Volume 66, Issue 9

1 September 2002

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BRIEF REPORTS

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

Pressure-induced metallization in solid boron

Jijun Zhao and Jian Ping Lu

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092101 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Influence of three-body forces and anharmonic effects on the zero-point energy of rare-gas crystals

Krzysztof Rościszewski and Beate Paulus

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092102 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Origin of octahedral tilting in orthorhombic perovskites

B. Magyari-Köpe, L. Vitos, B. Johansson, and J. Kollár

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092103 (2002) - Published 9 September, 2002

Possible complete miscibility of $(BN)_{x} (C_{2})_{1 - x}$ alloys

Jin-Cheng Zheng, Hui-Qiong Wang, A. T. S. Wee, and C. H. A. Huan

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092104 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

Two-energy twin image removal in atomic-resolution x-ray holography

Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, K. Hayashi, Y. Takahashi, and E. Matsubara

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092105 (2002) - Published 27 September, 2002

Calculation of polarization

L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, and H. T. Stokes

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092106 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

X-ray Raman spectroscopy at the oxygen K edge of water and ice: Implications on local structure models

U. Bergmann, Ph. Wernet, P. Glatzel, M. Cavalleri, L. G. M. Pettersson, A. Nilsson, and S. P. Cramer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092107 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Vacancies in quasicrystals: Effects of electron irradiation

K. Sato, F. Baier, W. Sprengel, and H.-E. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092201 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Relative contributions of thermal energy and free volume to the temperature dependence of structural relaxation in fragile glass-forming liquids

Marian Paluch, Riccardo Casalini, and C. Michael Roland

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092202 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Monitoring an insulator-metal transition in icosahedral AlPdRe by neutron irradiation

A. E. Karkin, B. N. Goshchitskii, V. I. Voronin, S. J. Poon, V. Srinivas, and Ö. Rapp

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092203 (2002) - Published 26 September, 2002

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

Nonlinear mechanism of plasmon damping in electron gas

V. U. Nazarov, S. Nishigaki, and T. Nagao

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092301 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Propagation of acoustic waves through finite superlattices: Transmission enhancement by surface resonance assistance

B. Manzanares-Martínez and F. Ramos-Mendieta

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092302 (2002) - Published 10 September, 2002

Fermi-resonance-like phenomena in lattice dynamics of fcc La

M. I. Katsnelson, A. Y. Stroev, and A. V. Trefilov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092303 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Incommensurate and superconducting phases in an exactly solvable model

Igor N. Karnaukhov

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092304 (2002) - Published 26 September, 2002

Magnetism

Suppression of quantum phase interference in the molecular magnet ${Fe}_{8}$ with dipolar-dipolar interaction

Zhi-De Chen, J.-Q. Liang, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092401 (2002) - Published 12 September, 2002

Spin-wave spectrum in ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4} :$ Double occupancy and competing interaction effects

Avinash Singh and Pallab Goswami

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092402 (2002) - Published 13 September, 2002

Magnetic ordering, electronic structure, and magnetic anisotropy energy in the high-spin ${Mn}_{10}$ single molecule magnet

Jens Kortus, Tunna Baruah, Noam Bernstein, and Mark R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092403 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Magnetic properties of an SU(4) spin-orbital chain

Shi-Jian Gu and You-Quan Li

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092404 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Abnormal magnetism and phase transformation of a Heisenberg-like model with internal spin fluctuation

Huai-Yu Wang, Ke-Qiu Chen, and En-Ge Wang

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092405 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

Influence of oxygen stoichiometry on the spin-glass behavior of ${LiCrMnO}_{4 - δ}$ spinels

Makoto Tachibana, Takeo Tojo, Hitoshi Kawaji, Tooru Atake, Hiromasa Ikuta, Yoshiharu Uchimoto, and Masataka Wakihara

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092406 (2002) - Published 25 September, 2002

Small conductance fluctuations in a second-order colossal magnetoresistive transition

A. Palanisami, R. D. Merithew, M. B. Weissman, Maitri P. Warusawithana, F. M. Hess, and J. N. Eckstein

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092407 (2002) - Published 26 September, 2002

Manipulation of the short-wavelength interlayer exchange coupling in Fe/Cr multilayers via interface alloying

V. M. Uzdin and C. Demangeat

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092408 (2002) - Published 27 September, 2002

Training of the exchange-bias effect in NiO-Fe heterostructures

A. Hochstrat, Ch. Binek, and W. Kleemann

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092409 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

Thermal relaxation in antiferromagnetically coupled granular magnetic media

Andreas Moser, David T. Margulies, and Eric E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092410 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

Superfluidity and superconductivity

X-ray diffraction study of lattice modulations in an underdoped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$ superconductor

Zahirul Islam, S. K. Sinha, D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, B. W. Veal, D. R. Haeffner, and H. A. Mook

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092501 (2002) - Published 9 September, 2002

Large-N $β$ function for superconducting films in a magnetic field

A. P. C. Malbouisson

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092502 (2002) - Published 11 September, 2002

Superconductivity in the Ni-based ternary compound ${LaNiGa}_{2}$

N. L. Zeng and W. H. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092503 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Pressure studies on the pseudogap and critical temperatures of a high- $T_{c}$ superconductor

E. V. L. de Mello, M. T. D. Orlando, J. L. González, E. S. Caixeiro, and E. Baggio-Saitovich

Phys. Rev. B 66, 092504 (2002) - Published 24 September, 2002

ARTICLES

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

Local structure in the stripe phase of ${La}_{1.6 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Nd}_{0.4} {CuO}_{4}$

S.-W. Han, E. A. Stern, D. Haskel, and A. R. Moodenbaugh

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094101 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Ferroelectric, conductive, and dielectric properties of ${KTiOPO}_{4}$ at low temperature

Q. Jiang, M. N. Womersley, P. A. Thomas, J. P. Rourke, K. B. Hutton, and R. C. C. Ward

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094102 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Pixel mapping analysis to characterize long-range order interactions in crystals under ion irradiation

S. T. Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094103 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Hexagonal and tetragonal states of magnesium by first principles

F. Jona and P. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094104 (2002) - Published 9 September, 2002

Crystalline intermetallic compounds in the K-Te system: The Zintl-Klemm principle revisited

Karin Seifert-Lorenz and Jürgen Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094105 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Dislocation density and graphitization of diamond crystals

C. Pantea, J. Gubicza, T. Ungar, G. A. Voronin, and T. W. Zerda

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094106 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Structural transition in $(C_{60})_{n}$ clusters

W. Branz, N. Malinowski, A. Enders, and T. P. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094107 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

Atomic and electronic characterization of the $a [100]$ dislocation core in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Zaoli Zhang, Wilfried Sigle, and Manfred Rühle

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094108 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

Hydrogen in Laves phase $Zr X_{2}$ $(X = V,$ Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) compounds: Binding energies and electronic and magnetic structure

Suklyun Hong and C. L. Fu

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094109 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Ideal strength of bcc molybdenum and niobium

Weidong Luo, D. Roundy, Marvin L. Cohen, and J. W. Morris, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094110 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Holographic analysis of diffraction structure factors

S. Marchesini, N. Mannella, C. S. Fadley, M. A. Van Hove, J. J. Bucher, D. K. Shuh, L. Fabris, M. J. Press, M. W. West, W. C. Stolte, and Z. Hussain

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094111 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Ferroelectric properties of monoclinic $Pb ({Mg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3} - {PbTiO}_{3}$ crystals

A. A. Bokov and Z.-G. Ye

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094112 (2002) - Published 25 September, 2002

Transverse charge density waves in ladder systems

A. Latgé and M. A. Continentino

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094113 (2002) - Published 25 September, 2002

Control of friction by shear induced phase transitions

O. K. Dudko, A. E. Filippov, J. Klafter, and M. Urbakh

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094114 (2002) - Published 25 September, 2002

First-principles electronic thermal pressure of metal Au and Pt

Taku Tsuchiya and Katsuyuki Kawamura

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094115 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Fluctuation of correlation dimension and inverse participation number at the Anderson transition

Imre Varga

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094201 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Penrose structures: Gap labeling and geometry

E. de Prunelé

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094202 (2002) - Published 11 September, 2002

Quantum annealing by the path-integral Monte Carlo method: The two-dimensional random Ising model

Roman Martoňák, Giuseppe E. Santoro, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094203 (2002) - Published 13 September, 2002

Localization-delocalization in aperiodic systems

Lars Kroon, Erik Lennholm, and Rolf Riklund

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094204 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

EXAFS, x-ray diffraction, and reverse Monte Carlo simulations of an amorphous ${Ni}_{60} {Ti}_{40}$ alloy produced by mechanical alloying

K. D. Machado, J. C. de Lima, C. E. M. de Campos, T. A. Grandi, and D. M. Trichês

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094205 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Experimental study of Raman-active two-level systems and the boson peak in ${LaF}_{3}$ -doped fluorite mixed crystals

J. J. Tu and A. J. Sievers

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094206 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Bose-Einstein condensation on inhomogeneous networks: Mesoscopic aspects versus thermodynamic limit

P. Buonsante, R. Burioni, D. Cassi, and A. Vezzani

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094207 (2002) - Published 27 September, 2002

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

Phonon anomaly at the charge ordering transition in $1 T - {TaS}_{2}$

L. V. Gasparov, K. G. Brown, A. C. Wint, D. B. Tanner, H. Berger, G. Margaritondo, R. Gaál, and L. Forró

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094301 (2002) - Published 10 September, 2002

Nonequilibrium Green functions depending on the observation time for ultrafast dynamics

Mamoru Sakaue, Toshiaki Munakata, Hideaki Kasai, and Ayao Okiji

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094302 (2002) - Published 12 September, 2002

Nonlinear disorder model for Raman profiles in naturally abundant PtCl

G. Kalosakas, A. R. Bishop, and A. P. Shreve

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094303 (2002) - Published 25 September, 2002

Theory of carrier injection into a polymer chain: Polaronic effects

D. M. Basko and E. M. Conwell

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094304 (2002) - Published 30 September, 2002

Magnetism

Long-time tails and anomalous slowing down in the relaxation of spatially inhomogeneous excitations in quantum spin chains

G. O. Berim, S. I. Berim, and G. G. Cabrera

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094401 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Magnetocaloric effect in the intermetallic compounds $R {Co}_{2} (R = Dy, Ho, Er)$

N. A. de Oliveira, P. J. von Ranke, M. V. Tovar Costa, and A. Troper

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094402 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Conductivity of quantum spin chains: A quantum Monte Carlo approach

J. V. Alvarez and Claudius Gros

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094403 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Evidence for the excited triplet of ${Co}^{3 +}$ in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

S. Noguchi, S. Kawamata, K. Okuda, H. Nojiri, and M. Motokawa

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094404 (2002) - Published 5 September, 2002

Influence of oxygen octahedron distortion on the $e_{g}$ states in manganites: Isotope effect

S. W. Biernacki

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094405 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Spin-glass behavior in a three-dimensional antiferromagnet ordered phase: Magnetic structure of ${Co}_{2} (OH) ({PO}_{4})$

J. M. Rojo, J. L. Mesa, L. Lezama, J. L. Pizarro, M. I. Arriortua, J. Rodriguez Fernandez, G. E. Barberis, and T. Rojo

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094406 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of thin magnetic films

P. Henelius, P. Fröbrich, P. J. Kuntz, C. Timm, and P. J. Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094407 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Structural phenomena associated with the spin-state transition in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

P. G. Radaelli and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094408 (2002) - Published 10 September, 2002

Magnetization and ac susceptibility studies of the magnetic phase separation in ${La}_{0.8} {Ca}_{0.2} {MnO}_{3}$ and ${La}_{0.78} {Ca}_{0.22} {MnO}_{3}$ single crystals

V. Markovich, I. Fita, R. Puzniak, M. I. Tsindlekht, A. Wisniewski, and G. Gorodetsky

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094409 (2002) - Published 10 September, 2002

Structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of single-crystalline ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ $(0.4 < x < 0.85)$

J. Hemberger, A. Krimmel, T. Kurz, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, V. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Mukhin, A. M. Balbashov, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094410 (2002) - Published 11 September, 2002

Structure and physical properties of the thermoelectric skutterudites ${Eu}_{y} {Fe}_{4 - x} {Co}_{x} {Sb}_{12}$

A. Grytsiv, P. Rogl, St. Berger, Ch. Paul, E. Bauer, C. Godart, B. Ni, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, A. Saccone, R. Ferro, and D. Kaczorowski

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094411 (2002) - Published 11 September, 2002

Effect of the magnetic properties of the inclusions on the high-frequency dielectric response of diluted composites

O. Reynet, A.-L. Adenot, S. Deprot, O. Acher, and M. Latrach

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094412 (2002) - Published 12 September, 2002

Theory of induced magnetic moments and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in Co-Pt multilayers

Claude Ederer, Matej Komelj, Manfred Fähnle, and Gisela Schütz

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094413 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Magnetism, electronic transport, and colossal magnetoresistance of $({La}_{0.7 - x} {Gd}_{x}) {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ $(0 <~ x <~ 0.6)$

Young Sun, M. B. Salamon, Wei Tong, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094414 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Local moments and magnetic correlations above the Curie temperature in thin films on and embedded in nonmagnetic substrates: Fe/Cu(100), Co/Cu(100), and Fe/W(100)

S. S. A. Razee, J. B. Staunton, L. Szunyogh, and B. L. Györffy

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094415 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

In-plane dipole coupling anisotropy of a square ferromagnetic Heisenberg monolayer

M. Dantziger, B. Glinsmann, S. Scheffler, B. Zimmermann, and P. J. Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094416 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Spin-dependent hot electron transport in ${Ni}_{81} {Fe}_{19}$ and ${Co}_{84} {Fe}_{16}$ films on GaAs(001)

Sebastiaan van Dijken, Xin Jiang, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094417 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Evolution of polaron size in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{4}$

E. Winkler, F. Rivadulla, J.-S. Zhou, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094418 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Large-scale low-energy excitations in the two-dimensional Ising spin glass

A. K. Hartmann and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094419 (2002) - Published 16 September, 2002

Frustration-driven structural distortion in ${VOMoO}_{4}$

P. Carretta, N. Papinutto, C. B. Azzoni, M. C. Mozzati, E. Pavarini, S. Gonthier, and P. Millet

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094420 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

${Co}_{2} Mn X$ $(X = Si,$ Ge, Sn) Heusler compounds: An ab initio study of their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at zero and elevated pressure

S. Picozzi, A. Continenza, and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094421 (2002) - Published 17 September, 2002

Grain-boundary capacitance of ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ films

A. Glaser and M. Ziese

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094422 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Bulk contributions to tunnel magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions

T. Zhu, X. Xiang, F. Shen, Z. Zhang, G. Landry, D. V. Dimitrov, N. García, and John Q. Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094423 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Magnetic behavior of sputtered Gd/Co multilayers

J. P. Andrés, L. Chico, J. Colino, and J. M. Riveiro

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094424 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Effect of pressure on the magnetic properties of $U ({In}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x})_{3} :$ Moment suppression in $U ({In}_{0.6} {Sn}_{0.4})_{3}$

A. Barla, J. P. Sanchez, B. Ni, B. P. Doyle, P. Vulliet, O. Leupold, R. Rüffer, D. Kaczorowski, J. Plessel, and M. M. Abd-Elmeguid

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094425 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Competing orders in a magnetic field: Spin and charge order in the cuprate superconductors

Ying Zhang, Eugene Demler, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094501 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

High-energy magnetic excitations of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

J.-G. Park, K. A. McEwen, and M. J. Bull

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094502 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Anelastic spectroscopy study of the spin-glass and cluster spin-glass phases of ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ $(0.015 < x < 0.03)$

A. Paolone, F. Cordero, R. Cantelli, and M. Ferretti

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094503 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

${QED}_{3}$ theory of underdoped high-temperature superconductors

Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094504 (2002) - Published 4 September, 2002

Superconductivity in the surface layer of ${SrTiO}_{3} / ({Ba}_{0.9} {Nd}_{0.1}) {CuO}_{2 + x} / {CaCuO}_{2}$ heteroepitaxial structures

G. Balestrino, S. Lavanga, P. G. Medaglia, P. Orgiani, and A. Tebano

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094505 (2002) - Published 5 September, 2002

Anomalous quantum diffusion at the superfluid-insulator transition

Claudio Chamon and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094506 (2002) - Published 6 September, 2002

Determination of pairing symmetry from magnetotunneling spectroscopy: A case study for quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors

Y. Tanuma, K. Kuroki, Y. Tanaka, R. Arita, S. Kashiwaya, and H. Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094507 (2002) - Published 10 September, 2002

Quasiparticle diffusion and the energy resolution of superconducting tunneling junctions as photon detectors. II. Experiment

Roland den Hartog, A. G. Kozorezov, J. K. Wigmore, D. Martin, P. Verhoeve, A. Peacock, A. Poelaert, and G. Brammertz

Phys. Rev. B 66, 094511 (2002) - Published 13 September, 2002