Accepted in December 2007, to be published in Physical Review B1


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

    MAGNETISM

Fermi-polaron problem: Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for divergent sign-alternating series
Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov
[abstract]

Nonequilibrium interacting electrons in a ferromagnet
P. F. Farinas
[abstract]

Magnetovolume effect in Mn3Cu1-xGexN related to the magnetic structure: Neutron powder diffraction measurements
S. Iikubo, K. Kodama, K. Takenaka, H. Takagi, and S. Shamoto
[abstract]

ARTICLES

    STRUCTURE, STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS, MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, DEFECTS, ETC.

Rh$_{2}$O$_{3}$(II)-type structures in Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$ and In$_{2}$O$_{3}$ under high pressure: Experiment and theory
Hitoshi Yusa, Taku Tsuchiya, Nagayoshi Sata, and Yasuo Ohishi
[abstract]

Nanopolar structure in Sr$_{x}$Ba$_{1-x}$Nb$_{2}$O$_{6}$ single crystals tuned by Sr/Ba ratio and investigated by piezoelectric force microscopy
Vladimir V. Shvartsman, Wolfgang Kleemann, Tadeusz Lukasiewicz, and Jan Dec

Bonding and strength of solid nitrogen in the cubic gauche (cg-N) structure
Xing-Qiu Chen, C. L. Fu, and R. Podloucky

Derivation of an empirical potential for gold with angular corrections
St\ ' { e} phane Olivier, Riccardo Conte, and Alessandro Fortunelli
[abstract]

Symmetry-broken crystal structure of elemental boron at low temperature
M. Widom and M. Mihalkovi\v{c}
[abstract]

Influence of depolarization field on polarization states in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films with nonequally biaxial misfit strains
Jie Wang and Tong-Yi Zhang

Void-induced cross slip of screw dislocations in fcc copper
Takahiro Hatano, Tetsuya Kaneko, Yousuke Abe, and Hideki Matsui
[abstract]

Pressure effects in the triangular layered cobaltites Na$_x$CoO$_2$
G. Garbarino, M. Monteverde, M. N\'{u}\~{n}ez-Regueiro, C. Acha, M. L. Foo, and R. J. Cava

Influence of the static atomic displacement on atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging
V. Grillo, E. Carlino, and F. Glas

Crystal structures and mechanical properties of superhard BC$_2$N and BC$_4$N alloys: First-principles calculations
Shiyou Chen, X. G. Gong, and Su-Huai Wei
[abstract]

Realization of the mean-field universality class in spin-crossover materials
Seiji Miyashita, Yusuk\ ' { e} Konishi, Masamichi Nishino, Hiroko Tokoro, and Per Arne Rikvold
[abstract]

Polarization-dependent imaging contrast in abalone shells
Rebecca A. Metzler, Dong Zhou, Mike Abrecht, Jau-Wern Chiou, Jinghua Guo, Daniel Ariosa, Susan N. Coppersmith, and P. U. P. A. Gilbert

Impedance spectroscopy of multiferroic PbZr$_x$Ti$_{1-x}$O$_3$/CoFe$_2$O$_4$ layered thin films
N. Ortega, Ashok Kumar, P. Bhattacharya, S. B. Majumder, and R. S. Katiyar

Numerical study of the thermal ablation of wet solids by ultrashort laser pulses
Danny Perez, Laurent Karim B\'{e}land, Delphine Deryng, Laurent J. Lewis, and Michel Meunier
[abstract]

Modeling dislocation cores in SrTiO$_3$ using the Peierls-Nabarro model
Denise Ferr\'{e}, Philippe Carrez, and Patrick Cordier

$\beta$ phase and $\gamma-\beta$ metal-insulator transition in multiferroic BiFeO$_3$
R. Palai, R. S. Katiyar, H. Schmid, P. Tissot, S. J. Clark, J. Robertson, S. A. T. Redfern, G. Catalan, and J. F. Scott
[abstract]

Nanocrystalline transition aluminas: Nanostructure and features of x-ray powder diffraction patterns of low-temperature Al$_2$O$_3$ polymorphs
Sergey V. Tsybulya and Galina N. Kryukova

Crystal symmetry of BiMnO$_{3}$: Electron diffraction study
Tadahiro Yokosawa, Alexei A. Belik, Toru Asaka, Koji Kimoto, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, and Yoshio Matsui

    INHOMOGENEOUS, DISORDERED, AND PARTIALLY ORDERED SYSTEMS

Coupled orientational and displacive degrees of freedom in the high-temperature plastic phase of the carbon tetrabromide $\alpha$-CBr$_4$
Jacob C. W. Folmer, Ray L. Withers, T. R. Welberry, and James D. Martin

Statistics of resonances in a semi-infinite disordered chain
Herv\ ' { e} Kunz and Boris Shapiro
[abstract]

Supersymmetric field theory of local light diffusion in semi-infinite media
Chushun Tian
[abstract]

Cusps and shocks in the renormalized potential of glassy random manifolds: How functional renormalization group and replica symmetry breaking fit together
Pierre Le Doussal, Markus M\"{u}ller, and Kay J\ " { o} rg Wiese
[abstract]

Entanglement entropy and multifractality at localization transitions
Xun Jia, Arvind R. Subramaniam, Ilya A. Gruzberg, and Sudip Chakravarty
[abstract]

    DYNAMICS, DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, LATTICE EFFECTS, QUANTUM SOLIDS, ETC.

Phonon dispersions of hydrogenated and dehydrogenated carbon nanoribbons
Megumi Yamada, Yoshihiro Yamakita, and Koichi Ohno

Acoustic phonon scattering from particles embedded in an anisotropic medium: A molecular dynamics study
Neil Zuckerman and Jennifer R. Lukes

Atomic form-factor measurements in the low-momentum transfer region for Li, Be, and Al by inelastic x-ray scattering
A. Alatas, A. H. Said, H. Sinn, G. Bortel, M. Y. Hu, J. Zhao, C. A. Burns, E. Burkel, and E. E. Alp
[abstract]

Electron spin relaxation and quantum localization in carbon nanoparticle: Electron spin echo studies
Stefan Lijewski, Magdalena Wencka, Stanislaw K. Hoffmann, Mateusz Kempinski, Wojciech Kempinski, and Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak
[abstract]

Li jump process in $h$-Li$_{0.7}$TiS$_{2}$ studied by two-time $^{7}$Li spin-alignment echo NMR and comparison with results on two-dimensional diffusion from nuclear magnetic relaxation
M. Wilkening and P. Heitjans
[abstract]

Lattice vibrations in single-wall carbon nanotubes
D. Gunlycke, H. M. Lawler, and C. T. White
[abstract]

Influence of antiferromagnetic spin ordering on the far-infrared active optical phonon modes of $\alpha$-MnSe
D. M. Djoki\'{c}, Z. V. Popovi\'{c}, and F. R. Vukajlovi\'{c}
[abstract]

Accelerating \textit{ab initio} calculation of phonon dispersion curves: $Q$-point convergence
Katalin Ga\'{a}l-Nagy
[abstract]

Dilution and clustering of Fe in the rutile phases of TiO$_{2}$ and SnO$_{2}$
A. I. Rykov, K. Nomura, J. Sakuma, C. Barrero, Y. Yoda, and T. Mitsui

    MAGNETISM

Quantum topological phase transition at the microscopic level
Claudio Castelnovo and Claudio Chamon
[abstract]

Numerical approach to metastable states in the zero-temperature random-field Ising model
F. J. P\'{e}rez-Reche, M. L. Rosinberg, and G. Tarjus
[abstract]

Spin-flop transition in Gd$_5$Ge$_4$ observed by x-ray resonant magnetic scattering and first-principles calculations of magnetic anisotropy
L. Tan, A. Kreyssig, S. Nandi, S. Jia, Y. B. Lee, J. C. Lang, Z. Islam, T. A. Lograsso, D. L. Schlagel, V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner Jr., P. C. Canfield, B. N. Harmon, R. J. McQueeney, and A. I. Goldman
[abstract]

Formation of collective spins in frustrated clusters
J. Robert, V. Simonet, B. Canals, R. Ballou, E. Lhotel, C. Darie, P. Bordet, B. Ouladdiaf, M. Johnson, J. Ollivier, D. Braithwaite, H. Rakoto, and S. de Brion
[abstract]

Symmetry breaking effects in epitaxial magnetic thin films: Nonsymmetric reversal and butterfly remanence behavior
David Ecija, Erika Jim\'{e}nez, Nikolai Mikuszeit, Nicol\ ' { a} s Sacrist\{'a}n, Julio Camarero, Jose Mar\ ' { \ i} a Gallego, Jan Vogel, and Rodolfo Miranda
[abstract]

Influence of MgO overlayers on the electronic states of Fe(001) thin films grown on GaAs(001)
Liu-Niu Tong, Frank Matthes, Martina M\"{u}ller, Claus M. Schneider, and Chan-Gyu Lee

Time-domain studies of very-large-angle magnetization dynamics excited by spin transfer torques
I. N. Krivorotov, N. C. Emley, R. A. Buhrman, and D. C. Ralph

Extensive studies of antiferromagnetic PuPd$_{2}$Sn
K. Gofryk, D. Kaczorowski, J-C. Griveau, N. Magnani, R. Jardin, E. Colineau, J. Rebizant, F. Wastin, and R. Caciuffo
[abstract]

Observation of the propagation and interference of spin waves in ferromagnetic thin films
K. Perzlmaier, G. Woltersdorf, and C. H. Back
[abstract]

Magnetic ordering in HoBaCo$_2$O$_{5.5}$
J.-E. J{\o}rgensen and L. Keller

\textit{Ab initio} study of the CE magnetic phase in half-doped manganites: Purely magnetic versus double exchange description
Roland Bastardis, Coen de Graaf, and Nathalie Guih\'{e}ry
[abstract]

Magnetic-field dependence of the ferroelectric polarization and spin-lattice coupling in multiferroic MnWO$_4$
K. Taniguchi, N. Abe, H. Sagayama, S. Otani, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, and T. Arima
[abstract]

Structure and magnetic properties of $R$Cu$_4$Mn ($R$=La--Gd)
S. K. Dhar, R. Kulkarni, P. Manfrinetti, M. L. Fornasini, and C. Bernini

Ordering mechanism and spin fluctuations in a geometrically frustrated heavy-fermion antiferromagnet on the Kagome-like lattice CePdAl: A $^{27}$Al NMR study
Akira Oyamada, Satoru Maegawa, Masahide Nishiyama, Hideaki Kitazawa, and Yosikazu Isikawa
[abstract]

Determination of intrinsic switching field distributions in perpendicular recording media: Numerical study of the ${\Delta}H(M,{\Delta}M)$ method
Yang Liu, Karin A. Dahmen, and A. Berger
[abstract]

Anisotropy in magnetic properties and electronic structure of single-crystal LiFePO$_4$
Gan Liang, Keeseong Park, Jiying Li, Ronald E. Benson, David Vaknin, John T. Markert, and Mark C. Croft

Anomalous magnetic phases in Fe/Cu(001) ultrathin films induced by CO adsorption
H. Abe, K. Amemiya, D. Matsumura, J. Miyawaki, E. O. Sako, T. Ohtsuki, E. Sakai, and T. Ohta
[abstract]

Influence of crystal field on anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism at the Co$^{2+}$ $L_{2,3}$ edges
Gerrit van der Laan, Elke Arenholz, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, and Yuri Suzuki
[abstract]

Low-temperature behavior of YBaCo$_2$O$_{5.5}$: Coexistence of two spin-state ordered phases
D. D. Khalyavin, D. N. Argyriou, U. Amann, A. A. Yaremchenko, and V. V. Kharton

Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of the orthorhombic perovskites (Lu,Ca)MnO$_3$
N. Imamura, M. Karppinen, T. Motohashi, and H. Yamauchi

Interface effects, magnetic, and magneto-optical properties of Al/Co/V/MgO(100) structures
Y. Huttel, C. Clavero, G. van der Laan, P. Bencok, T. K. Johal, J. S. Claydon, G. Armelles, and A. Cebollada
[abstract]

Anomalous ferromagnetic behavior and large magnetoresistance induced by orbital fluctuation in heavily doped Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$ (0.57 $\le$ $x$ $\le$ 0.75)
D. Akahoshi, R. Hatakeyama, M. Nagao, T. Asaka, Y. Matsui, and H. Kuwahara
[abstract]

TlFe$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$: Weak itinerant ferromagnetic analogue to alkali-metal iron-antimony skutterudites
A. Leithe-Jasper, W. Schnelle, H. Rosner, R. Cardoso-Gil, M. Baenitz, J. A. Mydosh, Yu. Grin, M. Reissner, and W. Steiner
[abstract]

Magnetic circular dichroism in two-photon absorption and depth-resolved magnetic microscopy
J. Seib and M. F\"{a}hnle
[abstract]

Effect of Fe substitution on the magnetic ordering in Ca$_3$(Co$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$)$_2$O$_6$
I. Nowik, A. Jain, S. M. Yusuf, and J. V. Yakhmi

Experimental observation of switching in ferromagnetic nanoscale double disks
M. Huber, J. Zweck, and D. Weiss
[abstract]

Manifestation of geometric frustration on magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the pyrochlores Sm$_2$$X_2$O$_7$ ($X$=Ti,Zr)
Surjeet Singh, Surajit Saha, S. K. Dhar, R. Suryanarayanan, A. K. Sood, and A. Revcolevschi

Valence bond solid order near impurities in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
Max A. Metlitski and Subir Sachdev
[abstract]

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of pyroxenes (Li,Na)TM(Si,Ge)$_2$O$_6$: Low-dimensional magnets with 90$^0$ bonds
S. V. Streltsov and D. I. Khomskii
[abstract]

Magnetic phase stability and spin-dependent transport in CeNi$_4M$ ($M$=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co): First-principles study
P. Murugan, M. S. Bahramy, and Y. Kawazoe
[abstract]

Surface and exchange-bias effects in compacted CaMnO$_{3-\delta}$ nanoparticles
V. Markovich, I. Fita, A. Wisniewski, R. Puzniak, D. Mogilyansky, L. Titelman, L. Vradman, M. Herskowitz, and G. Gorodetsky

Nonlinear dynamics and two-dimensional solitons for spin-1 ferromagnets with biquadratic exchange
B. A. Ivanov, A. Yu. Galkin, R. S. Khymyn, and A. Yu. Merkulov
[abstract]

Decoherence induced by hyperfine interactions with nuclear spins in antiferromagnetic molecular rings
F. Troiani, M. Affronte, and V. Bellini
[abstract]

Effective temperature and Gilbert damping of a current-driven localized spin
Alvaro S. N\'{u}\~{n}ez and R. A. Duine
[abstract]

Tuning the magnetic properties of LaCoO$_3$ thin films by epitaxial strain
D. Fuchs, E. Arac, C. Pinta, S. Schuppler, R. Schneider, and H. v.L\"{o}hneysen

Nucleation and dynamics of magnetic vortices under spin-polarized current
Yoshinobu Nakatani, Junya Shibata, Gen Tatara, Hiroshi Kohno, Andr\ ' { e} Thiaville, and Jacques Miltat
[abstract]

Magnetic tight binding and the iron-chromium enthalpy anomaly in density functional theory
Anthony T. Paxton and Michael W. Finnis
[abstract]

Second harmonic generation study of the antiferromagnetic NiO(001) surface
M. N\'{y}vlt, F. Bisio, and J. Kirschner
[abstract]

Magnetoresistance of an all-manganite spin valve: A thin antiferromagnetic insulator sandwiched between two ferromagnetic metallic electrodes
J. Salafranca, M. J. Calder\'{o}n, and L. Brey
[abstract]

Phonon bottleneck in the low-excitation limit
D. A. Garanin
[abstract]

Resonant x-ray scattering study of NpRhGa$_5$ and NpCoGa$_5$
B. Detlefs, S. B. Wilkins, R. Caciuffo, J. A. Paix\~{a}o, K. Kaneko, F. Honda, N. Metoki, N. Bernhoeft, J. Rebizant, and G. H. Lander
[abstract]

Energy level lifetimes in the single-molecule magnet Fe$_{8}$: Experiments and simulations
S. Bahr, K. Petukhov, V. Mosser, and W. Wernsdorfer
[abstract]

Triplet dimerization crossover driven by magnetic frustration in In$_2$VO$_5$
Simon A. J. Kimber, Mark A. de Vries, Javier Sanchez-Benitez, Konstantin V. Kamenev, and J. Paul Attfield

Anomalous Hall effect and magnetoresistance in the layered ferromagnet Fe$_{\frac{1}{4}}$TaS$_{2}$: The inelastic regime
J. G. Checkelsky, Minhyea Lee, E. Morosan, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong
[abstract]

Neutron scattering study on spin correlations and fluctuations in the transition-metal-based magnetic quasicrystal Zn-Fe-Sc
Taku J. Sato, Shiro Kashimoto, Chihiro Masuda, Takahiro Onimaru, Isao Nakanowatari, Kazuki Iida, Rei Morinaga, and Tsutomu Ishimasa
[abstract]

Magnetic excitations and orbital physics in the ferrimagnetic spinels Mn$B_{2}$O$_{4}$ ($B$=Mn, V)
J.-H. Chung, J.-H. Kim, S.-H. Lee, T. J. Sato, T. Suzuki, M. Katsumura, and T. Katsufuji
[abstract]

    SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Cu spin dynamics in the overdoped regime of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$Cu$_{1-y}$Zn$_y$O$_4$ probed by muon spin relaxation
Risdiana, T. Adachi, N. Oki, S. Yairi, Y. Tanabe, K. Omori, Y. Koike, T. Suzuki, I. Watanabe, A. Koda, and W. Higemoto
[abstract]

Quantum chaos in the mesoscopic device for the Josephson flux qubit
Ezequiel N. Pozzo, Daniel Dom\'{i}nguez, and Mar\ ' { i} a Jos\ ' { e} S\'anchez
[abstract]

Tunneling conductance in $s$- and $d$-wave superconductor-graphene junctions: Extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism
Jacob Linder and Asle Sudb{\o}
[abstract]

Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic multi-terminal SNS Josephson junctions
M. S. Crosser, Jian Huang, F. Pierre, Pauli Virtanen, Tero T. Heikkil\"{a}, F. K. Wilhelm, and Norman O. Birge
[abstract]

Interplay of ferromagnetism and triplet superconductivity in a Josephson junction
P. M. R. Brydon, Boris Kastening, Dirk K. Morr, and Dirk Manske
[abstract]

Properties of tunnel Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic interlayer
A. S. Vasenko, A. A. Golubov, M. Yu. Kupriyanov, and M. Weides
[abstract]

Josephson current through a single Anderson impurity coupled to BCS leads
C. Karrasch, A. Oguri, and V. Meden
[abstract]

Pressure-induced unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeIn$_3$: Phases of matter probed by $^{115}$In-NQR
S. Kawasaki, M. Yashima, Y. Kitaoka, K. Takeda, K. Shimizu, Y. Oishi, M. Takata, T. C. Kobayashi, H. Harima, S. Araki, H. Shishido, R. Settai, and Y. \={O}nuki
[abstract]

X-ray scattering study of charge density waves in La$_{2-x}$Ba$_{x}$CuO$_4$
Young-June Kim, G. D. Gu, T. Gog, and D. Casa
[abstract]

Correlation between the transition temperature and the superfluid density in BCS superconductor NbB$_{2+x}$
R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, A. Maisuradze, D. Di Castro, R. Escamilla, and H. Keller
[abstract]

Quantum fluctuations in ultranarrow superconducting aluminum nanowires
M. Zgirski, K.-P. Riikonen, V. Touboltsev, and K. Yu. Arutyunov
[abstract]

Magnetic flux patterns in superconductors deposited on a lattice of magnetic dots: A magneto-optical imaging study
Diana G. Gheorghe, Rinke J. Wijngaarden, Werner Gillijns, Alejandro V. Silhanek, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
[abstract]

Sign change of the extended $s$-wave pairing vertex in the dynamic Hubbard model: A quantum Monte Carlo study
K. Bouadim, M. Enjalran, F. H\'{e}bert, G. G. Batrouni, and R. T. Scalettar
[abstract]

Electronic instabilities of a Hubbard model approached as a large array of coupled chains: Competition between \textit{d}-wave superconductivity and pseudogap phase
E. Perfetto and J. Gonz\'{a}lez
[abstract]

Breakpoint in the evolution of the gap through the cuprate phase diagram
W. Guyard, M. Le Tacon, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, A. Georges, D. Colson, and A. Forget
[abstract]

Magnetic interference pattern in planar SNS Josephson junctions
G. Mohammadkhani, M. Zareyan, and Ya. M. Blanter
[abstract]

Topological quantization by controlled paths: Application to Cooper pairs pumps
Raphael Leone and Laurent L\'evy
[abstract]

Josephson effects in $d$-wave superconductor junctions with magnetic interlayers: A theoretical study
Brian M. Andersen, Yu. S. Barash, S. Graser, and P. J. Hirschfeld
[abstract]

Supersolidity from defect-condensation in the extended boson Hubbard model
Yu-Chun Chen, Roger G. Melko, Stefan Wessel, and Ying-Jer Kao
[abstract]

Isotope effect in high-$T_{c}$ superconductors
Dale R. Harshman, John D. Dow, and Anthony T. Fiory

Optical sum rule anomalies in the cuprates: Interplay between strong correlation and electronic band structure
A. Toschi and M. Capone
[abstract]

Quantum spin excitations through the metal-to-insulator crossover in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+y}$
Shiliang Li, Zahra Yamani, Hye Jung Kang, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando, Xin Yao, H. A. Mook, and Pengcheng Dai
[abstract]

Heat current in the magnetic field: Nernst-Ettingshausen effect above the superconducting transition
A. Sergeev, M. Yu. Reizer, and V. Mitin
[abstract]

Nonlocal Andreev reflection in a carbon nanotube superconducting quantum interference device
S. Duhot and R. M\'{e}lin
[abstract]

Yang-Rice-Zhang description of checkerboard pattern and autocorrelation of photoemission data in high-temperature superconductors
E. Bascones and B. Valenzuela
[abstract]

Weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductivity in the electron-doped cuprate superconductors
L. Shan, Y. Huang, Y. L. Wang, Shiliang Li, Jun Zhao, Pengcheng Dai, Y. Z. Zhang, C. Ren, and H. H. Wen
[abstract]

Possible mechanism of superconductivity in PuCoGa$_5$ probed by self-irradiation damage
F. Jutier, G. A. Ummarino, J.-C. Griveau, F. Wastin, E. Colineau, J. Rebizant, N. Magnani, and R. Caciuffo
[abstract]

Resonant electromagnetic emission from intrinsic Josephson-junction stacks with laterally modulated Josephson critical current
A. E. Koshelev and L. N. Bulaevskii
[abstract]

Angular dependence of circular dichroism in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$
V. Arpiainen, V. Zalobotnyy, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, and M. Lindroos
[abstract]

Flux distribution in superconducting films with holes
J. I. Vestg{\aa}rden, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, and T. H. Johansen
[abstract]

Superconducting fluctuating diamagnetism in neutron irradiated MgB$_2$ in relation to precursor diamagnetism in Al-doped MgB$_2$
E. Bernardi, A. Lascialfari, A. Rigamonti, and L. Roman\`{o}

Effects of inhomogeneities and thermal fluctuations on the spectral function of a model $d$-wave superconductor
Daniel Valdez-Balderas and David Stroud
[abstract]

BRIEF REPORTS

    STRUCTURE, STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS, MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, DEFECTS, ETC.

Pressure-induced structural transformation in solid xenon studied by Raman spectroscopy
Hiroyasu Shimizu, Naoyuki Wada, Tetsuji Kume, Shigeo Sasaki, Yansun Yao, and John S. Tse
[abstract]

High-pressure phases of nitrogen predicted via genetic algorithm
Yansun Yao, John S. Tse, and Kaori Tanaka

Morphotropic phase-boundary-like characteristic in a lead-free and non-ferroelectric (1-x)NaNbO$_{3}$-xCaTiO$_{3}$ system
Saurabh Tripathi, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Dhananjai Pandey, and P. S. R. Krishna

Nearly metastable rhombohedral phases of bcc metals
Michael J. Mehl and Daniel Finkenstadt
[abstract]

Terahertz dielectric response of cubic BaTiO$_3$
I. Ponomareva, L. Bellaiche, T. Ostapchuk, J. Hlinka, and J. Petzelt
[abstract]

Pressure-temperature phase diagram for charge-transfer transition in Cs[Co(3-CNpy)$_2$][W(CN)$_8$]H$_2$O
J. E. Kim, Y. Ohishi, Y. Moritomo, K. Kato, M. Takata, and S. Ohkoshi
[abstract]

    INHOMOGENEOUS, DISORDERED, AND PARTIALLY ORDERED SYSTEMS

Role of hydrogen bonds in the supercooled dynamics of glass-forming liquids at high pressures
C. M. Roland, R. Casalini, R. Bergman, and J. Mattsson

    MAGNETISM

Two ferromagnetic phases in spin-Fermion systems
Naoum Karchev
[abstract]

Impurity effects in the quantum kagome system ZnCu$_{3}$(OH)$_6$Cl$_2$
R. Chitra and M. J. Rozenberg
[abstract]

Dynamic spin correlations in stuffed spin ice Ho$_{2+x}$Ti$_{2-x}$O$_{7-\delta}$
G. Ehlers, J. S. Gardner, Y. Qiu, P. Fouquet, C. R. Wiebe, L. Balicas, and H. D. Zhou
[abstract]

Optical coupling to spin waves in the cycloidal multiferroic BiFeO$_3$
Rogerio de Sousa and Joel E. Moore
[abstract]

Dependence of the magnetoresistance of magnetic multilayers on the number of magnetic layers
L. A. Michez, B. J. Hickey, Smadar Shatz, and Nathan Wiser

Electric polarization induced by a proper helical magnetic ordering in a delafossite multiferroic CuFe$_{1-x}$Al$_x$O$_2$
T. Nakajima, S. Mitsuda, S. Kanetsuki, K. Tanaka, K. Fujii, N. Terada, M. Soda, M. Matsuura, and K. Hirota
[abstract]

Magnetic properties and electronic structure of S=$\frac{1}{2}$ spin gap compound BaCu$_2$V$_2$O$_8$
Sarita S. Salunke, A. V. Mahajan, and I. Dasgupta
[abstract]

Magnetism and the Verwey transition in Fe$_3$O$_4$ under pressure
S. Klotz, G. Steinle-Neumann, Th. Str\"{a}ssle, J. Philippe, Th. Hansen, and M. J. Wenzel
[abstract]

Dependence of Faraday rotation and magneto-optical figure of merit on dielectric tensor elements in materials with uniaxial symmetry
Alexander R. Taussig, Gerald F. Dionne, and C. A. Ross

    SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Observation of an extended magnetic field penetration in amorphous superconducting MoGe films
Taichiro Nishio, Satoru Okayasu, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Nobuhito Kokubo, and Kazuo Kadowaki
[abstract]

Influence of hydrostatic pressure on the magnetic phase diagram of superconducting Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ by ultrasonic attenuation
O. Svitelskiy, S. Headley, S. W. Tozer, E. C. Palm, T. P. Murphy, D. Shulyatev, and A. V. Suslov
[abstract]

Metallic conduction and superconductivity in the pseudogap phase
Sanjoy K. Sarker
[abstract]

Scanning Hall probe microscopy of vortex patterns in a superconducting microsquare
Taichiro Nishio, Qinghua Chen, Werner Gillijns, Katrien De Keyser, Koen Vervaeke, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
[abstract]

COMMENTS

Comment on ``Evidence for strong electronic correlations in the spectra of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$''
D. J. Singh