Volume 74, Issue 6

Surajit Saha, D. V. S. Muthu, C. Pascanut, N. Dragoe, R. Suryanarayanan, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi, Sukanta Karmakar, Surinder M. Sharma, and A. K. Sood

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064109 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Finite-temperature quasicontinuum method for multiscale analysis of silicon nanostructures

Z. Tang, H. Zhao, G. Li, and N. R. Aluru

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064110 (2006) - Published 23 August, 2006

Density functional calculations of the formation and migration enthalpies of monovacancies in Ni: Comparison of local and nonlocal approaches

El Hocine Megchiche, Simon Pérusin, Jean-Claude Barthelat, and Claude Mijoule

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064111 (2006) - Published 24 August, 2006

Alternative phase diagram for the betaine phosphate-betaine arsenate mixed system

A. Almeida, S. Sarmento, M. R. Chaves, J. L. Ribeiro, L. G. Vieira, M. L. Santos, A. Klöpperpieper, and A. M. Costa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064112 (2006) - Published 25 August, 2006

High-pressure transformation of $N_{2} ∕ O_{2}$ mixtures into ionic compounds

Davina Sihachakr and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064113 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

High-laser-wavelength sensitivity of the picosecond ultrasonic response in transparent thin films

A. Devos, J.-F. Robillard, R. Côte, and P. Emery

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064114 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Nucleation of diamond from liquid carbon under extreme pressures: Atomistic simulation

A. Sorkin, Joan Adler, and R. Kalish

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064115 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Charge centers in $Ca F_{2}$ : Ab initio calculation of elementary physical properties

M. Letz and L. Parthier

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064116 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Thermal behavior of core-shell and three-shell layered clusters: Melting of ${Cu}_{1} {Au}_{54}$ and ${Cu}_{12} {Au}_{43}$

Daojian Cheng, Shiping Huang, and Wenchuan Wang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064117 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Dielectric relaxation in compressed glassy and orientationally disordered mixed crystals

Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Sebastian Pawlus, and Josep Ll. Tamarit

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064201 (2006) - Published 2 August, 2006

Stability and ordering properties of fcc alloys based on Rh, Ir, Pd, and Pt

P. E. A. Turchi, V. Drchal, and J. Kudrnovský

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064202 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Correlation of fragility and Poisson’s ratio: Difference between metallic and nonmetallic glass formers

V. N. Novikov and A. P. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064203 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Atomistic simulations of amorphous alumina surfaces

S. P. Adiga, P. Zapol, and L. A. Curtiss

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064204 (2006) - Published 17 August, 2006

Experimental demonstration of tunable scattering spectra at microwave frequencies in composite media containing CoFeCrSiB glass-coated amorphous ferromagnetic wires and comparison with theory

D. P. Makhnovskiy, L. V. Panina, C. Garcia, A. P. Zhukov, and J. Gonzalez

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064205 (2006) - Published 24 August, 2006

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Lattice dynamical and dielectric properties of L-amino acids

P. R. Tulip and S. J. Clark

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064301 (2006) - Published 1 August, 2006

Electronic and vibronic cluster models for the ${}^{4}T_{2} (G)$ level of $d^{5}$ ions in tetrahedral symmetry

R. Parrot and D. Boulanger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064302 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Observation of coherent phonons in strontium titanate: Structural phase transition and ultrafast dynamics of the soft modes

T. Kohmoto, K. Tada, T. Moriyasu, and Y. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064303 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Existence of bound states of a polaron with a breather in soft potentials

J. Cuevas, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064304 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Asymmetric electrode-molecule transport dynamics tracked by nanoscale electroluminescence

Jose I. Gonzalez, Tom Vosch, and Robert M. Dickson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064305 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Magnetism

Experimental and theoretical study of annealed Ni-Pt alloys

Uday Kumar, P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Biplab Sanyal, Olle Eriksson, Per Nordblad, Durga Paudyal, Kartick Tarafder, and Abhijit Mookerjee

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064401 (2006) - Published 2 August, 2006

Stability of fixed points in the $(4 + ϵ)$ -dimensional random field $O (N)$ spin model for sufficiently large $N$

Yoshinori Sakamoto, Hisamitsu Mukaida, and Chigak Itoi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064402 (2006) - Published 2 August, 2006

Barkhausen statistics from a single domain wall in thin films studied with ballistic Hall magnetometry

D. A. Christian, K. S. Novoselov, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064403 (2006) - Published 3 August, 2006

Magnetic-field tunability of the vortex translational mode in micron-sized permalloy ellipses: Experiment and micromagnetic modeling

K. S. Buchanan, P. E. Roy, M. Grimsditch, F. Y. Fradin, K. Yu. Guslienko, S. D. Bader, and V. Novosad

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064404 (2006) - Published 4 August, 2006

Competing orders, nonlinear sigma models, and topological terms in quantum magnets

T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064405 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Orbital fluctuating state in ferromagnetic insulating $La Mn O_{3 + δ}$ $(0.085 ⩽ δ ⩽ 0.125)$ studied using Raman spectroscopy

K.-Y. Choi, Yu. G. Pashkevich, V. P. Gnezdilov, G. Güntherodt, A. V. Yeremenko, D. A. Nabok, V. I. Kamenev, S. N. Barilo, S. V. Shiryaev, A. G. Soldatov, and P. Lemmens

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064406 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Hidden zero-temperature bicritical point in the two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model: Monte Carlo simulations and proper finite-size scaling

Chenggang Zhou, D. P. Landau, and T. C. Schulthess

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064407 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Spin anisotropy effects in dimer single molecule magnets

Dmitri V. Efremov and Richard A. Klemm

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064408 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Weakly coupled motion of individual layers in ferromagnetic resonance

D. A. Arena, E. Vescovo, C.-C. Kao, Y. Guan, and W. E. Bailey

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064409 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Localized versus itinerant magnetic moments in ${Na}_{0.7} Co O_{2}$

J. L. Gavilano, B. Pedrini, K. Magishi, J. Hinderer, M. Weller, H. R. Ott, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064410 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Composition-dependent induced spin and orbital magnetic moments of Ir in Co-Ir alloys from x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

V. V. Krishnamurthy, D. J. Singh, N. Kawamura, M. Suzuki, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064411 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Spin-flop transitions and spin-wave gaps in ${La}_{2} Cu O_{4}$

Andreas Lüscher and Oleg P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064412 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Magnetism of the geometrically frustrated spin-chain compound ${Sr}_{3} Ho Cr O_{6}$ : Magnetic and heat capacity measurements and neutron powder diffraction

V. Hardy, C. Martin, G. Martinet, and G. André

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064413 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Ultrafast spin-dynamics in half-metallic $Cr O_{2}$ thin films

Qiang Zhang, A. V. Nurmikko, G. X. Miao, G. Xiao, and A. Gupta

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064414 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Chemical order and magnetic behavior of Fe-dilute fcc $Fe − Pd$ nanoparticles

R. A. Guirado-López, M. C. Desjonquères, and D. Spanjaard

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064415 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Dynamics of a quantum phase transition in the random Ising model: Logarithmic dependence of the defect density on the transition rate

Jacek Dziarmaga

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064416 (2006) - Published 17 August, 2006

Electronic structure of antiferromagnetic $La Mn O_{3}$ and the effects of charge polarization

Y. Nohara, A. Yamasaki, S. Kobayashi, and T. Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064417 (2006) - Published 17 August, 2006

Numerical study of the three-dimensional random-field Ising model at zero and positive temperature

Yong Wu and Jonathan Machta

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064418 (2006) - Published 21 August, 2006

Chemical potential shift and spectral-weight transfer in $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} Mn O_{3}$ revealed by photoemission spectroscopy

K. Ebata, H. Wadati, M. Takizawa, A. Fujimori, A. Chikamatsu, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064419 (2006) - Published 24 August, 2006

Ising models with long-range antiferromagnetic and short-range ferromagnetic interactions

Alessandro Giuliani, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Elliott H. Lieb

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064420 (2006) - Published 25 August, 2006

${}^{237}{Np} − {}^{17}O$ cross relaxation in ${NpO}_{2}$ driven by indirect spin-spin coupling

Y. Tokunaga, R. E. Walstedt, Y. Homma, D. Aoki, S. Kambe, H. Sakai, T. Fujimoto, S. Ikeda, E. Yamamoto, A. Nakamura, Y. Shiokawa, and H. Yasuoka

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064421 (2006) - Published 25 August, 2006

Multiple spin-glass-like behaviors in a Pr-based bulk metallic glass

Yong Tian Wang, Hai Yang Bai, Ming Xiang Pan, De Qian Zhao, and Wei Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064422 (2006) - Published 25 August, 2006

Crossover from impurity-induced ordered phase to uniform antiferromagnetic phase under hydrostatic pressure in the doped spin-gap system ${TlCu}_{1 - x} {Mg}_{x} {Cl}_{3}$

Hideyo Imamura, Toshio Ono, Kenji Goto, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064423 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Unified dynamical description of pulsed magnetic field and pressure effects on the spin crossover phenomenon

Sébastien Bonhommeau, Gábor Molnár, Michel Goiran, Kamel Boukheddaden, and Azzedine Bousseksou

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064424 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Verwey transition in ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ investigated using $LDA + DMFT$

L. Craco, M. S. Laad, and E. Müller-Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064425 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Monte Carlo simulations of frozen metastable states in ordered systems of ultrafine magnetic particles

Stefanie Russ and Armin Bunde

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064426 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Impedance and initial magnetic permeability of the Heusler compounds ${Pd}_{2} MnSn$ and ${Pd}_{2} MnSb$ near the Curie temperature

G. L. Ferreira-Fraga, L. A. Borba, and P. Pureur

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064427 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Proton NMR measurements of the local magnetic field in the paramagnetic metal and antiferromagnetic insulator phases of $λ − (BETS)_{2} {FeCl}_{4}$

Guoqing Wu, P. Ranin, W. G. Clark, S. E. Brown, L. Balicas, and L. K. Montgomery

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064428 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Modeling bond-order wave instabilities in doped frustrated antiferromagnets: Valence bond solids at fractional filling

M. Indergand, A. Läuchli, S. Capponi, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064429 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Orbital magnetic dynamics in chiral $p$ -wave superconductors

V. Braude and E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064501 (2006) - Published 3 August, 2006

Magnetic-field-induced orientation of superconducting $Mg B_{2}$ crystallites determined by x-ray diffraction

J. Li, D. Vaknin, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, D. Pal, M. R. Eskildsen, Z. Islam, and V. G. Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064502 (2006) - Published 4 August, 2006

Thin-film superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids: Competition between nucleation of superconductivity at domain walls and domains’ centers

A. Yu. Aladyshkin and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064503 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Correlation between oxygen isotope effects on transition temperature and magnetic penetration depth in high-temperature superconductors close to optimal doping

R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, K. Conder, E. Morenzoni, I. M. Savić, J. Karpinski, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064504 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Stability conditions and Fermi surface topologies in a superconductor

Elena Gubankova, Andreas Schmitt, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064505 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Flux dendrites of opposite polarity in superconducting $Mg B_{2}$ rings observed with magneto-optical imaging

Åge Andreas Falnes Olsen, Tom Henning Johansen, Daniel Shantsev, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun-Sook Lee, Hyun Jung Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064506 (2006) - Published 15 August, 2006

Josephson current through superconductor/diffusive-normal-metal/superconductor junctions: Interference effects governed by pairing symmetry

Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka, Takehito Yokoyama, and Satoshi Kashiwaya

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064507 (2006) - Published 17 August, 2006

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study of $4 a \times 4 a$ electronic charge order and the inhomogeneous pairing gap in superconducting ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

A. Hashimoto, N. Momono, M. Oda, and M. Ido

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064508 (2006) - Published 18 August, 2006

Peak effect of critical current densities of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ superconducting whiskers at high temperatures in a low-field regime

M. Tange, H. Ikeda, and R. Yoshizaki

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064514 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Kinetics of the superconducting charge qubit in the presence of a quasiparticle

R. M. Lutchyn, L. I. Glazman, and A. I. Larkin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064515 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Coherent transport in Josephson-junction rhombi chain with quenched disorder

Ivan V. Protopopov and Mikhail V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064516 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Pressure-induced enhancement of the critical current density in superconducting $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{x}$ bicrystalline rings

T. Tomita, J. S. Schilling, L. Chen, B. W. Veal, and H. Claus

Phys. Rev. B 74, 064517 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Microwave vortex dissipation of superconducting $Nd − Ce − Cu − O$ epitaxial films in high magnetic fields”

H. A. Blackstead

Phys. Rev. B 74, 066501 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Microwave vortex dissipation of superconducting Nd-Ce-Cu-O epitaxial films in high magnetic fields’ ”

N.-C. Yeh and D. M. Strayer

Phys. Rev. B 74, 066502 (2006) - Published 16 August, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum states of neutrons in magnetic thin films [Phys. Rev. B 71, 214423 (2005)]

F. Radu, V. Leiner, M. Wolff, V. K. Ignatovich, and H. Zabel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 069901 (2006) - Published 21 August, 2006

Erratum: Role of magnetic and orbital ordering at the metal-insulator transition in ${NdNiO}_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. B 73, 100409(R) (2006)]

V. Scagnoli, U. Staub, A. M. Mulders, M. Janousch, G. I. Meijer, G. Hammerl, J. M. Tonnerre, and N. Stojic

Phys. Rev. B 74, 069902 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006