Volume 66, Issue 14

1 October 2002

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Electron-phonon interaction in transition-metal diborides $T B_{2}$ $(T = Zr, Nb, Ta)$ studied by point-contact spectroscopy

Yu. G. Naidyuk, O. E. Kvitnitskaya, I. K. Yanson, S.-L. Drechsler, G. Behr, and S. Otani

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140301(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Magnetism

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Magnetic circular dichroism in $2 p 3 p 3 p$ resonant photoemission from ferromagnetic Ni in perpendicular geometry across the $L_{3}$ edge

M. Taguchi and G. van der Laan

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140401(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

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Annealing, lattice disorder, and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in ${UCu}_{4} Pd$

C. H. Booth, E.-W. Scheidt, U. Killer, A. Weber, and S. Kehrein

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140402(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

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Chiral domain walls in frustrated magnetoelastic materials

Yu. B. Gaididei, A. Saxena, T. Lookman, A. R. Bishop, and H. Büttner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140403(R) (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

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Spin filtering effect at inserted interfaces in perpendicular spin valves

Hirotaka Oshima, Keiichi Nagasaka, Yoshihiko Seyama, Yutaka Shimizu, and Atsushi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140404(R) (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

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Canted ferromagnetism in ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$

Kohji Nakamura and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140405(R) (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

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Thermal conductivity of anisotropic and frustrated spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ chains

F. Heidrich-Meisner, A. Honecker, D. C. Cabra, and W. Brenig

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140406(R) (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

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From the bulk to monatomic wires: An ab initio study of magnetism in Co systems with various dimensionality

Matej Komelj, Claude Ederer, James W. Davenport, and Manfred Fähnle

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140407(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

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Change in charge and orbital alignment upon antiferromagnetic transition in the A-site-ordered perovskite manganese oxide $R {BaMn}_{2} O_{6}$ $(R = Tb$ and Sm)

T. Arima, D. Akahoshi, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, M. Uchida, Y. Matsui, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140408(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

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Statistics of the pinning field in a soft metallic ferromagnet

A. C. Mills, F. M. Hess, and M. B. Weissman

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140409(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Condensation energy and high- $T_{c}$ superconductivity

D. van der Marel, A. J. Leggett, J. W. Loram, and J. R. Kirtley

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140501(R) (2002) - Published 2 October, 2002

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Surface states and their possible role in the superconductivity of ${MgB}_{2}$

V. D. P. Servedio, S.-L. Drechsler, and T. Mishonov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140502(R) (2002) - Published 8 October, 2002

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Josephson current in S-FIF-S junctions: Nonmonotonic dependence on misorientation angle

Yu. S. Barash, I. V. Bobkova, and T. Kopp

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140503(R) (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the three-dimensional attractive Hubbard model

Alain Sewer, Xenophon Zotos, and Hans Beck

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140504(R) (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

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Hidden quantum critical point in a ferromagnetic superconductor

Debanand Sa

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140505(R) (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

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Calculation of the phase field of a vortex pair on the surface of a multiply connected substrate

Toshiaki Obata and Minoru Kubota

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140506(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

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Direct measurement of quasiparticle evanescent waves in a dirty superconductor

J. Y. Gu, J. A. Caballero, R. D. Slater, R. Loloee, and W. P. Pratt, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140507(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

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Quantum interference between nonmagnetic impurities in $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ -wave superconductors

Dirk K. Morr and Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140508(R) (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

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Superconducting gap in the presence of bilayer splitting in underdoped $(P b, B i)_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, T. K. Kim, S. Legner, K. A. Nenkov, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, H. Berger, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140509(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

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Pair phase fluctuations and the pseudogap

T. Eckl, D. J. Scalapino, E. Arrigoni, and W. Hanke

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140510(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

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Slow relaxation of low-temperature vortex phases in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

F. Portier, G. Kriza, B. Sas, L. F. Kiss, I. Pethes, K. Vad, B. Keszei, and F. I. B. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140511(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

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Density of states in $d$ -wave superconductors disordered by extended impurities

İnanç Adagideli, Daniel E. Sheehy, and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140512(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

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Fermi surface evolution and collapse of the Mott pseudogap in ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4 \pm δ}$

C. Kusko, R. S. Markiewicz, M. Lindroos, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140513(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

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$^{11} B$ and $^{27} Al$ NMR spin-lattice relaxation and Knight shift of ${Mg}_{1 - x} {Al}_{x} B_{2} :$ Evidence for an anisotropic Fermi surface

G. Papavassiliou, M. Pissas, M. Karayanni, M. Fardis, S. Koutandos, and K. Prassides

Phys. Rev. B 66, 140514(R) (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

ARTICLES

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

Particle-size effect on the compressibility of nanocrystalline alumina

B. Chen, D. Penwell, L. R. Benedetti, R. Jeanloz, and M. B. Kruger

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144101 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Probing of ferroelectric surface and bulk domains in $R {MnO}_{3}$ $(R = Y,$ Ho) by second harmonic generation

M. Fiebig, D. Fröhlich, Th. Lottermoser, and M. Maat

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144102 (2002) - Published 8 October, 2002

Dislocation constriction and cross-slip: An ab initio study

Gang Lu, Vasily V. Bulatov, and Nicholas Kioussis

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144103 (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

Complete mapping of the anisotropic free energy of the crystal-melt interface in Al

James R. Morris

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144104 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Vacancies selectively induced and specifically detected on the two sublattices of the intermetallic compound ${MoSi}_{2}$

X. Y. Zhang, W. Sprengel, K. Blaurock, A. A. Rempel, K. J. Reichle, K. Reimann, H. Inui, and H.-E. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144105 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Structure and dynamics of the interface between a binary hard-sphere crystal of NaCl type and its coexisting binary fluid

Rachel Sibug-Aga and Brian B. Laird

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144106 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

First-principles study of the stability and electronic structure of metal hydrides

H. Smithson, C. A. Marianetti, D. Morgan, A. Van der Ven, A. Predith, and G. Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144107 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Determination of the number and size of inhomogeneities in thin films by ion beam analysis

J. P. Stoquert and T. Szörényi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144108 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

NEXAFS experiment and multiple scattering calculations on ${KO}_{2} :$ Effects on the π resonance in the solid phase

M. Pedio, Z. Y. Wu, M. Benfatto, A. Mascaraque, E. Michel, C. Ottaviani, C. Crotti, M. Peloi, M. Zacchigna, and C. Comicioli

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144109 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Orbital hybridization and covalency in paraelectric and ferroelectric ${SrBi}_{2} {Nb}_{2} O_{9}$

Y. Shimakawa, H. Imai, H. Kimura, S. Kimura, Y. Kubo, E. Nishibori, M. Takata, M. Sakata, K. Kato, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144110 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Dislocation image on x-ray topographs within kinematical theory

Izumi Iwasa

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144111 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

First-principles study of the rocksalt–cesium chloride relative phase stability in alkali halides

M. Flórez, J. M. Recio, E. Francisco, M. A. Blanco, and A. Martín Pendás

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144112 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Dynamic dielectric susceptibility of the betaine phosphate (0.15) betaine phosphite (0.85) dipolar glass

J. Banys, S. Lapinskas, A. Kajokas, A. Matulis, C. Klimm, G. Völkel, and A. Klöpperpieper

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144113 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Hidden degree of freedom and critical phase in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a random magnetic field

Hoang K. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144201 (2002) - Published 8 October, 2002

Random laser in the localized regime

P. Sebbah and C. Vanneste

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144202 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Strength reduction in electrical and elastic networks

J. S. Espinoza Ortiz, Chamith S. Rajapakse, and Gemunu H. Gunaratne

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144203 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Minimal model of the phonon-phason dynamics in icosahedral quasicrystals and its application to the problem of internal friction in the $i$ -AlPdMn alloy

S. B. Rochal and V. L. Lorman

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144204 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Temperature effect on the local order of liquid Ni, Ag, and Pb: A molecular dynamics study

Efraín Urrutia-Bañuelos, Alvaro Posada-Amarillas, and Ignacio L. Garzón

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144205 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

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

Phonon spectrum of ${ZnAl}_{2} O_{4}$ spinel from inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles calculations

C. M. Fang, C.-K. Loong, G. A. de Wijs, and G. de With

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144301 (2002) - Published 8 October, 2002

Surface scattering analysis of phonon transport in the quantum limit using an elastic model

D. H. Santamore and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144302 (2002) - Published 8 October, 2002

Roton excitations of the hydrogen molecule in the $Ar (H_{2})_{2}$ compound

Francesco Grazzi, Mario Santoro, Massimo Moraldi, and Lorenzo Ulivi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144303 (2002) - Published 14 October, 2002

Crystal growth and spectroscopic characterization of ${Tm}^{3 +}$ -doped $KYb ({WO}_{4})_{2}$ single crystals

M. C. Pujol, F. Güell, X. Mateos, Jna. Gavaldà, R. Solé, J. Massons, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, G. Boulon, and A. Brenier

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144304 (2002) - Published 16 October, 2002

Magnetism

Quantum phase transitions in alternating transverse Ising chains: Analytical and numerical results

Oleg Derzhko, Johannes Richter, Taras Krokhmalskii, and Oles’ Zaburannyi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144401 (2002) - Published 2 October, 2002

Multiscale nature of hysteretic phenomena: Application to CoPt-type magnets

K. D. Belashchenko and V. P. Antropov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144402 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Percolation in three-dimensional random field Ising magnets

E. T. Seppälä, A. M. Pulkkinen, and M. J. Alava

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144403 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Evidence for ordered moments on the Rh sites in ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

A. Schenck, D. Andreica, F. N. Gygax, D. Aoki, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144404 (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism studies of $5 f$ magnetism in UCoAl and UPtAl

M. Kučera, J. Kuneš, A. Kolomiets, M. Diviš, A. V. Andreev, V. Sechovský, J.-P. Kappler, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144405 (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

Magnetism at finite temperature in heavy rare-earth clusters

F. López-Urías, A. Díaz-Ortiz, and J. L. Morán-López

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144406 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Model of localized highly frustrated ferromagnetism: The kagomé spin ice

A. S. Wills, R. Ballou, and C. Lacroix

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144407 (2002) - Published 14 October, 2002

Origin of induced Sn magnetic moments in thin Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers

Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay and Duc Nguyen-Manh

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144408 (2002) - Published 14 October, 2002

Role of dipolar and exchange interactions in the positions and widths of EPR transitions for the single-molecule magnets ${Fe}_{8}$ and ${Mn}_{12}$

Kyungwha Park, M. A. Novotny, N. S. Dalal, S. Hill, and P. A. Rikvold

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144409 (2002) - Published 16 October, 2002

Magnetic properties of $α$ -iron(II) phthalocyanine

M. Evangelisti, J. Bartolomé, L. J. de Jongh, and G. Filoti

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144410 (2002) - Published 16 October, 2002

Hot-electron three-terminal devices based on magnetic tunnel junction stacks

M. Hehn, F. Montaigne, and A. Schuhl

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144411 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Structural and magnetic ordering in $\Pr_{0.65} ({Ca}_{y} {Sr}_{1 - y})_{0.35} {MnO}_{3} :$ Quantum critical point versus phase segregation scenarios

G. R. Blake, L. Chapon, P. G. Radaelli, D. N. Argyriou, M. J. Gutmann, and J. F. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144412 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Icosahedral growth, magnetic behavior, and adsorbate-induced metal-nonmetal transition in palladium clusters

Vijay Kumar and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144413 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Correlation of quenched structural disorder and magnetism in ${TiFe}_{2}$ Laves-phase thin films

J. Köble and M. Huth

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144414 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

X-ray absorption spectra at the Ru and Mn $L_{2, 3}$ edges and long-range ferromagnetism in ${SrRu}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} O_{3}$ solid solutions $(0 <~ x <~ 0.5)$

Ranjan K. Sahu, Z. Hu, Manju L. Rao, S. Sundar Manoharan, T. Schmidt, B. Richter, M. Knupfer, M. Golden, J. Fink, and C. M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144415 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Haldane-gapped spin chains as Luttinger liquids: Correlation functions at finite field

Robert M. Konik and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144416 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Titanium metastable phases in sputtered Ti-Fe films and their influence in the electrical resistivity

M. A. Arranz, T. Muñoz, and J. M. Riveiro

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144417 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Effect of A-site cation ordering on the magnetoelectric properties in $[({LaMnO}_{3})_{m} / ({SrMnO}_{3})_{m}]_{n}$ artificial superlattices

T. Koida, M. Lippmaa, T. Fukumura, K. Itaka, Y. Matsumoto, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144418 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Magnetic domain structures in submicron-size particles of epitaxial Fe (001) films: Shape anisotropy and thickness dependence

M. Hanson, O. Kazakova, P. Blomqvist, R. Wäppling, and B. Nilsson

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144419 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

High-energy magnon dispersion in the half-filled Hubbard model: A comparison with ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

Pinaki Sengupta, Richard T. Scalettar, and Rajiv R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144420 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Effects of the stoichiometry and chemical order on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Cr-Pt alloys probed by angular-resolved photoemission

A. Borgschulte, D. Zur, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144421 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

$^{57} Fe$ diluted in a Ag film prepared by vapor quenching: Nanostructure formation and magnetic behavior

M. A. Morales, E. C. Passamani, and E. Baggio-Saitovitch

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144422 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Effect of hydrogenation on crystal structure and magnetic properties of $U T Si (T = P d, N i)$ intermetallics

A. V. Kolomiets, L. Havela, A. V. Andreev, F. Wastin, J. Šebek, and M. Maryško

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144423 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

X-ray-induced disordering of the dimerization pattern and apparent low-temperature enhancement of lattice symmetry in spinel ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4}$

H. Ishibashi, T. Y. Koo, Y. S. Hor, A. Borissov, P. G. Radaelli, Y. Horibe, S-W. Cheong, and V. Kiryukhin

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144424 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Effective spinless fermions in the strong-coupling Kondo model

Winfried Koller, Alexander Prüll, Hans Gerd Evertz, and Wolfgang von der Linden

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144425 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Determination of magnetic exchange stiffness and surface anisotropy constants in epitaxial ${Ni}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} (001)$ films

P. Talagala, P. S. Fodor, D. Haddad, R. Naik, L. E. Wenger, P. P. Vaishnava, and V. M. Naik

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144426 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Ab initio characterization of the giant magnetoresistance in realistic spin valves

P. Weinberger and L. Szunyogh

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144427 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Magnetic profile and interlayer exchange coupling in fcc ${Fe}_{n} / {Ni}_{m}$ (001) superlattices

A. Hadj-Larbi, S. Bouarab, and C. Demangeat

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144428 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Antiferromagnetic ordering of magnetic moments due to cavity trapped electrons in sodium electrosodalite: A zero-field $μ SR$ study

R. Scheuermann, E. Roduner, G. Engelhardt, H.-H. Klauss, and D. Herlach

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144429 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Spin-vibrational coupling in the far-infrared spectrum of ${Mn}_{12}$ -acetate

A. B. Sushkov, J. L. Musfeldt, Y. J. Wang, R. M. Achey, and N. S. Dalal

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144430 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of type-II superconductors from isothermal magnetization data: Application to high-temperature superconductors

I. L. Landau and H. R. Ott

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144506 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Increasing superconducting $T_{c}$ ’s by a factor of 1000 with large hopping anisotropies in two-dimensional $t - J$ model systems

Saurabh Basu, A. Callan-Jones, and R. J. Gooding

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144507 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Dirac quasiparticles and spin-lattice relaxation in the mixed state

Daniel Knapp, Catherine Kallin, A. John Berlinsky, and Rachel Wortis

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144508 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Angle-resolved photoemission intensities in a cuprate system with bilayer coupling: Effects of transition matrix elements and photoelectron losses

J. D. Lee and A. Fujimori

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144509 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Spectrum of low-energy excitations in the vortex state: Comparison of the Doppler-shift method to a quasiclassical approach

T. Dahm, S. Graser, C. Iniotakis, and N. Schopohl

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144515 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

Competing order in the mixed state of high-temperature superconductors

Steven A. Kivelson, Dung-Hai Lee, Eduardo Fradkin, and Vadim Oganesyan

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144516 (2002) - Published 31 October, 2002

COMMENTS

Comment on “Magnetism of the V(001) surface: Contradictory results from pseudopotential and linearized augmented plane-wave calculations”

Georg Kresse, Wolfgang Bergermayer, and Raimund Podloucky

Phys. Rev. B 66, 146401 (2002) - Published 9 October, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Planar and axial coherent bremsstrahlung of type A from a 17-MeV electron beam in a diamond crystal [Phys. Rev. B 64, 014304 (2001)]

K. Chouffani, I. Endo, and H. Überall

Phys. Rev. B 66, 149901 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Erratum: Properties of liquid nickel: A critical comparison of EAM and MEAM calculations [Phys. Rev. B 65, 024209 (2002)]

F. J. Cherne, M. I. Baskes, and P. A. Deymier

Phys. Rev. B 66, 149902 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Erratum: Theory of spin excitations and the microwave response of cylindrical ferromagnetic nanowires [Phys. Rev. B 63, 134439 (2001)]

Rodrigo Arias and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 66, 149903 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002