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Physical Review B – 1 November 2003
Volume 68, Issue 17

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Hexagonal close-packed copper: Theory and experiment
F. Jona, X. Z. Ji, and P. M. Marcus
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
172101 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Retention of filled ice structure of methane hydrate up to 42 GPa
H. Hirai, T. Tanaka, T. Kawamura, Y. Yamamoto, and T. Yagi
Published 6 November 2003 (4 pages)
172102 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Confirmation of MB-type monoclinic phase in Pb[(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.71Ti0.29]O3: A powder neutron diffraction study
Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Dhananjai Pandey, and Oksana Zaharko
Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages)
172103 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Noble-gas solids at negative pressure
Carlos P. Herrero
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
172104 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Methane hydrate under high pressure
Toshiaki Iitaka and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages)
172105 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Effect of point defects on heat capacity of yttria-stabilized zirconia
S. Ostanin and E. Salamatov
Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages)
172106 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Neutron scattering studies of low-fraction H2O in silica gel
Yan Wang and Shunle Dong
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
172201 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics in high codimension tilings: From quasiperiodicity to disorder
Julien Vidal, Nicolas Destainville, and Rémy Mosseri
Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages)
172202 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Magnetism

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Incommensurate magnetic structure of β-MnO2
M. Regulski, R. Przeniosło, I. Sosnowska, and J.-U. Hoffmann
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
172401 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Cracks induced by magnetic ordering in the antiperovskite ZnNMn3
W. S. Kim, E. O. Chi, J. C. Kim, N. H. Hur, K. W. Lee, and Y. N. Choi
Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages)
172402 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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YCa3(MnO)3(BO3)4: A manganese borate containing ferromagnetic chains on a kagomé lattice
R. K. Li and C. Greaves
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
172403 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Magnon-assisted transport and thermopower in ferromagnet–normal-metal tunnel junctions
Edward McCann and Vladimir I. Fal’ko
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
172404 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic cluster glass behavior in U2IrSi3
D. X. Li, S. Nimori, Y. Shiokawa, Y. Haga, E. Yamamoto, and Y. Onuki
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
172405 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Model study on the magnetization of digital alloys
Nammee Kim, S. J. Lee, and T. W. Kang
Published 19 November 2003 (4 pages)
172406 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Understanding paramagnetic spin correlations in the spin-liquid pyrochlore Tb2Ti2O7
Ying-Jer Kao, Matthew Enjalran, Adrian Del Maestro, Hamid R. Molavian, and Michel J. P. Gingras
Published 19 November 2003 (4 pages)
172407 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Effect of sintering temperature on electronic transport and low-field colossal magnetoresistance in sol-gel prepared polycrystals of nominal La2/3Ca1/3Mn0.96Cu0.04O3
S. L. Yuan, L. J. Zhang, Z. C. Xia, L. F. Zhao, L. Liu, W. Chen, G. H. Zhang, W. Feng, J. Tang, H. Cao, Q. H. Zhong, L. Y. Niu, and S. Liu
Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages)
172408 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Spin-phonon interaction and band effects in the high-Tc superconductor HgBa2CuO4
T. Jarlborg
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Surface contribution to the superconducting properties of MgB2 single crystals
A. Rydh, U. Welp, J. M. Hiller, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, K. H. P. Kim, K. H. Kim, C. U. Jung, H.-S. Lee, B. Kang, and S.-I. Lee
Published 19 November 2003 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Little-Parks effect in a superconducting loop with a magnetic dot
D. S. Golubović, W. V. Pogosov, M. Morelle, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages)
172503 [View PDF (256 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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High-resolution broadband Brillouin scattering study of antiferroelectric phase transition in CsBi(MoO4)2
M. Ma̧czka, J. Hanuza, J.-H. Ko, and S. Kojima
Published 3 November 2003 (8 pages)
174101 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of melting of the bcc metal vanadium. I. Mechanical melting
V. Sorkin, E. Polturak, and Joan Adler
Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages)
174102 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of melting of the bcc metal vanadium. II. Thermodynamic melting
V. Sorkin, E. Polturak, and Joan Adler
Published 3 November 2003 (9 pages)
174103 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Transverse cooling and heating in ion channeling
F. Grüner, W. Assmann, F. Bell, M. Schubert, J. U. Andersen, S. Karamian, A. Bergmaier, G. Dollinger, L. Görgens, W. Günther, and M. Toulemonde
Published 6 November 2003 (12 pages)
174104 [View PDF (1,030 kB)]
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Low-temperature structural phase transition in a Cd6Y 1/1 approximant
R. Tamura, K. Edagawa, C. Aoki, S. Takeuchi, and K. Suzuki
Published 13 November 2003 (5 pages)
174105 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of the order-disorder phase transition in solid NaNO2
Wei-Guo Yin, Chun-Gang Duan, W. N. Mei, Jianjun Liu, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy
Published 17 November 2003 (10 pages)
174106 [View PDF (627 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of carrier-doping effects in SrTiO3
Kazuyuki Uchida, Shinji Tsuneyuki, and Tatsuo Schimizu
Published 20 November 2003 (6 pages)
174107 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Structure and motion of basal dislocations in silicon carbide
A. T. Blumenau, C. J. Fall, R. Jones, S. Öberg, T. Frauenheim, and P. R. Briddon
Published 21 November 2003 (14 pages)
174108 [View PDF (1,491 kB)]
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Stark-ladder resonances in piezoelectric composites
G. Monsivais, R. Rodríguez-Ramos, R. Esquivel-Sirvent, and L. Fernández-Alvarez
Published 26 November 2003 (11 pages)
174109 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Scaling behavior of the metal-insulator transition in one-dimensional disordered systems with long-range hopping
Shi-Jie Xiong and Gui-Ping Zhang
Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages)
174201 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Functional renormalization group at large N for disordered elastic systems, and relation to replica symmetry breaking
Pierre Le Doussal and Kay Jörg Wiese
Published 14 November 2003 (35 pages)
174202 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Statistics of transmission in one-dimensional disordered systems: Universal characteristics of states in the fluctuation tails
L. I. Deych, M. V. Erementchouk, A. A. Lisyansky, Alexey Yamilov, and Hui Cao
Published 14 November 2003 (9 pages)
174203 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of the two-step melting of NaSn
L. M. Molina, M. J. López, J. A. Alonso, and M. J. Stott
Published 25 November 2003 (7 pages)
174204 [View PDF (1,434 kB)]

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

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Lattice dynamics of methane and xenon hydrate: Observation of symmetry-avoided crossing by experiment and theory
J. Baumert, C. Gutt, V. P. Shpakov, J. S. Tse, M. Krisch, M. Müller, H. Requardt, D. D. Klug, S. Janssen, and W. Press
Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages)
174301 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Dynamical monopoles and dipoles in a condensed molecular system: The case of liquid water
Alfredo Pasquarello and Raffaele Resta
Published 3 November 2003 (10 pages)
174302 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Direct observation of a time-delayed intermediate state generated via exciton-exciton annihilation in polyfluorene
Qing-Hua Xu, Daniel Moses, and Alan J. Heeger
Published 6 November 2003 (5 pages)
174303 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Polaron normal modes in the Peyrard-Bishop-Holstein model
P. Maniadis, G. Kalosakas, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop
Published 17 November 2003 (11 pages)
174304 [View PDF (777 kB)]

Magnetism

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Complexity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in the annealed approximation
A. Crisanti, L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, and T. Rizzo
Published 3 November 2003 (15 pages)
174401 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Electron magnetic resonance in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.18,0.20,0.22): Crossing through the boundary between ferromagnetic insulating and metallic ground states
A. I. Shames, E. Rozenberg, G. Gorodetsky, and Ya. M. Mukovskii
Published 3 November 2003 (5 pages)
174402 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Phase separation and isotope effect in the ferromagnetic insulating state of the Pr1-xCaxMnO3 system (0.2<x<0.33)
L. M. Fisher, A. V. Kalinov, I. F. Voloshin, N. A. Babushkina, K. I. Kugel, and D. I. Khomskii
Published 3 November 2003 (8 pages)
174403 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Metastability and giant relaxation across the ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic transition in Ce(Fe0.96Ru0.04)2
M. K. Chattopadhyay, S. B. Roy, A. K. Nigam, K. J. S. Sokhey, and P. Chaddah
Published 4 November 2003 (8 pages)
174404 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Induced V and reduced Co magnetic moments at the V/Co interface
Y. Huttel, G. van der Laan, T. K. Johal, N. D. Telling, and P. Bencok
Published 6 November 2003 (6 pages)
174405 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Q dependence of the inelastic neutron scattering cross section for molecular spin clusters with high molecular symmetry
O. Waldmann
Published 6 November 2003 (8 pages)
174406 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Two- and three-dimensional magnetic order in the layered cobalt oxychloride Sr2CoO3Cl
Christopher S. Knee, Daniel J. Price, Martin R. Lees, and Mark T. Weller
Published 7 November 2003 (8 pages)
174407 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Structural phase transition in the two-dimensional triangular lattice antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO4)2
S. A. Klimin, M. N. Popova, B. N. Mavrin, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, L. E. Svistov, A. I. Smirnov, L. A. Prozorova, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, Z. Seidov, A. Loidl, A. Ya. Shapiro, and L. N. Demianets
Published 7 November 2003 (8 pages)
174408 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Competing ground states in triple-layered Sr4Ru3O10: Verging on itinerant ferromagnetism with critical fluctuations
G. Cao, L. Balicas, W. H. Song, Y. P. Sun, Y. Xin, V. A. Bondarenko, J. W. Brill, S. Parkin, and X. N. Lin
Published 7 November 2003 (7 pages)
174409 [View PDF (800 kB)]
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Large effect of small Zn doping on the electric and magnetic properties in LaMn1-xZnxO3
Fei Gong, Wei Tong, Shun Tan, and Yuheng Zhang
Published 7 November 2003 (6 pages)
174410 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Electronic structure and magnetic interactions in MnN and Mn3N2
Walter R. L. Lambrecht, Margarita Prikhodko, and M. S. Miao
Published 7 November 2003 (11 pages)
174411 [View PDF (648 kB)]
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Spin dynamics of the spin dimer system TlCuCl3 probed by Raman spectroscopy
K.-Y. Choi, G. Güntherodt, A. Oosawa, H. Tanaka, and P. Lemmens
Published 10 November 2003 (6 pages)
174412 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Spin-glass-like magnetic ground state of the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore niobate Tb2Nb2O7
Y. M. Jana, O. Sakai, R. Higashinaka, H. Fukazawa, Y. Maeno, P. Dasgupta, and D. Ghosh
Published 10 November 2003 (7 pages)
174413 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Magnetic relaxation and dipole-coupling-induced magnetization in nanostructured thin films during growth: A cluster Monte Carlo study
R. Brinzanik, P. J. Jensen, and K. H. Bennemann
Published 11 November 2003 (10 pages)
174414 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Observation of antiphase boundaries in Sr2FeMoO6
J. Lindén, M. Karppinen, T. Shimada, Y. Yasukawa, and H. Yamauchi
Published 11 November 2003 (5 pages)
174415 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Magnetic, orbital, and charge ordering in the electron-doped manganites
Tulika Maitra and A. Taraphder
Published 11 November 2003 (14 pages)
174416 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition in manganite perovskites: Thermal hysteresis
S. W. Biernacki
Published 12 November 2003 (6 pages)
174417 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of amorphous Si films doped with rare-earth elements
M. S. Sercheli, C. Rettori, and A. R. Zanatta
Published 13 November 2003 (6 pages)
174418 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Flat-band ferromagnetism in organic polymers designed by a computer simulation
Yuji Suwa, Ryotaro Arita, Kazuhiko Kuroki, and Hideo Aoki
Published 17 November 2003 (10 pages)
174419 [View PDF (1,289 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic chains coupled by weak ferromagnetic interchain interactions
J. Sznajd
Published 18 November 2003 (7 pages)
174420 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Quantum oscillation of magnetoresistance in tunneling junctions with a nonmagnetic spacer
H. Itoh, J. Inoue, A. Umerski, and J. Mathon
Published 19 November 2003 (9 pages)
174421 [View PDF (1,019 kB)]
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Measurement of the permeability tensor in nanophases of granular metal oxides and field-induced magnetic anisotropy
Stéphane Mallégol, Christian Brosseau, Patrick Quéffelec, and Anne-Marie Konn
Published 19 November 2003 (6 pages)
174422 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Preparation and structural characterization of ferromagnetic Mn5Si3Cx films
C. Sürgers, M. Gajdzik, G. Fischer, H. v. Löhneysen, E. Welter, and K. Attenkofer
Published 19 November 2003 (8 pages)
174423 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Kondo lattice model with a direct exchange interaction between localized moments
Mun Dae Kim, Chul Koo Kim, and Jongbae Hong
Published 20 November 2003 (6 pages)
174424 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Octupolar ordering of Γ8 ions in a magnetic field
Annamária Kiss and P. Fazekas
Published 21 November 2003 (16 pages)
174425 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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Nonstationary interaction of a high-spin molecule or a rare earth metal ion with an acoustic wave and an alternating current magnetic field
I. D. Tokman, G. A. Vugalter, A. I. Grebeneva, and V. I. Pozdnyakova
Published 21 November 2003 (6 pages)
174426 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Field induced two-dimensional ferromagnetic ordering in a gadolinium stearate Langmuir-Blodgett film
M. K. Mukhopadhyay, M. K. Sanyal, M. D. Mukadam, S. M. Yusuf, and J. K. Basu
Published 24 November 2003 (5 pages)
174427 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Crystal and magnetic structure of Eu4Ga8Ge16
M. Christensen, J. D. Bryan, H. Birkedal, G. D. Stucky, B. Lebech, and B. B. Iversen
Published 25 November 2003 (8 pages)
174428 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Magnetic phase diagram of Eu4Ga8Ge16 by magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and Mössbauer measurements
J. Daniel Bryan, Henning Trill, Henrik Birkedal, Mogens Christensen, Vojislav I. Srdanov, Hellmut Eckert, Bo B. Iversen, and Galen D. Stucky
Published 25 November 2003 (7 pages)
174429 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Bias voltage dependence of the magnetoresistance in ballistic vacuum tunneling: Theory and application to planar Co(0001) junctions
J. Henk and P. Bruno
Published 25 November 2003 (8 pages)
174430 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Giant metamagnetic moments in a granular FeCl2-Fe heterostructure
Sarbeswar Sahoo, Christian Binek, and Wolfgang Kleemann
Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages)
174431 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Effect of oxygen reduction on the optical conductivity of La0.75Ca0.25MnO3
A. Nucara, A. Perucchi, P. Calvani, T. Aselage, and D. Emin
Published 26 November 2003 (7 pages)
174432 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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BCS theory for s+g-wave superconductivity in borocarbides Y(Lu)Ni2B2C
Qingshan Yuan and Peter Thalmeier
Published 3 November 2003 (5 pages)
174501 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic fluctuations and d-wave superconductivity in electron-doped high-temperature superconductors
Bumsoo Kyung, Jean-Sébastien Landry, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
Published 3 November 2003 (5 pages)
174502 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Heat-capacity scaling function for confined superfluids
Kwangsik Nho and Efstratios Manousakis
Published 4 November 2003 (6 pages)
174503 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Crossed Andreev reflection in structures consisting of a superconductor with ferromagnetic leads
Taro Yamashita, Saburo Takahashi, and Sadamichi Maekawa
Published 4 November 2003 (8 pages)
174504 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Microstructure and the superconductivity in La2-x-ySrxNayCuO4 systems
Changjin Zhang, Liwei Liu, Li Lu, and Yuheng Zhang
Published 4 November 2003 (5 pages)
174505 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Comparative study of the electronic structure of MgB2 and ZrB2
C. Jariwala, A. Chainani, S. Tsuda, T. Yokoya, S. Shin, Y. Takano, K. Togano, S. Otani, and H. Kito
Published 6 November 2003 (5 pages)
174506 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Vortex states in a two-dimensional superconductor at high magnetic field in a periodic pinning potential
V. Zhuravlev and T. Maniv
Published 6 November 2003 (8 pages)
174507 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Deriving the Ginzburg-Landau parameter from heat-capacity data on magnetic superconductors with Schottky anomalies
Nigel R. Leigh and Damian P. Hampshire
Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages)
174508 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Band-filling effects on electron-phonon properties of normal and superconducting states
E. Cappelluti, S. Ciuchi, C. Grimaldi, and L. Pietronero
Published 7 November 2003 (10 pages)
174509 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Impurity effects on s+g-wave superconductivity in borocarbides Y(Lu)Ni2B2C
Qingshan Yuan, Hong-Yi Chen, H. Won, S. Lee, K. Maki, P. Thalmeier, and C. S. Ting
Published 10 November 2003 (6 pages)
174510 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Structure and charge transfer driven by the controlled amount of additional oxygen in cation-stoichiometric Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ
F. Jean, D. Colson, G. Collin, N. Blanchard, Z. Konstantinović, G. Le Bras, A. Forget, and M. Andrieux
Published 10 November 2003 (6 pages)
174511 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Estimation of vortex density after superconducting film quench
T. W. B. Kibble and A. Rajantie
Published 10 November 2003 (6 pages)
174512 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Low-temperature thermal conductivity of high-purity YBa2Cu3O6.99 in the vortex state: Analysis with arbitrary impurity scattering strength
Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio, and J. P. Carbotte
Published 10 November 2003 (5 pages)
174513 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Magnetic-field and current-density distributions in thin-film superconducting rings and disks
Ali A. Babaei Brojeny and John R. Clem
Published 10 November 2003 (9 pages)
174514 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Crossed Andreev reflection at ferromagnetic domain walls
R. Mélin and S. Peysson
Published 11 November 2003 (14 pages)
174515 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion near the Fermi surface
G. L. Warner and A. J. Leggett
Published 11 November 2003 (7 pages)
174516 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Pseudogap state in superconductors: Extended Hartree approach to time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory
Jelena Stajic, Andrew Iyengar, Qijin Chen, and K. Levin
Published 13 November 2003 (16 pages)
174517 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Specific heat of liquid helium in zero gravity very near the lambda point
J. A. Lipa, J. A. Nissen, D. A. Stricker, D. R. Swanson, and T. C. P. Chui
Published 14 November 2003 (25 pages)
174518 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Low-temperature specific heat of an extreme type-II superconductor at high magnetic fields
Amanda L. Carr, John J. Trafton, Saša Dukan, and Zlatko Tešanović
Published 14 November 2003 (6 pages)
174519 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Mass-renormalized electronic excitations at (π,0) in the superconducting state of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
A. D. Gromko, A. V. Fedorov, Y.-D. Chuang, J. D. Koralek, Y. Aiura, Y. Yamaguchi, K. Oka, Yoichi Ando, and D. S. Dessau
Published 17 November 2003 (7 pages)
174520 [View PDF (1,139 kB)]
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Stability and transition between vortex configurations in square mesoscopic samples with antidots
G. R. Berdiyorov, B. J. Baelus, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters
Published 17 November 2003 (19 pages)
174521 [View PDF (2,082 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer
M. Lange, M. J. Van Bael, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Published 21 November 2003 (6 pages)
174522 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of high-TC materials in the rotating antiferromagnetism theory
Mohamed Azzouz
Published 21 November 2003 (12 pages)
174523 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Disordered Josephson junctions of d-wave superconductors
Thomas Lück, Peter Schwab, Ulrich Eckern, and A. Shelankov
Published 26 November 2003 (10 pages)
174524 [View PDF (255 kB)]
 
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