Volume 70, Issue 6

1 August 2004

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Scaling behavior of the critical current density in $Mg C {Ni}_{3}$ microfibers

D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, and P. W. Adams

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064508 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

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

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Structure and hydrogen dynamics of pure and Ti-doped sodium alanate

Jorge Íñiguez, T. Yildirim, T. J. Udovic, M. Sulic, and C. M. Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060101(R) (2004) - Published 2 August, 2004

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Strongly non-Arrhenius self-interstitial diffusion in vanadium

Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz, Jörg Rottler, Seungwu Han, Graeme J. Ackland, Roberto Car, and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060102(R) (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Magnetism

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Specific-heat study of the spin-structural change in pyrochlore ${Nd}_{2} {Mo}_{2} O_{7}$

Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, T. Ito, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060401(R) (2004) - Published 3 August, 2004

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Superconductor-ferromagnet tunneling measurements indicate $s p$ -spin and $d$ -spin currents

M. Münzenberg and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060402(R) (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

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Reentrant behavior and gigantic response in a disordered spin-Peierls system

Hitoshi Seo, Yukitoshi Motome, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060403(R) (2004) - Published 13 August, 2004

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Magnetic structures and out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy at the exchange bias interface: $Co ∕ FeMn$

Kohji Nakamura, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060404(R) (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

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Soliton binding and low-lying singlets in frustrated odd-legged $S = \frac{1}{2}$ spin tubes

Andreas Lüscher, Reinhard M. Noack, Grégoire Misguich, Valeri N. Kotov, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060405(R) (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

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Magnetic properties of $Co$ nanochains

Jisang Hong and R. Q. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060406(R) (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

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Quadrupolar and dipolar magnetic order in ${DyPd}_{3} S_{4}$ : A neutron scattering and muon spin rotation and relaxation investigation

L. Keller, V. Pomjakushin, K. Conder, and A. Schenck

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060407(R) (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

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Correlation between topography and magnetic surface anisotropy in epitaxial $Fe$ films on vicinal-to-(001) $Au$ surfaces with different step orientation

M. Rickart, T. Mewes, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, and M. Scheib

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060408(R) (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Experimental observation of the breakdown by a magnetic field of the superconducting fluctuations in the normal state

Félix Soto, Carlos Carballeira, Jesús Mosqueira, Manuel V. Ramallo, Mauricio Ruibal, José A. Veira, and Félix Vidal

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060501(R) (2004) - Published 6 August, 2004

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Microscopic theory of spin-triplet $f$ -wave pairing in quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors

Y. Tanaka and K. Kuroki

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060502(R) (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

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Electron localization in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} Cu O_{4}$ and the role of stripes

Seiki Komiya and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060503(R) (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

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Muon-spin-relaxation and magnetic-susceptibility studies of the effects of the magnetic impurity $Ni$ on the $Cu$ -spin dynamics and superconductivity in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Cu}_{1 - y} {Ni}_{y} O_{4}$ with $x = 0.13$

T. Adachi, S. Yairi, Y. Koike, I. Watanabe, and K. Nagamine

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060504(R) (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

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Microwave conductivity of a high-purity $d$ -wave superconductor

Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio, and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060505(R) (2004) - Published 13 August, 2004

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Technique for bulk Fermiology by photoemission applied to layered ruthenates

A. Sekiyama, S. Kasai, M. Tsunekawa, Y. Ishida, M. Sing, A. Irizawa, A. Yamasaki, S. Imada, T. Muro, Y. Saitoh, Y. Ōnuki, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, and S. Suga

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060506(R) (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

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Electronic structure of ${ZnCNi}_{3}$

M. D. Johannes and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060507(R) (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

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Rigid-band shift of the Fermi level in the strongly correlated metal: ${Sr}_{2 - y} {La}_{y} {RuO}_{4}$

N. Kikugawa, A. P. Mackenzie, C. Bergemann, R. A. Borzi, S. A. Grigera, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060508(R) (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

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Thermodynamics and quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors

J. Zaanen and B. Hosseinkhani

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060509(R) (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

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Electron localization in the strongly correlated organic system $κ − {(BEDT − TTF)}_{2} X$ probed with nuclear magnetic resonance ${}^{13}C − NMR$

Atsushi Kawamoto, Yosuke Honma, and Ken-ichi Kumagai

Phys. Rev. B 70, 060510(R) (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Density functional theory and molecular dynamics studies of the energetics and kinetics of electroactive polymers: PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE)

Haibin Su, Alejandro Strachan, and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064101 (2004) - Published 6 August, 2004

Diffusion of interstitial hydrogen into and through bcc Fe from first principles

D. E. Jiang and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064102 (2004) - Published 6 August, 2004

Calorimetric investigation of successive phase transitions in ${Cd}_{2} {Nb}_{2} O_{7}$

Makoto Tachibana, Hitoshi Kawaji, and Tooru Atake

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064103 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Low-temperature structural phase transitions: Phonon-like and relaxation order-parameter dynamics

A. Cano and A. P. Levanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064104 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Oxygen and strontium codoping of ${La}_{2} Ni O_{4}$ : Room-temperature phase diagrams

M. Hücker, K. Chung, M. Chand, T. Vogt, J. M. Tranquada, and D. J. Buttrey

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064105 (2004) - Published 13 August, 2004

Probability distribution of internal stress in relaxed dislocation systems

Ferenc F. Csikor and István Groma

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064106 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

Anomalous phase in the relaxor ferroelectric $Pb ({Zn}_{1 ∕ 3} {Nb}_{2 ∕ 3}) O_{3}$

Guangyong Xu, Z. Zhong, Y. Bing, Z.-G. Ye, C. Stock, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064107 (2004) - Published 19 August, 2004

Structural disorder effects on the tensile strength distribution of heterogeneous brittle materials with emphasis on fiber networks

Dionissios T. Hristopulos and Tetsu Uesaka

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064108 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Structural properties of the zircon- and scheelite-type phases of ${YVO}_{4}$ at high pressure

X. Wang, I. Loa, K. Syassen, M. Hanfland, and B. Ferrand

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064109 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Computer simulations of damage due to passage of a heavy fast ion through diamond

A. Sorkin, Joan Adler, and R. Kalish

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064110 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Local properties of the potential-energy landscape of a model glass: Understanding the low-temperature anomalies

J. Reinisch and A. Heuer

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064201 (2004) - Published 17 August, 2004

Correlated structural distributions in silica glass

Ted M. Clark, Philip J. Grandinetti, Pierre Florian, and Jonathan F. Stebbins

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064202 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

Electronic structure calculations on alloys using the polymorphous coherent-potential approximation

S. Pella, J. S. Faulkner, G. Malcolm Stocks, and Balazs Ujfalussy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064203 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

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

Phonon anomalies and elastic constants of cubic $NiAl$ from first principles

Xiangyang Huang, Ivan I. Naumov, and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064301 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

Superionicity in ${Na}_{3} {PO}_{4}$ : A molecular dynamics simulation

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

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064302 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Breather in the motion of a polaron in an electric field

J. F. Yu, C. Q. Wu, X. Sun, and K. Nasu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064303 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Variational considerations in the study of carrier transport in organic crystals

Paul E. Parris and V. M. Kenkre

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064304 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Magnetism

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and adiabatic magnetization dynamics in molecular magnets

H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen, and M. Machida

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064401 (2004) - Published 2 August, 2004

Electronic structure of ${Cr}_{1 ‐ δ} X (X = S, Te)$ studied by Cr $2 p$ soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Koichiro Yaji, Akio Kimura, Chiyuki Hirai, Masaki Taniguchi, Michie Koyama, Hitoshi Sato, Kenya Shimada, Arata Tanaka, Takayuki Muro, Shin Imada, and Shigemasa Suga

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064402 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Low-temperature studies of the magnetic and superconducting properties of the $R_{2} {Ir}_{3} {Si}_{5}$ $(R = Y, La, Ce − Nd, Gd − Tm)$ system

Yogesh Singh, D. Pal, and S. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064403 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Axial anisotropic effects in hysteresis of $\pm J$ Ising lattices

M. C. Salas-Solis, F. Aguilera-Granja, J. Cartes, S. Contreras, and E. E. Vogel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064404 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Quantum phase transition in spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ XX Heisenberg chain with three-spin interaction

Ping Lou, Wen-Chin Wu, and Ming-Che Chang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064405 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Magnetic, electrical resistivity, heat-capacity, and thermopower anomalies in ${CeCuAs}_{2}$

Kausik Sengupta, E. V. Sampathkumaran, T. Nakano, M. Hedo, M. Abliz, N. Fujiwara, Y. Uwatoko, S. Rayaprol, K. Shigetoh, T. Takabatake, Th. Doert, and J. P. F. Jemetio

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064406 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Spin-polaron effective magnetic model for ${La}_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} Mn O_{3}$

N. P. Konstantinidis and C. H. Patterson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064407 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Fermi-surface effect on magnetic interlayer coupling

Erik Holmström, Anders Bergman, Lars Nordström, I. A. Abrikosov, S. B. Dugdale, and B. L. Györffy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064408 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Energy correlations in random transverse field Ising spin chains

Gil Refael and Daniel S. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064409 (2004) - Published 17 August, 2004

Magnetoresistance of atomic-sized contacts: An ab initio study

A. Bagrets, N. Papanikolaou, and I. Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064410 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

Ferrimagnetic resonance in films of vanadium ${[tetracyanoethanide]}_{x}$ , grown by chemical vapor deposition

R. Plachy, K. I. Pokhodnya, P. C. Taylor, J. Shi, Joel S. Miller, and A. J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064411 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

Energy barriers in spin glasses

Barbara Drossel and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064412 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

Magnetic, thermodynamic, electronic, and transport properties of $Ce {Ni}_{4} Al$

T. Toliński, A. Kowalczyk, G. Chełkowska, M. Pugaczowa-Michalska, B. Andrzejewski, V. Ivanov, A. Szewczyk, and M. Gutowska

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064413 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

Electric-field and current-induced metastability and resistivity relaxation in ${La}_{0.8} {Ca}_{0.2} Mn O_{3}$ at low temperatures

V. Markovich, G. Jung, Y. Yuzhelevski, G. Gorodetsky, A. Szewczyk, M. Gutowska, D. A. Shulyatev, and Ya. M. Mukovskii

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064414 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

Nonlinear response of superparamagnets with finite damping: An analytical approach

J. L. García-Palacios and D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064415 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

Microwave magnetoelectric effects in single crystal bilayers of yttrium iron garnet and lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate

S. Shastry, G. Srinivasan, M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov, and A. S. Tatarenko

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064416 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Magnetic nanostructures from block copolymer lithography: Hysteresis, thermal stability, and magnetoresistance

J. Y. Cheng, W. Jung, and C. A. Ross

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064417 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Charge-orbital ordering near the multicritical point in $A$ -site ordered perovskites $Sm Ba {Mn}_{2} O_{6}$ and $Nd Ba {Mn}_{2} O_{6}$

D. Akahoshi, Y. Okimoto, M. Kubota, R. Kumai, T. Arima, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064418 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Electric quadrupolar contribution to the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation of Au and Ru in Fe

G. Seewald, E. Zech, and H.-J. Körner

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064419 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Spin-fluctuation energies in transition-metal clusters

G. M. Pastor, J. Dorantes-Dávila, and K. H. Bennemann

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064420 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Spin excitation spectrum in striped bilayer compounds

Frank Krüger and Stefan Scheidl

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064421 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Spin precession in an adiabatically rotating electric field

Yuri A. Serebrennikov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064422 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Quenched computation of the dependence of complexity on the free energy in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

A. Crisanti, L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, and T. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064423 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Temperature and time dependence of the field-driven magnetization steps in ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{6}$ single crystals

V. Hardy, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, D. McK. Paul, D. Flahaut, S. Hébert, and A. Maignan

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064424 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Directionally dependent magneto-optical response of ${({La}_{0.4} \Pr_{0.6})}_{1.2} {Sr}_{1.8} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ : Understanding the high-field ferromagnetic metallic state

J. Choi, J. D. Woodward, J. L. Musfeldt, J. T. Haraldsen, X. Wei, M. Apostu, R. Suryanarayanan, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064425 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Structural and magnetoelectric properties of ${Ga}_{2 - x} {Fe}_{x} O_{3}$ single crystals grown by a floating-zone method

T. Arima, D. Higashiyama, Y. Kaneko, J. P. He, T. Goto, S. Miyasaka, T. Kimura, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, R. Kumai, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064426 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Spin fluctuations in ferromagnetic ${ZrZn}_{2}$

J. Kübler

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064427 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Insulator-to-metal transition induced by disorder in a model for manganites

C. Şen, G. Alvarez, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064428 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Experimental search for the chiral glass transition in a ceramic ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8}$ sample

E. L. Papadopoulou, P. Nordblad, and P. Svedlindh

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064501 (2004) - Published 5 August, 2004

Zero-magnetic-field dynamic scaling in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ thin films

Z. Sefrioui, D. Arias, C. Leon, J. Santamaria, E. M. Gonzalez, J. L. Vicent, and P. Prieto

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064502 (2004) - Published 9 August, 2004

Thermally activated current transport in ${MgB}_{2}$ films

S. Patnaik, A. Gurevich, S. D. Bu, S. D. Kaushik, J. Choi, C. B. Eom, and D. C. Larbalestier

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064503 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Superconductivity suppression and flux-pinning crossover in artificial multilayers of ternary ${R Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ ( $R = Gd$ , Nd, and Eu)

C. Cai, B. Holzapfel, J. Hänisch, and L. Schultz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064504 (2004) - Published 10 August, 2004

Spin waves in striped phases

E. W. Carlson, D. X. Yao, and D. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064505 (2004) - Published 11 August, 2004

Decoupled two-dimensional superconductivity and continuous melting transitions in layered superconductors immersed in a parallel magnetic field

Xiao Hu and Masashi Tachiki

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064506 (2004) - Published 12 August, 2004

Phase-dependent counting statistics in a short-arm Andreev interferometer

E. V. Bezuglyi, E. N. Bratus’, V. S. Shumeiko, and V. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064507 (2004) - Published 18 August, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Scaling behavior of the critical current density in $Mg C {Ni}_{3}$ microfibers

D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, and P. W. Adams

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064508 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

Electric field effect on insulating cuprate planes

Seongshik Oh, Maitri Warusawithana, and James N. Eckstein

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064509 (2004) - Published 20 August, 2004

${Sb}_{2} O_{2} {VO}_{3}$ as a candidate for an ideal inorganic spin-Peierls compound

I. Chaplygin and R. Hayn

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064510 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

BCS and attractive Hubbard model comparative study

Nathan Salwen, Steven A. Sheets, and Stephen R. Cotanch

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064511 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Static and rf magnetic field effects on fluxon dynamics in semiannular Josephson junctions

P. D. Shaju and V. C. Kuriakose

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064512 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Role of oxygen nonstoichiometry and the reduction process on the local structure of ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4 \pm δ}$

P. Richard, G. Riou, I. Hetel, S. Jandl, M. Poirier, and P. Fournier

Phys. Rev. B 70, 064513 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Strain effect and the phase diagram of ${La}_{1 - x} {Ba}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ thin films”

Qingshan Yuan

Phys. Rev. B 70, 066401 (2004) - Published 3 August, 2004

Volume 70, Issue 6

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Magnetism

Superfluidity and superconductivity

ARTICLES

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

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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

Magnetism

Superfluidity and superconductivity

COMMENTS

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