ARTICLES

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

Elemental redistribution and Ge loss during ion-beam synthesis of Ge nanocrystals in SiO$_2$ films
V. Beyer and J. von Borany
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MAGNETISM

First-order quantum phase transition in an anisotropic Ising model with infinite-range random interaction
J. Roberto Viana, Angsula Ghosh, and J. Ricardo de Sousa

Highest weight state description of the isotropic spin-$1$ chain
Markus Andres, Imke Schneider, and Sebastian Eggert
[abstract]

Low temperature heat capacity of Fe$_{1-x}$Ga$_{x}$ alloys with large magnetostriction
J. M. Hill, R. J. McQueeney, Ruqian Wu, K. Dennis, R. W. McCallum, M. Huang, and T. A. Lograsso
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Calculations on the two-point function of the $O(N)$ model
Federico Benitez, Ram\ ' { o} n M\'{e}ndez-Galain, and Nicol\ ' { a} s Wschebor
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Effective spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ description of transverse-field-induced random fields in dipolar spin glasses with strong single-ion anisotropy
S. M. A. Tabei, F. Vernay, and M. J. P. Gingras
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SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Phase separation in the vicinity of quantum-critical doping concentration: Implications for high-temperature superconductors
B. V. Fine and T. Egami
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