Volume 70, Issue 14

1 October 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Possible mechanism for glass-like thermal conductivities in crystals with off-center atoms

F. Bridges and L. Downward

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140201(R) (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Magnetism

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Magnetic polaron and Fermi surface effects in the spin-flip scattering of ${EuB}_{6}$

R. R. Urbano, P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, S. B. Oseroff, J. L. Sarrao, P. Schlottmann, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140401(R) (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

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Spin dynamics of a canted antiferromagnet in a magnetic field

R. S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140402(R) (2004) - Published 6 October, 2004

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Experimental upper bound on superradiance emission from ${Mn}_{12}$ acetate

M. Bal, Jonathan R. Friedman, K. Mertes, W. Chen, E. M. Rumberger, D. N. Hendrickson, N. Avraham, Y. Myasoedov, H. Shtrikman, and E. Zeldov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140403(R) (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

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Charge ordering in half-doped manganites

R. J. Goff and J. P. Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140404(R) (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

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Role of nonmagnetic disorder on the stability of the $U (1)$ spin liquid: A renormalization group study

Ki-Seok Kim

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140405(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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Magnetization reversal induced by spin accumulation in ferromagnetic transition-metal dots

Jun-ichiro Inoue and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140406(R) (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

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$k$ -dependent electronic structure of the colossal magnetoresistive perovskite ${La}_{0.66} {Sr}_{0.34} {MnO}_{3}$

M. Shi, M. C. Falub, P. R. Willmott, J. Krempasky, R. Herger, K. Hricovini, and L. Patthey

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140407(R) (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Entangling flux qubits with a bipolar dynamic inductance

B. L. T. Plourde, J. Zhang, K. B. Whaley, F. K. Wilhelm, T. L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P. A. Reichardt, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140501(R) (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

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Determination of relaxation time of a Josephson junction qubit

S. K. Dutta, H. Xu, A. J. Berkley, R. C. Ramos, M. A. Gubrud, J. R. Anderson, C. J. Lobb, and F. C. Wellstood

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140502(R) (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

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Normal-superconducting phase transition mimicked by current noise

M. C. Sullivan, T. Frederiksen, J. M. Repaci, D. R. Strachan, R. A. Ott, and C. J. Lobb

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140503(R) (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

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Electron-phonon interactions in $C_{28}$ -derived molecular solids

Nichols A. Romero, Jeongnim Kim, and Richard M. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140504(R) (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

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Vortex avalanches with robust statistics observed in superconducting niobium

E. Altshuler, T. H. Johansen, Y. Paltiel, Peng Jin, K. E. Bassler, O. Ramos, Q. Y. Chen, G. F. Reiter, E. Zeldov, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140505(R) (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

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Effect of shot noise on a Coulomb blockaded single Josephson junction

E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140506(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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Josephson junction qubit network with current-controlled interaction

J. Lantz, M. Wallquist, V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140507(R) (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

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Thermodynamic properties of $\Pr_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$

Hamza Balci and R. L. Greene

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140508(R) (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

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Gap symmetry of superconductivity in $U {Pd}_{2} {Al}_{3}$

H. Won, D. Parker, K. Maki, T. Watanabe, K. Izawa, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140509(R) (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

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Impurity-induced low-energy resonances in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. B 70, 140510(R) (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Evidence for power-law frequency dependence of intrinsic dielectric response in the $Ca {Cu}_{3} {Ti}_{4} O_{12}$

Alexander Tselev, Charles M. Brooks, Steven M. Anlage, Haimei Zheng, Lourdes Salamanca-Riba, R. Ramesh, and M. A. Subramanian

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144101 (2004) - Published 4 October, 2004

Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction study of the structural phase transition in $Ca {Br}_{2}$

Brendan J. Kennedy and Christopher J. Howard

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144102 (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

First-principles elastic constants and phonons of $δ ‐ Pu$

P. Söderlind, A. Landa, B. Sadigh, L. Vitos, and A. Ruban

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144103 (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

Isovalent-substitution effect on the Verwey-type transition in the $A$ -site-ordered double perovskite $(Ba, Sr) R {Fe}_{2} O_{5}$

J. Nakamura, M. Karppinen, P. Karen, J. Lindén, and H. Yamauchi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144104 (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

Solid∕liquid two-phase structures in isolated nanometer-sized alloy particles

J.-G. Lee and H. Mori

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144105 (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

Large dielectric constant and Maxwell-Wagner relaxation in ${Bi}_{2 ∕ 3} {Cu}_{3} {Ti}_{4} O_{12}$

Jianjun Liu, Chun-Gang Duan, Wei-Guo Yin, W. N. Mei, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144106 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Ab initio calculations of cohesive energies of $Fe$ -based glass-forming alloys

M. Mihalkovič and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144107 (2004) - Published 14 October, 2004

First-principles study of rare-earth effects on grain growth and microstructure in $β {− Si}_{3} N_{4}$ ceramics

G. S. Painter, P. F. Becher, W. A. Shelton, R. L. Satet, and M. J. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144108 (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Structure of fluid phosphorus at high temperature and pressure: An x-ray diffraction study

S. Falconi, W. A. Crichton, M. Mezouar, G. Monaco, and M. Nardone

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144109 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

Time-resolved infrared radiometry of NaCl crystals under shock compression between 17 and $43 GPa$

Toshiyuki Ogura, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, and Ken-ichi Kondo

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144110 (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

Identification of ${Cr}^{3 +}$ centers in ${Cs}_{2} {NaAlF}_{6}$ and ${Cs}_{2} {NaGaF}_{6}$ crystals by EPR and ENDOR paramagnetic resonance techniques

H. Vrielinck, F. Loncke, F. Callens, P. Matthys, and N. M. Khaidukov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144111 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Femtosecond time-resolved reflection spectroscopy of photoinduced ionic-neutral phase transition in TTF-CA crystals

Katsumi Tanimura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144112 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Anomalous transformations in ice VIII

Dennis D. Klug, John S. Tse, Zhenxian Liu, Xavier Gonze, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144113 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Modeling amorphous ${Si}_{3} B_{3} N_{7}$ : Structure and elastic properties

A. Hannemann, J. C. Schön, M. Jansen, H. Putz, and T. Lengauer

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144201 (2004) - Published 5 October, 2004

Thermoelectric properties of ${Al}_{82.6 - x} {Re}_{17.4} {Si}_{x}$ $(7 ⩽ x ⩽ 12)$ $1 ∕ 1$ -cubic approximants

Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Toshio Otagiri, Hiroki Sakagami, Takeshi Kondo, Uichiro Mizutani, and Hirokazu Sato

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144202 (2004) - Published 7 October, 2004

Inhomogeneous distribution of crosslinks in ion tracks in polystyrene and polysilanes

Shu Seki, Satoshi Tsukuda, Kensaku Maeda, Yoshinori Matsui, Akinori Saeki, and Seiichi Tagawa

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144203 (2004) - Published 22 October, 2004

Structural, bonding, and dynamical properties of liquid Fe-Si alloys: An ab initio molecular-dynamics simulation

Tingkun Gu, Jingyu Qin, Changye Xu, and Xiufang Bian

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144204 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Spectral densities of embedded interfaces in composite materials

A. R. McGurn, A. R. Day, D. J. Bergman, L. C. Davis, and M. F. Thorpe

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144205 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Dynamical model for the $C_{5} H_{5}$ cycles in the $C_{60} ∙ 2 Fe {(C_{5} H_{5})}_{2}$ solvate

J. Rozen, F. Masin, R. Céolin, and H. Szwarc

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144206 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Application of renormalization and convolution methods to the Kubo-Greenwood formula in multidimensional Fibonacci systems

Vicenta Sánchez and Chumin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144207 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

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

Quantum nondemolition measurement of Fock states of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators

D. H. Santamore, A. C. Doherty, and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144301 (2004) - Published 8 October, 2004

Magnetism

Magnetic relaxation in terms of microscopic energy barriers in a model of dipolar interacting nanoparticles

Òscar Iglesias and Amílcar Labarta

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144401 (2004) - Published 11 October, 2004

Analytical approach to the single-domain-to-vortex transition in small magnetic disks

P.-O. Jubert and R. Allenspach

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144402 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Diagrammatic perturbation theory and the pseudogap

P. Monthoux

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144403 (2004) - Published 12 October, 2004

Magnetic properties of a helical spin chain with alternating isotropic and anisotropic spins: Magnetization plateaus and finite entropy

V. Ravi Chandra, S. Ramasesha, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144404 (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

Solitary excitations and domain-wall movement in the two-dimensional canted antiferromagnet ${(C_{2} N_{2} H_{10})}_{1 ∕ 2} Fe P O_{4} (O H)$

Natasha A. Chernova, Yanning Song, Peter Y. Zavalij, and M. Stanley Whittingham

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144405 (2004) - Published 13 October, 2004

Neutron diffraction study of crystal structure and antiferromagnetic order in ${Sr}_{2} Co O_{2} X_{2} (X = Cl, Br)$

Christopher S. Knee and Mark T. Weller

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144406 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm

T. Senthil, Leon Balents, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144407 (2004) - Published 15 October, 2004

Polarized-neutron reflectivity for thin films of dilute magnetic alloys

V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese, J. Swerts, K. Temst, and C. Van Haesendonck

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144408 (2004) - Published 18 October, 2004

Magnetic ground state of low-doped manganites probed by spin dynamics in a magnetic field

P. Kober-Lehouelleur, F. Moussa, M. Hennion, A. Ivanov, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144409 (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Valence-sensitive determination of ${Cr}^{3 +}$ and ${Ce}^{3 +}$ concentration in doped ${Sr}_{0.61} {Ba}_{0.39} {Nb}_{2} O_{6}$ from magnetization studies and paramagnetic relaxation of ${Ce}^{3 +}$

D. Schaniel, Th. Woike, G. Weckwerth, J. Schefer, M. Imlau, M. Wöhlecke, and R. Pankrath

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144410 (2004) - Published 20 October, 2004

Theory of the magnetic phase diagram of $Li Ho F_{4}$

P. B. Chakraborty, P. Henelius, H. Kjønsberg, A. W. Sandvik, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144411 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004

Monte Carlo study of the ordering of the weakly anisotropic Heisenberg spin glass in magnetic fields

Daisuke Imagawa and Hikaru Kawamura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144412 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Characterization of low-energy magnetic excitations in chromium

H. Hiraka, P. Böni, K. Yamada, S. Park, S-. H. Lee, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144413 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Anisotropic Heisenberg chain in coexisting transverse and longitudinal magnetic fields

D. V. Dmitriev and V. Ya. Krivnov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144414 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

$H ∕ T$ scaling in disordered non-Fermi liquid materials $Ce {({Ru}_{1 - x} {Rh}_{x})}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ for $x = 0.5$ and 0.6: Quantum Griffiths nature

Yoshikazu Tabata, Toshifumi Taniguchi, Yoshihito Miyako, O. Tegus, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144415 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Effects of a weak magnetic surface anisotropy on the magnetic phase diagram of the dipolar antiferromagnetic Heisenberg system

A. M. Abu-Labdeh, J. P. Whitehead, K. De’Bell, and A. B. MacIsaac

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144416 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Far-infrared spectroscopy of spin excitations and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the Shastry-Sutherland compound $Sr {Cu}_{2} {(B O_{3})}_{2}$

T. Rõõm, D. Hüvonen, U. Nagel, J. Hwang, T. Timusk, and H. Kageyama

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144417 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Growth, microstructure, and magnetic properties of highly textured and highly coercive Nd-Fe-B films

Volker Neu, Steffen Melcher, Ullrich Hannemann, Sebastian Fähler, and Ludwig Schultz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144418 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Phase relationships and structural, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of alloys in the pseudobinary ${Er}_{5} {Si}_{4} − {Er}_{5} {Ge}_{4}$ system

A. O. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., V. K. Pecharsky, D. L. Schlagel, and T. A. Lograsso

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144419 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Out-of-plane vortex in a two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnet with a magnetic field along the hard axis

Kyu Won Lee and Cheol Eui Lee

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144420 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Structural, magnetic, and transport properties in the $\Pr$ -doped manganites ${La}_{0.9 - x} \Pr_{x} {Te}_{0.1} {MnO}_{3} (0 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.9)$

J. Yang, W. H. Song, Y. Q. Ma, R. L. Zhang, B. C. Zhao, Z. G. Sheng, G. H. Zheng, J. M. Dai, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144421 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Magnetic structure and orbital ordering in $Ba Co O_{3}$ from first-principles calculations

V. Pardo, P. Blaha, M. Iglesias, K. Schwarz, D. Baldomir, and J. E. Arias

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144422 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Effect of thermodynamic fluctuations on in-plane and out-of-plane magnetoresistance of monolayer superconductor ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} Cu O_{6 + δ}$

Heon-Jung Kim, P. Chowdhury, S. K. Gupta, N. H. Dan, and Sung-Ik Lee

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144510 (2004) - Published 18 October, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Hydrogen and the magnetic interlayer exchange coupling: Variable magnetic interlayer correlation in $Ho ∕ Y (00.1)$ superlattices [Phys. Rev. B 70, 104429 (2004)]

Vincent Leiner, Murat Ay, and Hartmut Zabel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 149901 (2004) - Published 21 October, 2004