Volume 68, Issue 6

Ken-ichi Nomura, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Nagasawa, Yoshimichi Ohki, Koichi Awazu, Makoto Fujimaki, Naoto Kobayashi, Satoshi Ishii, and Kunihiro Shima

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064106 (2003) - Published 8 August, 2003

Modeling nonclassical nonlinearity, conditioning, and slow dynamics effects in mesoscopic elastic materials

P. P. Delsanto and M. Scalerandi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064107 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Analysis of anelastic dislocation effects in the presence of an unknown background

Ward L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064108 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

High-temperature fcc phase of Pr: Negative thermal expansion and intermediate valence state

A. Yu. Kuznetsov, V. P. Dmitriev, O. I. Bandilet, and H.-P. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064109 (2003) - Published 18 August, 2003

Temperature-dependent forbidden resonant x-ray scattering in zinc oxide

S. P. Collins, D. Laundy, V. E. Dmitrienko, D. Mannix, and P. Thompson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064110 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Diffraction patterns of stacked layer crystals

E. Estevez-Rams, B. Aragon-Fernandez, H. Fuess, and A. Penton-Madrigal

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064111 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Theory for structure and bulk modulus determination

Eleni Ziambaras and Elsebeth Schröder

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064112 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Mixed cluster Monte Carlo algorithms for the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model

A. Rachadi and A. Benyoussef

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064113 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Combined atomistic-continuum modeling of short-pulse laser melting and disintegration of metal films

Dmitriy S. Ivanov and Leonid V. Zhigilei

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064114 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Origin of the low compressibility in hard nitride spinels

P. Mori-Sánchez, M. Marqués, A. Beltrán, J. Z. Jiang, L. Gerward, and J. M. Recio

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064115 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Three-dimensional Anderson model of localization with binary random potential

I. V. Plyushchay, R. A. Römer, and M. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064201 (2003) - Published 6 August, 2003

Ionic conductivity and the mixed alkali effect in ${Li}_{x} {Rb}_{1 - x} {PO}_{3}$ glasses

C. Karlsson, A. Mandanici, A. Matic, J. Swenson, and L. Börjesson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064202 (2003) - Published 8 August, 2003

Conductivity and superlattice ordering in an icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn phase

M. J. Capitan, J. Alvarez, J. J. Prejean, and C. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064203 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Density-functional calculations of the liquid deuterium Hugoniot, reshock, and reverberation timing

Michael P. Desjarlais

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064204 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Thermal effects on zero-phonon holes in the optical spectra of molecular probes in polymer glasses

Indrek Renge

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064205 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Intramolecular structural model for photoinduced plasticity in chalcogenide glasses

S. N. Yannopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064206 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Fundamentals of high-energy electron-irradiation-induced modifications of silicate glasses

Nan Jiang, Jianrong Qiu, Adam Ellison, and John Silcox

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064207 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

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

Ground state, vibrational spectrum, and deterministic transport of a chain of charged particles

S. I. Denisov and E. S. Denisova

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064301 (2003) - Published 1 August, 2003

Effect of A-site and B-site substitution on the infrared reflectivity spectra of ${La}_{1 - y} A_{y} {Mn}_{1 - x} B_{x} O_{3}$ $(A = B a, S r;$ $B = C u, Z n, S c;$ $0 < y <~ 0.3;$ $0 <~ x <~ 0.1)$ manganites

G. De Marzi, Z. V. Popović, A. Cantarero, Z. Dohčević-Mitrović, N. Paunović, J. Bok, and F. Sapiña

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064302 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Kinetic energy control in action-derived molecular dynamics simulations

In-Ho Lee, Jooyoung Lee, and Sangsan Lee

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064303 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Vibrational dynamics of solid poly(ethylene oxide)

M. Krishnan and S. Balasubramanian

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064304 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Limits on phonon information extracted from neutron pair-density functions

Matthias J. Graf, Il-Kyoung Jeong, Daniel L. Starr, and R. H. Heffner

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064305 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Magnetism

Linear and quadratic magneto-optical Kerr effects in continuous and granular ultrathin monocrystalline Fe films

B. Sepúlveda, Y. Huttel, C. Martínez Boubeta, A. Cebollada, and G. Armelles

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064401 (2003) - Published 1 August, 2003

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and spin diffusion in an inhomogeneous field

Gregory B. Furman and Shaul D. Goren

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064402 (2003) - Published 1 August, 2003

Ferromagnetism in the strong hybridization regime of the periodic Anderson model

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

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064403 (2003) - Published 4 August, 2003

ESR study of the anisotropic exchange in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet ${Sr}_{2} V_{3} O_{9}$

V. A. Ivanshin, V. Yushankhai, J. Sichelschmidt, D. V. Zakharov, E. E. Kaul, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064404 (2003) - Published 5 August, 2003

Variable-range-hopping conductivity of the half-doped bilayer manganite ${LaSr}_{2} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$

X. J. Chen, C. L. Zhang, J. S. Gardner, J. L. Sarrao, and C. C. Almasan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064405 (2003) - Published 6 August, 2003

Persistent spin currents in helimagnets

Jan Heurich, Jürgen König, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064406 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism investigation of magnetic contributions from Mn(III) and Mn(IV) ions in Mn12-ac

R. Moroni, Ch. Cartier dit Moulin, G. Champion, M.-A. Arrio, Ph. Sainctavit, M. Verdaguer, and D. Gatteschi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064407 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Migdal’s theorem and the pseudogap

P. Monthoux

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064408 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Magnetization of the unsegregated and segregated (100) surface of MoV binary alloys

A. V. Ponomareva, L. V. Pourovskii, E. I. Isaev, Y. Kh. Vekilov, B. Johansson, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064409 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Dynamical structure factor in copper benzoate and other spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chains

F. H. L. Essler, A. Furusaki, and T. Hikihara

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064410 (2003) - Published 8 August, 2003

Theory of the [111] magnetization plateau in spin ice

R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064411 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Optical properties of the molecule-based magnet $K_{6} [V_{15} {As}_{6} O_{42} (H_{2} O)] \cdot 8 H_{2} O$

J. Choi, L. A. W. Sanderson, J. L. Musfeldt, A. Ellern, and P. Kögerler

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064412 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Low-energy excitations in spin glasses from exact ground states

Matteo Palassini, Frauke Liers, Michael Juenger, and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064413 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Magnetic susceptibility of hcp iron and the seismic anisotropy of Earth’s inner core

G. E. Grechnev, R. Ahuja, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064414 (2003) - Published 18 August, 2003

Oxygen stoichiometry, ferromagnetism, and transport properties of ${La}_{2 - x} {NiMnO}_{6 + δ}$

R. I. Dass, J.-Q. Yan, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064415 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Observation of the Fe spin spiral structure in Fe/Sm-Co exchange-spring bilayers by Mössbauer spectroscopy

V. E. Kuncser, M. Doi, W. Keune, M. Askin, H. Spies, J. S. Jiang, A. Inomata, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064416 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Interrelation between cluster orbital and spin ordering in bilayer manganites

Y. Moritomo, H. Ishikawa, and A. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064417 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Vortices and stabilization of resonance states in crossed magnetic and electric fields

K. Krajewska and J. Z. Kamiński

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064418 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Quantum impurity in an antiferromagnet: Nonlinear sigma model theory

Subir Sachdev and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064419 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Fermi surface and angular-dependent magnetoresistance in the organic conductor $(BEDT - TTF)_{2} Br (DIA)$

S. Uji, T. Terashima, S. Yasuzuka, J. Yamaura, H. M. Yamamoto, and R. Kato

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064420 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Nonperturbative renormalization group approach to the Ising model: A derivative expansion at order $\partial^{4}$

Léonie Canet, Bertrand Delamotte, Dominique Mouhanna, and Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064421 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Calculations of hyperfine parameters in antimony compounds

A. Svane

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064422 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

First-principles simulations of direct coexistence of solid and liquid aluminum

Dario Alfè

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064423 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Ratio of orbital-to-spin magnetic moment in Co core-shell nanoparticles

U. Wiedwald, M. Spasova, E. L. Salabas, M. Ulmeanu, M. Farle, Z. Frait, A. Fraile Rodriguez, D. Arvanitis, N. S. Sobal, M. Hilgendorff, and M. Giersig

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064424 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Magnetic and neutron diffraction studies of long-range ferromagnetic order in monolayered manganites

Chang Seop Hong, Wan Seop Kim, Nam Hwi Hur, and Yong Nam Choi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064425 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Effects of fermion-boson interaction in neutral atomic systems

Nobuhiko Yokoshi and Susumu Kurihara

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064501 (2003) - Published 4 August, 2003

Phase formation and lattice strain in superconducting compound $Y_{1 - x} {La}_{x} {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ $(0 <~ x <~ 1)$

A. Gantis, M. Calamiotou, D. Palles, D. Lampakis, and E. Liarokapis

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064502 (2003) - Published 6 August, 2003

Suppression of superconductivity in Mn-substituted ${MgCNi}_{3}$

A. Das and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064503 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Intergrain and intragrain currents in bulk melt-grown ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ rings

A. B. Surzhenko, M. Zeisberger, T. Habisreuther, W. Gawalek, and L. S. Uspenskaya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064504 (2003) - Published 7 August, 2003

Theory of a higher-order phase transition: The superconducting transition in ${Ba}_{0.6} K_{0.4} {BiO}_{3}$

Pradeep Kumar

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064505 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Electronic structure of the superconducting compounds o-ZrRuP and MoRuP

Izumi Hase

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064506 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Competition of superconductivity and magnetism in ${MoSr}_{2} R_{1.5} {Ce}_{0.5} {Cu}_{2} O_{10 - δ}$ $(R = r a r e - e a r t h)$

I. Felner and E. Galstyan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064507 (2003) - Published 21 August, 2003

Thermodynamic properties of thin films of superfluid $^{3} He - A$

A. B. Vorontsov and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064508 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Quantum information processing with superconducting qubits in a microwave field

J. Q. You and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064509 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Incorporation of Am into the superconductor-related phase $\Pr_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

S. Skanthakumar, C. W. Williams, and L. Soderholm

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064510 (2003) - Published 22 August, 2003

Superconductivity in a system of fractional spectral dimension

Zygmunt Bak

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064511 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Superconducting properties of single-crystalline $Ca ({Al}_{0.5}, {Si}_{0.5})_{2} :$ A ternary silicide with the ${AlB}_{2}$ -type structure

Motoharu Imai, El-Hadi S. Sadki, Hideki Abe, Kenji Nishida, Takashi Kimura, Taku Sato, Kazuto Hirata, and Hideaki Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064512 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Manifestation of triplet superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet structures

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

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064513 (2003) - Published 25 August, 2003

Magnetotransport properties of doped ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$

J. E. McCrone, J. L. Tallon, J. R. Cooper, A. C. MacLaughlin, J. P. Attfield, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064514 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Electronic structure of B $2 p σ$ and $p π$ states in ${MgB}_{2},$ ${AlB}_{2},$ and ${ZrB}_{2}$ single crystals

Jin Nakamura, Shin-ya Nasubida, Eiki Kabasawa, Hisashi Yamazaki, Nobuyoshi Yamada, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Masamitsu Watanabe, Tamio Oguchi, Sergey Lee, Ayako Yamamoto, Setsuko Tajima, Yuji Umeda, Shin Minakawa, Noriaki Kimura, Haruyoshi Aoki, Shigeki Otani, Shik Shin, Thomas A. Callcott, David L. Ederer, Jonathan D. Denlinger, and Rupert C. C. Perera

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064515 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Pair-breaking critical current density of magnesium diboride

Milind N. Kunchur, Sung-Ik Lee, and W. N. Kang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064516 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Angle-resolved photoemission spectral function analysis of the electron-doped cuprate ${Nd}_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$

N. P. Armitage, D. H. Lu, C. Kim, A. Damascelli, K. M. Shen, F. Ronning, D. L. Feng, P. Bogdanov, X. J. Zhou, W. L. Yang, Z. Hussain, P. K. Mang, N. Kaneko, M. Greven, Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 064517 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003