Volume 77, Issue 14

1 April 2008

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Simultaneous suppression of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in UCoGe by Si substitution

D. E. de Nijs, N. T. Huy, and A. de Visser

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140506(R) (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab initio prediction of ordered ground-state structures in ${ZrO}_{2} {-Y}_{2} O_{3}$

A. Predith, G. Ceder, C. Wolverton, K. Persson, and T. Mueller

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144104 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of nearest neighbor Pb-O divacancy pairs on the ferroelectric-relaxor transition in $Pb ({Sc}_{1 / 2} {Nb}_{1 / 2}) O_{3}$

B. P. Burton, Eric Cockayne, Silvia Tinte, and U. V. Waghmare

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144114 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observations outside the light cone: Algorithms for nonequilibrium and thermal states

M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144302 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of $L 1_{0}$ chemical order in CoPt nanoclusters: Direct observation and magnetic signature

Florent Tournus, Alexandre Tamion, Nils Blanc, Abdelkrim Hannour, Laurent Bardotti, Brigitte Prével, Philippe Ohresser, Edgar Bonet, Thierry Epicier, and Véronique Dupuis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144411 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${}^{7}{Li}$ NMR study of heavy-fermion $Li V_{2} O_{4}$ containing magnetic defects

X. Zong, S. Das, F. Borsa, M. D. Vannette, R. Prozorov, J. Schmalian, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144419 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${Yb}_{2} {Pt}_{2} Pb$ : Magnetic frustration in the Shastry-Sutherland lattice

M. S. Kim, M. C. Bennett, and M. C. Aronson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144425 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic and transport studies of the ferromagnetic filled skutterudite compound ${PrFe}_{4} {As}_{12}$

T. A. Sayles, W. M. Yuhasz, J. Paglione, T. Yanagisawa, J. R. Jeffries, M. B. Maple, Z. Henkie, A. Pietraszko, T. Cichorek, R. Wawryk, Y. Nemoto, and T. Goto

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144432 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum metamaterials: Electromagnetic waves in a Josephson qubit line

A. L. Rakhmanov, A. M. Zagoskin, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144507 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic properties of vortex states in spherical superconductors

Ben Xu, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144509 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid-insulator transition in Fermi-Bose mixtures and the orthogonality catastrophe

G. Refael and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144511 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gauge-invariant electromagnetic response of a chiral $p_{x} + i p_{y}$ superconductor

Roman M. Lutchyn, Pavel Nagornykh, and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144516 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetically coupled pancake vortex molecules in ${HgBa}_{2} {Ca}_{n - 1} {Cu}_{n} O_{y}$ $(n \geq 6)$

A. Crisan, A. Iyo, Y. Tanaka, H. Matsuhata, D. D. Shivagan, P. M. Shirage, K. Tokiwa, T. Watanabe, T. W. Button, and J. S. Abell

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144518 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of inhomogeneous coupling on BCS superconductors

Yue Zou, Israel Klich, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144523 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effect of ferromagnetism on AB oscillations in a normal-metal ring

Koji Sekiguchi, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Hideki Miyajima, and Atsufumi Hirohata

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140401(R) (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Entanglement entropy in the two-dimensional random transverse field Ising model

Rong Yu, Hubert Saleur, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140402(R) (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Incommensurate magnetic ground state revealed by resonant x-ray scattering in the frustrated spin system ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{6}$

S. Agrestini, C. Mazzoli, A. Bombardi, and M. R. Lees

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140403(R) (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Adiabatic quenches through an extended quantum critical region

Franco Pellegrini, Simone Montangero, Giuseppe E. Santoro, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140404(R) (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-to-insulator transitions in amorphous Bi films with nanoscale hexagonal arrays of holes

M. D. Stewart, Jr., Aijun Yin, J. M. Xu, and J. M. Valles, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140501(R) (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Stability of the axial phase of superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ in aerogel with globally anisotropic scattering

J. P. Davis, J. Pollanen, B. Reddy, K. R. Shirer, H. Choi, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140502(R) (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Soft-phonon-driven superconductivity in CaAlSi as seen by inelastic x-ray scattering

S. Kuroiwa, A. Q. R. Baron, T. Muranaka, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, and J. Akimitsu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140503(R) (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Superconductivity-induced self-energy evolution of the nodal electron of optimally doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{0.92} Y_{0.08} {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

W. S. Lee, W. Meevasana, S. Johnston, D. H. Lu, I. M. Vishik, R. G. Moore, H. Eisaki, N. Kaneko, T. P. Devereaux, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140504(R) (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Tunneling density of states, pair correlation, and Josephson current in spin-incoherent Luttinger-liquid/superconductor hybrid systems

Dagim Tilahun and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140505(R) (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Simultaneous suppression of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in UCoGe by Si substitution

D. E. de Nijs, N. T. Huy, and A. de Visser

Phys. Rev. B 77, 140506(R) (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Switching the ferroelectric polarization in the $S = 1 ∕ 2$ chain cuprate $Li Cu V O_{4}$ by external magnetic fields

F. Schrettle, S. Krohns, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, N. Büttgen, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. V. Prokofiev, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144101 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Influence of lattice polarizability on interacting Li-induced dipoles distributed in incipient ferroelectric ${KTaO}_{3}$

Yuki Ichikawa and Koichiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144102 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of valence and site occupation of copper in ${LiNbO}_{3} : Cu$

Tonya Vitova, Josef Hormes, Konrad Peithmann, and Theo Woike

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144103 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab initio prediction of ordered ground-state structures in ${ZrO}_{2} {-Y}_{2} O_{3}$

A. Predith, G. Ceder, C. Wolverton, K. Persson, and T. Mueller

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144104 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Dependence of polarization on epitaxial strain in ferroelectric ultrathin films from first principles

S. Bin-Omran, I. Ponomareva, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144105 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Shock-front broadening in polycrystalline materials

J. L. Barber and K. Kadau

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144106 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Design of nanofilters for optical nanocircuits

Andrea Alù, Michael E. Young, and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144107 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Asymmetry in the excitonic recombinations and impurity incorporation of the two polar faces of homoepitaxially grown ZnO films

S. Lautenschlaeger, J. Sann, N. Volbers, B. K. Meyer, A. Hoffmann, U. Haboeck, and M. R. Wagner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144108 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

First-principles calculations on solid nitrogen: A comparative study of high-pressure phases

J. Kotakoski and K. Albe

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144109 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Micro-Raman and micro-infrared spectroscopic studies of Pb- and Au-irradiated $Zr Si O_{4}$ : Optical properties, structural damage, and amorphization

Ming Zhang, Lynn A. Boatner, Ekhard K. H. Salje, Rodney C. Ewing, Philippe Daniel, William J. Weber, Yanwen Zhang, and Ian Farnan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144110 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Grain boundary energies and cohesive strength as a function of geometry

Valerie R. Coffman and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144111 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Method to extract anharmonic force constants from first principles calculations

Keivan Esfarjani and Harold T. Stokes

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144112 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

High-pressure behavior of ${As}_{2} O_{3}$ : Amorphous-amorphous and crystalline-amorphous transitions

E. Soignard, S. A. Amin, Q. Mei, C. J. Benmore, and J. L. Yarger

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144113 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of nearest neighbor Pb-O divacancy pairs on the ferroelectric-relaxor transition in $Pb ({Sc}_{1 / 2} {Nb}_{1 / 2}) O_{3}$

B. P. Burton, Eric Cockayne, Silvia Tinte, and U. V. Waghmare

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144114 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Homogenization of radiation transfer in two-phase media with irregular phase boundaries

A. V. Gusarov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144201 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Static atomic displacements in $\underset{̱}{Cu} -Mn$ measured with diffuse x-ray scattering

B. Schönfeld, H. Roelofs, G. Kostorz, J. L. Robertson, P. Zschack, and G. E. Ice

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144202 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Griffiths-McCoy singularities in random quantum spin chains: Exact results

Ferenc Iglói and István A. Kovács

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144203 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Chemical short-range order and lattice deformations in ${Mg}_{y} {Ti}_{1 - y} H_{x}$ thin films probed by hydrogenography

R. Gremaud, A. Baldi, M. Gonzalez-Silveira, B. Dam, and R. Griessen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144204 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Coupled orientational and displacive degrees of freedom in the high-temperature plastic phase of the carbon tetrabromide $α − C {Br}_{4}$

Jacob C. W. Folmer, Ray L. Withers, T. R. Welberry, and James D. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144205 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

In situ study of amorphization and changes in coordination in ${Si}_{2} N_{2} O$ at high pressure

J. Haines and M. Santoro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144206 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Short and intermediate range order in amorphous $Ge {Se}_{2}$

Carlo Massobrio and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144207 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Low-energy antiphase boundaries, degenerate superstructures, and phase stability in frustrated fcc Ising model and Ag-Au alloys

N. A. Zarkevich, Teck L. Tan, L.-L. Wang, and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144208 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Formation and structure of amorphous carbon char from polymer materials

John W. Lawson and Deepak Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144209 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Lattice dynamics of skutterudites: Inelastic x-ray scattering on $Co {Sb}_{3}$

M. Rotter, P. Rogl, A. Grytsiv, W. Wolf, M. Krisch, and A. Mirone

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144301 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observations outside the light cone: Algorithms for nonequilibrium and thermal states

M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144302 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Magnetism

Model for a collimated spin-wave beam generated by a single-layer spin torque nanocontact

M. A. Hoefer, T. J. Silva, and M. D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Doping variation of anisotropic charge and orbital dynamics in $Y_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {VO}_{3}$ : Comparison with ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {VO}_{3}$

J. Fujioka, S. Miyasaka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144402 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Spin-glass transition in single-crystal $Bi Fe O_{3}$

Manoj K. Singh, W. Prellier, M. P. Singh, Ram S. Katiyar, and J. F. Scott

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144403 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

${}^{63, 65}{Cu}$ NMR and NQR evidence for an unusual spin dynamics in $\Pr {Cu}_{2}$ below $100 K$

A. Sacchetti, M. Weller, J. L. Gavilano, R. Mudliar, B. Pedrini, K. Magishi, H. R. Ott, R. Monnier, B. Delley, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144404 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Structural and magnetic properties of the ternary solid solution between CoSb and ${Fe}_{1 + δ} Sb$

P. Amornpitoksuk, D. Ravot, A. Mauger, and J. C. Tedenac

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144405 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Critical point in the strong-field magnetotransport of a three-dimensional binary disordered composite medium

Ronen Magier and David J. Bergman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144406 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Artificial ferrimagnetic structure and thermal hysteresis in ${Gd}_{0.47} {Co}_{0.53} ∕ Co$ multilayers

J. P. Andrés, J. A. González, T. P. A. Hase, B. K. Tanner, and J. M. Riveiro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144407 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Role of magnetic impurities in Fe/V multilayers

B. Skubic, E. Holmström, A. Bergman, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144408 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Evidence of intrinsic exchange bias and its origin in spin-glass-like disordered $L_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} Mn O_{3}$ manganites ( $L = Y$ , $Y_{0.5} {Sm}_{0.5}$ , and $Y_{0.5} {La}_{0.5}$ )

Shilpi Karmakar, S. Taran, Esa Bose, B. K. Chaudhuri, C. P. Sun, C. L. Huang, and H. D. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144409 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

High-precision determination of universal amplitude ratios for the $q = 3$ Potts model in two dimensions

Lev N. Shchur, Bertrand Berche, and Paolo Butera

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144410 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of $L 1_{0}$ chemical order in CoPt nanoclusters: Direct observation and magnetic signature

Florent Tournus, Alexandre Tamion, Nils Blanc, Abdelkrim Hannour, Laurent Bardotti, Brigitte Prével, Philippe Ohresser, Edgar Bonet, Thierry Epicier, and Véronique Dupuis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144411 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Magnetothermal study of a Dy-stuffed spin ice: ${Dy}_{2} ({Dy}_{x} {Ti}_{2 - x}) O_{7 - x / 2}$

B. G. Ueland, G. C. Lau, R. S. Freitas, J. Snyder, M. L. Dahlberg, B. D. Muegge, E. L. Duncan, R. J. Cava, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144412 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Fourfold degenerate columnar-dimer ground state in square lattice antiferromagnets

Rakesh Kumar and Brijesh Kumar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144413 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Energetics and magnetic impact of $3 d$ -metal doping of the half-metallic ferromagnet NiMnSb

B. Alling, M. Ekholm, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144414 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Triplet and singlet excitations in the valence bond crystal phase of the kagome lattice Heisenberg model

Rajiv R. P. Singh and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144415 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Soliton spin excitations and their perturbation in a generalized inhomogeneous Heisenberg ferromagnet

M. Daniel and J. Beula

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144416 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Resonant domain wall depinning induced by oscillating spin-polarized currents in thin ferromagnetic strips

E. Martinez, L. Lopez-Diaz, O. Alejos, and L. Torres

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144417 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Droplets in the two-dimensional $\pm J$ Ising spin glass

A. K. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144418 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${}^{7}{Li}$ NMR study of heavy-fermion $Li V_{2} O_{4}$ containing magnetic defects

X. Zong, S. Das, F. Borsa, M. D. Vannette, R. Prozorov, J. Schmalian, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144419 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Influence of domain wall pinning on the dynamic behavior of magnetic vortex structures: Time-resolved scanning x-ray transmission microscopy in NiFe thin film structures

A. Vansteenkiste, J. De Baerdemaeker, K. W. Chou, H. Stoll, M. Curcic, T. Tyliszczak, G. Woltersdorf, C. H. Back, G. Schütz, and B. Van Waeyenberge

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144420 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Magnetic anisotropy in the Fe(II)Fe(III) bimetallic oxalates

Randy S. Fishman and Fernando A. Reboredo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144421 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Magnetoresistance of Co nanoconstrictions fabricated by means of electron beam lithography

Patryk Krzysteczko and Günter Dumpich

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144422 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Enhancement in spin-torque efficiency by nonuniform spin current generated within a tapered nanopillar spin valve

P. M. Braganca, O. Ozatay, A. G. F. Garcia, O. J. Lee, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144423 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Rate of magnetization reversal due to nucleation of soliton-antisoliton pairs at point-like defects

Peter N. Loxley

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144424 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${Yb}_{2} {Pt}_{2} Pb$ : Magnetic frustration in the Shastry-Sutherland lattice

M. S. Kim, M. C. Bennett, and M. C. Aronson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144425 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Weak ferromagnetism in ${TbNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

H. Kawano-Furukawa, H. Tsukagoshi, T. Nagata, C. Kobayashi, H. Yoshizawa, and H. Takeya

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144426 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Spin dynamics of the charge-transfer phase transition of an iron mixed-valence complex observed using muon spin relaxation spectroscopy

N. Kida, M. Enomoto, I. Watanabe, T. Suzuki, and N. Kojima

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144427 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Scaling analysis and application: Phase diagram of magnetic nanorings and elliptical nanoparticles

Wen Zhang, Rohit Singh, Noah Bray-Ali, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144428 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Hyperfine fields in an Ag/Fe multilayer film investigated with ${}^{8}L i$ $β$ -detected NMR

T. A. Keeler, Z. Salman, K. H. Chow, B. Heinrich, M. D. Hossian, B. Kardasz, R. F. Kiefl, S. R. Kreitzman, C. D. P. Levy, W. A. MacFarlane, O. Mosendz, T. J. Parolin, M. R. Pearson, and D. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144429 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Magnetic properties of one-dimensional Ni/Cu and Ni/Al multilayered nanowires: Role of nonmagnetic spacers

Partha Pratim Pal and Ranjit Pati

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144430 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Theory of nonspecular tunneling through magnetic tunnel junctions

X.-G. Zhang, Yan Wang, and X. F. Han

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144431 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic and transport studies of the ferromagnetic filled skutterudite compound ${PrFe}_{4} {As}_{12}$

T. A. Sayles, W. M. Yuhasz, J. Paglione, T. Yanagisawa, J. R. Jeffries, M. B. Maple, Z. Henkie, A. Pietraszko, T. Cichorek, R. Wawryk, Y. Nemoto, and T. Goto

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144432 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Spin-wave interaction in two-dimensional ferromagnets with dipolar forces

A. V. Syromyatnikov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144433 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Zero-crossing Shapiro steps in high- $T_{c}$ superconducting microstructures tailored by a focused ion beam

Myung-Ho Bae, R. C. Dinsmore III, M. Sahu, Hu-Jong Lee, and A. Bezryadin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144501 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Pressure effects on the superconducting transition in $n H -CaAlSi$

L. Boeri, J. S. Kim, M. Giantomassi, F. S. Razavi, S. Kuroiwa, J. Akimitsu, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144502 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Microscopic modeling of phonon dynamics and charge response in $NdCuO$

Thomas Bauer and Claus Falter

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144503 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Quantized spin Hall effect in ${}^{3}H e$ -A and other p-wave paired Fermi systems

Jun Goryo, Mahito Kohmoto, and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144504 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Gradient corrections to the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for anisotropic perturbations of quasiparticles

Pei-Jen Lin and P. Lipavský

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144505 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Variational approach to vortex penetration and vortex interaction

A. D. Hernández and A. López

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144506 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum metamaterials: Electromagnetic waves in a Josephson qubit line

A. L. Rakhmanov, A. M. Zagoskin, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144507 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Hydrodynamic boundary condition for superfluid flow

Yves Pomeau and David C. Roberts

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144508 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic properties of vortex states in spherical superconductors

Ben Xu, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144509 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Impact of a finite cut-off for the optical sum rule in the superconducting state

F. Marsiglio, E. van Heumen, and A. B. Kuzmenko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144510 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid-insulator transition in Fermi-Bose mixtures and the orthogonality catastrophe

G. Refael and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144511 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Quasiparticle resonance states around a magnetic impurity in a two-dimensional $f$ -wave superconductor

Xian-Jun Zuo, Jin An, and Chang-De Gong

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144512 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Strong magnetic field enhancement of spin triplet pairing arising from coexisting $2 k_{F}$ spin and $2 k_{F}$ charge fluctuations

Hirohito Aizawa, Kazuhiko Kuroki, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144513 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Chaos and plasticity in superconductor vortices: Low-dimensional dynamics

E. Olive and J. C. Soret

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144514 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Transverse sound in differentially moving superfluid helium

I. N. Adamenko, K. E. Nemchenko, V. A. Slipko, and A. F. G. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144515 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gauge-invariant electromagnetic response of a chiral $p_{x} + i p_{y}$ superconductor

Roman M. Lutchyn, Pavel Nagornykh, and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144516 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Mott transition in bosonic systems: Insights from the variational approach

Manuela Capello, Federico Becca, Michele Fabrizio, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144517 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of inhomogeneous coupling on BCS superconductors

Yue Zou, Israel Klich, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144523 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Calculation of the volume pinning force in ${MgB}_{2}$ superconductors

M. Eisterer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144524 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Weakening thickness dependence of critical current density in $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x}$ films using nanotube pore insertion

Xiang Wang, Alan Dibos, and J. Z. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144525 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Electromagnetic response of high- $T_{c}$ superconductors: Slave-boson and doped-carrier theories

Tiago C. Ribeiro and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144526 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Magnetic and transport properties of a coupled Hubbard bilayer with electron and hole doping

K. Bouadim, G. G. Batrouni, F. Hébert, and R. T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144527 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Search for spin-polarization effects in ${La}_{0.7} {Mn}_{0.3} {Ca}_{3} O_{3} ∕ Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ thin-film bilayers

X. Deng, M. Joshi, R. Chakalova, M. S. Colclough, R. Palai, Y. Y. Tse, I. P. Jones, H. Huhtinen, and C. M. Muirhead

Phys. Rev. B 77, 144528 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum Monte Carlo scheme for frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets”

K. S. D. Beach, Matthieu Mambrini, and Fabien Alet

Phys. Rev. B 77, 146401 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum Monte Carlo scheme for frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets’ ”

Jacek Wojtkiewicz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 146402 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Resistance noise in spin valves [Phys. Rev. B 75, 092405 (2007)]

Jørn Foros, Arne Brataas, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 77, 149901 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Erratum: Phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic $X Y$ model with a kagomé lattice [Phys. Rev. B 65, 054416 (2002)]

S. E. Korshunov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 149902 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008