Volume 61, Issue 10

1 March 2000

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3} {/ B a T i O}_{3}$ superlattices: Growth anomalies and confined modes

F. Le Marrec, R. Farhi, M. El Marssi, J. L. Dellis, M. G. Karkut, and D. Ariosa

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6447(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Non-Gaussian behavior of crystalline and amorphous phases of polyethylene

T. Kanaya, U. Buchenau, S. Koizumi, I. Tsukushi, and K. Kaji

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6451(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetism

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Antiferromagnetic spin flop and exchange bias

J. Nogués, L. Morellon, C. Leighton, M. R. Ibarra, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6455(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnons in real materials from density-functional theory

Ralph Gebauer and Stefano Baroni

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6459(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Finite-size effects in nickel nanowire arrays

L. Sun, P. C. Searson, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6463(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Relative positions of the $2 Δ$ peaks in Raman and tunneling spectra of d-wave superconductors

Andrey V. Chubukov, Nathan Gemelke, and Ar. Abanov

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6467(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heat capacity and transport studies of the ferromagnetic superconductor ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$

J. L. Tallon, J. W. Loram, G. V. M. Williams, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6471(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Charge confinement on the ${CuO}_{2}$ planes in slightly overdoped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ and the role of metallic chains

N. E. Hussey, H. Takagi, Y. Iye, S. Tajima, A. I. Rykov, and K. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6475(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Phenomenological model for history effects and metastability in weakly pinned superconductors

G. Ravikumar, K. V. Bhagwat, V. C. Sahni, A. K. Grover, S. Ramakrishnan, and S. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6479(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Magnetic coherence in cuprate superconductors

Dirk K. Morr and David Pines

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6483(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Effect of hydrostatic and chemical pressure on the exchange interaction in magnetic borocarbide superconductors

H. Michor, M. El-Hagary, L. Naber, E. Bauer, and G. Hilscher

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6487(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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Elastic study of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the layered organic superconductors $κ - (BEDT - TTF)_{2} X$

K. Frikach, M. Poirier, M. Castonguay, and K. D. Truong

Phys. Rev. B 61, R6491(R) (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

ARTICLES

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

Epitaxial-strain-stabilized ordering in ${Au}_{1 - x} {Ni}_{x}$ alloy thin films grown by MBE

G. Abadias, I. Schuster, A. Marty, and B. Gilles

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6495 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Synchrotron-radiation x-ray multiple diffraction applied to the study of electric-field-induced strain in an organic nonlinear optical material

L. H. Avanci, L. P. Cardoso, J. M. Sasaki, S. E. Girdwood, K. J. Roberts, D. Pugh, and J. N. Sherwood

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6507 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

X-ray-absorption fine structure determination of pressure-induced bond-angle changes in ${ReO}_{3}$

B. Houser and R. Ingalls

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6515 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Stability and structural properties of the SC16 phase of ZnS under high pressure

A. Qteish and M. Parrinello

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6521 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Local relaxation around ${Fe}^{3 +}$ in fluorides: Influence on electronic properties

J. A. Aramburu, J. I. Paredes, M. T. Barriuso, and M. Moreno

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6525 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Extended and accurate determination of the melting curves of argon, helium, ice $(H_{2} O),$ and hydrogen $(H_{2})$

Frédéric Datchi, Paul Loubeyre, and René LeToullec

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6535 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Anomalous dielectric aftereffect in ferroelectric ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$

J. Gilchrist

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6547 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Crystal structure and ferroelectric properties of $A {Bi}_{2} {Ta}_{2} O_{9} (A = Ca,$ Sr, and Ba)

Y. Shimakawa, Y. Kubo, Y. Nakagawa, S. Goto, T. Kamiyama, H. Asano, and F. Izumi

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6559 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Optical properties of strongly coupled ${Yb}^{2 +}$ and ${CN}^{-}$ ions in alkali halide crystals: Electronic absorption and emission

C. P. An, Volkmar Dierolf, and Fritz Luty

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6565 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Positron confinement in ultrafine embedded particles: Quantum-dot-like state in an Fe-Cu alloy

Y. Nagai, M. Hasegawa, Z. Tang, A. Hempel, K. Yubuta, T. Shimamura, Y. Kawazoe, A. Kawai, and F. Kano

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6574 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Lattice model for kinetics and grain-size distribution in crystallization

Mario Castro, Angel Sánchez, and Francisco Domínguez-Adame

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6579 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Landau theory of structures in tetragonal-orthorhombic ferroelastics

A. E. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6587 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Error analysis of XAFS measurements

H. J. Krappe and H. H. Rossner

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6596 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Hydrogen and deuterium site separation in fcc-based mixed-isotope rare-earth hydrides

T. J. Udovic, Q. Huang, and J. J. Rush

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6611 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Relative energetics and structural properties of zirconia using a self-consistent tight-binding model

Stefano Fabris, Anthony T. Paxton, and Michael W. Finnis

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6617 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in electrodeposited single-crystal bismuth films

F. Y. Yang, Kai Liu, Kimin Hong, D. H. Reich, P. C. Searson, C. L. Chien, Y. Leprince-Wang, Kui Yu-Zhang, and Ke Han

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6631 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Site selectivity and bonding in the β-phase aluminides: Studies of RuAl, PdAl, and Pd and Ru dopants in NiAl

Million Daniel, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Dale Brewe, Michael J. Mehl, Douglas Pease, and Joseph I. Budnick

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6637 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Thermal conductivity of one-dimensional Fibonacci quasicrystals

Enrique Maciá

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6645 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Glassy dynamics in supercooled-liquid and glassy ethanol: A molecular dynamics study

M. A. González, E. Enciso, F. J. Bermejo, and M. Bée

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6654 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Size and confinement effects on the glass transition behavior of polystyrene/o-terphenyl polymer solutions

Joon-Yong Park and Gregory B. McKenna

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6667 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Role of grain boundaries as phonon diffraction gratings in the theory of thermal conductivity

M. Omini and A. Sparavigna

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6677 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Confirmation of membrane electroporation from flicker noise

S. De, R. Basu, and P. Nandy

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6689 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Heuristic model for slow relaxation of excess conductance in electron glasses

A. Vaknin, Z. Ovadyahu, and M. Pollak

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6692 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Atomistic simulations of solid-phase epitaxial growth in silicon

Noam Bernstein, Michael J. Aziz, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6696 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

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

Optimal phonon approach to the spin Peierls model with nonadiabatic spin-phonon coupling

Barry Friedman

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6701 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Ewald summation of electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics of a three-dimensional system with periodicity in two directions

A. Grzybowski, E. Gwóźdź, and A. Bródka

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6706 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Implications of finite-size and surface effects on nanosize intercalation materials

M. N. Obrovac and J. R. Dahn

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6713 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Ab initio phonon dispersions of wurtzite AlN, GaN, and InN

Claudia Bungaro, Krzysztof Rapcewicz, and J. Bernholc

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6720 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetism

Nonlinear susceptibility of superparamagnets with a general anisotropy energy

J. L. García-Palacios, P. Jönsson, and P. Svedlindh

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6726 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic relaxation in a classical spin chain

D. Hinzke and U. Nowak

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6734 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Low-energy excitations of spin-Peierls chains with modified bond impurities

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

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6741 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Phase diagram of a one-dimensional spin-orbital model

Chigak Itoi, Shaojin Qin, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6747 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Calculation of Neel temperature for $S = 1 / 2$ Heisenberg quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets

V. Yu. Irkhin and A. A. Katanin

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6757 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Effects of a magnetic field on the one-dimensional spin-orbital model

Yu-Li Lee and Yu-Wen Lee

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6765 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Sign rules for anisotropic quantum spin systems

R. F. Bishop, D. J. J. Farnell, and J. B. Parkinson

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6775 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Existence of massive singlet excitations in an antiferromagnetic alternating chain with $S = \frac{1}{2}$

S. S. Aplesnin

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6780 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Distribution of Kondo temperatures in a thin film

A. Crépieux and C. Lacroix

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6785 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Pressure-dependent resistivity and magnetoresistivity of erbium

Mark Ellerby, Keith A. McEwen, Ernst Bauer, Robert Hauser, and Jens Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6790 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Hyperfine interaction study of $({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{3} P$ compounds

L. Häggström, P. James, O. Eriksson, Hui-ping Liu, M. Trosko, K. Szymański, and L. Dobrzyński

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6798 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and strain in ${N i / C u / N i}_{60} {Cu}_{40} / Cu (001)$

G. Lauhoff, C. A. F. Vaz, J. A. C. Bland, J. Lee, and T. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6805 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetization reversal dynamics in epitaxial spin-valve structures

W. Y. Lee, A. Samad, T. A. Moore, J. A. C. Bland, and B. C. Choi

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6811 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Muon spin resonance study of transverse spin freezing in $a - {Fe}_{x} {Zr}_{100 - x}$

D. H. Ryan, J. M. Cadogan, and J. van Lierop

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6816 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Phase diagram of the ${CeNi}_{1 - x} {Cu}_{x}$ Kondo system with spin-glass-like behavior favored by hybridization

J. García Soldevilla, J. C. Gómez Sal, J. A. Blanco, J. I. Espeso, and J. Rodríguez Fernández

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6821 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic properties of hematite nanoparticles

Franz Bødker, Mikkel F. Hansen, Christian Bender Koch, Kim Lefmann, and Steen Mørup

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6826 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic and structural properties of an octanuclear Cu(II) $S = 1 / 2$ mesoscopic ring: Susceptibility and NMR measurements

A. Lascialfari, Z. H. Jang, F. Borsa, D. Gatteschi, A. Cornia, D. Rovai, A. Caneschi, and P. Carretta

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6839 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic behavior of monoatomic Co wires on Pd(110)

R. Robles, J. Izquierdo, and A. Vega

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6848 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

First-principles asymptotics for the oscillatory exchange coupling in $Co / Cu / Co$ of (100), (110), and (111) orientations

N. N. Lathiotakis, B. L. Györffy, and B. Újfalussy

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6854 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetism and electron redistribution effects at Ni/Co interfaces

S. S. Dhesi, H. A. Dürr, E. Dudzik, G. van der Laan, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6866 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic domain reversal in ultrathin Co(001) films probed by giant magnetoresistance measurements

S. P. Li, A. Samad, W. S. Lew, Y. B. Xu, and J. A. C. Bland

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6871 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Interface effects on magnetoresistance and magnetic-field-reduced Raman scattering in magnetite

Jian-Min Li, A. C. H. Huan, Liang Wang, You-Wei Du, and Duan Feng

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6876 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Many-body electron origin for the forced magnetostriction in iron-rich $Y_{2} {Fe}_{17}$ and $Y_{2} {Fe}_{14} B$ itinerant ferromagnets

A. del Moral, C. Abadía, and B. García-Landa

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6879 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Copper antiferromagnetic resonance in ${Gd}_{2} {CuO}_{4} :$ Evidence for coherent crystal-structure distortions

V. A. Pashchenko, S. Huant, A. A. Stepanov, and P. Wyder

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6889 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic and transport properties of $\Pr_{0.65} {Ca}_{0.21} {Sr}_{0.14} {MnO}_{3}$ and $\Pr_{0.65} {Ba}_{0.35} {MnO}_{3}$ single crystals

M. M. Savosta, J. Hejtmánek, Z. Jirák, M. Maryško, P. Novák, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6896 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Optical investigations of the charge gap in orbital-ordered ${La}_{1 / 2} {Sr}_{3 / 2} {MnO}_{4}$

J. H. Jung, J. S. Ahn, Jaejun Yu, T. W. Noh, Jinhyoung Lee, Y. Moritomo, I. Solovyev, and K. Terakura

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6902 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Structure of spin polarons in the spin-fermion model for ${CuO}_{2}$ planes

Jan Bała and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6907 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Analytical calculation of the finite-size crossover spectrum of the anisotropic two-channel Kondo model

Gergely Zaránd and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6918 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Spin-flip transition rate due to electron-magnon scattering in ferromagnetic thin films

Shang Yuan Ren and John D. Dow

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6934 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Field-induced $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}} {+ i d}_{xy}$ state and marginal stability of high- $T_{c}$ superconductors

A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6940 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Critical scaling of the ac conductivity for a superconductor above $T_{c}$

Robert A. Wickham and Alan T. Dorsey

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6945 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Periodic vortex pinning with magnetic and nonmagnetic dots: The influence of size

A. Hoffmann, P. Prieto, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6958 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Superconducting “metals” and “insulators”

Smitha Vishveshwara, T. Senthil, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6966 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Harmonic calculations and measurements of the irreversibility field using a vibrating sample magnetometer

Ian J. Daniel and Damian P. Hampshire

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6982 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Charge-charge correlation functions in the Emery three-band model

Ivan Kupčić

Phys. Rev. B 61, 6994 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Cutoff length in the logarithmic interaction between a vortex-antivortex pair in quench-condensed superconducting Bi films

M. M. Rosario, Yu. Zadorozhny, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7005 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Absence of Andreev reflections and Andreev bound states above the critical temperature

Y. Dagan, A. Kohen, G. Deutscher, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7012 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Critical current from dynamical boundary instability for fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays

Beom Jun Kim and Petter Minnhagen

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7017 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and spin diffusion in the mixed state of type-II layered superconductors

G. B. Furman, L. Frenkel Ben-Yakar, A. I. Shames, C. Korn, and S. D. Goren

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7021 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended attractive Hubbard model for large nearest-neighbor repulsion

A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7028 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Probing the order parameter of the layered organic superconductor $κ {- (B E D T - T T F)}_{2} Cu [N (CN)_{2}] Br$ by ac susceptibility measurements

M. Pinterić, S. Tomić, M. Prester, D. Drobac, O. Milat, K. Maki, D. Schweitzer, I. Heinen, and W. Strunz

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7033 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Frequency-dependent relaxation rate in superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + δ}$

A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7039 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Vortex-lattice activation energy deduced from irreversibility lines for $({PrBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3 - x} {Ga}_{x} O_{7})_{M} / {(Y B a}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7})_{N}$ superlattices

D. Ravelosona, J. P. Contour, and N. Bontemps

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7044 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Raman scattering in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8}$ and ${PrBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8} :$ Indications of pseudogap effects in nonsuperconducting ${PrBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8}$

J. Bäckström, M. Rübhausen, M. Käll, L. Börjesson, A. P. Litvinchuk, M. Kakihana, M. Osada, and B. Dabrowski

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7049 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

XAFS study of the low-temperature tetragonal phase of ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4} :$ Disorder, stripes, and $T_{c}$ suppression at $x = 0.125$

D. Haskel, E. A. Stern, F. Dogan, and A. R. Moodenbaugh

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7055 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Electronic Raman scattering on the underdoped ${HgBa}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{8 + δ}$ high- $T_{c}$ superconductor: The symmetry of the order parameter

A. Sacuto, J. Cayssol, P. Monod, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7122 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Magnetic order in ${La}_{1.9} {Sr}_{0.1} {CuO}_{4}$ from two-magnon Raman scattering

Y. Lin, J. Sichelschmidt, J. E. Eldridge, and T. Wahlbrink

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7130 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Nonglassy relaxation by double kinks in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ with columnar defects

D. Niebieskikwiat, L. Civale, C. A. Balseiro, and G. Nieva

Phys. Rev. B 61, 7135 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000