Physical Review B – 1 April 2003
(Volume 67, Issue 14)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Add to article collection Role of core polarization curvature of screw dislocations in determining the Peierls stress in bcc Ta: A criterion for designing high-performance materials
Guofeng Wang, Alejandro Strachan, Tahir Çağın, and William A. Goddard
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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

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Add to article collection Pressure-induced phonon instabilities in copper chloride
Yanming Ma, John S. Tse, and Dennis D. Klug
Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Magnetism

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Add to article collection Pressure-induced intermediate-to-low spin state transition in LaCoO3
T. Vogt, J. A. Hriljac, N. C. Hyatt, and P. Woodward
Published 7 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Optical probe of orbital ordering in heavily hole-doped manganites Nd1-xSrxMnO3 (x=0.55 and 0.7)
K. Tobe, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Self-interaction correction and contact hyperfine field
P. Novák, J. Kuneš, W. E. Pickett, Wei Ku, and F. R. Wagner
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamic stiffness of spin valves
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. Bauer
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Direct observation of remanent magnetic states in epitaxial fcc Co small disks
C. A. Vaz, L. Lopez-Diaz, M. Kläui, J. A. Bland, T. L. Monchesky, J. Unguris, and Z. Cui
Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Spin angular gradient approximation in the density functional theory
M. I. Katsnelson and V. P. Antropov
Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Add to article collection Noncubic layered structure of Ba1-xKxBiO3 superconductor
L. A. Klinkova, M. Uchida, Y. Matsui, V. I. Nikolaichik, and N. V. Barkovskii
Published 7 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Reversal of thermopower oscillations in the mesoscopic Andreev interferometer
A. Parsons, I. A. Sosnin, and V. T. Petrashov
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Synchrotron x-ray diffraction study of a charge stripe order in 1 / 8-doped La1.875Ba0.125-xSrxCuO4
H. Kimura, H. Goka, M. Fujita, Y. Noda, K. Yamada, and N. Ikeda
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Condensation energy in strongly coupled superconductors
Robert Haslinger and Andrey V. Chubukov
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoupling and decommensuration in layered superconductors with columnar defects
A. Morozov, B. Horovitz, and P. Le Doussal
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Antiferromagnetic and superconducting proximity effects in YBa2Cu3O7-δ/PrBa2Cu3O7-δ superlattices
D. Budelmann, J. Holmlund, J. Andreasson, H. Rodríguez, J. Bäckström, L. Börjesson, H. Adrian, U. Merkt, and M. Rübhausen
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonequilibrium order-disorder vortex transitions in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
B. Kalisky, D. Giller, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun
Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

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

Add to article collection Model of high-temperature plastic deformation of nanocrystalline materials: Application to yttria tetragonal zirconia
D. Gómez-García, C. Lorenzo-Martín, A. Muñoz-Bernabé, and A. Domínguez-Rodríguez
Published 1 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Relaxor ferroelectric behavior of γ-irradiated poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymers
C. Welter, L. O. Faria, and R. L. Moreira
Published 4 April 2003 (7 pages)
144103 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metal impurities in an oxide:  Ab initio study of electronic and structural properties of Cd in rutile TiO2
Leonardo A. Errico, Gabriel Fabricius, and Mario Rentería
Published 7 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Freezing and melting of Ar in mesopores studied by optical transmission
Victor P. Soprunyuk, Dirk Wallacher, Patrick Huber, Klaus Knorr, and Andriy V. Kityk
Published 17 April 2003 (7 pages)
144105 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phenomenological theory of the reconstructive phase transition between the NaCl and CsCl structure types
P. Tolédano, K. Knorr, L. Ehm, and W. Depmeier
Published 29 April 2003 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Appearance of icosahedral atomic clusters in the formation of the MgCu2-type structure from the bcc structure in Ti-Cr alloys
A. Hirata, Y. Koyama, and M. Tanimura
Published 29 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Add to article collection Optical activity of the boson peak and two-level systems in silica-germania glasses
B. E. Hubbard, J. J. Tu, N. I. Agladze, and A. J. Sievers
Published 2 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.

Add to article collection Two-dimensional phononic crystals studied using a variational method: Application to lattices of locally resonant materials
Cécile Goffaux and José Sánchez-Dehesa
Published 2 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Discrete breathers in a polyethylene chain
A. V. Savin and L. I. Manevitch
Published 11 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Fast noise in the Landau-Zener theory
V. L. Pokrovsky and N. A. Sinitsyn
Published 16 April 2003 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Ab initio calculation of the linewidth of various phonon modes in germanium and silicon
G. Deinzer, G. Birner, and D. Strauch
Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Role of nonpairwise interactions on phonon thermal transport
A. Sparavigna
Published 29 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Magnetism

Add to article collection Theory of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect in quasi-two-dimensional metals
P. D. Grigoriev
Published 2 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Magnetic phase diagram of cubic perovskites SrMn1-xFexO3
S. Kolesnik, B. Dabrowski, J. Mais, D. E. Brown, R. Feng, O. Chmaissem, R. Kruk, and C. W. Kimball
Published 2 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Low-temperature static and dynamic behavior of the easy-axis Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Kagome lattice
S. Bekhechi and B. W. Southern
Published 2 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Charge ordered ferromagnetic phase in manganites
Tran Minh-Tien
Published 4 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Cluster-glass state and photon-induced effects in perovskite manganite (La0.3Nd0.7)2/3Ca1/3MnO3 films
J. M. Dai, W. H. Song, J. J. Du, J. N. Wang, and Y. P. Sun
Published 4 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Magnetic ordering in the rutile molecular magnets MII[N(CN)2]2 (M=Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni0.5Co0.5, and Ni0.5Fe0.5)
Alexandros Lappas, Andrew S. Wills, Mark A. Green, Kosmas Prassides, and Mohamedally Kurmoo
Published 7 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Dilatometry study of the ferromagnetic order in single-crystalline URhGe
S. Sakarya, N. H. van Dijk, A. de Visser, and E. Brück
Published 8 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Field-induced magnetic transition in the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet Ce7Ni3
K. Umeo, Y. Echizen, M. H. Jung, T. Takabatake, T. Sakakibara, T. Terashima, C. Terakura, C. Pfleiderer, M. Uhlarz, and H. v. Löhneysen
Published 10 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Large moment formation and thermodynamic properties of disordered spin ladders with site dilution
Eddy Yusuf and Kun Yang
Published 10 April 2003 (8 pages)
144409 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetism of adsorbed oxygen at low coverage
Igor S. Altman, Peter V. Pikhitsa, Young-Jeong Kim, and Mansoo Choi
Published 10 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Linear theory of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in 3d-4f intermetallics: A generalization to J-mixing compounds
N. Magnani, S. Carretta, E. Liviotti, and G. Amoretti
Published 14 April 2003 (8 pages)
144411 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transitions of magnetic configuration at the interface of exchange-coupled bilayers: TbFe/GdFe as a model system
F. Montaigne, S. Mangin, and Y. Henry
Published 16 April 2003 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Doping effects on the phase separation in perovskite La0.67-xBixCa0.33MnO3
J. R. Sun, J. Gao, Y. Fei, R. W. Li, and B. G. Shen
Published 17 April 2003 (10 pages)
144414 [View PDF (475 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of dopants and defects in Co-doped TiO2 anatase
James M. Sullivan and Steven C. Erwin
Published 18 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-impurity Anderson model in the zero-bandwidth limit
R. Allub
Published 18 April 2003 (6 pages)
144416 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic properties of rare-earth metal tritellurides RTe3 (R=Ce,Pr,Nd,Gd,Dy)
Yuji Iyeiri, Teppei Okumura, Chishiro Michioka, and Kazuya Suzuki
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
144417 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Gilbert damping in magnetic multilayers
E. Šimánek and B. Heinrich
Published 28 April 2003 (12 pages)
144418 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Anisotropic colossal magnetoresistance effects in Fe1-xCuxCr2S4
V. Fritsch, J. Deisenhofer, R. Fichtl, J. Hemberger, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, M. Mücksch, M. Nicklas, D. Samusi, J. D. Thompson, R. Tidecks, V. Tsurkan, and A. Loidl
Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages)
144419 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mechanisms by which oxygen acts as a surfactant in giant magnetoresistance film growth
D. J. Larson, A. K. Petford-Long, A. Cerezo, S. P. Bozeman, A. Morrone, Y. Q. Ma, A. Georgalakis, and P. H. Clifton
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
144420 [View PDF (785 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic phase diagram of GdNi2B2C: Two-ion magnetoelasticity and anisotropic exchange couplings
M. El Massalami, H. Takeya, K. Hirata, M. Amara, R.-M. Galera, and D. Schmitt
Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages)
144421 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic behavior of poly(3-methylthiophene): Metamagnetism and room-temperature weak ferromagnetism
O. R. Nascimento, A. J. de Oliveira, A. A. Correa, L. O. Bulhões, E. C. Pereira, V. M. Souza, and L. Walmsley
Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages)
144422 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin current in the Kondo lattice model
Shun-Qing Shen and X. C. Xie
Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Negative cooperative effect on the spin-state excitation in LaCoO3
Tôru Kyômen, Yoshinori Asaka, and Mitsuru Itoh
Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Finite-size effects in the conductance and giant magnetoresistance of Fe/Cr and Co/Cu nanowires
Julian Velev and Yia-Chung Chang
Published 29 April 2003 (5 pages)
144425 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Competing interactions in the XYZ model
M. Arlego, D. C. Cabra, J. E. Drut, and M. D. Grynberg
Published 30 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Spin wave theory for antiferromagnetic XXZ spin model on a triangle lattice in the presence of an external magnetic field
J. Y. Gan, F. C. Zhang, and Z. B. Su
Published 30 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Superfluidity and superconductivity

Add to article collection Renormalization of the upper critical field by superconducting fluctuations
V. M. Galitski and S. Das Sarma
Published 4 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Superconducting fluctuation probed by in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities in Tl2Ba2CaCuO8+y single crystals
Heon-Jung Kim, P. Chowdhury, W. N. Kang, Dong-Jin Zang, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 4 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Effect of the magnetic resonance on the electronic spectra of high-Tc superconductors
M. Eschrig and M. R. Norman
Published 4 April 2003 (23 pages)
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Add to article collection Surface impedance anisotropy of YBa2Cu3O6.95 single crystals: Electrodynamic basis of the measurements
Yu. A. Nefyodov, M. R. Trunin, A. A. Zhohov, I. G. Naumenko, G. A. Emel’chenko, D. Yu. Vodolazov, and I. L. Maksimov
Published 4 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Models for enhanced absorption in inhomogeneous superconductors
Sergey V. Barabash and David Stroud
Published 11 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Nearly localized nature of f electrons in CeTIn5 (T=Rh, Ir)
Shin-ichi Fujimori, Tetsuo Okane, Jun Okamoto, Kazutoshi Mamiya, Yasuji Muramatsu, Atsushi Fujimori, Hisatomo Harima, Dai Aoki, Shugo Ikeda, Hiroaki Shishido, Yoshifumi Tokiwa, Yoshinori Haga, and Yoshichika Ōnuki
Published 14 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB2 by electron energy-loss spectroscopy
Robert F. Klie, Haibin Su, Yimei Zhu, James W. Davenport, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Nigel D. Browning, and Peter D. Nellist
Published 14 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Transport properties in the d-density-wave state in an external magnetic field: The Wiedemann-Franz law
S. G. Sharapov, V. P. Gusynin, and H. Beck
Published 16 April 2003 (22 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimum pinning of the vortex lattice in extremely type-II layered superconductors
C. E. Creffield and J. P. Rodriguez
Published 16 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Formation of stripes and incommensurate peaks in the orthorhombic phase of underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4
J. M. Tipper and K. J. Vos
Published 16 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum superposition of charge states on capacitively coupled superconducting islands
C. P. Heij, D. C. Dixon, C. H. van der Wal, P. Hadley, and J. E. Mooij
Published 18 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Corbino geometry Josephson junction
Robert H. Hadfield, Gavin Burnell, Dae-Joon Kang, Chris Bell, and Mark G. Blamire
Published 24 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Search for a vortex loop blowout transition in a type-II superconductor in a finite magnetic field
P. Olsson and S. Teitel
Published 25 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Shear and loading in channels: Oscillatory shearing and edge currents of superconducting vortices
J. F. Wambaugh, F. Marchesoni, and Franco Nori
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Stability of driven Josephson vortex lattice in layered superconductors revisited
S. N. Artemenko and S. V. Remizov
Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Effects of gap fluctuations on the pair-transfer correlation function in nanometer-scale superconducting grains
R. Rossignoli, N. Canosa, and P. Ring
Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Doping dependence of the low-energy excitations in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Evidence for thermal phase fluctuations
G. Lamura, J. Le Cochec, A. Gauzzi, F. Licci, D. Di Castro, A. Bianconi, and J. Bok
Published 28 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Formation and mobility of oxygen vacancies in RuSr2GdCu2O8
F. Cordero, M. Ferretti, M. R. Cimberle, and R. Masini
Published 28 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Kohn-Luttinger pseudopairing in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid
V. M. Galitski and S. Das Sarma
Published 28 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Shubnikov–de Haas effect in the quantum vortex liquid state of the organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2
T. Sasaki, T. Fukuda, N. Yoneyama, and N. Kobayashi
Published 29 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Penetration of vortices into the ferromagnet/type-II superconductor bilayer
R. Laiho, E. Lähderanta, E. B. Sonin, and K. B. Traito
Published 29 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Structure and electronic properties of the orthorhombic MoRuP superconductor prepared at high pressure
W. Wong-Ng, W. Y. Ching, Yong-Nian Xu, J. A. Kaduk, I. Shirotani, and L. Swartzendruber
Published 30 April 2003 (9 pages)
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COMMENTS

Add to article collection Comment on “Collapse of the vortex-lattice inductance and shear modulus at the melting transition in untwinned YBa2Cu3O7
A. Pautrat, C. Goupil, Ch. Simon, B. Plaçais, and P. Mathieu
Published 30 April 2003 (2 pages)
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ERRATA

Add to article collection Publisher’s Note: Phase diagram of a spin ladder with cyclic four-spin exchange [Phys. Rev. B 67, 100409 (2003)]
A. Läuchli, G. Schmid, and M. Troyer
Published 15 April 2003 (1 pages)
149901 [View PDF (7 kB) ]