Volume 61, Issue 13

F. Wilhelm, P. Poulopoulos, P. Srivastava, H. Wende, M. Farle, K. Baberschke, M. Angelakeris, N. K. Flevaris, W. Grange, J.-P. Kappler, G. Ghiringhelli, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8647 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Critical behavior in ${La}_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {CoO}_{3}$

S. Mukherjee, P. Raychaudhuri, and A. K. Nigam

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8651 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Microscopic derivation of the Landau-Lifschitz equation for ferromagnetic relaxation

D. R. Fredkin and A. Ron

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8654 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Smart structure for tailoring the magneto-optical Kerr effect

Z. Liu, S. M. Zhou, G. Q. Xia, S. Y. Wang, R. J. Zhang, Y. X. Zheng, L. Y. Chen, and J. T. Song

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8656 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Role of confined phonons in thin-film superconductivity

E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, and M. A. Stroscio

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8659 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Spin-charge recombination and superconductivity in the $t - J$ model

Sanjoy K. Sarker

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8663 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Quasiparticle resonant states induced by a unitary impurity in a d-wave superconductor

Jian-Xin Zhu, T. K. Lee, C. S. Ting, and Chia-Ren Hu

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8667 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Coherence effects in conventional layered superconductors

S. P. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8671 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Magnetoresistance properties of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$ superconducting thin films grown on vicinal substrates

Y. Z. Zhang, R. Deltour, J.-F. de Marneffe, Y. L. Qin, L. Li, Z. X. Zhao, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. Wyder

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8675 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Electronic properties of ${CePd}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ under pressure

S. Raymond and D. Jaccard

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8679 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Pseudogap phase in the U(1) gauge theory with incoherent spinon pairs

Xi Dai, Yue Yu, Tao Xiang, and Zhao-bin Su

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8683 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

ARTICLES

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

Tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transition in a ferroelectric perovskite: The structure of ${PbZr}_{0.52} {Ti}_{0.48} O_{3}$

B. Noheda, J. A. Gonzalo, L. E. Cross, R. Guo, S.-E. Park, D. E. Cox, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8687 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Full ab initio geometry optimization of all known crystalline phases of ${Si}_{3} N_{4}$

W. Y. Ching, Lizhi Ouyang, and Julian D. Gale

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8696 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Transition to a crystalline high-pressure phase in $α - {GeO}_{2}$ at room temperature

J. Haines, J. M. Léger, and C. Chateau

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8701 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Stress concentration near a surface step and shear localization

S. Brochard, P. Beauchamp, and J. Grilhé

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8707 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Dislocation pinning by glissile interstitial loops in a nickel crystal: A molecular-dynamics study

D. Rodney and G. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8714 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Pressure-induced structural changes in ZnS

Serge Desgreniers, Luc Beaulieu, and Ian Lepage

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8726 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Explicit Gibbs free energy equation of state applied to the carbon phase diagram

Laurence E. Fried and W. Michael Howard

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8734 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Proposal for a hardness measurement technique without indentor by gas-cluster-beam bombardment

Zinetulla Insepov, Rafael Manory, Jiro Matsuo, and Isao Yamada

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8744 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Thermal and elastic properties of solid neon

Dominic Acocella, George K. Horton, and E. Roger Cowley

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8753 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Anomalous metallic lithium phases: Identification by ESR, ENDOR, and the bistable Overhauser effect

C. Vigreux, P. Loiseau, L. Binet, and D. Gourier

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8759 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Modeling the electrical conductivity of icosahedral quasicrystals

Enrique Maciá

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8771 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Role of low-frequency vibrations on sound propagation in glasses at intermediate temperature

A. Criado, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, C. Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, M. Grimsditch, H. E. Fischer, S. M. Bennington, and R. S. Eccleston

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8778 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Direct computation of the free volume fraction in amorphous polymers from positron lifetime measurements

P. Bandžuch, J. Krištiak, O. Šauša, and J. Zrubcová

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8784 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

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

High-pressure lattice dynamics and thermoelasticity of MgO

B. B. Karki, R. M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8793 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

High-pressure infrared spectroscopy of solid oxygen

Yuichi Akahama and Haruki Kawamura

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8801 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Ab initio structure and zone-center phonons in ${LiNbO}_{3}$

V. Caciuc, A. V. Postnikov, and G. Borstel

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8806 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Electron diffraction studies of phonon and static disorder in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Renhui Wang, Yimei Zhu, and S. M. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8814 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Condensation kinetics for bosonic excitons interacting with a thermal phonon bath

L. Bányai, P. Gartner, O. M. Schmitt, and H. Haug

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8823 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Kinks in a periodically modulated disordered system

Eva Majerníková, Jaroslav Riedel, and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8835 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Magnetism

Modulated magnetic structure and spin waves in hexagonal ${CsCuCl}_{3}$ -type antiferromagnets

A. L. Sukstanskii, E. P. Stefanovskii, S. A. Reshetnyak, and V. N. Varyukhin

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8843 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Spin Hamiltonians for small Ni clusters

E. Viitala, H. Häkkinen, M. Manninen, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8851 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Quantum phase interference for quantum tunneling in spin systems

J.-Q. Liang, H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten, D. K. Park, and F.-C. Pu

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8856 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Phase diagrams of mixed-spin chains with period 4 using the nonlinear $σ$ model

Ken’ichi Takano

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8863 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Fate of spinons in spontaneously dimerized spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ ladders

Dave Allen, Fabian H. L. Essler, and Alexander A. Nersesyan

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8871 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Disorder to order transition in the magnetic and electronic properties of ${URh}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

S. Süllow, S. A. M. Mentink, T. E. Mason, R. Feyerherm, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8878 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Angular dependence and interfacial roughness in exchange-biased ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers

Joo-Von Kim, R. L. Stamps, B. V. McGrath, and R. E. Camley

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8888 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Temperature and field dependence of the phase separation, structure, and magnetic ordering in ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ $(x = 0.47,$ 0.50, and 0.53)

Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn, R. W. Erwin, A. Santoro, D. C. Dender, V. N. Smolyaninova, K. Ghosh, and R. L. Greene

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8895 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

First-principles calculations of magnetic interactions in correlated systems

M. I. Katsnelson and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8906 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Evidence for fast oscillations vanishing at the spin-density-wave–metal transition in Bechgaard salts

D. Vignolles, J. P. Ulmet, A. Audouard, M. J. Naughton, and J. M. Fabre

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8913 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Transport mechanism in polycrystalline ${La}_{0.825} {Sr}_{0.175} {Mn}_{1 - x} {Cu}_{x} O_{3}$

Li Pi, Lei Zheng, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8917 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Magnetic excitations in heavy-fermion ${CePd}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

N. H. van Dijk, B. Fåk, T. Charvolin, P. Lejay, and J. M. Mignot

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8922 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Observation of an exchange-split alloy surface state

F. Schedin, L. Hewitt, P. Morrall, V. N. Petrov, G. Thornton, and G. Y. Guo

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8932 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Isotope effects and charge-gap formation in the charge-ordered phase of colossal magnetoresistance manganites

Unjong Yu, Yu. V. Skrypnyk, and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8936 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Structural and magnetic properties of the colossal magnetoresistance perovskite ${La}_{0.85} {Ca}_{0.15} {MnO}_{3}$

M. V. Lobanov, A. M. Balagurov, V. Ju. Pomjakushin, P. Fischer, M. Gutmann, A. M. Abakumov, O. G. D’yachenko, E. V. Antipov, O. I. Lebedev, and G. Van Tendeloo

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8941 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Effects of oxygen isotope and stoichiometry on the structural and transport properties of ${La}_{0.65} {Ca}_{0.35} {MnO}_{3 - δ}$

A. K. Heilman, Y. Y. Xue, Y. Y. Sun, R. L. Meng, Y. S. Wang, B. Lorenz, C. W. Chu, J. P. Franck, and Weimin Chen

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8950 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Exchange biasing and low-field magnetoresistance in ${La}_{0.67} {Ca}_{0.33} {MnO}_{3} / {La}_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ bilayers

H. B. Peng, X. X. Zhang, Z. Xie, H. J. Tao, B. Xu, H. Liu, and B. R. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8955 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Specific heat and optical birefringence of ${Fe}_{0.25} {Zn}_{0.75} F_{2}$

W. C. Barber and D. P. Belanger

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8960 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Resonant x-ray scattering studies of the magnetic structure near the surface of an antiferromagnet

G. M. Watson, Doon Gibbs, G. H. Lander, B. D. Gaulin, L. E. Berman, Hj. Matzke, and W. Ellis

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8966 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Magnetic microwires as macrospins in a long-range dipole-dipole interaction

L. C. Sampaio, E. H. C. P. Sinnecker, G. R. C. Cernicchiaro, M. Knobel, M. Vázquez, and J. Velázquez

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8976 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Brillouin study of long-wavelength spin waves in quasimonatomic Co films with uniaxial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Akihiro Murayama, Kyoko Hyomi, James Eickmann, and Charles M. Falco

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8984 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Evidence for nonclassical critical behavior of a one-dimensional incommensurately modulated crystal: A $^{35} Cl$ NQR study of bis(4-chlorophenyl)sulfone

F. Decker and J. Petersson

Phys. Rev. B 61, 8993 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

One-dimensional fermions with incommensuration

Diptiman Sen and Siddhartha Lal

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9001 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

High magnetic field study of lattice and magnetic effects on the charge-melting transition in $L_{1 / 2} {Ca}_{1 / 2} {MnO}_{3}$ perovskites

M. Respaud, A. Llobet, C. Frontera, C. Ritter, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, M. Goiran, and J. L. García-Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9014 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Triplet superconductivity in a one-dimensional ferromagnetic $t - J$ model

G. I. Japaridze and E. Müller-Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9019 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Structural and magnetic properties of ${La}_{0.7} {Pb}_{0.3} ({Mn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x}) O_{3}$ $(0 <~ x <~ 0.3)$ giant magnetoresistance perovskites

J. Gutiérrez, A. Peña, J. M. Barandiarán, J. L. Pizarro, T. Hernández, L. Lezama, M. Insausti, and T. Rojo

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9028 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Path-integral Monte Carlo simulation of helium at negative pressures

Gregory H. Bauer, David M. Ceperley, and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9055 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Distribution functions in nonequilibrium theory of superconductivity and Andreev spectroscopy in unconventional superconductors

Matthias Eschrig

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9061 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Irreversibility line of overdoped ${Bi}_{2 + x} {Sr}_{2 - (x + y)} {Cu}_{1 + y} O_{6 \pm δ}$ at ultralow temperatures and high magnetic fields

A. Morello, A. G. M. Jansen, R. S. Gonnelli, and S. I. Vedeneev

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9113 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Metastability line in the phase diagram of vortices in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

B. Sas, F. Portier, K. Vad, B. Keszei, L. F. Kiss, N. Hegman, I. Puha, S. Mészáros, and F. I. B. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9118 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Josephson vortices at tricrystal boundaries

V. G. Kogan, J. R. Clem, and J. R. Kirtley

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9122 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Magnetoelastic model for the relaxation of lanthanide ions in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ observed by neutron scattering

Stephen W. Lovesey and Urs Staub

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9130 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Electronic structure of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{x}$ and ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8}$ studied by soft-x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies

J.-H. Guo, S. M. Butorin, N. Wassdahl, J. Nordgren, P. Berastegut, and L.-G. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9140 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000

Simulation and study of the percolation effect in the magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature superconducting composites

E. Bruneel, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, I. Van Driessche, and S. Hoste

Phys. Rev. B 61, 9176 (2000) - Published 1 April, 2000