Volume 70, Issue 9

K. Tanaka, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, D. H. Lu, Z.-X. Shen, X.-J. Zhou, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain, S. Uchida, Y. Aiura, K. Ono, T. Sugaya, T. Mizuno, and I. Terasaki

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092503 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Structural, magnetic, and transport properties of the $Cu$ -doped manganite ${La}_{0.85} {Te}_{0.15} {Mn}_{1 - x} {Cu}_{x} O_{3}$ $(0 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.20)$

J. Yang, W. H. Song, Y. Q. Ma, R. L. Zhang, B. C. Zhao, Z. G. Sheng, G. H. Zheng, J. M. Dai, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092504 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Numerical procedure for analyzing impurity-induced resonant-state STM images observed in high- $T_{c}$ superconductors

Qian Wang and Chia-Ren Hu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092505 (2004) - Published 27 September, 2004

Imperfection-driven phase transition at $120 K$ in ${Cd}_{2} {Re}_{2} O_{7}$

Chenxi Lu, Jiandi Zhang, R. Jin, Hongwei Qu, J. He, D. Mandrus, Ku-Ding Tsuei, Chuan-Tze Tzeng, Li-Cheng Lin, and E. W. Plummer

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092506 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

Non-Ohmic critical fluctuation Hall conductivity of layered superconductors in strong electric fields

I. Puica and W. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092507 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Pressure-induced enhancement of the transition temperature of the magnetic-field-induced superconducting state in $λ − {(BETS)}_{2} Fe {Cl}_{4}$

L. Balicas, V. Barzykin, K. Storr, J. S. Brooks, M. Tokumoto, S. Uji, H. Tanaka, H. Kobayashi, and A. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 092508 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

ARTICLES

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

Ultraviolet photorefractivity features in doped lithium niobate crystals

Haijun Qiao, Jingjun Xu, Guoquan Zhang, Xinzheng Zhang, Qian Sun, and Guangyin Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094101 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Elastic properties of ultrathin permalloy/alumina multilayer films using picosecond ultrasonics and Brillouin light scattering

Clément Rossignol, Bernard Perrin, Bernard Bonello, Philippe Djemia, Philippe Moch, and Hervé Hurdequint

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094102 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Two internal-friction peaks related to thermoelastic martensitic transformations in $CuAlNiMnTi$ shape-memory alloy

C. L. Gong, F. S. Han, Z. Li, and M. P. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094103 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Nanoscale patterning of chemical order induced by displacement cascades in irradiated alloys. I. A kinetic Monte Carlo study

Jia Ye and Pascal Bellon

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094104 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Nanoscale patterning of chemical order induced by displacement cascades in irradiated alloys. II. Analytical modeling

Jia Ye and Pascal Bellon

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094105 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Scaling law for the ion-induced electronic sputtering of intact biomolecules: Evidence of thermal activation

G. Szenes

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094106 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Comparative study of the binary icosahedral quasicrystal ${Cd}_{5.7} Yb$ and its crystalline $1 ∕ 1$ -approximant ${Cd}_{6} Yb$ by positron annihilation spectroscopy

K. Sato, Y. Kobayashi, K. Arinuma, I. Kanazawa, R. Tamura, T. Shibuya, and S. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094107 (2004) - Published 16 September, 2004

Atomistic study of the interaction between a microcrack and a hard inclusion in $β − Si C$

A. Mattoni, L. Colombo, and F. Cleri

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094108 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Evidence for rattling behavior of the filler atom $(L)$ in the filled skutterudites $L T_{4} X_{12}$ $(L = Ce, Eu, Yb; T = Fe, Ru; X = P, Sb)$ from EXAFS studies

D. Cao, F. Bridges, P. Chesler, S. Bushart, E. D. Bauer, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094109 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Atomistic computer simulation of explosive crystallization in pure silicon and germanium

Erik J. Albenze, Michael O. Thompson, and Paulette Clancy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094110 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Kinetic process of the phase separation in the alloy ${Ni}_{3} {Al}_{0.52} V_{0.48}$

Makoto Tanimura, Akihiko Hirata, and Yasumasa Koyama

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094111 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Equations of state of six metals above $94 GPa$

Agnès Dewaele, Paul Loubeyre, and Mohamed Mezouar

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094112 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Coexistence of morphotropic phases in $(1 - x) Pb ({Mg}_{1 ∕ 3} {Nb}_{2 ∕ 3}) O_{3} − x {PbTiO}_{3}$ solid solutions

V. Yu. Topolov and Z.-G. Ye

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094113 (2004) - Published 24 September, 2004

$B 1$ -to- $B 2$ phase transition of transition-metal monoxide $CdO$ under strong compression

Haozhe Liu, Ho-kwang Mao, Maddury Somayazulu, Yang Ding, Yue Meng, and Daniel Häusermann

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094114 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

Segregation of voids in a spatially heterogeneous dislocation microstructure

S. L. Dudarev, A. A. Semenov, and C. H. Woo

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094115 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

Landau theory for spin transition and ordering phenomena in Fe(II) compounds

Dmitry Chernyshov, Hans-Beat Bürgi, Marc Hostettler, and Karl W. Törnroos

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094116 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

${Eu}_{2} {({MoO}_{4})}_{3}$ single crystal at high pressure: Structural phase transitions and amorphization probed by fluorescence spectroscopy

D. Machon, V. P. Dmitriev, V. V. Sinitsyn, and G. Lucazeau

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094117 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Full-potential KKR calculations for vacancies in $Al$ : Screening effect and many-body interactions

T. Hoshino, M. Asato, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094118 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Bridgman-grown $i {− Al}_{68.9} {Pd}_{21.6} {Mn}_{9.5}$ quasicrystal: Comparison of $α$ , $C_{P}$ , $σ$ , and $χ$ with those for flux-grown samples

C. A. Swenson, T. A. Lograsso, N. E. Anderson, Jr., and A. R. Ross

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094201 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Nonlinear elastic properties of decagonal quasicrystals

Xiang Zhou, Chengzheng Hu, Ping Gong, and Shengde Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094202 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

First-principles equation of state and phase stability for the $Ni − Al$ system under high pressures

H. Y. Geng, N. X. Chen, and M. H. F. Sluiter

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094203 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

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

Lithium dynamics in the fast ionic conductor ${Li}_{0.18} {La}_{0.61} {TiO}_{3}$ probed by ${}^{7}{Li}$ NMR spectroscopy

A. Rivera and J. Sanz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094301 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Identification of lithium sites in a model of ${LiPO}_{3}$ glass: Effects of the local structure and energy landscape on ionic jump dynamics

Michael Vogel

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094302 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Magnetism

Noncollinear magnetic structures: A possible cause for current-induced switching

P. Weinberger, A. Vernes, B. L. Györffy, and L. Szunyogh

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094401 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Site-dilution in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet ${Sr}_{2} ({Cu}_{1 - x} {Pd}_{x}) O_{3}$ : Reduction of Néel temperature and spatial distribution of ordered moment sizes

K. M. Kojima, J. Yamanobe, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, Y. Fudamoto, I. M. Gat, M. I. Larkin, A. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, P. P. Kyriakou, M. T. Rovers, and G. M. Luke

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094402 (2004) - Published 7 September, 2004

Compositional dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} Mn O_{3} (0 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.52)$

Hirotoshi Terashita, J. J. Garbe, and J. J. Neumeier

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094403 (2004) - Published 7 September, 2004

Magnetoresistance and resistance of magnetic nanoconstriction

Zhaoyang Yang, Yunong Qi, and Shufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094404 (2004) - Published 7 September, 2004

Ferromagnetic coupling in ${Nd}_{x} {Ca}_{2 - x} {FeMoO}_{6}$ double perovskites: Dominant band-filling effects

D. Rubi, C. Frontera, J. Fontcuberta, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, and C. Ritter

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094405 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Asymmetric $I − V$ characteristics and magnetoresistance in magnetic point contacts

A. R. Rocha and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094406 (2004) - Published 9 September, 2004

Raman spectra in epitaxial thin films of ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ ( $x = 0.33$ , 0.5) grown on different substrates

Y. M. Xiong, T. Chen, G. Y. Wang, X. H. Chen, X. Chen, and C. L. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094407 (2004) - Published 9 September, 2004

Selective surface/interface characterization of thin garnet films by magnetization-induced second-harmonic generation

Fredrik Hansteen, Ola Hunderi, Tom Henning Johansen, Andrei Kirilyuk, and Theo Rasing

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094408 (2004) - Published 10 September, 2004

Pressure effects on charge, spin, and metal-insulator transitions in the narrow bandwidth manganite $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} Mn O_{3}$

Congwu Cui and Trevor A. Tyson

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094409 (2004) - Published 14 September, 2004

Calculation of the giant magnetocaloric effect in the ${MnFeP}_{0.45} {As}_{0.55}$ compound

P. J. von Ranke, A. de Campos, L. Caron, A. A. Coelho, S. Gama, and N. A. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094410 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Metamagnetic behavior of ${Fe}_{3} M$ ( $M = Al$ and $Si$ ) alloys at high pressure

Joo Yull Rhee and B. N. Harmon

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094411 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Magnetic transition in nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloys analyzed via ac inductive techniques

C. Gómez-Polo, J. I. Pérez-Landazabal, V. Recarte, M. Vázquez, and A. Hernando

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094412 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Magnetic ordering of the three-dimensional Wigner crystal

Ladir Cândido, B. Bernu, and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094413 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Magnetostatic modes in ferromagnetic nanowires

Rodrigo Arias and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094414 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Theoretical studies of the phase transition in the anisotropic two-dimensional square spin lattice

Mohamad Al Hajj, Nathalie Guihéry, Jean-Paul Malrieu, and Peter Wind

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094415 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Theory of the zero-bias anomaly in magnetic tunnel junctions: Inelastic tunneling via impurities

L. Sheng, D. Y. Xing, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094416 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Oscillatory behavior of $5 d$ magnetic moments in $Fe ∕ W$ multilayers

N. Jaouen, G. van der Laan, T. K. Johal, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, S. Mylonas, and L. Ortega

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094417 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Chromium site selective substitution in ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{6}$ : Influence on the magnetic properties of an Ising-like triangular lattice

D. Flahaut, A. Maignan, S. Hébert, C. Martin, R. Retoux, and V. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094418 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Chemical pressure effect on magnetic properties in electron-doped perovskite manganites $({Gd}_{0.08} {Ca}_{y} {Sr}_{0.92 - y}) {MnO}_{3} (0 < y < 1)$ : Percolation transition of ferromagnetic clusters

Shingo Hirano, Jun Sugiyama, Tatsuo Noritake, and Toshihiko Tani

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094419 (2004) - Published 24 September, 2004

Dynamic magnetic anisotropy at the onset of exchange bias: The $Ni Fe ∕ Ir Mn$ ferromagnet/antiferromagnet system

Jeffrey McCord, Roland Mattheis, and Dieter Elefant

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094420 (2004) - Published 27 September, 2004

Magnetic moments and exchange interactions in ${Fe}_{0.82} {Ni}_{0.18} ∕ V$ bcc (001) multilayers

B. Skubic, E. Holmström, O. Eriksson, A. M. Blixt, G. Andersson, B. Hjörvarsson, and V. Stanciu

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094421 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

Simultaneous existence of two spin-wave modes in ultrathin $Fe ∕ Ga As (001)$ films studied by Brillouin light scattering: Experiment and theory

M. G. Pini, P. Politi, A. Rettori, G. Carlotti, G. Gubbiotti, M. Madami, and S. Tacchi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094422 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

Thermal properties of surface and bulk spin waves in uniaxial and nonuniaxial metamagnetic films

E. Meloche and M. G. Cottam

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094423 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

Low-temperature properties of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet ${Ce}_{5} {CuSb}_{3}$

V. H. Tran

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094424 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

Critical behavior of two-dimensional cubic and $M N$ models in the five-loop renormalization group approximation

P. Calabrese, E. V. Orlov, D. V. Pakhnin, and A. I. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094425 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

Structure and magnetic properties of ${LaMn}_{1 - x} {Mg}_{x} O_{3}$ compounds

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

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094426 (2004) - Published 29 September, 2004

Temperature- and field-dependent evolution of micromagnetic structure in ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys

Matthew R. Sullivan and Harsh Deep Chopra

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094427 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Pathways of structural and magnetic transition in ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys

Matthew R. Sullivan, Ashish A. Shah, and Harsh Deep Chopra

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094428 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Discrete easy-axis tilting in ${Mn}_{12}$ -acetate, as determined by EPR: Implications for the magnetic quantum tunneling mechanism

S. Takahashi, R. S. Edwards, J. M. North, S. Hill, and N. S. Dalal

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094429 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Vortexlike elementary excitations in the Rokhsar-Kivelson dimer model on the triangular lattice

D. A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094430 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Anomalous magnetic-field tunneling of $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ junctions: Possible detection of non-Fermi-liquid states

H. Kashiwaya, S. Kashiwaya, B. Prijamboedi, A. Sawa, I. Kurosawa, Y. Tanaka, and I. Iguchi

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094501 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Upper critical dimension in a quantum impurity model: Critical theory of the asymmetric pseudogap Kondo problem

Matthias Vojta and Lars Fritz

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094502 (2004) - Published 10 September, 2004

Influence of sample geometry on vortex matter in superconducting microstructures

Mathieu Morelle, Joost Bekaert, and Victor V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094503 (2004) - Published 13 September, 2004

Magnetization and ${}^{57}{Fe}$ and ${}^{119}{Sn}$ Mössbauer studies of magnetism in ${Ru R}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {Sr}_{2} {Cu}_{2} O_{10}$ $(R = Eu, Gd)$

I. Felner, E. Galstyan, R. H. Herber, and I. Nowik

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094504 (2004) - Published 13 September, 2004

Modulation of superconductivity by ferroelectric polarization in confined ferroelectric-superconductor-ferroelectric films

Natalia Pavlenko

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094519 (2004) - Published 28 September, 2004

Phase diagram of the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model: Phase transitions between different pairing symmetries when charge and spin fluctuations coexist

Seiichiro Onari, Ryotaro Arita, Kazuhiko Kuroki, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094523 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Doping dependence of charge-transfer excitations in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Young-June Kim, J. P. Hill, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, D. Casa, T. Gog, and C. T. Venkataraman

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094524 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

Biaxial texture analysis of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ -coated conductors by micro-Raman spectroscopy

J. C. González, N. Mestres, T. Puig, J. Gázquez, F. Sandiumenge, X. Obradors, A. Usoskin, Ch. Jooss, H. C. Freyhardt, and R. Feenstra

Phys. Rev. B 70, 094525 (2004) - Published 30 September, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Positronium formation in poly(methyl methacrylate) [Phys. Rev. B 68, 132202 (2003)]

C. Dauwe, B. Van Waeyenberge, and N. Balcaen

Phys. Rev. B 70, 099901 (2004) - Published 8 September, 2004

Publisher's Note: Isothermal aggregation of Ag atoms in sodium borate glass [Phys. Rev. B 70, 054106 (2004)]

G. Kellermann and A. F. Craievich

Phys. Rev. B 70, 099902 (2004) - Published 13 September, 2004

Erratum: First-principles investigation of high- $κ$ dielectrics: Comparison between the silicates and oxides of hafnium and zirconium [Phys. Rev. B 69, 184301 (2004)]

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

Phys. Rev. B 70, 099903 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

Erratum: First-principles study of structural, electronic, dynamical, and dielectric properties of zircon [Phys. Rev. B 63, 104305 (2001)]

G.-M. Rignanese, X. Gonze, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 70, 099904 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004