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Physical Review B – 1 August 2005
Volume 72, Issue 5

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Geometric model for the critical-value problem of nucleation phenomena containing the size effect of nucleating agent
Donghua Xu and William L. Johnson
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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First-principles investigation on chemical bonding and bulk modulus of the ternary carbide Zr2Al3C5
Jingyang Wang, Yanchun Zhou, Zhijun Lin, and Ting Liao
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Equally sloped tomography with oversampling reconstruction
Jianwei Miao, Friedrich Förster, and Ofer Levi
Published 4 August 2005 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Atomistic mechanism of shock-induced void collapse in nanoporous metals
Paul Erhart, Eduardo M. Bringa, Mukul Kumar, and Karsten Albe
Published 5 August 2005 (4 pages)
052104 [View PDF (770 kB)]
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Superhard hexagonal transition metal and its carbide and nitride: Os, OsC, and OsN
Jin-Cheng Zheng
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
052105 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Static effective charges of BaTiO3: Infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry study
Zhiming Huang, Junhao Chu, Yunian Wu, Yun Hou, Jianqiang Xue, and Dingyuan Tang
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
052106 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Dielectric properties of nanoscale HfO2 slabs
R. Ramprasad and N. Shi
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
052107 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Nature and extent of melting in superheated solids: Liquid-solid coexistence model
Xian-Ming Bai and Mo Li
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
052108 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Crossover from pure to random-field critical susceptibility in KH2AsxP1−xO4
D. R. Taylor, J. T. Love, G. J. Topping, and J. G. A. Dane
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
052109 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Glass-liquid transition in a less-stable metallic glass
Tetsu Ichitsubo, Eiichiro Matsubara, Hiroshi Numakura, Katsushi Tanaka, Nobuyuki Nishiyama, and Ryuichi Tarumi
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
052201 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Neutron Compton scattering from water studied with the double-difference technique
T. Abdul-Redah, M. Krzystyniak, and C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann
Published 30 August 2005 (3 pages)
052202 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Magnetism

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Resonant photon absorption in Fe8 single-molecule magnets detected via magnetization measurements
K. Petukhov, W. Wernsdorfer, A.-L. Barra, and V. Mosser
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
052401 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of Fe-Al alloys through Ising and Heisenberg models with a nonlinear exchange interaction
W. R. Aguirre Contreras, Ligia E. Zamora, G. A. Pérez Alcázar, and J. A. Plascak
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
052402 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Current-induced hysteretic switching and reversible transition of magnetization in spin-valve structures with current constraint paths in spacer layers
Xilin Peng, Haiwen Xi, Eric Granstrom, and Song Xue
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
052403 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Forced magnetostriction of samarium metal up to 33 Tesla
M. Rotter, A. Lindbaum, M. Doerr, M. Loewenhaupt, H. Müller, E. Jobiliong, and J. Brooks
Published 16 August 2005 (3 pages)
052404 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism of weakly interacting electrons in disordered systems
Xiao Yang and Chetan Nayak
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
052405 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Strong orbital correlations in a Fe-substituted spin-glass-manganite
E. Granado, R. R. Urbano, C. A. Pérez, C. Azimonte, J. W. Lynn, R. A. Souza, N. M. Souza-Neto, A. Y. Ramos, G. L. Bychkov, S. V. Shiryaev, and S. N. Barilo
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
052406 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of noncollinear magnetism in gadolinium tetraboride
J. Fernández-Rodríguez, J. A. Blanco, P. J. Brown, K. Katsumata, A. Kikkawa, F. Iga, and S. Michimura
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
052407 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Large magnetoresistance in spin- and carrier-doped SrTiO3
J. Inaba and T. Katsufuji
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
052408 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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NMR investigation of BaCu2V2O8 in alternating-chain and dimer-chain models
C. S. Lue and B. X. Xie
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
052409 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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History-induced critical behavior in disordered systems
John H. Carpenter, Karin A. Dahmen, Andrea C. Mills, Michael B. Weissman, Andreas Berger, and Olav Hellwig
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
052410 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Electronic structure and evolution of the orbital state in metallic Ca2−xSrxRuO4
Han-Jin Noh, S.-J. Oh, B.-G. Park, J.-H. Park, J.-Y. Kim, H.-D. Kim, T. Mizokawa, L. H. Tjeng, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, S. Schuppler, S. Nakatsuji, H. Fukazawa, and Y. Maeno
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
052411 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Revealing Fe magnetism in lanthanide-iron intermetallic compounds by tuning the rare-earth L2,3-edge x-ray absorption edges
M. A. Laguna-Marco, J. Chaboy, C. Piquer, H. Maruyama, N. Ishimatsu, N. Kawamura, M. Takagaki, and M. Suzuki
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
052412 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Structural properties of ErFeO3 in the spin-reorientation region
L. T. Tsymbal, V. I. Kamenev, Ya. B. Bazaliy, D. A. Khara, and P. E. Wigen
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
052413 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Chain-oxygen ordering in twin-free YBa2Cu3O7−δ single crystals driven by 20-keV electron irradiation
H. W. Seo, Q. Y. Chen, M. N. Iliev, Tom H. Johansen, N. Kolev, U. Welp, C. Wang, and Wei-Kan Chu
Published 4 August 2005 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Origin of flux-flow resistance oscillations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y: Possibility of Fiske steps in a single junction
A. V. Ustinov and N. F. Pedersen
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
052502 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Asymptotic freedom of elastic strings and barriers
Peter Orland and Jing Xiao
Published 8 August 2005 (3 pages)
052503 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Anomalous ac magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature YBa2Cu3O7−δ superconductors
D.-X. Chen, E. Pardo, A. Sanchez, S.-S. Wang, Z.-H. Han, E. Bartolome, T. Puig, and X. Obradors
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
052504 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Exact summation of vertex corrections to the penetration depth in d-wave superconductors
A. Iyengar and M. Franz
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
052505 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Effect of zero-energy bound states on macroscopic quantum tunneling in high-Tc superconductor junctions
Shiro Kawabata, Satoshi Kashiwaya, Yasuhiro Asano, and Yukio Tanaka
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
052506 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Vortex-antivortex dynamics and field-polarity-dependent flux creep in hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet nanostructures
M. Lange, M. J. Van Bael, A. V. Silhanek, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
052507 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Temperature effect on the quasiparticle spectrum of an impurity-doped superconductor with two separate electron groups
M. Belogolovskii, A. Plecenik, and M. Grajcar
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
052508 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Andreev reflection at the normal-metal/heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 interface
W. K. Park, L. H. Greene, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
052509 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Charge ordering and pressure-induced superconductivity in β″-(DODHT)2PF6
H. Nishikawa, Y. Sato, K. Kikuchi, T. Kodama, I. Ikemoto, J. Yamada, H. Oshio, R. Kondo, and S. Kagoshima
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
052510 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Low-T phononic thermal conductivity in superconductors with line nodes
M. F. Smith
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
052511 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Resonant peak in the density of states in normal-metal/diffusive-ferromagnet/superconductor junctions
T. Yokoyama, Y. Tanaka, and A. A. Golubov
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
052512 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Origin of experimental order-disorder transition line curvature in the La2−xSrxCuO4 single crystal vortex system at low temperatures
L. Miu, T. Adachi, Y. Koike, D. Miu, S. Diaz, and G. Chouteau
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
052513 [View PDF (77 kB)]

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Relation between driving energy, crack shape, and speed in brittle dynamic fracture
Andrea Parisi and Robin C. Ball
Published 1 August 2005 (11 pages)
054101 [View PDF (739 kB)]
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Lattice strain measurements of deuteride (hydride) formation in epitaxial Nb: Additional results and further insights into past measurements
Monica M. C. Allain and Brent J. Heuser
Published 1 August 2005 (11 pages)
054102 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Family of noble metal nitrides: First principles calculations of the elastic stability
R. Yu and X. F. Zhang
Published 2 August 2005 (4 pages)
054103 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Amplitude- and frequency-dependent nonlinearities in the presence of thermally-induced transitions in the Preisach model of acoustic hysteresis
V. Gusev and V. Tournat
Published 2 August 2005 (19 pages)
054104 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Activation energy and saddle point configuration of high-mobility dislocation loops: A line tension model
K. Ohsawa and E. Kuramoto
Published 2 August 2005 (7 pages)
054105 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Modeling inelasticity and failure in gold nanowires
Harold S. Park and Jonathan A. Zimmerman
Published 2 August 2005 (9 pages)
054106 [View PDF (1,196 kB)]
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Homogeneous melting of superheated crystals: Molecular dynamics simulations
Mattias Forsblom and Göran Grimvall
Published 3 August 2005 (10 pages)
054107 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Boundary effects on the plastic flow of amorphous layers during high-energy heavy-ion irradiation
A. Hedler, S. Klaumünzer, and W. Wesch
Published 3 August 2005 (12 pages)
054108 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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First-principles study of the optical transitions of F centers in the bulk and on the (0001) surface of α-Al2O3
Javier Carrasco, Nuria Lopez, Carmen Sousa, and Francesc Illas
Published 4 August 2005 (9 pages)
054109 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Transformation processes in LaAlO3: Neutron diffraction, dielectric, thermal, optical, and Raman studies
S. A. Hayward, F. D. Morrison, S. A. T. Redfern, E. K. H. Salje, J. F. Scott, K. S. Knight, S. Tarantino, A. M. Glazer, V. Shuvaeva, P. Daniel, M. Zhang, and M. A. Carpenter
Published 4 August 2005 (17 pages)
054110 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Precursor nanoscale modulations in ferromagnets: Modeling and thermodynamic characterization
Marcel Porta, Teresa Castán, Antoni Planes, and Avadh Saxena
Published 5 August 2005 (8 pages)
054111 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Positron localization effects on the Doppler broadening of the annihilation line: Aluminum as a case study
A. Calloni, A. Dupasquier, R. Ferragut, P. Folegati, M. M. Iglesias, I. Makkonen, and M. J. Puska
Published 5 August 2005 (6 pages)
054112 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Anomalous vibrational effects in nonmagnetic and magnetic Heusler alloys
A. T. Zayak, P. Entel, K. M. Rabe, W. A. Adeagbo, and M. Acet
Published 8 August 2005 (8 pages)
054113 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Interplay between A-site and B-site driven instabilities in perovskites
M. Ghita, M. Fornari, D. J. Singh, and S. V. Halilov
Published 8 August 2005 (5 pages)
054114 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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High-temperature neutron diffraction study of the bilayered manganite La1.4Sr1.6Mn2O7
Lorenzo Malavasi, Elena Di Tullio, Håkan Ründlof, Cristina Tealdi, and Giorgio Flor
Published 9 August 2005 (5 pages)
054115 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Anomalous thermal properties of the Heusler alloy Ni2+xMn1−xGa near the martensitic transition
Y. K. Kuo, K. M. Sivakumar, H. C. Chen, J. H. Su, and C. S. Lue
Published 10 August 2005 (10 pages)
054116 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Role of vacancies in the structural stability of α-TiO: A first-principles study based on density-functional calculations
Jesús Graciani, Antonio Márquez, and Javier Fdez. Sanz
Published 11 August 2005 (6 pages)
054117 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Enhanced magnetic moment of Fe in fcc-structured Fe-Ag and Fe-Au alloys synthesized by ion-beam manipulation
X. Y. Li, L. T. Kong, and B. X. Liu
Published 16 August 2005 (6 pages)
054118 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Deep inelastic neutron scattering from orthorhombic ordered HCl: Short-time proton dynamics and anomalous neutron cross sections
R. Senesi, D. Colognesi, A. Pietropaolo, and T. Abdul-Redah
Published 16 August 2005 (11 pages)
054119 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Field-induced dielectric singularity, critical exponents, and high-dielectric tunability in [111]-oriented (1−x)Pb(Mg1∕3Nb2∕3)O3-xPbTiO3 (x=0.24)
S. G. Lu, Z. Xu, and Haydn Chen
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
054120 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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High-pressure forms of lithium sulphate: Structural determination and computer simulation
David C. Parfitt, David A. Keen, Stephen Hull, Wilson A. Crichton, Mohamed Mezouar, Mark Wilson, and Paul A. Madden
Published 22 August 2005 (7 pages)
054121 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity in the guanidinium compound [C(NH2)3]4Cl2SO4: Synthesis and characterization
Marek Szafrański
Published 24 August 2005 (11 pages)
054122 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Anomalous neutron Compton scattering from molecular hydrogen
C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, T. Abdul-Redah, and M. Krzystyniak
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
054123 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Energy dissipation via quantum chemical hysteresis during high-pressure compression: A first-principles molecular dynamics study of phosphates
Nicholas J. Mosey, Tom K. Woo, and Martin H. Müser
Published 25 August 2005 (6 pages)
054124 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Pressure-induced structural phase transition in NaBH4
C. Moysés Araújo, R. Ahuja, A. V. Talyzin, and B. Sundqvist
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
054125 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Cubic boron nitride thin film growth by boron and nitrogen ion implantation
S. Eyhusen, C. Ronning, and H. Hofsäss
Published 30 August 2005 (9 pages)
054126 [View PDF (609 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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11B NMR spin-lattice relaxation study in Nd3+-doped binary alkali borate glasses: A possible method to look at the environment of rare-earth sites in glasses
Sutirtha Mukhopadhyay, K. P. Ramesh, and J. Ramakrishna
Published 2 August 2005 (6 pages)
054201 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Thermal and electrical transport properties of Ag-In-Yb quasicrystals: An experimental study
Y. K. Kuo, K. M. Sivakumar, H. H. Lai, C. N. Ku, S. T. Lin, and A. B. Kaiser
Published 3 August 2005 (6 pages)
054202 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Spectral and diffusive properties of silver-mean quasicrystals in one, two, and three dimensions
V. Z. Cerovski, M. Schreiber, and U. Grimm
Published 4 August 2005 (9 pages)
054203 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Ab initio simulations of nitrogen evolution in quenched CNx and SiBCN amorphous materials
J. Houska, M. M. M. Bilek, O. Warschkow, D. R. McKenzie, and J. Vlcek
Published 15 August 2005 (6 pages)
054204 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Positronium formation in molecular media: The effect of the external electric field
Sergey V. Stepanov, Vsevolod M. Byakov, and Yoshinori Kobayashi
Published 16 August 2005 (7 pages)
054205 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Silver transport in GexSe1−x:Ag materials: Ab initio simulation of a solid electrolyte
De Nyago Tafen, D. A. Drabold, and M. Mitkova
Published 16 August 2005 (9 pages)
054206 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Modeling the atomic structure of amorphous steels using crystalline approximants
V. Yu. Kazimirov, Despina Louca, V. Ponnambalam, S. J. Poon, and T. Proffen
Published 18 August 2005 (5 pages)
054207 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Doping, density of states, and conductivity in polypyrrole and poly(p-phenylene vinylene)
I. N. Hulea, H. B. Brom, A. K. Mukherjee, and R. Menon
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
054208 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Simulation of pressure-induced phase transition in liquid and amorphous Al2O3
Vo Van Hoang and Suhk Kun Oh
Published 23 August 2005 (10 pages)
054209 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Ab initio study of disorder broadening of core photoemission spectra in random Cu-Pd and Ag-Pd alloys
T. Marten, W. Olovsson, S. I. Simak, and I. A. Abrikosov
Published 24 August 2005 (7 pages)
054210 [View PDF (394 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Low-temperature statistical mechanics of kink-bearing systems with a Remoissenet-Peyrard substrate potential: Influence of anharmonic interactions
David Yemélé and Timoléon C. Kofané
Published 9 August 2005 (13 pages)
054301 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Elastic properties of methane hydrate at high pressures
J. Baumert, C. Gutt, M. Krisch, H. Requardt, M. Müller, J. S. Tse, D. D. Klug, and W. Press
Published 16 August 2005 (5 pages)
054302 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Infrared study of the phonon modes in bismuth pyrochlores
Minghan Chen, D. B. Tanner, and Juan C. Nino
Published 19 August 2005 (8 pages)
054303 [View PDF (530 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic field distribution in ferromagnetic metal∕normal metal multilayers using NMR
J. Lu, P. L. Kuhns, M. J. R. Hoch, W. G. Moulton, and A. P. Reyes
Published 2 August 2005 (5 pages)
054401 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Development of high-temperature ferromagnetism in SnO2 and paramagnetism in SnO by Fe doping
A. Punnoose, J. Hays, A. Thurber, M. H. Engelhard, R. K. Kukkadapu, C. Wang, V. Shutthanandan, and S. Thevuthasan
Published 2 August 2005 (14 pages)
054402 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Nonlinear polaritons in antiferromagnetic/nonmagnetic superlattices
Xuan-Zhang Wang and Hua Li
Published 2 August 2005 (9 pages)
054403 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Phase relationships and structural, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of the Yb5Si4-Yb5Ge4 pseudobinary system
Kyunghan Ahn, A. O. Tsokol, Yu. Mozharivskyj, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V. K. Pecharsky
Published 2 August 2005 (11 pages)
054404 [View PDF (1,036 kB)]
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Interplay between magnetocrystalline and configurational anisotropies in Fe(001) square nanostructures
P. Vavassori, D. Bisero, F. Carace, A. di Bona, G. C. Gazzadi, M. Liberati, and S. Valeri
Published 2 August 2005 (8 pages)
054405 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Spin-system radio-frequency superradiation: A phenomenological study and comparison with numeric simulations
C. L. Davis, V. K. Henner, A. V. Tchernatinsky, and I. V. Kaganov
Published 2 August 2005 (10 pages)
054406 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Double magnetic switching, domain wall processes, and interfacial exchange coupling in an exchange-biased bilayer film
Zhi-Hong Wang, G. Cristiani, H.-U. Habermeier, and J. A. C. Bland
Published 2 August 2005 (7 pages)
054407 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the training effect in a Co∕CoO exchange-bias layer
Christian Binek, Xi He, and Srinivas Polisetty
Published 3 August 2005 (6 pages)
054408 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of randomly dispersed magnetic particulate composites: A theoretical study
H. M. Yin and L. Z. Sun
Published 4 August 2005 (6 pages)
054409 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Kondo-like transport and its correlation with the spin-glass phase in perovskite manganites
Jincang Zhang, Yan Xu, Shixun Cao, Guixin Cao, Yufeng Zhang, and Chao Jing
Published 4 August 2005 (6 pages)
054410 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Geometrical magnetic frustration in rare-earth chalcogenide spinels
G. C. Lau, R. S. Freitas, B. G. Ueland, P. Schiffer, and R. J. Cava
Published 8 August 2005 (5 pages)
054411 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Crystal and magnetic structure of Ca3Ru2O7
Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Shin-Ichi Ikeda, Hirofumi Matsuhata, Naoki Shirakawa, C. H. Lee, and Susumu Katano
Published 9 August 2005 (7 pages)
054412 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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First-order reversal curves analysis of rate-dependent hysteresis: The example of light-induced thermal hysteresis in a spin-crossover solid
Cristian Enachescu, Radu Tanasa, Alexandru Stancu, Francois Varret, Jorge Linares, and Epiphane Codjovi
Published 9 August 2005 (7 pages)
054413 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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PrVO3: An inhomogeneous antiferromagnetic material with random fields
L. D. Tung
Published 9 August 2005 (6 pages)
054414 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Magnetoelastic and magnetostatic interactions in exchange-spring multilayers
Harsh Deep Chopra, Matthew R. Sullivan, A. Ludwig, and E. Quandt
Published 9 August 2005 (7 pages)
054415 [View PDF (1,214 kB)]
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Absence of magnetic moments in plutonium
J. C. Lashley, A. Lawson, R. J. McQueeney, and G. H. Lander
Published 11 August 2005 (12 pages)
054416 [View PDF (975 kB)]
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Rejuvenation and memory in model spin glasses in three and four dimensions
S. Jiménez, V. Martín-Mayor, and S. Pérez-Gaviro
Published 15 August 2005 (9 pages)
054417 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Quantum transport simulation based on an equation of motion method: An application to current-perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance
K. P. McKenna, L. A. Michez, G. J. Morgan, and B. J. Hickey
Published 15 August 2005 (7 pages)
054418 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Oscillatory tunnel magnetoresistance in double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions
Zhong-Ming Zeng, Xiu-Feng Han, Wen-Shan Zhan, Yong Wang, Ze Zhang, and Shufeng Zhang
Published 15 August 2005 (5 pages)
054419 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Spin fluctuation, thermal expansion anomaly, and pressure effects on the Néel temperature of β-MnM (M=Ru, Os, and Ir) alloys
M. Miyakawa, R. Y. Umetsu, M. Ohta, A. Fujita, K. Fukamichi, and T. Hori
Published 16 August 2005 (9 pages)
054420 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Spin and orbital ferromagnetism in strongly correlated itinerant-electron systems
V. Yu. Irkhin and M. I. Katsnelson
Published 16 August 2005 (9 pages)
054421 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Large magnetoresistance and magnetocaloric effect above 70 K in Gd2Co2Al, Gd2Co2Ga, and Gd7Rh3
Kausik Sengupta, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
054422 [View PDF (625 kB)]
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Low-temperature thermodynamics of one-dimensional alternating-spin Heisenberg ferromagnets
Shoji Yamamoto and Hiromitsu Hori
Published 17 August 2005 (6 pages)
054423 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Effect of grain boundaries on the magnetoresistance of magnetite
S. I. Rybchenko, Y. Fujishiro, H. Takagi, and M. Awano
Published 17 August 2005 (14 pages)
054424 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Magnetization and magnetoresistance in insulating phases of SrFeO3−δ
S. Srinath, M. Mahesh Kumar, M. L. Post, and H. Srikanth
Published 17 August 2005 (7 pages)
054425 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Effect of disorder on the magnetic properties of LaMn0.5Fe0.5O3
Shekhar D. Bhame, V. L. Joseph Joly, and P. A. Joy
Published 18 August 2005 (7 pages)
054426 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Multispin dynamics of the solid-state NMR free induction decay
H. Cho, T. D. Ladd, J. Baugh, D. G. Cory, and C. Ramanathan
Published 18 August 2005 (6 pages)
054427 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Increase of ferromagnetic ordering temperature by the minority-band double-exchange interaction in SrRu1−xCrxO3
B. Dabrowski, S. Kolesnik, O. Chmaissem, T. Maxwell, M. Avdeev, P. W. Barnes, and J. D. Jorgensen
Published 19 August 2005 (7 pages)
054428 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Interaction between exchange-bias systems in Ni80Fe20∕Fe50Mn50∕Co trilayers
C. W. Leung and M. G. Blamire
Published 19 August 2005 (7 pages)
054429 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Depth profile of spin and orbital magnetic moments in a subnanometer Pt film on Co
Motohiro Suzuki, Hiroaki Muraoka, Yuuki Inaba, Hayato Miyagawa, Naomi Kawamura, Takehito Shimatsu, Hiroshi Maruyama, Naoki Ishimatsu, Yoichi Isohama, and Yoshiaki Sonobe
Published 19 August 2005 (8 pages)
054430 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Current-induced switching in Co∕Cu∕Co spin valves: The effect of interdiffusion
C. Sommers and P. Weinberger
Published 19 August 2005 (5 pages)
054431 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of Bi0.75Sr0.25MnO3 (x≈2∕8,TCO=600 K): Ferromagnetism and charge order
José Luis García-Muñoz, Carlos Frontera, Marc Respaud, Maud Giot, Clemens Ritter, and Xavier G. Capdevila
Published 22 August 2005 (9 pages)
054432 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Probable absence of a quadrupolar spin-nematic phase in the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain
K. Buchta, G. Fáth, Ö. Legeza, and J. Sólyom
Published 22 August 2005 (6 pages)
054433 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Short-time behavior of a classical ferromagnet with double-exchange interaction
H. A. Fernandes, J. R. Drugowich de Felício, and A. A. Caparica
Published 23 August 2005 (5 pages)
054434 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Magnetic response of isolated Cd impurities on ferromagnetic Ni surfaces and Ni-Pd interfaces: Access to ordered structures of polarized impurities with ultrahigh density
K. Potzger, A. Weber, W.-D. Zeitz, H. H. Bertschat, and M. Dietrich
Published 24 August 2005 (13 pages)
054435 [View PDF (925 kB)]
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Anomalies at the compensation temperature in the zero-magnetization ferromagnet (Sm,Gd)Al2
X. H. Chen, K. Q. Wang, P. H. Hor, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
054436 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Polarized soft-x-ray reflection spectroscopy of giant magnetoresistive Co∕Cu multilayers
M. Hecker, S. Valencia, P. M. Oppeneer, H.-Ch. Mertins, and C. M. Schneider
Published 24 August 2005 (6 pages)
054437 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Influence of the temperature dependence of anisotropy on the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles
C. de Julián Fernández
Published 25 August 2005 (10 pages)
054438 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the Heisenberg model with antisymmetric exchange interactions
Kyu Won Lee and Cheol Eui Lee
Published 25 August 2005 (6 pages)
054439 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Ab initio study of ground-state properties of the Laves-phase compound ZrMn2
Xing-Qiu Chen, W. Wolf, R. Podloucky, P. Rogl, and M. Marsman
Published 25 August 2005 (11 pages)
054440 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the electronic and magnetic structures of the Heusler alloys Co2Cr1−xFexAl
V. N. Antonov, H. A. Dürr, Yu. Kucherenko, L. V. Bekenov, and A. N. Yaresko
Published 26 August 2005 (12 pages)
054441 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Charge-ordered state in half-doped Bi-based manganites studied by 17O and 209Bi NMR
A. Trokiner, S. Verkhovskii, A. Yakubovskii, K. Kumagai, S-W. Cheong, D. Khomskii, Y. Furukawa, J. S. Ahn, A. Pogudin, V. Ogloblichev, A. Gerashenko, K. Mikhalev, and Yu. Piskunov
Published 29 August 2005 (9 pages)
054442 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Domain-wall magnetoresistance of Co nanowires
R. F. Sabirianov, A. K. Solanki, J. D. Burton, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal
Published 30 August 2005 (9 pages)
054443 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Polarization-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of La1−xSrxMnO3
M. C. Falub, M. Shi, P. R. Willmott, J. Krempasky, S. G. Chiuzbaian, K. Hricovini, and L. Patthey
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
054444 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Quantum tunneling of magnetization in Fe-substituted Mn12 studied by ac magnetic susceptibility
Huibo Cao, Lunhua He, Junrong Zhang, X. X. Zhang, Fangwei Wang, and Qiwei Yan
Published 30 August 2005 (5 pages)
054445 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the magnetism in Fe∕Cu(001)
A. Enders, D. Repetto, D. Peterka, and K. Kern
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
054446 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Importance of giant spin fluctuations in two-dimensional magnetic trilayers
A. Scherz, C. Sorg, M. Bernien, N. Ponpandian, K. Baberschke, H. Wende, and P. J. Jensen
Published 31 August 2005 (9 pages)
054447 [View PDF (583 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Pressure and isotope effect on the anisotropy of MgB2
Toni Schneider and Daniele Di Castro
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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State-dependent impedance of a strongly coupled oscillator-qubit system
Teemu Ojanen and Tero T. Heikkilä
Published 1 August 2005 (8 pages)
054502 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Crossed conductance in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double junctions: Role of out-of-equilibrium populations
R. Mélin
Published 2 August 2005 (7 pages)
054503 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Doping dependence of the electron-doped cuprate superconductors from the antiferromagnetic properties of the Hubbard model
Qingshan Yuan, Feng Yuan, and C. S. Ting
Published 2 August 2005 (5 pages)
054504 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium phenomena in multiple normal-superconducting tunnel heterostructures
J. Voutilainen, T. T. Heikkilä, and N. B. Kopnin
Published 3 August 2005 (10 pages)
054505 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Pressure dependence of phonon interactions in liquid 4He
Damian H. S. Smith, Ruslan V. Vovk, Charles D. H. Williams, and Adrian F. G. Wyatt
Published 4 August 2005 (7 pages)
054506 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Quasiequilibrium distribution function of anisotropic phonon systems and the interaction of pulses of low-energy phonons in superfluid helium
I. N. Adamenko, Yu. A. Kitsenko, K. E. Nemchenko, V. A. Slipko, and A. F. G. Wyatt
Published 4 August 2005 (11 pages)
054507 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Lorenz number in the optimally doped and underdoped superconductor EuBa2Cu3Oy
M. Matusiak and Th. Wolf
Published 8 August 2005 (5 pages)
054508 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Manipulating vortex motion by thermal and Lorentz force in high-temperature superconductors
Z. Wang, L. Shan, Y. Z. Zhang, J. Yan, F. Zhou, J. W. Xiong, W. X. Ti, and H. H. Wen
Published 9 August 2005 (5 pages)
054509 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Andreev reflection and pair-breaking effects at the superconductor/magnetic semiconductor interface
R. P. Panguluri, K. C. Ku, T. Wojtowicz, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, N. Samarth, and B. Nadgorny
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
054510 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Resistivity studies under hydrostatic pressure on a low-resistance variant of the quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br: Search for intrinsic scattering contributions
Ch. Strack, C. Akinci, V. Pashchenko, B. Wolf, E. Uhrig, W. Assmus, M. Lang, J. Schreuer, L. Wiehl, J. A. Schlueter, J. Wosnitza, D. Schweitzer, J. Müller, and J. Wykhoff
Published 10 August 2005 (10 pages)
054511 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Measurement of the lifetime of excited-state electron bubbles in superfluid helium
Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey J. Maris
Published 12 August 2005 (6 pages)
054512 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Suppression of low-energy Andreev states by a supercurrent in YBa2Cu3O7−δ
J. Ngai, P. Morales, and J. Y. T. Wei
Published 17 August 2005 (5 pages)
054513 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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NMR relaxation rate in noncentrosymmetric superconductors
K. V. Samokhin
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
054514 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced macroscopic quantum phenomenon in a superconductor with gap nodes
G. Varelogiannis and M. Héritier
Published 18 August 2005 (6 pages)
054515 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Effect of Tb substitution for Dy on superconductivity and magnetism in Dy1−xTbxNi2B2C
Jae-Hyuk Choi, Heon-Jung Kim, H. B. Kim, Hyeon-Jin Doh, Sung-Ik Lee, and B. K. Cho
Published 18 August 2005 (5 pages)
054516 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Coherent effect in normal-metal/ferromagnetic superconductor/normal-metal double tunnel junctions
Z. C. Dong
Published 19 August 2005 (6 pages)
054517 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Andreev reflection and cyclotron motion at superconductor—normal-metal interfaces
F. Giazotto, M. Governale, U. Zülicke, and F. Beltram
Published 22 August 2005 (9 pages)
054518 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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One-band tight-binding model parametrization of the high-Tc cuprates including the effect of kz dispersion
R. S. Markiewicz, S. Sahrakorpi, M. Lindroos, Hsin Lin, and A. Bansil
Published 23 August 2005 (13 pages)
054519 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Magnetic field effect on the pressure-induced superconducting state in the hole-doped two-leg ladder compound Sr2Ca12Cu24O41
T. Nakanishi, N. Motoyama, H. Mitamura, N. Takeshita, H. Takahashi, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and N. Môri
Published 24 August 2005 (6 pages)
054520 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Relevance of multiband Jahn-Teller effects on the electron-phonon interaction in A3C60
E. Cappelluti, P. Paci, C. Grimaldi, and L. Pietronero
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
054521 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Nonideal artificial phase discontinuity in long Josephson 0-κ junctions
T. Gaber, E. Goldobin, A. Sterck, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle, M. Siegel, and M. Neuhaus
Published 24 August 2005 (8 pages)
054522 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Effect of an inhomogeneous exchange field on the proximity effect in disordered superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures
T. Champel and M. Eschrig
Published 25 August 2005 (11 pages)
054523 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Ring exchange and phase separation in the two-dimensional boson Hubbard model
V. G. Rousseau, R. T. Scalettar, and G. G. Batrouni
Published 26 August 2005 (11 pages)
054524 [View PDF (929 kB)]
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Magnus force in discrete and continuous two-dimensional superfluids
Z. Gecse and S. Khlebnikov
Published 29 August 2005 (6 pages)
054525 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Lattice study of anisotropic quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions
Simon Hands and Iorwerth Owain Thomas
Published 29 August 2005 (9 pages)
054526 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Quantum tunneling of semifluxons in a 0-π-0 long Josephson junction
E. Goldobin, K. Vogel, O. Crasser, R. Walser, W. P. Schleich, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner
Published 30 August 2005 (8 pages)
054527 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Nonadditivity of decoherence rates in superconducting qubits
Guido Burkard and Frederico Brito
Published 30 August 2005 (6 pages)
054528 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Electrodynamics of the nodal metal state in weakly doped high-Tc cuprates
Y. S. Lee, Kouji Segawa, Z. Q. Li, W. J. Padilla, M. Dumm, S. V. Dordevic, C. C. Homes, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov
Published 30 August 2005 (13 pages)
054529 [View PDF (638 kB)]
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Dynamic charge transfer and spin-phonon interaction in high-Tc supeconductors
P. Piekarz and T. Egami
Published 31 August 2005 (9 pages)
054530 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Renormalization-group approach to strong-coupled superconductors
S.-W. Tsai, A. H. Castro Neto, R. Shankar, and D. K. Campbell
Published 31 August 2005 (5 pages)
054531 [View PDF (91 kB)]

COMMENTS

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 Comment on “Atomic-scale model of the grain boundary potential in perovskite oxides”
R. A. De Souza and R. Meyer
Published 23 August 2005 (2 pages)
056101 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Microscopic theory of the low frequency Raman modes in germanium nanocrystals [Phys. Rev. B 71, 174305 (2005)]
Wei Cheng, Shang-Fen Ren, and Peter Y. Yu
Published 8 August 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Thermodynamics of two-band superconductors: The case of MgB2 [Phys. Rev. B 72, 024504 (2005)]
Oleg V. Dolgov, Reinhard K. Kremer, Jens Kortus, Alexander A. Golubov, and Sergei V. Shulga
Published 30 August 2005 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Erratum: Thermal conductivity of spin-1/2 chains [Phys. Rev. B 68, 104401 (2003)]
E. Shimshoni, N. Andrei, and A. Rosch
Published 31 August 2005 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Erratum: Cluster Monte Carlo study of the antiferromagnetic Z(q) model [Phys. Rev. B 67, 094415 (2003)]
A. Benyoussef, M. Loulidi, and A. Rachadi
Published 31 August 2005 (2 pages)
059904(E) [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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