Volume 69, Issue 22

1 June 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Pressure-induced metallization of the Mott insulator $MnO$

J. R. Patterson, C. M. Aracne, D. D. Jackson, V. Malba, S. T. Weir, P. A. Baker, and Y. K. Vohra

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220101(R) (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Relaxation in amorphous solids in a strong external alternating field

A. L. Burin, Yu. Kagan, L. A. Maksimov, and I. Ya. Polishchuk

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220201(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

Magnetism

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Chemical control of spin chirality in ${({Nd}_{1 - x} {Dy}_{x})}_{2} {Mo}_{2} O_{7}$

S. Iguchi, D. Hashimoto, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220401(R) (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

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Universal scaling at field-induced magnetic phase transitions

Omid Nohadani, Stefan Wessel, B. Normand, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220402(R) (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

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Cyclic exchange, isolated states, and spinon deconfinement in an $X X Z$ Heisenberg model on the checkerboard lattice

Nic Shannon, Grégoire Misguich, and Karlo Penc

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220403(R) (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

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Magnetic moment of $Au$ at $Au ∕ Co$ interfaces: A direct experimental determination

F. Wilhelm, M. Angelakeris, N. Jaouen, P. Poulopoulos, E. Th. Papaioannou, Ch. Mueller, P. Fumagalli, A. Rogalev, and N. K. Flevaris

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220404(R) (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

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$Sm$ magnetism in the layered compound ${SmMn}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

A. Barla, J. P. Sanchez, B. Malaman, B. P. Doyle, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220405(R) (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

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Resonant magnetic mode in superconducting two-leg ladders

D. Poilblanc, E. Orignac, S. R. White, and S. Capponi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220406(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

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${BaCu}_{2} V_{2} O_{8}$ : Quasi-one-dimensional alternating chain compound with a large spin gap

Zhangzhen He, Tôru Kyômen, and Mitsuru Itoh

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220407(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

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Critical properties of a continuous family of $X Y$ noncollinear magnets

A. Peles, B. W. Southern, B. Delamotte, D. Mouhanna, and M. Tissier

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220408(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

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Observation of a lattice instability at the field-induced phase transition of the spin-gapped compound ${Cu}_{2} {(C_{5} H_{12} N_{2})}_{2} {Cl}_{4}$

J. E. Lorenzo, K. Katsumata, Y. Narumi, S. Shimomura, Y. Tanaka, M. Hagiwara, H. Mayaffre, C. Berthier, O. Piovesana, T. Ishikawa, and H. Kitamura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220409(R) (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

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Magnetic domain walls in constrained geometries

P.-O. Jubert, R. Allenspach, and A. Bischof

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220410(R) (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

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Quasi-two-dimensional metallic ground state of ${Ca}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Ichiro Nagai, Shin-Ichi Ikeda, Naoki Shirakawa, Masashi Kosaka, and Nobuo Môri

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220411(R) (2004) - Published 24 June, 2004

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Local symmetry of the crystal-field Hamiltonian of $CePtSn$ by polarized neutron scattering

Blanka Janoušová, Jiří Kulda, Martin Diviš, Vladimír Sechovský, and Takemi Komatsubara

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220412(R) (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

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Large inverse magnetoresistance of ${CrO}_{2} ∕ Co$ junctions with an artificial barrier

J. S. Parker, P. G. Ivanov, D. M. Lind, P. Xiong, and Y. Xin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220413(R) (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Fourfold oscillations and anomalous magnetoresistance irreversibility in the nonmetallic regime of $\Pr_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$

P. Fournier, M.-E. Gosselin, S. Savard, J. Renaud, I. Hetel, P. Richard, and G. Riou

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220501(R) (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

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Superconducting order parameter in heavily overdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ : A global quantitative analysis

R. H. He, D. L. Feng, H. Eisaki, J.-I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, and G. D. Gu

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220502(R) (2004) - Published 9 June, 2004

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Resistance of superconducting nanowires connected to normal-metal leads

G. R. Boogaard, A. H. Verbruggen, W. Belzig, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220503(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

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Dynamic transition and Shapiro-step melting in a frustrated Josephson-junction array

Jong Soo Lim, M. Y. Choi, J. Choi, and Beom Jun Kim

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220504(R) (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

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Origin of the shadow Fermi surface in $Bi$ -based cuprates

A. Koitzsch, S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, T. K. Kim, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, M. S. Golden, W. Koops, H. Berger, B. Keimer, C. T. Lin, S. Ono, Y. Ando, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220505(R) (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

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Zeeman and orbital limiting fields: Separated spin and charge degrees of freedom in cuprate superconductors

L. Krusin-Elbaum, G. Blatter, and T. Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 220506(R) (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Polar state in epitaxial films of the relaxor ferroelectric ${PbMg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3} O_{3}$

M. Tyunina, J. Levoska, K. Kundzinsh, and V. Zauls

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224101 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Photoacoustic characterization of transient defects in potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals

O. Martínez Matos, G. A. Torchia, G. M. Bilmes, and J. O. Tocho

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224102 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Self-organization at finite temperatures of the devil’s staircase in Pb/Si(111)

M. Yakes, V. Yeh, M. Hupalo, and M. C. Tringides

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224103 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Structure and stacking-fault energy in metals Al, Pd, Pt, Ir, and Rh

J. Cai, F. Wang, C. Lu, and Y. Y. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224104 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Crystal structure of ${LaTiO}_{3.41}$ under pressure

I. Loa, K. Syassen, X. Wang, F. Lichtenberg, M. Hanfland, and C. A. Kuntscher

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224105 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Hydrogen-induced defects in bulk niobium

Jakub Čížek, Ivan Procházka, František Bečvář, Radomír Kužel, Miroslav Cieslar, Gerhard Brauer, Wolfgang Anwand, Reiner Kirchheim, and Astrid Pundt

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224106 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Probing the local structural environment of calcium by natural-abundance solid-state ${}^{43}{Ca}$ NMR

Zhongjie Lin, M. E. Smith, F. E. Sowrey, and R. J. Newport

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224107 (2004) - Published 24 June, 2004

Mechanical properties and elastic constants due to damage accumulation and amorphization in SiC

F. Gao and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224108 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Theory of the thermal properties of $δ$ -plutonium

Walter A. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224109 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Relaxation and crystallization processes in partially or completely amorphized metallic systems: An ion bombardment study on ${In}_{2} Au$

Thomas Müller and Paul Ziemann

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224110 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Phase diagram of single-wall carbon nanotube crystals under hydrostatic pressure

Marcel H. F. Sluiter and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224111 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Maximum density rule for bulk terminations of quasicrystals

Z. Papadopolos, P. Pleasants, G. Kasner, V. Fournée, C. J. Jenks, J. Ledieu, and R. McGrath

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224201 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Thermodynamic, crystallographic, and dielectric study of the nature of glass transitions in cyclo-octanol

Ricardo Puertas, Maria A. Rute, Josep Salud, David O. López, Sergio Diez, J. Kees van Miltenburg, Luis C. Pardo, Josep Ll. Tamarit, Maria Barrio, Miguel A. Pérez-Jubindo, and Maria R. de la Fuente

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224202 (2004) - Published 15 June, 2004

Amorphous-amorphous transitions in silica glass. I. Reversible transitions and thermomechanical anomalies

Liping Huang and John Kieffer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224203 (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

Amorphous-amorphous transitions in silica glass. II. Irreversible transitions and densification limit

Liping Huang and John Kieffer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224204 (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

Magnetic and atomic short-range order in Cu-rich $Cu-Mn$

B. Schönfeld, R. Bucher, G. Kostorz, and M. Zolliker

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224205 (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

Phason and amplitudon dynamics in the incommensurate phase of bis(4-chlorophenyl)sulphone

A. Taye, D. Michel, and J. Petersson

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224206 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Quantum molecular dynamics simulations of shocked nitrogen oxide

S. Mazevet, P. Blottiau, J. D. Kress, and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224207 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Dielectric properties of partially disordered lanthanum-modified lead zirconate titanate relaxor ferroelectrics

Boris Vodopivec, Cene Filipič, Adrijan Levstik, Janez Holc, Zdravko Kutnjak, and Horst Beige

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224208 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Structural properties determining the ionic conductivity of $CsI$ -doped ${AgPO}_{3}$ glasses

C. Karlsson, C. Meneghini, and J. Swenson

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224209 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

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

Revealing antiphase-domain dynamics in alloys by combining advanced statistical techniques with x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Lorenz-M. Stadler, Bogdan Sepiol, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Ivo Zizak, Gerhard Grübel, and Gero Vogl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224301 (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

Generalized quasiclassical ground state for an interacting two-level system

Robert Englman and Asher Yahalom

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224302 (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

Magnetism

Ab initio simulations of resonant x-ray scattering on the insulating phase of $V_{2} O_{3}$ compared with recent experiments

Y. Joly, S. Di Matteo, and C. R. Natoli

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224401 (2004) - Published 1 June, 2004

Magnetic resonant x-ray scattering at the $Ga$ $K$ edge in ${UGa}_{3}$ : A band theoretical approach

Manabu Usuda, Jun-ichi Igarashi, and Akio Kodama

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224402 (2004) - Published 4 June, 2004

Correlation between the extraordinary Hall effect and resistivity

A. Gerber, A. Milner, A. Finkler, M. Karpovski, L. Goldsmith, J. Tuaillon-Combes, O. Boisron, P. Mélinon, and A. Perez

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224403 (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

Macroscopically inhomogeneous state at the boundary between the superconducting, antiferromagnetic, and metallic phases in quasi-one-dimensional $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

A. V. Kornilov, V. M. Pudalov, Y. Kitaoka, K. Ishida, G.-q. Zheng, T. Mito, and J. S. Qualls

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224404 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

$S = \frac{1}{2}$ Ising behavior in the two-dimensional molecular magnet $Fe {(NCS)}_{2} {(pyrazine)}_{2}$

H. N. Bordallo, L. Chapon, J. L. Manson, J. Hernández-Velasco, D. Ravot, W. M. Reiff, and D. N. Argyriou

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224405 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Spin and charge ordering in hole-doped $Cu − O$ single chain, double chain, and ladder

N. Ueda and T. Mizokawa

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224406 (2004) - Published 11 June, 2004

Critical spin-glass dynamics in a heterogeneous nanogranular system

J. A. De Toro, M. A. López de la Torre, J. M. Riveiro, A. Beesley, J. P. Goff, and M. F. Thomas

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224407 (2004) - Published 17 June, 2004

Origin of the magnetic reorientation transition in $Fe ∕ {Cu}_{3}$ Au(001)

S. Gallego, L. Szunyogh, P. Weinberger, and M. C. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224408 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Magnetic polarons in a doped one-dimensional antiferromagnetic chain

I. González, J. Castro, D. Baldomir, A. O. Sboychakov, A. L. Rakhmanov, and K. I. Kugel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224409 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling in all-semiconducting $EuS ∕ PbS ∕ EuS$ trilayers

C. J. P. Smits, A. T. Filip, H. J. M. Swagten, B. Koopmans, W. J. M. de Jonge, M. Chernyshova, L. Kowalczyk, K. Grasza, A. Szczerbakow, T. Story, W. Palosz, and A. Yu. Sipatov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224410 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

First-order magnetic phase transition in ${LaFe}_{11.7} {Si}_{1.3}$ studied using Mössbauer spectroscopy

Nai-Li Di, Zhao-Hua Cheng, Qing-An Li, Guang-Jun Wang, Zhi-Qi Kou, Xiao Ma, Zhi Luo, Feng-Xia Hu, and Bao-Gen Shen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224411 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Magnetic order in a submicron patterned permalloy film studied by resonant x-ray scattering

Carlo Spezzani, Mauro Fabrizioli, Patrizio Candeloro, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Giancarlo Panaccione, and Maurizio Sacchi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224412 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Origin of the temperature dependence of interlayer exchange coupling in metallic trilayers

S. Schwieger and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224413 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

From the triangular to the kagome lattice: Following the footprints of the ordered state

Liliana Arrachea, Luca Capriotti, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224414 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Bipartite Rokhsar–Kivelson points and Cantor deconfinement

Eduardo Fradkin, David A. Huse, R. Moessner, V. Oganesyan, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224415 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Quantum criticality and deconfinement in phase transitions between valence bond solids

Ashvin Vishwanath, L. Balents, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224416 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Quadrupolar, structural, and magnetic ordering in ${DyB}_{2} C_{2}$ studied by symmetry analysis and neutron diffraction

O. Zaharko, W. Sikora, F. Bialas, U. Staub, and T. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224417 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Effect of $Ce$ doping on structural, magnetic, and transport properties of ${SrMnO}_{3}$ perovskite

P. Mandal, A. Hassen, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224418 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Magnetic coupling between $Fe$ nanoislands induced by capping-layer magnetic polarization

E. Navarro, Y. Huttel, C. Clavero, A. Cebollada, and G. Armelles

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224419 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Optical spectral weight distribution in $d$ -wave superconductors

J. P. Carbotte and E. Schachinger

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224501 (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

Coupling of superconductors through a half-metallic ferromagnet: Evidence for a long-range proximity effect

V. Peña, Z. Sefrioui, D. Arias, C. Leon, J. Santamaria, M. Varela, S. J. Pennycook, and J. L. Martinez

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224502 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Superconducting fluctuation corrections to ultrasound attenuation in layered superconductors

M. S. Mar’enko, C. Bourbonnais, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224503 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Quantitative analysis of the critical current due to vortex pinning by surface corrugation

A. Pautrat, J. Scola, C. Goupil, Ch. Simon, C. Villard, B. Domengès, Y. Simon, C. Guilpin, and L. Méchin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224504 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Superconductivity from doping boron icosahedra

Matteo Calandra, Nathalie Vast, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224505 (2004) - Published 15 June, 2004

Charge transport of electron-doped Mott insulators on a triangular lattice

Bin Liu, Ying Liang, Shiping Feng, and Wei Yeu Chen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224506 (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

Hole-pair symmetry and excitations in the strong-coupling extended $t − J_{z}$ model: competition between $d$ -wave and $p$ -wave symmetry

R. M. Fye, G. B. Martins, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224507 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Photoinduced chain-oxygen ordering in detwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.7}$ single crystals studied by reflectance-anisotropy spectroscopy

A. Bruchhausen, S. Bahrs, K. Fleischer, A. R. Goñi, A. Fainstein, G. Nieva, A. A. Aligia, W. Richter, and C. Thomsen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224508 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Circular dichroism and bilayer splitting in the normal state of underdoped ${(Pb, Bi)}_{2} {Sr}_{2} ({Ca}_{x} Y_{1 - x}) {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ and overdoped ${(Pb, Bi)}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, S. Legner, T. K. Kim, M. Knupfer, C. M. Schneider, J. Fink, M. S. Golden, M. Sing, R. Claessen, A. Yaresko, H. Berger, C. Grazioli, and S. Turchini

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224509 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004