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Physical Review B – 1 August 2004
Volume 70, Issue 6

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Scaling behavior of the critical current density in MgCNi3 microfibers
D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, and P. W. Adams
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
064508 [View PDF (127 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Structure and hydrogen dynamics of pure and Ti-doped sodium alanate
Jorge Íñiguez, T. Yildirim, T. J. Udovic, M. Sulic, and C. M. Jensen
Published 2 August 2004 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Strongly non-Arrhenius self-interstitial diffusion in vanadium
Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz, Jörg Rottler, Seungwu Han, Graeme J. Ackland, Roberto Car, and David J. Srolovitz
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]

Magnetism

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Specific-heat study of the spin-structural change in pyrochlore Nd2Mo2O7
Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, T. Ito, and Y. Tokura
Published 3 August 2004 (4 pages)
060401(R) [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Superconductor-ferromagnet tunneling measurements indicate sp-spin and d-spin currents
M. Münzenberg and J. S. Moodera
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
060402(R) [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Reentrant behavior and gigantic response in a disordered spin-Peierls system
Hitoshi Seo, Yukitoshi Motome, and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
060403(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Magnetic structures and out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy at the exchange bias interface: Co∕FeMn
Kohji Nakamura, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman
Published 25 August 2004 (4 pages)
060404(R) [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Soliton binding and low-lying singlets in frustrated odd-legged S=1/2 spin tubes
Andreas Lüscher, Reinhard M. Noack, Grégoire Misguich, Valeri N. Kotov, and Frédéric Mila
Published 25 August 2004 (4 pages)
060405(R) [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of Co nanochains
Jisang Hong and R. Q. Wu
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
060406(R) [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Quadrupolar and dipolar magnetic order in DyPd3S4: A neutron scattering and muon spin rotation and relaxation investigation
L. Keller, V. Pomjakushin, K. Conder, and A. Schenck
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
060407(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Correlation between topography and magnetic surface anisotropy in epitaxial Fe films on vicinal-to-(001) Au surfaces with different step orientation
M. Rickart, T. Mewes, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, and M. Scheib
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
060408(R) [View PDF (330 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Experimental observation of the breakdown by a magnetic field of the superconducting fluctuations in the normal state
Félix Soto, Carlos Carballeira, Jesús Mosqueira, Manuel V. Ramallo, Mauricio Ruibal, José A. Veira, and Félix Vidal
Published 6 August 2004 (4 pages)
060501(R) [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Microscopic theory of spin-triplet f-wave pairing in quasi-one-dimensionalorganic superconductors
Y. Tanaka and K. Kuroki
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
060502(R) [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Electron localization in La2−xSrxCuO4 and the role of stripes
Seiki Komiya and Yoichi Ando
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
060503(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Muon-spin-relaxation and magnetic-susceptibility studies of the effects of the magnetic impurity Ni on the Cu-spin dynamics and superconductivity in La2−xSrxCu1−yNiyO4 with x=0.13
T. Adachi, S. Yairi, Y. Koike, I. Watanabe, and K. Nagamine
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
060504(R) [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Microwave conductivity of a high-purity d-wave superconductor
Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio, and J. P. Carbotte
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
060505(R) [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Technique for bulk Fermiology by photoemission applied to layered ruthenates
A. Sekiyama, S. Kasai, M. Tsunekawa, Y. Ishida, M. Sing, A. Irizawa, A. Yamasaki, S. Imada, T. Muro, Y. Saitoh, Y. Ōnuki, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, and S. Suga
Published 20 August 2004 (4 pages)
060506(R) [View PDF (843 kB)]
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Electronic structure of ZnCNi3
M. D. Johannes and W. E. Pickett
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
060507(R) [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Rigid-band shift of the Fermi level in the strongly correlated metal: Sr2−yLayRuO4
N. Kikugawa, A. P. Mackenzie, C. Bergemann, R. A. Borzi, S. A. Grigera, and Y. Maeno
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
060508(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Thermodynamics and quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors
J. Zaanen and B. Hosseinkhani
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
060509(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Electron localization in the strongly correlated organic system κ-(BEDT-TTF)2X probed with nuclear magnetic resonance 13C-NMR
Atsushi Kawamoto, Yosuke Honma, and Ken-ichi Kumagai
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
060510(R) [View PDF (508 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Density functional theory and molecular dynamics studies of the energetics and kineticsof electroactive polymers: PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE)
Haibin Su, Alejandro Strachan, and William A. Goddard, III
Published 6 August 2004 (8 pages)
064101 [View PDF (1,116 kB)]
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Diffusion of interstitial hydrogen into and through bcc Fe from first principles
D. E. Jiang and Emily A. Carter
Published 6 August 2004 (9 pages)
064102 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Calorimetric investigation of successive phase transitions in Cd2Nb2O7
Makoto Tachibana, Hitoshi Kawaji, and Tooru Atake
Published 10 August 2004 (6 pages)
064103 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Low-temperature structural phase transitions: Phonon-like and relaxation order-parameter dynamics
A. Cano and A. P. Levanyuk
Published 10 August 2004 (8 pages)
064104 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Oxygen and strontium codoping of La2NiO4: Room-temperature phase diagrams
M. Hücker, K. Chung, M. Chand, T. Vogt, J. M. Tranquada, and D. J. Buttrey
Published 13 August 2004 (10 pages)
064105 [View PDF (1,107 kB)]
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Probability distribution of internal stress in relaxed dislocation systems
Ferenc F. Csikor and István Groma
Published 18 August 2004 (7 pages)
064106 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Anomalous phase in the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Zn1∕3Nb2∕3)O3
Guangyong Xu, Z. Zhong, Y. Bing, Z.-G. Ye, C. Stock, and G. Shirane
Published 19 August 2004 (6 pages)
064107 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Structural disorder effects on the tensile strength distribution of heterogeneous brittle materials with emphasis on fiber networks
Dionissios T. Hristopulos and Tetsu Uesaka
Published 25 August 2004 (18 pages)
064108 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Structural properties of the zircon- and scheelite-type phases of YVO4 at high pressure
X. Wang, I. Loa, K. Syassen, M. Hanfland, and B. Ferrand
Published 31 August 2004 (6 pages)
064109 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Computer simulations of damage due to passage of a heavy fast ion through diamond
A. Sorkin, Joan Adler, and R. Kalish
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
064110 [View PDF (427 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Local properties of the potential-energy landscape of a model glass:Understanding the low-temperature anomalies
J. Reinisch and A. Heuer
Published 17 August 2004 (8 pages)
064201 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Correlated structural distributions in silica glass
Ted M. Clark, Philip J. Grandinetti, Pierre Florian, and Jonathan F. Stebbins
Published 18 August 2004 (8 pages)
064202 [View PDF (684 kB)]
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Electronic structure calculations on alloys using the polymorphous coherent-potential approximation
S. Pella, J. S. Faulkner, G. Malcolm Stocks, and Balazs Ujfalussy
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
064203 [View PDF (59 kB)]

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

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Phonon anomalies and elastic constants of cubic NiAl from first principles
Xiangyang Huang, Ivan I. Naumov, and Karin M. Rabe
Published 20 August 2004 (7 pages)
064301 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Superionicity in Na3PO4: A molecular dynamics simulation
Wei-Guo Yin, Jianjun Liu, Chun-Gang Duan, W. N. Mei, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy
Published 24 August 2004 (6 pages)
064302 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Breather in the motion of a polaron in an electric field
J. F. Yu, C. Q. Wu, X. Sun, and K. Nasu
Published 24 August 2004 (5 pages)
064303 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Variational considerations in the study of carrier transport in organic crystals
Paul E. Parris and V. M. Kenkre
Published 31 August 2004 (6 pages)
064304 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Magnetism

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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and adiabatic magnetization dynamics in molecular magnets
H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen, and M. Machida
Published 2 August 2004 (12 pages)
064401 [View PDF (768 kB)]
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Electronic structure of Cr1‐δX(X=S,Te) studied by Cr 2p soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Koichiro Yaji, Akio Kimura, Chiyuki Hirai, Masaki Taniguchi, Michie Koyama, Hitoshi Sato, Kenya Shimada, Arata Tanaka, Takayuki Muro, Shin Imada, and Shigemasa Suga
Published 5 August 2004 (7 pages)
064402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Low-temperature studies of the magnetic and superconducting properties of the R2Ir3Si5 (R=Y,La,Ce-Nd,Gd-Tm) system
Yogesh Singh, D. Pal, and S. Ramakrishnan
Published 5 August 2004 (8 pages)
064403 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Axial anisotropic effects in hysteresis of ±J Ising lattices
M. C. Salas-Solis, F. Aguilera-Granja, J. Cartes, S. Contreras, and E. E. Vogel
Published 5 August 2004 (6 pages)
064404 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Quantum phase transition in spin-1/2 XX Heisenberg chain with three-spin interaction
Ping Lou, Wen-Chin Wu, and Ming-Che Chang
Published 5 August 2004 (7 pages)
064405 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Magnetic, electrical resistivity, heat-capacity, and thermopower anomalies in CeCuAs2
Kausik Sengupta, E. V. Sampathkumaran, T. Nakano, M. Hedo, M. Abliz, N. Fujiwara, Y. Uwatoko, S. Rayaprol, K. Shigetoh, T. Takabatake, Th. Doert, and J. P. F. Jemetio
Published 5 August 2004 (5 pages)
064406 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Spin-polaron effective magnetic model for La0.5Ca0.5MnO3
N. P. Konstantinidis and C. H. Patterson
Published 10 August 2004 (8 pages)
064407 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Fermi-surface effect on magnetic interlayer coupling
Erik Holmström, Anders Bergman, Lars Nordström, I. A. Abrikosov, S. B. Dugdale, and B. L. Györffy
Published 10 August 2004 (7 pages)
064408 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Energy correlations in random transverse field Ising spin chains
Gil Refael and Daniel S. Fisher
Published 17 August 2004 (19 pages)
064409 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of atomic-sized contacts: An ab initio study
A. Bagrets, N. Papanikolaou, and I. Mertig
Published 18 August 2004 (6 pages)
064410 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Ferrimagnetic resonance in films of vanadium [tetracyanoethanide]x,grown by chemical vapor deposition
R. Plachy, K. I. Pokhodnya, P. C. Taylor, J. Shi, Joel S. Miller, and A. J. Epstein
Published 18 August 2004 (12 pages)
064411 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Energy barriers in spin glasses
Barbara Drossel and M. A. Moore
Published 18 August 2004 (4 pages)
064412 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Magnetic, thermodynamic, electronic, and transport properties of CeNi4Al
T. Toliński, A. Kowalczyk, G. Chełkowska, M. Pugaczowa-Michalska, B. Andrzejewski, V. Ivanov, A. Szewczyk, and M. Gutowska
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
064413 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Electric-field and current-induced metastability and resistivity relaxation in La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 at low temperatures
V. Markovich, G. Jung, Y. Yuzhelevski, G. Gorodetsky, A. Szewczyk, M. Gutowska, D. A. Shulyatev, and Ya. M. Mukovskii
Published 20 August 2004 (9 pages)
064414 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Nonlinear response of superparamagnets with finite damping: An analytical approach
J. L. García-Palacios and D. A. Garanin
Published 23 August 2004 (7 pages)
064415 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Microwave magnetoelectric effects in single crystal bilayers of yttrium iron garnet and lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate
S. Shastry, G. Srinivasan, M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov, and A. S. Tatarenko
Published 24 August 2004 (6 pages)
064416 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Magnetic nanostructures from block copolymer lithography: Hysteresis, thermal stability, and magnetoresistance
J. Y. Cheng, W. Jung, and C. A. Ross
Published 26 August 2004 (9 pages)
064417 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Charge-orbital ordering near the multicritical point in A-site ordered perovskites SmBaMn2O6 and NdBaMn2O6
D. Akahoshi, Y. Okimoto, M. Kubota, R. Kumai, T. Arima, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
Published 26 August 2004 (7 pages)
064418 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Electric quadrupolar contribution to the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation of Au and Ru in Fe
G. Seewald, E. Zech, and H.-J. Körner
Published 27 August 2004 (10 pages)
064419 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Spin-fluctuation energies in transition-metal clusters
G. M. Pastor, J. Dorantes-Dávila, and K. H. Bennemann
Published 30 August 2004 (8 pages)
064420 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Spin excitation spectrum in striped bilayer compounds
Frank Krüger and Stefan Scheidl
Published 30 August 2004 (10 pages)
064421 [View PDF (882 kB)]
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Spin precession in an adiabatically rotating electric field
Yuri A. Serebrennikov
Published 30 August 2004 (7 pages)
064422 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Quenched computation of the dependence of complexity on the free energyin the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
A. Crisanti, L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, and T. Rizzo
Published 30 August 2004 (19 pages)
064423 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Temperature and time dependence of the field-driven magnetization steps in Ca3Co2O6 single crystals
V. Hardy, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, D. McK. Paul, D. Flahaut, S. Hébert, and A. Maignan
Published 31 August 2004 (7 pages)
064424 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Directionally dependent magneto-optical response of (La0.4Pr0.6)1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7: Understanding the high-field ferromagnetic metallic state
J. Choi, J. D. Woodward, J. L. Musfeldt, J. T. Haraldsen, X. Wei, M. Apostu, R. Suryanarayanan, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
064425 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Structural and magnetoelectric properties of Ga2−xFexO3 single crystals grown by a floating-zone method
T. Arima, D. Higashiyama, Y. Kaneko, J. P. He, T. Goto, S. Miyasaka, T. Kimura, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, R. Kumai, and Y. Tokura
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
064426 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Spin fluctuations in ferromagnetic ZrZn2
J. Kübler
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
064427 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Insulator-to-metal transition induced by disorder in a model for manganites
C. Şen, G. Alvarez, and E. Dagotto
Published 31 August 2004 (14 pages)
064428 [View PDF (1,602 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Experimental search for the chiral glass transition in a ceramic Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 sample
E. L. Papadopoulou, P. Nordblad, and P. Svedlindh
Published 5 August 2004 (5 pages)
064501 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Zero-magnetic-field dynamic scaling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 thin films
Z. Sefrioui, D. Arias, C. Leon, J. Santamaria, E. M. Gonzalez, J. L. Vicent, and P. Prieto
Published 9 August 2004 (7 pages)
064502 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Thermally activated current transport in MgB2 films
S. Patnaik, A. Gurevich, S. D. Bu, S. D. Kaushik, J. Choi, C. B. Eom, and D. C. Larbalestier
Published 10 August 2004 (8 pages)
064503 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Superconductivity suppression and flux-pinning crossover in artificial multilayers of ternary RBa2Cu3O7−δ (R=Gd, Nd, and Eu)
C. Cai, B. Holzapfel, J. Hänisch, and L. Schultz
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
064504 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Spin waves in striped phases
E. W. Carlson, D. X. Yao, and D. K. Campbell
Published 11 August 2004 (13 pages)
064505 [View PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Decoupled two-dimensional superconductivity and continuous melting transitions in layered superconductors immersed in a parallel magnetic field
Xiao Hu and Masashi Tachiki
Published 12 August 2004 (13 pages)
064506 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Phase-dependent counting statistics in a short-arm Andreev interferometer
E. V. Bezuglyi, E. N. Bratus’, V. S. Shumeiko, and V. Vinokur
Published 18 August 2004 (8 pages)
064507 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Scaling behavior of the critical current density in MgCNi3 microfibers
D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, and P. W. Adams
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
064508 [View PDF (127 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Electric field effect on insulating cuprate planes
Seongshik Oh, Maitri Warusawithana, and James N. Eckstein
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
064509 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Sb2O2VO3 as a candidate for an ideal inorganic spin-Peierls compound
I. Chaplygin and R. Hayn
Published 24 August 2004 (5 pages)
064510 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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BCS and attractive Hubbard model comparative study
Nathan Salwen, Steven A. Sheets, and Stephen R. Cotanch
Published 24 August 2004 (11 pages)
064511 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Static and rf magnetic field effects on fluxon dynamics in semiannular Josephson junctions
P. D. Shaju and V. C. Kuriakose
Published 25 August 2004 (9 pages)
064512 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Role of oxygen nonstoichiometry and the reduction process on the local structure of Nd2−xCexCuO4±δ
P. Richard, G. Riou, I. Hetel, S. Jandl, M. Poirier, and P. Fournier
Published 25 August 2004 (7 pages)
064513 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Normal-metal–insulator–superconductor interferometer
K. Yu. Arutyunov and T. T. Hongisto
Published 25 August 2004 (6 pages)
064514 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Phenomenology of conduction in incoherent layered crystals
George A. Levin
Published 27 August 2004 (14 pages)
064515 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Superconducting phase diagram of the filled skuterrudite PrOs4Sb12
M.-A. Measson, D. Braithwaite, J. Flouquet, G. Seyfarth, J. P. Brison, E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato
Published 27 August 2004 (8 pages)
064516 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Decoherence in Josephson-junction qubits due to critical-current fluctuations
D. J. Van Harlingen, T. L. Robertson, B. L. T. Plourde, P. A. Reichardt, T. A. Crane, and John Clarke
Published 30 August 2004 (13 pages)
064517 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Gapped spin-liquid states in a one-dimensional Hubbard model with antiferromagnetic exchange interaction
Jianhui Dai, Xiaoyong Feng, Tao Xiang, and Yue Yu
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
064518 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Successive superconducting transitions and Anderson localization effect in Ta2S2C
Jürgen Walter, Itsuko S. Suzuki, and Masatsugu Suzuki
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
064519 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Systematic study of two-band/two-gap superconductivity in carbon-substituted MgB2 by point-contact spectroscopy
Z. Hoľanová, P. Szabó, P. Samuely, R. H. T. Wilke, S. L. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
064520 [View PDF (200 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Strain effect and the phase diagram of La1−xBaxMnO3 thin films”
Qingshan Yuan
Published 3 August 2004 (3 pages)
066401 [View PDF (30 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Structure and energetics of helium films on alkali substrates [Phys. Rev. B 70, 024512 (2004)]
Massimo Boninsegni and Leszek Szybisz
Published 6 August 2004 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Erratum: CePt3Si: An unconventional superconductor without inversion center [Phys. Rev. B 69, 094514 (2004)]
K. V. Samokhin, E. S. Zijlstra, and S. K. Bose
Published 11 August 2004 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Ab initio study of the phase diagram of epitaxial BaTiO3 [Phys. Rev. B 69, 212101 (2004)]
Oswald Diéguez, Silvia Tinte, A. Antons, Claudia Bungaro, J. B. Neaton, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt
Published 23 August 2004 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
 
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