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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
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  • Superfluidity and superconductivity
• ARTICLES
  • 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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Temperature-induced configurational excitations for predicting thermodynamic and mechanical properties of alloys D. D. Johnson, A. V. Smirnov, J. B. Staunton, F. J. Pinski, and W. A. Shelton pp. R11917-R11920 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonthermal component in heat-induced structural deformation and phase transition in gold Chunlei Guo and Antoinette J. Taylor pp. R11921-R11924 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Twin wall of proper cubic-tetragonal ferroelastics S. H. Curnoe and A. E. Jacobs pp. R11925-R11928 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Tuneability of amplified spontaneous emission through control of the waveguide-mode structure in conjugated polymer films A. K. Sheridan, G. A. Turnbull, A. N. Safonov, and I. D. Samuel pp. R11929-R11932 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Evidence for Condon domains in white tin with two de Haas–van Alphen periods G. Solt, V. S. Egorov, C. Baines, D. Herlach, and U. Zimmermann pp. R11933-R11936 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electronic and magnetic structure of the (001) surfaces of V, Cr, and V/Cr G. Bihlmayer, T. Asada, and S. Blügel pp. R11937-R11940 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic field resulting from nonlinear electrical transport in single crystals of charge-ordered Pr0.63Ca0.37MnO3 Ayan Guha, N. Khare, A. K. Raychaudhuri, and C. N. Rao pp. R11941-R11944 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-temperature charge-ordering fluctuation in manganites K. H. Kim, M. Uehara, and S-W. Cheong pp. R11945-R11948 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for the immobile bipolaron formation in the paramagnetic state of the magnetoresistive manganites Guo-meng Zhao, Y. S. Wang, D. J. Kang, W. Prellier, M. Rajeswari, H. Keller, T. Venkatesan, C. W. Chu, and R. L. Greene pp. R11949-R11952 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-spin and charge-ordering state of YBaCo2O5 Hua Wu pp. R11953-R11956 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Size-dependent paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in palladium clusters L. Vitos, B. Johansson, and J. Kollár pp. R11957-R11960 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Correlation of large dielectric response with the ordering transitions in Pr0.67Ca0.33MnO3 L. V. Saraf, S. B. Ogale, Z. Chen, R. P. Godfrey, T. Venkatesan, and R. Ramesh pp. R11961-R11964 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Low-energy charge dynamics in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3: THz time-domain spectroscopic studies N. Kida, M. Hangyo, and M. Tonouchi pp. R11965-R11968 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Impurity bound states and symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4 Kazumi Maki and Stephan Haas pp. R11969-R11972 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Shubnikov–de Haas effect in the superconducting state of an organic superconductor J. Wosnitza, S. Wanka, J. Hagel, R. Häussler, H. v. Löhneysen, J. A. Schlueter, U. Geiser, P. G. Nixon, R. W. Winter, and G. L. Gard pp. R11973-R11976 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large oxygen-isotope effect in Sr0.4K0.6BiO3: Evidence for phonon-mediated superconductivity Guo-meng Zhao, K. Conder, M. Angst, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, M. Maciejewski, C. Bougerol, J. S. Pshirkov, and E. V. Antipov pp. R11977-R11980 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Giant suppression of superconductivity at x=0.21 in the Zn-substituted La2-xSrxCu1-yZnyO4 single crystals T. Kawamata, T. Adachi, T. Noji, and Y. Koike pp. R11981-R11984 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Possibility of an ordered state of spins and holes in single-crystal La2-xSrxCu1-yZnyO4 (x=0.21, y=0 and 0.01) studied by μSR I. Watanabe, M. Aoyama, M. Akoshima, T. Kawamata, T. Adachi, Y. Koike, S. Ohira, W. Higemoto, and K. Nagamine pp. R11985-R11988 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Temperature dependence of the Hall effect in single-layer and bilayer Bi2Sr2Can-1CunOy thin films at various oxygen contents Z. Konstantinović, Z. Z. Li, and H. Raffy pp. R11989-R11992 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anomalous saturation of the phase coherence length in underdoped Pr2-xCexCuO4 thin films P. Fournier, J. Higgins, H. Balci, E. Maiser, C. J. Lobb, and R. L. Greene pp. R11993-R11996 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Magnetostructural effects and phase transition in Cr2O3 under pressure Alexander Yu. Dobin, Wenhui Duan, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch pp. 11997-12000 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range structure of solid and liquid AgBr determined by multiple-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy Andrea Di Cicco, Marco Taglienti, Marco Minicucci, and Adriano Filipponi pp. 12001-12013 [View PDF (710 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defects as a cause of continuity of normal-incommensurate phase transitions A. Cano and A. P. Levanyuk pp. 12014-12020 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-temperature studies of grain boundaries in ultrafine grained alloys by means of positron lifetime R. Würschum, E. Shapiro, R. Dittmar, and H.-E. Schaefer pp. 12021-12027 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ions in crystals: The topology of the electron density in ionic materials. V. The B1-B2 phase transition in alkali halides M. A. Blanco, A. Costales, A. Martín Pendás, and V. Luaña pp. 12028-12039 [View PDF (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calorimetric measurements of the phase transition in Rochelle salt–ammonium Rochelle salt mixed crystals N. Noda, R. Nozaki, and Y. Shiozaki pp. 12040-12044 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of mixing entropy on the nucleation of CoSi2 C. Detavernier, R. L. Van Meirhaeghe, F. Cardon, and K. Maex pp. 12045-12051 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomistic simulation of cristobalite at high temperature Ekatarina Bourova, Steven C. Parker, and Pascal Richet pp. 12052-12061 [View PDF (375 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal evolution of infrared vibrational properties of Li4/3Ti5/3O4 measured by specular reflectance C. Pecharromán and J. M. Amarilla pp. 12062-12068 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Collective phenomena in defect crystals Reimer Kühn and Alois Würger pp. 12069-12081 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Concentration dependence of the short-range order in the Ni-V and Pt-V systems David Le Bolloc’h, Alphonse Finel, and René Caudron pp. 12082-12088 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Lattice dynamics calculations and phonon dispersion measurements of zircon, ZrSiO4 R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, R. Parthasarathy, M. J. Bull, and M. J. Harris pp. 12089-12094 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density fluctuations and single-particle dynamics in liquid lithium J. Casas, D. J. González, L. E. González, M. M. Alemany, and L. J. Gallego pp. 12095-12106 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonmonotonic relaxation processes in nonequilibrium metal liquids V. I. Lad’yanov, M. G. Vasin, S. V. Logunov, and V. P. Bovin pp. 12107-12112 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transmission through two-dimensional tight-binding lattices B. L. Burrows and K. W. Sulston pp. 12113-12118 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Fractional vortices in the XY model with π bonds R. V. Kulkarni, E. Almaas, K. D. Fisher, and D. Stroud pp. 12119-12129 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical properties of S>1 / 2 Ising chains with long-range interactions M. Barati and A. Ramazani pp. 12130-12134 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-1 / 2 magnetic impurity in a two-dimensional magnetic system close to a quantum critical point O. P. Sushkov pp. 12135-12140 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-correlation functions and susceptibilities in the easy-plane XXZ chain C. Schindelin, H. Fehske, H. Büttner, and D. Ihle pp. 12141-12145 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifshitz point in the three-dimensional magnetic phase diagram of CoNb2O6 H. Weitzel, H. Ehrenberg, C. Heid, H. Fuess, and P. Burlet pp. 12146-12155 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral function of one hole in several one-dimensional spin arrangements R. Hayn and R. O. Kuzian pp. 12156-12166 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge and spin ordering process in the mixed-valence system LuFe2O4: Charge ordering Y. Yamada, K. Kitsuda, S. Nohdo, and N. Ikeda pp. 12167-12174 [View PDF (633 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin gap, charge carriers, and low-temperature features of the behavior of Yb4As3 A. A. Zvyagin pp. 12175-12180 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron scattering and thermal studies of the Ni-incorporated CeSbNix system D. T. Adroja, J. G. Armitage, P. C. Riedi, M. H. Jung, Z. Tun, and T. Takabatake pp. 12181-12189 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier density change in the colossal-magnetoresistance pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7 H. Imai, Y. Shimakawa, Yu. V. Sushko, and Y. Kubo pp. 12190-12194 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudo-ɛ expansion of six-loop renormalization-group functions of an anisotropic cubic model R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, and T. Yavors’kii pp. 12195-12200 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	CuSiO3: A quasi-one-dimensional S=1 / 2 antiferromagnetic chain system M. Baenitz, C. Geibel, M. Dischner, G. Sparn, F. Steglich, H. H. Otto, M. Meibohm, and A. A. Gippius pp. 12201-12205 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic field effects on spin excitations in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3 B. Grenier, L. P. Regnault, J. E. Lorenzo, J. P. Boucher, A. Hiess, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi pp. 12206-12215 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant magneto-optical properties of Fe near its 2p levels: Measurement and applications J. B. Kortright and Sang-Koog Kim pp. 12216-12228 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay among charge, spin, and orbital ordering in doped LaMnO3 Minghan Chen, Weiyi Zhang, and An Hu pp. 12229-12234 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystal structure, electric and magnetic properties, and Raman spectroscopy of Gd3RuO7 R. P. Bontchev, A. J. Jacobson, M. M. Gospodinov, V. Skumryev, V. N. Popov, B. Lorenz, R. L. Meng, A. P. Litvinchuk, and M. N. Iliev pp. 12235-12240 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nuclear orientation of radioactive 56Mn ions implanted in the insulators MnCl2⋅4H2O and CoCl2⋅6H2O J. Pond, D. Beck, P. De Moor, T. Phalet, M. Prandolini, P. Schuurmans, N. Severijns, T. Briant, B. G. Turrell, L. Vanneste, B. Vereecke, and S. Versyck pp. 12241-12246 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoelectric properties of LiCoPO4 and LiNiPO4 I. Kornev, M. Bichurin, J.-P. Rivera, S. Gentil, H. Schmid, A. G. Jansen, and P. Wyder pp. 12247-12253 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of complex magnetic behavior in rare-earth cuprates: RCu2O4 (R=La and Nd) H. Sugita, S. Wada, R. A. Fisher, J. L. Luce, and A. M. Stacy pp. 12254-12261 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman scattering of magnetic excitations of independent antiferromagnetic spin chains in (VO)2P2O7 U. Kuhlmann, C. Thomsen, A. V. Prokofiev, F. Büllesfeld, E. Uhrig, and W. Assmus pp. 12262-12265 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystal-field-induced magnetic frustration in NdMIn5 and Nd2MIn8 (M=Rh, Ir) antiferromagnets P. G. Pagliuso, J. D. Thompson, M. F. Hundley, and J. L. Sarrao pp. 12266-12270 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of Co/Pt multilayers deposited on silicon dot arrays S. Landis, B. Rodmacq, and B. Dieny pp. 12271-12281 [View PDF (1471 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of Ni nanowires in self-assembled arrays M. Zheng, L. Menon, H. Zeng, Y. Liu, S. Bandyopadhyay, R. D. Kirby, and D. J. Sellmyer pp. 12282-12286 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic configurations of a Co monolayer on Cr substrates J. Izquierdo and C. Demangeat pp. 12287-12293 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic in situ optical and magneto-optical monitoring of the growth of Co/Au multilayers R. Atkinson, G. Didrichsen, W. R. Hendren, I. W. Salter, and R. J. Pollard pp. 12294-12302 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic exchange coupling through superconductors:  A trilayer study C. A. Sá de Melo pp. 12303-12316 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of spin-dependent interface scattering in generating current-induced torques in magnetic multilayers Xavier Waintal, Edward B. Myers, Piet W. Brouwer, and D. C. Ralph pp. 12317-12327 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superradiation in magnetic resonance C. L. Davis, I. V. Kaganov, and V. K. Henner pp. 12328-12337 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior at m-axial Lifshitz points: Field-theory analysis and ε-expansion results H. W. Diehl and M. Shpot pp. 12338-12349 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Treatment of the exchange-interaction model by means of the symmetric group J. Katriel and G. F. Kventsel pp. 12350-12353 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical study on the doping and temperature dependence of the anisotropic electronic structure in bilayered manganites: La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.3<~x<~0.5) T. Ishikawa, K. Tobe, T. Kimura, T. Katsufuji, and Y. Tokura pp. 12354-12362 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin effects in ferromagnetic single-electron transistors J. Barnaś, J. Martinek, G. Michałek, B. R. Bułka, and A. Fert pp. 12363-12373 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	One-dimensional textures and critical velocity in superfluid 3He-A J. Kopu, R. Hänninen, and E. V. Thuneberg pp. 12374-12380 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wetting of planar substrates of rubidium by liquid films of 4He Leszek Szybisz pp. 12381-12385 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum diffusion and catalyzed conversion of ortho-H2 molecules in solid hydrogen V. Shevtsov, E. Ylinen, P. Malmi, and M. Punkkinen pp. 12386-12394 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	t-U-W model of a dx2-y2 superconductor in the proximity of an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator: Diagrammatic studies versus quantum Monte Carlo simulations T. Eckl, E. Arrigoni, W. Hanke, and F. F. Assaad pp. 12395-12407 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction between a vortex and a columnar defect in the London approximation H. Nordborg and V. M. Vinokur pp. 12408-12412 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of the de Haas–van Alphen effect in two-dimensional superconductors S. H. Curnoe pp. 12413-12417 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of two species of carriers from the far-infrared reflectivity of Bi2Sr2CuO6 S. Lupi, P. Calvani, M. Capizzi, and P. Roy pp. 12418-12421 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Midinfrared absorption in YBa2Cu3O6: Evidence for a failure of spin-wave theory for spin 1 / 2 in two dimensions M. Grüninger, D. van der Marel, A. Damascelli, A. Erb, T. Nunner, and T. Kopp pp. 12422-12426 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dual point description of mesoscopic superconductors E. Akkermans, D. M. Gangardt, and K. Mallick pp. 12427-12439 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Planar tunneling spectroscopy of Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7 thin films as a function of crystallographic orientation M. Covington and L. H. Greene pp. 12440-12454 [View PDF (626 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supercurrent peaks in planar high-temperature superconducting Josephson junctions M. S. Rzchowski and B. A. Davidson pp. 12455-12461 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation spectrum of mesoscopic proximity structures S. Pilgram, W. Belzig, and C. Bruder pp. 12462-12467 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic vortex instabilities in Ta/Ge-based multilayers and thin films with various pinning strengths B. J. Ruck, H. J. Trodahl, J. C. Abele, and M. J. Geselbracht pp. 12468-12476 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Thermal expansion studies of superconducting U1-xThxBe13 (0<~x<~0.052): Implications for the interpretation of the T-x phase diagram F. Kromer, M. Lang, N. Oeschler, P. Hinze, C. Langhammer, F. Steglich, J. S. Kim, and G. R. Stewart pp. 12477-12488 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR properties of a one-dimensional Cu-O model T. Becker, M. Gabay, and T. Giamarchi pp. 12489-12504 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for pinning of grain-boundary vortices by Abrikosov vortices in the grains of YBa2Cu3O7 Dongho Kim, P. Berghuis, M. B. Field, D. J. Miller, K. E. Gray, R. Feenstra, and D. K. Christen pp. 12505-12508 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Epitaxial mismatch strain in YBa2Cu3O7-δ/PrBa2Cu3O7 superlattices M. Varela, D. Arias, Z. Sefrioui, C. León, C. Ballesteros, and J. Santamaria pp. 12509-12515 [View PDF (468 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reentrant superconductivity mechanisms in amorphous carbon-silicon films containing tungsten S. M. Chudinov, R. Ferretti, S. Fusari, G. Mancini, and S. Stizza pp. 12516-12521 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for a phase boundary above the irreversibility line in YBa2Cu3O7 epitaxial thin films Cao Xiaowen, Wang Zhihe, and Li Kebin pp. 12522-12526 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of doping and impurities on the oxygen isotope effect in high-temperature superconducting cuprates D. J. Pringle, G. V. Williams, and J. L. Tallon pp. 12527-12533 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]