Volume 77, Issue 13

N. J. O. Silva, V. S. Amaral, L. D. Carlos, B. Rodríguez-González, L. M. Liz-Marzán, T. S. Berquó, Subir K. Banerjee, V. de Zea Bermudez, A. Millán, and F. Palacio

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134426 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Coherent spin relaxation in molecular magnets

V. I. Yukalov, V. K. Henner, and P. V. Kharebov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134427 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Magnetic excitations in ${La}_{2} Cu O_{4}$ probed by indirect resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Filomena Forte, Luuk J. P. Ament, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134428 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Spin reorientation transition and magnetic domain structure of Co ultrathin films grown on a faceted Au(455) surface

J. H. Gao, Y. Girard, V. Repain, A. Tejeda, R. Belkhou, N. Rougemaille, C. Chacon, G. Rodary, and S. Rousset

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134429 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Hard-core dimer aspects of the SU(2) singlet wave function

Matthieu Mambrini

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134430 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Spin-reorientation transitions in cobalt nanowires: Role of the microstructure and finite-size effects

R. A. Guirado-López, J. M. Montejano-Carrizalez, and J. L. Morán-López

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134431 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Effects of current on nanoscale ring-shaped magnetic tunnel junctions

Hong-Xiang Wei, Jiexuan He, Zhen-Chao Wen, Xiu-Feng Han, Wen-Shan Zhan, and Shufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134432 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Linear response theoretical study of the exchange interactions in Mn-doped ScN: Effects of disorder, band gap, and doping

Aditi Herwadkar, Walter R. L. Lambrecht, and Mark van Schilfgaarde

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134433 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Commensurate magnetic structures of $R {Mn}_{2} O_{5}$ $(R = Y, Ho, Bi)$ determined by single-crystal neutron diffraction

C. Vecchini, L. C. Chapon, P. J. Brown, T. Chatterji, S. Park, S-W. Cheong, and P. G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134434 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Fractal dimension of domain walls in the Edwards-Anderson spin glass model

S. Risau-Gusman and F. Romá

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134435 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Magnetic phase diagram of ${Nd}_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} Mn O_{3}$ probed by ${}^{17}O$ NMR

A. Trokiner, S. Verkhovskii, A. Yakubovskii, K. Kumagai, P. Monod, K. Mikhalev, A. Buzlukov, Y. Furukawa, N. Hur, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134436 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Spectral function for the $S = 1$ Heisenberg antiferromagetic chain

Steven R. White and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134437 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Critical behavior of CoO and NiO from specific heat, thermal conductivity, and thermal diffusivity measurements

M. Massot, A. Oleaga, A. Salazar, D. Prabhakaran, M. Martin, P. Berthet, and G. Dhalenne

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134438 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Kondo volume collapse, Kondo breakdown, and Fermi surface transitions in heavy-fermion metals

Andreas Hackl and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134439 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Damping of field-induced chemical potential oscillations in ideal two-band compensated metals

Jean-Yves Fortin and Alain Audouard

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134440 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Structural evolution and giant magnetoresistance in electrodeposited Co-Cu/Cu multilayers

P. Chowdhury, S. K. Ghosh, Anjana Dogra, G. K. Dey, Yashwant G. Gowda, S. K. Gupta, G. Ravikumar, A. K. Grover, and A. K. Suri

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134441 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Disorder-induced orbital ordering in doped manganites

Sanjeev Kumar and Arno P. Kampf

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134442 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Giant magnetic moment in epitaxial ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ thin films on MgO(100)

S. K. Arora, Han-Chun Wu, R. J. Choudhary, I. V. Shvets, O. N. Mryasov, Hongzhi Yao, and W. Y. Ching

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134443 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Electronic structure and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in Heusler-type ${Fe}_{2 - x} V_{1 + x} Al$ : First-principles calculations

V. N. Antonov, A. Ernst, I. V. Maznichenko, A. N. Yaresko, and A. P. Shpak

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134444 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

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Magnetic states and spin-glass properties in ${Bi}_{0.67} {Ca}_{0.33} Mn O_{3}$ : Macroscopic ac measurements and neutron scattering

Maud Giot, Alain Pautrat, Gilles André, Damien Saurel, Maryvonne Hervieu, and Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134445 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Electronic structure investigation of the exchange-spring behavior during the magnetic reversal process

V. M. Uzdin and A. Vega

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134446 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Fermionic representation for the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model: Diagrammatic study of spin-charge coupling effects on magnon excitations

Sudhakar Pandey, Subrat Das, Bhaskar Kamble, Saptarshi Ghosh, Dheeraj Singh, Rajyavardhan Ray, and Avinash Singh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134447 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Validity of bond-length and Mössbauer parameters to assign oxidation states in multicomponent oxides: Case study of ${Sr}_{4} {Fe}_{4} O_{11}$

P. Ravindran, R. Vidya, H. Fjellvåg, and A. Kjekshus

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134448 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Resonating plaquette phases in SU(4) Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Cenke Xu and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134449 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Topological spin excitations on a rigid torus

V. L. Carvalho-Santos, A. R. Moura, W. A. Moura-Melo, and A. R. Pereira

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134450 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Electronic and magnetic properties of $K_{2} Cu P_{2} O_{7}$ : A model $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chain system

R. Nath, Deepa Kasinathan, H. Rosner, M. Baenitz, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134451 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-temperature phonon thermal conductivity of single-crystalline ${Nd}_{2} Cu O_{4}$ : Effects of sample size and surface roughness

S. Y. Li, J.-B. Bonnemaison, A. Payeur, P. Fournier, C. H. Wang, X. H. Chen, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134501 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

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Imbalanced $d$ -wave superfluids in the BCS-BEC crossover regime at finite temperatures

J. Tempere, S. N. Klimin, J. T. Devreese, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134502 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Correlation between the magnetic irreversibility limit and the zero resistance point in different granular ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ superconductors

F. T. Dias, V. N. Vieira, P. Rodrigues, Jr., X. Obradors, P. Pureur, and J. Schaf

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134503 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Vortex trapping and expulsion in thin-film ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ strips

K. H. Kuit, J. R. Kirtley, W. van der Veur, C. G. Molenaar, F. J. G. Roesthuis, A. G. P. Troeman, J. R. Clem, H. Hilgenkamp, H. Rogalla, and J. Flokstra

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134504 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

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Intrinsic atomic-scale modulations of the superconducting gap of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

I. Guillamon, H. Suderow, F. Guinea, and S. Vieira

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134505 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

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Field and current distributions and ac losses in a bifilar stack of superconducting strips

John R. Clem

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134506 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Properties of tunnel Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic interlayer

A. S. Vasenko, A. A. Golubov, M. Yu. Kupriyanov, and M. Weides

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134507 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Isotope effect on superconductivity in Josephson coupled stripes in underdoped cuprates

A. Rosengren, P. H. Lundow, and A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134508 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Explanation of magnetic behavior in Ru-based superconducting ferromagnets

R. Nigam, A. V. Pan, and S. X. Dou

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134509 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Switchable collective pinning of flux quanta using magnetic vortex arrays: Experiments on square arrays of Co dots on thin superconducting films

J. E. Villegas, K. D. Smith, Lei Huang, Yimei Zhu, R. Morales, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134510 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Dimensionality-driven changeover to first-order superconducting phase transitions in the Pauli paramagnetic limit

T. Maniv and V. Zhuravlev

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134511 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Inferring generalized time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equations from modulus and gauge-field information

Rotha P. Yu, David M. Paganin, and Michael J. Morgan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134512 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Real-time diagrammatic approach to transport through interacting quantum dots with normal and superconducting leads

Michele Governale, Marco G. Pala, and Jürgen König

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134513 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Structural and superconducting properties of $Rb {Os}_{2} O_{6}$ single crystals

Krzysztof Rogacki, Götz Schuck, Zbigniew Bukowski, Nikolai D. Zhigadlo, and Janusz Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134514 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Phonons and crystal structures of the $β$ -pyrochlore superconductors ${KOs}_{2} O_{6}$ and ${RbOs}_{2} O_{6}$ from micro-Raman spectroscopy

J. Schoenes, A.-M. Racu, K. Doll, Z. Bukowski, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134515 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Competing order scenario of two-gap behavior in hole-doped cuprates

Tanmoy Das, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134516 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Double superconducting transition in the filled skutterudite ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ and sample characterizations

M.-A. Méasson, D. Braithwaite, G. Lapertot, J.-P. Brison, J. Flouquet, P. Bordet, H. Sugawara, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134517 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Guiding superconducting vortices with magnetic domain walls

V. Vlasko-Vlasov, U. Welp, G. Karapetrov, V. Novosad, D. Rosenmann, M. Iavarone, A. Belkin, and W.-K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134518 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Electron transmission in normal metal/heavy-fermion superconductor junctions: A two-band model

M. A. N. Araújo and P. D. Sacramento

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134519 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Direct observation of a Fermi surface and superconducting gap in ${LuNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

P. Starowicz, C. Liu, R. Khasanov, T. Kondo, G. Samolyuk, D. Gardenghi, Y. Lee, T. Ohta, B. Harmon, P. Canfield, S. Bud’ko, E. Rotenberg, and A. Kaminski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 134520 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008