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Physical Review B – 1 May 2003
Volume 67, Issue 17

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Pop-in effect as homogeneous nucleation of dislocations during nanoindentation
D. Lorenz, A. Zeckzer, U. Hilpert, P. Grau, H. Johansen, and H. S. Leipner
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
172101 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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High thermal conductivity of solid nitrous oxide at low temperatures
P. Stachowiak, V. V. Sumarokov, J. Mucha, and A. Jeżowski
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
172102 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Peierls-Nabarro landscape for martensitic phase transitions
Lev Truskinovsky and Anna Vainchtein
Published 19 May 2003 (4 pages)
172103 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Metastable photoinduced phase of Cu(II) ethylenediamine complexes studied by x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy
Toshihiko Yokoyama, Kazuyuki Takahashi, and Osamu Sato
Published 28 May 2003 (4 pages)
172104 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Structural models of amorphous selenium
Pál Jóvári, Robert G. Delaplane, and László Pusztai
Published 27 May 2003 (4 pages)
172201 [View PDF (45 kB)]

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

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Neutron measurements of the single-particle kinetic energies in solid neon
D. N. Timms, R. O. Simmons, and J. Mayers
Published 1 May 2003 (4 pages)
172301 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Magnetism

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5D term origin of the excited triplet in LaCoO3
Z. Ropka and R. J. Radwanski
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
172401 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Spin-1 Ising model in a transverse crystal field
J. Oitmaa and A. M. A. von Brasch
Published 8 May 2003 (4 pages)
172402 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Scaling law of Wolff cluster surface energy
Pai-Yi Hsiao and Pascal Monceau
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
172403 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Ground state of a Heisenberg chain with next-nearest-neighbor bond alternation
Luca Capriotti, Federico Becca, Sandro Sorella, and Alberto Parola
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
172404 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Onset of exchange bias in ultrathin antiferromagnetic layers
M. Ali, C. H. Marrows, and B. J. Hickey
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
172405 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Pressure-induced Fermi-liquid behavior in the Kondo insulator SmB6: Possible transition through a quantum critical point
S. Gabáni, E. Bauer, S. Berger, K. Flachbart, Y. Paderno, C. Paul, V. Pavlík, and N. Shitsevalova
Published 19 May 2003 (4 pages)
172406 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Coulomb correlations and magnetic anisotropy in ordered L10 CoPt and FePt alloys
Alexander B. Shick and Oleg N. Mryasov
Published 28 May 2003 (4 pages)
172407 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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29Si NMR and relaxation in FeSi
M. Corti, S. Aldrovandi, M. Fanciulli, and F. Tabak
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
172408 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Mediated exchange interaction in Fe-Nb-B nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials
Youhui Gao, Daisuke Shindo, Teruo Bitoh, and Akihiro Makino
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
172409 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Depth profile of iron in a CaB6 crystal
Chandana Meegoda, Michael Trenary, Takao Mori, and Shigeki Otani
Published 30 May 2003 (3 pages)
172410 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Robust half-metallic ferromagnetism in zinc-blende CrSb
Bang-Gui Liu
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
172411 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Chemical potential shift in lightly doped to overdoped Bi2Sr2Ca1-xRxCu2O8+y (R=Pr, Er)
N. Harima, A. Fujimori, T. Sugaya, and I. Terasaki
Published 1 May 2003 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Bulk superconductivity in Ru0.9Sr2YCu2.1O7.9
V. P. S. Awana, T. Kawashima, and E. Takayama-Muromachi
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Self-consistent scattering theory of the pair distribution function in charged Bose fluids
B. Davoudi, R. Asgari, M. Polini, and M. P. Tosi
Published 6 May 2003 (4 pages)
172503 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Nonlocal mixing of supercurrents in Josephson ballistic point contacts
Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and S. N. Shevchenko
Published 8 May 2003 (4 pages)
172504 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Quantum interference between multiple impurities in anisotropic superconductors
Brian Møller Andersen and Per Hedegård
Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages)
172505 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Logarithmic contribution to the density of states of rectangular Andreev billiards
A. Kormányos, Z. Kaufmann, J. Cserti, and C. J. Lambert
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
172506 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the CuO3 chains in YBa2Cu3O6+x and PrBa2Cu3O6+x
R. Franco and A. A. Aligia
Published 22 May 2003 (4 pages)
172507 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Observation of superconductivity in thick amorphous MgxB1-x films
S. Okuma, S. Togo, and K. Amemori
Published 23 May 2003 (4 pages)
172508 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Direct evidence of the discontinuous character of the Kosterlitz-Thouless jump
Petter Minnhagen and Beom Jun Kim
Published 30 May 2003 (3 pages)
172509 [View PDF (54 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Raman spectra of solid isotopic hydrogen mixtures
B. J. Kozioziemski and G. W. Collins
Published 1 May 2003 (11 pages)
174101 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Atomistic modeling of displacement cascades in La2Zr2O7 pyrochlore
Alain Chartier, Constantin Meis, Jean-Paul Crocombette, L. René Corrales, and William J. Weber
Published 8 May 2003 (13 pages)
174102 [View PDF (2,801 kB)]
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Understanding the NMR shifts in paramagnetic transition metal oxides using density functional theory calculations
D. Carlier, M. Ménétrier, C. P. Grey, C. Delmas, and G. Ceder
Published 8 May 2003 (14 pages)
174103 [View PDF (752 kB)]
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Phase retrieval of diffraction patterns from noncrystalline samples using the oversampling method
Jianwei Miao, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Erik H. Anderson, and Keith O. Hodgson
Published 14 May 2003 (6 pages)
174104 [View PDF (763 kB)]
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Stability and clusterization of hydrogen-vacancy complexes in α-Fe: An ab initio study
Yoshitaka Tateyama and Takahisa Ohno
Published 14 May 2003 (10 pages)
174105 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Dynamical stability of the α and θ phases of alumina
Z. Łodziana and K. Parliński
Published 16 May 2003 (7 pages)
174106 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Theoretical extension of the gold pressure calibration standard beyond 3 Mbars
J. C. Boettger
Published 16 May 2003 (7 pages)
174107 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Two-band second moment model and an interatomic potential for caesium
Graeme J. Ackland and Stewart K. Reed
Published 19 May 2003 (9 pages)
174108 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Electrical and optical properties of LiNbO3 single crystals at room temperature
H. Chaib, T. Otto, and L. M. Eng
Published 20 May 2003 (10 pages)
174109 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Brillouin and Raman spectroscopy of the ferroelastic rutile-to-CaCl2 transition in SnO2 at high pressure
Holger Hellwig, Alexander F. Goncharov, Eugene Gregoryanz, Ho-kwang Mao, and Russell J. Hemley
Published 20 May 2003 (7 pages)
174110 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Photogeneration of superparaelectric large polarons in dielectrics with soft anharmonic T1u phonons
Keiichiro Nasu
Published 20 May 2003 (8 pages)
174111 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic properties of the Rochelle salt NaKC4H4O6⋅4H2O: A theory
R. R. Levitskii, I. R. Zachek, T. M. Verkholyak, and A. P. Moina
Published 28 May 2003 (12 pages)
174112 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Distorted states of smectic A in the vicinity of the nematic–smectic-A phase transition
A. Ya. Braginsky
Published 28 May 2003 (6 pages)
174113 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Inversion of x-ray diffuse scattering to images using prepared objects
H. He, S. Marchesini, M. Howells, U. Weierstall, H. Chapman, S. Hau-Riege, A. Noy, and J. C. H. Spence
Published 28 May 2003 (3 pages)
174114 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Deuterium NMR study of structure and motion in LuD3
Vikram D. Kodibagkar, Caleb D. Browning, T. J. Udovic, and Mark S. Conradi
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
174115 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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High-pressure high-temperature x-ray diffraction of β-boron to 30 GPa
Yanzhang Ma, Charles T. Prewitt, Guangtian Zou, Ho-kwang Mao, and Russell J. Hemley
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
174116 [View PDF (429 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Electronic excitation and transient defects in As2S3 glass
T. Uchino and S. R. Elliott
Published 5 May 2003 (6 pages)
174201 [View PDF (642 kB)]
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Correlation between configurational entropy and structural relaxation time in glass-forming liquids
D. Prevosto, M. Lucchesi, S. Capaccioli, R. Casalini, and P. A. Rolla
Published 12 May 2003 (5 pages)
174202 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Site occupation in the Ni-Nb μ phase
Marcel H. F. Sluiter, Alain Pasturel, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 22 May 2003 (10 pages)
174203 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Dielectric response of N2-Ar solid solutions in the audio frequency range
S. Pilla, J. A. Hamida, K. A. Muttalib, and N. S. Sullivan
Published 23 May 2003 (8 pages)
174204 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Coulomb effects in granular materials at not very low temperatures
K. B. Efetov and A. Tschersich
Published 30 May 2003 (15 pages)
174205 [View PDF (157 kB)]

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

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Experimental observation of vibrational modes on Ag(111) along ΓM̅ and ΓK̅
M. W. G. Ponjée, C. F. J. Flipse, A. W. Denier van der Gon, and H. H. Brongersma
Published 6 May 2003 (5 pages)
174301 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Ultrafast relaxation kinetics of excited states in a series of mini- and macro-β-carotenes
M. Yoshizawa, H. Aoki, M. Ue, and H. Hashimoto
Published 6 May 2003 (8 pages)
174302 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Magnetism

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Phase diagram of a coupled tetrahedral Heisenberg model
Onofre Rojas and F. C. Alcaraz
Published 5 May 2003 (12 pages)
174401 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Field dependence of magnetization reversal by spin transfer
J. Grollier, V. Cros, H. Jaffrès, A. Hamzic, J. M. George, G. Faini, J. Ben Youssef, H. Le Gall, and A. Fert
Published 5 May 2003 (8 pages)
174402 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Bond-randomness-induced Néel order in weakly coupled antiferromagnetic spin chains
A. Joshi and Kun Yang
Published 8 May 2003 (8 pages)
174403 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Ab initio studies of electric transport in terms of the real space Kubo-Greenwood equation
K. Palotás, B. Lazarovits, L. Szunyogh, and P. Weinberger
Published 8 May 2003 (7 pages)
174404 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Longitudinal magnon in the tetrahedral spin system Cu2Te2O5Br2 near quantum criticality
C. Gros, P. Lemmens, M. Vojta, R. Valentí, K.-Y. Choi, H. Kageyama, Z. Hiroi, N. V. Mushnikov, T. Goto, M. Johnsson, and P. Millet
Published 8 May 2003 (5 pages)
174405 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Effects of crystal structure and on-site Coulomb interactions on the electronic and magnetic structure of A2Mo2O7 (A=Y, Gd, and Nd) pyrochlores
I. V. Solovyev
Published 12 May 2003 (15 pages)
174406 [View PDF (1,069 kB)]
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Semiconductive and photoconductive properties of the single-molecule magnets Mn12-acetate and Fe8Br8
J. M. North, D. Zipse, N. S. Dalal, E. S. Choi, E. Jobiliong, J. S. Brooks, and D. L. Eaton
Published 13 May 2003 (7 pages)
174407 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Glassy ferromagnetism and magnetic phase separation in La1-xSrxCoO3
J. Wu and C. Leighton
Published 14 May 2003 (16 pages)
174408 [View PDF (517 kB)]
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Negative differential magnetization in ultrathin Fe on vicinal W(100)
Yugui Yao, Hector C. Mireles, Jie Liu, Qian Niu, and J. L. Erskine
Published 15 May 2003 (5 pages)
174409 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Scalar chiral ground states of spin ladders with four-spin exchanges
Tsutomu Momoi, Toshiya Hikihara, Masaaki Nakamura, and Xiao Hu
Published 16 May 2003 (8 pages)
174410 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Correlation of dislocation and domain structure of Cr(001) investigated by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy
R. Ravlić, M. Bode, A. Kubetzka, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 16 May 2003 (11 pages)
174411 [View PDF (2,999 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance and nanoscopic magnetic coherence in some frustrated ferromagnets
Paolo Allia, Marco Coisson, Javier Moya, Vincenzo Selvaggini, Paola Tiberto, and Franco Vinai
Published 19 May 2003 (8 pages)
174412 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Structure and magnetism of cobalt clusters
J. L. Rodríguez-López, F. Aguilera-Granja, K. Michaelian, and A. Vega
Published 20 May 2003 (9 pages)
174413 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Epitaxial Ce and the magnetism of single-crystal Ce/Nd superlattices
P. S. Clegg, J. P. Goff, G. J. McIntyre, R. C. C. Ward, and M. R. Wells
Published 21 May 2003 (11 pages)
174414 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Low-frequency random telegraphic noise and 1/f noise in the rare-earth manganite Pr0.63Ca0.37MnO3 near the charge-ordering transition
Aveek Bid, Ayan Guha, and A. K. Raychaudhuri
Published 21 May 2003 (10 pages)
174415 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Antisites and electron-doping effects on the magnetic transition of Sr2FeMoO6 double perovskite
J. Navarro, J. Nogués, J. S. Muñoz, and J. Fontcuberta
Published 22 May 2003 (6 pages)
174416 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Sr2V3O9 and Ba2V3O9: Quasi-one-dimensional spin-systems with an anomalous low temperature susceptibility
E. E. Kaul, H. Rosner, V. Yushankhai, J. Sichelschmidt, R. V. Shpanchenko, and C. Geibel
Published 22 May 2003 (10 pages)
174417 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Magnetic polarons in the one-dimensional ferromagnetic Kondo model
Winfried Koller, Alexander Prüll, Hans Gerd Evertz, and Wolfgang von der Linden
Published 22 May 2003 (11 pages)
174418 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Double-exchange mechanism for CrO2
P. Schlottmann
Published 23 May 2003 (7 pages)
174419 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Noether’s theorem and conserved quantities for the crystal- and ligand-field Hamiltonians invariant under continuous rotational symmetry
C. Rudowicz and J. Qin
Published 23 May 2003 (14 pages)
174420 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Formation and propagation of spin-wave envelope solitons in weakly dissipative ferrite waveguides
A. N. Slavin and H. Benner
Published 28 May 2003 (8 pages)
174421 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Orbital order and a canted phase in the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic states of 50% hole-doped colossal magnetoresistance manganites
H. Kawano-Furukawa, R. Kajimoto, H. Yoshizawa, Y. Tomioka, H. Kuwahara, and Y. Tokura
Published 28 May 2003 (5 pages)
174422 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Enhanced electron-electron correlations in nanometric SrRuO3 epitaxial films
G. Herranz, B. Martínez, J. Fontcuberta, F. Sánchez, C. Ferrater, M. V. García-Cuenca, and M. Varela
Published 29 May 2003 (8 pages)
174423 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Interface and bulk properties of Fe/Mn sandwich structures
E. C. Passamani, B. Croonenborghs, B. Degroote, and A. Vantomme
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
174424 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Evidence of the oscillatory magnetic anisotropy in Ni/Co/Ni/Cu(100)
C. Won, Y. Z. Wu, N. Kurahashi, K. T. Law, H. W. Zhao, A. Scholl, A. Doran, and Z. Q. Qiu
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
174425 [View PDF (249 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Temperature dependence of spin-polarized transport in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor junctions
T. Hirai, Y. Tanaka, N. Yoshida, Y. Asano, J. Inoue, and S. Kashiwaya
Published 1 May 2003 (11 pages)
174501 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Magnetic field dependent vibrational modes in κ-(ET)2Cu(SCN)2
I. Olejniczak, J. Choi, J. L. Musfeldt, Y. J. Wang, J. A. Schlueter, and R. A. Klemm
Published 1 May 2003 (6 pages)
174502 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Kondo effect in underdoped n-type superconductors
Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Michio Naito, and Noboru Miura
Published 2 May 2003 (5 pages)
174503 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Flow of the quasiparticle weight in the N-patch renormalization group scheme
Carsten Honerkamp and Manfred Salmhofer
Published 5 May 2003 (11 pages)
174504 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Josephson current in the presence of a precessing spin
Jian-Xin Zhu and A. V. Balatsky
Published 6 May 2003 (5 pages)
174505 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Vibronic mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity
M. Tachiki, M. Machida, and T. Egami
Published 8 May 2003 (12 pages)
174506 [View PDF (836 kB)]
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Doping-driven transition to a time-reversal breaking state in the phase diagram of the cuprates
G. Sangiovanni, M. Capone, S. Caprara, C. Castellani, C. Di Castro, and M. Grilli
Published 8 May 2003 (8 pages)
174507 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Vortex matter in layered superconductors without Josephson coupling: Numerical simulations within a mean-field approach
Hans Fangohr, Alexei E. Koshelev, and Matthew J. W. Dodgson
Published 9 May 2003 (12 pages)
174508 [View PDF (650 kB)]
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Theory of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ cross-whisker Josephson junctions
Richard A. Klemm
Published 12 May 2003 (5 pages)
174509 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Cu doping effects in MgB2
G. Profeta, A. Continenza, A. Floris, and S. Massidda
Published 12 May 2003 (6 pages)
174510 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Fermiology and superconductivity studies on the non-tetrachalcogenafulvalene-structured organic superconductor β-(BDA-TTP)2SbF6
E. S. Choi, E. Jobilong, A. Wade, E. Goetz, J. S. Brooks, J. Yamada, T. Mizutani, T. Kinoshita, and M. Tokumoto
Published 14 May 2003 (8 pages)
174511 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Quantum critical point in the QED3 theory of underdoped high-temperature superconductors
Dominic J. Lee and Igor F. Herbut
Published 16 May 2003 (12 pages)
174512 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Dilute resonating gases and the third virial coefficient
Paulo F. Bedaque and Gautam Rupak
Published 19 May 2003 (7 pages)
174513 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Josephson effect in superconductive SNS heterostructures with barriers
Ozgur Cakir and Igor O. Kulik
Published 19 May 2003 (8 pages)
174514 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Short-wavelength cutoff effects in the ac fluctuation conductivity of superconductors
D.-N. Peligrad, M. Mehring, and A. Dulčić
Published 21 May 2003 (13 pages)
174515 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Intrinsic and extrinsic d-wave effects in YBa2Cu3O7-δ grain boundary Josephson junctions: Implications for π circuitry
F. Tafuri, J. R. Kirtley, F. Lombardi, and F. Miletto Granozio
Published 21 May 2003 (6 pages)
174516 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Dynamic scaling and two-dimensional high-Tc superconductors
D. R. Strachan, C. J. Lobb, and R. S. Newrock
Published 22 May 2003 (13 pages)
174517 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Kohn-Luttinger instability of the t-t′ Hubbard model in two dimensions: Variational approach
J. Mráz and R. Hlubina
Published 22 May 2003 (7 pages)
174518 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Angle-resolved soft x-ray spectroscopy study of the electronic states of single-crystal MgB2
G. P. Zhang, G. S. Chang, T. A. Callcott, D. L. Ederer, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyeong-Jin Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 23 May 2003 (8 pages)
174519 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity across the phase diagram of cuprates: Low-energy quasiparticles and doping dependence of the superconducting gap
Mike Sutherland, D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, S. Wakimoto, H. Zhang, C. Proust, Etienne Boaknin, C. Lupien, Louis Taillefer, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Robert Gagnon, N. E. Hussey, T. Kimura, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi
Published 23 May 2003 (11 pages)
174520 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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From phase- to amplitude-fluctuation-driven superconductivity in systems with precursor pairing
J. Ranninger and L. Tripodi
Published 27 May 2003 (12 pages)
174521 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Vortons in the SO(5) model of high-temperature superconductivity
Kirk B. W. Buckley and Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
Published 30 May 2003 (11 pages)
174522 [View PDF (118 kB)]
 
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