Volume 70, Issue 1

Masato Kubota, Kazunori Takada, Takayoshi Sasaki, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Jun Okabayashi, Masaharu Oshima, Motohiro Suzuki, Naomi Kawamura, Masafumi Takagaki, Katsutoshi Fukuda, and Kanta Ono

Phys. Rev. B 70, 012508 (2004) - Published 30 July, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Probing the local structure of liquid binary mixtures by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Angela Trapananti and Andrea Di Cicco

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014101 (2004) - Published 6 July, 2004

Negative yield stress temperature anomaly and structural instability of ${Pt}_{3} Al$

Yu. N. Gornostyrev, O. Yu. Kontsevoi, A. F. Maksyutov, A. J. Freeman, M. I. Katsnelson, A. V. Trefilov, and A. I. Lichtenshtein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014102 (2004) - Published 14 July, 2004

Constant-stress Hugoniostat method for following the dynamical evolution of shocked matter

R. Ravelo, B. L. Holian, T. C. Germann, and P. S. Lomdahl

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014103 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Stability of the high-pressure monoclinic phases in $Ce$ and $\Pr$ metals: Comparative diffraction study and phenomenological theory

V. P. Dmitriev, A. Yu. Kuznetsov, O. Bandilet, P. Bouvier, L. Dubrovinsky, D. Machon, and H.-P. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014104 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Absence of metastable states in strained monatomic cubic crystals

Michael J. Mehl, Aarón Aguayo, L. L. Boyer, and Romeo de Coss

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014105 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Concentration-dependent short-range order in the relaxor ferroelectric $(1 - x {) Pb (Sc, Ta) O}_{3} − x {PbTiO}_{3}$

Anatoly I. Frenkel, Douglas M. Pease, Jayne Giniewicz, Edward A. Stern, Dale L. Brewe, Million Daniel, and Joseph Budnick

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014106 (2004) - Published 21 July, 2004

Search for metal hydrides with short hydrogen–hydrogen separation: Ab initio calculations

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

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014107 (2004) - Published 21 July, 2004

Pressure tuning of the morphotropic phase boundary in piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate

J. Rouquette, J. Haines, V. Bornand, M. Pintard, Ph. Papet, C. Bousquet, L. Konczewicz, F. A. Gorelli, and S. Hull

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014108 (2004) - Published 23 July, 2004

Isomer shift determination in Eu compounds using stroboscopic detection of synchrotron radiation

I. Serdons, S. Nasu, R. Callens, R. Coussement, T. Kawakami, J. Ladrière, S. Morimoto, T. Ono, K. Vyvey, T. Yamada, Y. Yoda, and J. Odeurs

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014109 (2004) - Published 27 July, 2004

Electric-field effects on the diffuse scattering in $Pb {Zn}_{1 ∕ 3} {Nb}_{2 ∕ 3} O_{3}$ doped with 8% $Pb Ti O_{3}$

P. M. Gehring, K. Ohwada, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014110 (2004) - Published 28 July, 2004

Ab initio calculations of structure and lattice dynamics in $Ni − Mn − Al$ shape memory alloys

T. Büsgen, J. Feydt, R. Hassdorf, S. Thienhaus, M. Moske, M. Boese, A. Zayak, and P. Entel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014111 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Modeling core-hole effects in electron energy-loss spectroscopy of $Te O_{2}$

Nan Jiang and John C. H. Spence

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014112 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Behavior of actinide dioxides under pressure: $U O_{2}$ and $Th O_{2}$

M. Idiri, T. Le Bihan, S. Heathman, and J. Rebizant

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014113 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

$NMR$ investigations of medium-range order and quasicrystal formation in ${Zr}_{59} {Cu}_{20} {Al}_{10} {Ni}_{8} {Ti}_{3}$ metallic glass

H. Breitzke, K. Lüders, S. Scudino, U. Kühn, and J. Eckert

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014201 (2004) - Published 12 July, 2004

Asymptotic aging in structural glasses

T. S. Grigera, V. Martín-Mayor, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014202 (2004) - Published 19 July, 2004

Continuum limit of amorphous elastic bodies II: Linear response to a point source force

F. Leonforte, A. Tanguy, J. P. Wittmer, and J.-L. Barrat

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014203 (2004) - Published 28 July, 2004

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

Bright and dark breathers in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices

B. Sánchez-Rey, G. James, J. Cuevas, and J. F. R. Archilla

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014301 (2004) - Published 9 July, 2004

Vacancy motion in rare-earth-deficient $R_{1 - x} {Ni}_{2}$ Laves phases observed by perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy

M. Forker, P. de La Presa, S. Müller, A. Lindbaum, and E. Gratz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014302 (2004) - Published 19 July, 2004

Electron–transverse acoustic phonon interaction in martensitic alloys

J. F. Wan, X. L. Lei, S. P. Chen, and T. Y. Hsu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014303 (2004) - Published 21 July, 2004

Calculational method to study the transmission properties of phononic crystals

Zhilin Hou, Xiujun Fu, and Youyan Liu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014304 (2004) - Published 28 July, 2004

Magnetism

Magnetization reversal in exchange-coupled GdFe/TbFe studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

S. Mangin, C. Bellouard, S. Andrieu, F. Montaigne, P. Ohresser, N. B. Brookes, and B. Barbara

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014401 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Ferromagnetism in $La Co O_{3}$

J.-Q. Yan, J.-S. Zhou, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014402 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Renormalization-group method for weakly coupled quantum chains: Application to the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model

S. Moukouri

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014403 (2004) - Published 7 July, 2004

Effect of uniaxial and biaxial crystal-field potential on magnetic properties of a mixed spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ and spin-1 Ising model on the honeycomb lattice

Jozef Strečka and Michal Jaščur

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014404 (2004) - Published 7 July, 2004

Nonlinear effect of perpendicular magnetic field on the antiferromagnetic phase transition in weakly coupled layered systems: Equal access decoupling scheme

H. Al-Wahsh, D. Bria, A. Akjouj, and P. Zieliński

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014405 (2004) - Published 8 July, 2004

Green’s function treatment of the localized antiferromagnetic system

Qing’an Li

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014406 (2004) - Published 9 July, 2004

Magnetization reversal of submicrometer Co rings with uniaxial anisotropy via scanning magnetoresistance microscopy

Xiaoyong Liu, D. Mazumdar, B. D. Schrag, W. Shen, and Gang Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014407 (2004) - Published 9 July, 2004

Transport, ultrasound, and structural properties for the charge-ordered ${Pr}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x}_{} {MnO}_{3}$ $(0.5 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.875)$ manganites

R. K. Zheng, G. Li, Y. Yang, A. N. Tang, W. Wang, T. Qian, and X. G. Li

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014408 (2004) - Published 9 July, 2004

Thermodynamic properties of a full-replica-symmetry-breaking Ising spin glass on lattice gas: The random Blume-Emery-Griffiths-Capel model

Andrea Crisanti and Luca Leuzzi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014409 (2004) - Published 12 July, 2004

Structural and magnetic properties of CoRh nanoparticles

E. O. Berlanga-Ramírez, F. Aguilera-Granja, J. M. Montejano-Carrizales, A. Díaz-Ortiz, K. Michaelian, and A. Vega

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014410 (2004) - Published 13 July, 2004

Critical behavior of the fully frustrated $q -$ state Potts piled-up-domino model

D. P. Foster and C. Gérard

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014411 (2004) - Published 13 July, 2004

Analytic description of the magnetization-reversal phase diagram in thin films with uniaxial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Sug-Bong Choe and Sung-Chul Shin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014412 (2004) - Published 13 July, 2004

Ab initio study of the magnetic structure of fcc $Fe$ grown on a $Cu (001)$ substrate

B. Yu. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014413 (2004) - Published 13 July, 2004

Revealing polarons with high pressure on low electron-doped manganites

G. Garbarino, C. Acha, D. Vega, G. Leyva, G. Polla, C. Martin, A. Maignan, and B. Raveau

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014414 (2004) - Published 14 July, 2004

Structure and magnetism in synthetic pyrrhotite ${Fe}_{7} S_{8}$ : A powder neutron-diffraction study

Anthony V. Powell, Paz Vaqueiro, Kevin S. Knight, Laurent C. Chapon, and Rodolfo D. Sánchez

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014415 (2004) - Published 15 July, 2004

Correlations in noisy Landau-Zener transitions

V. L. Pokrovsky and S. Scheidl

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014416 (2004) - Published 15 July, 2004

Correlation length of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with Gaussian interactions

Helmut G. Katzgraber, L. W. Lee, and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014417 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Low-temperature behavior of two-dimensional Gaussian Ising spin glasses

Jérôme Houdayer and Alexander K. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014418 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Temperature dependence of the coercive field in single-domain particle systems

W. C. Nunes, W. S. D. Folly, J. P. Sinnecker, and M. A. Novak

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014419 (2004) - Published 19 July, 2004

Energy functional dependence of exchange coupling and magnetic properties of $Fe ∕ Nb$ multilayers

Nitya Nath Shukla and R. Prasad

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014420 (2004) - Published 20 July, 2004

Training of the exchange-bias effect: A simple analytic approach

Christian Binek

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014421 (2004) - Published 20 July, 2004

Probability of double exchange between Mn and Fe in ${LaMn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} O_{3}$

Wei Tong, Bei Zhang, Shun Tan, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014422 (2004) - Published 21 July, 2004

Reduced ferromagnetic transition temperatures in $Sr {Ru}_{1 - v} O_{3}$ perovskites from Ru-site vacancies

B. Dabrowski, O. Chmaissem, P. W. Klamut, S. Kolesnik, M. Maxwell, J. Mais, Y. Ito, B. D. Armstrong, J. D. Jorgensen, and S. Short

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014423 (2004) - Published 21 July, 2004

Magnetic ordering in manganese clusters

Mark B. Knickelbein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014424 (2004) - Published 22 July, 2004

Magnetic-field-induced phase transitions in spin ladders with ferromagnetic legs

T. Vekua, G. I. Japaridze, and H.-J. Mikeska

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014425 (2004) - Published 23 July, 2004

Spin, charge, and orbital order in ${Mn}_{2} O B O_{3}$

Richard J. Goff, Anthony J. Williams, and J. Paul Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014426 (2004) - Published 23 July, 2004

Magnetic structure of ${NdMnO}_{3}$ consistently doped with $Sr$ and $Ru$

A. M. Balagurov, S. N. Bushmeleva, V. Yu. Pomjakushin, D. V. Sheptyakov, V. A. Amelichev, O. Yu. Gorbenko, A. R. Kaul, E. A. Gan’shina, and N. B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014427 (2004) - Published 23 July, 2004

Orbital degeneracy as a source of frustration in ${LiNiO}_{2}$

F. Vernay, K. Penc, P. Fazekas, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014428 (2004) - Published 27 July, 2004

Isofield low-temperature specific heat of single-crystal ${Ho}_{1 - x} Y_{x} {Ni}_{2} B_{2} C$ $(x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1)$ : Probing the magnetocaloric effect in ${HoNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

M. El Massalami, H. Takeya, and C. M. Chaves

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014429 (2004) - Published 27 July, 2004

Magnetism of $Fe − Co$ nanostructures on flat and stepped $W (110)$ surfaces: Effects of dimensionality and substrate

D. Spišák and J. Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014430 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Magnetic structures and spin-glass-like behavior in ordered and disordered $Pt$ -rich $Pt − Mn$ alloys

Miwako Takahashi, Timbangen Sembiring, Yukio Noda, Toetsu Shishido, and Ken-ichi Ohshima

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014431 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Global phase diagram of perovskite manganites in the plane of quenched disorder versus one-electron bandwidth

Y. Tomioka and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014432 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Anomalous magnetotransport in ${SrRuO}_{3}$ films: A crossover from Fermi-liquid to non-Fermi-liquid behavior

L. M. Wang, H. E. Horng, and H. C. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014433 (2004) - Published 29 July, 2004

Evidence for weak electron confinement in spin valves having ${Co}_{90} {Fe}_{10} ∕ Cu ∕ {Co}_{90} {Fe}_{10}$ trilayers

S. Maat, A. Zeltser, J. Li, L. Nix, and B. A. Gurney

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014434 (2004) - Published 30 July, 2004

Parity effects in spin decoherence

A. Melikidze, V. V. Dobrovitski, H. A. De Raedt, M. I. Katsnelson, and B. N. Harmon

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014435 (2004) - Published 30 July, 2004

Bond-impurity-induced bound states in disordered spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ ladders

M. Arlego, W. Brenig, D. C. Cabra, F. Heidrich-Meisner, A. Honecker, and G. Rossini

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014436 (2004) - Published 30 July, 2004

Magnetic behavior of $Co$ ions in the exotic spin-chain compound ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{6}$ from ${}^{59}{Co}$ NMR studies

E. V. Sampathkumaran, N. Fujiwara, S. Rayaprol, P. K. Madhu, and Y. Uwatoko

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014437 (2004) - Published 30 July, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Pressure-induced phonon frequency shifts in transition-metal nitrides

Xiao-Jia Chen, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Simon Kung, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, and Axel Nørlund Christensen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014501 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Effect of disorder on mixed $d$ - and $s$ -wave pairing and characteristics of optical conductivity

Shi-Jie Xiong and Li Chen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014502 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Field-induced magnetic order in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ $(x = 0.10, 0.115, 0.13)$ studied by in-plane thermal conductivity measurements

K. Kudo, M. Yamazaki, T. Kawamata, T. Adachi, T. Noji, Y. Koike, T. Nishizaki, and N. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014503 (2004) - Published 7 July, 2004

Single-quasiparticle stability and quasiparticle-pair decay in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.5}$

N. Gedik, P. Blake, R. C. Spitzer, J. Orenstein, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014504 (2004) - Published 8 July, 2004

Magnetization-orientation dependence of the superconducting transition temperature calculated for $F ∕ S ∕ F$ trilayer structures

Chun-Yeol You, Ya. B. Bazaliy, J. Y. Gu, S.-J. Oh, L. M. Litvak, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014505 (2004) - Published 9 July, 2004

Nernst effect in the vortex-liquid regime of a type-II superconductor

Subroto Mukerjee and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014506 (2004) - Published 13 July, 2004

Comparison of the electronic structures of hydrated and unhydrated ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ :The effect of $H_{2} O$

M. D. Johannes and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014507 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Effective low-energy theory of superconductivity in carbon nanotube ropes

A. De Martino and R. Egger

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014508 (2004) - Published 16 July, 2004

Vortex dynamics and possible vortex states just below the vortex-glass phase

S. Okuma and M. Kamada

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014509 (2004) - Published 19 July, 2004

Anomalous Josephson network in the $Ru ‐ {Sr}_{2} {Ru O}_{4}$ eutectic system

J. Hooper, Z. Q. Mao, K. D. Nelson, Y. Liu, M. Wada, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014510 (2004) - Published 22 July, 2004

Coexistence of antiferromagnetic order and unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion $Ce {Rh}_{1 - x} {Ir}_{x} {In}_{5}$ compounds: Nuclear quadrupole resonance studies

Guo-qing Zheng, N. Yamaguchi, H. Kan, Y. Kitaoka, J. L. Sarrao, P. G. Pagliuso, N. O. Moreno, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014511 (2004) - Published 23 July, 2004

Light-induced oxygen-ordering dynamics in ${(Y, \Pr) Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.7}$ : A Raman spectroscopy and Monte Carlo study

S. Bahrs, A. R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, B. Maiorov, G. Nieva, and A. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 014512 (2004) - Published 26 July, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum virial expansion approach to thermodynamics of ${}^{4}{He}$ adsorbates in carbon nanotube materials: Interacting Bose gas in one dimension”

L. W. Bruch

Phys. Rev. B 70, 016501 (2004) - Published 22 July, 2004

Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum virial expansion approach to thermodynamics of ${}^{4}{He}$ adsorbates in carbon nanotube materials: Interacting Bose gas in one dimension’ ”

Antonio Šiber

Phys. Rev. B 70, 016502 (2004) - Published 22 July, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Field induced magnetic order in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4} (x = 0.10, 0.115, 0.13)$ studied by in-plane thermal conductivity measurements [Phys. Rev. B 70, 014503 (2004)]

K. Kudo, M. Yamazaki, K. Kawamata, T. Adachi, T. Noji, Y. Koike, T. Nishizaki, and N. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 019901 (2004) - Published 22 July, 2004