Volume 75, Issue 13

1 April 2007

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BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Competitive nucleation and the Ostwald rule in a generalized Potts model with multiple metastable phases

David P. Sanders, Hernán Larralde, and François Leyvraz

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132101 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

Classical nucleation theory in ordering alloys precipitating with $L 1_{2}$ structure

Emmanuel Clouet and Maylise Nastar

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132102 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Structural distortions in $Al F_{3}$ : A test for density-functional methods

L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, and Daniel Finkenstadt

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132103 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Connecting structure and dynamics in glass forming materials by photon correlation spectroscopy

D. L. Sidebottom, B. V. Rodenburg, and J. R. Changstrom

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132201 (2007) - Published 11 April, 2007

Effect of a sensing layer on triplet exciton diffusion in organic films

Y. C. Zhou, L. L. Ma, J. Zhou, X. M. Ding, and X. Y. Hou

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132202 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Effect of external potential in a model of a thermal diode

Chuanfu Luo and Jinming Dong

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132301 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Magnetism

Quantum effects for the two-dimensional soliton in isotropic ferromagnets

Boris A. Ivanov, Denis D. Sheka, Vasyl V. Kryvonos, and Franz G. Mertens

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132401 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Roughness-induced variation of magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin epitaxial films: The undulating limit

C. A. F. Vaz, S. J. Steinmuller, and J. A. C. Bland

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132402 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Relation between double exchange and Heisenberg model spectra: Application to the half-doped manganites

Roland Bastardis, Nathalie Guihéry, and Nicolas Suaud

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132403 (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

Theory of a two-mode spin torque nanooscillator

F. M. de Aguiar, A. Azevedo, and S. M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132404 (2007) - Published 18 April, 2007

Two-particle spin entanglement in magnetic Anderson nanoclusters

Peter Samuelsson and Claudio Verdozzi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132405 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Relief of frustration through spin disorder in multiferroic ${Ho}_{1 - x} Y_{x} Mn O_{3}$

H. D. Zhou, J. Lu, R. Vasic, B. W. Vogt, J. A. Janik, J. S. Brooks, and C. R. Wiebe

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132406 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Strongly inhomogeneous phases and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in randomly depleted Kondo lattices

Ribhu K. Kaul and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132407 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Theory of giant and nil proximity effects in cuprate semiconductors

A. S. Alexandrov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132501 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

$0 − π$ transition in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions with strongly spin-dependent scattering

O. Kashuba, Ya. M. Blanter, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132502 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

Theory of the tunneling spectroscopy of ferromagnetic superconductors

T. Yokoyama and Y. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132503 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Pseudogap enhancement due to magnetic impurities in $d$ -density waves

Balázs Dóra, Kazumi Maki, Attila Virosztek, and András Ványolos

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132504 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Microscopic origin of critical current fluctuations in large, small, and ultra-small area Josephson junctions

Lara Faoro and Lev B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132505 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Using inhomogeneity to raise the superconducting critical temperature in a two-dimensional $X Y$ model

Y. L. Loh and E. W. Carlson

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132506 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Quantum degenerate Bose-Fermi mixtures on one-dimensional optical lattices

Pinaki Sengupta and Leonid P. Pryadko

Phys. Rev. B 75, 132507 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Determining the site preference of trivalent dopants in bixbyite sesquioxides by atomic-scale simulations

C. R. Stanek, K. J. McClellan, B. P. Uberuaga, K. E. Sickafus, M. R. Levy, and R. W. Grimes

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134101 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

Effect of internal friction on transformation twin dynamics in perovskite ${Sr}_{x} {Ba}_{1 - x} Sn O_{3}$ $(x = 0.6, 0.8)$

Maren Daraktchiev, Ekhard K. H. Salje, William T. Lee, and Simon A. T. Redfern

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134102 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Nanoscale $α$ -structural domains in the phonon-glass thermoelectric material $β − {Zn}_{4} {Sb}_{3}$

H. J. Kim, E. S. Božin, S. M. Haile, G. J. Snyder, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134103 (2007) - Published 18 April, 2007

Electron-phonon coupling in the high-pressure hcp phase of xenon: A first-principles study

Yansun Yao and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134104 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Variable temperature ${}^{93}{Nb}$ NMR investigation of local structure and polar nanoclusters in lead magnesium niobate/lead scandium niobate solid solutions

Robert L. Vold, Gina L. Hoatson, and M. Vijayakumar

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134105 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Exact linear response of reacting thermal defects driven by creation processes

C. P. Flynn

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134106 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Simulations on the effects of confinement and Ni-catalysis on the formation of tubular fullerene structures from peapod precursors

Haibin Su, Robert J. Nielsen, Adri C. T. van Duin, and William A. Goddard III

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134107 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Structural phase transition in $Ca H_{2}$ at high pressures

J. S. Tse, D. D. Klug, S. Desgreniers, J. S. Smith, R. Flacau, Z. Liu, J. Hu, N. Chen, and D. T. Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134108 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Microscopic mechanism of the wurtzite-to-rocksalt phase transition of the group-III nitrides from first principles

Jin Cai and Nanxian Chen

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134109 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Effect of annealing on the mechanical properties and fracture mechanisms of a ${Zr}_{56.2} {Ti}_{13.8} {Nb}_{5.0} {Cu}_{6.9} {Ni}_{5.6} {Be}_{12.5}$ bulk-metallic-glass composite

F. F. Wu, Z. F. Zhang, S. X. Mao, A. Peker, and J. Eckert

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134201 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Phonons in disordered alloys: Comparison between augmented-space-based approximations for configuration averaging to integration from first principles

Aftab Alam, Subhradip Ghosh, and Abhijit Mookerjee

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134202 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Electronic structure and phase stability of disordered hexagonal close-packed alloys

Aftab Alam, T. Saha-Dasgupta, A. Mookerjee, A. Chakrabarti, and G. P. Das

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134203 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Quantum thermodynamic functions for an oscillator coupled to a heat bath

G. W. Ford and R. F. O’Connell

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134301 (2007) - Published 10 April, 2007

Phase diagram and thermodynamics of the three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model

B. Capogrosso-Sansone, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134302 (2007) - Published 16 April, 2007

Prediction of band gaps in phononic quasicrystals based on single-rod resonances

Daniel Sutter-Widmer and Walter Steurer

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134303 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Self-consistent potential of intrinsic localized modes: Application to diatomic chain

A. Shelkan, V. Hizhnyakov, and M. Klopov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134304 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Magnetism

Magnetic properties of the pressure-induced ordering state in $Yb In {Cu}_{4}$ investigated with NMR, magnetization, and x-ray diffraction measurements

T. Mito, M. Nakamura, M. Otani, T. Koyama, S. Wada, M. Ishizuka, M. K. Forthaus, R. Lengsdorf, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, and J. L. Sarrao

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134401 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

Partial antiferromagnetism in spin-chain ${Sr}_{5} {Rh}_{4} O_{12}$ , ${Ca}_{5} {Ir}_{3} O_{12}$ , and ${Ca}_{4} Ir O_{6}$ single crystals

G. Cao, V. Durairaj, S. Chikara, S. Parkin, and P. Schlottmann

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134402 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

Magnetic Compton scattering study of ${Ni}_{2 + x} {Mn}_{1 - x} Ga$ ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys

B. L. Ahuja, B. K. Sharma, S. Mathur, N. L. Heda, M. Itou, A. Andrejczuk, Y. Sakurai, Aparna Chakrabarti, S. Banik, A. M. Awasthi, and S. R. Barman

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134403 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

Layer thickness dependence of CPP giant magnetoresistance in individual $Co Ni ∕ Cu$ multilayer nanowires grown by electrodeposition

X.-T. Tang, G.-C. Wang, and M. Shima

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134404 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

Magnetic fingerprints of sub- $100 nm$ Fe dots

Randy K. Dumas, Chang-Peng Li, Igor V. Roshchin, Ivan K. Schuller, and Kai Liu

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134405 (2007) - Published 4 April, 2007

Abnormal spin structure of manganese ferrite investigated by ${}^{57}{Fe}$ NMR

Jeong Hyun Shim, Soonchil Lee, and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134406 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Spin-state ordering and magnetic structures in the cobaltites $Y Ba {Co}_{2} O_{5 + δ}$ ( $δ = 0.50$ and 0.44)

D. D. Khalyavin, D. N. Argyriou, U. Amann, A. A. Yaremchenko, and V. V. Kharton

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134407 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Potential in spin-density-functional theory of noncollinear magnetism determined by the many-electron ground state

Nikitas I. Gidopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134408 (2007) - Published 11 April, 2007

Proximity effects in an exchange-biased ${Ni}_{80} {Fe}_{20} ∕ {Co}_{3} O_{4}$ thin film

J. van Lierop, K.-W. Lin, J.-Y. Guo, H. Ouyang, and B. W. Southern

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134409 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Magnetism and structure of chemically disordered $Fe {Pt}_{3}$ nanocubes

O. Margeat, M. Tran, M. Spasova, and M. Farle

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134410 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Elastic properties of the non-Fermi-liquid metal ${CeRu}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ and dense Kondo semiconductor ${CeOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

Yoshiki Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Kumagai, Masafumi Oikawa, Tomoaki Tanizawa, Masahito Yoshizawa, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134411 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Triangular lattice antiferromagnet $Rb Fe {(Mo O_{4})}_{2}$ in high magnetic fields

A. I. Smirnov, H. Yashiro, S. Kimura, M. Hagiwara, Y. Narumi, K. Kindo, A. Kikkawa, K. Katsumata, A. Ya. Shapiro, and L. N. Demianets

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134412 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Relation between directed polymers in random media and random-bond dimer models

Ying Jiang and Thorsten Emig

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134413 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Magnetization steps in nanomagnets induced by a time-dependent magnetic field: Application to ${Fe}_{4}$

E. Rastelli and A. Tassi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134414 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Quantum phase transition in the one-dimensional compass model

Wojciech Brzezicki, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134415 (2007) - Published 16 April, 2007

Magnetic phase separation in artificial $A$ -type antiferromagnetic films

Olav Hellwig, Andreas Berger, and Eric E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134416 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

Effect of electron doping on the magnetic structure of the $n = 3$ Ruddlesden-Popper compound ${Ca}_{4 - x} {La}_{x} {Mn}_{3} O_{10}$ $(0 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.2)$

Xun Lan and Weiyi Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134417 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

Aspects of static and dynamic magnetic anisotropy in ${Ni}_{81} {Fe}_{19} − Ni O$ films

Jeffrey McCord, Rainer Kaltofen, Thomas Gemming, Ruben Hühne, and Ludwig Schultz

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134418 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

Coupling strength distribution in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic film systems

K. Steenbeck and R. Mattheis

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134419 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Direct measurement of barrier asymmetry in $Al O_{x} ∕ Zr O_{y}$ magnetic tunnel junctions using off-axis electron holography

Yu-Zi Liu, W. G. Wang, T. Moriyama, John Q. Xiao, and Z. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134420 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Competing impurities and reentrant magnetism in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Cu}_{1 - z} {Zn}_{z} O_{4}$ : Role of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and $X Y$ anisotropies

L. Adamska, M. B. Silva Neto, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134507 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Quasiclassical Green’s function theory of the Josephson effect in chiral $p$ -wave superconductor/diffusive normal metal/chiral $p$ -wave superconductor junctions

Y. Sawa, T. Yokoyama, Y. Tanaka, and A. A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134508 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Signatures of retroreflection and induced triplet electron-hole correlations in ferromagnet– $s$ -wave-superconductor structures

J. Linder and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134509 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Superfluid stability in the BEC-BCS crossover”

Daniel E. Sheehy and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. B 75, 136501 (2007) - Published 5 April, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Competitive nucleation and the Ostwald rule in a generalized Potts model with multiple metastable phases [Phys. Rev. B 75, 132101 (2007)]

David P. Sanders, Hernán Larralde, and François Leyvraz

Phys. Rev. B 75, 139901 (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

Erratum: Modified triplet-wave expansion method applied to the alternating Heisenberg chain [Phys. Rev. B 74, 144414 (2006)]

A. Collins, C. J. Hamer, and Zheng Weihong

Phys. Rev. B 75, 139902 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007