Volume 63, Issue 18

M. M. Savosta, V. D. Doroshev, V. A. Borodin, Yu. G. Pashkevich, V. I. Kamenev, T. N. Tarasenko, J. Englich, J. Kohout, A. G. Soldatov, S. N. Barilo, and S. V. Shiryaev

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184106 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Possibility of modification of the $^{231} Pa$ Mössbauer spectra due to polarization-selective optical pumping

Roman Kolesov and Elena Kuznetsova

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184107 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Mixed spinel structure in nanocrystalline ${NiFe}_{2} O_{4}$

C. N. Chinnasamy, A. Narayanasamy, N. Ponpandian, K. Chattopadhyay, K. Shinoda, B. Jeyadevan, K. Tohji, K. Nakatsuka, T. Furubayashi, and I. Nakatani

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184108 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Anharmonic contribution to the vacancy formation in Cu

Nils Sandberg and Göran Grimvall

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184109 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Dynamical and optical properties of warm dense hydrogen

L. A. Collins, S. R. Bickham, J. D. Kress, S. Mazevet, T. J. Lenosky, N. J. Troullier, and W. Windl

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184110 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Recognition of surface species in atomic force microscopy: Optical properties of a ${Cr}^{3 +}$ defect at the MgO (001) surface

L. N. Kantorovich, A. L. Shluger, and A. M. Stoneham

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184111 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Grain-size effect on ferroelectric ${P b (Z r}_{1 - x} {Ti}_{x}) O_{3}$ solid solutions induced by surface bond contraction

Haitao Huang, Chang Q. Sun, Zhang Tianshu, and Peter Hing

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184112 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Charge-transfer electrostatic model of compositional order in perovskite alloys

Zhigang Wu and Henry Krakauer

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184113 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Vacancy-assisted phase separation with asymmetric atomic mobility: Coarsening rates, precipitate composition, and morphology

Jean-Marc Roussel and Pascal Bellon

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184114 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Electrical relaxations: Simple versus complex ionic systems

A. S. Nowick and B. S. Lim

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184115 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Confinement-induced structure formation of binary mixtures in the presence of impurities

Ji-wen Liu and Yu-qiang Ma

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184116 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Stability of critical behavior of weakly disordered systems with respect to the replica symmetry breaking

V. V. Prudnikov, P. V. Prudnikov, and A. A. Fedorenko

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184201 (2001) - Published 3 April, 2001

Free volumes in glasses and their relation to compressibilities

Akira Doi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184202 (2001) - Published 4 April, 2001

Specific heat properties of polariton modes in quasicrystals

P. W. Mauriz, E. L. Albuquerque, and M. S. Vasconcelos

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184203 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Mixed cation effect in chalcogenide glasses ${Rb}_{2} {S - A g}_{2} {S - G e S}_{2}$

C. Rau, P. Armand, A. Pradel, C. P. E. Varsamis, E. I. Kamitsos, D. Granier, A. Ibanez, and E. Philippot

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184204 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

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

Connection between vibrational dynamics and topological order in simple glasses

S. I. Simdyankin, M. Dzugutov, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184301 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of electronic excitations to probe magnetic order and phase transitions in solid oxygen

S. A. Medvedev, A. P. Brodyanski, and H. J. Jodl

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184302 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy of the formation of self-trapped excitons in ${CaF}_{2}$

Katsumi Tanimura

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184303 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Theory of bound polarons in oxide compounds

J. T. Devreese, V. M. Fomin, E. P. Pokatilov, E. A. Kotomin, R. Eglitis, and Yu. F. Zhukovskii

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184304 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Velocity-force characteristics of a driven interface in a disordered medium

M. Müller, D. A. Gorokhov, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184305 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Effect of surface roughness on the universal thermal conductance

D. H. Santamore and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184306 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Optical absorption spectra of bipolarons

J. T. Devreese, S. N. Klimin, and V. M. Fomin

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184307 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Magnetism

Theory of the metamagnetic crossover in ${CeRu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Hiroyuki Satoh and Fusayoshi J. Ohkawa

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184401 (2001) - Published 26 March, 2001

Magnetism of ${Nd}^{3 +}$ ions in ${Nd}_{5} {Rh}_{4} {Sn}_{10}$

S. Ramakrishnan, N. G. Patil, W. Kang, Heon Ick Ha, Kim Yaung-Soo, T. Takeuchi, Y. Miyako, A. A. Menovsky, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184402 (2001) - Published 30 March, 2001

Pressure-induced metallization and collapse of the antiferromagnetic state of ${MnTe}_{2}$

P. Vulliet, J. P. Sanchez, D. Braithwaite, M. Amanowicz, and B. Malaman

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184403 (2001) - Published 12 April, 2001

Linear renormalization transformation for weakly interacting spin chains

J. Sznajd

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184404 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Spin glass behavior in ${FeAl}_{2}$

C. S. Lue, Y. Öner, D. G. Naugle, and Joseph H. Ross, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184405 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Influence of the crystalline electrical field on the magnetocaloric effect in the series $R {Ni}_{2}$ $(R = \Pr,$ Nd, Gd, Tb, Ho, Er)

P. J. von Ranke, E. P. Nóbrega, I. G. de Oliveira, A. M. Gomes, and R. S. Sarthour

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184406 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Second harmonic generation in anisotropic magnetic films

V. N. Gridnev, V. V. Pavlov, R. V. Pisarev, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184407 (2001) - Published 17 April, 2001

Magnetic anisotropy of ordered and disordered FePd thin films

L. Szunyogh, J. Zabloudil, A. Vernes, P. Weinberger, B. Újfalussy, and C. Sommers

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184408 (2001) - Published 17 April, 2001

Magnetization in molecular iron rings

B. Normand, X. Wang, X. Zotos, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184409 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Infrared study of charge delocalization induced by pressure in the ${La}_{0.75} {Ca}_{0.25} {MnO}_{3}$ manganite

A. Congeduti, P. Postorino, P. Dore, A. Nucara, S. Lupi, S. Mercone, P. Calvani, A. Kumar, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184410 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Theoretical study of perpendicular giant magnetoresistance in multilayers

Julian Velev and Yia-Chung Chang

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184411 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Spin ordering and partial ordering in holmium titanate and related systems

R. Siddharthan, B. S. Shastry, and A. P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184412 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Orbital and dipolar contributions to the hyperfine fields in bulk bcc Fe, hcp Co, and at the Fe/Ag(100) interface: The inclusion of orbital polarization

C. O. Rodriguez, M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, E. L. Peltzer y Blancá, M. Petersen, and P. Novák

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184413 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Magnetic properties of ultrafine ${MnFe}_{2} O_{4}$ powders prepared by mechanochemical processing

M. Muroi, R. Street, P. G. McCormick, and J. Amighian

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184414 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Phase diagram of a random-anisotropy mixed-spin Ising model

A. P. Vieira, J. X. de Carvalho, and S. R. Salinas

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184415 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Finite-size and surface effects in maghemite nanoparticles: Monte Carlo simulations

Òscar Iglesias and Amílcar Labarta

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184416 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Interlayer coupling and magnetoresistance of MnGa-based trilayers with semiconducting, antiferromagnetic, and ferrimagnetic spacer layers

W. Van Roy, H. Akinaga, and S. Miyanishi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184417 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Mesoscopic tunneling magnetoresistance

Gonzalo Usaj and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184418 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Effect of oxygen annealing on the electrical properties of ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3 + δ}$ single crystals around the compositional metal-insulator transition

R. Shiozaki, K. Takenaka, Y. Sawaki, and S. Sugai

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184419 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Critical behavior of the Ising model on fractal structures in dimensions between one and two: Finite-size scaling effects

Pascal Monceau and Michel Perreau

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184420 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Exchange effects in Invar hardening: ${Fe}_{0.65} {Ni}_{0.35}$ as a test case

M. Molotskii and V. Fleurov

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184421 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Monte Carlo simulations of spin glasses at low temperatures

Helmut G. Katzgraber, Matteo Palassini, and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184422 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Vibronic superexchange in single-crystal ${LaMn}_{1 - x} {Ga}_{x} O_{3}$

J.-S. Zhou, H. Q. Yin, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184423 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Strain-driven charge-ordered state in ${La}_{0.67} {Ca}_{0.33} {MnO}_{3}$

Amlan Biswas, M. Rajeswari, R. C. Srivastava, T. Venkatesan, R. L. Greene, Q. Lu, A. L. de Lozanne, and A. J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184424 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Spin-glass state in ${CuGa}_{2} O_{4}$

G. A. Petrakovskii, K. S. Aleksandrov, L. N. Bezmaternikh, S. S. Aplesnin, B. Roessli, F. Semadeni, A. Amato, C. Baines, J. Bartolomé, and M. Evangelisti

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184425 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Charge transport in manganites: Hopping conduction, the anomalous Hall effect, and universal scaling

Y. Lyanda-Geller, S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, P. M. Goldbart, P. D. Han, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184426 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

NMR instabilities and spectral clustering in laser-polarized liquid xenon

K. L. Sauer, F. Marion, P. J. Nacher, and G. Tastevin

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184427 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Ferromagnetism in the two-dimensional periodic Anderson model

C. D. Batista, J. Bonča, and J. E. Gubernatis

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184428 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Elastic constants of ${PrFe}_{4} P_{12}$ in magnetic fields

Yoshiki Nakanishi, Takayuki Simizu, Masahito Yoshizawa, Tatsuma Matsuda, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184429 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Mechanism of resonant x-ray magnetic scattering in NiO

Jun-ichi Igarashi and Manabu Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184430 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Itinerant-electron magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of ${YCo}_{5}$ and related compounds

Lutz Steinbeck, Manuel Richter, and Helmut Eschrig

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184431 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Weak ferromagnetism and spin-charge coupling in single-crystal ${Sr}_{2} {YRuO}_{6}$

G. Cao, Y. Xin, C. S. Alexander, and J. E. Crow

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184432 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Origin of high transport spin polarization in ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3} :$ Direct evidence for minority spin states

B. Nadgorny, I. I. Mazin, M. Osofsky, R. J. Soulen, Jr., P. Broussard, R. M. Stroud, D. J. Singh, V. G. Harris, A. Arsenov, and Ya. Mukovskii

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184433 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Magnetotransport studies and mechanism of $Ho$ - and $Y$ -doped ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

V. Ravindranath, M. S. Ramachandra Rao, G. Rangarajan, Yafeng Lu, J. Klein, R. Klingeler, S. Uhlenbruck, B. Büchner, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184434 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Coherent-path model for nuclear resonant scattering of gamma radiation from nuclei excited by synchrotron radiation

Gilbert R. Hoy, Jos Odeurs, and Romain Coussement

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184435 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Accurate results from perturbation theory for strongly frustrated $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg spin clusters

N. P. Konstantinidis and D. Coffey

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184436 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Effects of oxygen nonstoichiometry on the stability of antiferromagnetic phases of ${CuFeO}_{2 + δ}$ single crystals

M. Hasegawa, M. I. Batrashevich, T. R. Zhao, H. Takei, and T. Goto

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184437 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Against temperature chaos in naive Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations

R. Mulet, A. Pagnani, and G. Parisi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184438 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Dynamics of vortex nucleation by rapid thermal quench

I. S. Aranson, N. B. Kopnin, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184501 (2001) - Published 29 March, 2001

Flux pinning and phase diagrams in amorphous ${Ta}_{0.3} {Ge}_{0.7} / Ge$ multilayers with coplanar defects

A. Engel, H. J. Trodahl, J. C. Abele, and S. M. Robinson

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184502 (2001) - Published 30 March, 2001

Reduction step and quenching of superconductivity in ${Nd}_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} {Cu}_{1.01} O_{y} :$ A Raman scattering study

A. Fainstein, A. Serquis, R. G. Pregliasco, F. Prado, A. Caneiro, and S. Piñol

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184503 (2001) - Published 4 April, 2001

Experimental evidence of the decoupling line in $({Bi}_{1.64} {Pb}_{0.36}) {Sr}_{2} ({Ca}_{0.79} Y_{0.21}) {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ single crystals by resistivity measurements

D. Thopart, Ch. Goupil, and Ch. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184504 (2001) - Published 4 April, 2001

Phonon anomalies and electron-phonon interaction in the ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$ ferromagnetic superconductor: Evidence from infrared conductivity

A. V. Boris, P. Mandal, C. Bernhard, N. N. Kovaleva, K. Pucher, J. Hemberger, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184505 (2001) - Published 5 April, 2001

Rotating superconductors and the London moment: Thermodynamics versus microscopics

Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184506 (2001) - Published 12 April, 2001

O K-edge and Cu $L_{23}$ -edge XANES study on the concentration and distribution of holes in the $({Pb}_{2 / 3} {Cu}_{1 / 3})_{3} {Sr}_{2} (Y, Ca) {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + z}$ superconductive phase

M. Karppinen, M. Kotiranta, H. Yamauchi, P. Nachimuthu, R. S. Liu, and J. M. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184507 (2001) - Published 17 April, 2001

Finite-size effects and dynamical scaling in two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays

J. Holzer, R. S. Newrock, C. J. Lobb, T. Aouaroun, and S. T. Herbert

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184508 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Effect of controlled disorder on quasiparticle thermal transport in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

S. Nakamae, K. Behnia, L. Balicas, F. Rullier-Albenque, H. Berger, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184509 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Symmetry of the remanent-state flux distribution in superconducting thin strips: Probing the critical state

A. V. Bobyl, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, and T. H. Johansen

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184510 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Scaling of the vortex-liquid resistivity in optimally doped and oxygen-deficient ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ single crystals

M. Andersson, A. Rydh, and Ö. Rapp

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184511 (2001) - Published 18 April, 2001

Superfluidity of bosons on a deformable lattice

G. Jackeli and J. Ranninger

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184512 (2001) - Published 19 April, 2001

Experimental and theoretical study of the radial density distributions of large $^{3} He$ droplets

Jan Harms, J. Peter Toennies, Manuel Barranco, and Marti Pi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184513 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Thermodynamics of the crossover from weak- to strong-coupling superconductivity

Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184514 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Substitution of transition metals for Cu in ${Bi}_{2} {(SrCa)}_{n + 2} {Cu}_{n + 1} O_{y}$ whisker crystals: Fe and Pd

Y. K. Kuo, C. W. Schneider, M. V. Nevitt, M. J. Skove, and G. X. Tessema

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184515 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Critical currents, flux-creep activation energy, and potential barriers for the vortex motion from flux-creep experiments

I. L. Landau and H. R. Ott

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184516 (2001) - Published 20 April, 2001

Electronic state of vortices in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ investigated by complex surface impedance measurements

Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Katsuya Iwaya, Kentarou Kinoshita, Tetsuo Hanaguri, Haruhisa Kitano, Atsutaka Maeda, Kenji Shibata, Terukazu Nishizaki, and Norio Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184517 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Microscopic changes in ${HoNi}_{2} B_{2} C$ due to thermal treatment and its effect on superconductivity

A. Dertinger, R. E. Dinnebier, A. Kreyssig, P. W. Stephens, S. Pagola, M. Loewenhaupt, S. van Smaalen, and H. F. Braun

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184518 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Superconducting phase coherence in the presence of a pseudogap: Relation to specific heat, tunneling, and vortex core spectroscopies

Qijin Chen, K. Levin, and Ioan Kosztin

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184519 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Recovery of superconductivity in a quenched mesoscopic domain

I. Shapiro, E. Pechenik, and B. Ya. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184520 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

Structure of the vortex lattice in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state

Manuel Houzet and Alexandre Buzdin

Phys. Rev. B 63, 184521 (2001) - Published 24 April, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Pseudo- $ɛ$ expansion of six-loop renormalization-group functions of an anisotropic cubic model [Phys. Rev. B 62, 12 195 (2000)]

R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, and T. Yavors’kii

Phys. Rev. B 63, 189901 (2001) - Published 12 April, 2001