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Physical Review B – 1 November 2005
Volume 72, Issue 17

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Coercive field dependence of the grain size of ferroelectric films
J. S. Liu, S. R. Zhang, H. Z. Zeng, C. T. Yang, and Y. Yuan
Published 1 November 2005 (3 pages)
172101 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Ab initio calculation of elastic properties of solid He under pressure
Z. Nabi, L. Vitos, B. Johansson, and R. Ahuja
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
172102 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Ab initio study of sodium ordering in Na0.75CoO2 and its relation to Co3+∕Co4+ charge ordering
Y. S. Meng, A. Van der Ven, M. K. Y. Chan, and G. Ceder
Published 8 November 2005 (4 pages)
172103 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Geometric isotope effect on hydrogen-bond structure: A semiquantal analysis
Koji Ando
Published 11 November 2005 (4 pages)
172104 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Compressibility of highly coordinated metal oxynitrides: LDA calculations
J. E. Lowther
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
172105 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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PbTiO3 addition and internal dynamics in Pb(Zn1∕3Nb2∕3)O3 crystal studied by Raman spectroscopy
Oleksiy Svitelskiy, Duangmanee La-Orauttapong, Jean Toulouse, W. Chen, and Z.-G. Ye
Published 23 November 2005 (4 pages)
172106 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Compositional changes of the first sharp diffraction peak in binary selenide glasses
E. Bychkov, C. J. Benmore, and D. L. Price
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
172107 [View PDF (342 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Simulation of friction in nanoconfined fluids for an arbitrarily low shear rate
Jerome Delhommelle and Peter T. Cummings
Published 29 November 2005 (4 pages)
172201 [View PDF (302 kB)]

Magnetism

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High-temperature anti-Invar behavior of γ-Fe precipitates in FexCu100−x solid solutions: Ferromagnetic phases
S. L. Palacios, R. Iglesias, D. Martínez-Blanco, P. Gorria, M. J. Pérez, J. A. Blanco, A. Hernando, and K. Schwarz
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
172401 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Giant heat dissipation at the low-temperature reversible-irreversible transition in Gd5Ge4
Fèlix Casanova, Amílcar Labarta, and Xavier Batlle
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
172402 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Field-induced order-disorder transition in the quasi-one-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8
Zhangzhen He, Tomoyasu Taniyama, Tôru Kyômen, and Mitsuru Itoh
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
172403 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Exact ground states for spin-1 systems with spin-orbital coupling
Shu Chen and Yupeng Wang
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
172404 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Persistent spin current in mesoscopic ferrimagnetic spin ring
Jing-Nuo Wu, Ming-Che Chang, and Min-Fong Yang
Published 8 November 2005 (4 pages)
172405 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Green’s function method applied to the crossover of the one-dimensional quantum anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet
Yuan Chen, Zhao-Ming Wang, and Ai-Yuan Hu
Published 10 November 2005 (4 pages)
172406 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the optical phonons in SrMnO3 manganite: Evidence of a low-temperature structural transition in the hexagonal compound
A. Sacchetti, M. Baldini, F. Crispoldi, P. Postorino, P. Dore, A. Nucara, C. Martin, and A. Maignan
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
172407 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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High-order coupled cluster calculations via parallel processing: An illustration for CaV4O9
D. J. J. Farnell, J. Schulenburg, J. Richter, and K. A. Gernoth
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
172408 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Scaling of excitations in dimerized and frustrated spin-1/2 chains
D. Controzzi, C. Degli Esposti Boschi, F. Ortolani, and S. Pasini
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
172409 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Spin dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles: Beyond Brown’s theory
U. Nowak, O. N. Mryasov, R. Wieser, K. Guslienko, and R. W. Chantrell
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
172410 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Domain-wall resonance induced by spin-polarized current in metal thin films with stripe structures
Peng-Bin He, X. C. Xie, and W. M. Liu
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
172411 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Coexistence of a nearly spin-singlet state and antiferromagnetic long-range order in quantum spin system Cu2CdB2O6
Masashi Hase, Masanori Kohno, Hideaki Kitazawa, Osamu Suzuki, Kiyoshi Ozawa, Giyuu Kido, Motoharu Imai, and Xiao Hu
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
172412 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Field-dependent Hall effect in single-crystal heavy-fermion YbAgGe below 1 K
S. L. Bud’ko, V. Zapf, E. Morosan, and P. C. Canfield
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
172413 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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High-temperature series expansion of the Helmholtz free energy of the quantum spin-S XYZ chain
Onofre Rojas, S. M. de Souza, E. V. Corrêa Silva, and M. T. Thomaz
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
172414 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Magnetoelectric effect in dirty superconductors with broken mirror symmetry
Victor M. Edelstein
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Structural and elastic properties of MgB2 under high pressure
Hai-Yan Wang, Xiang-Rong Chen, Wen-Jun Zhu, and Yan Cheng
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Dynamics of stripe patterns in type-I superconductors subject to a rotating field
M. Menghini and R. J. Wijngaarden
Published 11 November 2005 (4 pages)
172503 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Electrons and phonons in YbC6: Density functional calculations and angle-resolved photoemission measurements
I. I. Mazin and S. L. Molodtsov
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
172504 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Vortex-phonon interaction
Evgeny Kozik and Boris Svistunov
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
172505 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Pairing symmetry signatures of T1 in superconducting ferromagnets
Hari P. Dahal, Jason Jackiewicz, and Kevin S. Bedell
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
172506 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Quantum storage and information transfer with superconducting qubits
Y. D. Wang, Z. D. Wang, and C. P. Sun
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
172507 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Superconducting rectifier based on the asymmetric surface barrier effect
D. Y. Vodolazov and F. M. Peeters
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
172508 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Theory of damped Rabi oscillations
Norihito Kosugi, Shigemasa Matsuo, Kohkichi Konno, and Noriyuki Hatakenaka
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
172509 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Measuring voltage in a YBa2Cu3O8 superconductor induced by a moving magnet
W. C. Chan, C. B. Lin, H. Chao, and C. H. Chiang
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
172510 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Strong-coupling effects in cuprate high-Tc superconductors by magneto-optical studies
Y. S. Lee, Z. Q. Li, W. J. Padilla, S. V. Dordevic, C. C. Homes, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov
Published 23 November 2005 (4 pages)
172511 [View PDF (286 kB)]

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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First-principles study of the phase transition of HgS from cinnabar to rocksalt structure under high pressure
Shao-Rui Sun and Yu-Hui Dong
Published 1 November 2005 (8 pages)
174101 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Phase separation and dynamic patterning in Cu1−xCox films under ion irradiation
P. Krasnochtchekov, R. S. Averback, and P. Bellon
Published 4 November 2005 (12 pages)
174102 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Electronic and crystal structures of osmium under high pressure
Yanming Ma, Tian Cui, Lijun Zhang, Yu Xie, Guangtian Zou, John S. Tse, Xing Gao, and Dennis D. Klug
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
174103 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Local structure in LaMnO3 and CaMnO3 perovskites: A quantitative structural refinement of Mn K-edge XANES data
C. Monesi, C. Meneghini, F. Bardelli, M. Benfatto, S. Mobilio, U. Manju, and D. D. Sarma
Published 7 November 2005 (9 pages)
174104 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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X-ray diffraction from polycrystalline multilayers in grazing-incidence geometry: Measurement of crystallite size depth distribution
P. F. Fewster, N. L. Andrew, V. Holý, and K. Barmak
Published 7 November 2005 (11 pages)
174105 [View PDF (987 kB)]
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High-pressure structural study of the scheelite tungstates CaWO4 and SrWO4
D. Errandonea, J. Pellicer-Porres, F. J. Manjón, A. Segura, Ch. Ferrer-Roca, R. S. Kumar, O. Tschauner, P. Rodríguez-Hernández, J. López-Solano, S. Radescu, A. Mujica, A. Muñoz, and G. Aquilanti
Published 8 November 2005 (14 pages)
174106 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Link between liquid structure and the nucleation barrier for icosahedral quasicrystal, polytetrahedral, and simple crystalline phases in Ti-Zr-Ni alloys: Verification of Frank’s hypothesis
G. W. Lee, A. K. Gangopadhyay, T. K. Croat, T. J. Rathz, R. W. Hyers, J. R. Rogers, and K. F. Kelton
Published 8 November 2005 (10 pages)
174107 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Comparison of empirical bond-valence and first-principles energy calculations for a complex structural instability
I. Etxebarria, J. M. Perez-Mato, Alberto García, P. Blaha, K. Schwarz, and J. Rodriguez-Carvajal
Published 9 November 2005 (8 pages)
174108 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Zone-axis x-ray diffraction of single-crystal Fe1−xO under pressure
Yang Ding, Haozhe Liu, Maddury Somayazulu, Yue Meng, Jian Xu, Charles T. Prewitt, Russell J. Hemley, and Ho-kwang Mao
Published 10 November 2005 (6 pages)
174109 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Interaction between an elastic wave and a single pinned dislocation
Agnès Maurel, Vincent Pagneux, Felipe Barra, and Fernando Lund
Published 11 November 2005 (13 pages)
174110 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Wave propagation through a random array of pinned dislocations: Velocity change and attenuation in a generalized Granato and Lücke theory
Agnès Maurel, Vincent Pagneux, Felipe Barra, and Fernando Lund
Published 11 November 2005 (15 pages)
174111 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Elastic coupling between 90° twin walls and interfacial dislocations in epitaxial ferroelectric perovskites: A quantitative high-resolution transmission electron microscopy study
Ming-Wen Chu, Izabela Szafraniak, Dietrich Hesse, Marin Alexe, and Ulrich Gösele
Published 16 November 2005 (5 pages)
174112 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Nanoscale clusters in the high performance thermoelectric AgPbmSbTem+2
H. Lin, E. S. Božin, S. J. L. Billinge, Eric Quarez, and M. G. Kanatzidis
Published 18 November 2005 (7 pages)
174113 [View PDF (609 kB)]
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Structural phase transition and molecular motions in [(CH3)3CNH3]2[ZnCl4] studied by 1H NMR, differential scanning calorimetry, and x-ray diffraction
Keizo Horiuchi, Shinsaku Uezato, Yumiko Yogi, Akihiko Abe, Takanori Fukami, Ryo Takeishi, and Ryuichi Ideda
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
174114 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Size-driven relaxation and polar states in PbMg1∕3Nb2∕3O3-based system
J. Carreaud, P. Gemeiner, J. M. Kiat, B. Dkhil, C. Bogicevic, T. Rojac, and B. Malic
Published 28 November 2005 (6 pages)
174115 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Superabundant vacancies in a metal-hydrogen system: Monte Carlo simulations
D. Tanguy and M. Mareschal
Published 30 November 2005 (13 pages)
174116 [View PDF (878 kB)]
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Anomalous neutron Compton scattering: Comparison of the convolution approximation with a model-free approach
M. Krzystyniak and C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann
Published 30 November 2005 (11 pages)
174117 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Internal friction peak in pure Al bicrystals with ⟨100⟩ tilt boundaries
W. B. Jiang, P. Cui, Q. P. Kong, Y. Shi, and M. Winning
Published 30 November 2005 (6 pages)
174118 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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First-principles study of the effect of lattice vibrations on Cu nucleation free energy in Fe-Cu alloys
Koretaka Yuge, Atsuto Seko, Isao Tanaka, and Shigeto R. Nishitani
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
174201 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Memory effect in electron glasses: Theoretical analysis via a percolation approach
Eran Lebanon and Markus Müller
Published 4 November 2005 (13 pages)
174202 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Low-temperature dielectric relaxation of molecular glasses: Crossover from the nearly constant loss to the tunneling regime
C. Gainaru, A. Rivera, S. Putselyk, G. Eska, and E. A. Rössler
Published 10 November 2005 (5 pages)
174203 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Scaling of current distributions in variable-range hopping transport on two- and three-dimensional lattices
W. F. Pasveer, P. A. Bobbert, H. P. Huinink, and M. A. J. Michels
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
174204 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Point-charge calculation of quadrupolar parameters for bridging oxygen sites in vitreous silica: Structural implications
S. Sen, C. A. Russell, and T. Mukerji
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
174205 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Ab initio study of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals: Structural model, electric field gradients, and negative valence of Mn
E. S. Zijlstra, S. K. Bose, M. Klanjšek, P. Jeglič, and J. Dolinšek
Published 22 November 2005 (11 pages)
174206 [View PDF (1,027 kB)]
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Localization-delocalization transition in a one one-dimensional system with long-range correlated off-diagonal disorder
H. Cheraghchi, S. M. Fazeli, and K. Esfarjani
Published 22 November 2005 (8 pages)
174207 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Modeling the spectral conductivity of Al-Mn-Si quasicrystalline approximants: A phenomenological approach
Enrique Maciá, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, and Toshio Otagiri
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
174208 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Reverse Monte Carlo analysis of the local order in liquid Ge0.15Te0.85 alloys combining neutron scattering and x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Marie-Vanessa Coulet, Denis Testemale, Jean-Louis Hazemann, Jean-Pierre Gaspard, and Christophe Bichara
Published 28 November 2005 (6 pages)
174209 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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X-ray scattering study of temperature dependence of a structural incommensurability of the ω phase in Ti-V alloys
Naohisa Takesue
Published 29 November 2005 (8 pages)
174210 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Group theoretical treatment of the low-temperature phase transition of the Cd6Ca 1∕1-cubic approximant
R. Tamura, K. Edagawa, K. Shibata, K. Nishimoto, S. Takeuchi, K. Saitoh, M. Isobe, and Y. Ueda
Published 29 November 2005 (5 pages)
174211 [View PDF (335 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Neutron and nuclear inelastic scattering study of the Einstein oscillators in Ba-, Sr-, and Eu-filled germanium clathrates
Raphaël P. Hermann, Werner Schweika, Olaf Leupold, Rudolf Rüffer, George S. Nolas, Fernande Grandjean, and Gary J. Long
Published 3 November 2005 (6 pages)
174301 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Minimum superlattice thermal conductivity from molecular dynamics
Yunfei Chen, Deyu Li, Jennifer R. Lukes, Zhonghua Ni, and Minhua Chen
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
174302 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Estimation of charge-carrier concentration and ac conductivity scaling properties near the V-I phase transition of polycrystalline Na2SO4
Mohamad M. Ahmad
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
174303 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Nonlinear ionic conductivity of thin solid electrolyte samples: Comparison between theory and experiment
Andreas Heuer, Sevi Murugavel, and Bernhard Roling
Published 21 November 2005 (7 pages)
174304 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Magnetism

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 Role of quantum interference in ferromagnetic thin films
S. Sil, P. Entel, G. Dumpich, and M. Brands
Published 1 November 2005 (8 pages)
174401 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Magnetization reversal properties of Fe∕NiO∕Fe(001) trilayers
A. Brambilla, P. Biagioni, M. Portalupi, M. Zani, M. Finazzi, L. Duò, P. Vavassori, R. Bertacco, and F. Ciccacci
Published 1 November 2005 (9 pages)
174402 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Measurements of spin reorientation in YbFeO3 and comparison with modified mean-field theory
Ya. B. Bazaliy, L. T. Tsymbal, G. N. Kakazei, V. I. Kamenev, and P. E. Wigen
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
174403 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Geometric frustration in the cubic spinels MAl2O4 (M=Co, Fe, and Mn)
N. Tristan, J. Hemberger, A. Krimmel, H-A. Krug von Nidda, V. Tsurkan, and A. Loidl
Published 1 November 2005 (9 pages)
174404 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Inelastic neutron scattering study of phonons and magnetic excitations in LaCoO3
Y. Kobayashi, Thant Sin Naing, M. Suzuki, M. Akimitsu, K. Asai, K. Yamada, J. Akimitsu, P. Manuel, J. M. Tranquada, and G. Shirane
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
174405 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Coulomb interactions and ferromagnetism in pure and doped graphene
N. M. R. Peres, F. Guinea, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 2 November 2005 (10 pages)
174406 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Distinct order of Gd 4f and Fe 3d moments coexisting in GdFe4Al8
M. Angst, A. Kreyssig, Y. Janssen, J.-W. Kim, L. Tan, D. Wermeille, Y. Mozharivskyij, A. Kracher, A. I. Goldman, and P. C. Canfield
Published 3 November 2005 (13 pages)
174407 [View PDF (1,093 kB)]
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Dynamics of spin clusters in amorphous Fe2O3
M. D. Mukadam, S. M. Yusuf, P. Sharma, S. K. Kulshreshtha, and G. K. Dey
Published 4 November 2005 (7 pages)
174408 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Fully unconstrained density-functional study of the structures and magnetic moments of small Mnn clusters (n=2–7)
R. C. Longo, E. G. Noya, and L. J. Gallego
Published 4 November 2005 (7 pages)
174409 [View PDF (592 kB)]
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Measurement of magnetic moments of free BiNMnM clusters
Shuangye Yin, Xiaoshan Xu, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
Published 4 November 2005 (3 pages)
174410 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Global properties of the spectrum of the Haldane-Shastry spin chain
Federico Finkel and Artemio González-López
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
174411 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Dynamics of magnetization coupled to a thermal bath of elastic modes
Enrico Rossi, Olle G. Heinonen, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 10 November 2005 (11 pages)
174412 [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Correlation between magnetism and structure in ultrathin Fe∕Cu3Au(001) films
F. Bisio, S. Terreni, M. Canepa, and L. Mattera
Published 10 November 2005 (7 pages)
174413 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Effects of an external magnetic field on the gaps and quantum corrections in an ordered Heisenberg antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya anisotropy
A. L. Chernyshev
Published 11 November 2005 (15 pages)
174414 [View PDF (826 kB)]
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Failure of geometric frustration to preserve a quasi-two-dimensional spin fluid
Marianna Maltseva and Piers Coleman
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
174415 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Effect of dipolar interactions on the magnetization of a cubic array of nanomagnets
Marisol Alcántara Ortigoza, Richard A. Klemm, and Talat S. Rahman
Published 11 November 2005 (13 pages)
174416 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Ordering in Cs2CuCl4: Possibility of a proximate spin liquid
S. V. Isakov, T. Senthil, and Yong Baek Kim
Published 16 November 2005 (9 pages)
174417 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Weakly frustrated two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets: Thermodynamic properties from a nonperturbative approach
Leonardo Spanu and Alberto Parola
Published 16 November 2005 (8 pages)
174418 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Frustrated two-level impurities in two-dimensional antiferromagnets
A. V. Syromyatnikov and S. V. Maleyev
Published 16 November 2005 (17 pages)
174419 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Giant magnetocaloric effect in tetragonal HoNi2B2C
Isaías G. de Oliveira, Pedro J. von Ranke, M. El Massalami, and C. M. Chaves
Published 18 November 2005 (6 pages)
174420 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Resonant x-ray scattering spectra from multipole ordering: Np M4,5 edges in NpO2
Tatsuya Nagao and Jun-ichi Igarashi
Published 21 November 2005 (10 pages)
174421 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Intrinsic interface exchange coupling of ferromagnetic nanodomains in a charge ordered manganite
D. Niebieskikwiat and M. B. Salamon
Published 21 November 2005 (6 pages)
174422 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Spin dynamics in the two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet
A. F. Albuquerque, A. S. T. Pires, and M. E. Gouvêa
Published 22 November 2005 (9 pages)
174423 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Relationship between coercivity and magnetic moment of superparamagnetic particles with dipolar interaction
V. Franco, C. F. Conde, A. Conde, and L. F. Kiss
Published 22 November 2005 (10 pages)
174424 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Impurity scattering and quantum confinement in giant magnetoresistance systems: A comparative ab initio study
Peter Zahn, Jörg Binder, and Ingrid Mertig
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
174425 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance behavior of nanoscale antidot arrays
C. C. Wang, A. O. Adeyeye, N. Singh, Y. S. Huang, and Y. H. Wu
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
174426 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Nominal doping and partition of doped holes between planar and apical orbitals in La2−xSrxCuO4
E. S. Božin and S. J. L. Billinge
Published 29 November 2005 (6 pages)
174427 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Half-metallic ferromagnets for magnetic tunnel junctions by ab initio calculations
Phivos Mavropoulos, Marjana Ležaić, and Stefan Blügel
Published 29 November 2005 (6 pages)
174428 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of a metal-organic antiferromagnet on a distorted honeycomb lattice
Ivan Spremo, Florian Schütz, Peter Kopietz, Volodymyr Pashchenko, Bernd Wolf, Michael Lang, Jan W. Bats, Chunhua Hu, and Martin U. Schmidt
Published 30 November 2005 (11 pages)
174429 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Giant isotope effect on the itinerant-electron metamagnetism in YFe2(HyD1−y)4.2
V. Paul-Boncour, M. Guillot, G. Wiesinger, and G. André
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
174430 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Magnetic ordering at the edges of graphitic fragments: Magnetic tail interactions between the edge-localized states
Hosik Lee, Young-Woo Son, Noejung Park, Seungwu Han, and Jaejun Yu
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
174431 [View PDF (651 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Vortex dissipation in Y1−xPrxBa2Cu3O7−δ superconductors above and below the zero-field critical temperature
T. Katuwal, V. Sandu, C. C. Almasan, B. J. Taylor, and M. B. Maple
Published 2 November 2005 (9 pages)
174501 [View PDF (799 kB)]
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π junction behavior and Andreev bound states in Kondo quantum dots with superconducting leads
Gabriel Sellier, Thilo Kopp, Johann Kroha, and Yuri S. Barash
Published 2 November 2005 (12 pages)
174502 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Density functional theory for the freezing transition of the vortex-line liquid with periodic layer pinning
Xiao Hu, Mengbo Luo, and Yuqiang Ma
Published 2 November 2005 (6 pages)
174503 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Enhancement of fermion pairing due to the presence of resonant cavities
K. Morawetz, B. Schmidt, M. Schreiber, and P. Lipavský
Published 3 November 2005 (5 pages)
174504 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Crystal symmetry, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting tendencies in Li2Pd3B and Li2Pt3B
K.-W. Lee and W. E. Pickett
Published 4 November 2005 (8 pages)
174505 [View PDF (917 kB)]
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Phase slips in submicrometer YBaCu3O7−δ bridges
P. Mikheenko, X. Deng, S. Gildert, M. S. Colclough, R. A. Smith, C. M. Muirhead, P. D. Prewett, and J. Teng
Published 7 November 2005 (5 pages)
174506 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Magnetic-field modulation of the Josephson effect between UPt3 and a conventional superconductor
A. Sumiyama, R. Hata, Y. Oda, N. Kimura, E. Yamamoto, Y. Haga, and Y. Ōnuki
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
174507 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Critical fields and the spontaneous vortex state in the weakly ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8
C. Y. Yang, B. C. Chang, H. C. Ku, and Y. Y. Hsu
Published 15 November 2005 (5 pages)
174508 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Magneto-optical imaging and electromagnetic study of YBa2Cu3O7 vicinal films of variable thickness
A. Polyanskii, R. L. S. Emergo, J. Z. Wu, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, G. K. Perkins, and D. Larbalestier
Published 15 November 2005 (10 pages)
174509 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Surface enhancement of superconductivity in tin
V. F. Kozhevnikov, M. J. Van Bael, W. Vinckx, K. Temst, C. Van Haesendonck, and J. O. Indekeu
Published 16 November 2005 (5 pages)
174510 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Response of thin-film SQUIDs to applied fields and vortex fields: Linear SQUIDs
John R. Clem and Ernst Helmut Brandt
Published 16 November 2005 (18 pages)
174511 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Vortex phases in superconducting Nb thin films with periodic pinning
J. E. Villegas, E. M. Gonzalez, Z. Sefrioui, J. Santamaria, and J. L. Vicent
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
174512 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Superconductivity in the charge-density-wave state of the organic metal α-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4
D. Andres, M. V. Kartsovnik, W. Biberacher, K. Neumaier, E. Schuberth, and H. Müller
Published 18 November 2005 (7 pages)
174513 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Periodic oscillations, peak-splitting and phase transitions of Josephson vortex flow resistance in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
B. Y. Zhu, H. B. Wang, S. M. Kim, S. Urayama, T. Hatano, and X. Hu
Published 18 November 2005 (5 pages)
174514 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Topological order and the deconfinement transition in the (2+1)-dimensional compact Abelian Higgs model
Anders Vestergren and Jack Lidmar
Published 21 November 2005 (10 pages)
174515 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Electrostatic interface tuning in correlated superconducting heterostructures
Natalia Pavlenko and Thilo Kopp
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
174516 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Polarization effects in photoemission disentangle the origin of the shadow bands in Bi-based superconductors
M. Izquierdo, J. Avila, L. Roca, G. Gu, and M. C. Asensio
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
174517 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Subharmonic gap structures and Josephson effect in MgB2∕Nb microconstrictions
F. Giubileo, M. Aprili, F. Bobba, S. Piano, A. Scarfato, and A. M. Cucolo
Published 23 November 2005 (7 pages)
174518 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Tunneling spectroscopy as a probe of c-axis variation of da2−b2-wave order parameter
P. Pairor
Published 29 November 2005 (7 pages)
174519 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Superconductivity due to massless boson exchange in the strong-coupling limit
Andrey V. Chubukov and Jörg Schmalian
Published 29 November 2005 (14 pages)
174520 [View PDF (356 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Thermal hysteresis in the normal-state magnetization of La2−xSrxCuO4”
J. Hissa and A. Kallio
Published 4 November 2005 (3 pages)
176501 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Comment on “Enhanced two-dimensional properties of the four-layered cuprate high-Tc superconductor TlBa2Ca3Cu4Oy”
I. L. Landau and H. R. Ott
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
176502 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Enhanced two-dimensional properties of the four-layered cuprate high-Tc superconductor TlBa2Ca3Cu4Oy’ ”
Heon-Jung Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, A. Iyo, Y. Tanaka, K. Tokiwa, and T. Watanabe
Published 22 November 2005 (2 pages)
176503 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Structurally frustrated relaxor ferroelectric behavior in CaCu3Ti4O12 [Phys. Rev. B 72, 134104 (2005)]
Yun Liu, Ray L. Withers, and Xiao Yong Wei
Published 9 November 2005 (1 page)
179901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Orbital and spin interplay in spin-gap formation in pyroxene ATiSi2O6 (A=Na,Li) [Phys. Rev. B 70, 214404 (2004)]
Toshiya Hikihara and Yukitoshi Motome
Published 30 November 2005 (2 pages)
179902(E) [View PDF (108 kB)]
 
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