Volume 69, Issue 18

1 May 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Griffiths-like ac nonlinearity in a disordered antiferroelectric

Eugene V. Colla, M. B. Weissman, Wai-Hung Chan, and Haydn Chen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180101(R) (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Structural and electronic properties of oxygen vacancies in cubic and antiferrodistortive phases of ${SrTiO}_{3}$

James P. Buban, Hakim Iddir, and Serdar Öğüt

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180102(R) (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

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Amorphization in quenched ice VIII: A first-principles study

Koichiro Umemoto and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180103(R) (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ground-state order and spin-lattice coupling in tetrahedral spin systems ${Cu}_{2} {Te}_{2} O_{5} X_{2}$ $(X = Br$ or Cl)

M. Prester, A. Smontara, I. Živković, A. Bilušić, D. Drobac, H. Berger, and F. Bussy

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180401(R) (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

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Switching-mode-dependent magnetic interlayer coupling strength in spin valves and magnetic tunnel junctions

Y. Pennec, J. Camarero, J. C. Toussaint, S. Pizzini, M. Bonfim, F. Petroff, W. Kuch, F. Offi, K. Fukumoto, F. Nguyen Van Dau, and J. Vogel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180402(R) (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

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Absence of hole pairing in a simple $t - J$ model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice

P. W. Leung and Y. F. Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180403(R) (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

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Nanoscale phase competition during charge ordering in intrinsically strained ${La}_{0.33} {Ca}_{0.67} {MnO}_{3}$

J. Tao and J. M. Zuo

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180404(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Pressure-induced transition from a spin glass to an itinerant ferromagnet in the half-doped manganite $L_{0.5} {Ba}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ $(L = Sm$ and Nd) with quenched disorder

N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, D. Akahoshi, Y. Tokura, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180405(R) (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the $A_{1 g}$ and $B_{1 g}$ electronic Raman scattering peaks in the superconducting state of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

H. Martinho, A. A. Martin, C. Rettori, and C. T. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180501(R) (2004) - Published 4 May, 2004

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Josephson plasma resonance in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + y}$ with spatially dependent interlayer phase coherence

N. Kameda, M. Tokunaga, T. Tamegai, M. Konczykowski, and S. Okayasu

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180502(R) (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

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Effect of morphology on the superconductor-insulator transition in one-dimensional nanowires

A. T. Bollinger, A. Rogachev, M. Remeika, and A. Bezryadin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180503(R) (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

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Upper critical field and Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

Hyekyung Won, Kazumi Maki, Stephan Haas, Niels Oeschler, Franziska Weickert, and Philipp Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180504(R) (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

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Suppression of the vortex glass transition due to correlated defects with a persistent direction perpendicular to an applied magnetic field

Ryusuke Ikeda and Kiyokazu Myojin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180505(R) (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

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Optical conductivity of single crystals of ${Na}_{0.57} {CoO}_{2}$

S. Lupi, M. Ortolani, and P. Calvani

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180506(R) (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

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Single-shot measurement of the Josephson charge qubit

O. Astafiev, Yu. A. Pashkin, T. Yamamoto, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180507(R) (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

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Bulk electronic structure of ${Na}_{0.35} {CoO}_{2} \cdot 1.3 H_{2} O$

A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, Y. Takata, K. Tamasaku, M. Taguchi, T. Shimojima, N. Kamakura, K. Horiba, S. Tsuda, S. Shin, D. Miwa, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, M. Yabashi, K. Kobayashi, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, K. Takada, T. Sasaki, H. Sakurai, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180508(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Probing the superconducting gap symmetry of ${PrRu}_{4} {Sb}_{12} :$ A comparison with ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180509(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Vortex solid-liquid transition in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ with a high density of strong pins

S. Colson, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, M. B. Gaifullin, Y. Matsuda, P. Gierłowski, Ming Li, and P. H. Kes

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180510(R) (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

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Quadrupolar effect and rattling motion in the heavy-fermion superconductor ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

Terutaka Goto, Yuichi Nemoto, Kazuhiro Sakai, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mitsuhiro Akatsu, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Hirofumi Hazama, Kei Onuki, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180511(R) (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

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Electronic structure and superconductivity of CaAlSi and SrAlSi

I. I. Mazin and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180512(R) (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

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Heat-capacity anomalies at $T_{sc}$ and $T^{*}$ in the ferromagnetic superconductor ${UGe}_{2}$

N. Tateiwa, T. C. Kobayashi, K. Amaya, Y. Haga, R. Settai, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 69, 180513(R) (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Epitaxially strained $[001] - ({PbTiO}_{3})_{1} ({PbZrO}_{3})_{1}$ superlattice and ${PbTiO}_{3}$ from first principles

Claudia Bungaro and K. M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184101 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Titanium metal at high pressure: Synchrotron experiments and ab initio calculations

Rajeev Ahuja, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, J. M. Osorio Guillen, Maurizio Mattesini, Börje Johansson, and Tristan Le Bihan

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184102 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Extinction effects in x-ray holographic imaging with internal reference

P. Korecki, D. V. Novikov, M. Tolkiehn, and G. Materlik

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184103 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Lattice dynamics of perovskite ${Pb}_{x} {Ca}_{1 - x} {TiO}_{3}$

Shou-Yi Kuo, Chung-Ting Li, and Wen-Feng Hsieh

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184104 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Pressure as a probe of the physics of $^{18} O$ -substituted ${SrTiO}_{3}$

E. L. Venturini, G. A. Samara, M. Itoh, and R. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184105 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Contact resistance in percolating networks

P. Keblinski and F. Cleri

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184201 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Thermoelectric figure of merit of AlPdRe icosahedral quasicrystals: Composition-dependent effects

Enrique Maciá

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184202 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

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

First-principles investigation of high- $κ$ dielectrics: Comparison between the silicates and oxides of hafnium and zirconium

G.-M. Rignanese, X. Gonze, Gyuchang Jun, Kyeongjae Cho, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184301 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Lumped-mass method for the study of band structure in two-dimensional phononic crystals

Gang Wang, Jihong Wen, Yaozong Liu, and Xisen Wen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184302 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Magnetism

Superstructures at low spin–high spin transitions

D. I. Khomskii and U. Löw

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184401 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Field-driven transitions in the dipolar pyrochlore antiferromagnet ${Gd}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

Olivier Cépas and B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184402 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Nonlinear excitations in ${CsNiF}_{3}$ in magnetic fields perpendicular to the easy plane

M. Orendáč, A. Orendáčová, E. Čižmár, J.-H. Park, A. Feher, S. J. Gamble, S. Gabáni, K. Flachbart, J. Karadamoglou, M. Poirier, and M. W. Meisel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184403 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Electron-energy-loss spectra of NiO

L. V. Dobysheva, P. L. Potapov, and D. Schryvers

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184404 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Search for mean-free-path effects in current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance

Wen-C. Chiang, C. Ritz, K. Eid, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184405 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Current-induced magnetization dynamics in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves

M. Covington, M. AlHajDarwish, Y. Ding, N. J. Gokemeijer, and M. A. Seigler

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184406 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Quasiparticle vanishing driven by geometrical frustration

A. E. Trumper, C. J. Gazza, and L. O. Manuel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184407 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Coexistence of bandlike and localized $5 f$ electrons in $U_{x} {La}_{1 - x} S$

M. Broschwitz, C. Stellmach, M. Rode, M. Marutzky, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, O. Vogt, and K. Mattenberger

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184408 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Self-assembled epitaxial magnetic lateral structures on Ru: Controlling the shape and placement

Ruihua Cheng, J. Pearson, H. F. Ding, Vitali Metlushko, S. D. Bader, F. Y. Fradin, and Dongqi Li

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184409 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Spin-resonance modes of the spin-gap magnet ${TlCuCl}_{3}$

V. N. Glazkov, A. I. Smirnov, H. Tanaka, and A. Oosawa

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184410 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Magnetic and electronic properties of the antiferromagnet ${NpCoGa}_{5}$

E. Colineau, P. Javorský, P. Boulet, F. Wastin, J. C. Griveau, J. Rebizant, J. P. Sanchez, and G. R. Stewart

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184411 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Structural and electronic properties of the ordered double perovskites $A_{2} M {ReO}_{6}$ $(A$ =Sr,Ca; $M$ =Mg,Sc,Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni,Zn)

H. Kato, T. Okuda, Y. Okimoto, Y. Tomioka, K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184412 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Magnetotransport properties of $({La}_{1 - y} \Pr_{y})_{0.65} {Ca}_{0.35} {MnO}_{3}$ $(y = 0.0 - 0.7)$ showing crossover from A-type to CE-type antiferromagnetic state

Subhrangsu Taran, Sandip Chatterjee, and B. K. Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184413 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Susceptibility and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the Haldane-gap compound $Ni (C_{2} H_{8} N_{2})_{2} {NO}_{2} ({ClO}_{4})$

Hai Huang and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184414 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Stability of the tetragonal ${Mn}^{3 +} O_{6}$ distortions in the ${LaMn}_{1 - x} {Ga}_{x} O_{3}$ series by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

M. C. Sánchez, G. Subías, J. García, and J. Blasco

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184415 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Quantum properties of a strongly interacting frustrated disordered magnet

James W. Landry and S. N. Coppersmith

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184416 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Two-magnon scattering in a self-assembled nanoscale network of misfit dislocations

G. Woltersdorf and B. Heinrich

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184417 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Magnetostriction and magnetotransport in bismuth

J.-P. Michenaud, B. Lenoir, and C. Bellouard

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184418 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Wide-scale evolution of magnetization distribution in ultrathin films

M. Kisielewski, A. Maziewski, T. Polyakova, and V. Zablotskii

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184419 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Magnetic phases and reorientation transitions in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers

U. K. Rößler and A. N. Bogdanov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184420 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Local magnetism in rare-earth metals encapsulated in fullerenes

C. De Nadaï, A. Mirone, S. S. Dhesi, P. Bencok, N. B. Brookes, I. Marenne, P. Rudolf, N. Tagmatarchis, H. Shinohara, and T. J. S. Dennis

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184421 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Half-metallic character and electronic properties of inverse magnetoresistant ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} Si$ alloys

Javier Guevara, Verónica Vildosola, Julián Milano, and Ana María Llois

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184422 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Aging dynamics of the Heisenberg spin glass

L. Berthier and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184423 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Magnetization density calculation for diffusing spins

Andre Marko, Bernd Wolter, and Walter Arnold

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184424 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Numerical Jordan-Wigner approach for two-dimensional spin systems

D. C. Cabra and G. L. Rossini

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184425 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Critical temperature for the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model

Thereza Paiva, Raimundo R. dos Santos, R. T. Scalettar, and P. J. H. Denteneer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184501 (2004) - Published 3 May, 2004

Split transition in ferromagnetic superconductors

D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184502 (2004) - Published 3 May, 2004

Pseudo-spin-gap and slow spin fluctuation in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ $(x = 0.13$ and 0.18) via $^{63} Cu$ and $^{139} La$ nuclear quadrupole resonance

Y. Itoh, T. Machi, N. Koshizuka, M. Murakami, H. Yamagata, and M. Matsumura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184503 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Guidance of vortices and the vortex ratchet effect in high- $T_{c}$ superconducting thin films obtained by arrangement of antidots

R. Wördenweber, P. Dymashevski, and V. R. Misko

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184504 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Quantum destruction of stiffness in diluted antiferromagnets and superconductors

N. Bray-Ali and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184505 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Evidence for an excited nonequilibrium quasiparticle distribution in superconducting tunnel junctions resulting from energy accumulation via sequential tunneling

A. G. Kozorezov, J. K. Wigmore, A. Peacock, R. den Hartog, D. Martin, G. Brammertz, P. Verhoeve, and N. Rando

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184506 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Muon spin relaxation and magnetic susceptibility studies of the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the Cu spin dynamics and superconductivity in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Cu}_{1 - y} {Zn}_{y} O_{4}$ around $x = 0.115$

T. Adachi, S. Yairi, K. Takahashi, Y. Koike, I. Watanabe, and K. Nagamine

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184507 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Structure optimization effects on the electronic and vibrational properties of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

V. Bellini, F. Manghi, T. Thonhauser, and C. Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184508 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Superconducting thin rings with finite penetration depth

Ernst Helmut Brandt and John R. Clem

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184509 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Low-energy phase-only action in a superconductor: A comparison with the $XY$ model

L. Benfatto, A. Toschi, and S. Caprara

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184510 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Edge modes, edge currents, and gauge invariance in $p_{x} {+ i p}_{y}$ superfluids and superconductors

Michael Stone and Rahul Roy

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184511 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Zero-temperature glass transition in the two-dimensional gauge glass model

Marios Nikolaou and Mats Wallin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184512 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Absolute values of the London penetration depth in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + y}$ measured by zero field ESR spectroscopy on Gd doped single crystals

T. Pereg-Barnea, P. J. Turner, R. Harris, G. K. Mullins, J. S. Bobowski, M. Raudsepp, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184513 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Reversible magnetization measurement of the anisotropy of the London penetration depth in ${MgB}_{2}$ single crystals

Heon-Jung Kim, Byeongwon Kang, Min-Seok Park, Kyung-Hee Kim, Hyun Sook Lee, and Sung-Ik Lee

Phys. Rev. B 69, 184514 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Energy partitioning and particle spectra in multicomponent collision cascades”

Zhu Lin Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 186101 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

Reply to “Comment on ‘Energy partitioning and particle spectra in multicomponent collision cascades’ ”

Herbert M. Urbassek and Martin Vicanek

Phys. Rev. B 69, 186102 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Dimer liquid state in the quantum antiferromagnet compound ${LiCu}_{2} O_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. B 66, 064424 (2002)]

S. Zvyagin, G. Cao, Y. Xin, S. McCall, T. Caldwell, W. Moulton, L.-C. Brunel, A. Angerhofer, and J. E. Crow

Phys. Rev. B 69, 189901 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Publisher’s Note: Pseudo-spin-gap and slow spin fluctuation in ${La}_{2 - x}$ ${Sr}_{x}$ ${CuO}_{4}$ $(x$ =0.13 and 0.18) via $^{63}$ Cu and $^{109}$ La nuclear quadrupole resonance [Phys. Rev. B 69, 184503 (2004)]

Y. Itoh, T. Machi, N. Koshizuka, M. Murakami, H. Yamagata, and M. Matsumura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 189902 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Publisher’s Note: Comparative study of the $I - V$ scaling in highly ${anisotropic Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${CaCu}_{2}$ $O_{8 + δ}$ and isotropic (K, ${B a) B i O}_{3}$ heavy-ion-irradiated single crystals [Phys. Rev. B 69, 134508 (2004)]

L. Ammor, B. Pignon, and A. Ruyter

Phys. Rev. B 69, 189903 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Erratum: Features of supercooled glycerol dynamics [Phys. Rev. B 67, 132202 (2003)]

Ya. E. Ryabov, Y. Hayashi, A. Gutina, and Y. Feldman

Phys. Rev. B 69, 189904 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004