• BRIEF REPORTS
  • 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
• 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.

•	Effect of defect-induced internal field on the aging of relaxors Zhongqing Wu, Wenhui Duan, Yu Wang, Bing-Lin Gu, and Xiao-Wen Zhang Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052101 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Prediction of insulating quasicrystalline approximants using ab initio electronic structure calculations M. Krajčí and J. Hafner Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages) 052201 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic magnetotransport in superconducting Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+δ single crystals S. I. Vedeneev, A. G. Jansen, and P. Wyder Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 052202 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Sb3+ as a network-forming cation in oxide glasses A. J. Ellison and S. Sen Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 052203 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Velocity-dependent interactions and sum rule in bcc He Nir Gov Published 12 February 2003 (4 pages) 052301 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon dispersion in uranium measured using inelastic x-ray scattering M. E. Manley, G. H. Lander, H. Sinn, A. Alatas, W. L. Hults, R. J. McQueeney, J. L. Smith, and J. Willit Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052302 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Buried antiferromagnetic films investigated by x-ray magneto-optical reflection spectroscopy P. M. Oppeneer, H.-Ch. Mertins, D. Abramsohn, A. Gaupp, W. Gudat, J. Kuneš, and C. M. Schneider Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages) 052401 [View PDF (558 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum tunneling and magnetic relaxation in Mn12 chloropropionate S. W. Yoon, M. Heu, W. S. Jeon, D.-Y. Jung, B. J. Suh, and S. Yoon Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages) 052402 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic excitations in SrCu2O3: A Raman scattering study A. Gößling, U. Kuhlmann, C. Thomsen, A. Löffert, C. Gross, and W. Assmus Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 052403 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between fluctuations and disorder in frustrated magnets Julien Serreau and Matthieu Tissier Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 052404 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence of magnetic polaronic states in La0.70Sr0.30Mn1-xFexO3 manganites A. G. Souza Filho, J. L. Faria, I. Guedes, J. M. Sasaki, P. T. Freire, V. N. Freire, J. Mendes Filho, M. M. Xavier, F. A. Cabral, J. H. de Araújo, and J. A. da Costa Published 19 February 2003 (4 pages) 052405 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fine mist versus large droplets in phase separated manganites D. Khomskii and L. Khomskii Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages) 052406 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin diffusion at finite electric and magnetic fields Y. Qi and S. Zhang Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052407 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic V embedded in copper evidenced by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism Y. Huttel, G. van der Laan, C. M. Teodorescu, P. Bencok, and S. S. Dhesi Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052408 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin injection and detection in magnetic nanostructures S. Takahashi and S. Maekawa Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 052409 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	BCS-like superconductivity in MgCNi3 J.-Y. Lin, P. L. Ho, H. L. Huang, P. H. Lin, Y.-L. Zhang, R.-C. Yu, C.-Q. Jin, and H. D. Yang Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages) 052501 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two different quasiparticle scattering rates in the vortex-line liquid phase of layered d-wave superconductors D. V. Khveshchenko and A. G. Yashenkin Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 052502 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Influence of the grain boundary network on the critical current of YBa2Cu3O7 films grown on biaxially textured metallic substrates L. Fernández, B. Holzapfel, F. Schindler, B. de Boer, A. Attenberger, J. Hänisch, and L. Schultz Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages) 052503 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivity and thermal Hall effect from vortex motion A. Freimuth and B. Zeini Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 052504 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong rejuvenation in a chiral-glass superconductor A. Gardchareon, R. Mathieu, P. E. Jönsson, and P. Nordblad Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 052505 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization in uniaxial type-II superconductors Hiroaki Matsueda and Kenji Takanaka Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052506 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic transition in driven vortices across the peak effect in superconductors Mahesh Chandran, R. T. Scalettar, and G. T. Zimányi Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages) 052507 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Vacancy concentration in Al from combined first-principles and model potential calculations Karin M. Carling, Göran Wahnström, Thomas R. Mattsson, Nils Sandberg, and Göran Grimvall Published 5 February 2003 (9 pages) 054101 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR comparisons of nanocrystalline and coarse-grained palladium hydride and deuteride Steven K. Brady, Ivan Salazar, David B. Baker, Caleb D. Browning, J. A. Eastman, and Mark S. Conradi Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages) 054102 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-spin diffusion in proton-irradiation microstructured (fluoranthene)2PF6 T. Wokrina, J. Gmeiner, N. Kaplan, and E. Dormann Published 18 February 2003 (9 pages) 054103 [View PDF (510 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical investigation of stoichiometric lithium monoboride H. Rosner and W. E. Pickett Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages) 054104 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Behavior of rays near singularities in anisotropic media V. Vavryčuk Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages) 054105 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of aging phenomena in shape-memory alloys Tohru Okuzono, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, and Takao Ohta Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages) 054106 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagrams and physical properties of single-domain epitaxial Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3 thin films N. A. Pertsev, V. G. Kukhar, H. Kohlstedt, and R. Waser Published 28 February 2003 (10 pages) 054107 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wafer curvature in molecular beam epitaxy grown heterostructures T. Dieing and B. F. Usher Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 054108 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Quantum molecular-dynamics study of the electrical and optical properties of shocked liquid nitrogen S. Mazevet, J. D. Kress, L. A. Collins, and P. Blottiau Published 6 February 2003 (7 pages) 054201 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear impurity in a lattice: Dispersion effects M. I. Molina Published 7 February 2003 (5 pages) 054202 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the liquid-vapor interface of a dilute ternary alloy: Pb and In in Ga Bin Yang, Dongxu Li, and Stuart A. Rice Published 10 February 2003 (9 pages) 054203 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Network models for localization problems belonging to the chiral symmetry classes Marc Bocquet and J. T. Chalker Published 12 February 2003 (13 pages) 054204 [View PDF (697 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Observation of the dynamical structure arising from spatially extended quantum entanglement and long-lived quantum coherence in the KHCO3 crystal François Fillaux, Alain Cousson, and David Keen Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages) 054301 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductance of epitaxial interfaces Ruxandra M. Costescu, Marcel A. Wall, and David G. Cahill Published 27 February 2003 (5 pages) 054302 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Magnetic and transport properties of amorphous Tb-Si alloys near the metal-insulator transition M. Liu and F. Hellman Published 4 February 2003 (6 pages) 054401 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical parameters and universal amplitude ratios of two-dimensional spin-S Ising models using high- and low-temperature expansions P. Butera, M. Comi, and A. J. Guttmann Published 5 February 2003 (9 pages) 054402 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic properties of gadolinium and terbium nanoparticles produced via multilayer precursors Z. C. Yan, Y. H. Huang, Y. Zhang, H. Okumura, J. Q. Xiao, S. Stoyanov, V. Skumryev, G. C. Hadjipanayis, and C. Nelson Published 5 February 2003 (5 pages) 054403 [View PDF (1364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of interfaces in the magnetoresistance of Au/Fe/Au/Fe multilayers P. Weinberger, J. Zabloudil, R. H. Hammerling, L. Szunyogh, T. L. Monchesky, and B. Heinrich Published 6 February 2003 (6 pages) 054404 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical angle for irreversible switching of the exchange-bias direction in NiO-Cu-Ni81Fe19 films O. de Haas, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, C. M. Schneider, Y. M. Chang, and M.-T. Lin Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 054405 [View PDF (1549 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin tunneling in magnetic molecules: Quasisingular perturbations and discontinuous SU(2) instantons Ersin Keçecioğlu and Anupam Garg Published 6 February 2003 (13 pages) 054406 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic cooling by the application of external pressure in rare-earth compounds Th. Strässle, A. Furrer, Z. Hossain, and Ch. Geibel Published 6 February 2003 (12 pages) 054407 [View PDF (802 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite size effects on the moment and ordering temperature in antiferromagnetic CoO layers Y. J. Tang, David J. Smith, B. L. Zink, F. Hellman, and A. E. Berkowitz Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages) 054408 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mössbauer studies of magnetic anisotropy for BaFe12-2xCoxZrxO19 Z. W. Li, Linfeng Chen, Xuesong Rao, and C. K. Ong Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages) 054409 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic ground state of the pyrochlore oxide Y2Nb2O7 H. Fukazawa and Y. Maeno Published 10 February 2003 (5 pages) 054410 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Planar pyrochlore: A valence-bond crystal J.-B. Fouet, M. Mambrini, P. Sindzingre, and C. Lhuillier Published 10 February 2003 (8 pages) 054411 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state and excitation of an asymmetric spin ladder model Shu Chen, H. Büttner, and J. Voit Published 10 February 2003 (8 pages) 054412 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-field-tuned metallic fraction and dynamic percolation in a charge-ordered manganite N. K. Pandey, R. P. Lobo, and R. C. Budhani Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages) 054413 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron scattering study of two-magnon states in the quantum magnet copper nitrate D. A. Tennant, C. Broholm, D. H. Reich, S. E. Nagler, G. E. Granroth, T. Barnes, K. Damle, G. Xu, Y. Chen, and B. C. Sales Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages) 054414 [View PDF (643 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo study of an extended three-state Potts model on the triangular lattice Z. F. Wang, B. W. Southern, and D. A. Lavis Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 054415 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnon exchange mechanism of ferromagnetic superconductivity Naoum Karchev Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages) 054416 [View PDF (777 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles calculations of spin spirals in Ni2MnGa and Ni2MnAl J. Enkovaara, A. Ayuela, J. Jalkanen, L. Nordström, and R. M. Nieminen Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages) 054417 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic structure of thin films of FexMn1-x on Cu(100)/Co by the fully relativistic screened KKR method L. Szunyogh, J. Zabloudil, P. Weinberger, F. Offi, W. Kuch, and J. Kirschner Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages) 054418 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange bias of polycrystalline antiferromagnets with perfectly compensated interfaces D. Suess, M. Kirschner, T. Schrefl, J. Fidler, R. L. Stamps, and J.-V. Kim Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 054419 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Effect of a magnetic field on long-range magnetic order in stage-4 and stage-6 superconducting La2CuO4+y B. Khaykovich, R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou, R. W. Erwin, M. A. Kastner, S.-H. Lee, Y. S. Lee, P. Smeibidl, P. Vorderwisch, and S. Wakimoto Published 4 February 2003 (6 pages) 054501 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-slip-like resistivity in underdoped YBa2Cu3O7 M. M. Abdelhadi and J. A. Jung Published 6 February 2003 (11 pages) 054502 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inversion of angle-resolved photoemission measurements in high-Tc cuprates S. Verga, A. Knigavko, and F. Marsiglio Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 054503 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation and depinning of superconducting vortices from artificial defects: A Ginzburg-Landau study D. J. Priour and H. A. Fertig Published 18 February 2003 (9 pages) 054504 [View PDF (2608 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multicritical phenomena in O(n1)⊕O(n2)-symmetric theories Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari Published 18 February 2003 (12 pages) 054505 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple flux jumps and irreversible behavior of thin Al superconducting rings D. Y. Vodolazov, F. M. Peeters, S. V. Dubonos, and A. K. Geim Published 21 February 2003 (6 pages) 054506 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prospects for quantum criticality in perovskite SrRhO3 D. J. Singh Published 21 February 2003 (5 pages) 054507 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy dependent counting statistics in superconducting tunnel junctions P. Samuelsson Published 24 February 2003 (8 pages) 054508 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin-glass behavior, spin fluctuations, and superconductivity in Sr2Y(Ru1-uCuu)O6 Dale R. Harshman, W. J. Kossler, A. J. Greer, D. R. Noakes, C. E. Stronach, E. Koster, M. K. Wu, F. Z. Chien, J. P. Franck, I. Isaac, and John D. Dow Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 054509 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting and pseudogap phases from scaling near a Van Hove singularity J. González Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages) 054510 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry considerations for the detection of second-harmonic generation in cuprates in the pseudogap phase M. E. Simon and C. M. Varma Published 27 February 2003 (3 pages) 054511 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher’s Note: Temperature dependence of aging in spin glasses [Phys. Rev. B 60, 10 164 (1999)] Derek Walton and K. Eftimova Published 5 February 2003 (1 pages) 059901 [View PDF (8 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Ab initio interionic potentials for NaCl by multiple lattice inversion [Phys. Rev. B 66, 064106 (2002)] Shuo Zhang and Nanxian Chen Published 18 February 2003 (1 pages) 059902 [View PDF (10 kB) ]

•	Erratum: First-order intervalley scattering in low-dimensional systems [Phys. Rev. B 65, 212304 (2002)] Florian Monsef, Philippe Dollfus, Sylvie Galdin, and Arnaud Bournel Published 27 February 2003 (2 pages) 059903 [View PDF (41 kB) ]