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Physical Review B – 1 July 2003
Volume 68, Issue 1

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Divalent-dopant criterion for the suppression of Jahn-Teller distortion in Mn oxides: First-principles calculations and x-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements for Co in LiMnO2
R. Prasad, R. Benedek, A. J. Kropf, C. S. Johnson, A. D. Robertson, P. G. Bruce, and M. M. Thackeray
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
012101 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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240 GHz electron paramagnetic resonance studies of intrinsic defects in as-grown 4H SiC
Valery V. Konovalov, Mary Ellen Zvanut, and Johan van Tol
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
012102 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Evaluation of diffuse neutron scattering at elevated temperatures and local decomposition in Ni-Au
M. J. Portmann, B. Schönfeld, G. Kostorz, F. Altorfer, and J. Kohlbrecher
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
012103 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Role of defects in metal mediated crystallization in Al/a-Ge multilayers
G. Raghavan and R. Rajaraman
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
012104 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Improved tight-binding parametrization for the simulation of stacking faults in aluminum
Anders G. Frøseth, Randi Holmestad, Peter M. Derlet, and Knut Marthinsen
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
012105 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Direct determination of the absolute electron density of nanostructured and disordered materials at sub-10-nm resolution
Jianwei Miao, James E. Amonette, Yoshinori Nishino, Tetsuya Ishikawa, and Keith O. Hodgson
Published 30 July 2003 (3 pages)
012201 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Delocalization in harmonic chains with long-range correlated random masses
F. A. B. F. de Moura, M. D. Coutinho-Filho, E. P. Raposo, and M. L. Lyra
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
012202 [View PDF (58 kB)]

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

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Modulation of the bonding-antibonding splitting in Te by coherent phonons
A. M.-T. Kim, C. A. D. Roeser, and E. Mazur
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
012301 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Optical resonances in reflectivity due to crystal modes with spatial dispersion
I. Kaelin, Ch. Helm, and G. Blatter
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
012302 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Linking vibrational dynamics to characteristics of local electronic structure: Local analysis of dynamics of the relaxed Si87 cluster
Lei Liu, C. S. Jayanthi, and Shi-Yu Wu
Published 31 July 2003 (4 pages)
012303 [View PDF (198 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic phase diagrams with possible field-induced antiferroquadrupolar order in TbB2C2
Koji Kaneko, Hideya Onodera, Hiroki Yamauchi, Takuo Sakon, Mitsuhiro Motokawa, and Yasuo Yamaguchi
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
012401 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Ab initio calculation of the anisotropic magnetoresistance in Ni1-cFec bulk alloys
S. Khmelevskyi, K. Palotás, L. Szunyogh, and P. Weinberger
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
012402 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance on oriented nuclei of 91SrFe
K. Nishimura, S. Ohya, T. Ohtsubo, M. Sasaki, J. Goto, T. Izumikawa, M. Tanigaki, A. Taniguchi, Y. Ohkubo, Y. Kawase, and S. Muto
Published 8 July 2003 (3 pages)
012403 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Local excitations of a spin glass in a magnetic field
J. Lamarcq, J.-P. Bouchaud, and O. C. Martin
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
012404 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Three-dimensional exchange bias in {Co/Pd}N/FeMn
C. H. Marrows
Published 14 July 2003 (4 pages)
012405 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Magnetization process in the spin-ice compound Ho2Ti2O7
O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan
Published 14 July 2003 (2 pages)
012406 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced reorientation in thin antiferromagnetic films: Spin-flop transition and surface-induced twist effects
A. N. Bogdanov and U. K. Rößler
Published 16 July 2003 (4 pages)
012407 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Quantum phase transition in the SU(4) spin-orbital model on the triangular lattice
Karlo Penc, Matthieu Mambrini, Patrik Fazekas, and Frédéric Mila
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
012408 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Domain nucleation in hard/soft ferromagnetic bilayers with exchange coupling through a pinhole
E. Saitoh, T. Nakamura, H. Matsumoto, and H. Miyajima
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
012409 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Resonant photoemission spectroscopy study of impurity-induced melting in Cr- and Ru-doped Nd1/2A1/2MnO3(A=Ca,Sr)
J. -S. Kang, J. H. Kim, A. Sekiyama, S. Kasai, S. Suga, S. W. Han, K. H. Kim, E. J. Choi, T. Kimura, T. Muro, Y. Saitoh, C. G. Olson, J. H. Shim, and B. I. Min
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
012410 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Long-range magnetic ordering in the spin-chain compound Ca3CuMnO6 with multiple bond distances
Kausik Sengupta, S. Rayaprol, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran
Published 28 July 2003 (3 pages)
012411 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Effect of band filling and structural distortions on the Curie temperature of Fe-Mo double perovskites
Carlos Frontera, Diego Rubi, José Navarro, José Luis García-Muñoz, Josep Fontcuberta, and Clemens Ritter
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
012412 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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ac susceptibility and magnetic relaxation of R2PdSi3 (R=Nd, Tb, and Dy)
D. X. Li, S. Nimori, Y. Shiokawa, Y. Haga, E. Yamamoto, and Y. Onuki
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
012413 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Thermal stability of exchange-coupled magnetic grains
F. C. S. da Silva and J. P. Nibarger
Published 31 July 2003 (4 pages)
012414 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Experimental evidence for a glass forming stripe liquid in the magnetic ground state of La1.65Eu0.2Sr0.15CuO4
B. Simovič, P. C. Hammel, M. Hücker, B. Büchner, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 31 July 2003 (4 pages)
012415 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Frequency resonance in Josephson-junction arrays driven by high alternating currents
Jong Soo Lim, M. Y. Choi, and Beom Jun Kim
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
012501 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Annealing of transient vortex states near the order-disorder phase transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
B. Kalisky, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
012502 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Interaction between two structural blocks and superconductivity in La2-xMxCuO4(M=Ba,Sr)
S. X. Wang and H. Zhang
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
012503 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Anisotropic low-field behavior and the observation of flux jumps in CeCoIn5
S. Majumdar, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, and D. McK. Paul
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
012504 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Defect and anisotropic gap-induced quasi-one-dimensional modulation of the local density of states of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
Khee-Kyun Voo, Hong-Yi Chen, and W. C. Wu
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
012505 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Evidence for the coupling between γ-band carriers and the incommensurate spin fluctuations in Sr2RuO4
Ping Lou, Ming-Che Chang, and Wen-Chin Wu
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
012506 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Common energy scale for magnetism and superconductivity in cuprates
Amit Keren and Amit Kanigel
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
012507 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Theoretical analysis of continuously driven dissipative solid-state qubits
M. C. Goorden and F. K. Wilhelm
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
012508 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Electronic states around a vortex core in high-Tc superconductors based on the t-J model
Hiroki Tsuchiura, Masao Ogata, Yukio Tanaka, and Satoshi Kashiwaya
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
012509 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Electron-hole asymmetry and superconductivity
J. E. Hirsch
Published 31 July 2003 (4 pages)
012510 [View PDF (162 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Laser site-selective excitation spectroscopy of Eu3+-doped yttrium aluminum garnet
YongRong Shen, ChunMao Li, Vilma C. Costa, and Kevin L. Bray
Published 3 July 2003 (6 pages)
014101 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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X-ray photoemission spectroscopy characterization of the electrode-ferroelectric interfaces in Pt/Bi4Ti3O12/Pt and Pt/Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12/Pt capacitors: Possible influence of defect structure on fatigue properties
M.-W. Chu, M. Ganne, M. T. Caldes, E. Gautier, and L. Brohan
Published 8 July 2003 (11 pages)
014102 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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High-pressure form of pyrite-type germanium dioxide
Shigeaki Ono, Taku Tsuchiya, Kei Hirose, and Yasuo Ohishi
Published 9 July 2003 (5 pages)
014103 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Ab initio and finite-temperature molecular dynamics studies of lattice resistance in tantalum
D. E. Segall, Alejandro Strachan, William A. Goddard, III, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, and T. A. Arias
Published 10 July 2003 (11 pages)
014104 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Raman spectroscopy of La2@C80 and Ti2@C80 dimetallofullerenes
R. Jaffiol, A. Débarre, C. Julien, D. Nutarelli, P. Tchénio, A. Taninaka, B. Cao, T. Okazaki, and H. Shinohara
Published 10 July 2003 (8 pages)
014105 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Infrared investigation on ice VIII and the phase diagram of dense ices
M. Song, H. Yamawaki, H. Fujihisa, M. Sakashita, and K. Aoki
Published 16 July 2003 (10 pages)
014106 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Crystal structure of bent carbon dioxide phase IV
J.-H. Park, C. S. Yoo, V. Iota, H. Cynn, M. F. Nicol, and T. Le Bihan
Published 18 July 2003 (9 pages)
014107 [View PDF (899 kB)]
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Evidence of a splitting of the Mn-O distance and of a large lattice disorder in the charge-ordered phase of LiMn2O4 obtained by EXAFS
A. Paolone, C. Castellano, R. Cantelli, G. Rousse, and C. Masquelier
Published 18 July 2003 (5 pages)
014108 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Dynamical mechanism of the ferroelectric phase transition of SrTi18O3 studied by light scattering
Hiroki Hasebe, Yuhji Tsujimi, Ruiping Wang, Mitsuru Itoh, and Toshirou Yagi
Published 22 July 2003 (7 pages)
014109 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Role of polarization effects in the prediction of an orthorhombic pressure-induced phase in alkali halides
M. Marqués, M. Flórez, M. A. Blanco, and J. M. Recio
Published 28 July 2003 (8 pages)
014110 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Optical response of solid CO2 as a tool for the determination of the high-pressure phase
S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, and C. Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
014111 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of piezoelectricity and polarization rotation in Pb(Zr0.5Ti0.5)O3
Zhigang Wu and Henry Krakauer
Published 29 July 2003 (7 pages)
014112 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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High-pressure x-ray scattering of oxides with a nanoscale local structure: Application to Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3
J. Kreisel, P. Bouvier, B. Dkhil, P. A. Thomas, A. M. Glazer, T. R. Welberry, B. Chaabane, and M. Mezouar
Published 29 July 2003 (7 pages)
014113 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Cationic-competition-induced monoclinic phase in high piezoelectric (PbSc1/2Nb1/2O3)1-x-(PbTiO3)x compounds
R. Haumont, B. Dkhil, J. M. Kiat, A. Al-Barakaty, H. Dammak, and L. Bellaiche
Published 30 July 2003 (10 pages)
014114 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Dislocations in diamond: Dissociation into partials and their glide motion
A. T. Blumenau, R. Jones, T. Frauenheim, B. Willems, O. I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo, D. Fisher, and P. M. Martineau
Published 30 July 2003 (9 pages)
014115 [View PDF (1,088 kB)]
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Applicability of O(N)-like density functional study on the structural properties of nitrogen defects in SiC
David Raczkowski and C. Y. Fong
Published 30 July 2003 (5 pages)
014116 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Nature of the superionic transition in Ag+ and Cu+ halides
D. A. Keen, S. Hull, A. C. Barnes, P. Berastegui, W. A. Crichton, P. A. Madden, M. G. Tucker, and M. Wilson
Published 30 July 2003 (11 pages)
014117 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Electronic transport in single crystals and polycrystalline Al3Zr: Effect of disorder upon resistivity
B. Fisher, K. B. Chashka, L. Patlagan, G. Bazalitsky, and G. M. Reisner
Published 30 July 2003 (5 pages)
014118 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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First-principles determination of the relative stability of the α and Cmcm structures of AlPO4
Lavanya M. Ramaniah, Surinder M. Sharma, Karel Kunc, Nandini Garg, and Mohini Laghate
Published 31 July 2003 (7 pages)
014119 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Energetics of Li atom displacements in K1-xLixTaO3: First-principles calculations
S. A. Prosandeev, E. Cockayne, and B. P. Burton
Published 31 July 2003 (13 pages)
014120 [View PDF (459 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Connection between the high-frequency crossover of the temperature dependence of the relaxation time and the change of intermolecular coupling in glass-forming liquids
R. Casalini, K. L. Ngai, and C. M. Roland
Published 3 July 2003 (5 pages)
014201 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Current-density functional for disordered systems
Janos Polonyi
Published 24 July 2003 (24 pages)
014202 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Energy relaxation in a tail at zero temperature in the hopping regime
E. Haba, O. Bleibaum, H. Böttger, and V. V. Bryksin
Published 29 July 2003 (14 pages)
014203 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Optical transitions of self-trapped holes in amorphous SiO2
Y. Sasajima and K. Tanimura
Published 30 July 2003 (7 pages)
014204 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Covalent bonds and their crucial effects on pseudogap formation in α-Al(Mn,Re)Si icosahedral quasicrystalline approximant
K. Kirihara, T. Nagata, K. Kimura, K. Kato, M. Takata, E. Nishibori, and M. Sakata
Published 31 July 2003 (12 pages)
014205 [View PDF (1,965 kB)]

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

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Phonon entropy of alloying and ordering of Cu-Au
P. D. Bogdanoff, T. L. Swan-Wood, and B. Fultz
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
014301 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Anharmonic scattering of longitudinal acoustic phonons: Herring processes in tetragonal TeO2 crystals
S. Tamura, A. Sangu, and H. J. Maris
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
014302 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Correlated atomic motions in the negative thermal expansion material ZrW2O8: A local structure study
D. Cao, F. Bridges, G. R. Kowach, and A. P. Ramirez
Published 11 July 2003 (14 pages)
014303 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Quantum and classical diffusion on small-world networks
Beom Jun Kim, H. Hong, and M. Y. Choi
Published 29 July 2003 (5 pages)
014304 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Modulation instability in two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger lattice models with dispersion and long-range interactions
Ljupčo Hadžievski, Milutin Stepić, and Miloš M. Škorić
Published 30 July 2003 (8 pages)
014305 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic ordering and spin dynamics in the quasi-one-dimensional spin-1/2 chains of CuNb2O6 observed by muon spin rotation and relaxation
V. V. Krishnamurthy, K. Nagamine, K. Nishiyama, M. Ishikawa, M. Yamaguchi, I. Watanabe, T. Ishikawa, and T. P. Das
Published 1 July 2003 (8 pages)
014401 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Fe foils with single-crystal-like texture for hyperfine interaction studies: Anisotropy of the hyperfine field in Fe
G. Seewald, E. Zech, E. Hagn, and H.-J. Körner
Published 3 July 2003 (13 pages)
014402 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Evolution of the magnetic ground state in the electron-doped antiferromagnet CaMnO3
A. L. Cornelius, B. E. Light, and J. J. Neumeier
Published 7 July 2003 (5 pages)
014403 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Magnetic phase diagram for a nonextensive system: Experimental connection with manganites
M. S. Reis, V. S. Amaral, J. P. Araújo, and I. S. Oliveira
Published 7 July 2003 (10 pages)
014404 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Neutron diffraction and magnetization studies of U2Pd2In single crystals in high magnetic fields
K. Prokeš, H. Nakotte, M. I. Bartashevich, M. Doerr, and V. Sechovský
Published 7 July 2003 (6 pages)
014405 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Effects of disorder on the dynamics of the XY chain
Maria Eugenia Silva Nunes and João Florencio
Published 7 July 2003 (5 pages)
014406 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Understanding the complex metallic element Mn. I. Crystalline and noncollinear magnetic structure of α-Mn
D. Hobbs, J. Hafner, and D. Spišák
Published 8 July 2003 (18 pages)
014407 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Understanding the complex metallic element Mn. II. Geometric frustration in β-Mn, phase stability, and phase transitions
J. Hafner and D. Hobbs
Published 8 July 2003 (15 pages)
014408 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo2
M. Forker, S. Müller, P. de la Presa, and A. F. Pasquevich
Published 9 July 2003 (13 pages)
014409 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Spectral theorem of many-body Green’s function theory when there are zero eigenvalues of the matrix governing the equations of motion
P. Fröbrich and P. J. Kuntz
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
014410 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Griffiths singularities and magnetoresistive manganites
M. B. Salamon and S. H. Chun
Published 9 July 2003 (8 pages)
014411 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Oscillatory spin-polarized conductance in carbon atom wires
R. Pati, M. Mailman, L. Senapati, P. M. Ajayan, S. D. Mahanti, and S. K. Nayak
Published 10 July 2003 (5 pages)
014412 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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166Er Mössbauer study of magnetic ordering in Er3Ge4
D. H. Ryan, J. M. Cadogan, and R. Gagnon
Published 10 July 2003 (6 pages)
014413 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg effect in a model of interacting tunneling systems
D. A. Garanin
Published 11 July 2003 (14 pages)
014414 [View PDF (734 kB)]
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Anisotropic release of the residual zero-point entropy in the spin ice compound Dy2Ti2O7: Kagome ice behavior
Ryuji Higashinaka, Hideto Fukazawa, and Yoshiteru Maeno
Published 14 July 2003 (5 pages)
014415 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Single-crystalline model spin valves using single-crystalline NiO(111) substrates
C. Mocuta, A. Barbier, S. Lafaye, P. Bayle-Guillemaud, and M. Panabière
Published 14 July 2003 (13 pages)
014416 [View PDF (1,625 kB)]
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Anisotropic exchange interactions in CuGeO3 probed by electron spin resonance spectroscopy
R. M. Eremina, M. V. Eremin, V. N. Glazkov, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, and A. Loidl
Published 15 July 2003 (10 pages)
014417 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Hybrid domain walls and antiferromagnetic domains in exchange-coupled ferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayers
C. L. Chien, V. S. Gornakov, V. I. Nikitenko, A. J. Shapiro, and R. D. Shull
Published 15 July 2003 (5 pages)
014418 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic resonance relaxation in ultrathin metal films: The role of the conduction electrons
D. L. Mills
Published 16 July 2003 (10 pages)
014419 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Magnetic phase diagram of metallic pyrochlore lattice in the double-exchange model
Daisaku Ikoma, Hiroki Tsuchiura, and Jun-ichiro Inoue
Published 16 July 2003 (5 pages)
014420 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Role of stacking faults in the structural and magnetic properties of ball-milled cobalt
J. Sort, S. Suriñach, J. S. Muñoz, M. D. Baró, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, S. Nadolski, N. Sheludko, and J. Nogués
Published 16 July 2003 (7 pages)
014421 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Transport, magnetic, and structural properties of La1-xMxMnO3 (M=Ba, Sr, Ca) for 0<~x<~0.20
P. Mandal and B. Ghosh
Published 21 July 2003 (8 pages)
014422 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Elementary excitations of ferromagnetic metal nanoparticles
A. Cehovin, C. M. Canali, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 22 July 2003 (17 pages)
014423 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Specific heat and magnetization study on single crystals of the frustrated quasi-one-dimensional oxide Ca3Co2O6
V. Hardy, S. Lambert, M. R. Lees, and D. McK. Paul
Published 24 July 2003 (7 pages)
014424 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Ion pairs and spontaneous break of symmetry in the valence-fluctuating compound YbB12
T. S. Altshuler, Yu. V. Goryunov, M. S. Bresler, F. Iga, and T. Takabatake
Published 24 July 2003 (7 pages)
014425 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Colossal magnetoresistance behavior and ESR studies of La1-xTexMnO3 (0.04<~x<~0.2)
G. T. Tan, S. Dai, P. Duan, Y. L. Zhou, H. B. Lu, and Z. H. Chen
Published 24 July 2003 (5 pages)
014426 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Soft-x-ray magnetic-circular-dichroism study of the colossal-magnetoresistance spinel Fe0.5Cu0.5Cr2S4
Aniruddha Deb, M. Mizumaki, T. Muro, Y. Sakurai, and V. Tsurkan
Published 25 July 2003 (6 pages)
014427 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Diffusive motion of antiphase domain boundaries in Fe3O4 films
W. Eerenstein, T. T. M. Palstra, T. Hibma, and S. Celotto
Published 25 July 2003 (7 pages)
014428 [View PDF (591 kB)]
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Electronic structure of La1-xCaxMnO3 determined by spin-polarized x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Comparison of experiments with band-structure computations
Q. Qian, T. A. Tyson, S. Savrassov, C.-C. Kao, and M. Croft
Published 25 July 2003 (10 pages)
014429 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Spectral function of the Kondo model in high magnetic fields
A. Rosch, T. A. Costi, J. Paaske, and P. Wölfle
Published 29 July 2003 (7 pages)
014430 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of crystals of molecular nanomagnets inside a resonant cavity
J. Tejada, R. Amigo, J. M. Hernandez, and E. M. Chudnovsky
Published 30 July 2003 (5 pages)
014431 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Unconventional spin fluctuations in the hexagonal antiferromagnet YMnO3
T. J. Sato, S. -H. Lee, T. Katsufuji, M. Masaki, S. Park, J. R. D. Copley, and H. Takagi
Published 30 July 2003 (5 pages)
014432 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Interfacial scattering in magnetic multilayers and spin valves
D. A. Stewart, W. H. Butler, X.-G. Zhang, and V. F. Los
Published 30 July 2003 (14 pages)
014433 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Phase separation in Cu90Co10 high-magnetoresistance materials
M. G. M. Miranda, E. Estévez-Rams, G. Martínez, and M. N. Baibich
Published 30 July 2003 (8 pages)
014434 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Spin-wave dispersion and transition temperature in the cuprate antiferromagnet La2CuO4
M. Manojlović, M. Pavkov, M. Škrinjar, M. Pantić, D. Kapor, and S. Stojanović
Published 30 July 2003 (8 pages)
014435 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Evolution of ferromagnetic order in LaMnO3.05 single crystals:  Common origin of both pressure and self-doping effects
I. M. Fita, R. Szymczak, M. Baran, V. Markovich, R. Puzniak, A. Wisniewski, S. V. Shiryaev, V. N. Varyukhin, and H. Szymczak
Published 30 July 2003 (7 pages)
014436 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Mechanism of the exchange-bias field in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic bilayers
C. Mitsumata, A. Sakuma, and K. Fukamichi
Published 31 July 2003 (8 pages)
014437 [View PDF (442 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Josephson effect in double-barrier superconductor-ferromagnet junctions
Z. Radović, N. Lazarides, and N. Flytzanis
Published 8 July 2003 (8 pages)
014501 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Shift of incommensurate antiferromagnetic peaks in La2-xSrxCuO4
Hiroyuki Yamase and Hiroshi Kohno
Published 9 July 2003 (7 pages)
014502 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Chemical control of hole-doped superconductivity and magnetism in Gd2-xCexRuSr2Cu2O10-δ
A. C. Mclaughlin, J. P. Attfield, U. Asaf, and I. Felner
Published 10 July 2003 (7 pages)
014503 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Isotope effect in impure high-Tc superconductors
M. Mierzyńska and K. I. Wysokiński
Published 11 July 2003 (8 pages)
014504 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Phase-fluctuation-induced reduction of the kinetic energy at the superconducting transition
T. Eckl, W. Hanke, and E. Arrigoni
Published 14 July 2003 (5 pages)
014505 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Stripes and holes in a two-dimensional model of spinless fermions or hardcore bosons
N. G. Zhang and C. L. Henley
Published 28 July 2003 (22 pages)
014506 [View PDF (959 kB)]
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Evidence of vortex curvature and anisotropic pinning in superconducting films by quantitative magneto-optics
F. Laviano, D. Botta, A. Chiodoni, R. Gerbaldo, G. Ghigo, L. Gozzelino, and E. Mezzetti
Published 28 July 2003 (7 pages)
014507 [View PDF (705 kB)]
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Wave-vector power spectrum of the local tunneling density of states: Ripples in a d-wave sea
L. Capriotti, D. J. Scalapino, and R. D. Sedgewick
Published 29 July 2003 (15 pages)
014508 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Local visualization of asymmetric flux pinning by magnetic dots with perpendicular magnetization
M. J. Van Bael, M. Lange, S. Raedts, V. V. Moshchalkov, A. N. Grigorenko, and S. J. Bending
Published 29 July 2003 (4 pages)
014509 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Paramagnetic effect in YBa2Cu3O7-x grain-boundary junctions
E. Il’ichev, F. Tafuri, M. Grajcar, R. P. J. IJsselsteijn, J. Weber, F. Lombardi, and J. R. Kirtley
Published 29 July 2003 (5 pages)
014510 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Superconducting transition in doped Mott insulators: A bosonic resonating-valence-bond theory
Ming Shaw, Zheng-Yu Weng, and C. S. Ting
Published 30 July 2003 (10 pages)
014511 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Thermodynamic properties and pressure effect on the superconductivity in CaAlSi and SrAlSi
B. Lorenz, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu
Published 30 July 2003 (6 pages)
014512 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Symmetry of superconductivity in NH3K3C60 superconductors: nonadiabatic effects in multiband systems
Yoshihiro Asai
Published 30 July 2003 (8 pages)
014513 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Controllable step motors and rectifiers of magnetic flux quanta using periodic arrays of asymmetric pinning defects
B. Y. Zhu, F. Marchesoni, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Franco Nori
Published 30 July 2003 (14 pages)
014514 [View PDF (1,972 kB)]
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Impact of long-range interactions on the disordered vortex lattice
J. A. G. Koopmann, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter
Published 31 July 2003 (9 pages)
014515 [View PDF (116 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Possible observation of a glassy ferroelectric: Bi1.8Pb0.3Sr2Ca2Cu2.8K0.2Oz”
Soma Mukherjee, B. K. Chaudhuri, and H. Sakata
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Comment on “BCS-type mean-field theory for the t-J model in the SU(2|1) superalgebra representation”
N. M. Plakida and V. Yu. Yushankhai
Published 7 July 2003 (2 pages)
016501 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘BCS-type mean-field theory for the t-J model in the SU(2|1) superalgebra representation’ ”
Evgueny Kochetov and Marcin Mierzejewski
Published 7 July 2003 (2 pages)
016502 [View PDF (32 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: First-principles investigation of the damping of fast magnetization precession in ferromagnetic 3d metals [Phys. Rev. B 65, 212411 (2002)]
J. Kuneš and V. Kamberský
Published 14 July 2003 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Formation and mobility of oxygen vacancies in RuSr2GdCu2O8 [Phys. Rev. B 67, 144519 (2003)]
F. Cordero, M. Ferretti, M. R. Cimberle, and R. Masini
Published 29 July 2003 (1 page)
019902(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Erratum: Phonons in random alloys: The itinerant coherent-potential approximation [Phys. Rev. B 66, 214206 (2002)]
Subhradip Ghosh, P. L. Leath, and Morrel H. Cohen
Published 29 July 2003 (1 page)
019903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
 
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