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Physical Review B – 1 May 2004
Volume 69, Issue 18

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Griffiths-like ac nonlinearity in a disordered antiferroelectric
Eugene V. Colla, M. B. Weissman, Wai-Hung Chan, and Haydn Chen
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
180101(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Structural and electronic properties of oxygen vacancies in cubic and antiferrodistortive phases of SrTiO3
James P. Buban, Hakim Iddir, and Serdar Öğüt
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
180102(R) [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Amorphization in quenched ice VIII: A first-principles study
Koichiro Umemoto and Renata M. Wentzcovitch
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
180103(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

Magnetism

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Ground-state order and spin-lattice coupling in tetrahedral spin systems Cu2Te2O5X2 (X=Br or Cl)
M. Prester, A. Smontara, I. Živković, A. Bilušić, D. Drobac, H. Berger, and F. Bussy
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
180401(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Switching-mode-dependent magnetic interlayer coupling strength in spin valves and magnetic tunnel junctions
Y. Pennec, J. Camarero, J. C. Toussaint, S. Pizzini, M. Bonfim, F. Petroff, W. Kuch, F. Offi, K. Fukumoto, F. Nguyen Van Dau, and J. Vogel
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
180402(R) [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Absence of hole pairing in a simple t-J model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice
P. W. Leung and Y. F. Cheng
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
180403(R) [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Nanoscale phase competition during charge ordering in intrinsically strained La0.33Ca0.67MnO3
J. Tao and J. M. Zuo
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
180404(R) [View PDF (871 kB)]
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Pressure-induced transition from a spin glass to an itinerant ferromagnet in the half-doped manganite L0.5Ba0.5MnO3 (L=Sm and Nd) with quenched disorder
N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, D. Akahoshi, Y. Tokura, and H. Takagi
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
180405(R) [View PDF (307 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Origin of the A1g and B1g electronic Raman scattering peaks in the superconducting state of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
H. Martinho, A. A. Martin, C. Rettori, and C. T. Lin
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
180501(R) [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Josephson plasma resonance in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y with spatially dependent interlayer phase coherence
N. Kameda, M. Tokunaga, T. Tamegai, M. Konczykowski, and S. Okayasu
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
180502(R) [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Effect of morphology on the superconductor-insulator transition in one-dimensional nanowires
A. T. Bollinger, A. Rogachev, M. Remeika, and A. Bezryadin
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
180503(R) [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Upper critical field and Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in CeCoIn5
Hyekyung Won, Kazumi Maki, Stephan Haas, Niels Oeschler, Franziska Weickert, and Philipp Gegenwart
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
180504(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Suppression of the vortex glass transition due to correlated defects with a persistent direction perpendicular to an applied magnetic field
Ryusuke Ikeda and Kiyokazu Myojin
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
180505(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Optical conductivity of single crystals of Na0.57CoO2
S. Lupi, M. Ortolani, and P. Calvani
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
180506(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Single-shot measurement of the Josephson charge qubit
O. Astafiev, Yu. A. Pashkin, T. Yamamoto, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
180507(R) [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Bulk electronic structure of Na0.35CoO2⋅1.3H2O
A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, Y. Takata, K. Tamasaku, M. Taguchi, T. Shimojima, N. Kamakura, K. Horiba, S. Tsuda, S. Shin, D. Miwa, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, M. Yabashi, K. Kobayashi, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, K. Takada, T. Sasaki, H. Sakurai, and E. Takayama-Muromachi
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
180508(R) [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Probing the superconducting gap symmetry of PrRu4Sb12: A comparison with PrOs4Sb12
Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
180509(R) [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Vortex solid-liquid transition in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ with a high density of strong pins
S. Colson, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, M. B. Gaifullin, Y. Matsuda, P. Gierłowski, Ming Li, and P. H. Kes
Published 20 May 2004 (4 pages)
180510(R) [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Quadrupolar effect and rattling motion in the heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12
Terutaka Goto, Yuichi Nemoto, Kazuhiro Sakai, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mitsuhiro Akatsu, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Hirofumi Hazama, Kei Onuki, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato
Published 20 May 2004 (4 pages)
180511(R) [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Electronic structure and superconductivity of CaAlSi and SrAlSi
I. I. Mazin and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos
Published 26 May 2004 (4 pages)
180512(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Heat-capacity anomalies at Tsc and T* in the ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2
N. Tateiwa, T. C. Kobayashi, K. Amaya, Y. Haga, R. Settai, and Y. Ōnuki
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
180513(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Epitaxially strained [001]-(PbTiO3)1(PbZrO3)1 superlattice and PbTiO3 from first principles
Claudia Bungaro and K. M. Rabe
Published 17 May 2004 (8 pages)
184101 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Titanium metal at high pressure: Synchrotron experiments and ab initio calculations
Rajeev Ahuja, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, J. M. Osorio Guillen, Maurizio Mattesini, Börje Johansson, and Tristan Le Bihan
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
184102 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Extinction effects in x-ray holographic imaging with internal reference
P. Korecki, D. V. Novikov, M. Tolkiehn, and G. Materlik
Published 20 May 2004 (9 pages)
184103 [View PDF (1,168 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics of perovskite PbxCa1-xTiO3
Shou-Yi Kuo, Chung-Ting Li, and Wen-Feng Hsieh
Published 25 May 2004 (6 pages)
184104 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Pressure as a probe of the physics of 18O-substituted SrTiO3
E. L. Venturini, G. A. Samara, M. Itoh, and R. Wang
Published 26 May 2004 (9 pages)
184105 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Contact resistance in percolating networks
P. Keblinski and F. Cleri
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
184201 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Thermoelectric figure of merit of AlPdRe icosahedral quasicrystals: Composition-dependent effects
Enrique Maciá
Published 26 May 2004 (7 pages)
184202 [View PDF (175 kB)]

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

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First-principles investigation of high-κ dielectrics: Comparison between the silicates and oxides of hafnium and zirconium
G.-M. Rignanese, X. Gonze, Gyuchang Jun, Kyeongjae Cho, and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 25 May 2004 (10 pages)
184301 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Lumped-mass method for the study of band structure in two-dimensional phononic crystals
Gang Wang, Jihong Wen, Yaozong Liu, and Xisen Wen
Published 28 May 2004 (6 pages)
184302 [View PDF (656 kB)]

Magnetism

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Superstructures at low spin–high spin transitions
D. I. Khomskii and U. Löw
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
184401 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Field-driven transitions in the dipolar pyrochlore antiferromagnet Gd2Ti2O7
Olivier Cépas and B. Sriram Shastry
Published 6 May 2004 (5 pages)
184402 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Nonlinear excitations in CsNiF3 in magnetic fields perpendicular to the easy plane
M. Orendáč, A. Orendáčová, E. Čižmár, J.-H. Park, A. Feher, S. J. Gamble, S. Gabáni, K. Flachbart, J. Karadamoglou, M. Poirier, and M. W. Meisel
Published 6 May 2004 (6 pages)
184403 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Electron-energy-loss spectra of NiO
L. V. Dobysheva, P. L. Potapov, and D. Schryvers
Published 7 May 2004 (6 pages)
184404 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Search for mean-free-path effects in current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance
Wen-C. Chiang, C. Ritz, K. Eid, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass
Published 10 May 2004 (10 pages)
184405 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Current-induced magnetization dynamics in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves
M. Covington, M. AlHajDarwish, Y. Ding, N. J. Gokemeijer, and M. A. Seigler
Published 13 May 2004 (8 pages)
184406 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Quasiparticle vanishing driven by geometrical frustration
A. E. Trumper, C. J. Gazza, and L. O. Manuel
Published 14 May 2004 (6 pages)
184407 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Coexistence of bandlike and localized 5f electrons in UxLa1-xS
M. Broschwitz, C. Stellmach, M. Rode, M. Marutzky, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, O. Vogt, and K. Mattenberger
Published 17 May 2004 (6 pages)
184408 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Self-assembled epitaxial magnetic lateral structures on Ru: Controlling the shape and placement
Ruihua Cheng, J. Pearson, H. F. Ding, Vitali Metlushko, S. D. Bader, F. Y. Fradin, and Dongqi Li
Published 19 May 2004 (5 pages)
184409 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Spin-resonance modes of the spin-gap magnet TlCuCl3
V. N. Glazkov, A. I. Smirnov, H. Tanaka, and A. Oosawa
Published 19 May 2004 (9 pages)
184410 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Magnetic and electronic properties of the antiferromagnet NpCoGa5
E. Colineau, P. Javorský, P. Boulet, F. Wastin, J. C. Griveau, J. Rebizant, J. P. Sanchez, and G. R. Stewart
Published 19 May 2004 (8 pages)
184411 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Structural and electronic properties of the ordered double perovskites A2MReO6 (A=Sr,Ca; M=Mg,Sc,Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni,Zn)
H. Kato, T. Okuda, Y. Okimoto, Y. Tomioka, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, and Y. Tokura
Published 19 May 2004 (8 pages)
184412 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Magnetotransport properties of (La1-yPry)0.65Ca0.35MnO3 (y=0.0–0.7) showing crossover from A-type to CE-type antiferromagnetic state
Subhrangsu Taran, Sandip Chatterjee, and B. K. Chaudhuri
Published 21 May 2004 (5 pages)
184413 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Susceptibility and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the Haldane-gap compound Ni(C2H8N2)2NO2(ClO4)
Hai Huang and Ian Affleck
Published 24 May 2004 (10 pages)
184414 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Stability of the tetragonal Mn3+O6 distortions in the LaMn1-xGaxO3 series by x-ray absorption spectroscopy
M. C. Sánchez, G. Subías, J. García, and J. Blasco
Published 25 May 2004 (9 pages)
184415 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Quantum properties of a strongly interacting frustrated disordered magnet
James W. Landry and S. N. Coppersmith
Published 26 May 2004 (6 pages)
184416 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Two-magnon scattering in a self-assembled nanoscale network of misfit dislocations
G. Woltersdorf and B. Heinrich
Published 26 May 2004 (10 pages)
184417 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Magnetostriction and magnetotransport in bismuth
J.-P. Michenaud, B. Lenoir, and C. Bellouard
Published 26 May 2004 (4 pages)
184418 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Wide-scale evolution of magnetization distribution in ultrathin films
M. Kisielewski, A. Maziewski, T. Polyakova, and V. Zablotskii
Published 27 May 2004 (7 pages)
184419 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Magnetic phases and reorientation transitions in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers
U. K. Rößler and A. N. Bogdanov
Published 28 May 2004 (15 pages)
184420 [View PDF (1,177 kB)]
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Local magnetism in rare-earth metals encapsulated in fullerenes
C. De Nadaï, A. Mirone, S. S. Dhesi, P. Bencok, N. B. Brookes, I. Marenne, P. Rudolf, N. Tagmatarchis, H. Shinohara, and T. J. S. Dennis
Published 28 May 2004 (7 pages)
184421 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Half-metallic character and electronic properties of inverse magnetoresistant Fe1-xCoxSi alloys
Javier Guevara, Verónica Vildosola, Julián Milano, and Ana María Llois
Published 28 May 2004 (6 pages)
184422 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Aging dynamics of the Heisenberg spin glass
L. Berthier and A. P. Young
Published 28 May 2004 (15 pages)
184423 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Magnetization density calculation for diffusing spins
Andre Marko, Bernd Wolter, and Walter Arnold
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
184424 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Numerical Jordan-Wigner approach for two-dimensional spin systems
D. C. Cabra and G. L. Rossini
Published 28 May 2004 (6 pages)
184425 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Critical temperature for the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model
Thereza Paiva, Raimundo R. dos Santos, R. T. Scalettar, and P. J. H. Denteneer
Published 3 May 2004 (5 pages)
184501 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Split transition in ferromagnetic superconductors
D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick
Published 3 May 2004 (13 pages)
184502 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Pseudo-spin-gap and slow spin fluctuation in La2-xSrxCuO4 (x=0.13 and 0.18) via 63Cu and 139La nuclear quadrupole resonance
Y. Itoh, T. Machi, N. Koshizuka, M. Murakami, H. Yamagata, and M. Matsumura
Published 10 May 2004 (8 pages)
184503 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Guidance of vortices and the vortex ratchet effect in high-Tc superconducting thin films obtained by arrangement of antidots
R. Wördenweber, P. Dymashevski, and V. R. Misko
Published 20 May 2004 (6 pages)
184504 [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Quantum destruction of stiffness in diluted antiferromagnets and superconductors
N. Bray-Ali and J. E. Moore
Published 20 May 2004 (5 pages)
184505 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Evidence for an excited nonequilibrium quasiparticle distribution in superconducting tunnel junctions resulting from energy accumulation via sequential tunneling
A. G. Kozorezov, J. K. Wigmore, A. Peacock, R. den Hartog, D. Martin, G. Brammertz, P. Verhoeve, and N. Rando
Published 21 May 2004 (16 pages)
184506 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Muon spin relaxation and magnetic susceptibility studies of the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the Cu spin dynamics and superconductivity in La2-xSrxCu1-yZnyO4 around x=0.115
T. Adachi, S. Yairi, K. Takahashi, Y. Koike, I. Watanabe, and K. Nagamine
Published 21 May 2004 (10 pages)
184507 [View PDF (1,052 kB)]
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Structure optimization effects on the electronic and vibrational properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
V. Bellini, F. Manghi, T. Thonhauser, and C. Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 26 May 2004 (8 pages)
184508 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Superconducting thin rings with finite penetration depth
Ernst Helmut Brandt and John R. Clem
Published 27 May 2004 (12 pages)
184509 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Low-energy phase-only action in a superconductor: A comparison with the XY model
L. Benfatto, A. Toschi, and S. Caprara
Published 28 May 2004 (21 pages)
184510 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Edge modes, edge currents, and gauge invariance in px+ipy superfluids and superconductors
Michael Stone and Rahul Roy
Published 28 May 2004 (12 pages)
184511 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Zero-temperature glass transition in the two-dimensional gauge glass model
Marios Nikolaou and Mats Wallin
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
184512 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Absolute values of the London penetration depth in YBa2Cu3O6+y measured by zero field ESR spectroscopy on Gd doped single crystals
T. Pereg-Barnea, P. J. Turner, R. Harris, G. K. Mullins, J. S. Bobowski, M. Raudsepp, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy
Published 28 May 2004 (13 pages)
184513 [View PDF (1,163 kB)]
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Reversible magnetization measurement of the anisotropy of the London penetration depth in MgB2 single crystals
Heon-Jung Kim, Byeongwon Kang, Min-Seok Park, Kyung-Hee Kim, Hyun Sook Lee, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
184514 [View PDF (66 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Energy partitioning and particle spectra in multicomponent collision cascades”
Zhu Lin Zhang
Published 5 May 2004 (2 pages)
186101 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Energy partitioning and particle spectra in multicomponent collision cascades’ ”
Herbert M. Urbassek and Martin Vicanek
Published 5 May 2004 (1 page)
186102 [View PDF (10 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dimer liquid state in the quantum antiferromagnet compound LiCu2O2 [Phys. Rev. B 66, 064424 (2002)]
S. Zvyagin, G. Cao, Y. Xin, S. McCall, T. Caldwell, W. Moulton, L.-C. Brunel, A. Angerhofer, and J. E. Crow
Published 13 May 2004 (1 page)
189901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Pseudo-spin-gap and slow spin fluctuation in La2-xSrxCuO4 (x=0.13 and 0.18) via 63Cu and 109La nuclear quadrupole resonance [Phys. Rev. B 69, 184503 (2004)]
Y. Itoh, T. Machi, N. Koshizuka, M. Murakami, H. Yamagata, and M. Matsumura
Published 24 May 2004 (1 page)
189902(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Comparative study of the I-V scaling in highly anisotropic Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ and isotropic (K,Ba)BiO3 heavy-ion-irradiated single crystals [Phys. Rev. B 69, 134508 (2004)]
L. Ammor, B. Pignon, and A. Ruyter
Published 28 May 2004 (1 page)
189903(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Erratum: Features of supercooled glycerol dynamics [Phys. Rev. B 67, 132202 (2003)]
Ya. E. Ryabov, Y. Hayashi, A. Gutina, and Y. Feldman
Published 28 May 2004 (1 page)
189904(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
 
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