Volume 44, Issue 2

H. P. van der Meulen, A. de Visser, J. J. M. Franse, T. T. J. M. Berendschot, J. A. A. J. Perenboom, H. van Kempen, A. Lacerda, P. Lejay, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. B 44, 814 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Thermal conductivity near the superfluid transition in ${}^{3}-^{4}$ He mixtures below $T_{λ}$

G. Moser and R. Folk

Phys. Rev. B 44, 819 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Crystal-field effects in the electron-spin resonance of ${Gd}^{3 +}$ and ${Er}^{3 +}$ in $\Pr_{2}$ ${CuO}_{4}$

C. Rettori, D. Rao, S. Oseroff, R. D. Zysler, M. Tovar, Z. Fisk, S.-W. Cheong, S. Schultz, and D. C. Vier

Phys. Rev. B 44, 826 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Luminescence of ${Sm}^{2 +}$ ions as a probe of pressure-induced phase transitions in ${SrF}_{2}$

C. S. Yoo, H. B. Radousky, N. C. Holmes, and N. M. Edelstein

Phys. Rev. B 44, 830 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Determination of the location and order of the drying transition with a molecular-dynamics simulation

M. J. P. Nijmeijer, C. Bruin, A. F. Bakker, and J. M. J. van Leeuwen

Phys. Rev. B 44, 834 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Temperature variations of the elastic constants of ${CaF}_{2}$ and ${SrF}_{2}$ crystals

R. K. Singh, S. S. Mitra, and C. N. Rao

Phys. Rev. B 44, 838 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

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

Densities of vibrational states and heat capacities of crystalline and amorphous $H_{2}$ O ice determined by neutron scattering

D. D. Klug, Edward Whalley, E. C. Svensson, J. H. Root, and V. F. Sears

Phys. Rev. B 44, 841 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Magnetism

Magnetic contribution to the vacancy-formation energy: An alternative method for the ab initio calculation of effective exchange parameters in ferromagnetic metals

P. Braun, M. Fähnle, M. van Schilfgaarde, and O. Jepsen

Phys. Rev. B 44, 845 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Numerical test of finite-size corrections for the anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet chain

Djalma Medeiros and G. G. Cabrera

Phys. Rev. B 44, 848 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Mixed-spin Ising model on the Bethe lattice

N. R. da Silva and S. R. Salinas

Phys. Rev. B 44, 852 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Crossover and multicriticality due to the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction

Lior Klein and Amnon Aharony

Phys. Rev. B 44, 856 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Vortex and nonvortex nucleation of superconductivity in ferromagnetic-superconducting-ferromagnetic triple layers

Marko Ledvij, Ljiljana Dobrosavljević-Grujić, Zoran Radović, and John R. Clem

Phys. Rev. B 44, 859 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Dissipation mechanism in a high- $T_{c}$ granular superconductor: Applicability of a phase-slip model

A. C. Wright, K. Zhang, and A. Erbil

Phys. Rev. B 44, 863 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Mössbauer observation near the superconducting transition temperature in the ${TlBaCa}_{3}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{8.5}$ superconductor

Zeng Yiwei, Yan Xiaohua, Lin Minzhu, Meng Xianren, Cao Huixian, Wu Xiaoshan, Tu Qingyun, and Lin Zhenjin

Phys. Rev. B 44, 867 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

η pairing and superconductivity in the negative-U Hubbard model

Hiroshi Betsuyaku

Phys. Rev. B 44, 871 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Dynamics of a superconductive filament in the constant-voltage regime

Boris A. Malomed and Andreas Weber

Phys. Rev. B 44, 875 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

COMMENTS

Anomalous enhancement of ${Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${CaCu}_{2}$ $O_{8}$ Fermi-level states near the O 2s threshold

W. R. Flavell, J. H. Laverty, D. S. -L. Law, R. Lindsay, C. A. Muryn, C. F. J. Flipse, G. N. Raiker, P. L. Wincott, and G. Thornton

Phys. Rev. B 44, 878 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Reply to ‘‘Anomalous enhancement of ${Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${CaCu}_{2}$ $O_{8}$ Fermi-level states near the O 2s threshold’’

B. O. Wells, Z.-X. Shen, D. S. Dessau, and W. E. Spicer

Phys. Rev. B 44, 882 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Icosahedral order and defects in metallic liquids and glasses

D. W. Qi and S. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 44, 884(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Pseudotenfold symmetry in pentane-solvated $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$

R. M. Fleming, A. R. Kortan, B. Hessen, T. Siegrist, F. A. Thiel, P. Marsh, R. C. Haddon, R. Tycko, G. Dabbagh, M. L. Kaplan, and A. M. Mujsce

Phys. Rev. B 44, 888(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Detection by electron-nuclear double resonance of the disorder of K, P, and H atoms in ${KH}_{2}$ ${PO}_{4}$ above $T_{c}$

B. Rakvin and N. S. Dalal

Phys. Rev. B 44, 892(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Renormalization-group method for exact Green’s functions of self-similar lattices: Application to generalized Fibonacci chains

Arunava Chakrabarti and S. N. Karmakar

Phys. Rev. B 44, 896(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Decay processes of nonequilibrium phonons in $\Pr^{3 +}$ -doped yttrium aluminum garnet

Xiao-jun Wang, Joseph Ganem, W. M. Dennis, and W. M. Yen

Phys. Rev. B 44, 900(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum thermodynamics of easy-plane ferromagnetic chains

Alessandro Cuccoli, Valerio Tognetti, Paola Verrucchi, and Ruggero Vaia

Phys. Rev. B 44, 903(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Chiral ordering in a frustrated quantum spin system

Johannes Richter, Claudius Gros, and Werner Weber

Phys. Rev. B 44, 906(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anomalous behavior of torque at high angles in high-temperature superconductors

L. N. Bulaevskii

Phys. Rev. B 44, 910(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnetic-flux-lattice anisotropy of ${Tl}_{2}$ ${Ba}_{2}$ ${Ca}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{10 + δ}$ by ${}^{205}{Tl}$ nuclear magnetic resonance

Y.-Q. Song, Moohee Lee, W. P. Halperin, L. M. Tonge, and T. J. Marks

Phys. Rev. B 44, 914(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optical excitations in ${CuO}_{2}$ sheets and their strong dependence on Cu-O coordination and bond length

T. Arima, K. Kikuchi, M. Kasuya, S. Koshihara, Y. Tokura, T. Ido, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. B 44, 917(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Subharmonic Shapiro steps in Josephson-junction arrays

Hyun C. Lee, R. S. Newrock, D. B. Mast, S. E. Hebboul, J. C. Garland, and C. J. Lobb

Phys. Rev. B 44, 921(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Absence of fractional giant Shapiro steps in diagonal Josephson-junction arrays

L. L. Sohn, M. S. Rzchowski, J. U. Free, S. P. Benz, M. Tinkham, and C. J. Lobb

Phys. Rev. B 44, 925(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anyon superconductivity at rational statistics

D. M. Gaitonde and Sumathi Rao

Phys. Rev. B 44, 929(R) (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

ERRATA

Erratum: Support for the Haldane conjecture: Gap for magnetic excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional $S = 1$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet AgV $P_{2}$ $S_{6}$

H. Mutka, J. L. Soubeyroux, G. Bourleaux, and P. Colombet

Phys. Rev. B 44, 933 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991

Erratum: Irreversibility in ${Ba}_{0.625}$ $K_{0.375}$ Bi $O_{3}$

Donglu Shi, X. S. Ling, Ming Xu, M. M. Fang, Sheng Luo, J. I. Budnick, B. Dabrowski, D. G. Hinks, D. R. Richards, and Y. Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 44, 933 (1991) - Published 1 July, 1991