Volume 74, Issue 17

C. Cascales, M. D. Serrano, F. Esteban-Betegón, C. Zaldo, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Huber, L. Ackermann, D. Rytz, C. Dupré, M. Rico, J. Liu, U. Griebner, and V. Petrov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174114 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Modeling of damage generation mechanisms in silicon at energies below the displacement threshold

Iván Santos, Luis A. Marqués, and Lourdes Pelaz

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174115 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Pressure-induced structural transitions and phase decomposition in the ${Cd}_{2} {Nb}_{2} O_{7}$ pyrochlore

F. X. Zhang, J. Lian, U. Becker, R. C. Ewing, L. M. Wang, L. A. Boatner, Jingzhu Hu, and S. K. Saxena

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174116 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Valence-dependent analytic bond-order potential for transition metals

Ralf Drautz and D. G. Pettifor

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174117 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Intermetallics in the $Mg − Ca − Sn$ ternary system: Structural, vibrational, and thermodynamic properties from first principles

Raymundo Arróyave and Zi-Kui Liu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174118 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Phase transitions in tellurium at high pressure and temperature

C. Hejny, S. Falconi, L. F. Lundegaard, and M. I. McMahon

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174119 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Single-crystal silicon coimplanted by helium and hydrogen: Evolution of decorated vacancylike defects with thermal treatments

C. Macchi, S. Mariazzi, G. P. Karwasz, R. S. Brusa, P. Folegati, S. Frabboni, and G. Ottaviani

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174120 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Raman spectra of the ferroelectric phase of $Sr {Ti}^{18} O_{3}$ : Symmetry and domains below $T_{c}$ and the origin of the phase transition

Takeshi Shigenari, Kohji Abe, Tomohiko Takemoto, Osamu Sanaka, Takashi Akaike, Yoshihide Sakai, Ruiping Wang, and Mitsuru Itoh

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174121 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Lithium colloids and color center creation in electron-irradiated ${Li}_{2} N H$ observed by electron-spin resonance

F. Beuneu, P. Vajda, Y. Nakamori, and S. Orimo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174122 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Hopping conductivity of a suspension of flexible wires in an insulator

Tao Hu and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174201 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

First-principles study of bulk ordering and surface segregation in Pt-Rh binary alloys

Koretaka Yuge, Atsuto Seko, Akihide Kuwabara, Fumiyasu Oba, and Isao Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174202 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Photoinduced volume change in arsenic chalcogenides by band-gap light

Gang Chen, Himanshu Jain, Miroslav Vlcek, and Ashtosh Ganjoo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174203 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Enhancement of nearest-neighbor entanglement in one-dimensional disordered systems

Román López-Sandoval and Martin E. Garcia

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174204 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Comparative study of ion conducting pathways in borate glasses

Andreas Hall, Stefan Adams, and Jan Swenson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174205 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Nuclear quadrupole resonance study of local bonding in glassy ${As}_{x} {Se}_{1 - x}$

Eungho Ahn, G. A. Williams, and P. C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174206 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

First-principles study of vibrational and dielectric properties of $β − {Si}_{3} N_{4}$

Yongqing Cai, Litong Zhang, Qingfeng Zeng, Laifei Cheng, and Yongdong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174301 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Polarization transport of transverse acoustic waves: Berry phase and spin Hall effect of phonons

K. Yu. Bliokh and V. D. Freilikher

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174302 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Dynamical properties of guest ions in the type-I clathrate compounds $X_{8} {Ga}_{16} {Ge}_{30}$ $(X = Eu, Sr, Ba)$ investigated by Raman scattering

Y. Takasu, T. Hasegawa, N. Ogita, M. Udagawa, M. A. Avila, K. Suekuni, I. Ishii, T. Suzuki, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174303 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Influence of local electron interactions on phonon spectrum in iron

Jan Łażewski, Przemysław Piekarz, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Krzysztof Parlinski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174304 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Propagation of surface acoustic waves through sharply bent two-dimensional phononic crystal waveguides using a finite-difference time-domain method

Jia-Hong Sun and Tsung-Tsong Wu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174305 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Magnetism

Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in ${Au}_{4} V$ studied under high pressure

D. D. Jackson, J. R. Jeffries, Wei Qiu, Joel D. Griffith, S. McCall, C. Aracne, M. Fluss, M. B. Maple, S. T. Weir, and Y. K. Vohra

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174401 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Noncollinear interface magnetism and ballistic transport in $Fe ∕ FeO ∕ MgO ∕ Fe$ tunnel junctions: Ab initio calculations using the KKR method

B. Yu. Yavorsky and I. Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174402 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Spin resonance in the ordered magnetic state of ${Ni}_{5} {(Te O_{3})}_{4} {Cl}_{2}$

L. Mihály, T. Fehér, B. Dóra, B. Náfrádi, H. Berger, and L. Forró

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174403 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Spin-quadrupole ordering of spin- $\frac{3}{2}$ ultracold fermionic atoms in optical lattices in the one-band Hubbard model

Hong-Hao Tu, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174404 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Electron-doped colossal magnetoresistance in the sintered ${La}_{1 - x} T_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ lanthanum-deficient phase

Hsiung Chou, C. B. Wu, S. G. Hsu, and C. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174405 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Effect of electric field doping on the anisotropic magnetoresistance in doped manganites

X. Hong, J.-B. Yau, J. D. Hoffman, C. H. Ahn, Y. Bason, and L. Klein

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174406 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Superexchange in dilute magnetic dielectrics: Application to $(Ti, Co) O_{2}$

K. Kikoin and V. Fleurov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174407 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Metastable diamagnetism in the manganite ${Sm}_{0.1} {Ca}_{0.84} {Sr}_{0.06} {MnO}_{3}$

V. Markovich, I. Fita, R. Puzniak, C. Martin, K. Kikoin, A. Wisniewski, S. Hebert, A. Maignan, and G. Gorodetsky

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174408 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Magnetic properties of $Fe ∕ Co (001)$ superlattices from first-principles theory

Anders Bergman, Till Burkert, Biplab Sanyal, Sonia Frota-Pessôa, Lars Nordström, Andrei V. Ruban, Sergei I. Simak, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174409 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Spin dynamics in the pulsed spin locking of nuclear quadrupole resonance

K. L. Sauer and C. A. Klug

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174410 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Reversal processes and domain wall pinning in polycrystalline Co-nanowires

M. Brands, R. Wieser, C. Hassel, D. Hinzke, and G. Dumpich

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174411 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Reversal modes in arrays of interacting magnetic Ni nanowires: Monte Carlo simulations and scaling technique

M. Bahiana, F. S. Amaral, S. Allende, and D. Altbir

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174412 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Magnetic-field-induced structural transformation in ${Er}_{5} {Si}_{4}$

C. Magen, C. Ritter, L. Morellon, P. A. Algarabel, M. R. Ibarra, A. O. Tsokol, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V. K. Pecharsky

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174413 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Pressure-induced ferromagnet to spin-glass transition in ${Gd}_{2} {Mo}_{2} O_{7}$

I. Mirebeau, A. Apetrei, I. Goncharenko, D. Andreica, P. Bonville, J. P. Sanchez, A. Amato, E. Suard, W. A. Crichton, A. Forget, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174414 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Effects of long-wave inhomogeneities of the exchange and elastic force constants in the framework of the coherent potential approximation

V. A. Ignatchenko and V. A. Felk

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174415 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Collinear versus noncollinear magnetic order in Pd atomic clusters: Ab initio calculations

F. Aguilera-Granja, J. Ferrer, and A. Vega

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174416 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Local defect structure of ${Sr}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{x}$ ( $5.64 ⩽ x ⩽ 6.60$ ): Evolution of crystallographic and magnetic states

J. M. Hill, B. Dabrowski, J. F. Mitchell, and J. D. Jorgensen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174417 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Competition between intragranular and intergranular tunneling magnetoresistance in polycrystalline ${Sr}_{2} Fe Mo O_{6}$

Yun-Hui Huang, Hisao Yamauchi, and Maarit Karppinen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174418 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Structural and magnetic properties of spin chain compounds ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2 - x} {Fe}_{x} O_{6}$

A. Jain, Sher Singh, and S. M. Yusuf

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174419 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Spin-polaron excitations in a doped Shastry-Sutherland model

S. El Shawish and J. Bonča

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174420 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Structural and magnetic dimers in the spin-gapped system $Cu {Te}_{2} O_{5}$

J. Deisenhofer, R. M. Eremina, A. Pimenov, T. Gavrilova, H. Berger, M. Johnsson, P. Lemmens, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, K.-S. Lee, and M.-H. Whangbo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174421 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Field-induced quantum criticality in low-dimensional Heisenberg spin systems

Mohamed Azzouz

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174422 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Spin-liquid states on the triangular and Kagomé lattices: A projective-symmetry-group analysis of Schwinger boson states

Fa Wang and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174423 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Exact ground state and elementary excitations of the spin tetrahedron chain

Shu Chen, Yupeng Wang, W. Q. Ning, Congjun Wu, and H. Q. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174424 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Grain boundary magnetoresistance in the strong-disorder limit: A field-dependent critical path analysis

Hua Sun, Jianchun Wu, and Zhenya Li

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174425 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Epitaxial film growth and magnetic properties of ${Co}_{2} Fe Si$

H. Schneider, G. Jakob, M. Kallmayer, H. J. Elmers, M. Cinchetti, B. Balke, S. Wurmehl, C. Felser, M. Aeschlimann, and H. Adrian

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174426 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Quantum dissipation theory of slow magnetic relaxation mediated by domain-wall motion in the one-dimensional chain compound $[Mn {(hfac)}_{2} B N O_{H}]$

A. S. Ovchinnikov, I. G. Bostrem, V. E. Sinitsyn, A. S. Boyarchenkov, N. V. Baranov, and K. Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174427 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

One-particle dispersion and spectral weights in the transverse Ising model

C. J. Hamer, J. Oitmaa, and Weihong Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174428 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Effect of dimensionality on transition-metal elements of groups 3–7

Anu Bala, Tashi Nautiyal, and Kwang S. Kim

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174429 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Colossal electroresistance mechanism in a $Au ∕ \Pr_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} Mn O_{3} ∕ Pt$ sandwich structure: Evidence for a Mott transition

D. S. Kim, Y. H. Kim, C. E. Lee, and Y. T. Kim

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174430 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Electronic structures of normal and inverse spinel ferrites from first principles

Z. Szotek, W. M. Temmerman, D. Ködderitzsch, A. Svane, L. Petit, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174431 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Magnetic polarization of Cu layers in exchange-coupled $Co ∕ Cu$ multilayers

K. Ishiji, H. Hashizume, Y. Suzuki, and E. Tamura

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174432 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Ab initio x-ray absorption study of the manganese $K$ -edge XANES spectra in Mn- and Zn-related hexagonal perovskites

J. Chaboy, C. Prieto, M. Hernando, M. Parras, and J. González-Calbet

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174433 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Spontaneous magnetization and resistivity steps in the bilayered manganite $({La}_{0.5} {Nd}_{0.5})_{1.2} {Sr}_{1.8} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$

Da-qian Liao, Young Sun, Ren-fu Yang, Qing-an Li, and Zhao-hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174434 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

${Sr}_{2} Cu {(P O_{4})}_{2}$ : A real material realization of the one-dimensional nearest neighbor Heisenberg chain

M. D. Johannes, J. Richter, S.-L. Drechsler, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174435 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Electron-phonon coupling in $M_{n + 1} A X_{n}$ -phase carbides

S. E. Lofland, J. D. Hettinger, T. Meehan, A. Bryan, P. Finkel, S. Gupta, M. W. Barsoum, and G. Hug

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174501 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the superconducting Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of the attractive Hubbard model on a triangular lattice

Tsuguhito Nakano and Kazuhiko Kuroki

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174502 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Proximity effect in $Nb ∕ Cu ∕ CoFe$ trilayers

Kyungmoon Kim, Jun Hyung Kwon, Jinho Kim, K. Char, Hyeonjin Doh, and Han-Yong Choi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174503 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Decoherence and recoherence in a vibrating rf SQUID

Eyal Buks and M. P. Blencowe

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174504 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Microscopic theories for cubic and tetrahedral superconductors: Application to $\Pr {Os}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

S. Mukherjee and D. F. Agterberg

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174505 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Single-particle density of states of a superconductor with a spatially varying gap and phase fluctuations

Daniel Valdez-Balderas and David Stroud

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174506 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Dynamics of vortex shells in mesoscopic superconducting Corbino disks

V. R. Misko and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174507 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Single-particle versus pair condensation of hard-core bosons with correlated hopping

K. P. Schmidt, J. Dorier, A. Läuchli, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174508 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Transverse vortex dynamics in superconductors

J. Lefebvre, M. Hilke, R. Gagnon, and Z. Altounian

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174509 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Full control of qubit rotations in a voltage-biased superconducting flux qubit

Luca Chirolli and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174510 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Enhancement of flux pinning and high-field critical current density in carbon-alloyed $Mg B_{2}$ thin films

J. Chen, V. Ferrando, P. Orgiani, A. V. Pogrebnyakov, R. H. T. Wilke, J. B. Betts, C. H. Mielke, J. M. Redwing, X. X. Xi, and Qi Li

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174511 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Vortex configurations and critical parameters in superconducting thin films containing antidot arrays: Nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau theory

G. R. Berdiyorov, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174512 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Dichotomy between the nodal and antinodal excitations in high-temperature superconductors

Henry Fu and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174513 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Oxygen phonon branches in overdoped ${La}_{1.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {Cu}_{3} O_{4}$

L. Pintschovius, D. Reznik, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174514 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Doping of Ce in $T − {La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$ : Rigorous test for electron-hole symmetry for high- $T_{c}$ superconductivity

A. Tsukada, H. Yamamoto, and M. Naito

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174515 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Intraband optical spectral weight in the presence of a van Hove singularity: Application to ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

F. Marsiglio, F. Carbone, A. B. Kuzmenko, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174516 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Quasiparticle spectrum of the cuprate ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ : Possible connection to the phase diagram

W. Sacks, T. Cren, D. Roditchev, and B. Douçot

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174517 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Influence of quenched disorder on the square-to-rhombohedral structural transformation of the vortex lattice of type-II superconductors

D. P. Li, P.-J. Lin, B. Rosenstein, B. Ya. Shapiro, and I. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174518 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Point-contact spectroscopy in neutron-irradiated $Mg {}^{11}B_{2}$

D. Daghero, A. Calzolari, G. A. Ummarino, M. Tortello, R. S. Gonnelli, V. A. Stepanov, C. Tarantini, P. Manfrinetti, and E. Lehmann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174519 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Transverse Meissner physics of planar superconductors with columnar pins

Gil Refael, Walter Hofstetter, and David R. Nelson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174520 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Inferring effective interactions from the local density of states: Application to STM data from ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

R. Jamei, J. Robertson, E-A. Kim, A. Fang, A. Kapitulnik, and S. A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174521 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Local superfluidity in inhomogeneous quantum fluids

Yongkyung Kwon, Francesco Paesani, and K. Birgitta Whaley

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174522 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Antiferromagnetic fluctuations, symmetry, and shape of the gap function in the electron-doped superconductors: Functional renormalization-group analysis

A. A. Katanin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174523 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Calculation of overdamped $c$ -axis charge dynamics and the coupling to polar phonons in cuprate superconductors

W. Meevasana, T. P. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, Z.-X. Shen, and J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174524 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Charge order in ${Fe}_{2} {OBO}_{3}$ : An $LSDA + U$ study”

Joaquín García and Gloria Subías

Phys. Rev. B 74, 176401 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Charge order in ${Fe}_{2} {OBO}_{3}$ : An $LSDA + U$ study’”

I. Leonov, A. N. Yaresko, V. N. Antonov, J. P. Attfield, and V. I. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 176402 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Tunable interactions between vortices and a magnetic dipole [Phys. Rev. B 72, 144514 (2005)]

Gilson Carneiro

Phys. Rev. B 74, 179901 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Erratum: Spin-phonon coupling in orthorhombic $R Mn O_{3}$ $(R = \Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Y)$ : A Raman study [Phys. Rev. B 73, 214301 (2006)]

J. Laverdière, S. Jandl, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, V. G. Ivanov, and M. N. Iliev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 179902 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Publisher's Note: X-ray investigation, high-resolution electron holography, and density functional calculations of single-crystalline ${BaTiO}_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. B 74, 134116 (2006)]

A. Rother, M. Reibold, H. Lichte, T. Leisegang, A. A. Levin, P. Paufler, D. C. Meyer, S. Gemming, I. Chaplygin, G. Seifert, A. Ormeci, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 74, 179903 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006