• 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
• ERRATA

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	α-PbO2-type high-pressure polymorph of GeO2 Vitali B. Prakapenka, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Guoyin Shen, Mark L. Rivers, Stephen R. Sutton, V. Dmitriev, H.-P. Weber, and T. Le Bihan Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages) 132101 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystal structures of Ti under high pressure: Theory A. L. Kutepov and S. G. Kutepova Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 132102 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Frequency-dependent complex modulus at the glass transition in Pd40Ni10Cu30P20 bulk amorphous alloys M. L. Lee, Y. Li, Y. P. Feng, and W. C. Carter Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages) 132201 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Features of supercooled glycerol dynamics Ya. E. Ryabov, Y. Hayashi, A. Gutina, and Y. Feldman Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages) 132202 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder-induced vibrational localization J. J. Ludlam, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages) 132203 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Frequency-dependent exchange bias in NiFe/NiO films J. Geshev, L. G. Pereira, J. E. Schmidt, L. C. Nagamine, E. B. Saitovitch, and F. Pelegrini Published 1 April 2003 (4 pages) 132401 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of Jahn-Teller isomerism in Mn12Ac under high quasi-hydrostatic pressure Yoshihito Suzuki, Keiji Takeda, and Kunio Awaga Published 3 April 2003 (4 pages) 132402 [View PDF (456 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillating solitons pinned to a nonmagnetic impurity in layered antiferromagnets L. A. Mól, A. R. Pereira, and W. A. Moura-Melo Published 3 April 2003 (4 pages) 132403 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Verification of Ni magnetic moment in GdNi2 Laves phase by magnetic circular dichroism measurement M. Mizumaki, K. Yano, I. Umehara, F. Ishikawa, K. Sato, A. Koizumi, N. Sakai, and T. Muro Published 9 April 2003 (4 pages) 132404 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metamagnetic-transition-induced giant magnetoresistance in Mn2Sb1-xSnx (0<x<~0.4) compounds Yu-qin Zhang and Zhi-dong Zhang Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages) 132405 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polaronic heat capacity in the Anderson-Hasegawa model Manidipa Mitra, P. A. Sreeram, and Sushanta Dattagupta Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages) 132406 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition to weak ferromagnetism in TbNi2B2C and ErNi2B2C M. B. Walker and C. Detlefs Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages) 132407 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice distortions, incommensurability, and stripes in the electronic model for high-Tc cuprates Takashi Yanagisawa, Mitake Miyazaki, Shigeru Koikegami, Soh Koike, and Kunihiko Yamaji Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages) 132408 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-spin cyclic exchange in spin ladder cuprates Carmen J. Calzado, Coen de Graaf, Esther Bordas, Rosa Caballol, and Jean-Paul Malrieu Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 132409 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in a double-exchange model Eugene Kogan and Mark Auslender Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 132410 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and transport studies on R3Pt23Si11 (R=La and Ce) compounds with dilute rare earth content Darshan C. Kundaliya and S. K. Malik Published 30 April 2003 (3 pages) 132411 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Interplay between pairing and exchange in small metallic dots G. Falci, Rosario Fazio, and A. Mastellone Published 3 April 2003 (4 pages) 132501 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and optical properties of LiBC A. V. Pronin, K. Pucher, P. Lunkenheimer, A. Krimmel, and A. Loidl Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages) 132502 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size-driven phase transitions in pinned vortex systems P. S. Cornaglia and M. F. Laguna Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages) 132503 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the effective dissipation in an rf SQUID system B. Ruggiero, V. Corato, C. Granata, L. Longobardi, S. Rombetto, and P. Silvestrini Published 14 April 2003 (4 pages) 132504 [View PDF (383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption of superfluid 4He films on planar heavy-alkali metals studied with the Orsay-Trento density functional Leszek Szybisz Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages) 132505 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transformations of faceted grain boundaries in high-Tc superconductors S. V. Bobylev and I. A. Ovid’ko Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages) 132506 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of CeCoIn5 J. Costa-Quintana and F. López-Aguilar Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages) 132507 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Time delay of resistive-state formation in superconducting stripes excited by single optical photons J. Zhang, W. Słysz, A. Pearlman, A. Verevkin, Roman Sobolewski, O. Okunev, G. Chulkova, and G. N. Gol’tsman Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 132508 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raising the diboride superconductor transition temperature using quantum interference effects Annette Bussmann-Holder and Antonio Bianconi Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 132509 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering of surface electrons over a superfluid helium film Sviatoslav S. Sokolov and Nelson Studart Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages) 132510 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Acoustic-mode-driven electron-phonon coupling in transition-metal diborides Prabhakar P. Singh Published 30 April 2003 (4 pages) 132511 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Pressure-induced changes in protactinium metal: Importance to actinide-metal bonding concepts R. G. Haire, S. Heathman, M. Idiri, T. Le Bihan, A. Lindbaum, and J. Rebizant Published 1 April 2003 (10 pages) 134101 [View PDF (586 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural behavior of α-uranium with pressures to 100 GPa T. Le Bihan, S. Heathman, M. Idiri, G. H. Lander, J. M. Wills, A. C. Lawson, and A. Lindbaum Published 3 April 2003 (6 pages) 134102 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Using bond-length-dependent transferable force constants to predict vibrational entropies in Au-Cu, Au-Pd, and Cu-Pd alloys Eric J. Wu, Gerbrand Ceder, and Axel van de Walle Published 7 April 2003 (7 pages) 134103 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyper-Rayleigh scattering by inhomogeneous thin films of Pbx(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3: Disorder effects A. V. Melnikov, A. A. Nikulin, and O. A. Aktsipetrov Published 8 April 2003 (9 pages) 134104 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bridging from ThCr2Si2-type materials to hexagonal dichalcogenides: An ab initio and experimental study of KCu2Se2 O. Tiedje, E. E. Krasovskii, W. Schattke, P. Stoll, C. Näther, and W. Bensch Published 15 April 2003 (8 pages) 134105 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and crystallographic structure of apatites L. Calderín, M. J. Stott, and A. Rubio Published 15 April 2003 (7 pages) 134106 [View PDF (420 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elimination of irradiation point defects in crystalline solids: Sink strengths N. V. Doan and G. Martin Published 15 April 2003 (11 pages) 134107 [View PDF (880 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular dynamics simulations of dislocation instability in a stress gradient Ming Li and Robin L. Selinger Published 17 April 2003 (6 pages) 134108 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniaxial phase transition in Si: Ab initio calculations C. Cheng Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages) 134109 [View PDF (447 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron scattering study of the relaxor ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 D. La-Orauttapong, J. Toulouse, Z.-G. Ye, W. Chen, R. Erwin, and J. L. Robertson Published 25 April 2003 (10 pages) 134110 [View PDF (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooperative Yb3+-Tb3+ dimer excitations and upconversion in Cs3Tb2Br9:Yb3+ G. M. Salley, R. Valiente, and H. U. Güdel Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 134111 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant x-ray magnetic scattering at nonmagnetic ions Michel van Veenendaal Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages) 134112 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modulated phases in multi-stage structural transformations T. Castán, A. Planes, and A. Saxena Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages) 134113 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular dynamics study of the threshold displacement energy in vanadium L. A. Zepeda-Ruiz, S. Han, D. J. Srolovitz, R. Car, and B. D. Wirth Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 134114 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagram and equation of state of praseodymium at high pressures and temperatures Bruce J. Baer, Hyunchae Cynn, Valentin Iota, Choong-Shik Yoo, and Guoyin Shen Published 30 April 2003 (7 pages) 134115 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Ordering kinetics in an fcc A3B binary alloy model: Monte Carlo studies M. Kessler, W. Dieterich, and A. Majhofer Published 1 April 2003 (9 pages) 134201 [View PDF (552 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni quasicrystal R. G. Hennig, K. F. Kelton, A. E. Carlsson, and C. L. Henley Published 7 April 2003 (13 pages) 134202 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absence of self-averaging in the complex admittance for transport through disordered media Mitsuhiro Kawasaki, Takashi Odagaki, and Klaus W. Kehr Published 8 April 2003 (16 pages) 134203 [View PDF (1528 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural properties, electronic structure, Fermi surface, and mechanical behavior of bcc Cr-Re alloys N. I. Medvedeva, Yu. N. Gornostyrev, and A. J. Freeman Published 8 April 2003 (7 pages) 134204 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variable-range hopping of spin polarons: Magnetoresistance in a modified Mott regime M. Foygel, R. D. Morris, and A. G. Petukhov Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 134205 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Close collisions in the two-dimensional Raman response of liquid carbon disulfide Thomas l. Jansen, Koos Duppen, and Jaap G. Snijders Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 134206 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Hierarchical mean-field theory in quantum statistical mechanics:  A bosonic example G. Ortiz and C. D. Batista Published 4 April 2003 (5 pages) 134301 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response of parametrically driven nonlinear coupled oscillators with application to micromechanical and nanomechanical resonator arrays Ron Lifshitz and M. C. Cross Published 10 April 2003 (12 pages) 134302 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice dynamics and inelastic neutron scattering studies of MFX (M=Ba, Sr, Pb; X=Cl, Br, I) R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, A. Sen, S. N. Achary, and A. K. Tyagi Published 15 April 2003 (12 pages) 134303 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier dynamics in low-temperature-grown AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs multiple quantum wells C. Y. Li, L. Wang, P. M. Fu, Z. G. Zhang, Y. F. Wei, S. P. Zhao, Q. S. Yang, Y. J. Han, L. W. Guo, and Q. Huang Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages) 134304 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption intensities of the multipole-field-induced zero-phonon transitions in solid HD, HT, and DT Adya P. Mishra, Robert W. Field, S. V. Bhaskara Rao, Richard D’Souza, and T. K. Balasubramanian Published 23 April 2003 (9 pages) 134305 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculating the vibrational thermodynamic properties of bulk oxides using lattice dynamics and molecular dynamics David J. Cooke, Stephen C. Parker, and David J. Osguthorpe Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 134306 [View PDF (477 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic theory of vibronic dynamics in linear polyenes L. Arrachea, A. A. Aligia, and G. E. Santoro Published 30 April 2003 (5 pages) 134307 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Elastic interactions and superstructures in manganites and other Jahn-Teller systems D. I. Khomskii and K. I. Kugel Published 2 April 2003 (9 pages) 134401 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Peculiar ferromagnetic insulator state in the low-hole-doped manganites P. A. Algarabel, J. M. De Teresa, J. Blasco, M. R. Ibarra, Cz. Kapusta, M. Sikora, D. Zajac, P. C. Riedi, and C. Ritter Published 3 April 2003 (6 pages) 134402 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear spin bath effects on Landau-Zener transitions in nanomagnets N. A. Sinitsyn and N. Prokof’ev Published 3 April 2003 (5 pages) 134403 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles study of magnetism in spinel MnO2 Dane Morgan, Billie Wang, Gerbrand Ceder, and Axel van de Walle Published 3 April 2003 (6 pages) 134404 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-wave scattering at low temperatures in manganite films X. J. Chen, H.-U. Habermeier, C. L. Zhang, H. Zhang, and C. C. Almasan Published 3 April 2003 (4 pages) 134405 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization dependence of spin excitations in BaCu2Si2O7 A. Zheludev, S. Raymond, L.-P. Regnault, F. H. Essler, K. Kakurai, T. Masuda, and K. Uchinokura Published 4 April 2003 (10 pages) 134406 [View PDF (753 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles prediction of piezomagnetic effect in the metal phase at the earth’s core conditions A. E. Krasovskii Published 4 April 2003 (7 pages) 134407 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electronic structure of magnetic molecules V15:  LSDA+U calculations, x-ray emissions, and photoelectron spectra D. W. Boukhvalov, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. Moewes, D. A. Zatsepin, V. M. Cherkashenko, S. N. Nemnonov, L. D. Finkelstein, Yu. M. Yarmoshenko, M. Neumann, V. V. Dobrovitski, M. I. Katsnelson, A. I. Lichtenstein, B. N. Harmon, and P. Kögerler Published 8 April 2003 (8 pages) 134408 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interfacial domain formation during magnetization reversal in exchange-biased CoO/Co bilayers F. Radu, M. Etzkorn, R. Siebrecht, T. Schmitte, K. Westerholt, and H. Zabel Published 8 April 2003 (11 pages) 134409 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo studies of the one-dimensional Ising spin glass with power-law interactions Helmut G. Katzgraber and A. P. Young Published 8 April 2003 (8 pages) 134410 [View PDF (707 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Grain boundary mediated oxidation and interlayer dipolar coupling in a magnetic tunnel junction structure J. W. Freeland, D. J. Keavney, R. Winarski, P. Ryan, J. M. Slaughter, R. W. Dave, and J. Janesky Published 9 April 2003 (4 pages) 134411 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous behavior in La0.7Ba0.1Ca0.2Mn0.9Ru0.1O3 thin films Nguyen Hoa Hong, Joe Sakai, Jacques G. Noudem, François Gervais, and Monique Gervais Published 9 April 2003 (5 pages) 134412 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High magnetic field study of charge melting in Bi1/2(Sr,Ca)1/2MnO3 perovskites: Unconventional behavior of bismuth charge ordered compounds A. Kirste, M. Goiran, M. Respaud, J. Vanaken, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, M. von Ortenberg, C. Frontera, and J. L. García-Muñoz Published 10 April 2003 (5 pages) 134413 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic ordering in KDy3F10: A system containing three orthogonal Ising lattices Stephen L. Chamberlain, Gang Luo, and L. R. Corruccini Published 11 April 2003 (5 pages) 134414 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbit-induced electric-field gradient of Au in Ni G. Seewald, E. Zech, E. Hagn, H.-J. Körner, C. Tramm, P. Herzog, and K. Freitag Published 11 April 2003 (5 pages) 134415 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anomalous behavior of the electrical resistivity in the giant magnetocaloric compound Gd5(Si0.1Ge0.9)4 J. B. Sousa, M. E. Braga, F. C. Correia, F. Carpinteiro, L. Morellon, P. A. Algarabel, and M. R. Ibarra Published 11 April 2003 (8 pages) 134416 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical study of competition between ordering and metallicity in La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 J. Kunze, S. Naler, J. Bäckström, M. Rübhausen, and J. F. Mitchell Published 15 April 2003 (6 pages) 134417 [View PDF (837 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillating dependence between magnetic and chemical orderings in the frustrated Laves hydrides RMn2Hx (R=Lu,Tm,Er) O. L. Makarova, I. N. Goncharenko, and F. Bourée Published 15 April 2003 (5 pages) 134418 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reduced moment magnetic ordering in a Kondo lattice compound: Ce8Pd24Ga D. T. Adroja, W. Kockelmann, A. D. Hillier, J. Y. So, K. S. Knight, and B. D. Rainford Published 23 April 2003 (7 pages) 134419 [View PDF (378 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic domain structure and spin-reorientation transition in ultrathin Fe-Co alloy films R. Zdyb and E. Bauer Published 23 April 2003 (8 pages) 134420 [View PDF (746 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-size scaling analysis of the avalanches in the three-dimensional Gaussian random-field Ising model with metastable dynamics F. J. Pérez-Reche and Eduard Vives Published 24 April 2003 (16 pages) 134421 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	XY frustrated systems: Continuous exponents in discontinuous phase transitions M. Tissier, B. Delamotte, and D. Mouhanna Published 24 April 2003 (11 pages) 134422 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and magnetic properties of HfFe6Ge6-type ErMn6Sn6-xGax (x=0–2.0) compounds Jin-lei Yao, Shao-ying Zhang, Juan Du, Mi Yan, De-ren Yang, Li-gang Zhang, Shi-min Liu, and Bao-gen Shen Published 24 April 2003 (7 pages) 134423 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions and magnetism in layer-structured (C18H37NH3)2MnCl4 Kyu Won Lee, Chang Hoon Lee, and Cheol Eui Lee Published 24 April 2003 (5 pages) 134424 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of a mixed-valent iron compound with the kagomé lattice C. N. Rao, Geo Paul, Amitava Choudhury, E. V. Sampathkumaran, Arup K. Raychaudhuri, S. Ramasesha, and Indranil Rudra Published 24 April 2003 (5 pages) 134425 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal transport in one-dimensional spin gap systems E. Orignac, R. Chitra, and R. Citro Published 28 April 2003 (14 pages) 134426 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	XY ring-exchange model on the triangular lattice Leon Balents and Arun Paramekanti Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages) 134427 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamic properties of spin ladders with cyclic exchange Alexander Bühler, Ute Löw, Kai P. Schmidt, and Götz S. Uhrig Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages) 134428 [View PDF (519 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metastable states during magnetization reversal in square permalloy rings P. Vavassori, M. Grimsditch, V. Novosad, V. Metlushko, and B. Ilic Published 28 April 2003 (7 pages) 134429 [View PDF (459 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muon spin relaxation study of exchange biased Co/CoO J. van Lierop, H. S. Isaacs, D. H. Ryan, A. Beath, and E. McCalla Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 134430 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural disorder and magnetic frustration in ALaMnMoO6 (A=Ba, Sr) double perovskites El’ad N. Caspi, James D. Jorgensen, Maxim V. Lobanov, and Martha Greenblatt Published 28 April 2003 (11 pages) 134431 [View PDF (481 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical absorption spectra in SrCu2O3 two-leg spin ladder Nobuyasu Haga and Sei-ichiro Suga Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 134432 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polar phonons in the antiferromagnetic S=1 / 2 spin-chain system CuSb2O6 V. I. Torgashev, V. B. Shirokov, A. S. Prokhorov, B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, M. Dressel, B. J. Gibson, R. K. Kremer, A. V. Prokofiev, and W. Assmus Published 28 April 2003 (17 pages) 134433 [View PDF (1258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reconstruction and magnetic structure of ultrathin γ-Fe films on Cu(111) D. Spišák and J. Hafner Published 28 April 2003 (11 pages) 134434 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Brillouin light scattering from spin waves in epitaxial hcp Co films Akira Yoshihara, Jun-ichi Mawatari, Hidekuni Sato, Satoshi Okamoto, Osamu Kitakami, and Yutaka Shimada Published 30 April 2003 (7 pages) 134435 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular dependence of domain wall resistivity in SrRuO3 films Michael Feigenson, Lior Klein, James W. Reiner, and Malcolm R. Beasley Published 30 April 2003 (5 pages) 134436 [View PDF (439 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Direct observations of the vortex chain state in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y by Bitter decoration M. Tokunaga, T. Tamegai, Yanina Fasano, and F. de la Cruz Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages) 134501 [View PDF (654 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry considerations for detection of time-reversal breaking phases in cuprates by x-ray diffraction and absorption S. Di Matteo and C. M. Varma Published 2 April 2003 (8 pages) 134502 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of the collective mode and its influence on the band splitting in bilayer cuprates S. Varlamov and G. Seibold Published 2 April 2003 (6 pages) 134503 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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