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Physical Review B – 1 May 2003
Volume 67, Issue 18

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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UPd3 under high pressure: Lattice properties
S. Heathman, M. Idiri, J. Rebizant, P. Boulet, P. S. Normile, L. Havela, V. Sechovský, and T. Le Bihan
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180101(R) [View PDF (46 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetocapacitance effect in multiferroic BiMnO3
T. Kimura, S. Kawamoto, I. Yamada, M. Azuma, M. Takano, and Y. Tokura
Published 7 May 2003 (4 pages)
180401(R) [View PDF (209 kB)]
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On the existence of a finite-temperature transition in the two-dimensional gauge glass
Helmut G. Katzgraber
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
180402(R) [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Unusual behavior of the low-moment magnetic ground state of YbRh2Si2 under high pressure
J. Plessel, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, J. P. Sanchez, G. Knebel, C. Geibel, O. Trovarelli, and F. Steglich
Published 19 May 2003 (4 pages)
180403(R) [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Magnetic frustration in the stoichiometric spin-chain compound Ca3CoIrO6
S. Rayaprol, Kausik Sengupta, and E. V. Sampathkumaran
Published 19 May 2003 (4 pages)
180404(R) [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Ab initio calculations of incommensurate antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in hcp iron under pressure
V. Thakor, J. B. Staunton, J. Poulter, S. Ostanin, B. Ginatempo, and Ezio Bruno
Published 19 May 2003 (4 pages)
180405(R) [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Nature of inhomogeneous magnetic state in artificial Fe/Gd ferrimagnetic multilayers
D. Haskel, G. Srajer, Y. Choi, D. R. Lee, J. C. Lang, J. Meersschaut, J. S. Jiang, and S. D. Bader
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180406(R) [View PDF (518 kB)]
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ac susceptibility and static magnetization measurements of CeRu2Si2 at small magnetic fields and ultralow temperatures
D. Takahashi, S. Abe, H. Mizuno, D. A. Tayurskii, K. Matsumoto, H. Suzuki, and Y. Ōnuki
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
180407(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Sb-NQR probe for superconducting properties in the Pr-based filled-skutterudite compound PrRu4Sb12
M. Yogi, H. Kotegawa, Y. Imamura, G.-q. Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato
Published 9 May 2003 (4 pages)
180501(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Thermodynamic and thermoelectric properties of high-temperature cuprate superconductors in the stripe phase
T. Tohyama, S. Maekawa, and P. Prelovšek
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
180502(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Origin of superconductivity in β′-(BEDT-TTF)2ICl2 under high pressure and in β-(BEDT-TTF)2X at atmospheric pressure
Hiroshi Kontani
Published 22 May 2003 (4 pages)
180503(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Raman spectra of triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4
Hae-Young Kee, K. Maki, and C. H. Chung
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180504(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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First-principles characterization of the electronic structure of the molecular superconductor β-(BEDT-TTF)2IBr2
Y. J. Lee, R. M. Nieminen, P. Ordejon, and E. Canadell
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180505(R) [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Spectroscopy of voltage dependence of oxygen movement in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
S. H. Huerth, H. D. Hallen, and B. Moeckly
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180506(R) [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Spectral properties of a quantum impurity in d-wave superconductors
Xi Dai and Ziqiang Wang
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180507(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]
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High-field ordered and superconducting phases in the heavy-fermion compound PrOs4Sb12
P.-C. Ho, N. A. Frederick, V. S. Zapf, E. D. Bauer, T. D. Do, M. B. Maple, A. D. Christianson, and A. H. Lacerda
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
180508(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Force-free current-induced reentrant melting of the vortex lattice in superconductors
Sergey Savel’ev, Ciro Cattuto, and Franco Nori
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
180509(R) [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in transition-metal diborides
R. Heid, B. Renker, H. Schober, P. Adelmann, D. Ernst, and K.-P. Bohnen
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
180510(R) [View PDF (304 kB)]
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X-ray-absorption spectroscopy study of the heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12
D. Cao, F. Bridges, S. Bushart, E. D. Bauer, and M. B. Maple
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
180511(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Influence of the equation of state on the compression and heating of hydrogen
N. A. Tahir, H. Juranek, A. Shutov, R. Redmer, A. R. Piriz, M. Temporal, D. Varentsov, S. Udrea, D. H. H. Hoffmann, C. Deutsch, I. Lomonosov, and V. E. Fortov
Published 5 May 2003 (7 pages)
184101 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics study of ablation of solids under femtosecond laser pulses
Danny Perez and Laurent J. Lewis
Published 5 May 2003 (15 pages)
184102 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Nuclear quadrupole resonance of an electronically excited state from high-resolution hole-burning spectroscopy
Robert Klieber, Andreas Michalowski, Rudolf Neuhaus, and Dieter Suter
Published 5 May 2003 (6 pages)
184103 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Fundamentals of graded ferroic materials and devices
Z.-G. Ban, S. P. Alpay, and J. V. Mantese
Published 6 May 2003 (6 pages)
184104 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Ab initio study of anthracene under high pressure
Kerstin Hummer, Peter Puschnig, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 7 May 2003 (7 pages)
184105 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Structure, photophysics, and the order-disorder transition to the β phase in poly(9,9-(di-n,n-octyl)fluorene)
M. J. Winokur, J. Slinker, and D. L. Huber
Published 12 May 2003 (11 pages)
184106 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Scaling in plasticity-induced cell-boundary microstructure: Fragmentation and rotational diffusion
James P. Sethna, Valerie R. Coffman, and Eugene Demler
Published 27 May 2003 (9 pages)
184107 [View PDF (1,078 kB)]
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Anomalous neutron Compton scattering cross sections in niobium and palladium hydrides
E. B. Karlsson, T. Abdul-Redah, R. M. F. Streffer, B. Hjörvarsson, J. Mayers, and C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann
Published 29 May 2003 (13 pages)
184108 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Slow dynamics about the glass transition as explored by muon spin relaxation spectroscopy
C. Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, and S. F. J. Cox
Published 6 May 2003 (3 pages)
184201 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Enhanced diffraction pattern from a Fibonacci chain
Jian Xu and Alfred Hübler
Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages)
184202 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Timescales of crystallization and viscous flow of the bulk glass-forming Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be alloys
Theodore Waniuk, Jan Schroers, and William L. Johnson
Published 15 May 2003 (9 pages)
184203 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Scaling of light scattered from fractal aggregates at resonance
Guillermo P. Ortiz and W. Luis Mochán
Published 16 May 2003 (17 pages)
184204 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Broad and narrow bands in the photoluminescence spectrum of solid-state oligothiophenes: Two marks of an intrinsic emission
F. Meinardi, M. Cerminara, S. Blumstengel, A. Sassella, A. Borghesi, and R. Tubino
Published 20 May 2003 (6 pages)
184205 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Analytical expressions for the transport coefficients of icosahedral quasicrystals
C. V. Landauro, E. Maciá, and H. Solbrig
Published 30 May 2003 (7 pages)
184206 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Structural study of aged saturated silica gels obtained from tetramethoxysilane sonohydrolysis with different water/tetramethoxysilane molar ratio
D. R. Vollet, D. A. Donatti, A. Ibañez Ruiz, and W. C. de Castro
Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages)
184207 [View PDF (74 kB)]

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

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Observations of impurity-soliton interactions in driven Frenkel-Kontorova chains
Weizhong Chen, Yifei Zhu, and Lei Lu
Published 7 May 2003 (6 pages)
184301 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Self-diffusion of Sn atoms in Cu3Sn probed by quasielastic nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation
H. Thiess, A. Baron, D. Ishikawa, T. Ishikawa, D. Miwa, B. Sepiol, and S. Tsutsui
Published 8 May 2003 (6 pages)
184302 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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High-resolution coherent Raman spectroscopy of vibrons in solid parahydrogen
K. Kuroda, A. Koreeda, S. Takayanagi, M. Suzuki, and K. Hakuta
Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages)
184303 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Excitations in confined helium
V. Apaja and E. Krotscheck
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
184304 [View PDF (966 kB)]

Magnetism

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Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in Ce1-xThxRhSb
J. S. Kim, E.-W. Scheidt, D. Mixson, B. Andraka, and G. R. Stewart
Published 1 May 2003 (7 pages)
184401 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Growth morphology, structure, and magnetism of ultrathin Co films on W(111)
K. L. Man, R. Zdyb, S. F. Huang, T. C. Leung, C. T. Chan, E. Bauer, and M. S. Altman
Published 2 May 2003 (11 pages)
184402 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Giant magnetic enhancement in Fe/Pd films and its influence on the magnetic interlayer coupling
Erik Holmström, Lars Nordström, and A. M. N. Niklasson
Published 5 May 2003 (6 pages)
184403 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Spin waves in magnetic double layers with strong antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling: Theory and experiment
M. Buchmeier, B. K. Kuanr, R. R. Gareev, D. E. Bürgler, and P. Grünberg
Published 5 May 2003 (9 pages)
184404 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Quantum oscillations, colossal magnetoresistance, and the magnetoelastic interaction in bilayered Ca3Ru2O7
G. Cao, L. Balicas, Y. Xin, J. E. Crow, and C. S. Nelson
Published 6 May 2003 (8 pages)
184405 [View PDF (1,356 kB)]
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Specific heat and isothermal magnetocaloric effect for single-crystal UAs
T. Plackowski, A. Junod, F. Bouquet, I. Sheikin, Y. Wang, A. Jeżowski, and K. Mattenberger
Published 6 May 2003 (13 pages)
184406 [View PDF (696 kB)]
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Spin stiffness of stacked triangular antiferromagnets
A. Peles and B. W. Southern
Published 7 May 2003 (5 pages)
184407 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Semianalytical solution of the Kondo model in a magnetic field
C. Slezak, S. Kehrein, Th. Pruschke, and M. Jarrell
Published 8 May 2003 (7 pages)
184408 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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99,101Ru NMR study of EuSr2RuCu2O8: Coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity
Hironori Sakai, Naoki Osawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, Minghu Fang, and Koji Kosuge
Published 8 May 2003 (6 pages)
184409 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Field-controlled magnetic phase separation in (La0.25Pr0.75)0.7Ca0.3Mn18O3 probed by 55Mn NMR
A. Gerashenko, Y. Furukawa, K. Kumagai, S. Verkhovskii, K. Mikhalev, and A. Yakubovskii
Published 12 May 2003 (5 pages)
184410 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Alternating spin-1/spin-1/2 sites in a diamond lattice: Ground state and excitations
Swapan K. Pati
Published 12 May 2003 (5 pages)
184411 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Ferrimagnetic ring Mn6R6 in megagauss fields
V. V. Kostyuchenko, I. M. Markevtsev, A. V. Philippov, V. V. Platonov, V. D. Selemir, O. M. Tatsenko, A. K. Zvezdin, and A. Caneschi
Published 14 May 2003 (5 pages)
184412 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Rung-singlet phase of the S=1/2 two-leg spin-ladder with four-spin cyclic exchange
K. P. Schmidt, H. Monien, and G. S. Uhrig
Published 22 May 2003 (4 pages)
184413 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Symmetry and substrate effects on magnetic interactions from first principles: A comparison between Fe/W(100) and Fe/W(110)
X. Qian and W. Hübner
Published 22 May 2003 (7 pages)
184414 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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CoFe stripes: Magnetization reversal study by polarized neutron scattering and magneto-optical Kerr effect
Katharina Theis-Bröhl, Till Schmitte, Vincent Leiner, Hartmut Zabel, Karsten Rott, Hubert Brückl, and Jeffery McCord
Published 23 May 2003 (10 pages)
184415 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Exact relations between macroscopic moduli of composite media in three dimensions: Application to magnetoconductivity and magneto-optics of three-dimensional composites with related columnar microstructures
Yakov M. Strelniker and David J. Bergman
Published 23 May 2003 (9 pages)
184416 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Anisotropic susceptibility of ferromagnetic ultrathin Co films on vicinal Cu
P. J. Jensen, S. Knappmann, W. Wulfhekel, and H. P. Oepen
Published 27 May 2003 (7 pages)
184417 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Charge ordering and charge dynamics in Nd2-xSrxNiO4 (0.33<~x<~0.7)
K. Ishizaka, Y. Taguchi, R. Kajimoto, H. Yoshizawa, and Y. Tokura
Published 27 May 2003 (8 pages)
184418 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Effect of a magnetic field on the spin- and charge-density-wave order in La1.45Nd0.4Sr0.15CuO4
S. Wakimoto, R. J. Birgeneau, Y. Fujimaki, N. Ichikawa, T. Kasuga, Y. J. Kim, K. M. Kojima, S.-H. Lee, H. Niko, J. M. Tranquada, S. Uchida, and M. v. Zimmermann
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
184419 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Electron density distribution in paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic MnO: A γ-ray diffraction study
W. Jauch and M. Reehuis
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
184420 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Statistics of lowest droplets in two-dimensional Gaussian Ising spin glasses
M. Picco, F. Ritort, and M. Sales
Published 30 May 2003 (16 pages)
184421 [View PDF (823 kB)]
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Role of initial conditions in spin-glass aging experiments
V. S. Zotev, G. F. Rodriguez, G. G. Kenning, R. Orbach, E. Vincent, and J. Hammann
Published 30 May 2003 (10 pages)
184422 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic domain-wall behavior during reversal and thermally activated antiferromagnetic reversal in an exchange-biased NiO/NiFe bilayer
Z. Y. Liu and S. Adenwalla
Published 30 May 2003 (9 pages)
184423 [View PDF (1,185 kB)]
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Neutron scattering study of magnetic ordering and excitations in the doped spin-gap system Tl(Cu1-xMgx)Cl3
A. Oosawa, M. Fujisawa, K. Kakurai, and H. Tanaka
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
184424 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Metastable states in magnetic nanorings
F. J. Castaño, C. A. Ross, C. Frandsen, A. Eilez, D. Gil, Henry I. Smith, M. Redjdal, and F. B. Humphrey
Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages)
184425 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Electronically driven first-order metal-insulator transition in layered manganite La1.04Sr1.96Mn2O7 single crystals
Qing’An Li, K. E. Gray, A. Berger, and J. F. Mitchell
Published 30 May 2003 (7 pages)
184426 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Effective spin-orbital Hamiltonian for the double perovskite Sr2FeWO6: Derivation of the phase diagram
S. Di Matteo, G. Jackeli, and N. B. Perkins
Published 30 May 2003 (11 pages)
184427 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Campbell penetration depth of a superconductor in the critical state
R. Prozorov, R. W. Giannetta, N. Kameda, T. Tamegai, J. A. Schlueter, and P. Fournier
Published 1 May 2003 (4 pages)
184501 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Evidence for a large magnetic heat current in insulating layered cuprates
M. Hofmann, T. Lorenz, K. Berggold, M. Grüninger, A. Freimuth, G. S. Uhrig, and E. Brück
Published 5 May 2003 (5 pages)
184502 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Staggered flux state of electrons in a two-dimensional t-J model
Koichi Hamada and Daijiro Yoshioka
Published 6 May 2003 (10 pages)
184503 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Quantum noise in a current-biased Josephson junction
Y. Levinson
Published 6 May 2003 (8 pages)
184504 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Josephson current in s-wave-superconductor/Sr2RuO4 junctions
Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka, Manfred Sigrist, and Satoshi Kashiwaya
Published 6 May 2003 (7 pages)
184505 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Structure and properties of a class of CeO2-based biepitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-δ Josephson junctions
F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, F. Lombardi, F. Ricci, F. Bevilacqua, G. Ausanio, F. Carillo, and F. Tafuri
Published 8 May 2003 (9 pages)
184506 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Magnetic transitions and ferromagnetic clusters in RuSr2(Eu,Ce)2Cu2O10+δ
Y. Y. Xue, B. Lorenz, D. H. Cao, and C. W. Chu
Published 8 May 2003 (8 pages)
184507 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Isolated hybrid normal/superconducting ring in a magnetic flux: From persistent current to Josephson current
Jérôme Cayssol, Takis Kontos, and Gilles Montambaux
Published 8 May 2003 (14 pages)
184508 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Numerical analysis of the inhomogeneous current transport properties of Ag/Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 tapes
Kazuhiro Ogawa and Kozo Osamura
Published 8 May 2003 (8 pages)
184509 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Strong diamagnetic response and specific heat anomaly above Tc in underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4
U. Thisted, J. Nyhus, T. Suzuki, J. Hori, and K. Fossheim
Published 8 May 2003 (5 pages)
184510 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Phenomenology for multiple phases in the heavy-fermion skutterudite superconductor PrOs4Sb12
Jun Goryo
Published 8 May 2003 (6 pages)
184511 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Heat transport of La2-yEuyCuO4 and La1.88-yEuySr0.12CuO4 single crystals
X. F. Sun, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando
Published 8 May 2003 (6 pages)
184512 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Decoupling of a current-biased intrinsic Josephson junction from its environment
P. A. Warburton, A. R. Kuzhakhmetov, G. Burnell, M. G. Blamire, and H. Schneidewind
Published 13 May 2003 (5 pages)
184513 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation model for high-temperature superconductivity
A. Rosencwaig
Published 13 May 2003 (11 pages)
184514 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Enhancement of the upper critical field by nonmagnetic impurities in dirty two-gap superconductors
A. Gurevich
Published 16 May 2003 (13 pages)
184515 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Mid-infrared conductivity from mid-gap states associated with charge stripes
C. C. Homes, J. M. Tranquada, Q. Li, A. R. Moodenbaugh, and D. J. Buttrey
Published 19 May 2003 (7 pages)
184516 [View PDF (640 kB)]
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Inhomogeneously doped two-leg ladder systems
Stefan Wessel, Martin Indergand, Andreas Läuchli, Urs Ledermann, and Manfred Sigrist
Published 22 May 2003 (10 pages)
184517 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Proximity-induced screening and its magnetic breakdown in mesoscopic hybrid structures
Artem V. Galaktionov and Andrei D. Zaikin
Published 22 May 2003 (9 pages)
184518 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Theoretical description of ferromagnetic π junctions near the critical temperature
A. Buzdin and I. Baladié
Published 29 May 2003 (6 pages)
184519 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Flux-lattice melting in two-dimensional disordered superconductors
Mai Suan Li and Thomas Nattermann
Published 29 May 2003 (12 pages)
184520 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Variable-range hopping conductivity in the copper-oxygen chains of La3Sr3Ca8Cu24O41
T. Vuletić, B. Korin-Hamzić, S. Tomić, B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, M. Dressel, J. Akimitsu, T. Sasaki, and T. Nagata
Published 29 May 2003 (4 pages)
184521 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Low-energy excitations around (π/2,π/2) points in the pseudogap phase of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4
A. Koitzsch, G. Blumberg, A. Gozar, B. S. Dennis, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
184522 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Metastability and transient effects in vortex matter near a decoupling transition
C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, R. T. Scalettar, G. T. Zimányi, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
Published 30 May 2003 (9 pages)
184523 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Influence of the proximity effect on the shot noise in a diffusive metallic wire
M. Houzet and V. P. Mineev
Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages)
184524 [View PDF (153 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Observation of the dynamical structure arising from spatially extended quantum entanglement and long-lived quantum coherence in the KHCO3 crystal [Phys. Rev. B 67, 054301 (2003)]
François Fillaux, Alain Cousson, and David Keen
Published 16 May 2003 (1 page)
189901(E) [View PDF (179 kB)]
 
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