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  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.
  • Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.
  • 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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Self-interstitials in V and Mo Seungwu Han, Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz, Graeme J. Ackland, Roberto Car, and David J. Srolovitz Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages) 220101 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orientation dependence of shock-induced chemistry in diamond S. V. Zybin, M. L. Elert, and C. T. White Published 18 December 2002 (4 pages) 220102 [View PDF (1040 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Properties of vacancy-rich ordered (A,[ ])Nb2O6 perovskites H. Crogman and L. Bellaiche Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220103 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Phonon anomalies at the valence transition of SmS: An inelastic x-ray-scattering study under pressure S. Raymond, J. P. Rueff, M. D’Astuto, D. Braithwaite, M. Krisch, and J. Flouquet Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages) 220301 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Magnetoresistance through a single nickel atom M. Viret, S. Berger, M. Gabureac, F. Ott, D. Olligs, I. Petej, J. F. Gregg, C. Fermon, G. Francinet, and G. Le Goff Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages) 220401 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic ordering in a weakly coupled Fe/V(001) superlattice Till Burkert, Peter Svedlindh, Gabriella Andersson, and Björgvin Hjörvarsson Published 17 December 2002 (4 pages) 220402 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orbital ordering in UGa3: Detection by 69Ga NMR S. Kambe, H. Kato, H. Sakai, R. E. Walstedt, D. Aoki, Y. Haga, and Y. Ônuki Published 18 December 2002 (4 pages) 220403 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantitative theory of Invar-like anomalies in DyCo2 and HoCo2 S. Khmelevskyi and P. Mohn Published 18 December 2002 (4 pages) 220404 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Alternative charge-order polymorph for half-doped manganites in TbBaMn2O6 Anthony J. Williams and J. Paul Attfield Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220405 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Induced magnetic moments at a ferromagnet-antiferromagnet interface A. Hoffmann, J. W. Seo, M. R. Fitzsimmons, H. Siegwart, J. Fompeyrine, J.-P. Locquet, J. A. Dura, and C. F. Majkrzak Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220406 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

In-plane magnetic reorientation in coupled ferro- and antiferromagnetic thin films P. J. Jensen and H. Dreyssé Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220407 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Two-component vortex phase diagram in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y under tilted fields studied by a micro-Hall probe M. Tokunaga, M. Kishi, N. Kameda, K. Itaka, and T. Tamegai Published 16 December 2002 (4 pages) 220501 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Extreme electron-phonon coupling in boron-based layered superconductors J. M. An, S. Y. Savrasov, H. Rosner, and W. E. Pickett Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220502 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ward identities for disordered metals and superconductors Revaz Ramazashvili Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220503 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fermi surface of the heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12 H. Sugawara, S. Osaki, S. R. Saha, Y. Aoki, H. Sato, Y. Inada, H. Shishido, R. Settai, Y. Ōnuki, H. Harima, and K. Oikawa Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220504 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Negative magnetoresistance in Andreev interferometers W. Belzig, R. Shaikhaidarov, V. V. Petrashov, and Yu. V. Nazarov Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220505 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Field-dependent critical current in type-II superconducting strips: Combined effect of bulk pinning and geometrical edge barrier Andrey A. Elistratov, Denis Yu. Vodolazov, Igor L. Maksimov, and John R. Clem Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages) 220506 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Dynamic model of hysteretic elastic systems Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone and R. A. Guyer Published 5 December 2002 (12 pages) 224101 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode coupling and polar nanoregions in the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 S. Wakimoto, C. Stock, Z.-G. Ye, W. Chen, P. M. Gehring, and G. Shirane Published 6 December 2002 (8 pages) 224102 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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93Nb magic angle spinning NMR study of perovskite relaxor ferroelectrics (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPb(Sc1/2Nb1/2)O3 Gina L. Hoatson, Donghua H. Zhou, Franck Fayon, Dominique Massiot, and Robert L. Vold Published 6 December 2002 (13 pages) 224103 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrochemical growth of iron and cobalt arborescences under a magnetic field: A TEM study S. Bodea, R. Ballou, L. Pontonnier, and P. Molho Published 10 December 2002 (6 pages) 224104 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic covalent bonds in KNbO3 observed by resonant x-ray scattering E. Mamontov, T. Egami, W. Dmowski, T. Gog, and C. Venkataraman Published 10 December 2002 (6 pages) 224105 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of electromechanical noise and momentum transfer statistics M. Kindermann and C. W. Beenakker Published 10 December 2002 (10 pages) 224106 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fe2+/Fe3+ substitution in hydroxyapatite: Theory and experiment Ming Jiang, J. Terra, A. M. Rossi, M. A. Morales, E. M. Baggio Saitovitch, and D. E. Ellis Published 11 December 2002 (15 pages) 224107 [View PDF (689 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Raman, infrared, and x-ray evidence for new phases of nitrogen at high pressures and temperatures Eugene Gregoryanz, Alexander F. Goncharov, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, Maddury Somayazulu, and Guoyin Shen Published 13 December 2002 (5 pages) 224108 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energetics of transition-metal ions in low-coordination environments S. Zapata and A. E. Carlsson Published 17 December 2002 (8 pages) 224109 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Average elastic fields and scale-dependent overall properties of heterogeneous micropolar materials containing spherical and cylindrical inhomogeneities P. Sharma and A. Dasgupta Published 17 December 2002 (10 pages) 224110 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monoclinic structure of La1-xSrxMnzO3 (x=0.212, z=0.958) R. Tamazyan, Sander van Smaalen, A. Arsenov, and Ya. Mukovskii Published 17 December 2002 (7 pages) 224111 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles investigations for YH3 (YD3): Energetics, electric-field gradients, and optical properties W. Wolf and P. Herzig Published 20 December 2002 (9 pages) 224112 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Viscoelasticity from a microscopic model of dislocation dynamics M. Cristina Marchetti and Karl Saunders Published 31 December 2002 (8 pages) 224113 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-mechanical simulation of MgAl2O4 under high pressure L. Gracia, A. Beltrán, J. Andrés, R. Franco, and J. M. Recio Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages) 224114 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Backward correlations and dynamic heterogeneities: A computer study of ion dynamics A. Heuer, M. Kunow, M. Vogel, and R. D. Banhatti Published 10 December 2002 (11 pages) 224201 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation between closely spaced electronic levels of rare-earth ions doped in nanocrystals embedded in glass R. S. Meltzer, W. M. Yen, Hairong Zheng, S. P. Feofilov, and M. J. Dejneka Published 13 December 2002 (6 pages) 224202 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Colloidal metal particles as probes of nanoscale thermal transport in fluids Orla M. Wilson, Xiaoyuan Hu, David G. Cahill, and Paul V. Braun Published 10 December 2002 (6 pages) 224301 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice dynamics and elastic properties of corundum by the self-consistent atomic deformation method M. M. Ossowski, L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, and H. T. Stokes Published 12 December 2002 (9 pages) 224302 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Temperature dependence of infrared-active phonons in CaTiO3: A combined spectroscopic and first-principles study V. Železný, Eric Cockayne, J. Petzelt, M. F. Limonov, D. E. Usvyat, V. V. Lemanov, and A. A. Volkov Published 17 December 2002 (12 pages) 224303 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effects of valence fluctuation and pseudogap formation on phonon thermal conductivity of Ce-based compounds with ε-TiNiSi-type structure J. Kitagawa, T. Sasakawa, T. Suemitsu, Y. Echizen, and T. Takabatake Published 19 December 2002 (6 pages) 224304 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

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Stiffness exponent of two-dimensional Ising spin glasses for nonperiodic boundary conditions using aspect-ratio scaling Alexander K. Hartmann, Alan J. Bray, A. C. Carter, M. A. Moore, and A. P. Young Published 4 December 2002 (4 pages) 224401 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuation-induced hopping and spin-polaron transport L. G. Wegener and P. B. Littlewood Published 4 December 2002 (8 pages) 224402 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin pumping and magnetization dynamics in metallic multilayers Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. Bauer Published 5 December 2002 (10 pages) 224403 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time correlation functions of three classical Heisenberg spins on an isosceles triangle and on a chain Marco Ameduri and Richard A. Klemm Published 6 December 2002 (13 pages) 224404 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiedge refinement of extended x-ray-absorption fine structure of manganese zinc ferrite nanoparticles S. Calvin, E. E. Carpenter, B. Ravel, V. G. Harris, and S. A. Morrison Published 6 December 2002 (13 pages) 224405 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-1 / 2 J1-J2 model on the body-centered cubic lattice R. Schmidt, J. Schulenburg, J. Richter, and D. D. Betts Published 11 December 2002 (7 pages) 224406 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modest magnetic moments of Ti impurities on the surface and in the bulk of K, Rb, and Cs films Douglas Garrett and Gerd Bergmann Published 16 December 2002 (7 pages) 224407 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bifurcation of ground states and ferrimagnetic long-range order in anisotropic mixed-spin systems Guang-Shan Tian and Hai-Qing Lin Published 16 December 2002 (6 pages) 224408 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Broken symmetries in the crystalline and magnetic structures of γ-iron M. Marsman and J. Hafner Published 16 December 2002 (13 pages) 224409 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and magnetism of small rhodium clusters F. Aguilera-Granja, J. L. Rodríguez-López, K. Michaelian, E. O. Berlanga-Ramírez, and A. Vega Published 17 December 2002 (10 pages) 224410 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological model for the remanent magnetization of dilute quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets A. P. Vieira and S. R. Salinas Published 17 December 2002 (5 pages) 224411 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin polarization of electrons tunneling through magnetic-barrier nanostructures Mao-Wang Lu, Li-De Zhang, and Xiao-Hong Yan Published 17 December 2002 (8 pages) 224412 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic field induced entropy change and magnetoelasticity in Ni-Mn-Ga alloys Jordi Marcos, Antoni Planes, Lluís Mañosa, Fèlix Casanova, Xavier Batlle, Amílcar Labarta, and Benjamín Martínez Published 18 December 2002 (6 pages) 224413 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural response to O*-O′ and magnetic transitions in orthorhombic perovskites Bas B. Van Aken, Auke Meetsma, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, and Thomas T. Palstra Published 18 December 2002 (11 pages) 224414 [View PDF (444 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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55Mn NMR investigation of Nd1-xSrxMnO3 (0.1<~x<~0.5) M. Pattabiraman, P. Murugaraj, G. Rangarajan, C. Dimitropoulos, J-Ph. Ansermet, G. Papavassiliou, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK. Paul, and M. R. Lees Published 18 December 2002 (7 pages) 224415 [View PDF (616 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnon excitations in a mesoscopic Heisenberg ferromagnet S. Cojocaru and A. Ceulemans Published 19 December 2002 (9 pages) 224416 [View PDF (717 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency 1/f noise in doped manganite grain-boundary junctions J. B. Philipp, L. Alff, A. Marx, and R. Gross Published 20 December 2002 (9 pages) 224417 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-temperature evolution of coercivity in nanocrystalline alloys V. Franco, L. F. Kiss, T. Kemény, I. Vincze, C. F. Conde, and A. Conde Published 23 December 2002 (8 pages) 224418 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct sampling of complex landscapes at low temperatures: The three-dimensional ±J Ising spin glass Alexander K. Hartmann and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi Published 27 December 2002 (8 pages) 224419 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous magnetic viscosity in the bulk-amorphous ferromagnet Nd60Fe20Co10Al10 S. J. Collocott and J. B. Dunlop Published 27 December 2002 (7 pages) 224420 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat and magnetic susceptibility of Ce1-xLaxAl3 R. Pietri and B. Andraka Published 27 December 2002 (5 pages) 224421 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metastable random-field Ising model with exchange enhancement:  A simple model for exchange bias Xavier Illa, Eduard Vives, and Antoni Planes Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages) 224422 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-depth resolution of the magneto-optical Kerr effect in ferromagnetic multilayers J. Hamrle, J. Ferré, M. Nývlt, and Š. Višňovský Published 31 December 2002 (16 pages) 224423 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin transfer in diffusive ferromagnet–normal metal systems with spin-flip scattering Alexey A. Kovalev, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. Bauer Published 31 December 2002 (8 pages) 224424 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compressible metamagnetic Ising model: Mean-field Curie-Weiss approach and Landau expansion A. F. Moreira, W. Figueiredo, and Vera B. Henriques Published 31 December 2002 (9 pages) 224425 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-wave measurements on MBE-grown zinc-blende structure MnTe by inelastic neutron scattering B. Hennion, W. Szuszkiewicz, E. Dynowska, E. Janik, and T. Wojtowicz Published 31 December 2002 (16 pages) 224426 [View PDF (511 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetothermoelectric power of Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3 with Ru substitution at the Mn site J. S. Kim, D. C. Kim, G. C. McIntosh, S. W. Chu, Y. W. Park, B. J. Kim, Y. C. Kim, A. Maignan, and B. Raveau Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages) 224427 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray spin form factors of rare-earth ions H. Adachi and H. Miwa Published 31 December 2002 (6 pages) 224428 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Critical magnetic-fluctuations-induced superconductivity and residual density of states in the CeRhIn5 superconductor Yunkyu Bang, I. Martin, and A. V. Balatsky Published 6 December 2002 (5 pages) 224501 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exotic magnetism and superconductivity in Ge-substituted CeCu2Si2: A Cu NQR study Y. Kawasaki, K. Ishida, K. Obinata, K. Tabuchi, K. Kashima, Y. Kitaoka, O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich Published 6 December 2002 (8 pages) 224502 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible realization of an ideal quantum computer in Josephson junction array L. B. Ioffe and M. V. Feigel’man Published 11 December 2002 (8 pages) 224503 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetically mediated superconductivity:  Crossover from cubic to tetragonal lattice P. Monthoux and G. G. Lonzarich Published 12 December 2002 (8 pages) 224504 [View PDF (1069 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of the d-density wave from a vertex model and its implications Sudip Chakravarty Published 12 December 2002 (9 pages) 224505 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Zn and Mg in Cu sites of YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystals on the resistive transition, fluctuation conductivity, and magnetic irreversibilities V. N. Vieira, P. Pureur, and J. Schaf Published 13 December 2002 (11 pages) 224506 [View PDF (891 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical studies of the two- and three-dimensional gauge glass at low temperature Helmut G. Katzgraber and A. P. Young Published 16 December 2002 (7 pages) 224507 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Infrared transmission study of crystal-field excitations in La2-x-yNdxSryCuO4 G. Riou, S. Jandl, M. Poirier, V. Nekvasil, M. Maryško, J. Fábry, K. Jurek, M. Diviš, J. Hölsä, I. M. Sutjahja, A. A. Menovsky, S. N. Barilo, S. V. Shiryaev, and L. N. Kurnevich Published 16 December 2002 (7 pages) 224508 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second sound, superfluid turbulence, and intermittent effects in liquid helium II D. Jou, G. Lebon, and M. S. Mongiovì Published 19 December 2002 (9 pages) 224509 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heterostructured high-Tc superconducting nanohybrid: (Me3S)2HgI4-Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy Soon-Jae Kwon, Jin-Ho Choy, Dongwoon Jung, and Pham V. Huong Published 27 December 2002 (12 pages) 224510 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Method for direct observation of coherent quantum oscillations in a superconducting phase qubit Ya. S. Greenberg, A. Izmalkov, M. Grajcar, E. Il’ichev, W. Krech, and H.-G. Meyer Published 31 December 2002 (5 pages) 224511 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-texture-driven charge pairing in the spin-fermion Hubbard model and superconductivity in the high-Tc cuprates Eduardo C. Marino and M. B. Silva Neto Published 31 December 2002 (12 pages) 224512 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-temperature vortex liquid states induced by quantum fluctuations in the quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 T. Sasaki, T. Fukuda, T. Nishizaki, T. Fujita, N. Yoneyama, N. Kobayashi, and W. Biberacher Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages) 224513 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge critical currents of dense Josephson vortex lattice in layered superconductors A. E. Koshelev Published 31 December 2002 (6 pages) 224514 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unconventional vortices and phase transitions in rapidly rotating superfluid 3He Takafumi Kita Published 31 December 2002 (13 pages) 224515 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proximity effects and characteristic lengths in ferromagnet-superconductor structures Klaus Halterman and Oriol T. Valls Published 31 December 2002 (17 pages) 224516 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]