• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • 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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Resistivity of a metal between the Boltzmann transport regime and the Anderson transition Branislav K. Nikolić and Philip B. Allen Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020201 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Zero-field relaxation and exchange interactions in magnetic thin films A. F. Khapikov, S. Wang, B. Xu, and J. W. Harrell Published 15 December 2000 (4 pages) 020401 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mesoscale magnetism at the grain boundaries in colossal magnetoresistive films Yeong-Ah Soh, G. Aeppli, N. D. Mathur, and M. G. Blamire Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020402 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Vortex matter transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y under tilted fields S. Ooi, T. Shibauchi, K. Itaka, N. Okuda, and T. Tamegai Published 14 December 2000 (4 pages) 020501 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic twin boundaries and flux pinning in the antiferromagnetic superconductor ErNi2B2C N. Saha, R. Surdeanu, M. Marchevsky, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, C. D. Dewhurst, R. J. Wijngaarden, D. McK. Paul, and P. H. Kes Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020502 [View PDF (581 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spectral function and conductivity in the normal state of the cuprates: A spin fluctuation study R. Haslinger, Andrey V. Chubukov, and Ar. Abanov Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020503 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reentrant pinning effect in the vortex liquid phase of a quasi-two-dimensional Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8/Bi2Sr2CuO6 multilayer with columnar defects A. Pomar, L. Martel, Z. Z. Li, O. Laborde, and H. Raffy Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020504 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spatial inhomogeneities in disordered d-wave superconductors Amit Ghosal, Mohit Randeria, and Nandini Trivedi Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020505 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local quasiparticle states around an Anderson impurity in a d-wave superconductor: Kondo effects Jian-Xin Zhu and C. S. Ting Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020506 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin dynamics and ordering of a cuprate stripe antiferromagnet G. B. Teitel’baum, I. M. Abu-Shiekah, O. Bakharev, H. B. Brom, and J. Zaanen Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020507 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for quasi-two-dimensional superconductivity in electron-doped Li0.48(THF)yHfNCl H. Tou, Y. Maniwa, T. Koiwasaki, and S. Yamanaka Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 020508 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Effect of the external energy flux on phase separation of binary mixtures Ji-wen Liu and Yu-qiang Ma Published 11 December 2000 (5 pages) 024101 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase stability and structure of spinel-based transition aluminas C. Wolverton and K. C. Hass Published 11 December 2000 (16 pages) 024102 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and thermodynamic properties of diamond: A path-integral Monte Carlo study Carlos P. Herrero and Rafael Ramírez Published 11 December 2000 (10 pages) 024103 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	207Pb NMR study of the relaxor behavior in PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 R. Blinc, A. Gregorovič, B. Zalar, R. Pirc, V. V. Laguta, and M. D. Glinchuk Published 14 December 2000 (11 pages) 024104 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irradiation-induced amorphization: Effects of temperature, ion mass, cascade size, and dose rate S. X. Wang, L. M. Wang, and R. C. Ewing Published 15 December 2000 (8 pages) 024105 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Absence of a pressure-induced structural phase transition in Ti3Al up to 25 GPa N. A. Dubrovinskaia, M. Vennström, I. A. Abrikosov, R. Ahuja, P. Ravindran, Y. Andersson, O. Eriksson, V. Dmitriev, and L. S. Dubrovinsky Published 18 December 2000 (5 pages) 024106 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Configuration of CO2- radicals in γ-irradiated A-type carbonated apatites:  Theory and experimental EPR and ENDOR studies Delson U. Schramm, Joice Terra, Alexandre M. Rossi, and D. E. Ellis Published 19 December 2000 (14 pages) 024107 [View PDF (603 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Coulomb gap in a model with finite charge-transfer energy S. A. Basylko, P. J. Kundrotas, V. A. Onischouk, E. E. Tornau, and A. Rosengren Published 12 December 2000 (8 pages) 024201 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic clusters in icosahedral F-type quasicrystals Denis Gratias, Frédéric Puyraimond, Marianne Quiquandon, and André Katz Published 18 December 2000 (16 pages) 024202 [View PDF (1413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional calculation of the Hugoniot of shocked liquid nitrogen J. D. Kress, S. Mazevet, L. A. Collins, and W. W. Wood Published 18 December 2000 (5 pages) 024203 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ionic conduction in solids: Comparing conductivity and modulus representations with regard to scaling properties D. L. Sidebottom, B. Roling, and K. Funke Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 024301 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability criterion for large bipolarons in a polaron-gas background M. A. Smondyrev, A. A. Shanenko, and J. T. Devreese Published 18 December 2000 (4 pages) 024302 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical and dynamical speciation of mobile ions in the glassy fast ionic conductor Ag2S+B2S3+SiS2: A 109Ag nuclear magnetic resonance study T. Akai, S. W. Martin, and F. Borsa Published 18 December 2000 (7 pages) 024303 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Structural and magnetic properties of Fe thin films on Cu90Au10(001) S. S. Kang, W. Kuch, and J. Kirschner Published 11 December 2000 (7 pages) 024401 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of the magnetic properties of isoelectronic Srx(Na0.5La0.5)1-xRuO3 and SrxCa1-xRuO3 perovskites T. He, Q. Huang, and R. J. Cava Published 11 December 2000 (8 pages) 024402 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital polarons and ferromagnetic insulators in manganites T. Mizokawa, D. I. Khomskii, and G. A. Sawatzky Published 11 December 2000 (5 pages) 024403 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absence of a metallic phase in random-bond Ising models in two dimensions: Applications to disordered superconductors and paired quantum Hall states N. Read and Andreas W. Ludwig Published 11 December 2000 (12 pages) 024404 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dynamic and electronic properties of Ce@C80: Comparative studies by the time-differential perturbed angular correlation technique with 140Ce (←140La) probes in graphite and diamond Wataru Sato, Keisuke Sueki, Yohji Achiba, Hiromichi Nakahara, Yoshitaka Ohkubo, and Kichizo Asai Published 13 December 2000 (11 pages) 024405 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinless impurities and Kondo-like behavior in strongly correlated electron systems Satoshi Fujimoto Published 14 December 2000 (7 pages) 024406 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elementary excitation for the orbitally degenerate Anderson model at finite temperatures A. Tomiyama, S. Suga, and A. Okiji Published 14 December 2000 (12 pages) 024407 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of oxygen surfactant on the magnetic and structural properties of Co films grown on Cu(110) W. L. Ling, Z. Q. Qiu, O. Takeuchi, D. F. Ogletree, and M. Salmeron Published 15 December 2000 (8 pages) 024408 [View PDF (688 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a garnet lattice: A Monte Carlo simulation O. A. Petrenko and D. McK. Paul Published 15 December 2000 (8 pages) 024409 [View PDF (376 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculations of the susceptibility of interacting superparamagnetic particles R. W. Chantrell, N. Walmsley, J. Gore, and M. Maylin Published 15 December 2000 (14 pages) 024410 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the exchange-bias field of ferromagnetic layers coupled with antiferromagnetic layers C. Hou, H. Fujiwara, K. Zhang, A. Tanaka, and Y. Shimizu Published 15 December 2000 (6 pages) 024411 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static and dynamical properties of frustrated two-dimensional square quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets Saori Kurata, Chigusa Sasaki, and Kazuko Kawasaki Published 18 December 2000 (11 pages) 024412 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interdiffusion and exchange coupling in Cr overlayers on a Fe(001) substrate I. Turek, M. Freyss, P. Weinberger, D. Stoeffler, and H. Dreyssé Published 18 December 2000 (9 pages) 024413 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance in quasi-one-dimensional metals due to Fermi surface cold spots Perez Moses and Ross H. McKenzie Published 18 December 2000 (11 pages) 024414 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature magnetic phase transitions of the geometrically frustrated isosceles triangular Ising antiferromagnet CoNb2O6 S. Kobayashi, S. Mitsuda, and K. Prokes Published 19 December 2000 (6 pages) 024415 [View PDF (552 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field-tunable charge carrier localization in sintered polycrystalline La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 Jian-Min Li, C. H. Huan, You-Wei Du, Duan Feng, and Z. X. Shen Published 19 December 2000 (5 pages) 024416 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic conductance below Tc inferred by quantum interference effects in layered La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 single crystals Qing’An Li, K. E. Gray, and J. F. Mitchell Published 19 December 2000 (6 pages) 024417 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum statistical metastability for a finite spin D. A. Garanin and E. M. Chudnovsky Published 19 December 2000 (7 pages) 024418 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic field effects on neutron diffraction in the antiferromagnetic phase of UPt3 Juana Moreno and J. A. Sauls Published 19 December 2000 (7 pages) 024419 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiphase segregation and metal-insulator transition in single crystal La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 V. Kiryukhin, B. G. Kim, V. Podzorov, S.-W. Cheong, T. Y. Koo, J. P. Hill, I. Moon, and Y. H. Jeong Published 19 December 2000 (7 pages) 024420 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetotransport properties and magnetostructural phenomenon in single crystals of La0.7(Ca1-ySry)0.3MnO3 Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu, and Y. Tokura Published 19 December 2000 (6 pages) 024421 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous magnetocaloric effect in YbAs associated with the giant quadrupolar interaction P. J. von Ranke, A. L. Lima, E. P. Nobrega, X. A. da Silva, A. P. Guimarães, and I. S. Oliveira Published 19 December 2000 (4 pages) 024422 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of spin-orbital chains in a magnetic field Weiqiang Yu and Stephan Haas Published 20 December 2000 (8 pages) 024423 [View PDF (694 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder-induced orbital ordering in L0.7M0.3MnO3 perovskites Lide M. Rodríguez-Martínez and J. Paul Attfield Published 20 December 2000 (7 pages) 024424 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic correlations in the S=5 / 2 quadratic lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet Mn(HCOO)2⋅2(ND2)2CO K. Takeda, M. Mito, K. Nakajima, K. Kakurai, and K. Yamagata Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 024425 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant magnetoresistance in the intermetallic compound Mn3GaC K. Kamishima, T. Goto, H. Nakagawa, N. Miura, M. Ohashi, N. Mori, T. Sasaki, and T. Kanomata Published 20 December 2000 (6 pages) 024426 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural change and charge ordering correlated ultrasonic anomalies in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.5,0.83) perovskite R. K. Zheng, C. F. Zhu, J. Q. Xie, and X. G. Li Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 024427 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Superconducting alloys with weak and strong scattering: Anderson’s theorem and a superconductor-insulator transition R. Moradian, J. F. Annett, B. L. Györffy, and G. Litak Published 11 December 2000 (10 pages) 024501 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of d-wave superconductivity by Van Hove nesting in the Hubbard model J. González Published 13 December 2000 (5 pages) 024502 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-voltage characteristics of the two-dimensional XY model with Monte Carlo dynamics Beom Jun Kim Published 13 December 2000 (4 pages) 024503 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermoelectric power and resistivity of HgBa2CuO4+δ over a wide doping range Ayako Yamamoto, Wei-Zhi Hu, and Setsuko Tajima Published 14 December 2000 (6 pages) 024504 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Stable and metastable vortex states and the first-order transition across the peak-effect region in weakly pinned 2H-NbSe2 G. Ravikumar, V. C. Sahni, A. K. Grover, S. Ramakrishnan, P. L. Gammel, D. J. Bishop, E. Bucher, M. J. Higgins, and S. Bhattacharya Published 14 December 2000 (8 pages) 024505 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal c-axis conductivity of high-Tc oxides in the superconducting state T. Xiang and W. N. Hardy Published 14 December 2000 (5 pages) 024506 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and electronic structures of superconducting RuSr2GdCu2O8 K. Nakamura, K. T. Park, A. J. Freeman, and J. D. Jorgensen Published 19 December 2000 (6 pages) 024507 [View PDF (504 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Libration states of a nonlinear oscillator: Resonant escape of a pinned magnetic fluxon M. V. Fistul and A. V. Ustinov Published 19 December 2000 (4 pages) 024508 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance in a ferromagnet/d-wave-superconductor double tunnel junction N. Yoshida, Y. Tanaka, J. Inoue, and S. Kashiwaya Published 19 December 2000 (5 pages) 024509 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Capture of an impurity by a vortex line in a Bose condensate Natalia G. Berloff and Paul H. Roberts Published 20 December 2000 (4 pages) 024510 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Φ0-periodic macroscopic quantum interference in one-dimensional parallel Josephson junction arrays with unconventional grating structure J. Oppenländer, Ch. Häussler, and N. Schopohl Published 20 December 2000 (9 pages) 024511 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat capacity of liquid 3He in sintered silver powder S. Kishishita, H. Kambara, and T. Mamiya Published 20 December 2000 (5 pages) 024512 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation and decay of vorticity in coupled helium-II flow Olusola C. Idowu, Karen L. Henderson, and David C. Samuels Published 20 December 2000 (7 pages) 024513 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Critical phenomena near the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point of heavy fermions [Phys. Rev. B 62, 6450 (2000)] M. Lavagna and C. Pépin Published 11 December 2000 (2 pages) 029901 [View PDF (31 kB) ]