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Physical Review B – 1 February 2003
Volume 67, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Impurity-induced van der Waals transition during decohesion
A. Van der Ven and G. Ceder
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (42 kB)]

Magnetism

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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(R) [View PDF (589 kB)]
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Distribution and magnetization of Co impurities in anatase TiO2
Zongxian Yang, Gang Liu, and Ruqian Wu
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
060402(R) [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Numerical results for ground states of mean-field spin glasses at low connectivities
Stefan Boettcher
Published 21 February 2003 (4 pages)
060403(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (423 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (262 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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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(R) [View PDF (315 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (275 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (92 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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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)]
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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 (343 kB)]
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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 (1,560 kB)]
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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 (175 kB)]
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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 (506 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (371 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (106 kB)]

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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]

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

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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)]

Magnetism

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Magnetism of pure iron jarosites
Daniel Grohol, Daniel G. Nocera, and Dimitris Papoutsakis
Published 6 February 2003 (13 pages)
064401 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Spin dynamics of a tetrahedral cluster magnet
Wolfram Brenig
Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages)
064402 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (185 kB)]
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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 (234 kB)]
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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 (73 kB)]
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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)]
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Two-dimensional arrangements of magnetic nanoparticles
Abdelwahab Ghazali and Jean-Claude Lévy
Published 10 February 2003 (5 pages)
064409 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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Transport anomaly in the low-energy regime of spin chains
Keiji Saito
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
064410 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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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 (111 kB)]
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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 (71 kB)]
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Jahn-Teller effect and electron correlation in manganites
Ryo Maezono and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 21 February 2003 (10 pages)
064413 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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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 (255 kB)]
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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 (161 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (976 kB)]
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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 (122 kB)]
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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 (85 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (306 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (115 kB)]
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Magnetic resonant x-ray scattering in KCuF3
Manabu Takahashi, Manabu Usuda, and Jun-ichi Igarashi
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
064425 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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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 (107 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Vortex shear effects in layered superconductors
V. Braude and A. Stern
Published 4 February 2003 (10 pages)
064501 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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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 (117 kB)]
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Pocket Monte Carlo algorithm for classical doped dimer models
Werner Krauth and R. Moessner
Published 24 February 2003 (6 pages)
064503 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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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 (1,099 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (259 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (96 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (109 kB)]
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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 (355 kB)]
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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 (927 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (477 kB)]

ERRATA

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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 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
 
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