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Physical Review B – 1 February 2004
Volume 69, Issue 6

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Magnetism

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Change in Mn 3d orbital state related to a metal-insulator transition in a bilayer manganite studied by magnetic Compton profile measurement
A. Koizumi, T. Nagao, Y. Kakutani, N. Sakai, K. Hirota, and Y. Murakami
Published 10 February 2004 (4 pages)
060401(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Pseudogaps in nested antiferromagnets
C. Pépin and M. R. Norman
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
060402(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Low-frequency measurement of the tunneling amplitude in a flux qubit
M. Grajcar, A. Izmalkov, E. Il’ichev, Th. Wagner, N. Oukhanski, U. Hübner, T. May, I. Zhilyaev, H. E. Hoenig, Ya. S. Greenberg, V. I. Shnyrkov, D. Born, W. Krech, H.-G. Meyer, Alec Maassen van den Brink, and M. H. S. Amin
Published 3 February 2004 (3 pages)
060501(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Absence of gross static inhomogeneity in cuprate superconductors
J. W. Loram, J. L. Tallon, and W. Y. Liang
Published 13 February 2004 (4 pages)
060502(R) [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Power spectrum of many impurities in a d-wave superconductor
Lingyin Zhu, W. A. Atkinson, and P. J. Hirschfeld
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
060503(R) [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Very-low-temperature tunneling spectroscopy in the heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12
H. Suderow, S. Vieira, J. D. Strand, S. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
060504(R) [View PDF (151 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Kinetics of martensitic transitions in Cu-Al-Mn under thermal cycling: Analysis at multiple length scales
Francisco-José Pérez-Reche, Marcelo Stipcich, Eduard Vives, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Michel Morin
Published 9 February 2004 (7 pages)
064101 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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First-principles study of the mechanisms for the pressure-induced phase transitions in zinc-blende CuBr and CuI
Yanming Ma, John S. Tse, and Dennis D. Klug
Published 11 February 2004 (6 pages)
064102 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Thermodynamic study of c-axis-oriented epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films
Isaku Kanno, Yu Yokoyama, Hidetoshi Kotera, and Kiyotaka Wasa
Published 12 February 2004 (7 pages)
064103 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Modification of vibrational selection rules in the photoinduced spin-crossover phase
Takeshi Tayagaki, Koichiro Tanaka, and Hidekazu Okamura
Published 12 February 2004 (8 pages)
064104 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Low-temperature specific heat measurement of a ferroelectric copolymer film of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene
R. W. Newsome, Jr. and E. Y. Andrei
Published 13 February 2004 (6 pages)
064105 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Phase diagram of nitrous oxide: Analogy with carbon dioxide
V. Iota, J-H. Park, and C. S. Yoo
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
064106 [View PDF (1,314 kB)]
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Three-dimensional image reconstruction. I. Determination of pattern orientation
Richard Blankenbecler
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
064107 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Three-dimensional image reconstruction. II. Hamiltonian method for phase recovery
Richard Blankenbecler
Published 18 February 2004 (5 pages)
064108 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Nucleation of Al3Zr and Al3Sc in aluminum alloys: From kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to classical theory
Emmanuel Clouet, Maylise Nastar, and Christophe Sigli
Published 19 February 2004 (14 pages)
064109 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Mechanical versus thermodynamical melting in pressure-induced amorphization: The role of defects
S. Bustingorry and E. A. Jagla
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
064110 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Anisotropic thermal expansion of layered MoO3 crystals
Hiroshi Negishi, Saiko Negishi, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa, Nobufumi Sato, and Shinobu Aoyagi
Published 24 February 2004 (8 pages)
064111 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Neutron elastic diffuse scattering study of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3
Guangyong Xu, G. Shirane, J. R. D. Copley, and P. M. Gehring
Published 26 February 2004 (6 pages)
064112 [View PDF (934 kB)]
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Long-range strains and the effects of applied field at 180° ferroelectric domain walls in lithium niobate
Terrence Jach, Sungwon Kim, Venkatraman Gopalan, Stephen Durbin, and David Bright
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
064113 [View PDF (662 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced phase transition in BiFeO3 observed by high-field electron spin resonance: Cycloidal to homogeneous spin order
Benjamin Ruette, S. Zvyagin, A. P. Pyatakov, A. Bush, J. F. Li, V. I. Belotelov, A. K. Zvezdin, and D. Viehland
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
064114 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of disordered zircon
R. Devanathan, L. R. Corrales, W. J. Weber, A. Chartier, and C. Meis
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
064115 [View PDF (803 kB)]
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Theoretical study of bulk and surface oxygen and aluminum vacancies in α-Al2O3
Javier Carrasco, José R. B. Gomes, and Francesc Illas
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
064116 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Theoretical and experimental investigations of polarization switching in ferroelectric materials
A. Picinin, M. H. Lente, J. A. Eiras, and J. P. Rino
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
064117 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Vibrational signature of broken chemical order in a GeS2 glass: A molecular dynamics simulation
Sébastien Blaineau and Philippe Jund
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
064201 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Comparative study using small-angle x-ray scattering and nitrogen adsorption in the characterization of silica xerogels and aerogels
D. R. Vollet, D. A. Donatti, and A. Ibañez Ruiz
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
064202 [View PDF (76 kB)]

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

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Green’s function formalism for phononic crystals
R. Sainidou, N. Stefanou, and A. Modinos
Published 12 February 2004 (17 pages)
064301 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Calculation of excited polaron states in the Holstein model
O. S. Barišić
Published 12 February 2004 (11 pages)
064302 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Phase transitions and cooperative Jahn-Teller effects in fullerene anions
Janette L. Dunn
Published 18 February 2004 (12 pages)
064303 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Magnetism

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Domain wall mobility in nanowires: Transverse versus vortex walls
R. Wieser, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel
Published 11 February 2004 (5 pages)
064401 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Hard magnetic Sm(Fe,Si)9 carbides: Structured and magnetic properties
L. Bessais, C. Djéga-Mariadassou, A. Nandra, M. D. Appay, and E. Burzo
Published 12 February 2004 (8 pages)
064402 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Structure and hyperfine parameter correlation in out-of-equilibrium Pr(Fe,Co,Ti)10
C. Djéga-Mariadassou, S. Sab, and L. Bessais
Published 12 February 2004 (7 pages)
064403 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Pyrochlore photons: The U(1) spin liquid in a S=1/2 three-dimensional frustrated magnet
Michael Hermele, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Leon Balents
Published 12 February 2004 (21 pages)
064404 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Interface coupling in a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayer
Marco Finazzi
Published 12 February 2004 (7 pages)
064405 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Lattice effects of orbital and charge orderings in the perovskite manganite Pr1-xCaxMnO3
Hirofumi Hazama, Terutaka Goto, Yuichi Nemoto, Yasuhide Tomioka, Atsushi Asamitsu, and Yoshinori Tokura
Published 12 February 2004 (9 pages)
064406 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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X-ray Kerr rotation and ellipticity spectra at the 2p edges of Fe, Co, and Ni
H.-Ch. Mertins, S. Valencia, D. Abramsohn, A. Gaupp, W. Gudat, and P. M. Oppeneer
Published 12 February 2004 (6 pages)
064407 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Collective magnetostatic modes on a one-dimensional array of ferromagnetic stripes
M. P. Kostylev, A. A. Stashkevich, and N. A. Sergeeva
Published 12 February 2004 (7 pages)
064408 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Elastic properties of the filled skutterudite compound NdFe4P12
Yoshiki Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Kumagai, Masahito Yoshizawa, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato
Published 12 February 2004 (5 pages)
064409 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Interplay between reversible and irreversible magnetic phase transitions in polycrystalline Gd5Ge4
H. Tang, V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and A. O. Pecharsky
Published 12 February 2004 (9 pages)
064410 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Magnetization and domain structure of bcc Fe81Ni19/Co (001) superlattices
R. Bruc̆as, H. Hafermann, M. I. Katsnelson, I. L. Soroka, O. Eriksson, and B. Hjörvarsson
Published 12 February 2004 (11 pages)
064411 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Electronic structure of PbFe1/2Ta1/2O3: Crystallographic ordering and magnetic properties
Nathascia Lampis, Cesare Franchini, Guido Satta, Alessandra Geddo-Lehmann, and Sandro Massidda
Published 13 February 2004 (12 pages)
064412 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Theory of spin waves in ultrathin ferromagnetic films: The case of Co on Cu(100)
A. T. Costa, Jr., R. B. Muniz, and D. L. Mills
Published 17 February 2004 (5 pages)
064413 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Low-temperature spin freezing in the Dy2Ti2O7 spin ice
J. Snyder, B. G. Ueland, J. S. Slusky, H. Karunadasa, R. J. Cava, and P. Schiffer
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
064414 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Phase diagrams of the spin-1 Blume-Capel film with an alternating crystal field
Hamid Ez-Zahraouy and Ahmed Kassou-Ou-Ali
Published 18 February 2004 (6 pages)
064415 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the bcc S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet with first and second neighbor exchange
J. Oitmaa and Weihong Zheng
Published 18 February 2004 (5 pages)
064416 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the fluctuation of the switching field in small magnetic structures
Han-Ting Wang, S. T. Chui, A. Oriade, and J. Shi
Published 19 February 2004 (5 pages)
064417 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Magnetic properties and specific heat of RMnO3 (R=Pr, Nd)
J. Hemberger, M. Brando, R. Wehn, V. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Mukhin, A. M. Balbashov, and A. Loidl
Published 19 February 2004 (5 pages)
064418 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Melting transition of an Ising glass driven by a magnetic field
L. Arrachea, D. Dalidovich, V. Dobrosavljević, and M. J. Rozenberg
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
064419 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Valence-bond crystal phase of the crossed-chain quantum spin model
Wolfram Brenig and Matthias Grzeschik
Published 20 February 2004 (8 pages)
064420 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Magnetocaloric effect in rare-earth pseudobinary Er(Co1-cNic)2
N. A. de Oliveira, P. J. von Ranke, and A. Troper
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
064421 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Magnetocapacitance and spin fluctuations in the geometrically frustrated magnets R2Ti2O7 (R=rare earth)
T. Katsufuji and H. Takagi
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
064422 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model at the ferromagnetic-antiquadrupolar-disordered phase interface
A. Rachadi and A. Benyoussef
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
064423 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Phase separation in Nd1-xSrxCoO3 using 59Co NMR
A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, K. Ghoshray, V. Morchshakov, K. Bärner, I. O. Troyanchuk, H. Nakamura, T. Kohara, G. Y. Liu, and G. H. Rao
Published 23 February 2004 (8 pages)
064424 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Ab initio search for a high permeability material based on bcc iron
S. Ostanin, J. B. Staunton, S. S. A. Razee, C. Demangeat, B. Ginatempo, and Ezio Bruno
Published 23 February 2004 (7 pages)
064425 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Bosonic representation of one-dimensional Heisenberg ferrimagnets
Shoji Yamamoto
Published 23 February 2004 (9 pages)
064426 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Correlation amplitudes for the spin-1/2 XXZ chain in a magnetic field
T. Hikihara and A. Furusaki
Published 24 February 2004 (11 pages)
064427 [View PDF (1,042 kB)]
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Criticality in coupled quantum spin chains with competing ladderlike and two-dimensional couplings: Contrasting SrCu2O3 with CaCu2O3
Pinaki Sengupta, Weihong Zheng, and Rajiv R. P. Singh
Published 26 February 2004 (8 pages)
064428 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Magnetism, critical fluctuations, and susceptibility renormalization in Pd
P. Larson, I. I. Mazin, and D. J. Singh
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
064429 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Domain walls unmasked during domain duplication in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions
P. Rottländer, M. Hehn, F. Elhoussine, O. Lenoble, and A. Schuhl
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
064430 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic polarization at Mn/V(001) interfaces
B. Belhadji, S. Lounis, M. Benakki, and C. Demangeat
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
064431 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Effects of intersite Coulomb interactions on ferromagnetism:  Application to Fe, Co, and Ni
Cyrille Barreteau, Marie-Catherine Desjonquères, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Daniel Spanjaard
Published 27 February 2004 (11 pages)
064432 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of DyB2C, HoB2C, and ErB2C
Ryuta Watanuki, Kazuya Suzuki, Joost van Duijn, and J. Paul Attfield
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
064433 [View PDF (365 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Valence-electron distribution in MgB2 by accurate diffraction measurements and first-principles calculations
Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, T. Vogt, Haibin Su, J. W. Davenport, and J. Tafto
Published 3 February 2004 (8 pages)
064501 [View PDF (662 kB)]
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Creation of classical and quantum fluxons by a current dipole in a long Josephson junction
Boris A. Malomed and Alexey V. Ustinov
Published 11 February 2004 (8 pages)
064502 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Multilevel quantum description of decoherence in superconducting qubits
Guido Burkard, Roger H. Koch, and David P. DiVincenzo
Published 11 February 2004 (20 pages)
064503 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Dynamic ordering and frustration of confined vortex rows studied by mode-locking experiments
N. Kokubo, R. Besseling, and P. H. Kes
Published 19 February 2004 (10 pages)
064504 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Proximity induced metal-insulator transition in YBa2Cu3O7/La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 superlattices
Todd Holden, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Cristiani, A. Golnik, A. Boris, A. Pimenov, J. Humlíc̆ek, O. I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo, B. Keimer, and C. Bernhard
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
064505 [View PDF (920 kB)]
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Vortex shells in mesoscopic superconducting disks
B. J. Baelus, L. R. E. Cabral, and F. M. Peeters
Published 20 February 2004 (12 pages)
064506 [View PDF (1,256 kB)]
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Fluxon modes in stacked Josephson junctions: The role of linear modes
S. Madsen and N. F. Pedersen
Published 20 February 2004 (11 pages)
064507 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Electronic correlation in the infrared optical properties of the quasi-two-dimensional κ-type BEDT-TTF dimer system
T. Sasaki, I. Ito, N. Yoneyama, N. Kobayashi, N. Hanasaki, H. Tajima, T. Ito, and Y. Iwasa
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
064508 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Electronic structure and electron-phonon interaction in the ternary silicides MAlSi (M=Ca, Sr, and Ba)
G. Q. Huang, L. F. Chen, M. Liu, and D. Y. Xing
Published 23 February 2004 (6 pages)
064509 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Nernst effect and anomalous transport in cuprates: A preformed-pair alternative to the vortex scenario
Shina Tan and K. Levin
Published 24 February 2004 (9 pages)
064510 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Transport criticality of the first-order Mott transition in the quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl
F. Kagawa, T. Itou, K. Miyagawa, and K. Kanoda
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
064511 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Effect of chemical inhomogeneity in bismuth-based copper oxide superconductors
H. Eisaki, N. Kaneko, D. L. Feng, A. Damascelli, P. K. Mang, K. M. Shen, Z.-X. Shen, and M. Greven
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
064512 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Transport and vortex pinning in micron-size superconducting Nb films
Lamya Ghenim, Jean-Yves Fortin, Gehui Wen, Xixiang Zhang, Claire Baraduc, and Jean-Claude Villegier
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
064513 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Hole concentration and phonon renormalization of the 340-cm-1 B1g mode in 2% Ca-doped YBa2Cu3Oy (6.76<~y<~7.00)
K. C. Hewitt, X. K. Chen, C. Roch, J. Chrzanowski, J. C. Irwin, E. H. Altendorf, R. Liang, D. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
064514 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Scaling determination of the nonlinear I-V characteristics for two-dimensional superconducting networks
Petter Minnhagen, Beom Jun Kim, and Andreas Grönlund
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
064515 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Properties of mesoscopic superconducting thin-film rings: London approach
V. G. Kogan, John R. Clem, and R. G. Mints
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
064516 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Density-fluctuation-mediated superconductivity
P. Monthoux and G. G. Lonzarich
Published 27 February 2004 (14 pages)
064517 [View PDF (1,058 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Sublimated decoupling of the vortex lattice in extreme type-II layered superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 66, 214506 (2002)]
J. P. Rodriguez
Published 20 February 2004 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Editorial Note: Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets between d=2 and d=3 [Phys. Rev. B 69, 081403(R) (2004)]
A. Peles and B. W. Southern
Published 27 February 2004 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Editorial Note: Itinerant electron metamagnetism in LaCo9Si4 [Phys. Rev. B 69, 081404(R) (2004)]
H. Michor, M. El-Hagary, M. Della Mea, M. W. Pieper, M. Reissner, G. Hilscher, S. Khmelevskyi, P. Mohn, G. Schneider, G. Giester, and P. Rogl
Published 27 February 2004 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Editorial Note: Influence of mobile dislocations on phase separation in binary alloys [Phys. Rev. B 69, 081201(R) (2004)]
Mikko Haataja and François Léonard
Published 27 February 2004 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
 
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