Volume 63, Issue 13

1 April 2001

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BRIEF REPORTS

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

Epitaxial $Pb (Z r, Ti) O_{3}$ thin films with coexisting tetragonal and rhombohedral phases

S. Hoon Oh and Hyun M. Jang

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132101 (2001) - Published 12 March, 2001

Cold melting of invar alloys

M. Molotskii and V. Fleurov

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132102 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

Very large dielectric response of thin ferroelectric films with the dead layers

A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132103 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Systematics of transition-metal melting

Daniel Errandonea, Beate Schwager, Reiner Ditz, Christine Gessmann, Reinhard Boehler, and Marvin Ross

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132104 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Role of an invariant in the existence of delocalized electronic states in generalized models of a Thue-Morse aperiodic chain

Samar Chattopadhyay and Arunava Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132201 (2001) - Published 27 February, 2001

Random ion distribution model: A structural approach to the mixed-alkali effect in glasses

J. Swenson, A. Matic, C. Karlsson, L. Börjesson, C. Meneghini, and W. S. Howells

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132202 (2001) - Published 1 March, 2001

Interaction of quasilocal harmonic modes and boson peak in glasses

D. A. Parshin and C. Laermans

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132203 (2001) - Published 1 March, 2001

Stability of a nonequilibrium phase in an immiscible Ag-Ni system studied by ab initio calculations and ion-beam-mixing experiment

J. B. Liu, Z. C. Li, B. X. Liu, G. Kresse, and J. Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132204 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Elasticity of a one-dimensional tiling model and its implication to the phason elasticity of quasicrystals

Hyeong-Chai Jeong

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132205 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

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

Crossover from percolation to diffusion

D. N. Tsigankov and A. L. Efros

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132301 (2001) - Published 27 February, 2001

Magnetism

Linear-response calculation of dynamical spin susceptibility in doped ${CaCuO}_{2}$

V. S. Oudovenko and S. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132401 (2001) - Published 27 February, 2001

Spin and charge response to magnetic frustration in strongly correlated itinerant electron systems

Yang Liu and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132402 (2001) - Published 27 February, 2001

Effect of a magnetic field on an $E \otimes ε$ Jahn-Teller system: Berry phase and optical properties

G. Bevilacqua, L. Martinelli, and G. Pastori Parravicini

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132403 (2001) - Published 28 February, 2001

Competition of charge, orbital, and ferromagnetic correlations in layered manganites

D. B. Romero, Y. Moritomo, J. F. Mitchell, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132404 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Spin-charge decoupling and orthofermi quantum statistics

A. K. Mishra

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132405 (2001) - Published 12 March, 2001

O(Mn) vibrational bands in double-layered manganites: First and second order Raman scattering

A. E. Pantoja, H. J. Trodahl, A. Fainstein, R. G. Pregliasco, R. G. Buckley, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, and D. McK. Paul

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132406 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

Magnetic contribution to the resistivity noise in a ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ film grain boundary

R. Mathieu, P. Svedlindh, R. Gunnarsson, and Z. G. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132407 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Magnetic phase diagram of the diluted metamagnet ${Fe}_{0.95} {Mg}_{0.05} {Br}_{2}$

H. Aruga Katori, K. Katsumata, O. Petracic, W. Kleemann, T. Kato, and Ch. Binek

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132408 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Magnetism of Invar alloys under pressure examined by inelastic x-ray scattering

J. P. Rueff, A. Shukla, A. Kaprolat, M. Krisch, M. Lorenzen, F. Sette, and R. Verbeni

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132409 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Vortex interaction in a finite-sized array of Josephson junctions

J. Yi, Sung-Ik Lee, and Seunghwan Kim

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132501 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Fermi surface and superconducting gap in superstructure-free ${Bi}_{1.80} {Pb}_{0.38} {Sr}_{2.01} {CuO}_{6 - δ}$

T. Sato, T. Kamiyama, Y. Naitoh, T. Takahashi, I. Chong, T. Terashima, and M. Takano

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132502 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Effect of spin fluctuations on the c-axis thermoelectric power in underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$

Lou Ping

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132503 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Phase transitions driven by vortices in two-dimensional superfluids and superconductors: From Kosterlitz-Thouless to first order

G. Alvarez and H. Fort

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132504 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Study of the multicritical point in the vortex phase diagram $(H ‖ c)$ of a weakly pinned crystal of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

D. Pal, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover, D. Dasgupta, and Bimal K. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132505 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Theory of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

A. Yu. Zavidonov and D. Brinkmann

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132506 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Optical Cooper pair breaking spectroscopy of cuprate superconductors

Y. G. Zhao, Eric Li, Tom Wu, S. B. Ogale, R. P. Sharma, T. Venkatesan, J. J. Li, W. L. Cao, C. H. Lee, H. Sato, and M. Naito

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132507 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Tunneling-charging Hamiltonian of a Cooper-pair pump

M. Aunola

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132508 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Maximum-entropy muon-spin-resonance analysis of $R {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ vortex states: A d-wave study

R. Santiago, A. Childers, and C. Boekema

Phys. Rev. B 63, 132509 (2001) - Published 16 March, 2001

ARTICLES

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

Grain boundary and triple junction enthalpies in nanocrystalline metals

A. Caro and H. Van Swygenhoven

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134101 (2001) - Published 27 February, 2001

Premelting at ice-solid interfaces studied via velocity-dependent indentation with force microscope tips

B. Pittenger, S. C. Fain, Jr., M. J. Cochran, J. M. K. Donev, B. E. Robertson, A. Szuchmacher, and R. M. Overney

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134102 (2001) - Published 2 March, 2001

Roles of ferroelectricity, antiferroelectricity, and rotational displacement in the ferroelectric incommensurate phase of ${P b (Z r}_{1 - x} {Ti}_{x}) O_{3}$

S. Watanabe and Y. Koyama

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134103 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Development of a tight-binding potential for bcc Zr: Application to the study of vibrational properties

Marcel Porta and Teresa Castán

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134104 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Computer simulation of intrinsic defects in ${PbWO}_{4}$

Qisheng Lin, Xiqi Feng, and Zhenyong Man

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134105 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Ab initio studies of high-pressure transformations in ${GeO}_{2}$

Z. Łodziana, K. Parlinski, and J. Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134106 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Multiple aging mechanisms in relaxor ferroelectrics

Eugene V. Colla, Lambert K. Chao, and M. B. Weissman

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134107 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Phase stabilities and homogeneity ranges in $4 d$ -transition-metal carbides: A theoretical study

Håkan W. Hugosson, Olle Eriksson, Ulf Jansson, and Börje Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134108 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

Raman effect and structure of ${YH}_{3}$ and ${YD}_{3}$ thin epitaxial films

H. Kierey, M. Rode, A. Jacob, A. Borgschulte, and J. Schoenes

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134109 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Irradiation-induced Cu aggregations in Fe: An origin of embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel steels

Y. Nagai, Z. Tang, M. Hassegawa, T. Kanai, and M. Saneyasu

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134110 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Compositional patterning in immiscible alloys driven by irradiation

Raúl A. Enrique and Pascal Bellon

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134111 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

First-principles elastic constants and electronic structure of $α - {Pt}_{2} Si$ and PtSi

O. Beckstein, J. E. Klepeis, G. L. W. Hart, and O. Pankratov

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134112 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Electronic stopping calculated using explicit phase shift factors

J. Sillanpää, J. Peltola, K. Nordlund, J. Keinonen, and M. J. Puska

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134113 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Thermal vacancy formation and ${D 0}_{3}$ ordering in nanocrystalline intermetallic $({Fe}_{3} Si)_{95} {Nb}_{5}$

L. Pasquini, A. A. Rempel, R. Würschum, K. Reimann, M. A. Müller, B. Fultz, and H.-E. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134114 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Formation of two-dimensional weak localization in conducting Langmuir-Blodgett films

Yasuo Ishizaki, Mitsuru Izumi, Hitoshi Ohnuki, Krystyna Kalita-Lipinska, Tatsuro Imakubo, and Keiji Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134201 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Hydration of the bromine ion in a supercritical 1:1 aqueous electrolyte

G. Ferlat, A. San Miguel, J. F. Jal, J. C. Soetens, Ph. A. Bopp, I. Daniel, S. Guillot, J. L. Hazemann, and R. Argoud

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134202 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Nuclear spin relaxation in quasicrystals via hierarchically variable-range electron hopping

J. Dolinšek and M. Klanjšek

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134203 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Criterion for crack formation in disordered materials

Peter F. Arndt and Thomas Nattermann

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134204 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Inelastic x-ray scattering study on the dynamics of liquid Ge

S. Hosokawa, Y. Kawakita, W.-C. Pilgrim, and H. Sinn

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134205 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

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

Infrared and Raman studies of hydroxide ions in NaCl extended to $H \vec{} D$ and $^{16} O \vec{}^{18} O$ isotope exchange

E. Gustin, A. Bouwen, D. Schoemaker, C. P. An, and F. Luty

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134301 (2001) - Published 26 February, 2001

High-resolution vibrational spectroscopy of Pb-OH defects in ${KMgF}_{3}$ fluoroperovskite single crystals

A. Baraldi, P. Bertoli, R. Capelletti, A. Ruffini, and A. Scacco

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134302 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

Thermal conductivity of opals and related composites

J. D. Albrecht, P. A. Knipp, and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134303 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Magnetism

$U ({As}_{1 - x} {Se}_{x})$ solid solutions. I. Resonant x-ray and neutron scattering study of the magnetic phase diagram

M. J. Longfield, W. G. Stirling, E. Lidström, D. Mannix, G. H. Lander, A. Stunault, G. J. McIntyre, K. Mattenberger, and O. Vogt

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134401 (2001) - Published 26 February, 2001

$U ({As}_{1 - x} {Se}_{x})$ solid solutions. II. New magnetic phase for $0.18 < x < 0.22$

M. J. Longfield, W. G. Stirling, and G. H. Lander

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134402 (2001) - Published 26 February, 2001

String order in spin liquid phases of spin ladders

G. Fáth, Ö. Legeza, and J. Sólyom

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134403 (2001) - Published 26 February, 2001

Influence of conduction electrons on the magnetism of cobalt grains in a copper matrix studied by density-functional theory

J. A. Gómez and Diana Guenzburger

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134404 (2001) - Published 28 February, 2001

Dense self-trapped magnetic polarons and nonmetal-metal transition in Eu-rich EuSe

Masakatsu Umehara

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134405 (2001) - Published 1 March, 2001

Quantum fluctuations of a nearly critical Heisenberg spin glass

A. Georges, O. Parcollet, and S. Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134406 (2001) - Published 1 March, 2001

Soft tetragonal distortions in ferromagnetic ${Ni}_{2} MnGa$ and related materials from first principles

V. V. Godlevsky and K. M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134407 (2001) - Published 2 March, 2001

Green’s function theory of the spin-1 low-dimensional quantum XY ferromagnet

M. E. Gouvêa and A. S. T. Pires

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134408 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Specific heat and high-temperature series of lattice models: Interpolation scheme and examples on quantum spin systems in one and two dimensions

B. Bernu and G. Misguich

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134409 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Excitations in the anisotropic spin-orbital model

Jan Bała, Andrzej M. Oleś, and George A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134410 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Pressure versus magnetic-field tuning of a magnetic quantum phase transition

H. v. Löhneysen, C. Pfleiderer, T. Pietrus, O. Stockert, and B. Will

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134411 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Correlations between the magnetic and structural properties of Ca-doped ${BiMnO}_{3}$

H. Woo, T. A. Tyson, M. Croft, S-W. Cheong, and J. C. Woicik

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134412 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Small-amplitude mobile solitons in the two-dimensional ferromagnet

B. A. Ivanov, C. E. Zaspel, and I. A. Yastremsky

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134413 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Low-energy excitations in impurity substituted ${CuGeO}_{3}$

B. R. Jones, A. B. Sushkov, J. L. Musfeldt, Y. J. Wang, A. Revcolevschi, and G. Dhalenne

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134414 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

First-principles study of ${Ca}^{2 +}$ and ${Mn}^{2 +}$ substituents in ${KTaO}_{3}$

Kevin Leung

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134415 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Specific heat study of the field-induced magnetic ordering in the spin-gap system ${TlCuCl}_{3}$

A. Oosawa, H. Aruga Katori, and H. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134416 (2001) - Published 6 March, 2001

Temperature evolution of the quantum gap in $Cs Ni {Cl}_{3}$

M. Kenzelmann, R. A. Cowley, W. J. L. Buyers, and D. F. McMorrow

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134417 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Magnetic properties of ${(VO)}_{2} P_{2} O_{7} :$ Two-plane structure and spin-phonon interactions

G. S. Uhrig and B. Normand

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134418 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Effective mean-field theory based on cumulant expansion in treating the transition of the Potts model on hypercubic lattice

P. Li and Y. Song

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134419 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Spin reorientation and crystal field in the single-crystal hydride ${HoFe}_{11} TiH$

S. A. Nikitin, I. S. Tereshina, N. Yu. Pankratov, and Yu. V. Skourski

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134420 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Electron-electron interactions in graphene sheets

J. González, F. Guinea, and M. A. H. Vozmediano

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134421 (2001) - Published 7 March, 2001

Scaling behavior of the giant magnetoresistance of magnetic aggregates

D. Kechrakos, K. N. Trohidou, and J. A. Blackman

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134422 (2001) - Published 12 March, 2001

Interacting ferromagnetic nanoparticles in discontinuous ${Co}_{80} {Fe}_{20} {/ A l}_{2} O_{3}$ multilayers: From superspin glass to reentrant superferromagnetism

W. Kleemann, O. Petracic, Ch. Binek, G. N. Kakazei, Yu. G. Pogorelov, J. B. Sousa, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134423 (2001) - Published 12 March, 2001

Dynamics and transport in random quantum systems governed by strong-randomness fixed points

Olexei Motrunich, Kedar Damle, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134424 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001

Spin-reorientation transition in thin films studied by the component-resolved Kerr effect

H. F. Ding, S. Pütter, H. P. Oepen, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134425 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Antiferromagnetic structure of ${FePt}_{3}$ films studied by neutron scattering

S. Maat, O. Hellwig, G. Zeltzer, Eric E. Fullerton, G. J. Mankey, M. L. Crow, and J. L. Robertson

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134426 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Magnetization plateaus and phase diagram in polymerized $S = 1 / 2$ $XXZ$ chains

Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida, and B. C. Sanctuary

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134427 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Weak mid-gap spin susceptibility anomaly of ${LiVGe}_{2} O_{6}$ with nonmagnetic impurities

Liu Yichang, Sun Liqun, Hitoshi Inoue, and Shaojin Qin

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134428 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Experimental and theoretical study of quantized spin-wave modes in micrometer-size permalloy wires

Y. Roussigné, S. M. Chérif, C. Dugautier, and P. Moch

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134429 (2001) - Published 14 March, 2001

Probing the $4 p$ electron-spin polarization in NiO

W. Neubeck, C. Vettier, F. de Bergevin, F. Yakhou, D. Mannix, O. Bengone, M. Alouani, and A. Barbier

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134430 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Hysteresis and avalanches in the random anisotropy Ising model

Eduard Vives and Antoni Planes

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134431 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Temperature and angular dependence of the anisotropic magnetoresistance in epitaxial Fe films

R. P. van Gorkom, J. Caro, T. M. Klapwijk, and S. Radelaar

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134432 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Magnetization measurements of antiferromagnetic domains in ${Sr}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{4} {Cl}_{2}$

Beth Parks, M. A. Kastner, Y. J. Kim, A. B. Harris, F. C. Chou, O. Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134433 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Theoretical model of an organic ferrimagnetic state for a bipartite lozenge chain

Y. F. Duan and K. L. Yao

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134434 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Resistivity and magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic metals with localized spins

Mitsuo Kataoka

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134435 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Helical magnetic structures in relativistic systems: The case of UPtGe

L. M. Sandratskii and G. H. Lander

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134436 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Exact solution of Heisenberg-liquid models with long-range coupling

Yupeng Wang and P. Schlottmann

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134437 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Spin correlations in the two-leg antiferromagnetic ladder in a magnetic field

T. Hikihara and A. Furusaki

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134438 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Theory of spin excitations and the microwave response of cylindrical ferromagnetic nanowires

Rodrigo Arias and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134439 (2001) - Published 16 March, 2001

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Fluctuations in single-crystal ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.5} :$ Evidence for crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional behavior

B. Rosenstein, B. Ya. Shapiro, R. Prozorov, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134501 (2001) - Published 23 February, 2001

Anisotropic properties of the excitation spectrum of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ crystals ${(T}_{c} = 1.4 K)$ in the normal state investigated by Raman scattering

Shigenobu Sakita, Shigeki Nimori, Zhiqiang Q. Mao, Yoshiteru Maeno, Norio Ogita, and Masayuki Udagawa

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134520 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Vortex pinning by columnar defects in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{y}$ thin films: A detailed study of the directional effect

A. Pomar, L. Martel, Z. Z. Li, and H. Raffy

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134525 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

Flux penetration, matching effect, and hysteresis in homogeneous superconducting films

C. C. de Souza Silva, Leonardo R. E. Cabral, and J. Albino Aguiar

Phys. Rev. B 63, 134526 (2001) - Published 15 March, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Current transport through low-angle grain boundaries in high-temperature superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 57, 13 878 (1998)]

A. Gurevich and E. A. Pashitskii

Phys. Rev. B 63, 139901 (2001) - Published 13 March, 2001