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Physical Review B – 1 October 2004
Volume 70, Issue 14

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Possible mechanism for glass-like thermal conductivities in crystals with off-center atoms
F. Bridges and L. Downward
Published 5 October 2004 (4 pages)
140201(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic polaron and Fermi surface effects in the spin-flip scattering of EuB6
R. R. Urbano, P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, S. B. Oseroff, J. L. Sarrao, P. Schlottmann, and Z. Fisk
Published 5 October 2004 (4 pages)
140401(R) [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Spin dynamics of a canted antiferromagnet in a magnetic field
R. S. Fishman
Published 6 October 2004 (4 pages)
140402(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Experimental upper bound on superradiance emission from Mn12 acetate
M. Bal, Jonathan R. Friedman, K. Mertes, W. Chen, E. M. Rumberger, D. N. Hendrickson, N. Avraham, Y. Myasoedov, H. Shtrikman, and E. Zeldov
Published 8 October 2004 (4 pages)
140403(R) [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Charge ordering in half-doped manganites
R. J. Goff and J. P. Attfield
Published 13 October 2004 (4 pages)
140404(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Role of nonmagnetic disorder on the stability of the U(1) spin liquid: A renormalization group study
Ki-Seok Kim
Published 14 October 2004 (4 pages)
140405(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Magnetization reversal induced by spin accumulation in ferromagnetic transition-metal dots
Jun-ichiro Inoue and Arne Brataas
Published 15 October 2004 (4 pages)
140406(R) [View PDF (341 kB)]
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k-dependent electronic structure of the colossal magnetoresistive perovskite La0.66Sr0.34MnO3
M. Shi, M. C. Falub, P. R. Willmott, J. Krempasky, R. Herger, K. Hricovini, and L. Patthey
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
140407(R) [View PDF (379 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Entangling flux qubits with a bipolar dynamic inductance
B. L. T. Plourde, J. Zhang, K. B. Whaley, F. K. Wilhelm, T. L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P. A. Reichardt, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke
Published 5 October 2004 (4 pages)
140501(R) [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Determination of relaxation time of a Josephson junction qubit
S. K. Dutta, H. Xu, A. J. Berkley, R. C. Ramos, M. A. Gubrud, J. R. Anderson, C. J. Lobb, and F. C. Wellstood
Published 7 October 2004 (4 pages)
140502(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Normal-superconducting phase transition mimicked by current noise
M. C. Sullivan, T. Frederiksen, J. M. Repaci, D. R. Strachan, R. A. Ott, and C. J. Lobb
Published 7 October 2004 (4 pages)
140503(R) [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Electron-phonon interactions in C28-derived molecular solids
Nichols A. Romero, Jeongnim Kim, and Richard M. Martin
Published 8 October 2004 (4 pages)
140504(R) [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Vortex avalanches with robust statistics observed in superconducting niobium
E. Altshuler, T. H. Johansen, Y. Paltiel, Peng Jin, K. E. Bassler, O. Ramos, Q. Y. Chen, G. F. Reiter, E. Zeldov, and C. W. Chu
Published 11 October 2004 (4 pages)
140505(R) [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Effect of shot noise on a Coulomb blockaded single Josephson junction
E. B. Sonin
Published 14 October 2004 (4 pages)
140506(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Josephson junction qubit network with current-controlled interaction
J. Lantz, M. Wallquist, V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin
Published 14 October 2004 (4 pages)
140507(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Thermodynamic properties of Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4−δ
Hamza Balci and R. L. Greene
Published 15 October 2004 (4 pages)
140508(R) [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Gap symmetry of superconductivity in UPd2Al3
H. Won, D. Parker, K. Maki, T. Watanabe, K. Izawa, and Y. Matsuda
Published 26 October 2004 (4 pages)
140509(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Impurity-induced low-energy resonances in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatté
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
140510(R) [View PDF (247 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Evidence for power-law frequency dependence of intrinsic dielectric response in the CaCu3Ti4O12
Alexander Tselev, Charles M. Brooks, Steven M. Anlage, Haimei Zheng, Lourdes Salamanca-Riba, R. Ramesh, and M. A. Subramanian
Published 4 October 2004 (8 pages)
144101 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction study of the structural phase transition in CaBr2
Brendan J. Kennedy and Christopher J. Howard
Published 7 October 2004 (5 pages)
144102 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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First-principles elastic constants and phonons of δ‐Pu
P. Söderlind, A. Landa, B. Sadigh, L. Vitos, and A. Ruban
Published 7 October 2004 (5 pages)
144103 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Isovalent-substitution effect on the Verwey-type transition in the A-site-ordered double perovskite (Ba,Sr)RFe2O5
J. Nakamura, M. Karppinen, P. Karen, J. Lindén, and H. Yamauchi
Published 8 October 2004 (6 pages)
144104 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Solid∕liquid two-phase structures in isolated nanometer-sized alloy particles
J.-G. Lee and H. Mori
Published 8 October 2004 (5 pages)
144105 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Large dielectric constant and Maxwell-Wagner relaxation in Bi2∕3Cu3Ti4O12
Jianjun Liu, Chun-Gang Duan, Wei-Guo Yin, W. N. Mei, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy
Published 12 October 2004 (7 pages)
144106 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Ab initio calculations of cohesive energies of Fe-based glass-forming alloys
M. Mihalkovič and M. Widom
Published 14 October 2004 (12 pages)
144107 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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First-principles study of rare-earth effects on grain growth and microstructure in β-Si3N4 ceramics
G. S. Painter, P. F. Becher, W. A. Shelton, R. L. Satet, and M. J. Hoffmann
Published 20 October 2004 (4 pages)
144108 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Structure of fluid phosphorus at high temperature and pressure: An x-ray diffraction study
S. Falconi, W. A. Crichton, M. Mezouar, G. Monaco, and M. Nardone
Published 21 October 2004 (8 pages)
144109 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Time-resolved infrared radiometry of NaCl crystals under shock compression between 17 and 43 GPa
Toshiyuki Ogura, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, and Ken-ichi Kondo
Published 22 October 2004 (4 pages)
144110 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Identification of Cr3+ centers in Cs2NaAlF6 and Cs2NaGaF6 crystals by EPR and ENDOR paramagnetic resonance techniques
H. Vrielinck, F. Loncke, F. Callens, P. Matthys, and N. M. Khaidukov
Published 25 October 2004 (11 pages)
144111 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectroscopy of photoinduced ionic-neutral phase transition in TTF-CA crystals
Katsumi Tanimura
Published 28 October 2004 (11 pages)
144112 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Anomalous transformations in ice VIII
Dennis D. Klug, John S. Tse, Zhenxian Liu, Xavier Gonze, and Russell J. Hemley
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
144113 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Modeling amorphous Si3B3N7: Structure and elastic properties
A. Hannemann, J. C. Schön, M. Jansen, H. Putz, and T. Lengauer
Published 5 October 2004 (13 pages)
144201 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Thermoelectric properties of Al82.6−xRe17.4Six (7⩽x⩽12) 1∕1-cubic approximants
Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Toshio Otagiri, Hiroki Sakagami, Takeshi Kondo, Uichiro Mizutani, and Hirokazu Sato
Published 7 October 2004 (7 pages)
144202 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous distribution of crosslinks in ion tracks in polystyrene and polysilanes
Shu Seki, Satoshi Tsukuda, Kensaku Maeda, Yoshinori Matsui, Akinori Saeki, and Seiichi Tagawa
Published 22 October 2004 (8 pages)
144203 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Structural, bonding, and dynamical properties of liquid Fe-Si alloys:  An ab initio molecular-dynamics simulation
Tingkun Gu, Jingyu Qin, Changye Xu, and Xiufang Bian
Published 26 October 2004 (7 pages)
144204 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Spectral densities of embedded interfaces in composite materials
A. R. McGurn, A. R. Day, D. J. Bergman, L. C. Davis, and M. F. Thorpe
Published 26 October 2004 (22 pages)
144205 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Dynamical model for the C5H5 cycles in the C60∙2 Fe(C5H5)2 solvate
J. Rozen, F. Masin, R. Céolin, and H. Szwarc
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
144206 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Application of renormalization and convolution methods to the Kubo-Greenwood formula in multidimensional Fibonacci systems
Vicenta Sánchez and Chumin Wang
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
144207 [View PDF (266 kB)]

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

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Quantum nondemolition measurement of Fock states of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators
D. H. Santamore, A. C. Doherty, and M. C. Cross
Published 8 October 2004 (16 pages)
144301 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic relaxation in terms of microscopic energy barriers in a model of dipolar interacting nanoparticles
Òscar Iglesias and Amílcar Labarta
Published 11 October 2004 (10 pages)
144401 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Analytical approach to the single-domain-to-vortex transition in small magnetic disks
P.-O. Jubert and R. Allenspach
Published 12 October 2004 (5 pages)
144402 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Diagrammatic perturbation theory and the pseudogap
P. Monthoux
Published 12 October 2004 (16 pages)
144403 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of a helical spin chain with alternating isotropic and anisotropic spins: Magnetization plateaus and finite entropy
V. Ravi Chandra, S. Ramasesha, and Diptiman Sen
Published 13 October 2004 (8 pages)
144404 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Solitary excitations and domain-wall movement in the two-dimensional canted antiferromagnet (C2N2H10)1∕2FePO4(OH)
Natasha A. Chernova, Yanning Song, Peter Y. Zavalij, and M. Stanley Whittingham
Published 13 October 2004 (10 pages)
144405 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Neutron diffraction study of crystal structure and antiferromagnetic order in Sr2CoO2X2 (X=Cl,Br)
Christopher S. Knee and Mark T. Weller
Published 15 October 2004 (7 pages)
144406 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm
T. Senthil, Leon Balents, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Matthew P. A. Fisher
Published 15 October 2004 (33 pages)
144407 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Polarized-neutron reflectivity for thin films of dilute magnetic alloys
V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese, J. Swerts, K. Temst, and C. Van Haesendonck
Published 18 October 2004 (6 pages)
144408 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Magnetic ground state of low-doped manganites probed by spin dynamics in a magnetic field
P. Kober-Lehouelleur, F. Moussa, M. Hennion, A. Ivanov, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 20 October 2004 (9 pages)
144409 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Valence-sensitive determination of Cr3+ and Ce3+ concentration in doped Sr0.61Ba0.39Nb2O6 from magnetization studies and paramagnetic relaxation of Ce3+
D. Schaniel, Th. Woike, G. Weckwerth, J. Schefer, M. Imlau, M. Wöhlecke, and R. Pankrath
Published 20 October 2004 (6 pages)
144410 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Theory of the magnetic phase diagram of LiHoF4
P. B. Chakraborty, P. Henelius, H. Kjønsberg, A. W. Sandvik, and S. M. Girvin
Published 21 October 2004 (14 pages)
144411 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the ordering of the weakly anisotropic Heisenberg spin glass in magnetic fields
Daisuke Imagawa and Hikaru Kawamura
Published 25 October 2004 (16 pages)
144412 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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Characterization of low-energy magnetic excitations in chromium
H. Hiraka, P. Böni, K. Yamada, S. Park, S-. H. Lee, and G. Shirane
Published 25 October 2004 (5 pages)
144413 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Anisotropic Heisenberg chain in coexisting transverse and longitudinal magnetic fields
D. V. Dmitriev and V. Ya. Krivnov
Published 25 October 2004 (10 pages)
144414 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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H∕T scaling in disordered non-Fermi liquid materials Ce(Ru1−xRhx)2Si2 for x=0.5 and 0.6: Quantum Griffiths nature
Yoshikazu Tabata, Toshifumi Taniguchi, Yoshihito Miyako, O. Tegus, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 26 October 2004 (6 pages)
144415 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Effects of a weak magnetic surface anisotropy on the magnetic phase diagram of the dipolar antiferromagnetic Heisenberg system
A. M. Abu-Labdeh, J. P. Whitehead, K. De’Bell, and A. B. MacIsaac
Published 26 October 2004 (8 pages)
144416 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Far-infrared spectroscopy of spin excitations and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2
T. Rõõm, D. Hüvonen, U. Nagel, J. Hwang, T. Timusk, and H. Kageyama
Published 27 October 2004 (8 pages)
144417 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Growth, microstructure, and magnetic properties of highly textured and highly coercive Nd-Fe-B films
Volker Neu, Steffen Melcher, Ullrich Hannemann, Sebastian Fähler, and Ludwig Schultz
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
144418 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Phase relationships and structural, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of alloys in the pseudobinary Er5Si4-Er5Ge4 system
A. O. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., V. K. Pecharsky, D. L. Schlagel, and T. A. Lograsso
Published 29 October 2004 (11 pages)
144419 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Out-of-plane vortex in a two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnet with a magnetic field along the hard axis
Kyu Won Lee and Cheol Eui Lee
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
144420 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Structural, magnetic, and transport properties in the Pr-doped manganites La0.9−xPrxTe0.1 MnO3(0⩽x⩽0.9)
J. Yang, W. H. Song, Y. Q. Ma, R. L. Zhang, B. C. Zhao, Z. G. Sheng, G. H. Zheng, J. M. Dai, and Y. P. Sun
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
144421 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Magnetic structure and orbital ordering in BaCoO3 from first-principles calculations
V. Pardo, P. Blaha, M. Iglesias, K. Schwarz, D. Baldomir, and J. E. Arias
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
144422 [View PDF (431 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Damping of the de Haas–van Alphen oscillations in the superconducting state of MgB2
J. D. Fletcher, A. Carrington, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski
Published 6 October 2004 (9 pages)
144501 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Electronic structure of d-wave superconducting quantum wires
A. M. Bobkov, L.-Y. Zhu, S.-W. Tsai, T. S. Nunner, Yu. S. Barash, and P. J. Hirschfeld
Published 7 October 2004 (21 pages)
144502 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Weak localization and magnetoconductance in percolative superconducting aluminum films
Kazumasa Yamada, Bunjyu Shinozaki, and Takashi Kawaguti
Published 12 October 2004 (7 pages)
144503 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Paramagnetic reentrance of ac screening: Evidence of vortex avalanches in Pb thin films
A. V. Silhanek, S. Raedts, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Published 13 October 2004 (8 pages)
144504 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Measurement of the current-phase relation of superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor π Josephson junctions
S. M. Frolov, D. J. Van Harlingen, V. A. Oboznov, V. V. Bolginov, and V. V. Ryazanov
Published 13 October 2004 (5 pages)
144505 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Magnetic susceptibility of ultrasmall superconductor grains
V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese
Published 15 October 2004 (15 pages)
144506 [View PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Incommensurate charge stripe ordering in La2−xSrxNiO4 for x=(0.33,0.30,0.275)
M. E. Ghazi, P. D. Spencer, S. B. Wilkins, P. D. Hatton, D. Mannix, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and S.-W. Cheong
Published 15 October 2004 (9 pages)
144507 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Electronic state around vortex in a two-band superconductor
Masanori Ichioka, Kazushige Machida, Noriyuki Nakai, and Predrag Miranović
Published 18 October 2004 (6 pages)
144508 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Frozen disorder and edge contamination in magnetization measurements of the Bragg glass phase
H. Küpfer, G. Ravikumar, Th. Wolf, A. A. Zhukov, and R. Meier-Hirmer
Published 18 October 2004 (8 pages)
144509 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Effect of thermodynamic fluctuations on in-plane and out-of-plane magnetoresistance of monolayer superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ
Heon-Jung Kim, P. Chowdhury, S. K. Gupta, N. H. Dan, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 18 October 2004 (7 pages)
144510 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Excitations and Bose-Einstein condensation in liquid 4He
A. R. Sakhel and H. R. Glyde
Published 21 October 2004 (18 pages)
144511 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Theory of vortex force microscopy in superconducting layers
A. de la Cruz de Oña and A. Badía-Majós
Published 21 October 2004 (9 pages)
144512 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Coexistence of spin-density wave and d-wave superconducting order parameter
Zaira Nazario and David I. Santiago
Published 22 October 2004 (7 pages)
144513 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Critical state in superconducting single-crystalline YBa2Cu3O7 foams: Local versus long-range currents
E. Bartolomé, X. Granados, T. Puig, X. Obradors, E. S. Reddy, and G. J. Schmitz
Published 22 October 2004 (7 pages)
144514 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Finite-size and pressure effects in YBa2Cu4O8 probed by magnetic-field penetration-depth measurements
R. Khasanov, T. Schneider, R. Brütsch, D. Gavillet, J. Karpinski, and H. Keller
Published 22 October 2004 (7 pages)
144515 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Possible singlet-to-triplet pairing transition in NaxCoO2·yH2O
M. M. Maśka, M. Mierzejewski, B. Andrzejewski, M. L. Foo, R. J. Cava, and T. Klimczuk
Published 22 October 2004 (5 pages)
144516 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic/superconducting bilayer structure: A model system for spin diffusion length estimation
S. Soltan, J. Albrecht, and H.-U. Habermeier
Published 22 October 2004 (6 pages)
144517 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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First-principles lattice dynamics of NaCoO2
Zhenyu Li, Jinlong Yang, J. G. Hou, and Qingshi Zhu
Published 26 October 2004 (6 pages)
144518 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Enhancement of pairing in a boson-fermion model for coupled ladders
J. A. Riera
Published 26 October 2004 (7 pages)
144519 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Unified theory for magnetic and electric field coupling in multistacked Josephson junctions
Masahiko Machida and Shigeki Sakai
Published 27 October 2004 (6 pages)
144520 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Supercooled vortex liquid and quantitative theory of melting of the flux-line lattice in type-II superconductors
Dingping Li and Baruch Rosenstein
Published 28 October 2004 (14 pages)
144521 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Superconducting states in the tetrahedral compound PrOs4Sb12
I. A. Sergienko and S. H. Curnoe
Published 28 October 2004 (10 pages)
144522 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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From vortex molecules to the Abrikosov lattice in thin mesoscopic superconducting disks
L. R. E. Cabral, B. J. Baelus, and F. M. Peeters
Published 29 October 2004 (16 pages)
144523 [View PDF (2,133 kB)]
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Hofstadter butterflies in a modulated magnetic field: Superconducting wire network with magnetic decoration
Yasuhiro Iye, Eiichi Kuramochi, Masahiro Hara, Akira Endo, and Shingo Katsumoto
Published 29 October 2004 (9 pages)
144524 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Vortex-lattice melting front in thin superconductors with pinning
M. V. Indenbom, E. H. Brandt, C. J. van der Beek, and M. Konczykowski
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
144525 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Magnetic susceptibility study of hydrated and nonhydrated NaxCoO2·yH2O single crystals
F. C. Chou, J. H. Cho, and Y. S. Lee
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
144526 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Entanglement generation in persistent current qubits
J. F. Ralph, T. D. Clark, T. P. Spiller, and W. J. Munro
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
144527 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Nucleation of superconductivity in a mesoscopic loop of varying width
Mathieu Morelle, Dušan S. Golubović, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
Published 29 October 2004 (11 pages)
144528 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Superconductivity within the t-t′ Hubbard model of a bilayer
J. Mráz and R. Hlubina
Published 29 October 2004 (5 pages)
144529 [View PDF (128 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Hydrogen and the magnetic interlayer exchange coupling: Variable magnetic interlayer correlation in Ho∕Y(00.1) superlattices [Phys. Rev. B 70, 104429 (2004)]
Vincent Leiner, Murat Ay, and Hartmut Zabel
Published 21 October 2004 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
 
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