Volume 59, Issue 21

1 June 1999

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BRIEF REPORTS

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

Scattering of electrons on screw dislocations

Richard Bausch, Rudi Schmitz, and Łukasz A. Turski

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13491 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Precipitate coarsening and self organization in erbium-doped silica

M. W. Sckerl, S. Guldberg-Kjaer, M. Rysholt Poulsen, P. Shi, and J. Chevallier

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13494 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Stability of the pressure-induced orthorhombic phase of iron

R. S. Rao, P. Modak, B. K. Godwal, and S. K. Sikka

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13498 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Theoretical study of the structural phase transformation of BeO under pressure

Chan-Jeong Park, Sun-Ghil Lee, Young-Jo Ko, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13501 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

$^{2} H$ nuclear quadrupole resonance study of the Ubbelohde effect in $K (H_{1 - x} D_{x})_{2} {PO}_{4}$

J. Seliger and V. Žagar

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13505 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Origin of low-frequency dielectric dispersion in ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ and ${RbH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ ferroelectric crystals

Bog-Gi Kim and Jong-Jean Kim

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13509 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Laser-irradiation-induced structural changes on graphite

Marco Bonelli, Antonio Miotello, Paolo M. Ossi, Alessandro Pessi, and Stefano Gialanella

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13513 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Environment around strontium in silicate and aluminosilicate glasses

L. Cormier, G. Calas, S. Creux, P. H. Gaskell, B. Bouchet-Fabre, and A. C. Hannon

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13517 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Glass-forming ability determined by the atomic interaction potential for the Ni-Mo system

Q. Zhang, W. S. Lai, and B. X. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13521 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Linewidths in a semiconductor microcavity with variable strength of normal-mode coupling

D. Karaiskaj, T. Maxisch, C. Ellmers, H.-J. Kolbe, G. Weiser, R. Rettig, S. Leu, W. Stolz, M. Hofmann, F. Jahnke, S. W. Koch, and W. W. Rühle

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13525 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

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

Random walks in glasslike environments

M. Schulz and S. Stepanow

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13528 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Giant enhancement of anisotropy by electron-phonon interaction

P. E. Kornilovitch

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13531 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Ultrafast electron dynamics study of GaN

C.-K. Sun, Y.-L. Huang, S. Keller, U. K. Mishra, and S. P. DenBaars

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13535 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetism

Effect of the cation size disorder on charge ordering in rare-earth manganates

P. V. Vanitha, P. N. Santhosh, R. S. Singh, C. N. R. Rao, and J. P. Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13539 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

de Haas–van Alphen effect, magnetic transitions, and specific heat in the heavy-fermion system ${UCd}_{11}$

A. L. Cornelius, A. J. Arko, J. L. Sarrao, and N. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13542 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Electronic properties of a doped antiferromagnet on a kagomé lattice

Weiqiang Yu and Shiping Feng

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13546 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Theory of ferromagnetic metal to paramagnetic insulator transition in $R_{1 - x} A_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

L. Sheng, D. N. Sheng, and C.S. Ting

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13550 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Low-energy excitations of a classical $XY$ ferromagnetic chain in a transverse random field

Ibrahim Avgin

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13554 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Impurities in spin-Peierls systems including lattice relaxation

P. Hansen, D. Augier, J. Riera, and D. Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13557 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Kondo effect in a quantum critical ferromagnet

Yupeng Wang and Jianhui Dai

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13561 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Spinon signatures in the critical phase of the $(1, \frac{1}{2})$ ferrimagnet in a magnetic field

A. K. Kolezhuk, H.-J. Mikeska, K. Maisinger, and U. Schollwöck

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13565 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Phase separation in double-exchange systems

Daniel P. Arovas, Guillermo Gómez-Santos, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13569 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Microstructure related to charge and orbital ordering in $\Pr_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$

S. Mori, T. Katsufuji, N. Yamamoto, C. H. Chen, and S-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13573 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Single-cluster-update Monte Carlo method for the random anisotropy model

U. K. Rößler

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13577 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Escape rate of a biaxial nanospin system in a magnetic field: First- and second-order transitions between quantum and classical regimes

Chang Soo Park, Sahng-Kyoon Yoo, D. K. Park, and Dal-Ho Yoon

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13581 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Erasing the glassy state in magnetic fine particles

Montserrat García del Muro, Xavier Batlle, and Amílcar Labarta

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13584 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Superfluidity and superconductivity

High-resolution neutron-scattering study of the roton in confined superfluid $^{4} He$

C. R. Anderson, K. H. Andersen, J. Bossy, W. G. Stirling, R. M. Dimeo, P. E. Sokol, J. C. Cook, and D. W. Brown

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13588 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Fermi-liquid properties of a two-dimensional electron system with the Fermi level near a van Hove singularity

D. Menashe and B. Laikhtman

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13592 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Hole-density evolution of the one-particle spectral function in doped ladders

George B. Martins, Claudio Gazza, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13596 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Order-parameter fluctuation effects in d-wave BCS superconductors

Hyok-Jon Kwon

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13600 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Discrete breathers in dc-biased Josephson-junction arrays

J. J. Mazo, E. Trías, and T. P. Orlando

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13604 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Inhomogeneous magnetic flux focusing in superconducting Josephson networks

Gaia Grimaldi, Umberto Gambardella, and Sandro Pace

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13608 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Tuning the pinning energy in layered superconductors

R. J. Drost, C. J. van der Beek, H. W. Zandbergen, M. Konczykowski, A. A. Menovsky, and P. H. Kes

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13612 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Influence of the Hall force on the vortex dynamics in type-II superconductors

Staffan Grundberg and Jørgen Rammer

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13616 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Evidence for vortex staircases in the whole angular range due to competing correlated pinning mechanisms

A. Silhanek, L. Civale, S. Candia, G. Nieva, G. Pasquini, and H. Lanza

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13620 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Patterned geometries and hydrodynamics at the vortex Bose glass transition

M. Cristina Marchetti and David R. Nelson

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13624 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Parameter-free expression for superconducting $T_{c}$ in cuprates

A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13628 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Peak effect on magnetic hysteresis in oxygen-overdoped single crystals of ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$

Ming Xu, T. W. Li, D. G. Hinks, G. W. Crabtree, H. M. Jaeger, and Haruyoshi Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13632 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Evolution of the magnetic-field profile in ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} {CuO}_{6} :$ Consequences for the second magnetization peak

S. Anders, Ming Xu, H. M. Jaeger, T. W. Li, and D. G. Hinks

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13635 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Thermal conductivity of partially substituted ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

R. K. Williams, P. M. Martin, and J. O. Scarbrough

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13639 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

ARTICLES

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

Calculation of anomalous phonons and the hcp-bcc phase transition in zirconium

U. Pinsook and G. J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13642 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

High-pressure structural phase transitions in semiconducting niobium dioxide

J. Haines, J. M. Léger, A. S. Pereira, D. Häusermann, and M. Hanfland

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13650 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Statistical physics of interacting dislocation loops and their effect on the elastic moduli of isotropic solids

Sergei Panyukov and Yitzhak Rabin

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13657 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Discrete-element modeling of shock compression of polycrystalline copper

K. Yano and Y. Horie

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13672 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Influence of the atomic diffusion mechanism on morphologies, kinetics, and the mechanisms of coarsening during phase separation

T. T. Rautiainen and A. P. Sutton

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13681 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Iodine-doped polyvinylalcohol using positron annihilation spectroscopy

Blaise Lobo, M. R. Ranganath, T. S. G. Ravi Chandran, G. Venugopal Rao, V. Ravindrachary, and S. Gopal

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13693 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Towards an effective potential for the monomer, dimer, hexamer, solid, and liquid forms of hydrogen fluoride

Raffaele Guido Della Valle and Domenico Gazzillo

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13699 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Molecular-dynamics calculation of the thermal conductivity of vitreous silica

Philippe Jund and Rémi Jullien

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13707 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Broadening of optical transitions in ${Cr}^{3 +}$ -doped aluminosilicate glasses

D. L. Russell, Keith Holliday, Marek Grinberg, and David B. Hollis

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13712 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Polymorphic crystallization of interface stabilized amorphous Fe-Zr thin films under variable driving force

U. Herr, H. Geisler, H. Ippach, and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13719 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

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

Polaron effective mass, band distortion, and self-trapping in the Holstein molecular-crystal model

Aldo H. Romero, David W. Brown, and Katja Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13728 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Ab initio calculation of optical-mode frequencies in compressed solid hydrogen

Kazutaka Nagao, Tomoki Takezawa, and Hitose Nagara

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13741 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Continuum theory of vacancy-mediated diffusion

T. J. Newman

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13754 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetism

Magnetic and quadrupolar order in a one-dimensional ferromagnet with cubic crystal-field anisotropy

M. Dudziński, G. Fáth, and J. Sznajd

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13764 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Soliton spin excitations in an anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet with octupole-dipole interaction

M. Daniel, L. Kavitha, and R. Amuda

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13774 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Temperature dependence of local states due to $S = \frac{1}{2}$ impurities and their correlation in a $S = 1$ Heisenberg chain

Pascal Roos and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13782 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Instantaneous spin correlations in ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

R. J. Birgeneau, M. Greven, M. A. Kastner, Y. S. Lee, B. O. Wells, Y. Endoh, K. Yamada, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13788 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Energy band with Wannier functions of ferromagnetic symmetry as the cause of ferromagnetism in iron

Ekkehard Krüger

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13795 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Residual entropy and spin gap in a one-dimensional frustrated antiferromagnet

M. Mambrini, J. Trébosc, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13806 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Excitation spectrum of the homogeneous spin liquid

R. Eder

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13810 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Competition between Kondo effect and RKKY interaction in a thin film

A. Crépieux and C. Lacroix

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13824 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Thermodynamic and transport properties of single-crystal ${Yb}_{14} {MnSb}_{11}$

I. R. Fisher, T. A. Wiener, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, J. Y. Chan, and S. M. Kauzlarich

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13829 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Spin-density-wave clusters in ${Pd}_{1 - x} {Cr}_{x}$ spin-glass alloys

Masaya Hirano and Yorihiko Tsunoda

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13835 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Theory of the spin dependence of the inelastic mean free path of electrons in ferromagnetic metals: A model study

Jisang Hong and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13840 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Collinear spin-density-wave ordering in Fe/Cr multilayers and wedges

R. S. Fishman and Zhu-Pei Shi

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13849 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Acoustical properties of ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {PF}_{6}$ in the spin-density-wave ground state

S. Zherlitsyn, G. Bruls, A. Goltsev, B. Alavi, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13861 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Spin splitting at the high-magnetic-field phase transition of the organic conductor ${α - (B E D T - T T F)}_{2} {KHg (SCN)}_{4}$

Takahiko Sasaki and Tetsuo Fukase

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13872 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Impurity-induced localization of quasiparticles in the presence of a pseudogap in CeNiSn

T. Takabatake, Y. Echizen, T. Yoshino, K. Kobayashi, G. Nakamoto, H. Fujii, and M. Sera

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13878 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetic susceptibility due to disorder-induced neutral solitons in interacting polymer chains

Marc Thilo Figge, Maxim Mostovoy, and Jasper Knoester

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13882 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetic excitations and dynamical Jahn-Teller distortions in ${UO}_{2}$

R. Caciuffo, G. Amoretti, P. Santini, G. H. Lander, J. Kulda, and P. de V. Du Plessis

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13892 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetic hysteresis in the Cu-Al-Mn intermetallic alloy: Experiments and modeling

Eduard Obradó, Eduard Vives, and Antoni Planes

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13901 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

X-ray magnetic-circular-dichroism study of Ni/Fe (001) multilayers

Tao Lin, M. M. Schwickert, M. A. Tomaz, H. Chen, and G. R. Harp

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13911 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Spin-polarized tunneling in the half-metallic ferromagnets ${La}_{0.7 - x} {Ho}_{x} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ $(x = 0$ and 0.15): Experiment and theory

P. Raychaudhuri, K. Sheshadri, P. Taneja, S. Bandyopadhyay, P. Ayyub, A. K. Nigam, R. Pinto, Sujeet Chaudhary, and S. B. Roy

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13919 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Linear geometrical magnetoresistance effect: Influence of geometry and material composition

Daniel R. Baker and Joseph P. Heremans

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13927 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

$^{55} Mn$ NMR study of the hexagonal Laves phase compound ${ThMn}_{2}$ : Coexistence of magnetic and nonmagnetic sites of Mn

Saurav Giri, Hiroyuki Nakamura, and Masayuki Shiga

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13943 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Multiple-scattering theoretical approach to magnetic dichroism and spin polarization in angle-resolved core-level photoemission

J. Henk, A. M. N. Niklasson, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 59, 13986 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Paraconductivity and excess Hall conductivity in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x} / {PrBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x}$ superlattices

L. M. Wang, H. C. Yang, and H. E. Horng

Phys. Rev. B 59, 14031 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in the hybrid ruthenate-cuprate compound ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$ studied by muon spin rotation and dc magnetization

C. Bernhard, J. L. Tallon, Ch. Niedermayer, Th. Blasius, A. Golnik, E. Brücher, R. K. Kremer, D. R. Noakes, C. E. Stronach, and E. J. Ansaldo

Phys. Rev. B 59, 14099 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

ERRATA

${E r r a t u m :}^{1}$ H NMR study of hydrogen in quasicrystalline ${Ti}_{0.45 - x} V_{x} Zr 0.38 {Ni}_{0.17}$ [Phys. Rev. B 57, 5148 (1998)]

A. Shastri, E. H. Majzoub, F. Borsa, P. C. Gibbons, and K. F. Kelton

Phys. Rev. B 59, 14108 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999