Volume 68, Issue 21

1 December 2003

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BRIEF REPORTS

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

Huge-pressure-induced volume collapse in ${LiAlH}_{4}$ and its implications to hydrogen storage

P. Vajeeston, P. Ravindran, R. Vidya, H. Fjellvåg, and A. Kjekshus

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212101 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

High-pressure Raman study of the iodine-doped silicon clathrate $I_{8} {Si}_{44} I_{2}$

Hiroyasu Shimizu, Tetsuji Kume, Toyoki Kuroda, Shigeo Sasaki, Hiroshi Fukuoka, and Shoji Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212102 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Chemical order, molecular clusters, and topological transitions in chalcogenide network glasses

R. Aravinda Narayanan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212201 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Hydrogen diffusion in partially quasicrystalline ${Zr}_{69.5} {Cu}_{12} {Ni}_{11} {Al}_{7.5}$

T. Apih, Varsha Khare, M. Klanjšek, P. Jeglič, and J. Dolinšek

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212202 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Evidence for surface compaction in Al-incorporated Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals

R. Lüscher, T. Flückiger, M. Erbudak, and A. R. Kortan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212203 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Magnetism

Spin-polarized magnetic circular dichroism in $Ni 2 p$ core-level photoemission

C. De Nadaï, G. van der Laan, S. S. Dhesi, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212401 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Remanence enhancement in magnetically interacting particles

Heliang Qu and Jiang Yu Li

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212402 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Discommensurate and inhomogeneous states induced by a strong magnetic field in low-dimensional antiferromagnets

B. A. Ivanov, C. E. Zaspel, and A. Yu. Merkulov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212403 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Magnetization reversal via the formation of stripe domains in ultrathin Fe films on Cu(100)

G. Meyer, A. Bauer, T. Crecelius, I. Mauch, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212404 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Reinterpretation of temperature-induced dynamical behavior in the EPR spectrum of ${Rh}^{2 +}$ centers in AgCl

H. Vrielinck, F. Callens, and P. Matthys

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212405 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Ground state of electron-doped manganites from energy-band-structure calculations

S. M. Dunaevsky and V. V. Deriglazov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212406 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Domain wall dynamics of the Ising chain in a transverse field

V. Subrahmanyam

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212407 (2003) - Published 19 December, 2003

Size dependence of the spin-flop transition in hematite nanoparticles

R. D. Zysler, D. Fiorani, A. M. Testa, L. Suber, E. Agostinelli, and M. Godinho

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212408 (2003) - Published 19 December, 2003

Spinon deconfinement above a finite energy gap in two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets

G. Baskaran

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212409 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Evidence of decoupled lattice distortion and ferroelectric polarization in the relaxor system $PMN - x PT$

Guangyong Xu, D. Viehland, J. F. Li, P. M. Gehring, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212410 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Effect of bilayer coupling on tunneling conductance of double-layer high- $T_{c}$ cuprates

Y. H. Su, J. Chang, H. T. Lu, H. G. Luo, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212501 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Local density of states in a d-wave superconductor with stripelike modulations and a strong impurity

Hong-Yi Chen and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212502 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Non-Ohmic critical fluctuation conductivity of layered superconductors in a magnetic field

I. Puica and W. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212503 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in the $D_{1} + {iD}_{2}$ superconducting state: Implications for CoO superconductor

Yunkyu Bang, M. J. Graf, and A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212504 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Effect of symmetry on the resistive characteristics of proximity coupled metallic multilayers

V. N. Kushnir, S. L. Prischepa, M. L. Della Rocca, M. Salvato, and C. Attanasio

Phys. Rev. B 68, 212505 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

ARTICLES

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

Atomic-scale model of the grain boundary potential in perovskite oxides

R. F. Klie, M. Beleggia, Y. Zhu, J. P. Buban, and N. D. Browning

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214101 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

First-principles study of defect energetics in titanium-doped alumina

Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Atsutomo Nakamura, Takahisa Yamamoto, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214102 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Abrupt changes and hysteretic behavior of $90 °$ domains in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films with misfit dislocations

A. Yu. Emelyanov and N. A. Pertsev

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214103 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

First-principles thermodynamics of transition metals: W, NiAl, and PdTi

Graeme J. Ackland, Xiangyang Huang, and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214104 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Effect of ion bombardment on stress in thin metal films

S. G. Mayr and R. S. Averback

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214105 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Structural relaxation and configurational statistics of the orientational glass CuCN

J. Wang and G. P. Johari

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214201 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Cluster model of decagonal tilings

Michael Reichert and Franz Gähler

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214202 (2003) - Published 19 December, 2003

Observation of high-temperature thermal vacancies in ${Al}_{70} {Pd}_{21} {Mn}_{9}$ quasicrystals

K. Sato, F. Baier, A. A. Rempel, W. Sprengel, and H.-E. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214203 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of femtosecond laser-induced structural modification in vitreous silica

S. Sen and J. E. Dickinson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214204 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Phase diagram of an empirical potential: The case of Fe-Cu

E. M. Lopasso, M. Caro, A. Caro, and P. E. A. Turchi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214205 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Chemical order in mixed-cation silicate glasses and melts

Sung Keun Lee, Bjorn O. Mysen, and George D. Cody

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214206 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

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

Trapping and guiding of acoustic waves by defect modes in a full-band-gap ultrasonic crystal

A. Khelif, A. Choujaa, B. Djafari-Rouhani, M. Wilm, S. Ballandras, and V. Laude

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214301 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Low-temperature entropy in Cu-based shape-memory alloys and the boson peak

Marcelo Stipcich, Jordi Marcos, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Ricardo Romero

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214302 (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

Elementary excitations in condensed oxygen (α,β,γ, liquid) by high-resolution Raman scattering

Jörg Kreutz and Hans J. Jodl

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214303 (2003) - Published 19 December, 2003

Magnetism

Zero-field magnetic structure in ${CeB}_{6}$ reinvestigated by neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation

O. Zaharko, P. Fischer, A. Schenck, S. Kunii, P.-J. Brown, F. Tasset, and T. Hansen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214401 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Magnetic circular dichroism in $L_{3} M_{2, 3} M_{2, 3}$ Auger emission from Fe and Co metals due to symmetry-breaking interactions

A. Chassé, H. A. Dürr, G. van der Laan, Yu. Kucherenko, and A. N. Yaresko

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214402 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Extended variational principle for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model

Michael Aizenman, Robert Sims, and Shannon L. Starr

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214403 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Magnetic transitions in disordered ${GdAl}_{2}$

D. S. Williams, P. M. Shand, T. M. Pekarek, R. Skomski, V. Petkov, and D. L. Leslie-Pelecky

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214404 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Weak ferromagnetism and other instabilities of the two-dimensional ${t - t}^{'}$ Hubbard model at van Hove fillings

V. Hankevych, B. Kyung, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214405 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Antiferromagnetic Ising chain in a mixed transverse and longitudinal magnetic field

A. A. Ovchinnikov, D. V. Dmitriev, V. Ya. Krivnov, and V. O. Cheranovskii

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214406 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Interface alloying and tunability of magnetic structure with hydrogen in Fe/V multilayers

V. Uzdin, K. Westerholt, H. Zabel, and B. Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214407 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Dynamical structure factor for the alternating Heisenberg chain: A linked cluster calculation

Chris J. Hamer, Weihong Zheng, and Rajiv R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214408 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

In-plane and out-of-plane transverse susceptibility in close-packed arrays of monodisperse Fe nanoparticles

P. Poddar, J. L. Wilson, H. Srikanth, D. F. Farrell, and S. A. Majetich

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214409 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Two-particle localization and antiresonance in disordered spin and qubit chains

L. F. Santos and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214410 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

First-order transition in the itinerant ferromagnet ${CoS}_{1.9} {Se}_{0.1}$

T. J. Sato, J. W. Lynn, Y. S. Hor, and S. -W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214411 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Critical behavior of disordered fcc ${Fe}_{70} {Pt}_{30}$ alloy under high pressure

Sergii Khmelevskyi and Peter Mohn

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214412 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Evidence for a magnetic moment on Ir in IrMnAl from x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

V. V. Krishnamurthy, N. Kawamura, M. Suzuki, T. Ishikawa, G. J. Mankey, P. Raj, A. Sathyamoorthy, Amish G. Joshi, and S. K. Malik

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214413 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Magnetization reversal and two-level fluctuations by spin injection in a ferromagnetic metallic layer

J.-E. Wegrowe

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214414 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Physics of low-energy singlet states of the Kagome lattice quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet

P. Nikolic and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214415 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Ultrathin Pt films on Ni(111): Structure determined by surface x-ray diffraction

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

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214416 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Transport and structural study of pressure-induced magnetic states in ${Nd}_{0.55} {Sr}_{0.45} {MnO}_{3}$ and ${Nd}_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$

Congwu Cui, Trevor A. Tyson, Zhiqiang Chen, and Zhong Zhong

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214417 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Pressure-induced magnetic collapse and hydrogen segregation in the frustrated Laves hydrides $Tb ({Mn}_{0.88} {Al}_{0.12})_{2} H_{x}$

I. N. Goncharenko, P. Cadavez-Peres, I. Mirebeau, O. L. Makarova, T. Le Bihan, and M. Mezouar

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214418 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Large orbital magnetic moment and its quenching in the itinerant uranium intermetallic compounds $U T {Ga}_{5} (T = N i, P d, Pt)$

K. Kaneko, N. Metoki, N. Bernhoeft, G. H. Lander, Y. Ishii, S. Ikeda, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214419 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Antiferromagnetic layer thickness dependence of the IrMn/Co exchange-bias system

M. Ali, C. H. Marrows, M. Al-Jawad, B. J. Hickey, A. Misra, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214420 (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

Magnetic properties of ${Cu}_{6} {Ge}_{6} O_{18} - x H_{2} O (x = 0 - 6) :$ A compound of $S = 1 / 2$ Heisenberg competing antiferromagnetic chains coupled by interchain interaction

Masashi Hase, Kiyoshi Ozawa, and Norio Shinya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214421 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Dynamical properties of a crystalline rare-earth boron cluster spin-glass system

Takao Mori and Hiroaki Mamiya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214422 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Quantum-classical transition of the escape rate of uniaxial antiferromagnetic particles in an arbitrarily directed field

Bin Zhou, Ruibao Tao, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214423 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Electronic structure and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in uranium compounds. I. ${UFe}_{2}$

V. N. Antonov, B. N. Harmon, and A. N. Yaresko

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214424 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Electronic structure and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in uranium compounds. II. $U T Al$ $(T = Co,$ Rh, and Pt) intermetallics

V. N. Antonov, B. N. Harmon, O. V. Andryushchenko, L. V. Bekenev, and A. N. Yaresko

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214425 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Electronic structure and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in uranium compounds. III. Heavy-fermion compounds

A. N. Yaresko, V. N. Antonov, and B. N. Harmon

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214426 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Orbital order parameter in ${La}_{0.95} {Sr}_{0.05} {MnO}_{3}$ probed by electron spin resonance

J. Deisenhofer, B. I. Kochelaev, E. Shilova, A. M. Balbashov, A. Loidl, and H.-A. Krug von Nidda

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214427 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Phase diagrams of the generalized spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ ladder under staggered field and dimerization: A renormalization-group study

Y.-J. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214428 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Temperature evolution of crystal field interactions across the Jahn-Teller transition in a ${La}_{7 / 8} {Sr}_{1 / 8} {MnO}_{3}$ single crystal

G. Alejandro, M. C. G. Passeggi, D. Vega, C. A. Ramos, M. T. Causa, M. Tovar, and R. Senis

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214429 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Itinerant ferromagnetism in the periodic Anderson model

C. D. Batista, J. Bonča, and J. E. Gubernatis

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214430 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Freezing and large time scales induced by geometrical frustration

Michel Ferrero, Federico Becca, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214431 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Andreev drag effect in ferromagnetic-normal-superconducting systems

David Sánchez, Rosa López, Peter Samuelsson, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214501 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Gaplike behavior of the c-axis dynamic conductivity in pure and Ti-doped ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

K. Pucher, A. Loidl, N. Kikugawa, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214502 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry: Spontaneous magnetization and quantum Hall effects

Baruch Horovitz and Anatoly Golub

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214503 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Guided vortex motion in superconductors with a square antidot array

A. V. Silhanek, L. Van Look, S. Raedts, R. Jonckheere, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214504 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Fluxoid dynamics in superconducting thin film rings

J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, V. G. Kogan, J. R. Clem, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214505 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Inelastic tunneling spectroscopy in a d-wave superconductor

A. V. Balatsky, Ar. Abanov, and Jian-Xin Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214506 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Pairing and density correlations of stripe electrons in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet

Henrik Johannesson and G. I. Japaridze

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214507 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Condensation energy in strongly coupled superconductors

Robert Haslinger and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214508 (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

Strong-coupling expansion for the pairing Hamiltonian for small superconducting metallic grains

Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Alexander A. Baytin, and Boris L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214509 (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

Variational theory of flux line liquids

A. M. Ettouhami

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214510 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Dip effect in ac susceptibility due to surface barrier with flux creep

X. Leng, S. Y. Ding, Y. Liu, Z. H. Wang, H. K. Liu, and S. X. Dou

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214511 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Efficient self-consistent calculations of multiband superconductivity in ${UPd}_{2} {Al}_{3}$

P. M. Oppeneer and G. Varelogiannis

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214512 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Zero-bias conductance peak splitting due to multiband effect in tunneling spectroscopy of organic superconductors

Y. Tanuma, K. Kuroki, Y. Tanaka, and S. Kashiwaya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214513 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Poor screening and nonadiabatic superconductivity in correlated systems

Lilia Boeri, Emmanuele Cappelluti, Claudio Grimaldi, and Luciano Pietronero

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214514 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Dissipation and quantum phase transitions of a pair of Josephson junctions

Gil Refael, Eugene Demler, Yuval Oreg, and Daniel S. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214515 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Structure and dynamics of superconducting ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ hydrate and its unhydrated analog

J. W. Lynn, Q. Huang, C. M. Brown, V. L. Miller, M. L. Foo, R. E. Schaak, C. Y. Jones, E. A. Mackey, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214516 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Crystal structure of the sodium cobaltate deuterate superconductor ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot 4 x D_{2} O$ $(x \approx \frac{1}{3})$

J. D. Jorgensen, M. Avdeev, D. G. Hinks, J. C. Burley, and S. Short

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214517 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Magnetic structure in the zero-applied-field reentrant superconductor ${ErNi}_{1.96} {Fe}_{0.04} B_{2} C_{0.99}$

E. Alleno, C. Godart, G. André, S. K. Dhar, S. M. Pattalwar, P. Bonville, R. Nagarajan, and L. C. Gupta

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214518 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Collective and boson mapping description of a system of N Josephson junctions in a resonant cavity

A. Ballesteros, O. Civitarese, F. J. Herranz, and M. Reboiro

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214519 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

d-wave anisotropy and coexistence of the superconducting gap and pseudogap in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4} / Ag$ junctions

T. Miyake, T. Imaizumi, and I. Iguchi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214520 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Quantum transport through carbon nanotubes: Proximity-induced and intrinsic superconductivity

A. Kasumov, M. Kociak, M. Ferrier, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, B. Reulet, I. Khodos, O. Stéphan, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214521 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Kinetic energy of He atoms in liquid $^{4} He -^{3} He$ mixtures

R. Senesi, C. Andreani, A. L. Fielding, J. Mayers, and W. G. Stirling

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214522 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Magnetic field dependent vibrational modes in isotopically decorated $κ - (ET)_{2} Cu (SCN)_{2}$

J. Choi, J. L. Musfeldt, I. Olejniczak, Y. J. Wang, J. A. Schlueter, and A. M. Kini

Phys. Rev. B 68, 214523 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

COMMENTS

Comment on “Structural ordering transition and repulsion of the giant LO-TO splitting in polycrystalline ${Ba}_{x} {Sr}_{1 - x} {TiO}_{3}$ ”

Yu. I. Yuzyuk and P. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 68, 216101 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Comment on “Atomic jumps in quasiperiodic ${Al}_{72.6} {Ni}_{10.5} {Co}_{16.9}$ and related crystalline material”

Gerrit Coddens

Phys. Rev. B 68, 216201 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Reply to “Comment on ‘Atomic jumps in quasiperiodic ${Al}_{72.6} {Ni}_{10.5} {Co}_{16.9}$ and related crystalline material’ ”

Janez Dolinšek and Jean-Marie Dubois

Phys. Rev. B 68, 216202 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003