• 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
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Long-term correlations distinguish coarsening mechanisms in alloys Lorenz-M. Stadler, Bogdan Sepiol, Richard Weinkamer, Markus Hartmann, Peter Fratzl, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Federico Zontone, Gerhard Grübel, and Gero Vogl Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages) 180101 [View PDF (406 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dislocation cross slip and formation of terraces around nanoindentations in Au(001) E. Carrasco, O. Rodríguez de la Fuente, M. A. González, and J. M. Rojo Published 21 November 2003 (4 pages) 180102 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

Dynamic frustrated magnetism in Tb2Ti2O7 at 50 mK J. S. Gardner, A. Keren, G. Ehlers, C. Stock, Eva Segal, J. M. Roper, B. Fåk, M. B. Stone, P. R. Hammar, D. H. Reich, and B. D. Gaulin Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages) 180401 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Size dependence of the internal energy in Ising and vector spin glasses Helmut G. Katzgraber and I. A. Campbell Published 5 November 2003 (4 pages) 180402 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Microscopic model for the magnetization plateaus in NH4CuCl3 Masashige Matsumoto Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 180403 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Curling spin density and orbital structures in a magnetic vortex core of an Fe quantum dot Kohji Nakamura, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 180404 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

57Fe-NMR determination of the local magnetic structure of the molecular nanomagnet Fe8 Y. Furukawa, S. Kawakami, K. Kumagai, S-H. Baek, and F. Borsa Published 19 November 2003 (4 pages) 180405 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism in Mn clusters: Role of correlation effects Florentino López-Urías and Alejandro Díaz-Ortiz Published 21 November 2003 (4 pages) 180406 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Photoinduced spin dynamics in La0.6Sr0.4MnO3 observed by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr spectroscopy T. Ogasawara, M. Matsubara, Y. Tomioka, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, H. Okamoto, and Y. Tokura Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 180407 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Superfluid density in cuprate high-Tc superconductors: A new paradigm J. L. Tallon, J. W. Loram, J. R. Cooper, C. Panagopoulos, and C. Bernhard Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 180501 [View PDF (447 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in the nonoxide perovskite MgCNi3 from penetration depth measurements R. Prozorov, A. Snezhko, T. He, and R. J. Cava Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 180502 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity E. Arrigoni and S. A. Kivelson Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 180503 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tunneling spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Eliashberg analysis of the spectral dip feature J. F. Zasadzinski, L. Coffey, P. Romano, and Z. Yusof Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 180504 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Synthesis and high-pressure behavior of Na0.3CoO2⋅1.3H2O and related phases Sangmoon Park, Yongjae Lee, Arnie Moodenbaugh, and Thomas Vogt Published 19 November 2003 (4 pages) 180505 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Theory of quasiparticle interference patterns in the pseudogap phase of the cuprate superconductors T. Pereg-Barnea and M. Franz Published 21 November 2003 (4 pages) 180506 [View PDF (297 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Ab initio study of the ideal tensile strength and mechanical stability of transition-metal disilicides M. Friák, M. Šob, and V. Vitek Published 3 November 2003 (10 pages) 184101 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio determination of the ground-state properties of Ca2MgSi2O7 åkermanite Razvan Caracas and Xavier Gonze Published 6 November 2003 (7 pages) 184102 [View PDF (532 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio study on divacancy binding energies in aluminum and magnesium Tokuteru Uesugi, Masanori Kohyama, and Kenji Higashi Published 7 November 2003 (5 pages) 184103 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular dynamics study of damage accumulation in GaN during ion beam irradiation J. Nord, K. Nordlund, and J. Keinonen Published 7 November 2003 (7 pages) 184104 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of pressure on nucleation and growth in the Zr46.75Ti8.25Cu7.5Ni10Be27.5 bulk glass-forming alloy investigated using in situ x-ray diffraction W. H. Wang, T. Okada, P. Wen, X.-L. Wang, M. X. Pan, D. Q. Zhao, and W. Utsumi Published 11 November 2003 (6 pages) 184105 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of stress on the energy levels of the vacancy-oxygen-hydrogen complex in Si J. Coutinho, O. Andersen, L. Dobaczewski, K. Bonde Nielsen, A. R. Peaker, R. Jones, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon Published 18 November 2003 (11 pages) 184106 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultraviolet-excited radiative decay channels of defect states in high-density sixfold-coordinated SiO2 A. Paleari, N. Chiodini, D. Di Martino, F. Meinardi, and P. Fumagalli Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages) 184107 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cubic Hf3N4 and Zr3N4: A class of hard materials M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, and B. Johansson Published 18 November 2003 (5 pages) 184108 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ferroquadrupole ordering and Γ5 rattling motion in the clathrate compound Ce3Pd20Ge6 Yuichi Nemoto, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takenobu Horino, Mitsuhiro Akatsu, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Terutaka Goto, Osamu Suzuki, Andreas Dönni, and Takemi Komatsubara Published 20 November 2003 (10 pages) 184109 [View PDF (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct structural measurements of relaxation processes during transformations in amorphous ice Malcolm Guthrie, Jacob Urquidi, Chris A. Tulk, Chris J. Benmore, Dennis D. Klug, and Jeorg Neuefeind Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages) 184110 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and dielectric properties of Sr2TiO4 from first principles Craig J. Fennie and Karin M. Rabe Published 21 November 2003 (9 pages) 184111 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles calculations of boron-related defects in SiO2 Minoru Otani, Kenji Shiraishi, and Atsushi Oshiyama Published 21 November 2003 (8 pages) 184112 [View PDF (478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Point defects in NiAl: The effect of lattice vibrations A. Y. Lozovoi and Y. Mishin Published 26 November 2003 (10 pages) 184113 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

•	Resistivity of the liquid gallium-lead miscibility gap system A. Ben Abdellah, J. G. Gasser, A. Makradi, B. Grosdidier, and J. Hugel Published 3 November 2003 (9 pages) 184201 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signature of small rings in the Raman spectra of normal and compressed amorphous silica: A combined classical and ab initio study Abdelali Rahmani, Magali Benoit, and Claude Benoit Published 7 November 2003 (12 pages) 184202 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Contribution of local atomic arrangements and electronic structure to high electrical resistivity in the Al82.6-xRe17.4Six (7<~x<~12) 1/1-1/1-1/1 approximant T. Takeuchi, T. Onogi, T. Otagiri, U. Mizutani, H. Sato, K. Kato, and T. Kamiyama Published 11 November 2003 (10 pages) 184203 [View PDF (340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	History-dependent relaxation and the energy scale of correlation in the electron glass Z. Ovadyahu and M. Pollak Published 12 November 2003 (7 pages) 184204 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-time relaxation of interacting electrons in the regime of hopping conduction D. N. Tsigankov, E. Pazy, B. D. Laikhtman, and A. L. Efros Published 20 November 2003 (10 pages) 184205 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multifractality of Hamiltonians with power-law transfer terms E. Cuevas Published 21 November 2003 (5 pages) 184206 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Complex lithium ion dynamics in simulated LiPO3 glass studied by means of multitime correlation functions Michael Vogel Published 7 November 2003 (11 pages) 184301 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrons on hexagonal lattices and applications to nanotubes Betti Hartmann and Wojtek J. Zakrzewski Published 12 November 2003 (9 pages) 184302 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption intensities of the multipole-field-induced double transitions involving a homonuclear-heteronuclear pair of hydrogen molecules in condensed phase Adya P. Mishra and Robert W. Field Published 18 November 2003 (8 pages) 184303 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral function of electron-phonon models by cluster perturbation theory Martin Hohenadler, Markus Aichhorn, and Wolfgang von der Linden Published 19 November 2003 (10 pages) 184304 [View PDF (673 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism

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Low-temperature magnetic order and spin dynamics in YbRh2Si2 K. Ishida, D. E. MacLaughlin, Ben-Li Young, K. Okamoto, Y. Kawasaki, Y. Kitaoka, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, R. H. Heffner, O. O. Bernal, W. Higemoto, A. Koda, R. Kadono, O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich Published 3 November 2003 (14 pages) 184401 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory for spin and orbital orderings in high-temperature phases in YVO3 Theja. N. De Silva, Anuvrat Joshi, Michael Ma, and Fu Chun Zhang Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages) 184402 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic ground state of electron-doped La1-xCexCoO3 compounds Qinfang Zhang and Weiyi Zhang Published 3 November 2003 (5 pages) 184403 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic origin of enhanced top exchange biasing in Py/IrMn/Py multilayers G. Malinowski, M. Hehn, S. Robert, O. Lenoble, A. Schuhl, and P. Panissod Published 3 November 2003 (8 pages) 184404 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and thermal properties of 4f-3d ladder-type molecular compounds M. Evangelisti, M. L. Kahn, J. Bartolomé, L. J. de Jongh, C. Meyers, J. Leandri, Y. Leroyer, and C. Mathonière Published 6 November 2003 (14 pages) 184405 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization of Fe(001) covered by MgO analyzed by spin-resolved x-ray photoemission spectroscopy M. Sicot, S. Andrieu, P. Turban, Y. Fagot-Revurat, H. Cercellier, A. Tagliaferri, C. De Nadai, N. B. Brookes, F. Bertran, and F. Fortuna Published 6 November 2003 (9 pages) 184406 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic behavior in the Er(Mn,Al)2 system: Neutron diffraction study I. V. Golosovsky, A. I. Kurbakov, I. Mirebeau, A. S. Markosyan, and I. Yu. Gaidukova Published 6 November 2003 (5 pages) 184407 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of the S=9 excited state in Fe8Br8 by electron paramagnetic resonance D. Zipse, J. M. North, N. S. Dalal, S. Hill, and R. S. Edwards Published 7 November 2003 (6 pages) 184408 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Brillouin light scattering investigation of dynamic spin modes confined in cylindrical Permalloy dots G. Gubbiotti, G. Carlotti, T. Okuno, T. Shinjo, F. Nizzoli, and R. Zivieri Published 10 November 2003 (7 pages) 184409 [View PDF (383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dipolar field and energy anisotropy in magnetic thin films E. Estevez-Rams, J. Martinez-Garcia, J. Martinez-Garcia, J. Hiram-Espina, and H. Fuess Published 11 November 2003 (9 pages) 184410 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex-vacancy interactions in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets G. M. Wysin Published 12 November 2003 (11 pages) 184411 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of polarization-dependent x-ray absorption spectra arising from Cu 3d-F 2p hybridization in the two-dimensional ferromagnets A2CuF4 (A=K, Cs) H. Manaka, T. Koide, T. Shidara, and I. Yamada Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 184412 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum dynamics of tunneling between ferromagnets Yu-Li Lee and Yu-Wen Lee Published 18 November 2003 (7 pages) 184413 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteretic behavior of the dynamic permeability on a Ni-Fe thin film O. Acher, S. Queste, M. Ledieu, K.-U. Barholz, and R. Mattheis Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages) 184414 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic critical behavior in the [Cu(1-hydroxybenzotriazolate)2(MeOH)]n molecule-based random-field magnet M. Fardis, C. Christides, G. Diamantopoulos, V. Psycharis, C. Raptopoulou, V. Tangoulis, and G. Papavassiliou Published 19 November 2003 (9 pages) 184415 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional S=1 / 2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet coupled to bond phonons Carsten H. Aits and Ute Löw Published 19 November 2003 (9 pages) 184416 [View PDF (451 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Itinerant-electron metamagnetism and giant magnetocaloric effect H. Yamada and T. Goto Published 19 November 2003 (7 pages) 184417 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Induced fourfold anisotropy and bias in compensated NiFe/FeMn double layers T. Mewes, B. Hillebrands, and R. L. Stamps Published 20 November 2003 (7 pages) 184418 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal expansion and magnetovolume effects in the heavy-fermion system Ce2RhIn8 A. Malinowski, M. F. Hundley, N. O. Moreno, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson Published 20 November 2003 (12 pages) 184419 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling behavior of the dipole-coupling energy in two-dimensional disordered magnetic nanostructures P. J. Jensen and G. M. Pastor Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages) 184420 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization of ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As layers R. Mathieu, B. S. Sørensen, J. Sadowski, U. Södervall, J. Kanski, P. Svedlindh, P. E. Lindelof, D. Hrabovsky, and E. Vanelle Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages) 184421 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jahn-Teller dynamics of the organic ferromagnet-tetrakis(dimethylamine) ethylene-C60 P. Jeglič, R. Blinc, T. Apih, A. Omerzu, and D. Arčon Published 21 November 2003 (8 pages) 184422 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical transport in manganite granular systems S. L. Yuan, Z. C. Xia, L. Liu, W. Chen, L. F. Zhao, J. Tang, G. H. Zhang, L. J. Zhang, H. Cao, W. Feng, Y. Tian, L. Y. Niu, and S. Liu Published 25 November 2003 (5 pages) 184423 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Monte Carlo simulation for the conductance of one-dimensional quantum spin systems Kim Louis and Claudius Gros Published 26 November 2003 (7 pages) 184424 [View PDF (566 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

•	Kinetic energy driven superconductivity in doped cuprates Shiping Feng Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages) 184501 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge expulsion and electric field in superconductors J. E. Hirsch Published 4 November 2003 (9 pages) 184502 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of κ2(T) for s-wave type-II superconductors Takafumi Kita Published 4 November 2003 (13 pages) 184503 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier-density-dependent momentum shift of the coherent peak and the LO phonon mode in p-type high-Tc superconductors S. Sugai, H. Suzuki, Y. Takayanagi, T. Hosokawa, and N. Hayamizu Published 6 November 2003 (19 pages) 184504 [View PDF (2510 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized BCS ansatz for pairing correlations in superconducting grains M. A. Fernández and J. L. Egido Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages) 184505 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A theoretical study of tunneling conductance in PrOs4Sb12 superconducting junctions Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka, Yuji Matsuda, and Satoshi Kashiwaya Published 10 November 2003 (8 pages) 184506 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum size effects on the superconducting parameters of zero-dimensional Pb nanoparticles W.-H. Li, C. C. Yang, F. C. Tsao, and K. C. Lee Published 11 November 2003 (6 pages) 184507 [View PDF (753 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain-wall superconductivity in hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet structures A. Yu. Aladyshkin, A. I. Buzdin, A. A. Fraerman, A. S. Mel’nikov, D. A. Ryzhov, and A. V. Sokolov Published 13 November 2003 (7 pages) 184508 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Potential and current distribution in strongly anisotropic Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 single crystals at current breakdown I. Pethes, A. Pomar, B. Sas, G. Kriza, K. Vad, Á. Pallinger, F. Portier, and F. I. Williams Published 14 November 2003 (9 pages) 184509 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Pauli paramagnetism on the superconducting vortex phase diagram in strong fields Hiroto Adachi and Ryusuke Ikeda Published 17 November 2003 (17 pages) 184510 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex lines nearly parallel to the surface of a single-crystal superconductor disk in a perpendicular field Katsuhiro Kawashima and Oliver B. Wright Published 18 November 2003 (10 pages) 184511 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional resonating-valence-bond liquids and their excitations R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi Published 18 November 2003 (8 pages) 184512 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signature of stripe pinning in optical conductivity L. Benfatto and C. Morais Smith Published 18 November 2003 (5 pages) 184513 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic electrodynamics of MgB2 detected by optical reflectance Y. Fudamoto and S. Lee Published 19 November 2003 (8 pages) 184514 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transformation of in-plane ρ(T) in YBa2Cu3O7-δ at fixed oxygen content M. M. Abdelhadi and J. A. Jung Published 19 November 2003 (9 pages) 184515 [View PDF (403 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Order parameter and current-phase relation in Josephson junctions composed of g+s-wave superconductors Zengxu Wang, Weiyi Zhang, and Zidan Wang Published 19 November 2003 (7 pages) 184516 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon thermal conductivity in doped La2CuO4: Relevant scattering mechanisms C. Hess, B. Büchner, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi Published 25 November 2003 (7 pages) 184517 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Evidence for the immobile bipolaron formation in the paramagnetic state of the magnetoresistive manganites” Aritra Banerjee, S. Bhattacharya, S. Mollah, H. Sakata, H. D. Yang, and B. K. Chaudhuri Published 18 November 2003 (5 pages) 186401 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher’s Note: Zero-frequency transport properties of one-dimensional spin-1 / 2 systems [Phys. Rev. B 68, 134436 (2003)] F. Heidrich-Meisner, A. Honecker, D. C. Cabra, and W. Brenig Published 3 November 2003 (1 pages) 189901 [View PDF (7 kB) ]