Volume 74, Issue 21

1 December 2006

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BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Structure and dynamics of spherical crystals characterized for the Thomson problem

David J. Wales and Sidika Ulker

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212101 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Photoinduced Fano resonance of coherent phonons in zinc

Muneaki Hase, Jure Demsar, and Masahiro Kitajima

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212301 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Simulations of liquid rubidium near the critical density

M. Ross, L. H. Yang, and W.-C. Pilgrim

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212302 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Magnetism

Variational coupled-cluster study of plasmonlike excitations in quantum antiferromagnets

Y. Xian

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212401 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Tailoring the spin direction of antiferromagnetic $NiO$ thin films grown on vicinal $Ag (001)$

Y. Z. Wu, Z. Q. Qiu, Y. Zhao, A. T. Young, E. Arenholz, and B. Sinkovic

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212402 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Quantum phase transition in the heavy-fermion compound $Yb {Ir}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

H. Q. Yuan, M. Nicklas, Z. Hossain, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212403 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Origin of the breakdown of Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin-based tunneling models

Casey W. Miller, Zhi-Pan Li, Ivan K. Schuller, R. W. Dave, J. M. Slaughter, and Johan Åkerman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212404 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Fast magnetic domain wall in magnetic microwires

R. Varga, A. Zhukov, J. M. Blanco, M. Ipatov, V. Zhukova, J. Gonzalez, and P. Vojtaník

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212405 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Emergent paramagnetism of DNA molecules

Juyeon Yi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212406 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Magnetic properties of the Kagomé mixed compounds $({Co}_{x} {Ni}_{1 - x})_{3} V_{2} O_{8}$

N. Qureshi, H. Fuess, H. Ehrenberg, T. C. Hansen, C. Ritter, K. Prokes, A. Podlesnyak, and D. Schwabe

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212407 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Magnetic phase in ${LaFe}_{11.4} {Al}_{1.6}$ with very low interstitial carbon content

Hong-wei Zhang, Jing Chen, Guang-juan Liu, Li-gang Zhang, Ji-rong Sun, and Bao-gen Shen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212408 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Anomalous Hall effect in disordered Fe ferromagnetic films

Jianwei Zhang and Hai-Ping Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212409 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Angular and polarization dependence of x-ray resonant elastic scattering in transition metals

I. Marri, C. M. Bertoni, P. Ferriani, and Y. Joly

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212410 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Impurity effects on the quasiparticle spectrum of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state of a $d$ -wave superconductor

Qian Wang, Chia-Ren Hu, and Chin-Sen Ting

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212501 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Many-body effect on the superconducting transition temperature in layered organic superconductors

Tadashi Kawamoto and Takehiko Mori

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212502 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Phase structure of lattice model of unconventional superconductors

Tomoyoshi Ono and Ikuo Ichinose

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212503 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

$c$ -axis longitudinal magnetoresistance of the electron-doped superconductor $\Pr_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} Cu O_{4}$

W. Yu, B. Liang, and R. L. Greene

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212504 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Density-induced quantum phase transitions in the ground state of triplet superconductors

R. W. Cherng and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212505 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Theoretical examination of whether phonon dispersion in ${Nb}_{3} Sn$ is anomalous

H. M. Tütüncü, G. P. Srivastava, S. Bağcı, and S. Duman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212506 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Extended Hubbard model of superconductivity and charge-density-waves in the layered $2 H$ transition metal dichalcogenides

Zi-Jian Yao, Jian-Xin Li, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212507 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Suppression of inhomogeneous electron localization in $κ − {(BEDT − TTF)}_{2} {Cu}_{2} {(C N)}_{3}$ under pressure

Atsushi Kawamoto, Yosuke Honma, Ken-ichi Kumagai, Noriaki Matsunaga, and Kazushige Nomura

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212508 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Singular length dependence of critical current in superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor bridges

Alex Levchenko, Alex Kamenev, and Leonid Glazman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 212509 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

EXAFS structure refinement supplemented by computational chemistry

Ya-Wen Hsiao, Ye Tao, Jacob E. Shokes, Robert A. Scott, and Ulf Ryde

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214101 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Stability of the body-centered-tetragonal phase of Fe at high pressure: Ground-state energies, phonon spectra, and molecular dynamics simulations

A. B. Belonoshko, E. I. Isaev, N. V. Skorodumova, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214102 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Lifshitz transitions and elastic properties of osmium under pressure

Daniela Koudela, Manuel Richter, Arnulf Möbius, Klaus Koepernik, and Helmut Eschrig

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214103 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Hexagon-preserving carbon foams: Properties of hypothetical carbon allotropes

Agnieszka Kuc and Gotthard Seifert

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214104 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Atomistic simulations of radiation-induced defect formation in spinels: $Mg {Al}_{2} O_{4}$ , $Mg {Ga}_{2} O_{4}$ , and $Mg {In}_{2} O_{4}$

D. Bacorisen, Roger Smith, B. P. Uberuaga, K. E. Sickafus, J. A. Ball, and R. W. Grimes

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214105 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Oxygen mobility in the perovskite ${SrTi}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} O_{3 - δ} (x = 0.8)$

E. Mashkina, A. Magerl, J. Ollivier, M. Göbbels, and F. Seifert

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214106 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Hard x-ray radiation induced dissociation of $N_{2}$ and $O_{2}$ molecules and the formation of ionic nitrogen oxide phases under pressure

Yue Meng, Robert B. Von Dreele, Brian H. Toby, Paul Chow, Michael Y. Hu, Guoyin Shen, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214107 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Atomistic simulations of the mechanical behavior of fivefold twinned nanowires

Ajing Cao and Yueguang Wei

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214108 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Inversion of defect interactions due to ordering in ${Sr}_{1 - 3 x ∕ 2} {La}_{x} {TiO}_{3}$ perovskites: An atomistic simulation study

B. S. Thomas, N. A. Marks, and Peter Harrowell

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214109 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Amorphization in iron nitride thin films prepared by reactive ion-beam sputtering

Ranu Dubey, Ajay Gupta, and J. C. Pivin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214110 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

First-principles thermoelasticity of bcc iron under pressure

Xianwei Sha and R. E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214111 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Structural stability and phase-transition mechanism of $MgTe$ under pressure

Yingxiang Cai, Songtao Wu, Jie Yu, and Rui Xu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214112 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Size and doping effects on the coercive field of ferroelectric nanoparticles: A microscopic model

Th. Michael, S. Trimper, and J. M. Wesselinowa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214113 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Pressure-induced structural and electronic changes in $α − Al H_{3}$

J. Graetz, S. Chaudhuri, Y. Lee, T. Vogt, J. T. Muckerman, and J. J. Reilly

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214114 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Uniform accuracy of the quasicontinuum method

Weinan E, Jianfeng Lu, and Jerry Z. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214115 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

General approach to the description of the glass transition in terms of critical dynamics

M. G. Vasin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214116 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Background proportional enhancement of the extended fine structure in nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering

T. T. Fister, G. T. Seidler, C. Hamner, J. O. Cross, J. A. Soininen, and J. J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214117 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Strain induced coexistence of monoclinic and charge ordered phases in ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} Mn O_{3}$

P. R. Sagdeo, Shahid Anwar, and N. P. Lalla

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214118 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Chiral anomalous Hall effect in reentrant AuFe alloys

F. Wolff Fabris, P. Pureur, J. Schaf, V. N. Vieira, and I. A. Campbell

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214201 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Screening, charge distribution, and electron correlations in metallic alloys

V. Drchal, R. Hammerling, and P. Weinberger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214202 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Influence of star-like iridium complexes in the graphoepitaxy of polyfluorene thin films

M. Knaapila, M. Torkkeli, B. P. Lyons, M. R. C. Hunt, T. P. A. Hase, O. H. Seeck, L. Bouchenoire, R. Serimaa, and A. P. Monkman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214203 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Short- and medium-range structure of amorphous zircon from molecular dynamics simulations

Jincheng Du, Ram Devanathan, L. René Corrales, William J. Weber, and Alastair N. Cormack

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214204 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Unique six-dimensional structural model for Al-Pd-Mn and Al-Cu-Fe icosahedral phases

Marianne Quiquandon and Denis Gratias

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214205 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Compositional dependence of local atomic structures in amorphous ${Fe}_{100 - x} B_{x}$ $(x = 14, 17, 20)$ alloys studied by electron diffraction and high-resolution electron microscopy

Akihiko Hirata, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Takeshi Hanada, and V. Z. Bengus

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214206 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Raman spectroscopy of low-temperature $(P n m a)$ and high-temperature $(R \bar{3} c)$ phases of $La Cr O_{3}$

M. N. Iliev, A. P. Litvinchuk, V. G. Hadjiev, Y.-Q. Wang, J. Cmaidalka, R.-L. Meng, Y.-Y. Sun, N. Kolev, and M. V. Abrashev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214301 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Nuclear quadrupole relaxation of ${}^{140}{Ce}$ implanted in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

W. Sato, H. Ueno, A. Taniguchi, Y. Itsuki, Y. Kasamatsu, A. Shinohara, K. Asahi, K. Asai, and Y. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214302 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Perturbation theory for localized solutions of the sine-Gordon equation: Decay of a breather and pinning by a microresistor

D. R. Gulevich and F. V. Kusmartsev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214303 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Two-dimensional diffraction of plasma, thermal, and elastic waves generated by an infrared laser pulse in semiconductors

B. Audoin, H. Meri, and C. Rossignol

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214304 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Thermal rectifying effect in two-dimensional anharmonic lattices

Jinghua Lan and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214305 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Magnetism

Magnon focusing in thin ferromagnetic films

V. Veerakumar and R. E. Camley

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214401 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Size effects in frustrated dipolar spin systems

A. V. Klopper and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214402 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Spin waves and their damping in itinerant ultrathin ferromagnets: Intermediate wave vectors

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

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214403 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Magnetic structure and enhanced $T_{N}$ of the rare-earth intermetallic compound $Tb Rh {In}_{5}$ : Experiments and mean-field model

R. Lora-Serrano, C. Giles, E. Granado, D. J. Garcia, E. Miranda, O. Agüero, L. Mendonça Ferreira, J. G. S. Duque, and P. G. Pagliuso

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214404 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Magnetization damping in ultrathin polycrystalline Co films: Evidence for nonlocal effects

J-M. L. Beaujour, J. H. Lee, A. D. Kent, K. Krycka, and C-C. Kao

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214405 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Vortices in ferromagnetic elements with perpendicular anisotropy

C. Moutafis, S. Komineas, C. A. F. Vaz, J. A. C. Bland, and P. Eames

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214406 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Magnetic entropy change of itinerant electron metamagnetic system $Co (S_{1 - x} {Se}_{x})_{2}$

H. Wada, A. Mitsuda, and K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214407 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Theory of helical spin crystals: Phases, textures, and properties

B. Binz and A. Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214408 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Hyperfine interaction of ${Er}^{3 +}$ ions in $Y_{2} Si O_{5}$ : An electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy study

O. Guillot-Noël, Ph. Goldner, Y. Le Du, E. Baldit, P. Monnier, and K. Bencheikh

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214409 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Memory in nanomagnetic systems: Superparamagnetism versus spin-glass behavior

Malay Bandyopadhyay and Sushanta Dattagupta

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214410 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Magnetic and structural properties of ${Ge}_{x} {Mn}_{1 - x}$ films: Precipitation of intermetallic nanomagnets

S. Ahlers, D. Bougeard, N. Sircar, G. Abstreiter, A. Trampert, M. Opel, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214411 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the thiospinel compound $Cu Cr Zr S_{4}$

Masakazu Ito, Hiroki Yamamoto, Shoichi Nagata, and Takashi Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214412 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Magnetization damping in two-component metal oxide micropowder and nanopowder compacts by broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements

Jamal Ben Youssef and Christian Brosseau

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214413 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Magnetic structure of MnSi under an applied field probed by polarized small-angle neutron scattering

S. V. Grigoriev, S. V. Maleyev, A. I. Okorokov, Yu. O. Chetverikov, P. Böni, R. Georgii, D. Lamago, H. Eckerlebe, and K. Pranzas

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214414 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Dynamic magnetic behavior of $Ba Co O_{3}$ quasi-one-dimensional perovskite

P. M. Botta, V. Pardo, D. Baldomir, C. de la Calle, J. A. Alonso, and J. Rivas

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214415 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Clustering of high-spin molecules in spin-crossover systems and magnetic ordering in temperature cycling processes

Masamichi Nishino, Kamel Boukheddaden, Seiji Miyashita, and François Varret

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214416 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Magnetic order and electrical conductivity scaling of the spinel oxide ${Mn}_{0.5} {Ru}_{0.5} {Co}_{2} O_{4}$

R. N. Bhowmik and R. Ranganathan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214417 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Ferromagnetic behavior of carbon nanospheres encapsulating silver nanoparticles

R. Caudillo, X. Gao, R. Escudero, M. José-Yacaman, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214418 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Two-loop functional renormalization group of the random field and random anisotropy $O (N)$ models

Matthieu Tissier and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214419 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Spin-lattice relaxation of heavy spin-1/2 nuclei in diamagnetic solids: A Raman process mediated by spin-rotation interaction

Alexander J. Vega, Peter A. Beckmann, Shi Bai, and Cecil Dybowski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214420 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

${}^{207}{Pb}$ spin-lattice relaxation in solid ${PbMoO}_{4}$ and ${PbCl}_{2}$

Peter A. Beckmann, Shi Bai, Alexander J. Vega, and Cecil Dybowski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214421 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Unusual sequence of phase transitions in $MnAs$ : First-principles study

L. M. Sandratskii and E. Şaşıoğlu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214422 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Creation and annihilation of conducting filaments in mesoscopic manganite structures

T. Wu and J. F. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214423 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Magnetic excitation spectrum of the square lattice $S = 1 ∕ 2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet $K_{2} V_{3} O_{8}$

M. D. Lumsden, S. E. Nagler, B. C. Sales, D. A. Tennant, D. F. McMorrow, S.-H. Lee, and S. Park

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214424 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Magnetization of ferromagnetic polycrystals subject to an external magnetic field

Huai-Yu Wang and Kun Xun

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214425 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Phase diagram of the spin-Peierls chain with local coupling: Density-matrix renormalization-group calculations and unitary transformations

Alexander Weiße, Georg Hager, Alan R. Bishop, and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214426 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Negative giant longitudinal magnetoresistance in $Ni Mn Sb ∕ In Sb$ : Interface effect

S. Gardelis, J. Androulakis, Z. Viskadourakis, E. L. Papadopoulou, J. Giapintzakis, S. Rai, G. S. Lodha, and S. B. Roy

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214427 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Magnetic structure and critical behavior of $Gd Rh {In}_{5}$ : Resonant x-ray diffraction and renormalization group analysis

E. Granado, B. Uchoa, A. Malachias, R. Lora-Serrano, P. G. Pagliuso, and H. Westfahl, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214428 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Observation of magnetization jump associated with a spin-state transition in oxygen-deficient $Y_{0.33} {Sr}_{0.67} Co O_{3 - δ}$

Yufeng Zhang, Sho Sasaki, Takanobu Odagiri, and Mitsuru Izumi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214429 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in the composite material ${({La}_{1.85} {Sr}_{0.15} Cu O_{4})}_{1 - x} {({La}_{0.3} {Dy}_{0.4} {Sr}_{0.3} Mn O_{3})}_{x}$

Daniel Hsu, T. Geetha Kumary, L. Lin, and J. G. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214504 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Intrinsic Josephson junctions in misaligned ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 - x}$ thin films with different tilt angles

Michael Mans, Henrik Schneidewind, Matthias Büenfeld, Frank Schmidl, and Paul Seidel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214514 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Optical response of strongly coupled metal nanoparticles in dimer arrays”

Vadim A. Markel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 216401 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Theory of spin modes in vortex-state ferromagnetic cylindrical dots [Phys. Rev. B 71, 014411 (2005)]

R. Zivieri and F. Nizzoli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 219901 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Publisher's Note: Pressure-induced amorphization of cubic $Zr W_{2} O_{8}$ studied in situ and ex situ by synchrotron x-ray diffraction and absorption [Phys. Rev. B 72, 024117 (2005)]

Tamas Varga, Angus P. Wilkinson, Andrew C. Jupe, Cora Lind, William A. Bassett, and Chang-Sheng Zha

Phys. Rev. B 74, 219902 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006