• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, 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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Impurity-induced van der Waals transition during decohesion A. Van der Ven and G. Ceder Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060101 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

100,000 % ballistic magnetoresistance in stable Ni nanocontacts at room temperature Susan Z. Hua and Harsh Deep Chopra Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 060401 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Distribution and magnetization of Co impurities in anatase TiO2 Zongxian Yang, Gang Liu, and Ruqian Wu Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages) 060402 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Numerical results for ground states of mean-field spin glasses at low connectivities Stefan Boettcher Published 21 February 2003 (4 pages) 060403 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin dynamics and antiferromagnetic order in PrBa2Cu4O8 studied by Cu nuclear resonance S. Fujiyama, M. Takigawa, T. Suzuki, N. Yamada, S. Horii, and Y. Yamada Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 060404 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum tunneling and relaxation in Mn12-acetate studied by magnetic spectroscopy M. Dressel, B. Gorshunov, K. Rajagopal, S. Vongtragool, and A. A. Mukhin Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 060405 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tunneling magnetoresistance and quantum oscillations in bilayered Ca3Ru2O7 G. Cao, L. Balicas, Y. Xin, E. Dagotto, J. E. Crow, C. S. Nelson, and D. F. Agterberg Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060406 [View PDF (424 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin-density inversion symmetry driven first-order magnetic phase transition in GaCMn3 In Gee Kim, Ying Jiu Jin, Jae Il Lee, and A. J. Freeman Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060407 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Systematics of electronic structure and interactions in Bi2Sr2Can-1CunO2n+4 (n=1–3) by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy H. Matsui, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, H. Ding, H.-B. Yang, S.-C. Wang, T. Fujii, T. Watanabe, A. Matsuda, T. Terashima, and K. Kadowaki Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060501 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Control of interference effects in a two-dimensional-electron-gas/superconductor junction by the Josephson effect Th. Schäpers, R. P. Müller, and A. Kaluza Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060502 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coexistence of bulk antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in the QED3 theory of copper oxides T. Pereg-Barnea and M. Franz Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060503 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Enhanced magnetic quantum oscillations in the mixed state of a two-dimensional organic superconductor J. Wosnitza, J. Hagel, P. J. Meeson, D. Bintley, J. A. Schlueter, J. Mohtasham, R. W. Winter, and G. L. Gard Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 060504 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Single impurities in insulators: Ab initio study of Fe-doped SrTiO3 R. A. Evarestov, S. Piskunov, E. A. Kotomin, and G. Borstel Published 6 February 2003 (9 pages) 064101 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for MB and MC phases in the morphotropic phase boundary region of (1-x)[Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3]-xPbTiO3: A Rietveld study Akhilesh Kumar Singh and Dhananjai Pandey Published 6 February 2003 (12 pages) 064102 [View PDF (344 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of glissile interstitial clusters on microstructure self-organization in irradiated materials D. Walgraef and N. M. Ghoniem Published 6 February 2003 (10 pages) 064103 [View PDF (1561 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predicted hcp Ag-Al metastable phase diagram, equilibrium ground states, and precipitate structure Nikolai A. Zarkevich and D. D. Johnson Published 21 February 2003 (8 pages) 064104 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio approach for high-pressure systems with application to high-pressure phases of boron:  Perturbative momentum-space potentials D. E. Segall and T. A. Arias Published 24 February 2003 (15 pages) 064105 [View PDF (507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantitative analysis of the first-principles effective Hamiltonian approach to ferroelectric perovskites Silvia Tinte, Jorge Íñiguez, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages) 064106 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compressibility, kinetics, and phase transition in pressurized amorphous silica Kostya Trachenko and Martin T. Dove Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages) 064107 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic to insulating nature of TaNx:  Role of Ta and N vacancies C. Stampfl and A. J. Freeman Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 064108 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High pressure limiting forms of the zero-temperature equations of state of Ta and Pu from relativistic Thomas-Fermi theory F. E. Leys, N. H. March, and D. Lamoen Published 28 February 2003 (12 pages) 064109 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinodal equation of state for rutile TiO2 E. Francisco, M. Bermejo, V. García Baonza, L. Gerward, and J. M. Recio Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064110 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monoclinic to tetragonal semireconstructive phase transition of zirconia D. Simeone, G. Baldinozzi, D. Gosset, M. Dutheil, A. Bulou, and T. Hansen Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064111 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Structure of liquid Sn over a wide temperature range from neutron scattering experiments and first-principles molecular dynamics simulation: A comparison to liquid Pb T. Itami, S. Munejiri, T. Masaki, H. Aoki, Y. Ishii, T. Kamiyama, Y. Senda, F. Shimojo, and K. Hoshino Published 10 February 2003 (12 pages) 064201 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density of states for the π-flux state with bipartite real random hopping only: A weak disorder approach C. Mudry, S. Ryu, and A. Furusaki Published 28 February 2003 (28 pages) 064202 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of interchain interactions on the absorption and emission of poly(3-hexylthiophene) Peter J. Brown, D. Steve Thomas, Anna Köhler, Joanne S. Wilson, Ji-Seon Kim, Catherine M. Ramsdale, Henning Sirringhaus, and Richard H. Friend Published 28 February 2003 (16 pages) 064203 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of vitreous silica around the first sharp diffraction peak Mitsutaka Nakamura, Masatoshi Arai, Yasuhiro Inamura, Toshiya Otomo, and S. M. Bennington Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages) 064204 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Anharmonicity and negative thermal expansion in zirconium tungstate T. R. Ravindran, Akhilesh K. Arora, and T. A. Mary Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 064301 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

•	Magnetism of pure iron jarosites Daniel Grohol, Daniel G. Nocera, and Dimitris Papoutsakis Published 6 February 2003 (13 pages) 064401 [View PDF (465 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics of a tetrahedral cluster magnet Wolfram Brenig Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 064402 [View PDF (531 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anisotropic, thermal, and magnetic properties of CeAgSb2: Explanation via a crystalline electric field scheme Tetsuya Takeuchi, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Tomoyuki Okubo, Mineko Yamada, Noriko Nakamura, Takeshi Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Inada, Kiyohiro Sugiyama, Andrei Galatanu, Etsuji Yamamoto, Koichi Kindo, Takao Ebihara, and Yoshichika Ōnuki Published 6 February 2003 (10 pages) 064403 [View PDF (710 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic domain walls in single-phase and phase-separated double-exchange systems D. I. Golosov Published 6 February 2003 (20 pages) 064404 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and non-Fermi-liquid phases in Ce1-xYxRhIn5 V. S. Zapf, N. A. Frederick, K. L. Rogers, K. D. Hof, P.-C. Ho, E. D. Bauer, and M. B. Maple Published 6 February 2003 (8 pages) 064405 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unconventional magnetic transition and transport behavior in Na0.75CoO2 T. Motohashi, R. Ueda, E. Naujalis, T. Tojo, I. Terasaki, T. Atake, M. Karppinen, and H. Yamauchi Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 064406 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ferromagnetism of thermoelastic martensites: Theory and experiment V. A. Chernenko, V. A. L’vov, S. P. Zagorodnyuk, and T. Takagi Published 7 February 2003 (6 pages) 064407 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Néel order in a spatially anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet Y. Q. Wang, G. S. Tian, and H. Q. Lin Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages) 064408 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional arrangements of magnetic nanoparticles Abdelwahab Ghazali and Jean-Claude Lévy Published 10 February 2003 (5 pages) 064409 [View PDF (761 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport anomaly in the low-energy regime of spin chains Keiji Saito Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages) 064410 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of the ferromagnetic Ising model on a Sierpiński carpet: Monte Carlo renormalization group study Pai-Yi Hsiao and Pascal Monceau Published 10 February 2003 (7 pages) 064411 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-induced giant electroresistance in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films A. K. Debnath and J. G. Lin Published 13 February 2003 (5 pages) 064412 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jahn-Teller effect and electron correlation in manganites Ryo Maezono and Naoto Nagaosa Published 21 February 2003 (10 pages) 064413 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge and orbital ordering in Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 studied by 17O NMR A. Yakubovskii, A. Trokiner, S. Verkhovskii, A. Gerashenko, and D. Khomskii Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages) 064414 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instability of the rhodium magnetic moment as the origin of the metamagnetic phase transition in α-FeRh M. E. Gruner, E. Hoffmann, and P. Entel Published 26 February 2003 (10 pages) 064415 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	69,71Ga NMR spectra and relaxation in wurtzite GaN M. Corti, A. Gabetta, M. Fanciulli, A. Svane, and N. E. Christensen Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages) 064416 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band-filling effects on Kondo-lattice properties B. Coqblin, C. Lacroix, M. A. Gusmão, and J. R. Iglesias Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages) 064417 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Configurational stability and magnetization processes in submicron permalloy disks Jonathan Kin Ha, Riccardo Hertel, and J. Kirschner Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages) 064418 [View PDF (977 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagrams of spin ladders with ferromagnetic legs T. Vekua, G. I. Japaridze, and H.-J. Mikeska Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages) 064419 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbital gapped phase with least symmetry breaking in the one-dimensional symmetrically coupled spin-orbital model Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 064420 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Average lattice symmetry and nanoscale structural correlations in magnetoresistive manganites V. Kiryukhin, T. Y. Koo, H. Ishibashi, J. P. Hill, and S-W. Cheong Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 064421 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo technique with a quantified time step: Application to the motion of magnetic moments O. Chubykalo, U. Nowak, R. Smirnov-Rueda, M. A. Wongsam, R. W. Chantrell, and J. M. Gonzalez Published 28 February 2003 (10 pages) 064422 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reinvestigation of magnetic excitations in the spin density wave of chromium H. Hiraka, Y. Endoh, P. Böni, M. Fujita, K. Yamada, and G. Shirane Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 064423 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Strongly frustrated magnetism and colossal magnetoresistance in polycrystalline La0.47Ce0.20Ca0.33MnO3 G. Alejandro, D. G. Lamas, L. B. Steren, J. E. Gayone, G. Zampieri, A. Caneiro, M. T. Causa, and M. Tovar Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064424 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic resonant x-ray scattering in KCuF3 Manabu Takahashi, Manabu Usuda, and Jun-ichi Igarashi Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 064425 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Internal magnetic structure and spin dynamics in transverse field of the molecular nanomagnet Mn12-acetate studied by 55Mn NMR Y. Furukawa, K. Watanabe, K. Kumagai, F. Borsa, T. Sasaki, N. Kobayashi, and D. Gatteschi Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 064426 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Vortex shear effects in layered superconductors V. Braude and A. Stern Published 4 February 2003 (10 pages) 064501 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-dependent vortex pinning strength in a periodic array of antidots A. V. Silhanek, S. Raedts, M. Lange, and V. V. Moshchalkov Published 24 February 2003 (5 pages) 064502 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pocket Monte Carlo algorithm for classical doped dimer models Werner Krauth and R. Moessner Published 24 February 2003 (6 pages) 064503 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring the gap in angle-resolved photoemission experiments on cuprates A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, M. Knupfer, and J. Fink Published 25 February 2003 (8 pages) 064504 [View PDF (1099 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivity of MgB2 in the superconducting state M. Putti, V. Braccini, E. Galleani d’Agliano, F. Napoli, I. Pallecchi, A. S. Siri, P. Manfrinetti, and A. Palenzona Published 25 February 2003 (6 pages) 064505 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two pairing parameters in superconducting grains M. Schechter, J. von Delft, Y. Imry, and Y. Levinson Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 064506 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Correlation of the vortex order-disorder transition with the symmetry of the crystal lattice in V3Si H. Küpfer, G. Linker, G. Ravikumar, Th. Wolf, A. Will, A. A. Zhukov, R. Meier-Hirmer, B. Obst, and H. Wühl Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064507 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plastic depinning in artificial vortex channels: Competition between bulk and boundary nucleation T. Dröse, R. Besseling, P. Kes, and C. Morais Smith Published 28 February 2003 (16 pages) 064508 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of a low-symmetry crystal structure for superconducting MgCNi3 by Ni K-edge x-ray absorption measurements A. Yu. Ignatov, L. M. Dieng, T. A. Tyson, T. He, and R. J. Cava Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 064509 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elementary excitations of the BCS model in the canonical ensemble José María Román, Germán Sierra, and Jorge Dukelsky Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages) 064510 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of two-dimensional Josephson arrays in a resonant cavity E. Almaas and D. Stroud Published 28 February 2003 (12 pages) 064511 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticles as composite objects in the resonating valence bond superconductor Yi Zhou, V. N. Muthukumar, and Zheng-Yu Weng Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages) 064512 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local threshold field for dendritic instability in superconducting MgB2 films F. L. Barkov, D. V. Shantsev, T. H. Johansen, P. E. Goa, W. N. Kang, H. J. Kim, E. M. Choi, and S. I. Lee Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages) 064513 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unconventionally large quantum-dissipative gap regime in overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y T. Shibauchi, L. Krusin-Elbaum, G. Blatter, and C. H. Mielke Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages) 064514 [View PDF (928 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence of a superposition of macroscopic current states in a SQUID E. M. Chudnovsky and A. B. Kuklov Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064515 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zn-neighbor Cu NQR in Zn-substituted YBa2Cu3O7-δ and YBa2Cu4O8 Y. Itoh, T. Machi, C. Kasai, S. Adachi, N. Watanabe, N. Koshizuka, and M. Murakami Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages) 064516 [View PDF (478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher’s Note: Ab initio approach for high-pressure systems with application to high-pressure phases of boron: Perturbative momentum-space potentials [Phys. Rev. B 67, 064105 (2003)] D. E. Segall and T. A. Arias Published 28 February 2003 (1 pages) 069901 [View PDF (7 kB) ]