• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
  • Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems
  • Magnetism
  • 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

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Possible observation of a glassy ferroelectric: Bi1.8Pb0.3Sr2Ca2Cu2.8K0.2Oz A. A. Bahgat and T. M. Kamel Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012101 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of a Co nanostructure revealed by 59Co nuclear magnetic resonance measurements in Co/Au multilayers M. Wojcik, C. Christides, E. Jedryka, S. Nadolski, and I. Panagiotopoulos Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012102 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of dipolar defects on switching behavior in ferroelectrics Rajeev Ahluwalia and Wenwu Cao Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012103 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio statistical mechanics for alloy phase diagrams and ordering phenomena including the effect of vacancies F. Lechermann and M. Fähnle Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012104 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Transport properties of highly aligned polymer light-emitting diodes A. Kambili and A. B. Walker Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012201 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Low-energy properties of spin-1/2 two-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ladders with ferromagnetic diagonal coupling Ningsheng Zhu, Xiaoqun Wang, and Changfeng Chen Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012401 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermally activated magnetization reversal in nanometer-size iron particles S. Wirth, A. Anane, and S. von Molnár Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012402 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Breakdown of mode-mode coupling expansion for commensurate itinerant antiferromagnetism in two dimensions M. J. Lercher and J. M. Wheatley Published 11 December 2000 (3 pages) 012403 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of giant magnetoresistance due to spin mixing in magnetic multilayers with a superconducting contact F. Taddei, S. Sanvito, and C. J. Lambert Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012404 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local magnetic properties of Co grains in bulk Ag and Cu: A first-principles study R. N. Nogueira and H. M. Petrilli Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012405 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detection of slow modulation wave diffusion in incommensurate barium sodium niobate by 93Nb two-dimensional exchange NMR Ligia Muntean and David C. Ailion Published 11 December 2000 (3 pages) 012406 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron paramagnetic resonance spectra near the spin-glass transition in iron oxide nanoparticles Yu. A. Koksharov, S. P. Gubin, I. D. Kosobudsky, G. Yu. Yurkov, D. A. Pankratov, L. A. Ponomarenko, M. G. Mikheev, M. Beltran, Y. Khodorkovsky, and A. M. Tishin Published 12 December 2000 (4 pages) 012407 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and transport properties of polycrystalline La0.7Sr0.3Mn1-xFexO3 M. M. Xavier, F. A. Cabral, J. H. de Araújo, C. Chesman, and T. Dumelow Published 12 December 2000 (4 pages) 012408 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On-site magnetization in open antiferromagnetic chains: A classical analysis versus NMR experiments in a spin-1 compound S. Botti, A. Rosso, R. Santachiara, and F. Tedoldi Published 12 December 2000 (4 pages) 012409 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Proposed measurements of the small entropy carried by the superfluid component in liquid helium II Maria Stella Mongiovì Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012501 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ferromagnetic film on a superconducting substrate L. N. Bulaevskii and E. M. Chudnovsky Published 11 December 2000 (3 pages) 012502 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Combined potential and spin impurity scattering in cuprates G. Harań and A. D. Nagi Published 11 December 2000 (4 pages) 012503 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	X-ray study on the evolution of thermal motion in the ferroelectric phase of NaNO2 T. Gohda, M. Ichikawa, T. Gustafsson, and I. Olovsson Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014101 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical high-pressure studies of Cs metal R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, and B. Johansson Published 11 December 2000 (3 pages) 014102 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of the monoclinic phase in the ferroelectric perovskite PbZr1-xTixO3 B. Noheda, D. E. Cox, G. Shirane, R. Guo, B. Jones, and L. E. Cross Published 12 December 2000 (9 pages) 014103 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Random background charges and Coulomb blockade in one-dimensional tunnel junction arrays J. Johansson and D. B. Haviland Published 12 December 2000 (6 pages) 014201 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Debye-Waller factors in a quasicrystal R. Colella, Y. Zhang, J. P. Sutter, S. N. Ehrlich, and S. W. Kycia Published 12 December 2000 (5 pages) 014202 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Low-temperature dynamics of confined methyl iodide R. M. Dimeo and D. A. Neumann Published 11 December 2000 (9 pages) 014301 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stationary and dynamical properties of polarons in the anharmonic Holstein model N. K. Voulgarakis and G. P. Tsironis Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014302 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-phonon interaction on bundled structures: Static and transport properties Ilaria Meccoli and Massimo Capone Published 11 December 2000 (6 pages) 014303 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of host distortion in the intercalation process E. V. Vakarin, J. P. Badiali, M. D. Levi, and D. Aurbach Published 12 December 2000 (6 pages) 014304 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagram and optical conductivity of the one-dimensional spinless Holstein model Q. Wang, H. Zheng, and M. Avignon Published 12 December 2000 (5 pages) 014305 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Density-matrix renormalization-group technique with periodic boundary conditions for two-dimensional classical systems A. Gendiar and A. Šurda Published 11 December 2000 (6 pages) 014401 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization jump in the XXZ chain with next-nearest-neighbor exchange A. A. Aligia Published 11 December 2000 (8 pages) 014402 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linked cluster expansion and 1/d expansions for classical spin systems E. Halvorsen and M. Bartkowiak Published 11 December 2000 (11 pages) 014403 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure and magnetic interactions of the spin-chain compounds Ca2CuO3 and Sr2CuO3 Coen de Graaf and Francesc Illas Published 11 December 2000 (13 pages) 014404 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of rare locally ordered regions on a disordered itinerant quantum antiferromagnet with cubic anisotropy Rajesh Narayanan and Thomas Vojta Published 11 December 2000 (6 pages) 014405 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural, magnetic, and Mössbauer spectral study of Er2Fe17 and its hydrides F. Grandjean, O. Isnard, Dimitri Hautot, and Gary J. Long Published 11 December 2000 (10 pages) 014406 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of LaNi5-xTx (T=Fe,Mn) compounds J. B. Yang, C. Y. Tai, G. K. Marasinghe, G. D. Waddill, O. A. Pringle, W. J. James, and Y. Kong Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014407 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inhomogeneous structure and magnetic properties of granular Co10Cu90 alloys P. Panissod, M. Malinowska, E. Jedryka, M. Wojcik, S. Nadolski, M. Knobel, and J. E. Schmidt Published 11 December 2000 (10 pages) 014408 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of spin-polarized electron energy loss spectra R. Saniz and S. P. Apell Published 11 December 2000 (9 pages) 014409 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Iron valence in skutterudites: Transport and magnetic properties of Co1-xFexSb3 J. Yang, G. P. Meisner, D. T. Morelli, and C. Uher Published 11 December 2000 (11 pages) 014410 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple k magnetic structure and Fermi surface of USb K. Knöpfle and L. M. Sandratskii Published 11 December 2000 (5 pages) 014411 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal and magnetic properties of defects in the spin-gap compound NaV2O5 A. I. Smirnov, S. S. Sosin, R. Calemczuk, V. Villar, C. Paulsen, M. Isobe, and Y. Ueda Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014412 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirac structure, RVB, and Goldstone modes in the kagomé antiferromagnet M. B. Hastings Published 11 December 2000 (16 pages) 014413 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Indications of spin-charge separation at short distance and stripe formation in the extended t-J model on ladders and planes G. B. Martins, J. C. Xavier, C. Gazza, M. Vojta, and E. Dagotto Published 12 December 2000 (13 pages) 014414 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction in the enhanced nuclear magnet PrCu6 Hiroumi Ishii and Yasushi Kinoshita Published 12 December 2000 (5 pages) 014415 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of the electronic state of cerium in the magnetic properties of CeNixPt1-x compounds José Ignacio Espeso, José Carlos Gómez Sal, and Jesús Chaboy Published 12 December 2000 (8 pages) 014416 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin and pressure dependence of ferromagnetism in A2Mn2O7 pyrochlores (A=Y, In, Lu, and Tl) M. D. Núñez-Regueiro and C. Lacroix Published 12 December 2000 (4 pages) 014417 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational modes in molecular magnets with antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange J. Schnack and Marshall Luban Published 12 December 2000 (7 pages) 014418 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resistance across an interface, and that measured far from it Asya Shpiro and Peter M. Levy Published 12 December 2000 (6 pages) 014419 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Angular dependence of the penetration depth in unconventional superconductors Klaus Halterman, Oriol T. Valls, and Igor Žutić Published 11 December 2000 (14 pages) 014501 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral properties and pseudogaps in a model with d-wave pairing symmetry Bumsoo Kyung Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014502 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Fermi-liquid behavior and superconducting fluctuations caused by hybridization A. A. Zvyagin Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014503 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuity and temperature dependence of the vortex-phase boundary of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Y. Yamaguchi, G. Rajaram, N. Shirakawa, A. Mumtaz, H. Obara, T. Nakagawa, and H. Bando Published 11 December 2000 (8 pages) 014504 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr2CuO2Cl2 C. Dürr, S. Legner, R. Hayn, S. V. Borisenko, Z. Hu, A. Theresiak, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, F. Ronning, Z.-X. Shen, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, C. Janowitz, R. Müller, R. L. Johnson, K. Rossnagel, L. Kipp, and G. Reichardt Published 11 December 2000 (11 pages) 014505 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Luttinger liquid physics in the superconductor vortex core Ashvin Vishwanath and T. Senthil Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 014506 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of vortex-vortex interaction on critical currents across low-angle grain boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films J. Albrecht, S. Leonhardt, and H. Kronmüller Published 11 December 2000 (6 pages) 014507 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen content, thermodynamic stability, and superconductivity of Hg1-xRexBa2CuO4+δ A. Serquis, A. Caneiro, A. Basset, S. Short, J. P. Hodges, and J. D. Jorgensen Published 11 December 2000 (9 pages) 014508 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]