Volume 69, Issue 6

1 February 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Magnetism

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Change in Mn $3 d$ orbital state related to a metal-insulator transition in a bilayer manganite studied by magnetic Compton profile measurement

A. Koizumi, T. Nagao, Y. Kakutani, N. Sakai, K. Hirota, and Y. Murakami

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060401(R) (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

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Pseudogaps in nested antiferromagnets

C. Pépin and M. R. Norman

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060402(R) (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Low-frequency measurement of the tunneling amplitude in a flux qubit

M. Grajcar, A. Izmalkov, E. Il’ichev, Th. Wagner, N. Oukhanski, U. Hübner, T. May, I. Zhilyaev, H. E. Hoenig, Ya. S. Greenberg, V. I. Shnyrkov, D. Born, W. Krech, H.-G. Meyer, Alec Maassen van den Brink, and M. H. S. Amin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060501(R) (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

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Absence of gross static inhomogeneity in cuprate superconductors

J. W. Loram, J. L. Tallon, and W. Y. Liang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060502(R) (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

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Power spectrum of many impurities in a d-wave superconductor

Lingyin Zhu, W. A. Atkinson, and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060503(R) (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

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Very-low-temperature tunneling spectroscopy in the heavy-fermion superconductor ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

H. Suderow, S. Vieira, J. D. Strand, S. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 69, 060504(R) (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Kinetics of martensitic transitions in Cu-Al-Mn under thermal cycling: Analysis at multiple length scales

Francisco-José Pérez-Reche, Marcelo Stipcich, Eduard Vives, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Michel Morin

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064101 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

First-principles study of the mechanisms for the pressure-induced phase transitions in zinc-blende CuBr and CuI

Yanming Ma, John S. Tse, and Dennis D. Klug

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064102 (2004) - Published 11 February, 2004

Thermodynamic study of c-axis-oriented epitaxial $Pb (Z r, T i) O_{3}$ thin films

Isaku Kanno, Yu Yokoyama, Hidetoshi Kotera, and Kiyotaka Wasa

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064103 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Modification of vibrational selection rules in the photoinduced spin-crossover phase

Takeshi Tayagaki, Koichiro Tanaka, and Hidekazu Okamura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064104 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Low-temperature specific heat measurement of a ferroelectric copolymer film of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene

R. W. Newsome, Jr. and E. Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064105 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Phase diagram of nitrous oxide: Analogy with carbon dioxide

V. Iota, J-H. Park, and C. S. Yoo

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064106 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Three-dimensional image reconstruction. I. Determination of pattern orientation

Richard Blankenbecler

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064107 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Three-dimensional image reconstruction. II. Hamiltonian method for phase recovery

Richard Blankenbecler

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064108 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Nucleation of ${Al}_{3} Zr$ and ${Al}_{3} Sc$ in aluminum alloys: From kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to classical theory

Emmanuel Clouet, Maylise Nastar, and Christophe Sigli

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064109 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Mechanical versus thermodynamical melting in pressure-induced amorphization: The role of defects

S. Bustingorry and E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064110 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Anisotropic thermal expansion of layered ${MoO}_{3}$ crystals

Hiroshi Negishi, Saiko Negishi, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa, Nobufumi Sato, and Shinobu Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064111 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Neutron elastic diffuse scattering study of $Pb ({Mg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3}$

Guangyong Xu, G. Shirane, J. R. D. Copley, and P. M. Gehring

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064112 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Long-range strains and the effects of applied field at 180° ferroelectric domain walls in lithium niobate

Terrence Jach, Sungwon Kim, Venkatraman Gopalan, Stephen Durbin, and David Bright

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064113 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Magnetic-field-induced phase transition in ${BiFeO}_{3}$ observed by high-field electron spin resonance: Cycloidal to homogeneous spin order

Benjamin Ruette, S. Zvyagin, A. P. Pyatakov, A. Bush, J. F. Li, V. I. Belotelov, A. K. Zvezdin, and D. Viehland

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064114 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Molecular dynamics simulation of disordered zircon

R. Devanathan, L. R. Corrales, W. J. Weber, A. Chartier, and C. Meis

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064115 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Theoretical study of bulk and surface oxygen and aluminum vacancies in $α - {Al}_{2} O_{3}$

Javier Carrasco, José R. B. Gomes, and Francesc Illas

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064116 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Theoretical and experimental investigations of polarization switching in ferroelectric materials

A. Picinin, M. H. Lente, J. A. Eiras, and J. P. Rino

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064117 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Vibrational signature of broken chemical order in a ${GeS}_{2}$ glass: A molecular dynamics simulation

Sébastien Blaineau and Philippe Jund

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064201 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Comparative study using small-angle x-ray scattering and nitrogen adsorption in the characterization of silica xerogels and aerogels

D. R. Vollet, D. A. Donatti, and A. Ibañez Ruiz

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064202 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

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

Green’s function formalism for phononic crystals

R. Sainidou, N. Stefanou, and A. Modinos

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064301 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Calculation of excited polaron states in the Holstein model

O. S. Barišić

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064302 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Phase transitions and cooperative Jahn-Teller effects in fullerene anions

Janette L. Dunn

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064303 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Magnetism

Domain wall mobility in nanowires: Transverse versus vortex walls

R. Wieser, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064401 (2004) - Published 11 February, 2004

Hard magnetic $Sm (Fe, Si)_{9}$ carbides: Structured and magnetic properties

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

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064402 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Structure and hyperfine parameter correlation in out-of-equilibrium $\Pr (F e, C o, T i)_{10}$

C. Djéga-Mariadassou, S. Sab, and L. Bessais

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064403 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Pyrochlore photons: The $U (1)$ spin liquid in a $S = \frac{1}{2}$ three-dimensional frustrated magnet

Michael Hermele, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064404 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Interface coupling in a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayer

Marco Finazzi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064405 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Lattice effects of orbital and charge orderings in the perovskite manganite $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

Hirofumi Hazama, Terutaka Goto, Yuichi Nemoto, Yasuhide Tomioka, Atsushi Asamitsu, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064406 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

X-ray Kerr rotation and ellipticity spectra at the $2 p$ edges of Fe, Co, and Ni

H.-Ch. Mertins, S. Valencia, D. Abramsohn, A. Gaupp, W. Gudat, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064407 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Collective magnetostatic modes on a one-dimensional array of ferromagnetic stripes

M. P. Kostylev, A. A. Stashkevich, and N. A. Sergeeva

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064408 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Elastic properties of the filled skutterudite compound ${NdFe}_{4} P_{12}$

Yoshiki Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Kumagai, Masahito Yoshizawa, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Hideyuki Sato

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064409 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Interplay between reversible and irreversible magnetic phase transitions in polycrystalline ${Gd}_{5} {Ge}_{4}$

H. Tang, V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and A. O. Pecharsky

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064410 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Magnetization and domain structure of bcc ${Fe}_{81} {Ni}_{19} / Co$ (001) superlattices

R. Bruc̆as, H. Hafermann, M. I. Katsnelson, I. L. Soroka, O. Eriksson, and B. Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064411 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Electronic structure of ${PbFe}_{1 / 2} {Ta}_{1 / 2} O_{3} :$ Crystallographic ordering and magnetic properties

Nathascia Lampis, Cesare Franchini, Guido Satta, Alessandra Geddo-Lehmann, and Sandro Massidda

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064412 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Theory of spin waves in ultrathin ferromagnetic films: The case of Co on Cu(100)

A. T. Costa, Jr., R. B. Muniz, and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064413 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Low-temperature spin freezing in the ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ spin ice

J. Snyder, B. G. Ueland, J. S. Slusky, H. Karunadasa, R. J. Cava, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064414 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Phase diagrams of the spin-1 Blume-Capel film with an alternating crystal field

Hamid Ez-Zahraouy and Ahmed Kassou-Ou-Ali

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064415 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Phase diagram of the bcc $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet with first and second neighbor exchange

J. Oitmaa and Weihong Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064416 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Temperature dependence of the fluctuation of the switching field in small magnetic structures

Han-Ting Wang, S. T. Chui, A. Oriade, and J. Shi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064417 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Magnetic properties and specific heat of $R {MnO}_{3}$ $(R = \Pr,$ Nd)

J. Hemberger, M. Brando, R. Wehn, V. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Mukhin, A. M. Balbashov, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064418 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Melting transition of an Ising glass driven by a magnetic field

L. Arrachea, D. Dalidovich, V. Dobrosavljević, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064419 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Valence-bond crystal phase of the crossed-chain quantum spin model

Wolfram Brenig and Matthias Grzeschik

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064420 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Magnetocaloric effect in rare-earth pseudobinary $Er ({Co}_{1 - c} {Ni}_{c})_{2}$

N. A. de Oliveira, P. J. von Ranke, and A. Troper

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064421 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Magnetocapacitance and spin fluctuations in the geometrically frustrated magnets $R_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ $(R = rare earth)$

T. Katsufuji and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064422 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Monte Carlo study of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model at the ferromagnetic-antiquadrupolar-disordered phase interface

A. Rachadi and A. Benyoussef

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064423 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Phase separation in ${Nd}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CoO}_{3}$ using $^{59} Co$ NMR

A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, K. Ghoshray, V. Morchshakov, K. Bärner, I. O. Troyanchuk, H. Nakamura, T. Kohara, G. Y. Liu, and G. H. Rao

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064424 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Ab initio search for a high permeability material based on bcc iron

S. Ostanin, J. B. Staunton, S. S. A. Razee, C. Demangeat, B. Ginatempo, and Ezio Bruno

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064425 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Bosonic representation of one-dimensional Heisenberg ferrimagnets

Shoji Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064426 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Correlation amplitudes for the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ $XXZ$ chain in a magnetic field

T. Hikihara and A. Furusaki

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064427 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Criticality in coupled quantum spin chains with competing ladderlike and two-dimensional couplings: Contrasting ${SrCu}_{2} O_{3}$ with ${CaCu}_{2} O_{3}$

Pinaki Sengupta, Weihong Zheng, and Rajiv R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064428 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Magnetism, critical fluctuations, and susceptibility renormalization in Pd

P. Larson, I. I. Mazin, and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064429 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Domain walls unmasked during domain duplication in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions

P. Rottländer, M. Hehn, F. Elhoussine, O. Lenoble, and A. Schuhl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064430 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Antiferromagnetic polarization at Mn/V(001) interfaces

B. Belhadji, S. Lounis, M. Benakki, and C. Demangeat

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064431 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Effects of intersite Coulomb interactions on ferromagnetism: Application to Fe, Co, and Ni

Cyrille Barreteau, Marie-Catherine Desjonquères, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Daniel Spanjaard

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064432 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Magnetic properties of ${DyB}_{2} C,$ ${HoB}_{2} C,$ and ${ErB}_{2} C$

Ryuta Watanuki, Kazuya Suzuki, Joost van Duijn, and J. Paul Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064433 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Valence-electron distribution in ${MgB}_{2}$ by accurate diffraction measurements and first-principles calculations

Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, T. Vogt, Haibin Su, J. W. Davenport, and J. Tafto

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064501 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Creation of classical and quantum fluxons by a current dipole in a long Josephson junction

Boris A. Malomed and Alexey V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064502 (2004) - Published 11 February, 2004

Multilevel quantum description of decoherence in superconducting qubits

Guido Burkard, Roger H. Koch, and David P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064503 (2004) - Published 11 February, 2004

Dynamic ordering and frustration of confined vortex rows studied by mode-locking experiments

N. Kokubo, R. Besseling, and P. H. Kes

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064504 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Proximity induced metal-insulator transition in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7} / {La}_{2 / 3} {Ca}_{1 / 3} {MnO}_{3}$ superlattices

Todd Holden, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Cristiani, A. Golnik, A. Boris, A. Pimenov, J. Humlíc̆ek, O. I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo, B. Keimer, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 69, 064505 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004