Volume 53, Issue 2

L. P. Le, R. H. Heffner, J. D. Thompson, D. E. MacLaughlin, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, A. Amato, R. Feyerherm, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, P. C. Canfield, and B. K. Cho

Phys. Rev. B 53, R510(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Critical and noncritical behavior of the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition

Mark Friesen

Phys. Rev. B 53, R514(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Transition temperature and a spatial dependence of the superconducting gap for multilayer high-temperature superconductors

Krzysztof Byczuk and Jozef Spałek

Phys. Rev. B 53, R518(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory of the $c$ -axis penetration depth in the cuprates

R. J. Radtke, V. N. Kostur, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. B 53, R522(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effects of intrabilayer coupling on the magnetic properties of Y ${Ba}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{6}$

Anders W. Sandvik and Douglas J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. B 53, R526(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Scaling in spin susceptibility of high- $T_{c}$ cuprates: A model with nondegenerate fermions

George A. Levin and Khandker F. Quader

Phys. Rev. B 53, R530(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phase separation and softening of the $O 2, 3$ in-phase mode in the $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{x}$ superconductors

N. Poulakis, D. Palles, E. Liarokapis, K. Conder, E. Kaldis, and K. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 53, R534(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Percolation transition of the vortex lattice and $c$ -axis resistivity in high-temperature superconductors

E. A. Jagla and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. B 53, R538(R) (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

ARTICLES

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

Observation of liquid carbon on diamond films under pulsed IR and UV laser irradiation

P. Tosin, W. Lüthy, and H. P. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 53, 543 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Mean escape depth of signal photoelectrons ejected from solids by polarized x rays

I. S. Tilinin

Phys. Rev. B 53, 547 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

High-pressure melting curves of alkali halides

Reinhard Boehler, Marvin Ross, and David B. Boercker

Phys. Rev. B 53, 556 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Self-similarity of dielectric relaxation and conductivity in cross-linking systems

R. Casalini, A. Livi, P. A. Rolla, G. Levita, and D. Fioretto

Phys. Rev. B 53, 564 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Effect of pressure on the atomic volume of Zn, Cd, and Hg up to 75 GPa

Olaf Schulte and Wilfried B. Holzapfel

Phys. Rev. B 53, 569 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Hydrogen ordering in superstoichiometric rare-earth hydrides for a system with an energy-constants ratio p= $V_{2}$ / $V_{1}$ <1: ${LaH}_{2 + x}$

I. G. Ratishvili and P. Vajda

Phys. Rev. B 53, 581 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Interference between Judd-Ofelt and Wybourne-Downer mechanisms in the ${}^{5}$ $D_{0}$ $-^{7}$ $F_{J}$ (J=2,4) transitions of ${Sm}^{2 +}$ in solids

Masanori Tanaka and Takashi Kushida

Phys. Rev. B 53, 588 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Phenomenological model of elastic distortions near the spin-Peierls transition in ${CuGeO}_{3}$

M. L. Plumer

Phys. Rev. B 53, 594 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Electric-field gradients at ${}^{111}{Cd}$ in delafossite oxides AB $O_{2}$ (A=Ag, Cu; B=Al, Cr, Fe, In, Nd, Y)

R. N. Attili, M. Uhrmacher, K. P. Lieb, L. Ziegeler, M. Mekata, and E. Schwarzmann

Phys. Rev. B 53, 600 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Collective dynamics in glasses and its relation to the low-temperature anomalies

Andreas Heuer and Robert J. Silbey

Phys. Rev. B 53, 609 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Evidence of strong short-range order in ( ${Fe}_{0.2}$ ${Co}_{0.8}$ $)_{75}$ ${Si}_{x}$ $B_{25 - x}$ amorphous alloys from EXAFS spectroscopy

M. L. Fdez-Gubieda, I. Orúe, F. Plazaola, and J. M. Barandiarán

Phys. Rev. B 53, 620 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Effective-medium theory for the electric-field dependence of the hopping conductivity of disordered solids

P. E. Parris and B. D. Bookout

Phys. Rev. B 53, 629 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Structure and thermodynamic properties of liquid transition metals: An embedded-atom-method approach

G. M. Bhuiyan, M. Silbert, and M. J. Stott

Phys. Rev. B 53, 636 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Failure of fiber bundles with local load sharing

Shu-dong Zhang and E-Jiang Ding

Phys. Rev. B 53, 646 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

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

Landau damping and lifting of vibrational degeneracy in metallic potassium fulleride

J. Winter and H. Kuzmany

Phys. Rev. B 53, 655 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Muonium localization in solid krypton

V. Storchak, S. F. J. Cox, S. P. Cottrell, J. H. Brewer, G. D. Morris, and N. V. Prokof’ev

Phys. Rev. B 53, 662 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Magnetism

Monte Carlo method for obtaining the ground-state properties of quantum spin systems

J. P. Neirotti and M. J. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. B 53, 668 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Exchange interactions and magnetism of ${Co}^{2 +}$ in ${Zn}_{1 - x}$ ${Co}_{x}$ Te

M. Zielinski, C. Rigaux, A. Lemaître, A. Mycielski, and J. Deportes

Phys. Rev. B 53, 674 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Origin of the second length scale found above $T_{N}$ in ${UO}_{2}$

G. M. Watson, B. D. Gaulin, Doon Gibbs, T. R. Thurston, P. J. Simpson, S. M. Shapiro, G. H. Lander, Hj. Matzke, S. Wang, and M. Dudley

Phys. Rev. B 53, 686 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

$U_{xM 1 - x}$ ${Pt}_{3}$ (M=Y, Lu, In) compounds with the ${AuCu}_{3}$ structure

K. Sievers, E.-W. Scheidt, and G. R. Stewart

Phys. Rev. B 53, 699 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Cationic and magnetic order in ${LiNiO}_{2}$ - and NiO-type Li-Ni mixed oxides

C. B. Azzoni, A. Paleari, V. Massarotti, M. Bini, and D. Capsoni

Phys. Rev. B 53, 703 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Quantum version of a spherical model: Crossover from quantum to classical critical behavior

Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 53, 710 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Universality class of non-Fermi-liquid behavior in mixed-valence systems

Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu

Phys. Rev. B 53, 715 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

High-resolution magnetic x-ray diffraction from neodymium

D. Watson, E. M. Forgan, W. J. Nuttall, W. G. Stirling, and D. Fort

Phys. Rev. B 53, 726 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Local-field distribution in systems with dipolar interparticle interaction

D. V. Berkov

Phys. Rev. B 53, 731 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Thermodynamic properties of one-dimensional spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains: Green’s-function approach

Shu-Qing Bao, Hu Zhao, Jue-Lian Shen, and Guo-Zhen Yang

Phys. Rev. B 53, 735 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Quantum dynamical calculations on the magnetization reversal in clusters of spin-1/2 particles: Resonant coherent quantum tunneling

D. García-Pablos, N. García, P. A. Serena, and H. De Raedt

Phys. Rev. B 53, 741 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Collective excitations in itinerant spiral magnets

A. P. Kampf

Phys. Rev. B 53, 747 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Low-temperature magnetic structure of UNiGe

A. Purwanto, V. Sechovský, L. Havela, R. A. Robinson, H. Nakotte, Allen C. Larson, K. Prokeš, E. Brück, and F. R. de Boer

Phys. Rev. B 53, 758 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Connection between giant magnetoresistance and structure in molecular-beam epitaxy and sputtered Fe/Cr superlattices

José M. Colino, Ivan K. Schuller, R. Schad, C. D. Potter, P. Beliën, G. Verbanck, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede

Phys. Rev. B 53, 766 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Magnetic excitations and effects of magnetic fields on the spin-Peierls transition in ${CuGeO}_{3}$

José Riera and Sergio Koval

Phys. Rev. B 53, 770 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Weak ferromagnetism in the low-temperature tetragonal phase of the cuprates

J. Stein, O. Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Phys. Rev. B 53, 775 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Nonlocal Coulomb interactions and the magnetic anisotropies in the low-temperature phases of the cuprates

Jürgen Stein

Phys. Rev. B 53, 785 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

c-axis negative magnetoresistance and fluctuation conductivity of ${Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${CaCu}_{2}$ $O_{x}$ single crystals

Katsufumi Hashimoto, Koichi Nakao, Hiroyuki Kado, and Naoki Koshizuka

Phys. Rev. B 53, 892 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Dissipative and Hall quantum creep in ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{7 - δ}$ thin films

A. J. J. van Dalen, R. Griessen, J. C. Martinez, P. Fivat, J.-M. Triscone, and O/. Fischer

Phys. Rev. B 53, 896 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Nonlinear effective barriers for flux diffusion and critical current density of ${HgBa}_{2}$ ${Ca}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{x}$ based upon ac susceptibility measurement

S. Y. Ding, J. Li, H. M. Shao, J. W. Lin, C. Ren, and X. X. Yao

Phys. Rev. B 53, 900 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Scaling of the thermoelectric power in a wide temperature range in ${Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${Ca}_{1 - x}$ ${Nd}_{x}$ ${Cu}_{2}$ $O_{y}$ (x=0–0.5): Experiment and interpretation

V. E. Gasumyants, N. V. Ageev, E. V. Vladimirskaya, V. I. Smirnov, A. V. Kazanskiy, and V. I. Kaydanov

Phys. Rev. B 53, 905 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Thermal hysteresis effects in the ferroelectric-ferroelastic phase transition in [N( ${CH}_{3}$ $)_{4}$ $]_{2}$ ${ZnI}_{4}$ ’’

P. E. Tomaszewski

Phys. Rev. B 53, 952 (1996) - Published 1 January, 1996

Volume 53, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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