Volume 75, Issue 14

1 April 2007

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Low-pressure metastable phase of single-bonded polymeric nitrogen from a helical structure motif and first-principles calculations

F. Zahariev, J. Hooper, S. Alavi, F. Zhang, and T. K. Woo

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140101(R) (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

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Dynamic disorder in $Ba Ti O_{3}$ epitaxial films

M. Tyunina, J. Levoska, and I. Jaakola

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140102(R) (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

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Ferroelectric distortion in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ thin films on $Si (001)$ by x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy: Experiment and first-principles calculations

J. C. Woicik, E. L. Shirley, C. S. Hellberg, K. E. Andersen, S. Sambasivan, D. A. Fischer, B. D. Chapman, E. A. Stern, P. Ryan, D. L. Ederer, and H. Li

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140103(R) (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

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Dynamically enhanced magnetodielectric effect and magnetic-field-controlled electric relaxations in La-doped $Bi Mn O_{3}$

Chan-Ho Yang, Sung-Ho Lee, Tae Yeong Koo, and Yoon Hee Jeong

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140104(R) (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Optimal fluctuation approach to a directed polymer in a random medium

I. V. Kolokolov and S. E. Korshunov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140201(R) (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Magnetism

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Non-Heisenberg spin dynamics of double-exchange ferromagnets with Coulomb repulsion

M. D. Kapetanakis and I. E. Perakis

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140401(R) (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

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Relaxation in the spin ice ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ studied using nuclear forward scattering

John P. Sutter, Satoshi Tsutsui, Ryuji Higashinaka, Yoshiteru Maeno, Olaf Leupold, and Alfred Q. R. Baron

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140402(R) (2007) - Published 11 April, 2007

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Critical properties and Bose-Einstein condensation in dimer spin systems

E. Orignac, R. Citro, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140403(R) (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

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Low-field current-hysteretic oscillations in spin-transfer nanocontacts

M. R. Pufall, W. H. Rippard, M. L. Schneider, and S. E. Russek

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140404(R) (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

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Ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy of parametric magnons excited by a four-wave process

V. V. Naletov, G. de Loubens, V. Charbois, O. Klein, V. S. Tiberkevich, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140405(R) (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

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Half-metallic ferromagnetism and spin polarization in $Cr O_{2}$

L. Chioncel, H. Allmaier, E. Arrigoni, A. Yamasaki, M. Daghofer, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140406(R) (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Impurity susceptibility and the fate of spin-flop transitions in lightly doped ${La}_{2} Cu O_{4}$

M. B. Silva Neto and L. Benfatto

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140501(R) (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

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Experimental evidence for ferromagnetic spin-pairing superconductivity emerging in $U {Ge}_{2}$ : A ${}^{73}{Ge}$ -nuclear-quadrupole-resonance study under pressure

A. Harada, S. Kawasaki, H. Mukuda, Y. Kitaoka, Y. Haga, E. Yamamoto, Y. Ōnuki, K. M. Itoh, E. E. Haller, and H. Harima

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140502(R) (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

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Distinct doping dependences of the pseudogap and superconducting gap of ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} Cu O_{4}$ cuprate superconductors

M. Hashimoto, T. Yoshida, K. Tanaka, A. Fujimori, M. Okusawa, S. Wakimoto, K. Yamada, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140503(R) (2007) - Published 4 April, 2007

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Nucleation of superconductivity in thin type-I foils

P. Valko, M. R. Gomes, and T. A. Girard

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140504(R) (2007) - Published 5 April, 2007

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Optical conductivity near finite-wavelength quantum criticality

S. Caprara, M. Grilli, C. Di Castro, and T. Enss

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140505(R) (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

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Infrared Hall conductivity in optimally doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ : Drude behavior examined by experiment and fluctuation-exchange-model calculations

D. C. Schmadel, G. S. Jenkins, J. J. Tu, G. D. Gu, Hiroshi Kontani, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140506(R) (2007) - Published 16 April, 2007

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Temperature dependent Fermi arcs in the normal state of the underdoped cuprate superconductors

Arun Paramekanti and Erhai Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140507(R) (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

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Phonon softening in superconducting diamond

M. Hoesch, T. Fukuda, J. Mizuki, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, J. P. Sutter, S. Tsutsui, A. Q. R. Baron, M. Nagao, and Y. Takano

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140508(R) (2007) - Published 18 April, 2007

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Favorable magnetic fluctuation anisotropy for unconventional superconductivity in $f$ -electron systems

S. Kambe, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, T. Fujimoto, R. E. Walstedt, S. Ikeda, D. Aoki, Y. Homma, Y. Haga, Y. Shiokawa, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140509(R) (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

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Precise determination of the superconducting gap along the diagonal direction of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + y}$ : Evidence for an extended $s$ -wave gap symmetry

Guo-meng Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140510(R) (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

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Switching the sign of Josephson current through Aharonov-Bohm interferometry

Fabrizio Dolcini and Francesco Giazotto

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140511(R) (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

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Interface hole doping in cuprate-titanate superlattices

N. Pavlenko, I. Elfimov, T. Kopp, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140512(R) (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

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Unmasking the nodal quasiparticle dynamics in cuprate superconductors using low-energy photoemission

T. Yamasaki, K. Yamazaki, A. Ino, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, A. Fujimori, Z.-X. Shen, M. Ishikado, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140513(R) (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

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Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity: Cuprate plane magnetic ordering in $Y {Sr}_{2} {Cu}_{2.1} {Nb}_{0.9} O_{8 - δ}$

H. A. Blackstead, W. B. Yelon, M. Kornecki, M. P. Smylie, Q. Cai, J. Lamsal, V. P. S. Awana, S. Balamurugan, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140514(R) (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

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Low-decoherence flux qubit

J. Q. You, Xuedong Hu, S. Ashhab, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140515(R) (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

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Small-angle neutron scattering measurements of the vortex lattice in $Ca C_{6}$

R. Cubitt, J. S. White, M. Laver, M. R. Eskildsen, C. D. Dewhurst, D. McK. Paul, A. J. Crichton, M. Ellerby, C. Howard, Z. Kurban, and F. Norris

Phys. Rev. B 75, 140516(R) (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

NMR studies of metallic tin confined within porous matrices

E. V. Charnaya, Cheng Tien, M. K. Lee, and Yu. A. Kumzerov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144101 (2007) - Published 4 April, 2007

Theoretical investigation of nitrogen substitution in cubic zirconia

Thomas Bredow

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144102 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Multiscale modeling of point defects in Si-Ge(001) quantum wells

B. Yang and V. K. Tewary

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144103 (2007) - Published 9 April, 2007

Fast molecular transport in hydrogen hydrates by high-pressure diamond anvil cell NMR

Takuo Okuchi, Masashi Takigawa, Jinfu Shu, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, and Takehiko Yagi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144104 (2007) - Published 11 April, 2007

Scattering of phonons from a high-energy grain boundary in silicon: Dependence on angle of incidence

Chris Kimmer, Sylvie Aubry, Ashton Skye, and Patrick K. Schelling

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144105 (2007) - Published 16 April, 2007

Three-dimensional local structure refinement using a full-potential XANES analysis

G. Smolentsev, A. V. Soldatov, and M. C. Feiters

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144106 (2007) - Published 18 April, 2007

Homogeneous phase separation in binary alloys under ion irradiation conditions: Role of interstitial atoms

P. Krasnochtchekov, R. S. Averback, and P. Bellon

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144107 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Interaction mechanism between edge dislocations and asymmetrical tilt grain boundaries investigated via quasicontinuum simulations

T. Shimokawa, T. Kinari, and S. Shintaku

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144108 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

$Ca {Cl}_{2}$ -type high-pressure phase of magnesium hydride predicted by ab initio phonon calculations

Lijun Zhang, Yanchao Wang, Tian Cui, Yan Li, Yinwei Li, Zhi He, Yanming Ma, and Guangtian Zou

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144109 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Cross-slip process in fcc nickel with hydrogen in a stacking fault: An atomistic study using the embedded-atom method

M. Wen, S. Fukuyama, and K. Yokogawa

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144110 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

${Pb}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {TiO}_{3}$ solid solution ( $x = 0.0$ , 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75): A theoretical and experimental approach

Sérgio Ricardo de Lázaro, Poty Rodrigues de Lucena, Júlio Ricardo Sambrano, Paulo Sérgio Pizani, Armando Beltrán, José Arana Varela, and Elson Longo

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144111 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Role of local heating in crystallization of amorphous alloys under ball milling: An experiment on ${Fe}_{90} {Zr}_{10}$

Y. S. Kwon, J. S. Kim, I. V. Povstugar, E. P. Yelsukov, and P. P. Choi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144112 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Perturbation theory for classical solids with vacancy defects

Sunil P. Singh and Shankar P. Das

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144113 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Origin of static friction and its relationship to adhesion at the atomic scale

Qing Zhang, Yue Qi, Louis G. Hector, Jr., Tahir Cagin, and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144114 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Ab initio study of $W − Al − Co − Ni$ : An approximant of the decagonal $Al − Co − Ni$ quasicrystal

Kai H. Hassdenteufel, Artem R. Oganov, Sergiy Katrych, and Walter Steurer

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144115 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Mean-field theory for the three-dimensional Coulomb glass

M. Müller and S. Pankov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144201 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

High frequency sound velocity in the glass former $2 Ca {(N O_{3})}_{2} ∙ 3 K N O_{3}$ : Molecular dynamics simulations

Mauro C. C. Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144202 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Structure factors of harmonic and anharmonic Fibonacci chains by molecular dynamics simulations

Michael Engel, Steffen Sonntag, Hansjörg Lipp, and Hans-Rainer Trebin

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144203 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Electron in a tangled chain: Multifractality at the small-world critical point

J. Quintanilla and V. L. Campo

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144204 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Equilibrium dynamics of spin-glass systems

A. Crisanti and L. Leuzzi

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144301 (2007) - Published 5 April, 2007

Model of laser cooling in the ${Yb}^{3 +}$ -doped fluorozirconate glass ZBLAN

Markus P. Hehlen, Richard I. Epstein, and Hiroyuki Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144302 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Magnetism

Quantum phase transition in the quantum compass model

Han-Dong Chen, Chen Fang, Jiangping Hu, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144401 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

Ferromagnetic order in epitaxially strained $La Co O_{3}$ thin films

D. Fuchs, C. Pinta, T. Schwarz, P. Schweiss, P. Nagel, S. Schuppler, R. Schneider, M. Merz, G. Roth, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144402 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

Dynamical spin response of doped two-leg Hubbard-like ladders

F. H. L. Essler and R. M. Konik

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144403 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

Ferromagnetism in Fe-doped ZnO nanocrystals: Experiment and theory

Debjani Karmakar, S. K. Mandal, R. M. Kadam, P. L. Paulose, A. K. Rajarajan, T. K. Nath, A. K. Das, I. Dasgupta, and G. P. Das

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144404 (2007) - Published 2 April, 2007

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of the decoupling of the magnetic ordering of the Er and Co sublattices in ${Er}_{1 - x} Y_{x} {Co}_{2}$ systems

J. Chaboy, M. A. Laguna-Marco, H. Maruyama, N. Ishimatsu, Y. Isohama, and N. Kawamura

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144405 (2007) - Published 3 April, 2007

Disorder-induced magnetic memory: Experiments and theories

M. S. Pierce, C. R. Buechler, L. B. Sorensen, S. D. Kevan, E. A. Jagla, J. M. Deutsch, T. Mai, O. Narayan, J. E. Davies, Kai Liu, G. T. Zimanyi, H. G. Katzgraber, O. Hellwig, E. E. Fullerton, P. Fischer, and J. B. Kortright

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144406 (2007) - Published 5 April, 2007

Correlation of electronic structure and ordered charge and orbital patterns for single-layered manganites in a wide hole-doping range $(0 \leq x \leq 1)$

Y. S. Lee, T. Arima, S. Onoda, Y. Okimoto, Y. Tokunaga, R. Mathieu, X. Z. Yu, J. P. He, Y. Kaneko, Y. Matsui, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144407 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Spin waves throughout the Brillouin zone and magnetic exchange coupling in the ferromagnetic metallic manganites ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} Mn O_{3}$ $(x = 0.25, 0.30)$

F. Ye, Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, D. T. Adroja, T. G. Perring, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144408 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Extensions to the Kondo lattice model to achieve realistic Curie temperatures and appropriate behavior of the resistivity for manganites

M. Stier and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144409 (2007) - Published 6 April, 2007

Brillouin scattering and molecular dynamics study of the elastic properties of $Pb ({Mg}_{1 ∕ 3} {Nb}_{2 ∕ 3}) O_{3}$

Muhtar Ahart, Aravind Asthagiri, Zuo-Guang Ye, Przemyslaw Dera, Ho-kwang Mao, Ronald E. Cohen, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144410 (2007) - Published 10 April, 2007

Critical spin liquid at $\frac{1}{3}$ magnetization in a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ triangular antiferromagnet

Jason Alicea and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144411 (2007) - Published 10 April, 2007

Higher angular momentum Kondo liquids

Pouyan Ghaemi and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144412 (2007) - Published 11 April, 2007

Fluctuating clusters in a reentrant spin-glass system

S. Niidera and F. Matsubara

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144413 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Geometric magnetic frustration in the hexagonal perovskite $(La, Sr)_{4 - z} {RuO}_{7 + δ}$

Stefan G. Ebbinghaus, Ernst-Wilhelm Scheidt, and Thomas Götzfried

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144414 (2007) - Published 12 April, 2007

Analysis of results from x-ray magnetic reflectometry for magnetic multilayer systems

M. Fähnle, D. Steiauf, L. Martosiswoyo, E. Goering, S. Brück, and G. Schütz

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144415 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

Interfacial magnetization in exchange-coupled $Fe ∕ Cr ∕ Fe$ structures investigated by second harmonic generation

A. A. Rzhevsky, B. B. Krichevtsov, D. E. Bürgler, and C. M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144416 (2007) - Published 16 April, 2007

Anisotropic contributions to the ${}^{119}{Sn}$ transferred hyperfine fields in $R {Mn}_{6} {Sn}_{6 - x} X_{x}$ ( $R = Y, Tb, Er$ ; $X = In, Ga$ )

Laura K. Perry, D. H. Ryan, and G. Venturini

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144417 (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

Density-functional study of magnetism in bare Au nanoclusters: Evidence of permanent size-dependent spin polarization without geometry relaxation

R. J. Magyar, V. Mujica, M. Marquez, and C. Gonzalez

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144421 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007

Evolution of the bosonic spectral density of the high-temperature superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

J. Hwang, T. Timusk, E. Schachinger, and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144508 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Interface dependence of the Josephson-current fluctuations in short mesoscopic superconductor/normal-conductor/superconductor junctions

T. Micklitz

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144509 (2007) - Published 20 April, 2007

Temperature-dependent matching in a flux-line lattice interacting with a triangular array of pinning centers without long-range order

J. Eisenmenger, M. Oettinger, C. Pfahler, A. Plettl, P. Walther, and P. Ziemann

Phys. Rev. B 75, 144514 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Essence of intrinsic tunneling: Distinguishing intrinsic features from artifacts”

V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. B 75, 146501 (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

Reply to “Comment on ‘Essence of intrinsic tunneling: Distinguishing intrinsic features from artifacts’ ”

V. N. Zavaritsky

Phys. Rev. B 75, 146502 (2007) - Published 17 April, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantitative x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: Quadrupole effects, shake-up, Shirley background, and relative sensitivity factors from a database of true x-ray photoelectron spectra [Phys. Rev. B 73, 174113 (2006)]

M. P. Seah and I. S. Gilmore

Phys. Rev. B 75, 149901 (2007) - Published 19 April, 2007