Volume 73, Issue 2

Georg Heimel, Kerstin Hummer, Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Withoon Chunwachirasiri, Michael J. Winokur, Michael Hanfland, Martin Oehzelt, Andreas Aichholzer, and Roland Resel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024109 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Compression behavior of $M_{2} Al C$ ( $M = Ti$ , V, Cr, Nb, and Ta) phases to above $50 GPa$

Bouchaib Manoun, R. P. Gulve, S. K. Saxena, S. Gupta, M. W. Barsoum, and C. S. Zha

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024110 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Prediction of bulk modulus at high temperatures from longitudinal phonon frequencies: Application to diamond, $c − BN$ , and $3 C − SiC$

F. Aguado and V. G. Baonza

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024111 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Anomalous lattice expansion of coherently strained ${SrTiO}_{3}$ thin films grown on $Si (001)$ by kinetically controlled sequential deposition

J. C. Woicik, H. Li, P. Zschack, E. Karapetrova, P. Ryan, C. R. Ashman, and C. S. Hellberg

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024112 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Triangular lattice model of two-dimensional defect melting

Jürgen Dietel and Hagen Kleinert

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024113 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Ordered oxygen-deficient superlattice from electron irradiation of biferroic $Bi Mn O_{3}$

H. Yang, Z. H. Chi, F. Y. Li, C. Q. Jin, and R. C. Yu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024114 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Crystalline particle packings on a sphere with long-range power-law potentials

Mark J. Bowick, Angelo Cacciuto, David R. Nelson, and Alex Travesset

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024115 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Crystal-melt interfacial free energies in hcp metals: A molecular dynamics study of Mg

D. Y. Sun, M. I. Mendelev, C. A. Becker, K. Kudin, Tomorr Haxhimali, M. Asta, J. J. Hoyt, A. Karma, and D. J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024116 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Defect properties and $p$ -type doping efficiency in phosphorus-doped ZnO

Woo-Jin Lee, Joongoo Kang, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024117 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations of the structural properties of liquid ${In}_{20} {Sn}_{80}$ in the temperature range $798 - 1193 K$

G. Zhao, C. S. Liu, and Z. G. Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024201 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Surface vacancies at the fivefold icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystal surface: A comparison of ab initio calculated and experimental STM images

M. Krajčí, J. Hafner, J. Ledieu, and R. McGrath

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024202 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Synchrotron-radiation-based perturbed angular correlations used in the investigation of rotational dynamics in soft matter

I. Sergueev, U. van Bürck, A. I. Chumakov, T. Asthalter, G. V. Smirnov, H. Franz, R. Rüffer, and W. Petry

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024203 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

High-energy x-ray and transmission electron microscopy study of structural transformations in Ti-V

I. B. Ramsteiner, A. Schöps, F. Phillipp, M. Kelsch, H. Reichert, H. Dosch, and V. Honkimäki

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024204 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

X-ray absorption spectrum of liquid water from molecular dynamics simulations: Asymmetric model

Michael Odelius, Matteo Cavalleri, Anders Nilsson, and Lars G. M. Pettersson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024205 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Bonding in amorphous carbon-nitrogen alloys: A first principles study

Ariel A. Valladares and Fernando Álvarez-Ramírez

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024206 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Evidence of alloying effects in ${TiC}_{x} N_{1 - x}$ compounds from calculated and experimental electron energy loss spectra

Lionel Calmels, Claude Mirguet, and Yolande Kihn

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024207 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Ion hydration studied by x-ray Compton scattering

K. Nygård, M. Hakala, S. Manninen, K. Hämäläinen, M. Itou, A. Andrejczuk, and Y. Sakurai

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024208 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Mechanisms and dynamics of crystal growth, viscous flow, and self-diffusion in silica glass

Marcio Luis Ferreira Nascimento and Edgar Dutra Zanotto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024209 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Ideally glassy hydrogen-bonded networks

J. C. Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024210 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Observation of macroscopic structural fluctuations in bcc solid ${}^{4}{He}$

O. Pelleg, M. Shay, S. G. Lipson, E. Polturak, J. Bossy, J. C. Marmeggi, K. Horibe, E. Farhi, and A. Stunault

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024301 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Locally resonant phononic crystals made of hollow spheres or cylinders

R. Sainidou, B. Djafari-Rouhani, Y. Pennec, and J. O. Vasseur

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024302 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Quasielastic light scattering in rutile, $ZnSe$ , silicon, and ${SrTiO}_{3}$

A. Koreeda, T. Nagano, S. Ohno, and S. Saikan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024303 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Singularity of the Bloch theorem in the fluid/solid phononic crystal

Zhilin Hou, Xiujun Fu, and Youyan Liu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024304 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

${}^{1}H$ NMR study of proton dynamics in the inorganic solid acid ${Rb}_{3} H ({SO}_{4})_{2}$

Koh-ichi Suzuki and Shigenobu Hayashi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024305 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Effect of anharmonicity on charge transport in hydrogen-bonded systems

D. Hennig, C. Neißner, M. G. Velarde, and W. Ebeling

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024306 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Magnetism

Antiferromagnetic relaxation and induced anisotropy in $Fe ∕ twinned- PtMn$ bilayers

A. Mougin, J. Borme, R. L. Stamps, A. Marty, P. Bayle-Guillemaud, Y. Samson, and J. Ferré

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024401 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Frustrated ferromagnetic spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ chain in a magnetic field

D. V. Dmitriev and V. Ya. Krivnov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024402 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Probing spin dynamics and quantum relaxation in $Li Y_{0.998} {Ho}_{0.002} F_{4}$ via ${}^{19}F$ NMR

M. J. Graf, A. Lascialfari, F. Borsa, A. M. Tkachuk, and B. Barbara

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024403 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Ferromagnetism in tetrahedrally coordinated compounds of I/II-V elements: Ab initio calculations

M. Sieberer, J. Redinger, S. Khmelevskyi, and P. Mohn

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024404 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Giant magnetic moment in an anomalous ferromagnetic insulator: Co-doped $ZnO$

C. Song, K. W. Geng, F. Zeng, X. B. Wang, Y. X. Shen, F. Pan, Y. N. Xie, T. Liu, H. T. Zhou, and Z. Fan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024405 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Effect of the quadratic magnetoelectric coupling and Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction on domain walls in hexagonal manganites

J. H. Qiu and Q. Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024406 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Quantum spin model with frustration on the union jack lattice

A. Collins, J. McEvoy, D. Robinson, C. J. Hamer, and Zheng Weihong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024407 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Polaronic excitations in colossal magnetoresistance manganite films

Ch. Hartinger, F. Mayr, A. Loidl, and T. Kopp

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024408 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Site-occupation constraints in mean-field approaches to quantum spin systems at finite temperature

Raoul Dillenschneider and Jean Richert

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024409 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Spin-waves in antiferromagnetic single-crystal $Li Fe P O_{4}$

Jiying Li, Vasile O. Garlea, Jerel L. Zarestky, and David Vaknin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024410 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Why RKKY exchange integrals are inappropriate to describe ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors

Richard Bouzerar, Georges Bouzerar, and Timothy Ziman

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024411 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Phases of anisotropic dipolar antiferromagnets: Mean field theory and Monte Carlo simulations

Julio F. Fernández and Juan J. Alonso

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024412 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Angular dependence of exchange anisotropy on the cooling field in ferromagnet/fluoride thin films

Justin Olamit, Zhi-Pan Li, Ivan K. Schuller, and Kai Liu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024413 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Probing spin frustration in high-symmetry magnetic nanomolecules by inelastic neutron scattering

V. O. Garlea, S. E. Nagler, J. L. Zarestky, C. Stassis, D. Vaknin, P. Kögerler, D. F. McMorrow, C. Niedermayer, D. A. Tennant, B. Lake, Y. Qiu, M. Exler, J. Schnack, and M. Luban

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024414 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Magnetic properties of disordered Heisenberg binary spin system with long-range exchange

G. X. Tang and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024415 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Anomalous behavior of higher-harmonic spin density waves in ${Mn}_{3} Si$

S. Tomiyoshi, E. R. Cowley, and H. Onodera

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024416 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Critical entanglement of $X X Z$ Heisenberg chains with defects

Jize Zhao, Ingo Peschel, and Xiaoqun Wang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024417 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Prospect for room temperature tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance effect: Density of states anisotropies in $CoPt$ systems

A. B. Shick, F. Máca, J. Mašek, and T. Jungwirth

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024418 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Thermodynamic description of heat and spin transport in magnetic nanostructures

Laurent Gravier, Santiago Serrano-Guisan, François Reuse, and Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024419 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Theory for nucleation at an interface and magnetization reversal of a two-layer nanowire

Peter N. Loxley and Robert L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024420 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Effect of rare-earth doping in $R {CrSb}_{3}$ ( $R = La$ , Pr, Sm, and Gd)

D. D. Jackson and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024421 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Phase diagram and incommensurate phases in undoped manganites

J. Salafranca and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024422 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Short-range charge ordering in ${Ho}_{0.1} {Sr}_{0.9} Co O_{3 - x}$ $(0.15 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.49)$

S. Streule, M. Medarde, A. Podlesnyak, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, S. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, and J. Mesot

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024423 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Temperature- and pressure-induced spin-state transitions in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

György Vankó, Jean-Pascal Rueff, Aleksi Mattila, Zoltán Németh, and Abhay Shukla

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024424 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Current-induced transverse spin-wave instability in thin ferromagnets: Beyond linear stability analysis

Shaffique Adam, Mikhail L. Polianski, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024425 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Magnetism of (FeCo)Si alloys: Extreme sensitivity on crystal structure

M. P. J. Punkkinen, K. Kokko, M. Ropo, I. J. Väyrynen, L. Vitos, B. Johansson, and J. Kollar

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024426 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Exactly solvable quantum spin model with alternating and multiple spin exchange interactions

A. A. Zvyagin and G. A. Skorobagat'ko

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024427 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Tunable temperature-induced magnetization jump in a $Gd V O_{3}$ single crystal

L. D. Tung

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024428 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Crystal structure and properties of phosphate ${PbCu}_{2} ({PO}_{4})_{2}$ with spin-singlet ground state

Alexei A. Belik, Masaki Azuma, Akira Matsuo, Tomoyuki Kaji, Susumu Okubo, Hitoshi Ohta, Koichi Kindo, and Mikio Takano

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024429 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Effective field theory for ${}^{4}{He}$

J. M. Carmona, S. Jiménez, J. Polonyi, and A. Tarancón

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024501 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Out-of-plane fluctuation conductivity of layered superconductors in strong electric fields

I. Puica and W. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024502 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Fermi surface of the organic superconductor $(MDT − ST) {(I_{3})}_{0.417}$ reconstructed by incommensurate potential

Tadashi Kawamoto, Takehiko Mori, Kengo Enomoto, Takako Konoike, Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji, Ayumi Takamori, Kazuo Takimiya, and Tetsuo Otsubo

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024503 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Temperature dependence of the superfluid density in a noncentrosymmetric superconductor

N. Hayashi, K. Wakabayashi, P. A. Frigeri, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024504 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Downward shift of infrared conductivity spectral weight at the $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ -density-wave transition: Role of anisotropy

Rouzbeh Gerami and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024505 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Multiphoton transitions between energy levels in a phase-biased Cooper-pair box

V. I. Shnyrkov, Th. Wagner, D. Born, S. N. Shevchenko, W. Krech, A. N. Omelyanchouk, E. Il’ichev, and H. -G. Meyer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024506 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Quasiclassical approach to the cutoff function in the mixed state of $d$ -wave superconductors

R. Laiho, M. Safonchik, and K. B. Traito

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024507 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Experimental study of the correlation length of critical-current fluctuations in the presence of surface disorder: Probing vortex long-range interactions

J. Scola, A. Pautrat, C. Goupil, and Ch. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024508 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Searching for a higher superconducting transition temperature in strained $Mg B_{2}$

Jin-Cheng Zheng and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024509 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Nernst effect in high- $T_{c}$ superconductors

Yayu Wang, Lu Li, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024510 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Paramagnetic Meissner effect and finite spin susceptibility in an asymmetric superconductor

Lianyi He, Meng Jin, and Pengfei Zhuang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024511 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Superconductivity mediated by a soft phonon mode: Specific heat, resistivity, thermal expansion, and magnetization of $Y B_{6}$

R. Lortz, Y. Wang, U. Tutsch, S. Abe, C. Meingast, P. Popovich, W. Knafo, N. Shitsevalova, Yu. B. Paderno, and A. Junod

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024512 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Static solitons of the sine-Gordon equation and equilibrium vortex structure in Josephson junctions

S. V. Kuplevakhsky and A. M. Glukhov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024513 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Multivortex and giant vortex states near the expulsion and penetration fields in thin mesoscopic superconducting squares

B. J. Baelus, A. Kanda, N. Shimizu, K. Tadano, Y. Ootuka, K. Kadowaki, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 73, 024514 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Magnetoresistivity as a probe of disorder in the $π$ and $σ$ bands of ${MgB}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. B 72, 184512 (2005)]

I. Pallecchi, V. Ferrando, E. Galleani D’Agliano, D. Marré, M. Monni, M. Putti, C. Tarantini, F. Gatti, H. U. Aebersold, E. Lehmann, X. X. Xi, E. G. Haanappel, and C. Ferdeghini

Phys. Rev. B 73, 029901 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Erratum: Meissner effect in a charged Bose gas with short-range repulsion [Phys. Rev. B 68, 144502 (2003)]

Shun-ichiro Koh

Phys. Rev. B 73, 029902 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006