Volume 66, Issue 18

1 November 2002

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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α-relaxation and the excess wing in polychlorinated biphenyls

Riccardo Casalini and C. Michael Roland

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180201(R) (2002) - Published 20 November, 2002

Magnetism

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Finite-size scaling of correlation ratio and generalized scheme for the probability-changing cluster algorithm

Yusuke Tomita and Yutaka Okabe

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180401(R) (2002) - Published 7 November, 2002

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Stripe-type charge ordering in the metallic A-type antiferromagnet $\Pr_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$

R. Kajimoto, H. Yoshizawa, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180402(R) (2002) - Published 20 November, 2002

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Chiral phase transitions: Focus driven critical behavior in systems with planar and vector ordering

P. Calabrese, P. Parruccini, and A. I. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180403(R) (2002) - Published 22 November, 2002

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Cyclic spin exchange in cuprate spin ladders

Tamara S. Nunner, Philipp Brune, Thilo Kopp, Marco Windt, and Markus Grüninger

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180404(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

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Low-temperature specific heat of an ${Fe}_{12}$ molecular cluster

M. Affronte, J. C. Lasjaunias, and G. L. Abbati

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180405(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Superconductivity in hole-doped $C_{60}$ from electronic correlations

M. Granath and S. Östlund

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180501(R) (2002) - Published 22 November, 2002

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Anisotropy of the upper critical field and critical current in single crystal ${MgB}_{2}$

L. Lyard, P. Samuely, P. Szabo, T. Klein, C. Marcenat, L. Paulius, K. H. P. Kim, C. U. Jung, H.-S. Lee, B. Kang, S. Choi, S.-I. Lee, J. Marcus, S. Blanchard, A. G. M. Jansen, U. Welp, G. Karapetrov, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180502(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

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Charge density correlations in $t - J$ ladders investigated by the contractor-renormalization method

Sylvain Capponi and Didier Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180503(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

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Anisotropic resistivity and Hall effect in ${MgB}_{2}$ single crystals

Yu. Eltsev, K. Nakao, S. Lee, T. Masui, N. Chikumoto, S. Tajima, N. Koshizuka, and M. Murakami

Phys. Rev. B 66, 180504(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

ARTICLES

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

${Ce}^{3 +}$ luminescence in a ${LiBaF}_{3}$ single crystal at low temperatures

M. Nikl, E. Mihóková, Z. Málková, A. Vedda, M. Martini, K. Shimamura, and T. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184101 (2002) - Published 5 November, 2002

Tailoring optical properties of ${WO}_{3}$ films in the visible to infrared range by ion bombardment and its description by an oscillator model

Matthias Merz, Johannes Eisenmenger, Bernd Heinz, and Paul Ziemann

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184102 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Structural study of the intermediate phase of the ferroelastic ${Pb}_{3} {(P O}_{4})_{2}$ crystal

Yong Chan Cho, Hyeon Jun Lee, Sang Eon Park, Chae Ryong Cho, and Se-Young Jeong

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184103 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Coarse-grained descriptions of multiple scale processes in solid systems

D. J. Diestler

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184104 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

First-principles investigation of brittle cleavage fracture of Fe grain boundaries

Jia-Xiang Shang and Chong-Yu Wang

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184105 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

New polymorph of ${HfMo}_{2} O_{8}$ synthesized using a high-pressure and high-temperature toroid anvil setup

S. N. Achary, G. D. Mukherjee, A. K. Tyagi, and B. K. Godwal

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184106 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Statistical dynamical validity of a Jahn-Teller model for ${Tl}^{+}$ luminescence

A. Ranfagni, D. Mugnai, P. Fabeni, and G. P. Pazzi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184107 (2002) - Published 21 November, 2002

Exactly solved Frenkel-Kontorova model with multiple subwells

Shih-Chang Lee and Wen-Jer Tzeng

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184108 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Formation and rapid evolution of domain structure at phase transitions in slightly inhomogeneous ferroelectrics and ferroelastics

A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184109 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

General theory of heat diffusion dynamics

A. Tröster and W. Schranz

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184110 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Photoinduced phase transition of ${RbMnFe (CN)}_{6}$ studied by x-ray-absorption fine structure spectroscopy

Toshihiko Yokoyama, Hiroko Tokoro, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Kaoru Okamoto, and Toshiaki Ohta

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184111 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Cooperative processes during plastic deformation in nanocrystalline fcc metals: A molecular dynamics simulation

A. Hasnaoui, H. Van Swygenhoven, and P. M. Derlet

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184112 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Damped oscillations in view of the fractional oscillator equation

Ya. E. Ryabov and A. Puzenko

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184201 (2002) - Published 1 November, 2002

Local structure, fluctuations, and freezing in two dimensions

A. C. Mitus, A. Z. Patashinski, A. Patrykiejew, and S. Sokolowski

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184202 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Electronic structure of substoichiometric Fe-Al intermetallics

G. P. Das, B. K. Rao, P. Jena, and S. C. Deevi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184203 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Evidence of a glass transition induced by rigidity self-organization in a network-forming fluid

Adrián Huerta and Gerardo G. Naumis

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184204 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Flow state in molecular-dynamics-simulated deformed amorphous ${Ni}_{0.5} {Zr}_{0.5}$

K. Brinkmann and H. Teichler

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184205 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Linear thermal expansivity (1–300 K), specific heat (1–108 K), and electrical resistivity of the icosahedral quasicrystal $i - {Al}_{61.4} {Cu}_{25.4} {Fe}_{13.2}$

C. A. Swenson, T. A. Lograsso, A. R. Ross, and N. E. Anderson, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184206 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Bulk termination of the quasicrystalline fivefold surface of ${Al}_{70} {Pd}_{21} {Mn}_{9}$

Z. Papadopolos, G. Kasner, J. Ledieu, E. J. Cox, N. V. Richardson, Q. Chen, R. D. Diehl, T. A. Lograsso, A. R. Ross, and R. McGrath

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184207 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Coupled relaxation of concentration and order fields in the linear regime

Pascal Bellon and Georges Martin

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184208 (2002) - Published 20 November, 2002

Tail widths in hydrogenated amorphous silicon and amorphous silicon carbon alloys measured by photomodulated infrared spectroscopy

K. Rerbal, J.-N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, and I. Solomon

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184209 (2002) - Published 26 November, 2002

Structural relaxation in a viscous liquid studied by quasielastic nuclear forward scattering

I. Sergueev, H. Franz, T. Asthalter, W. Petry, U. van Bürck, and G. V. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184210 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

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

Central peaks and Brillouin scattering in uniaxial relaxor single crystals of ${Sr}_{0.61} {Ba}_{0.39} {Nb}_{2} O_{6}$

F. M. Jiang, J.-H. Ko, and S. Kojima

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184301 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Inelastic neutron scattering study of the localized dynamics of protons in ${KHCO}_{3}$ single crystals

Susumu Ikeda, Shoji Kashida, Hidehiko Sugimoto, Yasusada Yamada, S. M. Bennington, and François Fillaux

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184302 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Bayes-Turchin approach to x-ray absorption fine structure data analysis

H. J. Krappe and H. H. Rossner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184303 (2002) - Published 19 November, 2002

Absorption and diffusion of hydrogen in palladium-silver alloys by density functional theory

Xuezhi Ke and Gert Jan Kramer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184304 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Magnetism

Relation between $L_{2, 3}$ XMCD and the magnetic ground-state properties for the early $3 d$ element V

A. Scherz, H. Wende, K. Baberschke, J. Minár, D. Benea, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184401 (2002) - Published 1 November, 2002

Exactly soluble quantum spin models on a double layer: The net spin model

H. Q. Lin, J. L. Shen, and H. Y. Shik

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184402 (2002) - Published 4 November, 2002

Resistance of a domain wall in the quasiclassical approach

F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184403 (2002) - Published 5 November, 2002

Resonant magnetic reflection coefficients at the Fe $2 p$ edge obtained with linearly and circularly polarized soft x rays

H.-Ch. Mertins, D. Abramsohn, A. Gaupp, F. Schäfers, W. Gudat, O. Zaharko, H. Grimmer, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184404 (2002) - Published 5 November, 2002

Theory of excitonic states in ${CaB}_{6}$

Shuichi Murakami, Ryuichi Shindou, Naoto Nagaosa, and Andrei S. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184405 (2002) - Published 7 November, 2002

Structure and magnetic properties of ultrathin iron films deposited on the CoGa(100) surface

Torsten Balster, Domokos A. Kovacs, Christian Pflitsch, Laurens K. Verheij, Rudolf David, and René Franchy

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184406 (2002) - Published 8 November, 2002

Anisotropic CE-type orbital correlations in the ferromagnetic metallic phase of ${Nd}_{1 / 2} {Sr}_{1 / 2} {MnO}_{3}$

J. Geck, D. Bruns, C. Hess, R. Klingeler, P. Reutler, M. v. Zimmermann, S.-W. Cheong, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184407 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Control of Fe valence state and magnetoresistance by means of $T = Ta$ and W substitution in ${Sr}_{2} Fe ({Mo}_{1 - x} T_{x}) O_{6}$

J. Lindén, T. Yamamoto, J. Nakamura, H. Yamauchi, and M. Karppinen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184408 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Effects of magnetic field and isotopic substitution upon the infrared absorption of manganites

C. A. Perroni, V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis, G. Iadonisi, V. Marigliano Ramaglia, and F. Ventriglia

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184409 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Critical behavior of the two-dimensional N-component Landau-Ginzburg Hamiltonian with cubic anisotropy

Pasquale Calabrese and Alessio Celi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184410 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Coercivity enhancement in exchange-biased ferromagnet/FeMn bilayers

L. Wang, B. You, S. J. Yuan, J. Du, W. Q. Zou, A. Hu, and S. M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184411 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Atomic and magnetic structures, disorder effects, and unconventional superexchange interactions in $A_{2} {MnGaO}_{5 + δ}$ $(A = S r, Ca)$ oxides of layered brownmillerite-type structure

V. Yu. Pomjakushin, A. M. Balagurov, T. V. Elzhov, D. V. Sheptyakov, P. Fischer, D. I. Khomskii, V. Yu. Yushankhai, A. M. Abakumov, M. G. Rozova, E. V. Antipov, M. V. Lobanov, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184412 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Magnetic behavior of nanostructured films assembled from preformed Fe clusters embedded in Ag

C. Binns, M. J. Maher, Q. A. Pankhurst, D. Kechrakos, and K. N. Trohidou

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184413 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Magnetic anisotropy of ${BaCu}_{2} {Si}_{2} O_{7} :$ Theory and antiferromagnetic resonance

R. Hayn, V. A. Pashchenko, A. Stepanov, T. Masuda, and K. Uchinokura

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184414 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Crystal structure, magnetic properties, and Mössbauer studies of ${La}_{0.6} {Sr}_{0.4} {FeO}_{3 - δ}$ prepared by quenching in different atmospheres

J. B. Yang, W. B. Yelon, W. J. James, Z. Chu, M. Kornecki, Y. X. Xie, X. D. Zhou, H. U. Anderson, Amish G. Joshi, and S. K. Malik

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184415 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Chern-Simons theory for magnetization plateaus of the frustrated $J_{1} {- J}_{2}$ Heisenberg model

Ming-Che Chang and Min-Fong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184416 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Ag-induced spin-reorientation transition of Co ultrathin films on Pt(111)

F. C. Chen, Y. E. Wu, C. W. Su, and C. S. Shern

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184417 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Magnetic interactions and reversal behavior of ${Nd}_{2} {Fe}_{14} B$ particles diluted in a Nd matrix

D. C. Crew, Er. Girt, D. Suess, T. Schrefl, K. M. Krishnan, G. Thomas, and M. Guilot

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184418 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Quantitative determination of the atomic scattering tensor in orbitally ordered ${YTiO}_{3}$ by using a resonant x-ray scattering technique

H. Nakao, Y. Wakabayashi, T. Kiyama, Y. Murakami, M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, Doon Gibbs, S. Ishihara, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184419 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Calculation of exchange integrals and electronic structure for manganese ferrite

Xu Zuo and Carmine Vittoria

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184420 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Spin-state ordered clusters in the perovskite ${NdBaCo}_{2} O_{5.47}$

F. Fauth, E. Suard, V. Caignaert, and I. Mirebeau

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184421 (2002) - Published 19 November, 2002

Specific features of a magnetic impurity in a correlated electron model with Ising anisotropy

A. A. Zvyagin and P. Schlottmann

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184422 (2002) - Published 21 November, 2002

Exchange anisotropy: A ferromagnetic resonance study

A. Layadi

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184423 (2002) - Published 21 November, 2002

Magnetic and electrical properties of $L {BaMn}_{2} O_{6 - γ}$ $(L = \Pr,$ Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb) manganites

S. V. Trukhanov, I. O. Troyanchuk, M. Hervieu, H. Szymczak, and K. Bärner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184424 (2002) - Published 22 November, 2002

Curie temperature of ${F e P t : B}_{2} O_{3}$ nanocomposite films

H. Zeng, R. Sabirianov, O. Mryasov, M. L. Yan, K. Cho, and D. J. Sellmyer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184425 (2002) - Published 22 November, 2002

${SrTiO}_{3} (100) / ({LaMnO}_{3})_{m} ({SrMnO}_{3})_{n}$ layered heterostructures: A combined EELS and TEM study

J. Verbeeck, O. I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo, and B. Mercey

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184426 (2002) - Published 26 November, 2002

Extension of the coupled-cluster method: A variational formalism

Y. Xian

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184427 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Magnetic and transport behavior of electron-doped ${La}_{1 - x} {Mg}_{x} {MnO}_{3} (0.45 <~ x <~ 0.6)$

J. H. Zhao, H. P. Kunkel, X. Z. Zhou, and Gwyn Williams

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184428 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Temperature dependence of single particle excitations in a $S = 1$ chain: Exact diagonalization calculations compared to neutron scattering experiments

M. Kenzelmann and P. Santini

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184429 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Statistical analysis of the magnetization processes in arrays of electrodeposited ferromagnetic nanowires

Y. Henry, A. Iovan, J.-M. George, and L. Piraux

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184430 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Buckling instability in thin soft elliptical particles

N. A. Usov, Ching-Ray Chang, and Zung-Hang Wei

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184431 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Tricritical behavior in a stacked triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnet ${CsCoBr}_{3}$

Ming Mao, B. D. Gaulin, R. B. Rogge, and Z. Tun

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184432 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Magnetization reversal through soliton flip in a biquadratic ferromagnet with varying exchange interactions

M. Daniel and L. Kavitha

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184433 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Electronic structure of lithium nitridoferrate: Effects of correlation and spin-orbit coupling

P. Novák and F. R. Wagner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184434 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Half-metallic ferromagnetism of MnBi in the zinc-blende structure

Ya-Qiong Xu, Bang-Gui Liu, and D. G. Pettifor

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184435 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Coercivity of isotropic nanocrystalline $\Pr_{12} {Fe}_{82} B_{6}$ ribbons

Hong-wei Zhang, Chuan-bing Rong, Jian Zhang, Shao-ying Zhang, and Bao-gen Shen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184436 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Quantum-fluctuation-induced collisions and subsequent excitation gap of an elastic string between walls

Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184501 (2002) - Published 4 November, 2002

Nonequilibrium relaxation in neutral BCS superconductors: Ginzburg-Landau approach with Landau damping in real time

Saeed M. Alamoudi, Daniel Boyanovsky, and Shang-Yung Wang

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184502 (2002) - Published 5 November, 2002

Structural effect on the static spin and charge correlations in ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.125 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

M. Fujita, H. Goka, K. Yamada, and M. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184503 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Uemura relation in phase-fluctuation-dominated superconductors

T. K. Kopeć

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184504 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Vortex dynamics and states of artificially layered superconducting films with correlated defects

Andreas Engel and H. J. Trodahl

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184505 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Oxygen and copper isotope effects on the pseudogap in the high-temperature superconductor ${La}_{1.81} {Ho}_{0.04} {Sr}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$ studied by neutron crystal-field spectroscopy

D. Rubio Temprano, K. Conder, A. Furrer, H. Mutka, V. Trounov, and K. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184506 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Bulk magnetic properties and phase diagram of Li-doped ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4} :$ Common magnetic response of hole-doped ${CuO}_{2}$ planes

T. Sasagawa, P. K. Mang, O. P. Vajk, A. Kapitulnik, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. B 66, 184512 (2002) - Published 26 November, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Searching for sharp features in the pseudogap of icosahedral quasicrystals by NMR [Phys. Rev. B 62, 8862 (2000)]

J. Dolinšek, M. Klanjšek, T. Apih, A. Smontara, J. C. Lasjaunias, J. M. Dubois, and S. J. Poon

Phys. Rev. B 66, 189901 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002