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Physical Review B – 1 November 2003
Volume 68, Issue 18

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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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(R) [View PDF (406 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (224 kB)]

Magnetism

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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(R) [View PDF (417 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Microscopic model for the magnetization plateaus in NH4CuCl3
Masashige Matsumoto
Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages)
180403(R) [View PDF (383 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (387 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Magnetism in Mn clusters: Role of correlation effects
Florentino López-Urías and Alejandro Díaz-Ortiz
Published 21 November 2003 (4 pages)
180406(R) [View PDF (159 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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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(R) [View PDF (446 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity
E. Arrigoni and S. A. Kivelson
Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages)
180503(R) [View PDF (94 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (412 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (297 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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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)]
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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)]
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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 (136 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (89 kB)]
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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 (127 kB)]
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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 (91 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (349 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (149 kB)]
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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 (477 kB)]
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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)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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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 (324 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (339 kB)]
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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 (97 kB)]
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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)]
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Multifractality of Hamiltonians with power-law transfer terms
E. Cuevas
Published 21 November 2003 (5 pages)
184206 [View PDF (70 kB)]

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

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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 (386 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (105 kB)]
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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)]

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 (180 kB)]
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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 (132 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (324 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (113 kB)]
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Vortex-vacancy interactions in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets
G. M. Wysin
Published 12 November 2003 (11 pages)
184411 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Observation of polarization-dependent x-ray absorption spectra arising from Cu3d-F2p 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)]
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Quantum dynamics of tunneling between ferromagnets
Yu-Li Lee and Yu-Wen Lee
Published 18 November 2003 (7 pages)
184413 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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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 (52 kB)]
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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 (249 kB)]
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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 (450 kB)]
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Itinerant-electron metamagnetism and giant magnetocaloric effect
H. Yamada and T. Goto
Published 19 November 2003 (7 pages)
184417 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (274 kB)]
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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 (149 kB)]
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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)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Kinetic energy driven superconductivity in doped cuprates
Shiping Feng
Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages)
184501 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Charge expulsion and electric field in superconductors
J. E. Hirsch
Published 4 November 2003 (9 pages)
184502 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Calculation of κ2(T) for s-wave type-II superconductors
Takafumi Kita
Published 4 November 2003 (13 pages)
184503 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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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 (2,509 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (752 kB)]
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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)]
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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. B. Williams
Published 14 November 2003 (9 pages)
184509 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Signature of stripe pinning in optical conductivity
L. Benfatto and C. Morais Smith
Published 18 November 2003 (5 pages)
184513 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Anisotropic electrodynamics of MgB2 detected by optical reflectance
Y. Fudamoto and S. Lee
Published 19 November 2003 (8 pages)
184514 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]

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 (65 kB)]

ERRATA

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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 page)
189901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
 
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