Volume 76, Issue 14

1 October 2007

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Adiabatic approximations of coupled dipole-proton model for hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics

Dalibor Merunka and Boris Rakvin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140101(R) (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nanoscale elastic inhomogeneity of a Pd-based metallic glass: Sound velocity from ultrasonic and inelastic x-ray scattering experiments

T. Ichitsubo, S. Hosokawa, K. Matsuda, E. Matsubara, N. Nishiyama, S. Tsutsui, and A. Q. R. Baron

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140201(R) (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Antimony vibrations in skutterudites probed by ${}^{121}{Sb}$ nuclear inelastic scattering

H.-C. Wille, R. P. Hermann, I. Sergueev, O. Leupold, P. van der Linden, B. C. Sales, F. Grandjean, Gary J. Long, R. Rüffer, and Yu. V. Shvyd’ko

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140301(R) (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Subdiffractive propagation of ultrasound in sonic crystals

Víctor Espinosa, Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Kestutis Staliunas, Isabel Pérez-Arjona, and Javier Redondo

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140302(R) (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Kinetic arrest of the first order austenite to martensite phase transition in ${Ni}_{50} {Mn}_{34} {In}_{16}$ : dc magnetization studies

V. K. Sharma, M. K. Chattopadhyay, and S. B. Roy

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140401(R) (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Precession states in planar spin-transfer devices: The effective one-dimensional approximation

Ya. B. Bazaliy

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140402(R) (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

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Ferromagnetic cuprates $Ca {Cu}_{3} {Ge}_{4} O_{12}$ and $Ca {Cu}_{3} {Sn}_{4} O_{12}$ with $A$ -site ordered perovskite structure

H. Shiraki, T. Saito, T. Yamada, M. Tsujimoto, M. Azuma, H. Kurata, S. Isoda, M. Takano, and Y. Shimakawa

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140403(R) (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Crystallization of the resonating valence bond liquid as vortex condensation

Arnaud Ralko, Michel Ferrero, Federico Becca, Dmitri Ivanov, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140404(R) (2007) - Published 15 October, 2007

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Increasing entanglement through engineered disorder in the random Ising chain

D. Binosi, G. De Chiara, S. Montangero, and A. Recati

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140405(R) (2007) - Published 15 October, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ab initio investigation of magnetic interactions in the frustrated triangular magnet ${NiGa}_{2} S_{4}$

I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140406(R) (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the spin-asymmetry of hot-electron transmission in Fe

T. Banerjee, J. C. Lodder, and R. Jansen

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140407(R) (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

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Spin-charge separation in a strongly correlated spin-polarized chain

Shimul Akhanjee and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140408(R) (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnetic field dependence of vortex core size in clean superconductors

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

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140501(R) (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

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Oxygen isotope effect in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{n - 1} {Cu}_{n} O_{2 n + 4 + δ}$ $(n = 1, 2, 3)$ single crystals

Xiao-Jia Chen, Bing Liang, Clemens Ulrich, Cheng-Tian Lin, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Zhigang Wu, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140502(R) (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

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Resonance absorption of microwaves in $He II$ : Evidence for roton emission

A. Rybalko, S. Rubets, E. Rudavskii, V. Tikhiy, S. Tarapov, R. Golovashchenko, and V. Derkach

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140503(R) (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

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Properties of high- $T_{C}$ copper oxides from the nearly-free-electron model

T. Jarlborg

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140504(R) (2007) - Published 15 October, 2007

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Unidirectional $d$ -wave superconducting domains in the two-dimensional $t − J$ model

Marcin Raczkowski, Manuela Capello, Didier Poilblanc, Raymond Frésard, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140505(R) (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

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Macroscopic evidence for quantum criticality and field-induced quantum fluctuations in cuprate superconductors

A. D. Beyer, V. S. Zapf, H. Yang, F. Fabris, M. S. Park, K. H. Kim, S.-I. Lee, and N.-C. Yeh

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140506(R) (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

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High-field vortices in Josephson junctions with alternating critical current density

Maayan Moshe and R. G. Mints

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140507(R) (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

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Band-structure calculations of Fermi-surface pockets in ortho-II ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.5}$

A. Carrington and E. A. Yelland

Phys. Rev. B 76, 140508(R) (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Ideal tensile and shear strength of $β − C_{3} N_{4}$ from first-principles calculations

Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144101 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Electronic topological transition in zinc under pressure: An x-ray absorption spectroscopy study

G. Aquilanti, A. Trapananti, M. Minicucci, F. Liscio, A. Twaróg, E. Principi, and S. Pascarelli

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144102 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Nonlinear response theories and effective pair potentials

Simon Gravel and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144103 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

First-principles calculations of structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of ${Na}_{2} Be H_{4}$

C. H. Hu, Y. M. Wang, D. M. Chen, D. S. Xu, and K. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144104 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Anisotropy of the strength of Si studied by a laser-based contact-free method

Victor V. Kozhushko and Peter Hess

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144105 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Melting of lead under high pressure studied using second-scale time-resolved x-ray diffraction

Agnès Dewaele, Mohamed Mezouar, Nicolas Guignot, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144106 (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Elasticity of $ω$ -phase zirconium

Wei Liu, Baosheng Li, Liping Wang, Jianzhong Zhang, and Yusheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144107 (2007) - Published 17 October, 2007

Activation enthalpy for kink-pair nucleation on dislocations: Comparison between static and dynamic atomic-scale simulations

David Rodney

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144108 (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

Cation vacancies in ferroelectric $Pb Ti O_{3}$ and $Pb (Zr, Ti) O_{3}$ : A positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy study

D. J. Keeble, S. Singh, R. A. Mackie, M. Morozov, S. McGuire, and D. Damjanovic

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144109 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Reconstruction energies of partial dislocations in cubic semiconductors

S. P. Beckman and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144110 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Absorbing boundary conditions for molecular dynamics and multiscale modeling

S. Namilae, D. M. Nicholson, P. K. V. V. Nukala, C. Y. Gao, Y. N. Osetsky, and D. J. Keffer

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144111 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

In situ synchrotron diffraction investigation of morphotropic $Pb [{Zr}_{1 - x} {Ti}_{x}] O_{3}$ under an applied electric field

Kristin A. Schönau, Michael Knapp, Hans Kungl, Michael J. Hoffmann, and Hartmut Fuess

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144112 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Size-dependent structural transition from multiple-twinned particles to epitaxial fcc nanocrystals and nanocrystal decay

K. Sato, W. J. Huang, F. Bohra, S. Sivaramakrishnan, A. P. Tedjasaputra, and J. M. Zuo

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144113 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Metallization of aluminum hydride at high pressures: A first-principles study

Chris J. Pickard and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144114 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Constrained molecular dynamics for quantifying intrinsic ductility versus brittleness

D. Tanguy

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144115 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Correlation between the structure and the spin state in $R_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} Co O_{3}$ ( $R = La$ , Pr, and Nd)

T. Takami, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and H. Ikuta

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144116 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

High-pressure and magneto-optical studies of Cr-related defects in the lithium-rich $Li Nb O_{3} : Cr, Mg$ crystal

A. Kamińska, A. Suchocki, S. Kobyakov, L. Arizmendi, M. Potemski, and F. J. Teran

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144117 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Clathrate formation in the Ba-Pd-Ge system: Phase equilibria, crystal structure, and physical properties

N. Melnychenko-Koblyuk, A. Grytsiv, P. Rogl, M. Rotter, E. Bauer, G. Durand, H. Kaldarar, R. Lackner, H. Michor, E. Royanian, M. Koza, and G. Giester

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144118 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Structure and elasticity of $C m c m$ $Ca Ir O_{3}$ and their pressure dependences: Ab initio calculations

Taku Tsuchiya and Jun Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144119 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Effect of disorder strength on the fracture pattern in heterogeneous networks

I. Malakhovsky and M. A. J. Michels

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144201 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Isothermal transformation of supercooled liquid $n$ -butanol near the glass transition: Polyamorphic transitions in molecular liquids investigated using Raman scattering

Aleksandra Wypych, Yannick Guinet, and Alain Hédoux

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144202 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Dielectric constant and ac conductivity of the layered cobalt oxide ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Co O_{6 + δ}$ : A possible metal-dielectric composite made by self-organization of ${Co}^{2 +}$ and ${Co}^{3 +}$ ions

Y. Nagao, I. Terasaki, and T. Nakano

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144203 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

First-principles study of ternary fcc solution phases from special quasirandom structures

Dongwon Shin, Axel van de Walle, Yi Wang, and Zi-Kui Liu

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144204 (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Physical and geometrical percolations of effective conductivity on a lattice

Yeranuhi Hakobyan, Katerina D. Papoulia, and Mircea D. Grigoriu

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144205 (2007) - Published 17 October, 2007

Pressure-induced structural change of liquid InAs and the systematics of liquid III-V compounds

T. Hattori, K. Tsuji, Y. Miyata, T. Sugahara, and F. Shimojo

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144206 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Surface acoustic waves in two-dimensional phononic crystals: Dispersion relation and the eigenfield distribution of surface modes

Degang Zhao, Zhengyou Liu, Chunyin Qiu, Zhaojian He, Feiyan Cai, and Manzhu Ke

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144301 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Method for retrieving effective properties of locally resonant acoustic metamaterials

Vladimir Fokin, Muralidhar Ambati, Cheng Sun, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144302 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Formation of a large polaron crystal from a homogeneous, dilute polaron gas

Giuseppe Iadonisi, Vladimir Mukhomorov, Giovanni Cantele, and Domenico Ninno

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144303 (2007) - Published 18 October, 2007

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of classical nuclei interacting with the quantum electron gas

Yu Wang and Lev Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144304 (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

Dynamical diffraction of neutrons and transition from beam splitter to phase shifter case

Hartmut Lemmel

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144305 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Magnetism

Magnetic, structural, and dielectric properties of $Cu B_{2} O_{4}$

G. Nénert, L. N. Bezmaternykh, A. N. Vasiliev, and T. T. M. Palstra

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144401 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Effects of the lanthanide addition to the ${Sr}_{2} Cr Re O_{6}$ double perovskite

J. Blasco, J. M. Michalik, J. García, G. Subías, and J. M. De Teresa

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144402 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Rich magnetic phase diagram of the kagome-staircase compound ${Mn}_{3} V_{2} O_{8}$

E. Morosan, J. Fleitman, T. Klimczuk, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144403 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Large cryogenic magnetocaloric effect in the blocking state of $Gd {Al}_{2} ∕ {Al}_{2} O_{3}$ nanocapsules

S. Ma, W. F. Li, D. Li, D. K. Xiong, N. K. Sun, D. Y. Geng, W. Liu, and Z. D. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144404 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Multiple quantum NMR dynamics in dipolar ordered spin systems

S. I. Doronin, E. B. Fel’dman, E. I. Kuznetsova, G. B. Furman, and S. D. Goren

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144405 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Spin dynamics of $Y Mn O_{3}$ studied via inelastic neutron scattering and the anisotropic Hubbard model

Tapan Chatterji, S. Ghosh, A. Singh, L. P. Regnault, and M. Rheinstädter

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144406 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Micromagnetic modeling of spin-wave dynamics in exchange-biased permalloy disks

O. G. Heinonen, D. K. Schreiber, and A. K. Petford-Long

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144407 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Magnetic structure of the $S = 1$ ${Ni}_{5} {(Te O_{3})}_{4} {Br}_{2}$ layered system governed by magnetic anisotropy

M. Pregelj, A. Zorko, H. Berger, H. van Tol, L. C. Brunel, A. Ozarowski, S. Nellutla, Z. Jagličič, O. Zaharko, P. Tregenna-Piggott, and D. Arčon

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144408 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Oscillations of tunnel magnetoresistance induced by spin-wave excitations in ferromagnet-ferromagnet-ferromagnet double-barrier tunnel junctions

Xi Chen, Qing-Rong Zheng, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144409 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Excitation of self-localized spin-wave bullets by spin-polarized current in in-plane magnetized magnetic nanocontacts: A micromagnetic study

Giancarlo Consolo, Bruno Azzerboni, Grant Gerhart, Gennady A. Melkov, Vasil Tiberkevich, and Andrei N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144410 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Biquadratic antisymmetric exchange and the magnetic phase diagram of magnetoelectric $Cu Fe O_{2}$

M. L. Plumer

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144411 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Absence of local magnetic moments in Ru and Rh impurities and clusters on Ag(100) and Pt(997)

J. Honolka, K. Kuhnke, L. Vitali, A. Enders, K. Kern, S. Gardonio, C. Carbone, S. R. Krishnakumar, P. Bencok, S. Stepanow, and P. Gambardella

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144412 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Static impurities in the $S = \frac{3}{2}$ kagome lattice: Exact diagonalization calculations on small clusters

A. Läuchli, S. Dommange, B. Normand, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144413 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Magnetization oscillations induced by a spin-polarized current in a point-contact geometry: Mode hopping and nonlinear damping effects

D. V. Berkov and N. L. Gorn

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144414 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Spin-polarized tunneling as a probe of the electronic properties of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ heterostructures

M. Elsen, H. Jaffrès, R. Mattana, L. Thevenard, A. Lemaitre, and J.-M. George

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144415 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Separation of exchange anisotropy and magnetocrystalline anisotropy in $Co ∕ Co O$ bilayers by means of ac susceptibility measurements

Johan Åkerman, V. Ström, K. V. Rao, and E. Dan Dahlberg

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144416 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Symmetry and magnetically driven ferroelectricity in rare-earth manganites $R Mn O_{3}$ $(R = Gd, Tb, Dy)$

J. L. Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144417 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Dynamic properties of quantum spin chains: Simple route to complex behavior

Taras Verkholyak, Oleg Derzhko, Taras Krokhmalskii, and Joachim Stolze

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144418 (2007) - Published 15 October, 2007

Superexchange induced canted ferromagnetism in dilute magnets

G. Bouzerar, R. Bouzerar, and O. Cépas

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144419 (2007) - Published 15 October, 2007

Supersolidity, entropy, and frustration: $t − t^{'} − V$ model of hard-core bosons on the triangular lattice

S. R. Hassan, L. de Medici, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144420 (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Spin-flop transition in samarium metal investigated by capacitance dilatometry in a steady magnetic field of $45 T$

M. Rotter, A. Barcza, M. Doerr, M. D. Le, J. Brooks, E. Jobiliong, and J. Perenboom

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144421 (2007) - Published 16 October, 2007

Breathers and Raman scattering in a two-leg ladder with staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

E. Orignac, R. Citro, S. Capponi, and D. Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144422 (2007) - Published 17 October, 2007

Exchange-bias training effect in $Tb Fe ∕ Gd Fe$ : Micromagnetic mechanism

T. Hauet, S. Mangin, J. McCord, F. Montaigne, and Eric E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144423 (2007) - Published 18 October, 2007

Microscopic theory of spin-polarization coupling in multiferroic transition metal oxides

Chenglong Jia, Shigeki Onoda, Naoto Nagaosa, and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144424 (2007) - Published 18 October, 2007

X-ray resonant magnetic scattering study of magnetization reversals in a nanoscale spin-valve array

Dong Ryeol Lee, John W. Freeland, Yongseong Choi, George Srajer, Vitali Metlushko, and Bojan Ilic

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144425 (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

Electronic structure and magnetic and transport properties of single-crystalline UN

M. Samsel-Czekała, E. Talik, P. de V. Du Plessis, R. Troć, H. Misiorek, and C. Sułkowski

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144426 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Adiabatic quantum dynamics of a random Ising chain across its quantum critical point

Tommaso Caneva, Rosario Fazio, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144427 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Static and dynamic Jahn-Teller effects and antiferromagnetic order in $\Pr O_{2}$ : A mean-field analysis

Jens Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144428 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Interplay of spin glass physics and the Kondo effect in a model for dilute magnetic alloys

Farhad Fazileh and Eugene H. Kim

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144429 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Effect of tip resonances on tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic metal break-junctions: A first-principles study

J. D. Burton, R. F. Sabirianov, J. P. Velev, O. N. Mryasov, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144430 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Defect-induced spin deterioration of ${La}_{0.64} {Sr}_{0.36} Mn O_{3}$ : Ab initio study

Kunpeng Wang, Yuchen Ma, and Klaus Betzler

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144431 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Dominant factor of zero-field-cooled magnetization in discontinuous Fe films

Yu Shiratsuchi and Masahiko Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144432 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

NMR study of ordered states in $Np Fe {Ga}_{5}$ : Orbitally related ordering below $78 K$

S. Kambe, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, R. E. Walstedt, D. Aoki, Y. Homma, and Y. Shiokawa

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144433 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Unzipping vortices in type-II superconductors

Yariv Kafri, David R. Nelson, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144501 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter and in dyonic black holes

Sean A. Hartnoll, Pavel K. Kovtun, Markus Müller, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144502 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Superfluidity of ${}^{4}{He}$ in nanosize channels

Hiroki Ikegami, Yoji Yamato, Tomohisa Okuno, Junko Taniguchi, Nobuo Wada, Shinji Inagaki, and Yoshiaki Fukushima

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144503 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Phase-dependent noise correlations in normal-superconducting structures

Markku P. V. Stenberg, Pauli Virtanen, and Tero T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144504 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Investigations of the relationship between $T_{c}$ and the superconducting gap under magnetic and nonmagnetic impurity substitutions in $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

M. Le Tacon, A. Sacuto, Y. Gallais, D. Colson, and A. Forget

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144505 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Model for vortex pinning in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous $d$ -wave superconductor

Daniel Valdez-Balderas and David Stroud

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144506 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Magnetic fields above the surface of a superconductor with internal magnetism

Hendrik Bluhm

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144507 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Conductance characteristics between a normal metal and a two-band superconductor carrying a supercurrent

V. Lukic and E. J. Nicol

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144508 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

ac Josephson current and supercurrent noise through one-dimensional correlated electron systems

Nobuhiko Yokoshi and Susumu Kurihara

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144509 (2007) - Published 19 October, 2007

Superconducting proximity effect in $Pb ∕ Ag$ nanocomposites

Sangita Bose and Pushan Ayyub

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144510 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

${}^{11}B$ NMR in the layered diborides $Os B_{2}$ and $Ru B_{2}$

B. J. Suh, X. Zong, Y. Singh, A. Niazi, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144511 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Lattice dynamics of ${CaC}_{6}$ by Raman spectroscopy

J. Hlinka, I. Gregora, J. Pokorny, C. Hérold, N. Emery, J. F. Marêché, and P. Lagrange

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144512 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Correlation effects in the triangular lattice single-band system ${Li}_{x} Nb O_{2}$

K.-W. Lee, J. Kuneš, R. T. Scalettar, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144513 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Magnetic behavior of superconducting and nonsuperconducting $Ru {Sr}_{2} Y_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {Cu}_{2} O_{10}$ $(x = 0.5, 1.0)$

I. Felner, I. Nowik, M. I. Tsindlickt, O. Yuli, I. Asulin, O. Millo, V. P. S. Awana, H. Kishan, S. Balamurugan, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144514 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Lattice distortion and elasticity change in $s$ -wave and $d$ -wave superconductors

Mitsuo Kataoka and Daisuke Wakai

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144515 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Systematic analysis of a spin-susceptibility representation of the pairing interaction in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

T. A. Maier, A. Macridin, M. Jarrell, and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144516 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Calculation of critical states of superconducting multilayers based on numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equations for superconducting plates

A. N. Lykov and A. Yu. Tsvetkov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144517 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Superconducting qubits can be coupled and addressed as trapped ions

Yu-xi Liu, L. F. Wei, J. R. Johansson, J. S. Tsai, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144518 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Anisotropic transport properties of $U {Ni}_{2} {Al}_{3}$ thin films

M. Foerster, A. Zakharov, and M. Jourdan

Phys. Rev. B 76, 144519 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Pressure-volume equation of state of the high-pressure $B 2$ phase of NaCl”

Zheng-Hua Fang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 146101 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Determination of the infrared complex magnetoconductivity tensor in itinerant ferromagnets from Faraday and Kerr measurements [Phys. Rev. B 75, 214416 (2007)]

M.-H. Kim, G. Acbas, M.-H. Yang, I. Ohkubo, H. Christen, D. Mandrus, M. A. Scarpulla, O. D. Dubon, Z. Schlesinger, P. Khalifah, and J. Cerne

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149901 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Erratum: Theory of helimagnons in itinerant quantum systems. II. Nonanalytic corrections to Fermi-liquid behavior [Phys. Rev. B 74, 024409 (2006)]

D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and A. Rosch

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149902 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Publisher's Note: Spin-polarized tunneling as a probe of the electronic properties of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ heterostructures [Phys. Rev. B 76, 144415 (2007)]

M. Elsen, H. Jaffrès, R. Mattana, L. Thevenard, A. Lemaitre, and J.-M. George

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149903 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Erratum: $T_{1}^{- 1}$ peak near $T_{c}$ in unconventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 75, 052501 (2007)]

David Parker and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149904 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Erratum: Growth and microstructure dependence of electronic and magnetic properties in magnetically doped Gd-Si amorphous semiconductors [Phys. Rev. B 75, 184404 (2007)]

Li Zeng, Erik Helgren, Frances Hellman, Rafiqul Islam, and David J. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149905 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Erratum: Algebraic spin liquid as the mother of many competing orders [Phys. Rev. B 72, 104404 (2005)]

Michael Hermele, T. Senthil, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149906 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Erratum: Drift of charged defects in local fields as aging mechanism in ferroelectrics [Phys. Rev. B 75, 184107 (2007)]

Yuri A. Genenko and Doru C. Lupascu

Phys. Rev. B 76, 149907 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007