Accepted in January 2008, to be published in Physical Review B1


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Order parameter in complex dipolar structures: Microscopic modeling
S. Prosandeev and L. Bellaiche
[abstract]

    MAGNETISM

Electron-magnon diffusion and magnetization reversal detection in FePt thin films
A. P. Mihai, J. P. Attan\'{e}, A. Marty, P. Warin, and Y. Samson
[abstract]

Resonant soft x-ray powder diffraction study to determine the orbital ordering in A-site-ordered SmBaMn$_2$O$_6$
M. Garc\'{\i}a-Ferna\'{n}dez, U. Staub, Y. Bodenthin, S. M. Lawrence, A. M. Mulders, C. E. Buckley, S. Weyeneth, E. Pomjakushina, and K. Conder

Magnetic-polaron-driven magnetoresistance in the pyrochlore Lu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$
H. D. Zhou, E. S. Choi, J. A. Souza, J. Lu, Y. Xin, L. L. Lumata, B. S. Conner, L. Balicas, J. S. Brooks, J. J. Neumeier, and C. R. Wiebe
[abstract]

Activation of additional energy dissipation processes in the magnetization dynamics of epitaxial chromium dioxide films
G. M. M\"{u}ller, M. M\"{u}nzenberg, G.-X. Miao, and A. Gupta
[abstract]

    SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Superconductor-insulator phase separation induced by rapid cooling of $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Br
O. J. Taylor, A. Carrington, and J. A. Schlueter
[abstract]

Theory of Fermi-surface pockets and correlation effects in underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$
I. S. Elfimov, G. A. Sawatzky, and A. Damascelli
[abstract]

Charge-transfer exciton in La$_2$CuO$_4$ probed with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
D. S. Ellis, J. P. Hill, S. Wakimoto, R. J. Birgeneau, D. Casa, T. Gog, and Young-June Kim
[abstract]

Kolmogorov and Kelvin-wave cascades of superfluid turbulence at $T=0$: What lies between
Evgeny Kozik and Boris Svistunov
[abstract]

ARTICLES

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

Numerical study of the design of nanofilters for optical nanocircuits
Andrea Al\`{u}, Michael Young, and Nader Engheta

Evidence of soft modes in magnetoelectric CuFeO2: Ultrasonic velocity measurements and Landau theory
G. Quirion, M. J. Tagore, M. L. Plumer, and O. A. Petrenko
[abstract]

Fresnel diffractive imaging: Experimental study of coherence and curvature
L. W. Whitehead, G. J. Williams, H. M. Quiney, K. A. Nugent, A. G. Peele, D. Paterson, M. D. de Jonge, and I. McNulty
[abstract]

Mechanism of c-axis orientation of $L1_0$ FePt in nanostructured FePt/B$_2$O$_3$ thinfilms
T. Ichitsubo, S. Tojo, T. Uchihara, E. Matsubara, A. Fujita, K. Takahashi, and K. Watanabe
[abstract]

Structural properties and enthalpy of formation of magnesium hydride from quantum Monte Carlo calculations
M. Pozzo and D. Alf\`{e}
[abstract]

Quantum molecular dynamics simulations of warm dense lithium hydride: Examination of mixing rules
D. A. Horner, J. D. Kress, and L. A. Collins
[abstract]

First-principles study of water on copper and noble metal (110) surfaces
Jun Ren and Sheng Meng
[abstract]

Pressure-induced amorphization and decomposition of Fe[Co(CN)$_6$]
J. Catafesta, J. Haines, J. E. Zorzi, A. S. Pereira, and C. A. Perottoni
[abstract]

Weighted multibody expansions for computing stable structures of multiatom systems
Veera Sundararaghavan and Nicholas Zabaras
[abstract]

Anisotropy of electric field freezing of the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_3$
Zdravko Kutnjak, B. Vodopivec, and Robert Blinc
[abstract]

Electronic and elastic properties of non-oxide anti-perovskites from first principles: Superconducting CdCNi$_3$ in comparison with magnetic InCNi$_3$
I. R. Shein and A. L. Ivanovskii

Semiempirical formulae for elastic moduli and brittleness of diamondlike and zinc-blende covalent crystals
S. Kamran, Kuiying Chen, and L. Chen

Theory of the nonplanar splitting of screw dislocations in gum metal
S. V. Bobylev, T. Ishizaki, S. Kuramoto, and I. A. Ovid'ko

Growth and mechanical properties of a MoC precipitate at a Mo grain boundary: An \textit{ab initio} density functional theory study
Rebecca Janisch and Christian Els\"{a}sser
[abstract]

Phase-field model of interfaces in single-component systems derived from classical density functional theory
Gunnar Pruessner and A. P. Sutton
[abstract]

Low-temperature measurements of the specific heat capacity of a thick ferroelectric copolymer film of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene
R. W. Newsome Jr., S. Park, S.-W. Cheong, and E. Y. Andrei
[abstract]

Nanocrack generation at dislocation-disclination configurations in nanocrystalline metals and ceramics
I. A. Ovid'ko and A. G. Sheinerman
[abstract]

Theoretical investigation of the defect formation mechanism relevant to nonstoichiometry in hydroxyapatite
Katsuyuki Matsunaga

Structural and dynamical properties of a quasi-one-dimensional classical binary system
W. P. Ferreira, J. C. N. Carvalho, P. W. S. Oliveira, G. A. Farias, and F. M. Peeters
[abstract]

Lattice dynamics of $\alpha$ uranium
J. Bouchet
[abstract]

Quantitative phase-field modeling of solidification in binary alloys with nonlinear phase coexistence curves
Chaohui Tong, Michael Greenwood, and Nikolas Provatas
[abstract]

Charge disproportionation in La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$FeO$_3$ probed by diffraction and spectroscopic experiments
Javier Blasco, Bartolom\ ' { e} Aznar, Joaqu{ \ ' i} n Garc{\'i}a, Gloria Sub{\'i}as, Javier Herrero-Mart{\'i}n, and Jolanta Stankiewicz

\textit{Ab initio} calculations of the phonon spectra and thermal expansion coefficients of the 4$d$ metals
P. Souvatzis and O. Eriksson
[abstract]

Random-field Potts model with dipolarlike interactions: Hysteresis, avalanches, and microstructure
Benedetta Cerruti and Eduard Vives
[abstract]

Defect structures in the silver halides
D. J. Wilson, A. A. Sokol, S. A. French, and C. R. A. Catlow
[abstract]

Structural phase transitions in low-dimensional ion crystals
Shmuel Fishman, Gabriele De Chiara, Tommaso Calarco, and Giovanna Morigi
[abstract]

Elastic properties of solids containing elliptic cracks
Stefano Giordano and Luciano Colombo
[abstract]

    INHOMOGENEOUS, DISORDERED, AND PARTIALLY ORDERED SYSTEMS

Second-nearest-neighbor modified embedded-atom potential for binary Ta-W alloys based on first-principles calculations
C. Bercegeay, G. Jomard, and S. Bernard
[abstract]

Decohering $d$-dimensional quantum resistance
Dibyendu Roy and N. Kumar
[abstract]

Crystal structure units of the Fe$_{3}$Mo$_{2}$ $R$ phase in the Fe-Mo alloy system
Toshihiro Doi, Makoto Tanimura, and Yasumasa Koyama

Computation and visualization of photonic quasicrystal spectra via Bloch's theorem
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley, Yehuda Avniel, and Steven G. Johnson
[abstract]

Highly destabilized Mg-Ti-Ni-H system investigated by density functional theory and hydrogenography
C. P. Broedersz, R. Gremaud, B. Dam, R. Griessen, and O. M. L{\o}vvik
[abstract]

Effect of structural anisotropy on the coarsening kinetics of diblock copolymer striped patterns
R. Ruiz, J. K. Bosworth, and C. T. Black

Low-temperature electron-spin relaxation in the crystalline and glassy states of solid ethanol
Marina Kveder, Dalibor Merunka, Milan Joki\'{c}, and Boris Rakvin

Covalentlike electronic effects in metallic liquids using an orbital-free \textit {ab initio} method
L. E. Gonz\'{a}lez, D. J. Gonz\'{a}lez, and M. J. Stott
[abstract]

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

Energy radiation and limiting speeds of fast moving edge dislocations in tungsten
Zhaohui Jin, Huajian Gao, and Peter Gumbsch

Surface instability and isotopic impurities in quantum solids
E. Cappelluti, G. Rastelli, S. Gaudio, and L. Pietronero
[abstract]

Hindered rotation of HArF in solid argon: Infrared spectroscopy and a theoretical model
Anastasia V. Bochenkova, Leonid Khriachtchev, Antti Lignell, Markku R\"{a}s\"{a}nen, Hanna Lignell, Alexander A. Granovsky, and Alexander V. Nemukhin
[abstract]

$^6$Li and $^7$Li NMR line-shape and stimulated-echo studies of lithium ionic hopping in LiPO$_3$ glass
Sandra Faske, Hellmut Eckert, and Michael Vogel
[abstract]

Autocorrelations and thermal fragility of anyonic loops in topologically quantum ordered systems
Zohar Nussinov and Gerardo Ortiz
[abstract]

Atomic kinetic energy, momentum distribution, and structure of solid neon at zero temperature
C. Cazorla and J. Boronat
[abstract]

Specific heat of Sb: Isotopic and spin-orbit effects from measurements and \textit{ab initio} calculations
J. Serrano, R. K. Kremer, M. Cardona, G. Siegle, L. E. D{\i}az-S\'{a}nchez, and A. H. Romero
[abstract]

Raman scattering on KOs$_2$O$_6$
Takumi Hasegawa, Yuichi Takasu, Norio Ogita, Masayuki Udagawa, Jun-Ichi Yamaura, Yohei Nagao, and Zenji Hiroi
[abstract]

    MAGNETISM

Magnetic anisotropy of Fe/Pt(001)and Pt/Fe/Pt(001) using a first-principles approach
Masahito Tsujikawa, Akihiko Hosokawa, and Tatsuki Oda
[abstract]

Spin frustration and magnetic exchange in cobalt aluminum oxide spinels
N. Tristan, V. Zestrea, G. Behr, R. Klingeler, B. B\"{u}chner, H. A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, and V. Tsurkan

Magnetization and $^{13}$C NMR spin-lattice relaxation of nanodiamond powder
E. M. Levin, X. W. Fang, S. L. Budko, W. E. Straszheim, R. W. McCallum, and K. Schmidt-Rohr

Pressure effects on magnetic and structural properties of pure and substituted SrRuO$_{3}$
J. Pietosa, B. Dabrowski, A. Wisniewski, R. Puzniak, R. Kiyanagi, T. Maxwell, and J. D. Jorgensen
[abstract]

Spin dynamics of the pyrochlore magnets Gd$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Gd$_2$Sn$_2$O$_7$ in the paramagnetic state
S. S. Sosin, L. A. Prozorova, A. I. Smirnov, P. Bonville, G. Jasmin-Le Bras, and O. A. Petrenko
[abstract]

Spin waves modulated in a ferromagnetic bilayer system calculated using the interface rescaling approach
Wen Ping Zhou, Guo Hong Yun, and Xi Xia Liang

Frustrated magnetization in Co nanowires: Competition between crystal anisotropy and demagnetization energy
Gerd Bergmann, Yaqi Tao, Jia G. Lu, and Richard S. Thompson
[abstract]

Quantum spin liquid in the spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet EtMe$_{3}$Sb[Pd(dmit)$_{2}$]$_{2}$
T. Itou, A. Oyamada, S. Maegawa, M. Tamura, and R. Kato
[abstract]

Newtonian origin of the spin motive force in ferromagnetic atomic wires
Maria Stamenova, Tchavdar N. Todorov, and Stefano Sanvito
[abstract]

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of tetragonal Mn$_{3-x}$Ga: Experiments and first-principles calculations
J\ " { u} rgen Winterlik, Benjamin Balke, Gerhard H. Fecher, Claudia Felser, Maria C. M. Alves, Fabiano Bernardi, and Jonder Morais
[abstract]

X-ray resonant diffraction study of multiferroic DyMn$_{2}$O$_{5}$
R. A. Ewings, A. T. Boothroyd, D. F. McMorrow, D. Mannix, H. C. Walker, and B. M. R. Wanklyn
[abstract]

Evidence of intrinsic exchange bias and its origin in spin-glass-like disordered $L$$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$MnO${_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

Dynamics of a distorted diamond chain
H.-J. Mikeska and C. Luckmann
[abstract]

Quantum spin pumping at a fractionally quantized magnetization state for a system with competing exchange interactions
Sujit Sarkar and C. D. Hu
[abstract]

High temperature ferromagnetism in single crystal dilute magnetic oxide: Intrinsic disorder and magnetism in Fe-doped BaTiO$_3$
Sugata Ray, Priya Mahadevan, Suman Mandal, S. R. Krishnakumar, Carlos Seiti Kuroda, T. Sasaki, Tomoyasu Taniyama, and Mitsuru Itoh
[abstract]

Entropy driven phase transition in itinerant antiferromagnetic monolayers
R. Wieser, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger
[abstract]

Phase separation and magnetoresistivity in Sm$_{0.1}$Ca$_{0.9-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$
C. Martin, A. Maignan, M. Hervieu, S. H\'{e}bert, A. Kurbakov, G. Andr\'{e}, F. Bour\'{e}e-Vigneron, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, and B. Raquet

Evolution of electronic states in $R$CoO$_{3}$ ($R$=rare earth): Heat capacity measurements
Makoto Tachibana, Takahiro Yoshida, Hitoshi Kawaji, Tooru Atake, and Eiji Takayama-Muromachi
[abstract]

Mode interference and periodic self-focusing of spin waves in permalloy microstripes
Vladislav E. Demidov, Sergej O. Demokritov, Karsten Rott, Patryk Krzysteczko, and Guenter Reiss

Diode effect in a medium with helical magnetic structure
A. A. Fraerman and O. G. Udalov

Anomalous orbital dynamics in LaSrMnO$_4$ observed by Raman spectroscopy
K.-Y. Choi, P. Lemmens, D. Heydhausen, G. G\"{u}ntherodt, C. Baumann, R. Klingeler, P. Reutler, and B. B\"{u}chner
[abstract]

Magnetic properties, phase stability, electronic structure, and half-metallicity of $L$2$_1$-type Co$_2($V$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$)Ga Heusler alloys
R. Y. Umetsu, K. Kobayashi, A. Fujita, R. Kainuma, K. Ishida, K. Fukamichi, and A. Sakuma

Hydrostatic pressure effects on the electrical transport properties of Pr$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$
F. J. Rueckert, M. Steiger, B. K. Davis, T. Huynh, J. J. Neumeier, and M. S. Torikachvili

Near-edge x-ray absorption studies of Na-doped tetracyanoethyelene films: A model system for the V(TCNE)$_x$ room-temperature molecular magnet
E. Carlegrim, B. Gao, A. Kanciurzewska, M. P. de Jong, Z. Wu, Y. Luo, and M. Fahlman

Experimental determination of thermal entanglement in spin clusters using magnetic susceptibility measurements
A. M. Souza, M. S. Reis, D. O. Soares-Pinto, I. S. Oliveira, and R. S. Sarthour
[abstract]

Injection energy dependence of spin-polarized hot-electron transport through a ferromagnetic metal/oxide/semiconductor junction
N. Rougemaille, D. Lamine, G. Lampel, Y. Lassailly, and J. Peretti
[abstract]

Exchange interaction and magnetic domain formation in periodically inhomogeneous magnetic media
S. Blomeier, B. Hillebrands, B. Reuscher, A. Brodyanski, M. Kopnarski, and R. L. Stamps

Quantitative calculation of the spatial extension of the Kondo cloud
Gerd Bergmann
[abstract]

Multiferroic response and clamped domain structure in a two-dimensional spiral magnet: Monte Carlo simulation
Qichang Li, Shuai Dong, and J.-M. Liu

Changeover from glassy ferromagnetism of the orbital domain state to long-range ferromagnetic ordering in La${_{0.9}}$Sr$_{0.1}$MnO${_3}$
K. Mukherjee and A. Banerjee
[abstract]

Magnetism and $d$-wave superconductivity on the half-filled square lattice with frustration
Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Christian Scheiber, David S\'{e}n\'{e}chal, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
[abstract]

Evidence for strong magnon contribution to the TMR temperature dependence in MgO based tunnel junctions
V. Drewello, J. Schmalhorst, A. Thomas, and G. Reiss
[abstract]

Anomalous magnetic ordering in PrBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ and CmBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$
H. A. Blackstead, M. P. Smylie, W. B. Yelon, Q. Cai, and M. Kahveci

Terahertz spectroscopy of electromagnons in Eu$_{1-x}$Y$_x$MnO$_3$
A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, A. A. Mukhin, V. D. Travkin, V. Yu. Ivanov, and A. M. Balbashov
[abstract]

Magnetization reversal in a (110)-oriented epitaxial ErFe$_{2}$/DyFe$_{2}$ Laves-phase superlattice
H. Fritzsche, M. Saoudi, Z. Yamani, W. J. L. Buyers, R. A. Cowley, and R. C. C. Ward
[abstract]

Determination of the magnetic structures of the field-induced phases of HoMnO$_3$
P. J. Brown and T. Chatterji
[abstract]

Curie temperatures of fcc and bcc nickel and permalloy: Supercell and Green's function methods
P. Yu, X. F. Jin, J. Kudrnovs\'{y}, D. S. Wang, and P. Bruno
[abstract]

Intrinsic avalanches and collective phenomena in a Mn(II)-free radical ferrimagnetic chain
E. Lhotel, D. B. Amabilino, C. Sporer, D. Luneau, J. Veciana, and C. Paulsen
[abstract]

Training and temperature effects of epitaxial and polycrystalline Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$/Fe$_{50}$Mn$_{50}$ exchange biased bilayers
Marian Fecioru-Morariu, Jerzy Wrona, Cristian Papusoi, and Gernot G\"{u}ntherodt

Anomalous variations in the volume of Fe$_{69}$Ni$_{31}$ Invar alloys under high pressure and temperature
M. Matsushita, T. Inoue, I. Yoshimi, T. Kawamura, Y. Kono, T. Irifune, T. Kikegawa, and F. Ono

Dichroic $f$-sum rule and the orbital magnetization of crystals
Ivo Souza and David Vanderbilt
[abstract]

Short-range magnetic order in two-dimensional cobalt-ferrite nanoparticle assemblies
M. Georgescu, J. L. Viota, M. Klokkenburg, B. H. Ern\'{e}, D. Vanmaekelbergh, and P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven
[abstract]

Large magnetothermal conductivity in GdBaCo$_2$O$_{5+x}$ single crystals
X. F. Sun, A. A. Taskin, X. Zhao, A. N. Lavrov, and Yoichi Ando
[abstract]

Zero-temperature phase of the planar spin glass in two dimensions: Genetic embedded matching heuristic
Martin Weigel and Michel J. P. Gingras
[abstract]

Free-electron model of current-induced spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions
M. Wilczy\'{n}ski, J. Barna\'{s}, and R. \'{S}wirkowicz

Unusual magnetic properties of (Er$_{1-x}$Gd$_x$)$_5$Si$_4$ compounds
Niraj K. Singh, V. K. Pecharsky, and K. A. Gschneidner Jr.

Simplex solid states of SU($N$) quantum antiferromagnets
Daniel P. Arovas
[abstract]

Many-body localization in the Heisenberg $XXZ$ magnet in a random field
Marko \v{Z}nidari\v{c}, Toma\ v{ z} Prosen, and Peter Prelov\v{s}ek
[abstract]

Versatile and competing spin-charge-orbital orders in the bilayered manganite system Pr(Sr$_{1-y}$Ca$_y$)$_2$Mn$_2$O$_{7}$
Y. Tokunaga, T. J. Sato, M. Uchida, R. Kumai, Y. Matsui, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura
[abstract]

Plane-wave theory of three-dimensional magnonic crystals
M. Krawczyk and H. Puszkarski
[abstract]

Asymmetry of the magnetization reversal process in a magnetic tunnel junction
M. Cormier, K. March, J. Ferr\'{e}, A. Mougin, and W. Raberg
[abstract]

Modulated phases in magnetic models frustrated by long-range interactions
Erik Nielsen, R. N. Bhatt, and David A. Huse
[abstract]

Microwave damping in polycrystalline Fe-Ti-N films: Physical mechanisms and correlations with composition and structure
Sangita S. Kalarickal, Pavol Krivosik, Jaydip Das, Kyoung Suk Kim, and Carl E. Patton

Griffiths phase and critical behavior in single-crystal La$_{0.7}$Ba$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$: Phase diagram for La$_{1-x}$Ba$_x$MnO$_3$ ($x\le0.33$)
Wanjun Jiang, XueZhi Zhou, Gwyn Williams, Y. Mukovskii, and K. Glazyrin

Thermodynamic properties of the $XXZ$ model in a transverse field
M. Siahatgar and A. Langari
[abstract]

Spin dynamics and spin freezing behavior in the two-dimensional antiferromagnet NiGa$_{2}$S$_{4}$ revealed by Ga-NMR, NQR and $\mu$SR measurements
Hideo Takeya, Kenji Ishida, Kentaro Kitagawa, Yoshihiko Ihara, Keisuke Onuma, Yoshiteru Maeno, Yusuke Nambu, Satoru Nakatsuji, Douglas E. MacLaughlin, Akihiko Koda, and Ryosuke Kadono
[abstract]

    SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Gap structure in noncentrosymmetric superconductors
K. V. Samokhin and V. P. Mineev
[abstract]

Possible vortex splitting in high-temperature cuprate superconductors
Richard Hlubina
[abstract]

Realizable spin models and entanglement dynamics in superconducting flux qubit systems
Qian Qian Shi, Sam Young Cho, Bo Li, and Mun Dae Kim
[abstract]

Topologically stable configurations associated with Hopf charges investigated in the two-component Ginzburg-Landau model
Juha J\"{a}ykk\"{a}, Jarmo Hietarinta, and Petri Salo
[abstract]

Doped valence-bond solid and superconductivity on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice
Bohm-Jung Yang, Yong Baek Kim, Jaejun Yu, and Kwon Park
[abstract]

Spectroscopy of superconducting charge qubits coupled by a Josephson inductance
T. Yamamoto, M. Watanabe, J. Q. You, Yu. A. Pashkin, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, F. Nori, and J. S. Tsai
[abstract]

Magnetic field distributions around superconducting strips on ferromagnetic substrates
Yasunori Mawatari
[abstract]

$c$-axis coupling in underdoped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ with varying degrees of disorder
Panayotis Spathis, Sylvain Colson, Feng Yang, Cornelis J. van der Beek, Piotr Gier{\l}owski, Takasada Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, Marat Gaifullin, Ming Li, and Peter H. Kes
[abstract]

Cu \textit{K}-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in edge-sharing cuprates
F. Vernay, B. Moritz, I. S. Elfimov, J. Geck, D. Hawthorn, T. P. Devereaux, and G. A. Sawatzky
[abstract]

Unconventional pairing symmetry of layered superconductors caused by acoustic phonons
A. S. Alexandrov
[abstract]

Superconducting $d$-wave stripes in cuprates: Valence bond order coexisting with nodal quasiparticles
Matthias Vojta and Oliver R\"{o}sch
[abstract]

Superconducting $\beta(\beta^{\prime})$-vanadium bronzes under pressure
Touru Yamauchi and Yutaka Ueda
[abstract]

Scaling analysis of normal state properties of high-temperature superconductors
H. G. Luo, Y. H. Su, and T. Xiang
[abstract]

Analysis of Bell inequality violation in superconducting qubits
Abraham G. Kofman and Alexander N. Korotkov
[abstract]

Exact mesoscopic correlation functions of the Richardson pairing model
Alexandre Faribault, Pasquale Calabrese, and Jean-S\ ' { e} bastien Caux
[abstract]

Structural and superconducting properties of RbOs$_2$O$_6$ single crystals
Krzysztof Rogacki, Goetz Schuck, Zbigniew Bukowski, Nikolai D. Zhigadlo, and Janusz Karpinski

Pillars as antipinning centers in superconducting films
G. R. Berdiyorov, V. R. Misko, M. V. Milo\v{s}evi\'{c}, W. Escoffier, I. V. Grigorieva, and F. M. Peeters
[abstract]

Conditions for magnetically induced singlet $d$-wave superconductivity on the square lattice
S. R. Hassan, B. Davoudi, B. Kyung, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
[abstract]

Quantum simulation of Anderson and Kondo lattices with superconducting qubits
Juan Jos\ ' { e} Garc\'{\i}a-Ripoll, Enrique Solano, and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado
[abstract]

Doping of a one-dimensional Mott insulator: Photoemission and optical studies of Sr$_2$CuO$_{3+\delta}$
T. E. Kidd, T. Valla, P. D. Johnson, K. W. Kim, G. D. Gu, and C. C. Homes
[abstract]

Spontaneous fluxon production in annular Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of a magnetic field
R. Monaco, M. Aaroe, J. Mygind, R. J. Rivers, and V. P. Koshelets
[abstract]

Doping-dependence of nodal quasiparticle properties in high-$T_{ c}$ cuprates studied by laser-excited angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
K. Ishizaka, T. Kiss, S. Izumi, M. Okawa, T. Shimojima, A. Chainani, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C.-T. Chen, X. Y. Wang, T. Mochiku, T. Nakane, K. Hirata, and S. Shin
[abstract]

Mesoscopic fluctuations of the supercurrent in diffusive Josephson junctions
Manuel Houzet and Mikhail A. Skvortsov
[abstract]

Evidence of strong anisotropic behavior in the five-layered superconductor HgBa$_2$Ca$_4$Cu$_5$O$_{12+y}$ from equilibrium magnetization measurements
Min-Seok Park, Jung-Dae Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, Yong-Tae Kwon, Young Cheol Kim, Akira Iyo, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, and Sung-Ik Lee
[abstract]

Signature of superconducting states in cubic crystal without inversion symmetry
Chi-Ken Lu and Sungkit Yip
[abstract]

Magnetic flux rotation anomalies in superconducting La$_{1.85}$Sr$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4}$
Y. Bruckental, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun

Emergence of a negative charging energy in a metallic dot capacitively coupled to a superconducting island
C. Holmqvist, D. Feinberg, and A. Zazunov
[abstract]

Contrasting spin dynamics in Zn- and Ni-doped NdBa$_{ 2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{ 6+y}$ single crystals from Cu nuclear quadrupole resonance: Evidence for correlations between antiferromagnetism and pseudogap effects
H.-J. Grafe, F. Hammerath, A. Vyalikh, G. Urbanik, V. Kataev, Th. Wolf, G. Khaliullin, and B. B\"{u}chner
[abstract]

Spectral properties of a hole coupled to optical phonons in the generalized $t$-$J$ model
J. Bon\v{c}a, S. Maekawa, T. Tohyama, and P. Prelov\v{s}ek
[abstract]

Dynamics of vortex penetration, jumpwise instabilities, and nonlinear surface resistance of type-II superconductors in strong rf fields
A. Gurevich and G. Ciovati
[abstract]

Self-consistent theory of phonon renormalization and electron-phonon coupling near a two-dimensional Kohn singularity
O. V. Dolgov, O. K. Andersen, and I. I. Mazin
[abstract]

Surface effects in magnetic superconductors with a spiral magnetic structure
A. F. Volkov
[abstract]

Vortex matter and generalizations of the dipolar superfluidity concept in layered systems
Egor Babaev
[abstract]

Nonclassical rotational inertia fraction in a one-dimensional model of a supersolid
N\ ' { e} stor Sep\'{u}lveda, Christophe Josserand, and Sergio Rica
[abstract]

Collective pinning model of the mixed state in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7 - \delta}$: Critical currents and flux creep
J. W. Farmer, D. L. Cowan, and M. Kornecki

Dynamical magnetic susceptibility in the lamellar cobaltate superconductor Na$_x$CoO$_2 \cdot y$H$_2$O
M. M. Korshunov and I. Eremin
[abstract]

BRIEF REPORTS

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

First-principles calculations of quantum paraelectric La$_{1/2}$Na$_{1/2}$TiO$_3$ in the virtual-crystal approximation: Structural and dynamical properties
Gr\ ' { e} gory Geneste, Jean-Michel Kiat, and Charlotte Malibert
[abstract]

Mechanically triggered transformations of phononic band gaps in periodic elastomeric structures
K. Bertoldi and M. C. Boyce
[abstract]

Explanation of anomalous shock temperatures in shock-loaded Mo samples measured using neutron resonance spectroscopy
Damian C. Swift, Achim Seifter, David B. Holtkamp, Vincent W. Yuan, David Bowman, and David A. Clark
[abstract]

Improved ferroelectric properties in multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ thin films through La and Nb codoping
Zhenxiang Cheng, Xiaolin Wang, Shixue Dou, Hideo Kimura, and Kiyoshi Ozawa

    INHOMOGENEOUS, DISORDERED, AND PARTIALLY ORDERED SYSTEMS

Kinetic correlation effects in binary alloys
A. Udyansky, V. N. Bugaev, O. Shchyglo, H. Reichert, and H. Dosch
[abstract]

    MAGNETISM

Measurement of the thickness-dependent magnetic anisotropy of Co/GaAs(001)
X. Y. Xu, L. F. Yin, D. H. Wei, C. S. Tian, G. S. Dong, X. F. Jin, and Q. J. Jia
[abstract]

Paramagnetic anisotropy and spin-flop transition in single crystals of the quasi-one-dimensional system $\beta$-Cu$_2$V$_2$O$_7$
Zhangzhen He and Yutaka Ueda

Frustrated spin-1/2 square lattice in the layered perovskite PbVO$_3$
Alexander A. Tsirlin, Alexei A. Belik, Roman V. Shpanchenko, Evgeny V. Antipov, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, and Helge Rosner
[abstract]

Oscillatory antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling in Co(4 \r{A})/Pt(t$_{\textrm {Pt}}$ \r{A} )/[Co(4 \r{A})/Pt(6 \r{A})/Co(4 \r{A})]/NiO(20 \r{A}) multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy
Z. Y. Liu, F. Zhang, N. Li, B. Xu, J. L. He, D. L. Yu, and Y. J. Tian

Charge ordering melting in CaMnO$_{3-\delta}$ single crystals with ordered oxygen vacancies
N. N. Loshkareva, N. V. Mushnikov, A. V. Korolyov, E. A. Neifeld, and A. M. Balbashov

    SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Theory of the electronic structure of alternating MgB$_{2}$ and graphene layered structures
Peihong Zhang, Susumu Saito, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen
[abstract]

Nucleation of superconducting vortices by exciting acoustic standing waves in a type-II superconductor
Jaroslav Albert and E. M. Chudnovsky
[abstract]

Inhomogeneous vortex-state-driven enhancement of superconductivity in nanoengineered ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures
R. K. Rakshit, R. C. Budhani, T. Bhuvana, V. N. Kulkarni, and G. U. Kulkarni
[abstract]

Fluctuation diamagnetism around the superconducting transition in a cuprate crystal with a reduced Meissner fraction
Jes\ ' { u} s Mosqueira and F\ ' { e} lix Vidal
[abstract]

Evidence for intrinsic impurities in the high-temperature superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ from $^{17}$O nuclear magnetic resonance
Bo Chen, Sutirtha Mukhopadhyay, W. P. Halperin, Prasenjit Guptasarma, and D. G. Hinks
[abstract]

Thermodynamic properties of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8}$ calculated from the electronic dispersion
J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon, and G. V. M. Williams
[abstract]

ERRATA

Erratum: Nanocrystallization kinetics and glass forming ability of the Fe$_{65}$Nb$_{10}$B$_{25}$ metallic alloy [Phys. Rev. B 76}, 214111 (2007)]
J. Torrens-Serra, J. Rodr\'{i}guez-Viejo, and M. T. Clavaguera-Mora

Erratum: Quantum transport in noncentrosymmetric superconductors and thermodynamics of ferromagnetic superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 76}, 054511 (2007)]
J. Linder and A. Sudb{\o}