Volume 67, Issue 22

1 June 2003

Browse Issues:

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anisotropy of Co nanoparticles induced by swift heavy ions

C. D’Orléans, J. P. Stoquert, C. Estournès, C. Cerruti, J. J. Grob, J. L. Guille, F. Haas, D. Muller, and M. Richard-Plouet

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220101(R) (2003) - Published 18 June, 2003

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoinduced molecular switching studied by polarized neutron diffraction

Antoine Goujon, Béatrice Gillon, Arsen Gukasov, Jelena Jeftic, Quitterie Nau, Epiphane Codjovi, and François Varret

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220401(R) (2003) - Published 13 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Microwave absorption and magnetization tunneling in ${Mn}_{12}$ -acetate molecular clusters

R. Amigó, J. M. Hernandez, A. García-Santiago, and J. Tejada

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220402(R) (2003) - Published 17 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Curie temperatures of zinc-blende half-metallic ferromagnets

J. Kübler

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220403(R) (2003) - Published 17 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ferromagnetic polarons in ${La}_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ and ${La}_{0.33} {Ca}_{0.67} {MnO}_{3}$

G. Zheng and C. H. Patterson

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220404(R) (2003) - Published 18 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Stacking reversal as a source of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Ni-Pt multilayers

O. Robach, C. Quirós, H. Isérn, P. Steadman, K. F. Peters, and S. Ferrer

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220405(R) (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Tailoring the exchange bias via shape anisotropy in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic exchange-coupled systems

A. Hoffmann, M. Grimsditch, J. E. Pearson, J. Nogués, W. A. A. Macedo, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220406(R) (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Measurement of the ferromagnetic relaxation in a micron-size sample

O. Klein, V. Charbois, V. V. Naletov, and C. Fermon

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220407(R) (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Temperature dependence of vortex charges in high-temperature superconductors

Yan Chen, Z. D. Wang, and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220501(R) (2003) - Published 3 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Superfluid response in monolayer high- $T_{c}$ cuprates

C. Panagopoulos, T. Xiang, W. Anukool, J. R. Cooper, Y. S. Wang, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220502(R) (2003) - Published 11 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Antiferromagnetism in the vortex cores of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

V. F. Mitrović, E. E. Sigmund, W. P. Halperin, A. P. Reyes, P. Kuhns, and W. G. Moulton

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220503(R) (2003) - Published 17 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Periodic alternating 0- and $π$ -junction structures as realization of $φ$ -Josephson junctions

A. Buzdin and A. E. Koshelev

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220504(R) (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Projective measurement scheme for solid-state qubits

Lin Tian, Seth Lloyd, and T. P. Orlando

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220505(R) (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Impact of time-ordered measurements of the two states in a niobium superconducting qubit structure

K. Segall, D. Crankshaw, D. Nakada, T. P. Orlando, L. S. Levitov, S. Lloyd, N. Markovic, S. O. Valenzuela, M. Tinkham, and K. K. Berggren

Phys. Rev. B 67, 220506(R) (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

ARTICLES

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

Segregated light elements at grain boundaries in niobium and molybdenum

Rebecca Janisch and Christian Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224101 (2003) - Published 5 June, 2003

Bulk defect formations in ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ crystals investigated using fluorescence microscopy

S. G. Demos, M. Staggs, and H. B. Radousky

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224102 (2003) - Published 6 June, 2003

Electron-strain interaction in the singlet-ground-state compound TmSb

Shigeki Nimori, Mitsuo Kataoka, Terutaka Goto, and Giyuu Kido

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224103 (2003) - Published 13 June, 2003

Phase transformation mechanism between γ- and θ-alumina

Shu-Hui Cai, Sergey N. Rashkeev, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Karl Sohlberg

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224104 (2003) - Published 16 June, 2003

High-pressure Raman study of the charge ordering in $α - ({B E D T - T T F)}_{2} I_{3}$

Roman Wojciechowski, Kaoru Yamamoto, Kyuya Yakushi, Makoto Inokuchi, and Atsushi Kawamoto

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224105 (2003) - Published 16 June, 2003

Bonding in MgSi and Al-Mg-Si compounds relevant to Al-Mg-Si alloys

Anders G. Frøseth, Ragnvald Høier, Peter M. Derlet, Sigmund J. Andersen, and Calin D. Marioara

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224106 (2003) - Published 19 June, 2003

First-principles study of $({BiScO}_{3})_{1 - x} - ({PbTiO}_{3})_{x}$ piezoelectric alloys

Jorge Íñiguez, David Vanderbilt, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224107 (2003) - Published 20 June, 2003

Pressure-induced irreversible phase transition in $KSc ({MoO}_{4})_{2}$

G. D. Saraiva, M. Maczka, P. T. C. Freire, J. Mendes Filho, F. E. A. Melo, J. Hanuza, Y. Morioka, and A. G. Souza Filho

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224108 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Charged lattice gas with a neutralizing background

V. A. Levashov, M. F. Thorpe, and B. W. Southern

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224109 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

All-electron and pseudopotential study of MgO: Equation of state, anharmonicity, and stability

Artem R. Oganov and Peter I. Dorogokupets

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224110 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Solution to the phase problem for specular x-ray or neutron reflectivity from thin films on liquid surfaces

J. Kent Blasie, Songyan Zheng, and Joseph Strzalka

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224201 (2003) - Published 5 June, 2003

Positron annihilation study of vacancy-solute complex evolution in Fe-based alloys

Y. Nagai, K. Takadate, Z. Tang, H. Ohkubo, H. Sunaga, H. Takizawa, and M. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224202 (2003) - Published 18 June, 2003

Energetics and electronic structure of grain boundaries and surfaces of B- and H-doped ${Ni}_{3} Al$

Q. M. Hu, R. Yang, D. S. Xu, Y. L. Hao, D. Li, and W. T. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224203 (2003) - Published 20 June, 2003

Detailed ab initio electronic structure study of two approximants to Al-Mn based icosahedral quasicrystals

E. S. Zijlstra and S. K. Bose

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224204 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

First-principles approach to dielectric response of graded spherical particles

L. Dong, G. Q. Gu, and K. W. Yu

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224205 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Local structure and vibrational properties of $α^{'} - Pu$ martensite in Ga-stabilized δ-Pu

E. J. Nelson, K. J. M. Blobaum, M. A. Wall, P. G. Allen, A. J. Schwartz, and C. H. Booth

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224206 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

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

Equations of state and thermodynamic properties of rare-gas solids under pressure calculated using a self-consistent statistical method

A. I. Karasevskii and W. B. Holzapfel

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224301 (2003) - Published 6 June, 2003

Numerical study of anharmonic vibrational decay in amorphous and paracrystalline silicon

Jaroslav Fabian, Joseph L. Feldman, C. Stephen Hellberg, and S. M. Nakhmanson

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224302 (2003) - Published 10 June, 2003

Nondispersive polaron transport in disordered organic solids

I. I. Fishchuk, A. Kadashchuk, H. Bässler, and S. Nešpůrek

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224303 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Magnetism

Significant suppression of weak ferromagnetism in $({La}_{1.8} {Eu}_{0.2}) {CuO}_{4}$

I. Tsukada, X. F. Sun, Seiki Komiya, A. N. Lavrov, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224401 (2003) - Published 4 June, 2003

Effects of the external field and interlayer coupling on the spin reorientation of magnetic thin films

Wenli Guo and D. L. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224402 (2003) - Published 5 June, 2003

Nuclear resonance scattering study on the spin orientation in an epitaxial layer of ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ on MgO(100)

L. A. Kalev and L. Niesen

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224403 (2003) - Published 5 June, 2003

Dynamics of magnetostatically coupled vortices in magnetic nanodisks

Junya Shibata, Kunji Shigeto, and Yoshichika Otani

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224404 (2003) - Published 5 June, 2003

Effect of ring exchange on an orbital antiferromagnet

C. H. Chung, Hae-Young Kee, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224405 (2003) - Published 10 June, 2003

Disorder-induced critical phenomena in magnetically glassy Cu-Al-Mn alloys

Jordi Marcos, Eduard Vives, Lluís Mañosa, Mehmet Acet, Eyüp Duman, Michel Morin, Václav Novák, and Antoni Planes

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224406 (2003) - Published 10 June, 2003

Magnon specific heat of single-crystal borocarbides $R {Ni}_{2} B_{2} C$ $(R = Tm,$ Er, Ho, Dy, Tb, Gd)

M. El Massalami, R. E. Rapp, F. A. B. Chaves, H. Takeya, and C. M. Chaves

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224407 (2003) - Published 10 June, 2003

Specific heat and $μ^{+} SR$ measurements in ${Gd (hfac)}_{3} NITiPr$ molecular magnetic chains: Indications for a chiral phase without long-range helical order

A. Lascialfari, R. Ullu, M. Affronte, F. Cinti, A. Caneschi, D. Gatteschi, D. Rovai, M. G. Pini, and A. Rettori

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224408 (2003) - Published 10 June, 2003

Magnetic polarization of the La and Ce $5 d$ states near the interfaces of ${F e / L a H}_{x}$ and ${F e / C e H}_{x}$ multilayers across the metal-insulator transition in the hydrides: An x-ray magnetic circular dichroism study

M. Münzenberg, F. Leuenberger, W. Felsch, G. Krill, T. Neisius, S. Pascarelli, and S. Pizzini

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224431 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Local structure of ${La}_{1.65} {Eu}_{0.2} {Sr}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$ determined by $^{63} Cu$ NMR spectroscopy and Van Vleck paramagnetism of ${Eu}^{3 +}$ ions

B. Simovič, M. Hücker, P. C. Hammel, B. Büchner, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224508 (2003) - Published 16 June, 2003

Observations of electronic inhomogeneity in heavily Pb-doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{y}$ single crystals by scanning tunneling microscopy

G. Kinoda, T. Hasegawa, S. Nakao, T. Hanaguri, K. Kitazawa, K. Shimizu, J. Shimoyama, and K. Kishio

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224509 (2003) - Published 17 June, 2003

Vortex avalanches in a Pb film with a square antidot array

S. Hébert, L. Van Look, L. Weckhuysen, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224510 (2003) - Published 17 June, 2003

Separation between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic transitions in ${Ru}_{1 - x} {Cu}_{x} {Sr}_{2} {EuCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Y. Y. Xue, F. Chen, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 67, 224511 (2003) - Published 19 June, 2003