic pressure on HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ superconductor doped with Re
M. T. Orlando, A. G. Cunha, E. V. de Mello, H. Belich, E. Baggio-Saitovitch, A. Sin, X. Obradors, T. Burghardt, and A. Eichler
pp. 15454-15461 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of the plane copper nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in La2-xSrxCuO4 and YBa2Cu3O7-y
A. Yu. Zavidonov, I. A. Larionov, and D. Brinkmann
pp. 15462-15467 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin-order-dependent Raman scattering in RuSr2GdCu2O8
A. Fainstein, P. Etchegoin, H. J. Trodahl, and J. L. Tallon
pp. 15468-15473 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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