Volume 77, Issue 21

D. S. Inosov, R. Schuster, A. A. Kordyuk, J. Fink, S. V. Borisenko, V. B. Zabolotnyy, D. V. Evtushinsky, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, R. Follath, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 77, 212504 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Order-disorder transition of vortex matter in $a {-Mo}_{x} {Ge}_{1 - x}$ films probed by noise

S. Okuma, K. Kashiro, Y. Suzuki, and N. Kokubo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 212505 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Macroscopic many-qubit interactions in superconducting flux qubits

Sam Young Cho and Mun Dae Kim

Phys. Rev. B 77, 212506 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Surface vortex depinning in an irradiated single crystal microbridge of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ : Crossover from individual to collective bulk pinning

A. Ruyter, D. Plessis, Ch. Simon, A. Wahl, and L. Ammor

Phys. Rev. B 77, 212507 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Modulations of orders around a magnetic impurity in a $d$ -wave superconductor

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 212508 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Elasticity of the superconducting metals V, Nb, Ta, Mo, and W at high pressure

L. Koči, Y. Ma, A. R. Oganov, P. Souvatzis, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214101 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Spectroscopy of ${Eu}^{3 +}$ ions in congruent strontium barium niobate crystals

Ä. Andresen, A.-N. Bahar, D. Conradi, I.-I. Oprea, R. Pankrath, U. Voelker, K. Betzler, M. Wöhlecke, U. Caldiño, E. Martín, D. Jaque, and J. García Solé

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214102 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Compression of $H_{2} O$ ice to 126 GPa and implications for hydrogen-bond symmetrization: Synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements and density-functional calculations

Emiko Sugimura, Toshiaki Iitaka, Kei Hirose, Katsuyuki Kawamura, Nagayoshi Sata, and Yasuo Ohishi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214103 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Generation of vacancy-interstitial pairs as a possible origin of resistivity switching and ferroelectric properties in ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Zn}_{x} Te$

Paweł Jakubas and Piotr Bogusławski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214104 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Decomposition of lanthanum hafnate at high pressures

Nandini Garg, K. K. Pandey, Chitra Murli, K. V. Shanavas, Balaji P. Mandal, A. K. Tyagi, and Surinder M. Sharma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214105 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Martensitic transformation of ${Ni}_{2} FeGa$ ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy studied via transmission electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy

H. R. Zhang, C. Ma, H. F. Tian, G. H. Wu, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214106 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

High resolution $β -NMR$ study of ${{}^{8}L i}^{+}$ implanted in gold

T. J. Parolin, Z. Salman, K. H. Chow, Q. Song, J. Valiani, H. Saadaoui, A. O’Halloran, M. D. Hossain, T. A. Keeler, R. F. Kiefl, S. R. Kreitzman, C. D. P. Levy, R. I. Miller, G. D. Morris, M. R. Pearson, M. Smadella, D. Wang, M. Xu, and W. A. MacFarlane

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214107 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Computational study of the generation of crystal defects in a bcc metal target irradiated by short laser pulses

Zhibin Lin, Robert A. Johnson, and Leonid V. Zhigilei

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214108 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Intrinsic and dopant-enhanced solid-phase epitaxy in amorphous germanium

B. C. Johnson, P. Gortmaker, and J. C. McCallum

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214109 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Structure of epitaxially grown rare-earth intermetallics using x-ray diffraction: ${RT}_{2}$ , ${RT}_{3}$ , ${RT}_{5}$ , and $R_{2} T_{17}$

S. R. Jones, A. Dunhill, R. A. Cowley, and R. C. C. Ward

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214110 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Metal behavior at extreme loading rates: Thermodynamics

Aleksander Zubelewicz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214111 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Electron-phonon interactions and high-temperature thermodynamics of vanadium and its alloys

O. Delaire, M. Kresch, J. A. Muñoz, M. S. Lucas, J. Y. Y. Lin, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214112 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Experimental and atomistic modeling study of ion irradiation damage in thin crystals of the ${TiO}_{2}$ polymorphs

Gregory R. Lumpkin, Katherine L. Smith, Mark G. Blackford, Bronwyn S. Thomas, Karl R. Whittle, Nigel A. Marks, and Nestor J. Zaluzec

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214201 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Irreversible evolution of many-electron systems: From the quantum-Boltzmann equation toward the semi-classical Boltzmann equation

A. Gliesche, K. Maschke, and F. A. Reuse

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214301 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Creation of a magnetic plasmon polariton through strong coupling between an artificial magnetic atom and the defect state in a defective multilayer microcavity

D. Y. Lu, H. Liu, T. Li, S. M. Wang, F. M. Wang, S. N. Zhu, and X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214302 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Quantum pattern formation dynamics of photoinduced nucleation

Kunio Ishida and Keiichiro Nasu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214303 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Theory of enhancement of thermoelectric properties of materials with nanoinclusions

Sergey V. Faleev and François Léonard

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214304 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Intrinsic nature of thermally activated dynamical modes in $α -U$ : Nonequilibrium mode creation by x-ray and neutron scattering

Michael E. Manley, Ahmet Alatas, Frans Trouw, Bogdan M. Leu, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Ying Chen, and W. Larry Hults

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214305 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Intrinsic origin of spin echoes in dipolar solids generated by strong $π$ pulses

Dale Li, Yanqun Dong, R. G. Ramos, J. D. Murray, K. MacLean, A. E. Dementyev, and S. E. Barrett

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214306 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Effect of lateral electronic diffusion on acoustic diffraction in picosecond ultrasonics

Thomas Dehoux, Nikolay Chigarev, Clément Rossignol, and Bertrand Audoin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214307 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Mesoscale conductivity and scaling function in aggregates of cubic, trigonal, hexagonal, and tetragonal crystals

Shivakumar I. Ranganathan and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214308 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Thermal conductivity and terahertz vibrational dynamics of vitreous silica

G. Baldi, V. M. Giordano, G. Monaco, F. Sette, E. Fabiani, A. Fontana, and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214309 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Phonon and crystal field excitations in geometrically frustrated rare earth titanates

T. T. A. Lummen, I. P. Handayani, M. C. Donker, D. Fausti, G. Dhalenne, P. Berthet, A. Revcolevschi, and P. H. M. van Loosdrecht

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214310 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Magnetism

Critical properties of the edge-cubic spin model on a square lattice

Tasrief Surungan, Naoki Kawashima, and Yutaka Okabe

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214401 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Dynamic origin of first and second order phase transitions in magnetization reversal of elliptical nanodots

F. Montoncello, L. Giovannini, F. Nizzoli, P. Vavassori, and M. Grimsditch

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214402 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

High-temperature spin relaxation process in ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ probed by ${}^{47}T i-NQR$

K. Kitagawa, R. Higashinaka, K. Ishida, Y. Maeno, and M. Takigawa

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214403 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Magnetization processes in sputtered FeSiB thin films

Marco Coïsson, Carlo Appino, Federica Celegato, Alessandro Magni, Paola Tiberto, and Franco Vinai

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214404 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Two magnon scattering in ultrathin ferromagnets: The case where the magnetization is out of plane

P. Landeros, Rodrigo E. Arias, and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214405 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Temperature memory and resistive glassy behavior of a perovskite manganite

D. N. H. Nam, N. V. Khien, N. V. Dai, L. V. Hong, and N. X. Phuc

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214406 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exotic (anti)ferromagnetism in single crystals of ${Pr}_{6} {Ni}_{2} {Si}_{3}$

Y. Janssen, K. W. Dennis, R. Prozorov, P. C. Canfield, and R. W. McCallum

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214407 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Competition between charge and spin order in the $t − U − V$ extended Hubbard model on the triangular lattice

B. Davoudi, S. R. Hassan, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214408 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Enhanced thermal stability and spin-lattice relaxation rate of N@ $C_{60}$ inside carbon nanotubes

S. Tóth, D. Quintavalle, B. Náfrádi, L. Korecz, L. Forró, and F. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214409 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Manipulating magnetic properties of ${SrRuO}_{3}$ and ${CaRuO}_{3}$ with epitaxial and uniaxial strains

A. T. Zayak, X. Huang, J. B. Neaton, and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214410 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Phase reciprocity of spin-wave excitation by a microstrip antenna

T. Schneider, A. A. Serga, T. Neumann, B. Hillebrands, and M. P. Kostylev

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214411 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Magnetic properties of ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$ using the temperature dependence of the Mössbauer spectrum

D. Coffey, M. DeMarco, B. Dabrowski, S. Kolesnik, S. Toorongian, and M. Haka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214412 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of $3 d$ transition metal monatomic chains: First-principles calculations

C. Ataca, S. Cahangirov, E. Durgun, Y.-R. Jang, and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214413 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Nucleation-type magnetization reversal by spin-polarized current in perpendicularly magnetized FePt layers

Takeshi Seki, Seiji Mitani, and Koki Takanashi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214414 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Persistent spin dynamics in the $S = 1 / 2$ $V_{15}$ molecular nanomagnet

Z. Salman, R. F. Kiefl, K. H. Chow, W. A. MacFarlane, T. A. Keeler, T. J. Parolin, S. Tabbara, and D. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214415 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Spin precession in lateral all-metal spin valves: Experimental observation and theoretical description

Alexander van Staa, Jeannette Wulfhorst, Andreas Vogel, Ulrich Merkt, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214416 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Magnetic phase transition in half-metallic CoMnSb and NiMnSb semi-Heusler alloys upon Cu doping: First-principles calculations

I. Galanakis, E. Şaşıoğlu, and K. Özdoğan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214417 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Existence of dimerized phases in frustrated spin ladder models

Guang-Hua Liu, Hai-Long Wang, and Guang-Shan Tian

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214418 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Analytical and micromagnetic study of a Néel domain wall

K. Rivkin, K. Romanov, Ar. Abanov, Y. Adamov, and W. M. Saslow

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214419 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Tricritical transition in the classical $X Y$ model on the kagome lattice under local anisotropy

Farhad Shahbazi and Saba Mortezapour

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214420 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Crossover between two different magnetization reversal modes in arrays of iron oxide nanotubes

J. Escrig, J. Bachmann, J. Jing, M. Daub, D. Altbir, and K. Nielsch

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214421 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Polychronakos-Frahm spin chain of $B C_{N}$ type and the Berry-Tabor conjecture

J. C. Barba, F. Finkel, A. González-López, and M. A. Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214422 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Isotropic and anisotropic spin-spin interactions and a quantum phase transition in a dinuclear Cu(II) compound

Lia M. B. Napolitano, Otaciro R. Nascimento, Santiago Cabaleiro, Jesús Castro, and Rafael Calvo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214423 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Quantum transitions of the isotropic $X Y$ model with long-range interactions on the inhomogeneous periodic chain

J. P. de Lima and L. L. Gonçalves

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214424 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Site disorder in ${Co}_{2} Fe (Al, Si)$ Heusler alloys and its influence on junction tunnel magnetoresistance

K. Inomata, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, N. Ikeda, and N. Tezuka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214425 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Universality and universal finite-size scaling functions in four-dimensional Ising spin glasses

Thomas Jörg and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214426 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Defect generation in a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ transverse $X Y$ chain under repeated quenching of the transverse field

Victor Mukherjee, Amit Dutta, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214427 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Lattice distortion effect on structure and on spin ordering of Mn ions in ${La}_{1 - x} {Nd}_{x} {MnO}_{3 + δ}$ manganites

V. Dyakonov, F. N. Bukhanko, V. I. Kamenev, E. E. Zubov, M. Arciszewska, W. Dobrowolski, V. Mikhaylov, R. Puźniak, A. Wiśniewski, K. Piotrowski, V. Varyukhin, H. Szymczak, A. Szytuła, R. Duraj, N. Stüsser, A. Arulraj, S. Baran, B. Penc, and T. Jaworska-Gołąb

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214428 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Current-induced domain wall motion in Rashba spin-orbit system

Katsunori Obata and Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214429 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Fe-doping and strain effects on structural and magnetotransport properties in ${La}_{2 / 3} {Ca}_{1 / 3} {Mn}_{1 - y} {Fe}_{y} O_{3}$ thin films

O. Arnache, D. Giratá, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214430 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Quantum transverse-field Ising model on an infinite tree from matrix product states

Daniel Nagaj, Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Peter Shor, and Igor Sylvester

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214431 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Reduction of dilute Ising spin glasses

Stefan Boettcher and James Davidheiser

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214432 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Magnetic order in coupled spin-half and spin-one Heisenberg chains in an anisotropic triangular-lattice geometry

T. Pardini and R. R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214433 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Short-range spin and charge correlations and local density of states in the colossal magnetoresistance regime of the single-orbital model for manganites

Rong Yu, Shuai Dong, Cengiz Şen, Gonzalo Alvarez, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214434 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Spin-valve effect by ballistic transport in ferromagnetic metal (MnAs)/semiconductor (GaAs) hybrid heterostructures

Pham Nam Hai, Yusuke Sakata, Masafumi Yokoyama, Shinobu Ohya, and Masaaki Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214435 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Structure, magnetic and optical properties, and Hall effect of Co- and Fe-doped ${SnO}_{2}$ films

Hyun-Suk Kim, Lei Bi, G. F. Dionne, C. A. Ross, and Han-Jong Paik

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214436 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Reentrant magnetic ordering and percolation in a spin-crossover system

Carsten Timm and Charles J. Pye

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214437 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Structural phase transitions in geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets

T. E. Saunders and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214438 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Magnetocaloric effect around a magnetic phase transition

N. A. de Oliveira and P. J. von Ranke

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214439 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resonant spin-transfer-driven switching of magnetic devices assisted by microwave current pulses

Y.-T. Cui, J. C. Sankey, C. Wang, K. V. Thadani, Z.-P. Li, R. A. Buhrman, and D. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214440 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Ordered magnetic phases of the frustrated spin-dimer compound ${Ba}_{3} {Mn}_{2} O_{8}$

E. C. Samulon, Y.-J. Jo, P. Sengupta, C. D. Batista, M. Jaime, L. Balicas, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214441 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Enhancement of the irreversibility line in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.95}$ single crystals patterned by heavy ion lithography

F. Laviano, R. Xie, E. Mezzetti, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214501 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity: Finite-size studies

Wei-Feng Tsai, Hong Yao, Andreas Läuchli, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214502 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Superconducting properties and Hall effect of epitaxial NbN thin films

S. P. Chockalingam, Madhavi Chand, John Jesudasan, Vikram Tripathi, and Pratap Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214503 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetotransport properties governed by antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the heavy-fermion superconductor ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

Y. Nakajima, H. Shishido, H. Nakai, T. Shibauchi, M. Hedo, Y. Uwatoko, T. Matsumoto, R. Settai, Y. Onuki, H. Kontani, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214504 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Predominant magnetic states in the Hubbard model on anisotropic triangular lattices

T. Watanabe, H. Yokoyama, Y. Tanaka, and J. Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214505 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Static and dynamic properties of 0, $π$ , and $0 − π$ ferromagnetic Josephson tunnel junctions

J. Pfeiffer, M. Kemmler, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, E. Goldobin, M. Weides, A. K. Feofanov, J. Lisenfeld, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214506 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

${MgB}_{2}$ single crystals substituted with Li and with Li-C: Structural and superconducting properties

J. Karpinski, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, K. Rogacki, B. Batlogg, M. Tortello, and R. Puzniak

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214507 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Impurity resonant state in $d$ -wave superconductors: In favor of a Kondo-like response

Marijana Kirćan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214508 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Kinetics of a network of vortex loops in He II and a theory of superfluid turbulence

Sergey K. Nemirovskii

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214509 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decoherence in dc SQUID phase qubits

Hanhee Paik, S. K. Dutta, R. M. Lewis, T. A. Palomaki, B. K. Cooper, R. C. Ramos, H. Xu, A. J. Dragt, J. R. Anderson, C. J. Lobb, and F. C. Wellstood

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214510 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Multiple superconducting transitions in the ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$ region of ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7} {-Sr}_{2} Ru O_{4}$ eutectic crystals

S. Kittaka, S. Fusanobori, S. Yonezawa, H. Yaguchi, Y. Maeno, R. Fittipaldi, and A. Vecchione

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214511 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Quantum behavior of a dc SQUID phase qubit

Kaushik Mitra, F. W. Strauch, C. J. Lobb, J. R. Anderson, F. C. Wellstood, and Eite Tiesinga

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214512 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Electronic structure and Fermi surface character of LaNiPO from first principles

Wei-Bing Zhang, Xiao-Bing Xiao, Wei-Yang Yu, Na Wang, and Bi-Yu Tang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214513 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Microwave and magnetotransport properties of ${RuSr}_{2} R {Cu}_{2} O_{8}$ $(R = Eu, Gd)$ doped with Sn

M. Požek, I. Kupčić, A. Dulčić, A. Hamzić, D. Paar, M. Basletić, E. Tafra, and G. V. M. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214514 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Electromagnetic properties and electronic structure of the iron-based layered superconductor LaFePO

Yoichi Kamihara, Masahiro Hirano, Hiroshi Yanagi, Toshio Kamiya, Yuji Saitoh, Eiji Ikenaga, Keisuke Kobayashi, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214515 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Particle-hole symmetry and the dirty boson problem

Peter B. Weichman and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214516 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Quasiparticle response of superconducting aluminum to electromagnetic radiation

Katrin Steinberg, Marc Scheffler, and Martin Dressel

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214517 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Theory of reduced superfluid density in underdoped cuprate superconductors

Wei-Cheng Lee, Jairo Sinova, A. A. Burkov, Yogesh Joglekar, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214518 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Different regimes of nucleation of superconductivity in mesoscopic superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids

N. Schildermans, A. Yu. Aladyshkin, A. V. Silhanek, J. Van de Vondel, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214519 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Numerical study of energy loss by a nanomechanical oscillator coupled to a Cooper-pair box

Rakesh P. Tiwari and D. Stroud

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214520 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Meissner effect in a high-temperature superconductor: Local versus nonlocal electrodynamics

D. E. Oates, D. Agassi, E. Wong, A. Leese de Escobar, and K. Irgmaier

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214521 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Interaction between Josephson and pancake vortices investigated by the induced microwave dissipation by ac magnetic field technique

D. Shaltiel, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, B. Ya. Shapiro, B. Rosenstein, A. Loidl, B. Bogoslavsky, I. Shapiro, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214522 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of quantum metal to superconductor transitions in highly conducting systems

B. Spivak, P. Oreto, and S. A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214523 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Two-dimensional superconductivity in stripe-ordered ${La}_{1.6 - x} {Nd}_{0.4} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ single crystals

J. F. Ding, X. Q. Xiang, Y. Q. Zhang, H. Liu, and X. G. Li

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214524 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Influence of spatial variations in the lower critical field on the equilibrium field penetration into superconductors

Nurit Avraham, E. H. Brandt, G. P. Mikitik, Y. Myasoedov, M. Rappaport, E. Zeldov, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214525 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Strong electron-phonon interaction in multiband superconductors

O. V. Dolgov and A. A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214526 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Controlling the spatial distribution of superfluidity in radially ordered Coulomb clusters

A. Filinov, J. Böning, M. Bonitz, and Yu. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214527 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Implementation of the three-qubit phase-flip error correction code with superconducting qubits

L. Tornberg, M. Wallquist, G. Johansson, V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214528 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

One-gap scenario to explain Raman scattering in a $d$ -wave superconductor

A. V. Chubukov and M. R. Norman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 214529 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Renormalization group analysis and numerical simulation of propagation and localization of acoustic waves in heterogeneous media”

Kwang-Hua W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 216301 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Renormalization group analysis and numerical simulation of propagation and localization of acoustic waves in heterogeneous media’ ”

Alireza Bahraminasab, Ayoub Esmailpour, S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei, Farhad Shahbazi, Muhammad Sahimi, and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 216302 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Thermodynamic properties of a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ diamond chain as a model for a molecule-based ferrimagnet and the compound ${Cu}_{3} ({CO}_{3})_{2} (OH)_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. B 73, 104454 (2006)]

H. H. Fu, K. L. Yao, and Z. L. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 219901 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Publisher's Note: Numerical study of the phase slip in two-dimensional superconducting strips [Phys. Rev. B 77, 174517 (2008)]

Chunyin Qiu and Tiezheng Qian

Phys. Rev. B 77, 219902 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Publisher's Note: Reply to “Comment on ‘Renormalization group analysis and numerical simulation of propagation and localization of acoustic waves in heterogeneous media’ ” [Phys. Rev. B 77, 216302 (2008)]

Alireza Bahraminasab, Ayoub Esmailpour, S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei, Farhad Shahbazi, Muhammad Sahimi, and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 219903 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Erratum: Competing order scenario of two-gap behavior in hole-doped cuprates [Phys. Rev. B 77, 134516 (2008)]

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 219904 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008