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Physical Review B – 1 February 2005
Volume 71, Issue 5

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Capillary sublimation of Ar in mesoporous glass
Dirk Wallacher, Viktor P. Soprunyuk, Andriy V. Kityk, Patrick Huber, and Klaus Knorr
Published 8 February 2005 (2 pages)
052101 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Two-length-scale behavior near the ferroelectric phase transition of Sn2P2S6
J. Hlinka, R. Currat, M. de Boissieu, F. Livet, and Yu. M. Vysochanskii
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Origin of hardness in nitride spinel materials
Faming Gao, Rui Xu, and Kuan Liu
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Alternating covalent-ionic and metallic bonding in perovskite borides studied using ab initio methods
Denis Music, Zhimei Sun, and Jochen M. Schneider
Published 23 February 2005 (3 pages)
052104 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Microscopic structure of tunneling systems in glasses
P. Nalbach
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
052201 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Magnetism

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Structure and magnetic properties of the Fe3O4(001) surface: Ab initio studies
C. Cheng
Published 10 February 2005 (4 pages)
052401 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Impurity and boundary effects in one- and two-dimensional inhomogeneous Heisenberg antiferromagnets
P. E. G. Assis, Valter L. Líbero, and K. Capelle
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
052402 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Transition from the macrospin to chaotic behavior by a spin-torque driven magnetization precession of a square nanoelement
D. Berkov and N. Gorn
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
052403 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Magnetic response of the CE structure in the doping-free system NaMn7O12
F. Bolzoni, A. Prodi, A. Gauzzi, E. Gilioli, F. Licci, and M. Marezio
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
052404 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Electronic structures and magnetic properties of LaAVMoO6 (A=Ca,Sr,Ba): Investigation of possible half-metallic antiferromagnets
Min Sik Park and B. I. Min
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
052405 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Spontaneous-symmetry-breaking mechanism of adiabatic pumping
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Arne Brataas
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
052406 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Electronic structure of CrO2 studied by magnetic circular dichroism in resonant photoemission
C. F. Chang, D. J. Huang, A. Tanaka, G. Y. Guo, S. C. Chung, S.-T. Kao, S. G. Shyu, and C. T. Chen
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
052407 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Exact results for Ising models on the triangular Kagomé lattice
Junjuan Zheng and Gang Sun
Published 23 February 2005 (3 pages)
052408 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Unconventional magnetic transitions in the mineral clinoatacamite Cu2Cl(OH)3
X. G. Zheng, T. Kawae, Y. Kashitani, C. S. Li, N. Tateiwa, K. Takeda, H. Yamada, C. N. Xu, and Y. Ren
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
052409 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Ab initio investigation of magnetism in two-dimensional uranium systems
Matej Komelj and Nataša Stojić
Published 25 February 2005 (4 pages)
052410 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Doping effect on the charge ordering in AlV2O4
Y. Horibe, K. Kurushima, S. Mori, T. Asada, Y. Koyama, M. Shingu, and T. Katsufuji
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
052411 [View PDF (384 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Superconductivity competing with the incommensurate antiferromagnetic insulating state in the organic conductor (MDT-TS)(AuI2)0.441
Tadashi Kawamoto, Yoshimasa Bando, Takehiko Mori, Kazuo Takimiya, and Tetsuo Otsubo
Published 4 February 2005 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Deviations from plastic barriers in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ thin films
Y. Z. Zhang, Z. Wang, X. F. Lu, H. H. Wen, J. F. de Marneffe, R. Deltour, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. Wyder
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
052502 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Paraconductivity of a mesoscopic superconducting tube in the nonohmic regime
Carlos Carballeira and Victor V. Moshchalkov
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
052503 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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T linearity of in-plane resistivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ thin films
Seongshik Oh, Tiziana Di Luccio, and J. N. Eckstein
Published 22 February 2005 (3 pages)
052504 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Loss of Andreev backscattering in superconducting quantum point contacts
N. B. Kopnin, A. S. Mel’nikov, and V. M. Vinokur
Published 22 February 2005 (4 pages)
052505 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Supercurrent-phase relationship of a Nb∕InAs(2DES)∕Nb Josephson junction in overlapping geometry
Mark Ebel, Christian Busch, Ulrich Merkt, Miroslav Grajcar, Tomáš Plecenik, and Evgeni Il’ichev
Published 22 February 2005 (4 pages)
052506 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Anomaly in YBa2Cu4O8 charge distribution below Tc: A zero-field muon spin relaxation study
P. Carretta, A. Keren, J. S. Lord, I. Zucca, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
052507 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Directing transport by polarized radiation in the presence of chaos and dissipation
A. D. Chepelianskii and D. L. Shepelyansky
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
052508 [View PDF (331 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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First-principles determination of the dynamical properties of Pb2MgTeO6
Razvan Caracas and Xavier Gonze
Published 1 February 2005 (9 pages)
054101 [View PDF (395 kB)]

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Vacancies in ordered and disordered binary alloys treated with the cluster expansion
A. Van der Ven and G. Ceder
Published 2 February 2005 (7 pages)
054102 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Density functional calculations of Ti-enhanced NaAlH4
O. M. Løvvik and S. M. Opalka
Published 8 February 2005 (10 pages)
054103 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Development of a bond-valence molecular-dynamics model for complex oxides
Young-Han Shin, Valentino R. Cooper, Ilya Grinberg, and Andrew M. Rappe
Published 11 February 2005 (4 pages)
054104 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Formalism for obtaining nuclear momentum distributions by the deep inelastic neutron scattering technique
J. J. Blostein, J. Dawidowski, and J. R. Granada
Published 17 February 2005 (12 pages)
054105 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer description explains neutron Compton-scattering anomaly
Nikitas I. Gidopoulos
Published 17 February 2005 (5 pages)
054106 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Origin of the intensity deficit in neutron Compton scattering
G. F. Reiter and P. M. Platzman
Published 17 February 2005 (6 pages)
054107 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Structural phase transition of Fe grown on Au(111)
D. T. Dekadjevi, B. J. Hickey, S. Brown, T. P. A. Hase, B. D. Fulthorpe, and B. K. Tanner
Published 18 February 2005 (7 pages)
054108 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Spatial ordering of primary defects at elevated temperatures
A. A. Semenov and C. H. Woo
Published 22 February 2005 (14 pages)
054109 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Mean-field potential calculations of shock-compressed porous carbon
Y. Wang, Z.-K. Liu, L.-Q. Chen, L. Burakovsky, D. L. Preston, W. Luo, B. Johansson, and R. Ahuja
Published 22 February 2005 (6 pages)
054110 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of dislocation nucleation from a crack tip
Berk Hess, Barend J. Thijsse, and Erik Van der Giessen
Published 23 February 2005 (10 pages)
054111 [View PDF (1,567 kB)]
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Structural phase transition of germanium under uniaxial stress: An ab initio study
Murat Durandurdu
Published 28 February 2005 (5 pages)
054112 [View PDF (240 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Intensity distribution of scalar waves propagating in random media
P. Markoš and C. M. Soukoulis
Published 8 February 2005 (7 pages)
054201 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Structure, stability, and electronic properties of the i-AlPdMn quasicrystalline surface
M. Krajčí and J. Hafner
Published 18 February 2005 (14 pages)
054202 [View PDF (2,278 kB)]
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Universal fluctuations of the random lasing threshold in a sample of a finite area
V. M. Apalkov and M. E. Raikh
Published 18 February 2005 (8 pages)
054203 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Experimentally constrained molecular relaxation: The case of glassy GeSe2
Parthapratim Biswas, De Nyago Tafen, and D. A. Drabold
Published 24 February 2005 (5 pages)
054204 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dynamics of the quasiordered structure in the regioregulated π-conjugated polymer poly(4-methylthiazole-2,5-diyl)
Seiichiro Mori, Yoshio Inoue, Takakazu Yamamoto, and Naoki Asakawa
Published 25 February 2005 (11 pages)
054205 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Models and modeling schemes for binary IV-VI glasses
De Nyago Tafen and D. A. Drabold
Published 28 February 2005 (15 pages)
054206 [View PDF (412 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Effects of electron-phonon coupling range on the polaron formation
C. A. Perroni, V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis, and V. Marigliano Ramaglia
Published 4 February 2005 (6 pages)
054301 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Far-field imaging of acoustic waves by a two-dimensional sonic crystal
Chunyin Qiu, Xiangdong Zhang, and Zhengyou Liu
Published 10 February 2005 (6 pages)
054302 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Vibrational and crystalline properties of polymorphic CuInC2 (C=Se,S) chalcogenides
J. Álvarez-García, B. Barcones, A. Pérez-Rodríguez, A. Romano-Rodríguez, J. R. Morante, A. Janotti, Su-Huai Wei, and R. Scheer
Published 15 February 2005 (9 pages)
054303 [View PDF (560 kB)]

Magnetism

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Memory in a magnetic nanoparticle system: Polydispersity and interaction effects
S. Chakraverty, M. Bandyopadhyay, S. Chatterjee, S. Dattagupta, A. Frydman, S. Sengupta, and P. A. Sreeram
Published 2 February 2005 (8 pages)
054401 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Origin of magnetic frustrations in Fe-Ni Invar alloys
A. V. Ruban, M. I. Katsnelson, W. Olovsson, S. I. Simak, and I. A. Abrikosov
Published 3 February 2005 (4 pages)
054402 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic approach to coherent nuclear-spin transport
D. Greenbaum, M. Kindermann, C. Ramanathan, and D. G. Cory
Published 4 February 2005 (7 pages)
054403 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Magnetoresistivity in the clustered state of La0.7−xYxCa0.3MnO3 manganites
J. A. Souza and R. F. Jardim
Published 7 February 2005 (7 pages)
054404 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Perturbative approach to J mixing in f-electron systems: Application to actinide dioxides
N. Magnani, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, and R. Caciuffo
Published 8 February 2005 (7 pages)
054405 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics in single-spin measurement
Stefano Mancini, David Vitali, and Héctor Moya-Cessa
Published 8 February 2005 (6 pages)
054406 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Self-consistent theory of current-induced switching of magnetization
D. M. Edwards, F. Federici, J. Mathon, and A. Umerski
Published 14 February 2005 (16 pages)
054407 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Anisotropic Hall effect in single-crystal heavy-fermion YbAgGe
Sergey L. Bud’ko, Emilia Morosan, and Paul C. Canfield
Published 15 February 2005 (8 pages)
054408 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Mössbauer characterization of 57Fe dopant ions across the insulator-metal transition in ANi0.98Fe0.02O3 (A=Nd,Lu) perovskites
Igor Presniakov, Gérard Demazeau, Alexey Baranov, Alexey Sobolev, and Konstantin Pokholok
Published 16 February 2005 (7 pages)
054409 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Analytical model to understand the colossal magnetocaloric effect
P. J. von Ranke, N. A. de Oliveira, C. Mello, A. Magnus G. Carvalho, and S. Gama
Published 18 February 2005 (6 pages)
054410 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Tailoring perpendicular exchange bias in [Pt/Co]-IrMn multilayers
J. Sort, V. Baltz, F. Garcia, B. Rodmacq, and B. Dieny
Published 18 February 2005 (7 pages)
054411 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Effect of spin fluctuations on thermal expansion characteristics in paramagnetic Laves-phase Lu(Co1−xGax)2 compounds
M. Ohta, A. Fujita, K. Fukamichi, H. Saito, E. Matsubara, and H. Takahashi
Published 22 February 2005 (6 pages)
054412 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Numerical evidence of a spin-1∕2 chain approaching a spin-1 chain
Hsiang-Hsuan Hung and Chang-De Gong
Published 22 February 2005 (5 pages)
054413 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Structural and magnetic properties of Fe[Fe(CN)6]∙4H2O
Amit Kumar, S. M. Yusuf, and L. Keller
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
054414 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Group theory and octupolar order in URu2Si2
Annamária Kiss and Patrik Fazekas
Published 23 February 2005 (10 pages)
054415 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Correlation between tunneling magnetoresistance and magnetization in dipolar-coupled nanoparticle arrays
D. Kechrakos and K. N. Trohidou
Published 23 February 2005 (8 pages)
054416 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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X-ray absorption studies of the local structure and f-level occupancy in CeIr1−xRhxIn5
M. Daniel, S.-W. Han, C. H. Booth, A. L. Cornelius, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
054417 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Atomistic simulation of AlOx magnetic tunnel junction growth
Xiao Wang Zhou and Haydn N. G. Wadley
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
054418 [View PDF (1,159 kB)]
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Magnetic structure of β-ErD2: Long-range and short-range order from powder neutron diffraction
P. Vajda, G. André, T. J. Udovic, R. W. Erwin, and Q. Huang
Published 25 February 2005 (6 pages)
054419 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Spin state of LaCoO3: Dependence on CoO6 octahedra geometry
K. Knížek, P. Novák, and Z. Jirák
Published 28 February 2005 (6 pages)
054420 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Properties of the superconducting state in a two-band model
E. J. Nicol and J. P. Carbotte
Published 2 February 2005 (18 pages)
054501 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Doping phase diagram of Y1−xCaxBa2(Cu1−yZny)3O7−δ from transport measurements:  Tracking the pseudogap below Tc
S. H. Naqib, J. R. Cooper, J. L. Tallon, R. S. Islam, and R. A. Chakalov
Published 4 February 2005 (8 pages)
054502 [View PDF (989 kB)]
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Josephson vortex state across the phase diagram of La2−xSrxCuO4: A magneto-optics study
S. V. Dordevic, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, Y. J. Wang, and D. N. Basov
Published 7 February 2005 (9 pages)
054503 [View PDF (991 kB)]
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Magnetic interactions in a single-band model for the cuprates and ruthenates
P. Monthoux and G. G. Lonzarich
Published 8 February 2005 (19 pages)
054504 [View PDF (1,260 kB)]
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Spin-charge coupling in lightly doped Nd2−xCexCuO4
Shiliang Li, Stephen D. Wilson, David Mandrus, Bairu Zhao, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, and Pengcheng Dai
Published 8 February 2005 (10 pages)
054505 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Boson structures in the relation between optical conductivity and quasiparticle dynamics
J. P. Carbotte, E. Schachinger, and J. Hwang
Published 10 February 2005 (10 pages)
054506 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Static charge-imbalance effects in intrinsic Josephson systems
J. Keller and D. A. Ryndyk
Published 11 February 2005 (14 pages)
054507 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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t-J model for a bilayer: Coexisting superconductivity and planar-flux phases
Hongbo Zhao and Jan R. Engelbrecht
Published 15 February 2005 (5 pages)
054508 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Anisotropic nonmonotonic behavior of the superconducting critical current in thin YBa2Cu3O7−δ films on vicinal SrTiO3 surfaces
C. Cantoni, D. T. Verebelyi, E. D. Specht, J. Budai, and D. K. Christen
Published 16 February 2005 (9 pages)
054509 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Phase diffusion and fractional Shapiro steps in superconducting quantum point contacts
Raphaël Duprat and Alfredo Levy Yeyati
Published 18 February 2005 (10 pages)
054510 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Anomalous paramagnetic effects in the mixed state of LuNi2B2C
Tuson Park, A. Malinowski, M. F. Hundley, J. D. Thompson, Y. Sun, M. B. Salamon, Eun Mi Choi, Heon Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, P. C. Canfield, and V. G. Kogan
Published 18 February 2005 (5 pages)
054511 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Underbarrier nucleation kinetics in a metastable quantum liquid near the liquid-gas spinodal line
S. N. Burmistrov, L. B. Dubovskii, and Y. Okuda
Published 22 February 2005 (9 pages)
054512 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Variational Monte Carlo study of local order in liquid and solid 4He with shadow wave functions
Li Hui and Francesco Pederiva
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
054513 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Anomalous enhancement of electronic heat capacity in the organic conductors κ-(BEDT-TTF)4Hg3−δX8 (X=Br,Cl)
Akihito Naito, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuya Saito, Hiromi Taniguchi, Kazushi Kanoda, and Michio Sorai
Published 25 February 2005 (4 pages)
054514 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Binding of charge carriers in the extended t-J model
J. M. Tipper, C. Genert, and K. J. E. Vos
Published 25 February 2005 (6 pages)
054515 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Fast partial decoherence of a superconducting flux qubit in a spin bath
Jacek Dziarmaga
Published 25 February 2005 (7 pages)
054516 [View PDF (76 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Evidence of two different Mn states in CaCu3Mn4O12 derivatives with colossal magnetoresistance [Phys. Rev. B 70, 024419 (2004)]
J. Sánchez-Benítez, C. Prieto, A. de Andrés, J. A. Alonso, M. J. Martínez-Lope, and M. T. Casais
Published 9 February 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Crystal structure and thermodynamic stability of the lithium alanates LiAlH4 and Li3AlH6 [Phys. Rev. B 69, 134117 (2004)]
O. M. Løvvik, Susanne M. Opalka, Hendrik W. Brinks, and Bjørn C. Hauback
Published 14 February 2005 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Bonding and classification of nanolayered ternary carbides [Phys. Rev. B 70, 092102 (2004)]
Zhimei Sun, Denis Music, Rajeev Ahuja, Sa Li, and Jochen M. Schneider
Published 22 February 2005 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Doping phase diagram of Y1−xCaxBa2(Cu1−yZny)3O7−δ from transport measurements: Tracking the pseudogap below Tc [Phys. Rev. B 71, 054502 (2005)]
S. H. Naqib, J. R. Cooper, J. L. Tallon, R. S. Islam, and R. A. Chakalov
Published 22 February 2005 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction study of the structural phase transition in CaBr2 [Phys. Rev. B 70, 144102 (2004)]
Brendan J. Kennedy and Christopher J. Howard
Published 23 February 2005 (1 page)
059905(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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