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Physical Review B – 1 February 2004
Volume 69, Issue 5

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Optical properties of the compounds BaTiO3 and SrTiO3
Garima Gupta, Tashi Nautiyal, and Sushil Auluck
Published 10 February 2004 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Time-resolved investigation of photoinduced structural change in Co-Fe cyanides
M. Kamiya, M. Hanawa, Y. Moritomo, Y. Isobe, J. Tateishi, K. Kato, and A. Nakamura
Published 11 February 2004 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Thermal expansion of spinel-type Si3N4
W. Paszkowicz, R. Minikayev, P. Piszora, M. Knapp, C. Bähtz, J. M. Recio, M. Marqués, P. Mori-Sánchez, L. Gerward, and J. Z. Jiang
Published 23 February 2004 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (39 kB)]

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

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Surface acoustic waves in germanium single crystals
J. C. Crowhurst and J. M. Zaug
Published 9 February 2004 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Magnetism

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Pressure-induced onset of long-range magnetic order in two-dimensional spin-frustrated CuFeO2
W. M. Xu, M. P. Pasternak, and R. D. Taylor
Published 9 February 2004 (4 pages)
052401 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Large training effects in magnetic relaxation and anisotropic magnetoresistance in nanocrystalline exchange-biased Ni80Fe20/Co-O bilayers
E. Pina, C. Prados, and A. Hernando
Published 11 February 2004 (4 pages)
052402 [View PDF (546 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the interfacial spin polarization of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3
V. Garcia, M. Bibes, A. Barthélémy, M. Bowen, E. Jacquet, J.-P. Contour, and A. Fert
Published 12 February 2004 (4 pages)
052403 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Breakdown of the pseudopotential approximation for magnetic systems: Predicting magnetic quenching at the V(001) surface with spin-dependent pseudopotentials
Vincent Cocula and Emily A. Carter
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
052404 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Magnetism of isolated Mn12 single-molecule magnets detected by magnetic circular dichroism: Observation of spin tunneling with a magneto-optical technique
N. Domingo, B. E. Williamson, J. Gómez-Segura, Ph. Gerbier, D. Ruiz-Molina, D. B. Amabilino, J. Veciana, and J. Tejada
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
052405 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Size dependence of coercivity in nanostructured soft alloys
A. Hernando, P. Marín, M. López, T. Kulik, L. K. Varga, and G. Hadjipanayis
Published 11 February 2004 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Anomalous oxygen-isotope effect on the in-plane far-infrared conductivity of detwinned YBa2Cu316,18O6.9
C. Bernhard, T. Holden, A. V. Boris, N. N. Kovaleva, A. V. Pimenov, J. Humlicek, C. Ulrich, C. T. Lin, and J. L. Tallon
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
052502 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Zeros of the order parameter of dx2-y2 superconducting film in the presence of uniform current
V. V. Kabanov
Published 18 February 2004 (3 pages)
052503 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-driven x≈1/8 anomaly of superconductivity in La2-x-ySrxMnyCuO4
R. Laiho, J. Salminen, and V. Zakhvalinskii
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
052504 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Hall effect and resistivity in underdoped cuprates
A. S. Alexandrov, V. N. Zavaritsky, and S. Dzhumanov
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
052505 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics of LiBC
B. Renker, H. Schober, P. Adelmann, P. Schweiss, K.-P. Bohnen, and R. Heid
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
052506 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Orthorhombic lattice deformation of GdSr2RuCu2O8 from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and x-ray powder diffraction analysis
A. Martinelli, C. Artini, M. R. Cimberle, G. A. Costa, M. Ferretti, R. Masini, and P. Mele
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
052507 [View PDF (390 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Modeling the dynamic fracture of polymer blends processed under shear
Gavin A. Buxton and Anna C. Balazs
Published 9 February 2004 (11 pages)
054101 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Electronic transport and consequences for material removal in ultrafast pulsed laser ablation of materials
N. M. Bulgakova, R. Stoian, A. Rosenfeld, I. V. Hertel, and E. E. B. Campbell
Published 9 February 2004 (12 pages)
054102 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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NMR study of ionic shifts and polar ordering in the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Sc1/2Nb1/2)O3
V. V. Laguta, M. D. Glinchuk, I. P. Bykov, R. Blinc, and B. Zalar
Published 11 February 2004 (9 pages)
054103 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Possible origin of the proton conduction mechanism of CsH2PO4 crystals at high temperatures
Jong-Ho Park
Published 12 February 2004 (6 pages)
054104 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Harmonic and anharmonic components of third-order elastic constants
J. M. Skipp and D. J. Dunstan
Published 18 February 2004 (5 pages)
054105 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Orthorhombic distortion on Li intercalation in anatase
Marina V. Koudriachova, Simon W. de Leeuw, and Nicholas M. Harrison
Published 19 February 2004 (6 pages)
054106 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics and the high-pressure equation of state of Au
Carl W. Greeff and Matthias J. Graf
Published 19 February 2004 (10 pages)
054107 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Observation of wavelength shifts in ruby under shock compression to 36 GPa by time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy
T. Kobayashi, T. Sekine, Xijun Li, and Y. Yamashita
Published 19 February 2004 (7 pages)
054108 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Density-functional study of the cubic-to-rhombohedral transition in α-AlF3
Yiing-Rei Chen, Vasili Perebeinos, and Philip B. Allen
Published 20 February 2004 (6 pages)
054109 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Kinetic electron emission for planar versus axial surface channeling of He atoms and ions
H. Winter, K. Maass, S. Lederer, HP. Winter, and F. Aumayr
Published 24 February 2004 (4 pages)
054110 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Phonon activity and intermediate glassy phase of YVO3
Néstor E. Massa, Cínthia Piamonteze, Hélio C. N. Tolentino, José Antonio Alonso, María Jesús Martínez-Lope, and María Teresa Casais
Published 25 February 2004 (7 pages)
054111 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Structural and electronic properties of Si3P4
M. Huang, Y. P. Feng, A. T. L. Lim, and J. C. Zheng
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
054112 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Comparative study of space-charge effects in polymer light emitting diodes by means of reflection electro-optic and electroabsorption techniques
L. Dominici, F. Michelotti, S. Whitelegg, A. Campbell, and D. D. C. Bradley
Published 10 February 2004 (10 pages)
054201 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Coherent control of nanoscale localization of ultrafast optical excitation in nanosystems
Mark I. Stockman, David J. Bergman, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 13 February 2004 (10 pages)
054202 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Structural stability and magnetic properties of metastable Fe-Cu alloys studied by ab initio calculations and molecular dynamics simulations
H. R. Gong, L. T. Kong, and B. X. Liu
Published 17 February 2004 (8 pages)
054203 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Exact multielectronic electron-concentration-dependent ground states for disordered two-dimensional two-band systems in the presence of disordered hoppings and finite on-site random interactions
Zsolt Gulácsi
Published 18 February 2004 (10 pages)
054204 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Sound-mode broadening in quasicrystals: A simple phenomenological model
M. de Boissieu, R. Currat, S. Francoual, and E. Kats
Published 20 February 2004 (8 pages)
054205 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Interpretation of x-ray and neutron diffraction patterns for liquid and amorphous yttrium and lanthanum aluminum oxides from computer simulation
Mark Wilson and Paul F. McMillan
Published 26 February 2004 (11 pages)
054206 [View PDF (918 kB)]

Magnetism

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Competing electronic ground states in La1-xCaxCoO3
J. C. Burley, J. F. Mitchell, and S. Short
Published 5 February 2004 (5 pages)
054401 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Spin structure of nanocrystalline terbium
J. Weissmüller, A. Michels, D. Michels, A. Wiedenmann, C. E. Krill, III, H. M. Sauer, and R. Birringer
Published 5 February 2004 (16 pages)
054402 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Crossover from Poisson to Wigner-Dyson level statistics in spin chains with integrability breaking
D. A. Rabson, B. N. Narozhny, and A. J. Millis
Published 9 February 2004 (8 pages)
054403 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Hyperfine interactions in the antiferromagnetic states of UX2 (X=P,As,Sb,Bi)
S. Tsutsui, M. Nakada, S. Nasu, Y. Haga, D. Aoki, P. Wiśniewski, and Y. Ōnuki
Published 9 February 2004 (5 pages)
054404 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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UAs/Co multilayers studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the U M4,5 edges
N. Kernavanois, D. Mannix, P. Dalmas de Réotier, J.-P. Sanchez, A. Yaouanc, A. Rogalev, G. H. Lander, and W. G. Stirling
Published 11 February 2004 (6 pages)
054405 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Coupled S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains in an effective staggered field
Masahiro Sato and Masaki Oshikawa
Published 12 February 2004 (12 pages)
054406 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Low-frequency magnetic and resistance noise in magnetic tunnel junctions
L. Jiang, E. R. Nowak, P. E. Scott, J. Johnson, J. M. Slaughter, J. J. Sun, and R. W. Dave
Published 13 February 2004 (9 pages)
054407 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Phenomenological theory of current-induced magnetization precession
M. D. Stiles, Jiang Xiao, and A. Zangwill
Published 13 February 2004 (15 pages)
054408 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Spin-current-induced electric field
Qing-feng Sun, Hong Guo, and Jian Wang
Published 13 February 2004 (5 pages)
054409 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Bias dependence and inversion of the tunneling magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic junctions
Fei-fei Li, Zheng-zhong Li, Ming-wen Xiao, Jun Du, Wang Xu, and An Hu
Published 17 February 2004 (8 pages)
054410 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic properties of ultrathin fcc FexMn1-x films on Cu(100)
R. Thamankar, S. Bhagwat, and F. O. Schumann
Published 17 February 2004 (8 pages)
054411 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of diluted band ferromagnet URhAl
P. Javorský, L. Havela, F. Wastin, P. Boulet, and J. Rebizant
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
054412 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Low-field magnetoresistance in perovskite manganites: Magnetic field, temperature, and current dependence
R. Gunnarsson, Z. G. Ivanov, C. Dubourdieu, and H. Roussel
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
054413 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Dynamics of an anisotropic Haldane antiferromagnet in a strong magnetic field
A. Zheludev, S. M. Shapiro, Z. Honda, K. Katsumata, B. Grenier, E. Ressouche, L.-P. Regnault, Y. Chen, P. Vorderwisch, H.-J. Mikeska, and A. K. Kolezhuk
Published 18 February 2004 (10 pages)
054414 [View PDF (798 kB)]
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Extension of the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram of CeB6
R. G. Goodrich, David P. Young, Donavan Hall, Luis Balicas, Z. Fisk, N. Harrison, J. Betts, Albert Migliori, F. M. Woodward, and J. W. Lynn
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
054415 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Enhanced magnetic orbital moment of ultrathin Co films on Ge(100)
P. Ryan, R. P. Winarski, D. J. Keavney, J. W. Freeland, R. A. Rosenberg, S. Park, and C. M. Falco
Published 20 February 2004 (6 pages)
054416 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Composition-dependent ratio of orbital-to-spin magnetic moment in structurally disordered FexPt1-x nanoparticles
M. Ulmeanu, C. Antoniak, U. Wiedwald, M. Farle, Z. Frait, and S. Sun
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
054417 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Low-temperature properties and ESR in the quasi-one-dimensional random compound MnMgB2O5
J. C. Fernandes, R. B. Guimarães, M. A. Continentino, R. Rapp, J-L. Tholence, J. Dumas, Y. Blancquaert, S. Yates, and C. Paulsen
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
054418 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic instabilities in ultrathin Fe-rich alloy films on Cu(100)
R. Thamankar, S. Bhagwat, and F. O. Schumann
Published 23 February 2004 (8 pages)
054419 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm oscillation in a ferromagnetic ring
Gen Tatara, Hiroshi Kohno, Edgar Bonet, and Bernard Barbara
Published 24 February 2004 (5 pages)
054420 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of the Fe/ZnSe interface
R. Bertacco, M. Riva, M. Cantoni, F. Ciccacci, M. Portalupi, A. Brambilla, L. Duò, P. Vavassori, F. Gustavsson, J.-M. George, M. Marangolo, M. Eddrief, and V. H. Etgens
Published 24 February 2004 (7 pages)
054421 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Crystal and magnetic structure of Mn3IrSi
T. Eriksson, R. Lizárraga, S. Felton, L. Bergqvist, Y. Andersson, P. Nordblad, and O. Eriksson
Published 24 February 2004 (7 pages)
054422 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Field- and pressure-induced magnetic quantum phase transitions in TlCuCl3
Masashige Matsumoto, B. Normand, T. M. Rice, and Manfred Sigrist
Published 25 February 2004 (20 pages)
054423 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Effect of the spin-orbit interaction on the band gap of half metals
Ph. Mavropoulos, K. Sato, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, V. Popescu, and H. Ebert
Published 26 February 2004 (5 pages)
054424 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of ferrihydrite nanoparticles doped with Ni, Mo, and Ir
A. Punnoose, T. Phanthavady, M. S. Seehra, N. Shah, and G. P. Huffman
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
054425 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-liquid behavior from two-dimensional antiferromagnetic fluctuations: A renormalization-group and large-N analysis
Sergey Pankov, Serge Florens, Antoine Georges, Gabriel Kotliar, and Subir Sachdev
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
054426 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Delocalization and charge disproportionation in La(1-x)SrxMnO3
G. Banach and W. M. Temmerman
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
054427 [View PDF (612 kB)]
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Mixed-spin Ising model and compensation temperature
Maurício Godoy, Vanessa Souza Leite, and Wagner Figueiredo
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
054428 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Amplitudes for magnon scattering by vortices in two-dimensional weakly easy-plane ferromagnets
Denis D. Sheka, Ivan A. Yastremsky, Boris A. Ivanov, Gary M. Wysin, and Franz G. Mertens
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
054429 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Magnetic enhancement in antiferromagnetic nanoparticle of CoRh2O4
R. N. Bhowmik, R. Nagarajan, and R. Ranganathan
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
054430 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling properties of random transverse-field Ising chains: Comparison between canonical and microcanonical ensembles for the disorder
Cécile Monthus
Published 27 February 2004 (19 pages)
054431 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Antiferromagnet-ferromagnet and structural phase transitions in La0.88MnOx manganites
I. O. Troyanchuk, V. A. Khomchenko, M. Tovar, H. Szymczak, and K. Bärner
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
054432 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic insulating phase in Pr1-xCaxMnO3
R. Kajimoto, H. Mochizuki, H. Yoshizawa, S. Okamoto, and S. Ishihara
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
054433 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Lattice dynamical study of optical modes in Tl2Mn2O7 and In2Mn2O7 pyrochlores
S. Brown, H. C. Gupta, J. A. Alonso, and M. J. Martínez-Lope
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
054434 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Magnetic and transport properties of the mixed-valent compound YbRh2Ga
G. F. Chen, I. Sakamoto, S. Ohara, T. Takami, H. Ikuta, and U. Mizutani
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
054435 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Transport properties of sharp antiferromagnetic boundaries in Gd/Fe multilayers
José L. Prieto, Bas B. van Aken, Gavin Burnell, Chris Bell, Jan E. Evetts, Neil Mathur, and Mark G. Blamire
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
054436 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Possibility of superconductivity in the repulsive Hubbard model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice
Takashi Kimura, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki
Published 6 February 2004 (5 pages)
054501 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Critical field in a superconductivity model with local pairs
Marcin Mierzejewski and Maciej M. Maśka
Published 17 February 2004 (7 pages)
054502 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Fully gapped single-particle excitations in lightly doped cuprates
K. M. Shen et al.
Published 17 February 2004 (5 pages)
054503 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Phase coherence in the Josephson-coupled stack of planar spin-charge separated condensates and the interlayer mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity
T. K. Kopeć
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
054504 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Specific heat study of the magnetic superconductor HoNi2B2C
Tuson Park, M. B. Salamon, Eun Mi Choi, Heon Jung Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 19 February 2004 (8 pages)
054505 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Correlation lengths for vortex-liquid freezing in a model of layered high-temperature superconductors
A. Zamora
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
054506 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Screening and dissipation at the superconductor-insulator transition induced by a metallic ground plane
Ashvin Vishwanath, Joel E. Moore, and T. Senthil
Published 20 February 2004 (20 pages)
054507 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Ginzburg-Landau theory of vortices in a multigap superconductor
M. E. Zhitomirsky and V.-H. Dao
Published 24 February 2004 (11 pages)
054508 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates: Gap shape change and symmetry crossover with doping
Francisco Guinea, Robert S. Markiewicz, and María A. H. Vozmediano
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
054509 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Fishtail effect in neutron-irradiated superconducting MgB2 single crystals
M. Zehetmayer, M. Eisterer, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, B. Birajdar, O. Eibl, and H. W. Weber
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
054510 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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c-axis lattice dynamics in Bi-based cuprate superconductors
N. N. Kovaleva, A. V. Boris, T. Holden, C. Ulrich, B. Liang, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, C. Bernhard, J. L. Tallon, D. Munzar, and A. M. Stoneham
Published 27 February 2004 (16 pages)
054511 [View PDF (1,176 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Frustrating interactions and broadened magnetic interactions in the edge-sharing CuO2 chains in La5Ca9Cu24O41”
R. Leidl and W. Selke
Published 27 February 2004 (2 pages)
056401 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Comment on “First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism”
I. I. Mazin, O. K. Andersen, O. Jepsen, A. A. Golubov, O. V. Dolgov, and J. Kortus
Published 6 February 2004 (3 pages)
056501 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism’ ”
Hyoung Joon Choi, David Roundy, Hong Sun, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie
Published 6 February 2004 (1 page)
056502 [View PDF (16 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Superconductivity in CoO2 layers and the resonating valence bond mean-field theory of the triangular lattice t-J model [Phys. Rev. B 68, 104508 (2003)]
Brijesh Kumar and B. Sriram Shastry
Published 12 February 2004 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Polaron effective mass from Monte Carlo simulations [Phys. Rev. B 55, R8634 (1997)]
P. E. Kornilovitch and E. R. Pike
Published 18 February 2004 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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