Volume 68, Issue 2

1 July 2003

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric coupling in superlattices of paraelectric perovskites at room temperature

Hans M. Christen, Eliot D. Specht, Sherwood S. Silliman, and K. S. Harshavardhan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020101(R) (2003) - Published 25 July, 2003

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In situ x-ray diffraction study of silicon at pressures up to 15.5 GPa and temperatures up to 1073 K

G. A. Voronin, C. Pantea, T. W. Zerda, L. Wang, and Y. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020102(R) (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

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Pressure-induced phase transitions and templating effect in three-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites

Yongjae Lee, David B. Mitzi, Paris W. Barnes, and Thomas Vogt

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020103(R) (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Absence of charge-charge correlations at intermediate-range distances in disordered network-forming materials

Carlo Massobrio and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020201(R) (2003) - Published 25 July, 2003

Magnetism

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${Er}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7} :$ Evidence of quantum order by disorder in a frustrated antiferromagnet

J. D. M. Champion, M. J. Harris, P. C. W. Holdsworth, A. S. Wills, G. Balakrishnan, S. T. Bramwell, E. Čižmár, T. Fennell, J. S. Gardner, J. Lago, D. F. McMorrow, M. Orendáč, A. Orendáčová, D. McK. Paul, R. I. Smith, M. T. F. Telling, and A. Wildes

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020401(R) (2003) - Published 16 July, 2003

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Spatially inhomogeneous ultrafast precessional magnetization reversal

W. K. Hiebert, L. Lagae, and J. De Boeck

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020402(R) (2003) - Published 18 July, 2003

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Spin- $\frac{3}{2}$ random quantum antiferromagnetic chains

A. Saguia, B. Boechat, and M. A. Continentino

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020403(R) (2003) - Published 25 July, 2003

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Magnons in the half-doped manganites

C. I. Ventura and B. Alascio

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020404(R) (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

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Density-functional theory calculation of the intermolecular exchange interaction in the magnetic ${Mn}_{4}$ dimer

Kyungwha Park, Mark R. Pederson, Steven L. Richardson, Nuria Aliaga-Alcalde, and George Christou

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020405(R) (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

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$H - T$ phase diagram of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ in high magnetic fields

A. Suslov, J. B. Ketterson, D. G. Hinks, D. F. Agterberg, and Bimal K. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020406(R) (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Superconducting properties of ${MgCNi}_{3}$ films

D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, D. D. Craig, P. W. Adams, and Julia Y. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020501(R) (2003) - Published 3 July, 2003

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Connecting Berry’s phase and the pumped charge in a Cooper pair pump

M. Aunola and J. J. Toppari

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020502(R) (2003) - Published 14 July, 2003

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Quantum critical behavior and possible triplet superconductivity in electron-doped ${CoO}_{2}$ sheets

D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020503(R) (2003) - Published 18 July, 2003

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First-principles calculation of superconductivity in hole-doped LiBC: $T_{c} = 65 K$

J. K. Dewhurst, S. Sharma, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020504(R) (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

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Two-band/two-gap superconductivity in carbon-substituted ${MgB}_{2}$ evidenced by point-contact spectroscopy

P. Samuely, Z. Hoľanová, P. Szabó, J. Kačmarčík, R. A. Ribeiro, S. L. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020505(R) (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

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Measuring charge-based quantum bits by a superconducting single-electron transistor

J. Kinnunen, P. Törmä, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. B 68, 020506(R) (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

ARTICLES

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

Low-temperature structural and Raman studies on rare-earth gallates

D. Savytskii, L. Vasylechko, A. Senyshyn, A. Matkovskii, C. Bähtz, M. L. Sanjuán, U. Bismayer, and M. Berkowski

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024101 (2003) - Published 3 July, 2003

Interatomic potentials for atomistic simulations of the Ti-Al system

Rajendra R. Zope and Y. Mishin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024102 (2003) - Published 14 July, 2003

Local distortion of ${MnO}_{6}$ clusters in the metallic phase of ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

Tomohiro Shibata, Bruce A. Bunker, and J. F. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024103 (2003) - Published 18 July, 2003

Clausius-Mossotti-type approximation for elastic moduli of a cubic array of spheres

Israel Cohen and David J. Bergman

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024104 (2003) - Published 18 July, 2003

Wavelet-based spatial and temporal multiscaling: Bridging the atomistic and continuum space and time scales

G. Frantziskonis and P. Deymier

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024105 (2003) - Published 25 July, 2003

Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction measurements on $C_{60}$ compressed in a diamond anvil cell

Y. Li, J. H. Rhee, D. Singh, and S. C. Sharma

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024106 (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

Intrinsic long-range bond-order potential for carbon: Performance in Monte Carlo simulations of graphitization

J. H. Los and A. Fasolino

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024107 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Infrared observation of the phase transitions of ice at low temperatures and pressures up to 50 GPa and the metastability of low-temperature ice VII

M. Song, H. Yamawaki, H. Fujihisa, M. Sakashita, and K. Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024108 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Theory of morphotropic transformations in vanadium oxides

H. Katzke, P. Tolédano, and W. Depmeier

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024109 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Density-functional study of nonmolecular phases of nitrogen: Metastable phase at low pressure

M. M. G. Alemany and José Luís Martins

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024110 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

ta-C deposition simulations: Film properties and time-resolved dynamics of film formation

H. U. Jäger and A. Yu. Belov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024201 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Equivalent exploitation of four-pulse one-dimensional ESEEM and HYSCORE spectroscopies for the elucidation of BOHC defects in borate glasses supported by quantum mechanical calculations

George Kordas

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024202 (2003) - Published 14 July, 2003

Comparative structural study of the disordered $M {Cd}_{6}$ quasicrystal approximants

Cesar Pay Gómez and Sven Lidin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024203 (2003) - Published 17 July, 2003

Two-loop approximation in the Coulomb blockade problem

I. S. Beloborodov, A. V. Andreev, and A. I. Larkin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024204 (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

Molecular dynamics investigation of vibrational properties of zeolite ZSM-5-based amorphous material

A. B. Mukhopadhyay, C. Oligschleger, and M. Dolg

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024205 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

$f (α)$ multifractal spectrum at strong and weak disorder

E. Cuevas

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024206 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Segregated tunneling-percolation model for transport nonuniversality

C. Grimaldi, T. Maeder, P. Ryser, and S. Strässler

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024207 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Neutron scattering investigation of low-momentum collective ion dynamics in liquid potassium

L. E. Bove, B. Dorner, C. Petrillo, F. Sacchetti, and J.-B. Suck

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024208 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Effects of the dimensionality of inhomogeneities on the wave spectrum of superlattices

V. A. Ignatchenko, Yu. I. Mankov, and A. A. Maradudin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024209 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Shoulder-peak formation in the process of quenching

Li Hui

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024210 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

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

Intermediate region between large and small polarons in many-electron systems

H. Zheng and M. Avignon

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024301 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Transmission and dispersion relations of perfect and defect-containing waveguide structures in phononic band gap materials

A. Khelif, B. Djafari-Rouhani, J. O. Vasseur, and P. A. Deymier

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024302 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Magnetism

Theory of spin-density profile and lattice distortion in the magnetization plateaus of ${SrCu}_{2} {(B O}_{3})_{2}$

Shin Miyahara, Federico Becca, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024401 (2003) - Published 2 July, 2003

Mixed-phase description of colossal magnetoresistive manganites

Alexander Weiße, Jan Loos, and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024402 (2003) - Published 2 July, 2003

Spin polarization of magnetoresistive materials by point contact spectroscopy

N. Auth, G. Jakob, T. Block, and C. Felser

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024403 (2003) - Published 2 July, 2003

Magnetization dynamics with a spin-transfer torque

Z. Li and S. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024404 (2003) - Published 2 July, 2003

Complex magnetic ground state of ${CuB}_{2} O_{4}$

M. Boehm, B. Roessli, J. Schefer, A. S. Wills, B. Ouladdiaf, E. Lelièvre-Berna, U. Staub, and G. A. Petrakovskii

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024405 (2003) - Published 3 July, 2003

Crystallographic and magnetic study of metastable nanocrystalline ${Sm (F e, S i)}_{9}$

C. Djéga-Mariadassou, L. Bessais, A. Nandra, and E. Burzo

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024406 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Hyperfine fields for Sn and magnetic moments in Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers

A. K. Arzhnikov, L. V. Dobysheva, D. V. Fedorov, and V. M. Uzdin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024407 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Crystal structure, magnetic ordering, and magnetic excitation in the $4 f$ -localized ferromagnet ${CeAgSb}_{2}$

Shingo Araki, Naoto Metoki, Andrei Galatanu, Etsuji Yamamoto, Arumugam Thamizhavel, and Yoshichika Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024408 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Effect of frustrations on magnetism in the Ru double perovskite ${Sr}_{2} {YRuO}_{6}$

E. V. Kuz’min, S. G. Ovchinnikov, and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024409 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Irreversibilities in low-field magnetization of site-disordered ${Ni}_{75} {Al}_{25}$

Anita Semwal and S. N. Kaul

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024410 (2003) - Published 17 July, 2003

Ab initio investigation of ${VOSeO}_{3}$ : A spin gap system with coupled spin dimers

Roser Valentí, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024411 (2003) - Published 17 July, 2003

Magnetic neutron scattering measurements on a single crystal of frustrated ${ZnFe}_{2} O_{4}$

K. Kamazawa, Y. Tsunoda, H. Kadowaki, and K. Kohn

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024412 (2003) - Published 22 July, 2003

Spin states and phase separation in ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CoO}_{3} (x = 0.15, 0.25, 0.35)$ films: Optical, magneto-optical, and magnetotransport studies

N. N. Loshkareva, E. A. Gan’shina, B. I. Belevtsev, Yu. P. Sukhorukov, E. V. Mostovshchikova, A. N. Vinogradov, V. B. Krasovitsky, and I. N. Chukanova

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024413 (2003) - Published 23 July, 2003

Resonant x-ray scattering from ${LaSr}_{2} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ at the Mn $K$ edge

S. Di Matteo, Tapan Chatterji, Y. Joly, A. Stunault, J. A. Paixao, R. Suryanarayanan, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024414 (2003) - Published 23 July, 2003

Pressure-induced electron transfer in ferrimagnetic Prussian blue analogs

Vadim Ksenofontov, Georgiy Levchenko, Sergey Reiman, Philipp Gütlich, Anne Bleuzen, Virginie Escax, and Michel Verdaguer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024415 (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

Density matrix renormalization group study of critical behavior of the $s p i n - \frac{1}{2}$ alternating Heisenberg chain

T. Papenbrock, T. Barnes, D. J. Dean, M. V. Stoitsov, and M. R. Strayer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024416 (2003) - Published 28 July, 2003

Magnetic-martensitic transition of ${Tb}_{5} {Si}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$ studied with neutron powder diffraction

L. Morellon, C. Ritter, C. Magen, P. A. Algarabel, and M. R. Ibarra

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024417 (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Magnetization plateaux in Bethe ansatz solvable spin- $S$ ladders

M. Maslen, M. T. Batchelor, and J. de Gier

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024418 (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Magnetic interactions in EuTe epitaxial layers and EuTe/PbTe superlattices

H. Kępa, G. Springholz, T. M. Giebultowicz, K. I. Goldman, C. F. Majkrzak, P. Kacman, J. Blinowski, S. Holl, H. Krenn, and G. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024419 (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Thermodynamic properties of antiferromagnetic ternary systems using a random-site Ising model

A. Osorio, W. R. Aguirre Contreras, Ligia E. Zamora, G. A. Pérez Alcazar, and J. A. Plascak

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024420 (2003) - Published 29 July, 2003

Analytical approach to spin-dependent transport in a mesoscopic magnetic conductor

Zheng-Chuan Wang and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024421 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Dipolar localization of quantized spin-wave modes in thin rectangular magnetic elements

K. Y. Guslienko, R. W. Chantrell, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024422 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Spin-distribution functionals and correlation energy of the Heisenberg model

Valter L. Líbero and K. Capelle

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024423 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Low-energy fixed points of random Heisenberg models

Y.-C. Lin, R. Mélin, H. Rieger, and F. Iglói

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024424 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Random antiferromagnetic spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ chains with competing interactions

Eddy Yusuf and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024425 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Correlation between structure and intervalence charge-transfer transitions in nanocrystalline ${CoFe}_{2 - x} M_{x} O_{4}$ $(M = M n, A l, S c)$ thin films

Biao Zhou, Ya-Wen Zhang, Yue-Jun Yu, Chun-Sheng Liao, Chun-Hua Yan, Liang-Yao Chen, and Song-You Wang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024426 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Double magnetic transition in $\Pr_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {CoO}_{3}$

R. Mahendiran and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024427 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Spin waves and the origin of commensurate magnetism in ${Ba}_{2} {CoGe}_{2} O_{7}$

A. Zheludev, T. Sato, T. Masuda, K. Uchinokura, G. Shirane, and B. Roessli

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024428 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Charge disproportionation in ${YNiO}_{3} :$ ESR and susceptibility study

M. T. Causa, R. D. Sánchez, M. Tovar, J. A. Alonso, and M. J. Martínez-Lope

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024429 (2003) - Published 30 July, 2003

Element-specific magnetization of a Gd-Co composite system using spin-polarized Auger electron spectroscopy

O. S. Anilturk and A. R. Koymen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024430 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Field-tuned quantum tunneling in the supramolecule dimer $[{Mn}_{4}]_{2}$

Yuanchang Su and Ruibao Tao

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024431 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Raman study of anharmonic effects in $\Pr_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ thin films

A. Tatsi, E. L. Papadopoulou, D. Lampakis, E. Liarokapis, W. Prellier, and B. Mercey

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024432 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Magnetic properties of finite Fe chains at fcc Cu(001) and Cu(111) surfaces

B. Lazarovits, L. Szunyogh, P. Weinberger, and B. Újfalussy

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024433 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Possible $Z_{2}$ phase and spin-charge separation in electron-doped cuprate superconductors

Tiago C. Ribeiro and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024501 (2003) - Published 1 July, 2003

Point-contact spectroscopy of the electron-doped cuprate superconductor $\Pr_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4} :$ The dependence of conductance-voltage spectra on cerium doping, barrier strength, and magnetic field

M. M. Qazilbash, Amlan Biswas, Y. Dagan, R. A. Ott, and R. L. Greene

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024502 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Manifestation of coherent effects in the conductivity of superconductor/insulator/normal-metal/insulator/superconductor junctions

I. P. Nevirkovets, S. E. Shafranjuk, and J. B. Ketterson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024514 (2003) - Published 25 July, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Orbital ordering and exchange interaction in the manganites [Phys. Rev. B 64, 094433 (2001)]

Hakim Meskine, Harald König, and Sashi Satpathy

Phys. Rev. B 68, 029901 (2003) - Published 2 July, 2003

Erratum: Properties of low-lying states in some high-nuclearity Mn, Fe, and V clusters: Exact studies of Heisenberg models [Phys. Rev. B 64, 064419 (2001)]

C. Raghu, Indranil Rudra, Diptiman Sen, and S. Ramasesha

Phys. Rev. B 68, 029902 (2003) - Published 22 July, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Anisotropy of Co nanoparticles induced by swift heavy ions [Phys. Rev. B 67, 220101 (2003)]

C. D’Orléans, J. P. Stoquert, C. Estournès, C. Cerruti, J. J. Grob, J. L. Guille, F. Haas, D. Muller, and M. Richard-Plouet

Phys. Rev. B 68, 029903 (2003) - Published 31 July, 2003