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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Electron-phonon interaction in transition-metal diborides TB2 (T=Zr,Nb,Ta) studied by point-contact spectroscopy Yu. G. Naidyuk, O. E. Kvitnitskaya, I. K. Yanson, S.-L. Drechsler, G. Behr, and S. Otani Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140301 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Magnetic circular dichroism in 2p3p3p resonant photoemission from ferromagnetic Ni in perpendicular geometry across the L3 edge M. Taguchi and G. van der Laan Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages) 140401 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Annealing, lattice disorder, and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in UCu4Pd C. H. Booth, E.-W. Scheidt, U. Killer, A. Weber, and S. Kehrein Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages) 140402 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Chiral domain walls in frustrated magnetoelastic materials Yu. B. Gaididei, A. Saxena, T. Lookman, A. R. Bishop, and H. Büttner Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages) 140403 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin filtering effect at inserted interfaces in perpendicular spin valves Hirotaka Oshima, Keiichi Nagasaka, Yoshihiko Seyama, Yutaka Shimizu, and Atsushi Tanaka Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages) 140404 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Canted ferromagnetism in RuSr2GdCu2O8 Kohji Nakamura and A. J. Freeman Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages) 140405 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal conductivity of anisotropic and frustrated spin-1 / 2 chains F. Heidrich-Meisner, A. Honecker, D. C. Cabra, and W. Brenig Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages) 140406 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

From the bulk to monatomic wires: An ab initio study of magnetism in Co systems with various dimensionality Matej Komelj, Claude Ederer, James W. Davenport, and Manfred Fähnle Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 140407 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Change in charge and orbital alignment upon antiferromagnetic transition in the A-site-ordered perovskite manganese oxide RBaMn2O6 (R=Tb and Sm) T. Arima, D. Akahoshi, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, M. Uchida, Y. Matsui, and Y. Tokura Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 140408 [View PDF (389 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Statistics of the pinning field in a soft metallic ferromagnet A. C. Mills, F. M. Hess, and M. B. Weissman Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140409 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Condensation energy and high-Tc superconductivity D. van der Marel, A. J. Leggett, J. W. Loram, and J. R. Kirtley Published 2 October 2002 (4 pages) 140501 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface states and their possible role in the superconductivity of MgB2 V. D. Servedio, S.-L. Drechsler, and T. Mishonov Published 8 October 2002 (4 pages) 140502 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Josephson current in S-FIF-S junctions: Nonmonotonic dependence on misorientation angle Yu. S. Barash, I. V. Bobkova, and T. Kopp Published 9 October 2002 (4 pages) 140503 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the three-dimensional attractive Hubbard model Alain Sewer, Xenophon Zotos, and Hans Beck Published 9 October 2002 (4 pages) 140504 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hidden quantum critical point in a ferromagnetic superconductor Debanand Sa Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages) 140505 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Calculation of the phase field of a vortex pair on the surface of a multiply connected substrate Toshiaki Obata and Minoru Kubota Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages) 140506 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct measurement of quasiparticle evanescent waves in a dirty superconductor J. Y. Gu, J. A. Caballero, R. D. Slater, R. Loloee, and W. P. Pratt Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages) 140507 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum interference between nonmagnetic impurities in dx2-y2-wave superconductors Dirk K. Morr and Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages) 140508 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superconducting gap in the presence of bilayer splitting in underdoped (Pb,Bi)2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, T. K. Kim, S. Legner, K. A. Nenkov, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, H. Berger, and R. Follath Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 140509 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pair phase fluctuations and the pseudogap T. Eckl, D. J. Scalapino, E. Arrigoni, and W. Hanke Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 140510 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Slow relaxation of low-temperature vortex phases in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 F. Portier, G. Kriza, B. Sas, L. F. Kiss, I. Pethes, K. Vad, B. Keszei, and F. I. Williams Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140511 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Density of states in d-wave superconductors disordered by extended impurities İnanç Adagideli, Daniel E. Sheehy, and Paul M. Goldbart Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140512 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fermi surface evolution and collapse of the Mott pseudogap in Nd2-xCexCuO4±δ C. Kusko, R. S. Markiewicz, M. Lindroos, and A. Bansil Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140513 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

11B and 27Al NMR spin-lattice relaxation and Knight shift of Mg1-xAlxB2: Evidence for an anisotropic Fermi surface G. Papavassiliou, M. Pissas, M. Karayanni, M. Fardis, S. Koutandos, and K. Prassides Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 140514 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Particle-size effect on the compressibility of nanocrystalline alumina B. Chen, D. Penwell, L. R. Benedetti, R. Jeanloz, and M. B. Kruger Published 4 October 2002 (4 pages) 144101 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing of ferroelectric surface and bulk domains in RMnO3 (R=Y, Ho) by second harmonic generation M. Fiebig, D. Fröhlich, Th. Lottermoser, and M. Maat Published 8 October 2002 (5 pages) 144102 [View PDF (475 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dislocation constriction and cross-slip: An ab initio study Gang Lu, Vasily V. Bulatov, and Nicholas Kioussis Published 9 October 2002 (5 pages) 144103 [View PDF (400 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete mapping of the anisotropic free energy of the crystal-melt interface in Al James R. Morris Published 10 October 2002 (7 pages) 144104 [View PDF (462 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Vacancies selectively induced and specifically detected on the two sublattices of the intermetallic compound MoSi2 X. Y. Zhang, W. Sprengel, K. Blaurock, A. A. Rempel, K. J. Reichle, K. Reimann, H. Inui, and H.-E. Schaefer Published 11 October 2002 (5 pages) 144105 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and dynamics of the interface between a binary hard-sphere crystal of NaCl type and its coexisting binary fluid Rachel Sibug-Aga and Brian B. Laird Published 15 October 2002 (8 pages) 144106 [View PDF (675 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles study of the stability and electronic structure of metal hydrides H. Smithson, C. A. Marianetti, D. Morgan, A. Van der Ven, A. Predith, and G. Ceder Published 21 October 2002 (10 pages) 144107 [View PDF (593 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the number and size of inhomogeneities in thin films by ion beam analysis J. P. Stoquert and T. Szörényi Published 29 October 2002 (8 pages) 144108 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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NEXAFS experiment and multiple scattering calculations on KO2: Effects on the π resonance in the solid phase M. Pedio, Z. Y. Wu, M. Benfatto, A. Mascaraque, E. Michel, C. Ottaviani, C. Crotti, M. Peloi, M. Zacchigna, and C. Comicioli Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 144109 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital hybridization and covalency in paraelectric and ferroelectric SrBi2Nb2O9 Y. Shimakawa, H. Imai, H. Kimura, S. Kimura, Y. Kubo, E. Nishibori, M. Takata, M. Sakata, K. Kato, and Z. Hiroi Published 31 October 2002 (5 pages) 144110 [View PDF (557 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dislocation image on x-ray topographs within kinematical theory Izumi Iwasa Published 31 October 2002 (11 pages) 144111 [View PDF (427 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles study of the rocksalt–cesium chloride relative phase stability in alkali halides M. Flórez, J. M. Recio, E. Francisco, M. A. Blanco, and A. Martín Pendás Published 31 October 2002 (8 pages) 144112 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic dielectric susceptibility of the betaine phosphate (0.15) betaine phosphite (0.85) dipolar glass J. Banys, S. Lapinskas, A. Kajokas, A. Matulis, C. Klimm, G. Völkel, and A. Klöpperpieper Published 31 October 2002 (8 pages) 144113 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Hidden degree of freedom and critical phase in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a random magnetic field Hoang K. Nguyen Published 8 October 2002 (16 pages) 144201 [View PDF (1075 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Random laser in the localized regime P. Sebbah and C. Vanneste Published 23 October 2002 (10 pages) 144202 [View PDF (380 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strength reduction in electrical and elastic networks J. S. Espinoza Ortiz, Chamith S. Rajapakse, and Gemunu H. Gunaratne Published 29 October 2002 (8 pages) 144203 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimal model of the phonon-phason dynamics in icosahedral quasicrystals and its application to the problem of internal friction in the i-AlPdMn alloy S. B. Rochal and V. L. Lorman Published 30 October 2002 (9 pages) 144204 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature effect on the local order of liquid Ni, Ag, and Pb: A molecular dynamics study Efraín Urrutia-Bañuelos, Alvaro Posada-Amarillas, and Ignacio L. Garzón Published 31 October 2002 (5 pages) 144205 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Phonon spectrum of ZnAl2O4 spinel from inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles calculations C. M. Fang, C.-K. Loong, G. A. de Wijs, and G. de With Published 8 October 2002 (7 pages) 144301 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface scattering analysis of phonon transport in the quantum limit using an elastic model D. H. Santamore and M. C. Cross Published 8 October 2002 (19 pages) 144302 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roton excitations of the hydrogen molecule in the Ar(H2)2 compound Francesco Grazzi, Mario Santoro, Massimo Moraldi, and Lorenzo Ulivi Published 14 October 2002 (8 pages) 144303 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Crystal growth and spectroscopic characterization of Tm3+-doped KYb(WO4)2 single crystals M. C. Pujol, F. Güell, X. Mateos, Jna. Gavaldà, R. Solé, J. Massons, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, G. Boulon, and A. Brenier Published 16 October 2002 (8 pages) 144304 [View PDF (544 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Quantum phase transitions in alternating transverse Ising chains: Analytical and numerical results Oleg Derzhko, Johannes Richter, Taras Krokhmalskii, and Oles’ Zaburannyi Published 2 October 2002 (5 pages) 144401 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiscale nature of hysteretic phenomena: Application to CoPt-type magnets K. D. Belashchenko and V. P. Antropov Published 4 October 2002 (5 pages) 144402 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Percolation in three-dimensional random field Ising magnets E. T. Seppälä, A. M. Pulkkinen, and M. J. Alava Published 4 October 2002 (8 pages) 144403 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for ordered moments on the Rh sites in CeRhIn5 A. Schenck, D. Andreica, F. N. Gygax, D. Aoki, and Y. Ōnuki Published 9 October 2002 (10 pages) 144404 [View PDF (340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray magnetic circular dichroism studies of 5f magnetism in UCoAl and UPtAl M. Kučera, J. Kuneš, A. Kolomiets, M. Diviš, A. V. Andreev, V. Sechovský, J.-P. Kappler, and A. Rogalev Published 9 October 2002 (10 pages) 144405 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism at finite temperature in heavy rare-earth clusters F. López-Urías, A. Díaz-Ortiz, and J. L. Morán-López Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages) 144406 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model of localized highly frustrated ferromagnetism:  The kagomé spin ice A. S. Wills, R. Ballou, and C. Lacroix Published 14 October 2002 (6 pages) 144407 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of induced Sn magnetic moments in thin Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay and Duc Nguyen-Manh Published 14 October 2002 (10 pages) 144408 [View PDF (388 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Role of dipolar and exchange interactions in the positions and widths of EPR transitions for the single-molecule magnets Fe8 and Mn12 Kyungwha Park, M. A. Novotny, N. S. Dalal, S. Hill, and P. A. Rikvold Published 16 October 2002 (11 pages) 144409 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic properties of α-iron(II) phthalocyanine M. Evangelisti, J. Bartolomé, L. J. de Jongh, and G. Filoti Published 16 October 2002 (11 pages) 144410 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hot-electron three-terminal devices based on magnetic tunnel junction stacks M. Hehn, F. Montaigne, and A. Schuhl Published 21 October 2002 (7 pages) 144411 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Structural and magnetic ordering in Pr0.65(CaySr1-y)0.35MnO3: Quantum critical point versus phase segregation scenarios G. R. Blake, L. Chapon, P. G. Radaelli, D. N. Argyriou, M. J. Gutmann, and J. F. Mitchell Published 28 October 2002 (9 pages) 144412 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Icosahedral growth, magnetic behavior, and adsorbate-induced metal-nonmetal transition in palladium clusters Vijay Kumar and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Published 28 October 2002 (11 pages) 144413 [View PDF (1541 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation of quenched structural disorder and magnetism in TiFe2 Laves-phase thin films J. Köble and M. Huth Published 28 October 2002 (8 pages) 144414 [View PDF (667 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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X-ray absorption spectra at the Ru and Mn L2,3 edges and long-range ferromagnetism in SrRu1-xMnxO3 solid solutions (0<~x<~0.5) Ranjan K. Sahu, Z. Hu, Manju L. Rao, S. Sundar Manoharan, T. Schmidt, B. Richter, M. Knupfer, M. Golden, J. Fink, and C. M. Schneider Published 28 October 2002 (6 pages) 144415 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Haldane-gapped spin chains as Luttinger liquids: Correlation functions at finite field Robert M. Konik and Paul Fendley Published 29 October 2002 (17 pages) 144416 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Titanium metastable phases in sputtered Ti-Fe films and their influence in the electrical resistivity M. A. Arranz, T. Muñoz, and J. M. Riveiro Published 29 October 2002 (5 pages) 144417 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of A-site cation ordering on the magnetoelectric properties in [(LaMnO3)m/(SrMnO3)m]n artificial superlattices T. Koida, M. Lippmaa, T. Fukumura, K. Itaka, Y. Matsumoto, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma Published 30 October 2002 (6 pages) 144418 [View PDF (506 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic domain structures in submicron-size particles of epitaxial Fe (001) films: Shape anisotropy and thickness dependence M. Hanson, O. Kazakova, P. Blomqvist, R. Wäppling, and B. Nilsson Published 30 October 2002 (9 pages) 144419 [View PDF (480 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-energy magnon dispersion in the half-filled Hubbard model:  A comparison with La2CuO4 Pinaki Sengupta, Richard T. Scalettar, and Rajiv R. Singh Published 30 October 2002 (5 pages) 144420 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effects of the stoichiometry and chemical order on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Cr-Pt alloys probed by angular-resolved photoemission A. Borgschulte, D. Zur, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, and P. M. Oppeneer Published 30 October 2002 (9 pages) 144421 [View PDF (646 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	57Fe diluted in a Ag film prepared by vapor quenching: Nanostructure formation and magnetic behavior M. A. Morales, E. C. Passamani, and E. Baggio-Saitovitch Published 31 October 2002 (6 pages) 144422 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of hydrogenation on crystal structure and magnetic properties of UTSi (T=Pd,Ni) intermetallics A. V. Kolomiets, L. Havela, A. V. Andreev, F. Wastin, J. Šebek, and M. Maryško Published 31 October 2002 (7 pages) 144423 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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X-ray-induced disordering of the dimerization pattern and apparent low-temperature enhancement of lattice symmetry in spinel CuIr2S4 H. Ishibashi, T. Y. Koo, Y. S. Hor, A. Borissov, P. G. Radaelli, Y. Horibe, S-W. Cheong, and V. Kiryukhin Published 31 October 2002 (4 pages) 144424 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective spinless fermions in the strong-coupling Kondo model Winfried Koller, Alexander Prüll, Hans Gerd Evertz, and Wolfgang von der Linden Published 31 October 2002 (10 pages) 144425 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Determination of magnetic exchange stiffness and surface anisotropy constants in epitaxial Ni1-xCox(001) films P. Talagala, P. S. Fodor, D. Haddad, R. Naik, L. E. Wenger, P. P. Vaishnava, and V. M. Naik Published 31 October 2002 (6 pages) 144426 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio characterization of the giant magnetoresistance in realistic spin valves P. Weinberger and L. Szunyogh Published 31 October 2002 (7 pages) 144427 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic profile and interlayer exchange coupling in fcc Fen/Nim (001) superlattices A. Hadj-Larbi, S. Bouarab, and C. Demangeat Published 31 October 2002 (7 pages) 144428 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Antiferromagnetic ordering of magnetic moments due to cavity trapped electrons in sodium electrosodalite:  A zero-field μSR study R. Scheuermann, E. Roduner, G. Engelhardt, H.-H. Klauss, and D. Herlach Published 31 October 2002 (6 pages) 144429 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-vibrational coupling in the far-infrared spectrum of Mn12-acetate A. B. Sushkov, J. L. Musfeldt, Y. J. Wang, R. M. Achey, and N. S. Dalal Published 31 October 2002 (5 pages) 144430 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Spin correlations in the algebraic spin liquid: Implications for high-Tc superconductors Walter Rantner and Xiao-Gang Wen Published 9 October 2002 (20 pages) 144501 [View PDF (560 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground states of a frustrated kagomé array of Josephson junctions Mohammad R. Kolahchi and Joseph P. Straley Published 14 October 2002 (6 pages) 144502 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Upper critical field of the magnetic superconductor RuGd1.4Ce0.6Sr2Cu2O10-δ M. T. Escote, V. A. Meza, R. F. Jardim, L. Ben-Dor, M. S. Torikachvili, and A. H. Lacerda Published 14 October 2002 (6 pages) 144503 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive normal-superconducting systems Markku P. Stenberg and Tero T. Heikkilä Published 16 October 2002 (4 pages) 144504 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac magnetic response of mesoscopic type-II superconductors Alexander D. Hernández and Daniel Domínguez Published 21 October 2002 (12 pages) 144505 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of type-II superconductors from isothermal magnetization data: Application to high-temperature superconductors I. L. Landau and H. R. Ott Published 28 October 2002 (8 pages) 144506 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Increasing superconducting Tc’s by a factor of 1000 with large hopping anisotropies in two-dimensional t-J model systems Saurabh Basu, A. Callan-Jones, and R. J. Gooding Published 29 October 2002 (6 pages) 144507 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirac quasiparticles and spin-lattice relaxation in the mixed state Daniel Knapp, Catherine Kallin, A. John Berlinsky, and Rachel Wortis Published 29 October 2002 (5 pages) 144508 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angle-resolved photoemission intensities in a cuprate system with bilayer coupling: Effects of transition matrix elements and photoelectron losses J. D. Lee and A. Fujimori Published 29 October 2002 (7 pages) 144509 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	History effect in inhomogeneous superconductors Y. Liu, H. Luo, X. Leng, Z. H. Wang, L. Qiu, S. Y. Ding, and L. Z. Lin Published 29 October 2002 (9 pages) 144510 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared optical properties of Pr2CuO4 C. C. Homes, Q. Li, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene Published 30 October 2002 (9 pages) 144511 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical currents and vortex-unbinding transitions in quench-condensed ultrathin films of bismuth and tin K. Das Gupta, Swati S. Soman, G. Sambandamurthy, and N. Chandrasekhar Published 30 October 2002 (8 pages) 144512 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic order in YBa2Cu3O6+x superconductors H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, S. M. Hayden, A. Hiess, J. W. Lynn, S.-H. Lee, and F. Doğan Published 30 October 2002 (10 pages) 144513 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical studies of charge dynamics in optimally doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ J. J. Tu, C. C. Homes, G. D. Gu, D. N. Basov, and M. Strongin Published 30 October 2002 (4 pages) 144514 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectrum of low-energy excitations in the vortex state: Comparison of the Doppler-shift method to a quasiclassical approach T. Dahm, S. Graser, C. Iniotakis, and N. Schopohl Published 31 October 2002 (10 pages) 144515 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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