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  • Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.
  • Magnetism
  • Superfluidity and superconductivity
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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
  • Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems
  • Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.
  • Magnetism
  • Superfluidity and superconductivity
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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) ]

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

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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

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) ]

Quasiparticle resonant states as a probe of short-range electronic structure and Andreév coherence Michael E. Flatté pp. R14920-R14923 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) ]

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) ]

Rotational tuning of Hc2 anomalies in ErNi2B2C: Angular-dependent superzone gap formation and its effect on the superconducting ground state Sergey L. Bud’ko and Paul C. Canfield pp. R14932-R14935 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nodeless d-wave superconductivity in a quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductor under anion order Hiroshi Shimahara pp. R14936-R14939 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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.

•	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) ]

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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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Graphically oriented method for obtaining atomic displacement fields in crystals from irreducible representations of space groups Jürgen K. Gutmann and Horst Böhm pp. 14989-15004 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Fracture strength of one-dimensional systems with continuous disorder: A single-crack approximation B. Q. Wu and P. L. Leath pp. 15028-15034 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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

•	Stiffness transitions in SixSe1-x glasses from Raman scattering and temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry D. Selvanathan, W. J. Bresser, and P. Boolchand pp. 15061-15076 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Temperature dependence of glass-transition cooperativity from heat-capacity spectroscopy: Two post-Adam-Gibbs variants H. Huth, M. Beiner, and E. Donth pp. 15092-15101 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Photoinduced infrared absorption in (La1-xSrxMn)1-δO3: Changes of the small polaron binding energy with doping T. Mertelj, D. Kuščer, M. Kosec, and D. Mihailovic pp. 15102-15107 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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

•	Effective and asymptotic critical exponents of a weakly diluted quenched Ising model: Three-dimensional approach versus sqrt[ɛ] expansion R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, and T. Yavors’kii pp. 15114-15129 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Five-loop renormalization-group expansions for the three-dimensional n-vector cubic model and critical exponents for impure Ising systems D. V. Pakhnin and A. I. Sokolov pp. 15130-15135 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Density-functional theory for spin-density waves and antiferromagnetic systems K. Capelle and L. N. Oliveira pp. 15228-15240 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Slave-fermion representation of the infinite-U Anderson lattice near quarter-filling: Mean-field theory, Gaussian fluctuations, and spin excitations J. W. Rasul pp. 15246-15254 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Excitation spectra and thermodynamic response of segmented Heisenberg spin chains Stefan Wessel and Stephan Haas pp. 15262-15268 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Fe3O4(111)/Fe(110) magnetic bilayer: Electronic and magnetic properties at the surface and interface H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Park, and E. Vescovo pp. 15288-15293 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	X-ray resonant reflection from magnetic multilayers: Recursion matrix algorithm S. A. Stepanov and S. K. Sinha pp. 15302-15311 [View PDF (478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

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Evidence of ferromagnetically coupled Nd3+ ion pairs in weakly doped Nd:LiYF4 and Nd:YVO4 crystals as revealed by high-resolution optical and EPR spectroscopies O. Guillot-Noël, V. Mehta, B. Viana, D. Gourier, M. Boukhris, and S. Jandl pp. 15338-15346 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Thermodynamically consistent equilibrium properties of normal-liquid 3He M. Kollar and D. Vollhardt pp. 15347-15360 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Strong-coupling limit in the evolution from BCS superconductivity to Bose-Einstein condensation P. Pieri and G. C. Strinati pp. 15370-15381 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Influence of phase quantum fluctuations on superconducting proximity correction in normal-metal wire conductance Hayato Nakano and Hideaki Takayanagi pp. 15398-15411 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic critical exponent of two-, three-, and four-dimensional XY models with relaxational and resistively shunted junction dynamics Lars Melwyn Jensen, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen pp. 15412-15428 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Quantum diffusion of 3He impurities in solid 4He” Dimitar I. Pushkarov pp. 15474-15475 [View PDF (27 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum diffusion of 3He impurities in solid 4He’ ” Erika G. Kisvarsanyi and N. S. Sullivan pp. 15476 [View PDF (19 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]