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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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Percolative growth of photodarkening in amorphous As2S3 films Ashtosh Ganjoo, K. Shimakawa, H. Kamiya, E. A. Davis, and Jai Singh pp. R14601-R14604 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stable icosahedral quasicrystals in binary Cd-Ca and Cd-Yb systems J. Q. Guo, E. Abe, and A. P. Tsai pp. R14605-R14608 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Giant orbital moments of Fe and Co in alkali metals Cs, Rb, and K G. Y. Guo pp. R14609-R14612 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin-cluster model for the low-temperature phase of α′-NaV2O5 Simon Trebst and Anirvan Sengupta pp. R14613-R14616 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Test of the frustrated spin-cluster model to describe the low-temperature physics of NaV2O5 Claudius Gros, Roser Valentí, J. V. Alvarez, Kay Hamacher, and Wolfgang Wenzel pp. R14617-R14620 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Incommensurate magnetic structure of CeRhIn5 Wei Bao, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, Z. Fisk, J. W. Lynn, and R. W. Erwin pp. R14621-R14624 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Unusual magnetic behavior in Gd5(Si1.5Ge2.5) and Gd5(Si2Ge2) E. M. Levin, V. K. Pecharsky, and K. A. Gschneidner pp. R14625-R14628 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface segregation and restructuring of colossal-magnetoresistant manganese perovskites La0.65Sr0.35MnO3 Hani Dulli, P. A. Dowben, S.-H. Liou, and E. W. Plummer pp. R14629-R14632 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evolution of the spin gap upon doping a 2-leg ladder D. Poilblanc, O. Chiappa, J. Riera, S. R. White, and D. J. Scalapino pp. R14633-R14636 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Charge and orbital ordering and spin-state transition driven by structural distortion in YBaCo2O5 S. K. Kwon, J. H. Park, and B. I. Min pp. R14637-R14640 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Orbital fluctuation-induced triplet superconductivity: Mechanism of superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 Tetsuya Takimoto pp. R14641-R14644 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Supercurrent-phase relation of an Nb/AlOx/Al/AlOx/Nb-based Josephson junction at the superconducting transition of the Al Interlayer M. Götz, M. Grajcar, E. Il’ichev, V. V. Khanin, A. B. Zorin, J. Niemeyer, and H.-G. Meyer pp. R14645-R14648 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Josephson effects in a superconductor–normal-metal mesoscopic structure with a dangling superconducting arm R. Shaikhaidarov, A. F. Volkov, H. Takayanagi, V. T. Petrashov, and P. Delsing pp. R14649-R14652 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Time-reversal symmetry breaking at Josephson tunnel junctions of purely d-wave superconductors T. Löfwander, V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin pp. R14653-R14656 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Driven vortices in three-dimensional layered superconductors: Dynamical ordering along the c axis Alejandro B. Kolton, Daniel Domínguez, Cynthia J. Olson, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen pp. R14657-R14660 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamical phases of driven vortices interacting with periodic pinning Gilson Carneiro pp. R14661-R14664 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tilt modulus and angle-dependent flux lattice melting in the lowest Landau level approximation G. Mohler and D. Stroud pp. R14665-R14668 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Exceeding the Pauli paramagnetic limit in the critical field of (TMTSF)2PF6 I. J. Lee, P. M. Chaikin, and M. J. Naughton pp. R14669-R14672 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Correlation gap in the optical spectra of the two-dimensional organic metal (BEDT-TTF)4[Ni(dto)2] P. Haas, E. Griesshaber, B. Gorshunov, D. Schweitzer, M. Dressel, T. Klausa, W. Strunz, and F. F. Assaad pp. R14673-R14676 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Enhancement of static antiferromagnetic correlations by magnetic field in a superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4 with x=0.12 Susumu Katano, Masugu Sato, Kazuyoshi Yamada, Takao Suzuki, and Tetsuo Fukase pp. R14677-R14680 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quasiparticle and Cooper pair tunneling in the vortex state of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ N. Morozov, L. N. Bulaevskii, M. P. Maley, Yu. I. Latyshev, and T. Yamashita pp. R14681-R14684 [View PDF (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Investigation of hardness in tetrahedrally bonded nonmolecular CO2 solids by density-functional theory Jianjun Dong, John K. Tomfohr, Otto F. Sankey, Kurt Leinenweber, Maddury Somayazulu, and Paul F. McMillan pp. 14685-14689 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics and kinetics of homogeneous crystal nucleation studied by computer simulation H. E. Huitema, J. P. van der Eerden, J. J. Janssen, and H. Human pp. 14690-14702 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and structural properties of germania polymorphs Diane M. Christie and James R. Chelikowsky pp. 14703-14711 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modulated phases in BCCD and water molecule vibrations Yu. I. Yuzyuk, A. Almeida, M. R. Chaves, Filipa Pinto, M. L. Santos, L. M. Rabkin, and A. Klöpperpieper pp. 14712-14719 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adjusting the melting point of a model system via Gibbs-Duhem integration: Application to a model of aluminum Jess B. Sturgeon and Brian B. Laird pp. 14720-14727 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of relaxation on the oxygen K-edge electron energy-loss near-edge structure in yttria-stabilized zirconia S. Ostanin, A. J. Craven, D. W. McComb, D. Vlachos, A. Alavi, M. W. Finnis, and A. T. Paxton pp. 14728-14735 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pretransitional diffuse neutron scattering in the mixed perovskite relaxor K1-xLixTaO3 Grace Yong, Jean Toulouse, Ross Erwin, Stephen M. Shapiro, and Bernard Hennion pp. 14736-14743 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopy and calculations for 4fN→4fN-15d transitions of lanthanide ions in LiYF4 M. F. Reid, L. van Pieterson, R. T. Wegh, and A. Meijerink pp. 14744-14749 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio lattice dynamics of MgSiO3 perovskite at high pressure B. B. Karki, R. M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni pp. 14750-14756 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional thermodynamic theory of epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films S. Hoon Oh and Hyun M. Jang pp. 14757-14765 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Aging and domain growth in K1-xLixTaO3 (x<~0.05) F. Alberici-Kious, J.-P. Bouchaud, L. F. Cugliandolo, P. Doussineau, and A. Levelut pp. 14766-14779 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localization-delocalization transition of electron states in a disordered quantum small-world network Chen-Ping Zhu and Shi-Jie Xiong pp. 14780-14783 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of the β-Sn phase in Si Mathias Ekman, Kristin Persson, and Göran Grimvall pp. 14784-14789 [View PDF (381 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature-dependent Raman scattering studies in nanocrystalline silicon and finite-size effects Puspashree Mishra and K. P. Jain pp. 14790-14795 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical model for spin-crossover solids. I. Relaxation effects in the mean-field approach Kamel Boukheddaden, Isidor Shteto, Benoit Hôo, and François Varret pp. 14796-14805 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical model for spin-crossover solids. II. Static and dynamic effects of light in the mean-field approach Kamel Boukheddaden, Isidor Shteto, Benoit Hôo, and François Varret pp. 14806-14817 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and dynamical properties of liquid alkaline-earth metals near the melting point J.-F. Wax, R. Albaki, and J.-L. Bretonnet pp. 14818-14827 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Colossal magnetoresistance using the small polaron picture with finite bandwidth effects Sudhakar Yarlagadda pp. 14828-14836 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extension to order β 23 of the high-temperature expansions for the spin-1 / 2 Ising model on simple cubic and body-centered cubic lattices P. Butera and M. Comi pp. 14837-14843 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Incorporation of density-matrix wave functions in Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the frustrated Heisenberg model M. S. du Croo de Jongh, J. M. van Leeuwen, and W. van Saarloos pp. 14844-14854 [View PDF (549 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of the first excited state of nonbipartite Heisenberg spin rings J. Schnack pp. 14855-14859 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains in an external staggered field E. Ercolessi, G. Morandi, P. Pieri, and M. Roncaglia pp. 14860-14870 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Line-shape predictions via Bethe ansatz for the one-dimensional spin-1 / 2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in a magnetic field Michael Karbach and Gerhard Müller pp. 14871-14879 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effects of magnetic field on the two-dimensional systems of antiferromagnetically correlated electrons based on the Hubbard model Hamiltonian with easy axis: Aharonov-Bohm and Zeeman effects Seung-Pyo Hong, Sung-Sik Lee, and Sung-Ho Suck Salk pp. 14880-14885 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesoscopic magnetization fluctuations for metallic grains close to the Stoner instability I. L. Kurland, I. L. Aleiner, and B. L. Altshuler pp. 14886-14897 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic fluctuations in two-dimensional metals close to the Stoner instability B. N. Narozhny, I. L. Aleiner, and A. I. Larkin pp. 14898-14911 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal-transport properties of CeNiSn S. Paschen, B. Wand, G. Sparn, F. Steglich, Y. Echizen, and T. Takabatake pp. 14912-14919 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of magnetic structures in NpAs1-xSex solid solutions A. Bombardi, F. Bourdarot, P. Burlet, J. P. Sanchez, P. Vulliet, E. Colineau, J. Rebizant, F. Wastin, G. H. Lander, O. Vogt, and K. Mattenberger pp. 14920-14927 [View PDF (628 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase separation over an extended compositional range: Studies of the Ca1-xBixMnO3 (x<~0.25) phase diagram P. N. Santhosh, J. Goldberger, P. M. Woodward, T. Vogt, W. P. Lee, and A. J. Epstein pp. 14928-14942 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic phase diagram of HoxTm1-x alloys R. S. Sarthour, R. A. Cowley, R. C. Ward, M. R. Wells, D. F. McMorrow, and J. Jensen pp. 14943-14949 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Acoustical and optical spin modes of multilayers with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling R. Zivieri, L. Giovannini, and F. Nizzoli pp. 14950-14955 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear self-localized surface waves in a ferroelastic medium I. E. Dikshtein and S. A. Nikitov pp. 14956-14964 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions between topologically distinct gapped phases in isotropic spin ladders Eugene H. Kim, G. Fáth, J. Sólyom, and D. J. Scalapino pp. 14965-14974 [View PDF (662 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in U and Ce alloys: Criticality, disorder, dissipation, and Griffiths-McCoy singularities A. H. Castro Neto and B. A. Jones pp. 14975-15011 [View PDF (610 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupolar effect in the perovskite manganite La1-xSrxMnO3 Hirofumi Hazama, Terutaka Goto, Yuichi Nemoto, Yasuhide Tomioka, Atsushi Asamitsu, and Yoshinori Tokura pp. 15012-15020 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variation of charge-orbital correlation with Cr doping in manganites T. Kimura, R. Kumai, Y. Okimoto, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura pp. 15021-15025 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics of Mn12-acetate in the thermally activated tunneling regime: ac susceptibility and magnetization relaxation Teemu Pohjola and Herbert Schoeller pp. 15026-15041 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic band structure and magnetism of Fe16N2 calculated by the FLAPW method Hirofumi Tanaka, Hisatomo Harima, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Nakata, and Yoshihiko Hirotsu pp. 15042-15046 [View PDF (446 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ferromagnetic polarons in manganites C. D. Batista, J. Eroles, M. Avignon, and B. Alascio pp. 15047-15055 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Design of a metallic Ising spin glass in the Y1-xTbxNi2Ge2 system T. A. Wiener, I. R. Fisher, S. L. Bud’ko, A. Kracher, and P. C. Canfield pp. 15056-15066 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization plateaus of the Shastry-Sutherland model for SrCu2(BO3)2: Spin-density wave, supersolid, and bound states Tsutomu Momoi and Keisuke Totsuka pp. 15067-15078 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of sputtering pressure-induced roughness on the microstructure and the perpendicular giant magnetoresistance of Fe/Cr superlattices M. C. Cyrille, S. Kim, M. E. Gomez, J. Santamaria, C. Leighton, Kannan M. Krishnan, and Ivan K. Schuller pp. 15079-15083 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio theory of perpendicular magnetotransport in metallic multilayers J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, C. Blaas, P. Weinberger, I. Turek, and P. Bruno pp. 15084-15095 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay of spin and orbital ordering in the layered colossal magnetoresistance manganite La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.5<~x<~1.0) C. D. Ling, J. E. Millburn, J. F. Mitchell, D. N. Argyriou, J. Linton, and H. N. Bordallo pp. 15096-15111 [View PDF (858 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Ti dopant on the carrier density collapse in colossal magnetoresistance material La0.7Ca0.3Mn1-yTiyO3 Xianming Liu, Xiaojun Xu, and Yuheng Zhang pp. 15112-15119 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Korringa ratio of ferromagnetically correlated impure metals Han-Oh Lee and Han-Yong Choi pp. 15120-15124 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous transport properties of RFe4P12 (R= La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) H. Sato, Y. Abe, H. Okada, T. D. Matsuda, K. Abe, H. Sugawara, and Y. Aoki pp. 15125-15130 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Optical sum rule violation, superfluid weight, and condensation energy in the cuprates J. E. Hirsch and F. Marsiglio pp. 15131-15150 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	90° reorientation in the vortex lattice of borocarbide superconductors Anton Knigavko and Baruch Rosenstein pp. 15151-15155 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fine structure of the neutron maximum in high-temperature superconducting cuprates A. A. Abrikosov pp. 15156-15161 [View PDF (351 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of pinning and vortex motion in thin superconducting microbridges M. Pannetier, Ph. Lecoeur, P. Bernstein, T. D. Doan, and J. F. Hamet pp. 15162-15171 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossover from elastic to plastic vortex creep across the second magnetization peak of high-temperature superconductors L. Miu, T. Noji, Y. Koike, E. Cimpoiasu, T. Stein, and C. C. Almasan pp. 15172-15176 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic coherence as a universal feature of cuprate superconductors Dirk K. Morr and David Pines pp. 15177-15182 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weak interaction and matching conditions for replicas of vortex lattices Yanina Fasano, M. Menghini, F. de la Cruz, and G. Nieva pp. 15183-15189 [View PDF (1258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level statistics for the quasiparticle spectra inside a two-dimensional vortex core with impurities A. Fujita pp. 15190-15194 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static and dynamic shear response in ultrathin layers of vortex matter S. Anders, A. W. Smith, R. Besseling, P. H. Kes, and H. M. Jaeger pp. 15195-15199 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Andreev reflection in layered structures: Implications for high-Tc grain-boundary Josephson junctions Alexander Golubov and Francesco Tafuri pp. 15200-15203 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective spin fluctuation mode and Raman scattering in superconducting cuprates F. Venturini, U. Michelucci, T. P. Devereaux, and A. P. Kampf pp. 15204-15207 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vertex corrections in nearly ferroelectric superconductors D. Fay and M. Weger pp. 15208-15213 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-generated magnetic flux in YBa2Cu3O7-x grain boundaries R. G. Mints and Ilya Papiashvili pp. 15214-15220 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic field as a probe of gap energy scales in YBa2Cu3O7-x N. D. Whelan and J. P. Carbotte pp. 15221-15225 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral distribution of activation energies in YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films R. Warthmann, J. Albrecht, H. Kronmüller, and Ch. Jooss pp. 15226-15229 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay between two families of columnar defects in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 single crystals S. Hébert, G. Perkins, M. Abd el-Salam, and A. D. Caplin pp. 15230-15236 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doping dependence of the in-plane resistivity and Hall effect of cuprate superconductors Bao-Qiang Cao, Chang-De Gong, Jun Li, and Yong-Jun Liu pp. 15237-15240 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]