September Preprints

E. Akkermans, D. M. Gangardt, and K. Mallick, "Mesoscopic Superconductors in the London Limit: Equilibrium Properties and Metastability." D.M. Gangardt's e-mail dimitry@techunix.technion.ac.il preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008289.

Mark Alford, Jeffrey Bowers, and Krishna Rajagopal, "Crystalline Color Superconductivity." Report-no: MIT-CTP-3012. Jeffrey Bowers' e-mail jbowers@mit.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0008208.

M. Ausloos, "Electrical and Thermal Transport Properties in High Tc Superconductors: Effects of a Magnetic Field." To be published in ICMC'2000 Conference Proceedings (Special volume of Physica C). SUPRAS, B5 Sart Tilman University Campus, B-4000 Liege, Belgium; e-mail: ausloos@gw.unipc.ulg.ac.be. Key words: magneto-transport phenomena, mixed state, high critical temperature superconductors, electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power, Nernst effect, Corbino geometry, thermal conductivity, electrothermal conductivity, order parameter symmetry, phase transition lines. 06.60.J, 74.25,74.60.G+, 74.20, 74.10, 74.62.

A. V. Balatsky, P. Kumar, and J. R. Schrieffer, "Clapping Modes in Unconventional Superconductors." M2S-HTSC-VI Proceedings, Feb 2000, Houston, TX, USA; Physica C, to be published. E-mail avb@viking.lanl.gov preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009111.

L. Balicas, J. S. Brooks, K. Storr, D. Graf, S. Uji, H. Shinagawa, E. Ojima, H. Fujiwara, H. Kobayashi, A. Kobayashi, and M. Tokumoto, "Shubnikov-de Haas Effect and Yamaji Oscillations in the Antiferromagnetically Ordered Organic Superconductor k-(BETS)2FeBr4: A Fermiology Study." E-mail balicas@magnet.fsu.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008287.

G. Baskaran, "Quantum Number Fractionization in Cuprates: U(1) RVB Gauge Theory and Senthil Fisher Constructions." Report-no: imsc/2000/08/. E-mail baskaran@imsc.ernet.in preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008324.

Kevin E. Bassler, Maya Paczuski, and Ernesto Altshuler, "A Simple Model for Plastic Dynamics of a Disordered Flux Line Lattice." E-mail kevin@meitner.phys.uh.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009278.

C. D. Batista, G. Ortiz, and A. V. Balatsky, "Common Magnetic Origin of the Resonance Peak and Incommensuration in High-T_c Superconductors." G. Ortiz's e-mail ortiz@viking.lanl.gov preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008345

E. Bielejec, J. Ruan, and Wenhao Wu, "Anisotropic Magnetoconductance in Quench-Condensed Ultrathin Beryllium Films." E-mail esb@pas.rochester.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009264.

Ernst Helmut Brandt and Grigorii P. Mikitik, "Meissner-London Currents in Superconductors with Rectangular Cross Section." E-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008260.

O. Buisson and F.W.J. Hekking, "Entangled States in a Josephson Charge Qubit Coupled to a Superconducting Resonator." Submitted to the proceedings of the conference on Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Computing, Naples, Italy, June 2000. E-mail buisson@labs.polycnrs-gre.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008275.

D. C. Cabra, A. De Martino, A. Honecker, P. Pujol, and P. Simon, "Emergence of Irrationality: Magnetization Plateaux in Modulated Hubbard Chains." E-mail cabra@venus.fisica.unlp.edu.ar preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008333.

M. Calame, S. E. Korshunov, Ch. Leemann, and P. Martinoli, "Collective Pinning of a Frozen Vortex Liquid in Ultrathin Superconducting YBa_2Cu_3O_7 Films." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. P. Martinoli's e-mail piero.martinoli@unine.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009308.

B. Camarota, F. Parage, F. Balestro, P. Delsing, and O. Buisson, "First Experimental Evidence of One-dimensional Plasma Modes in Superconducting Thin Wires." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. O. Buisson's e-mail buisson@labs.polycnrs-gre.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009146.

P. Chaddah and M. Manekar, "Calculation of Minor Hysteresis Loops under Metastable to Stable Transformations in Vortex Matter." E-mail sbroy@cat.ernet.in preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008418.

Claudio Chamon and Christopher Mudry, "Density of States for Dirty d-Wave Superconductors: A Unified and Dual Approach for Different Types of Disorder." E-mail chamon@bu.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008241.

E. S. Choi, J. S. Brooks, S. Y. Han, L. Balicas, and J. S. Qualls, "Transverse and In-plane Modification of Superconductivity and Electronic Structure in the Quasi-Two Dimensional Organic Conductor \kappa --(BEDT-TTF)_{2}Cu(SCN)_{2} by Uniaxial Stress." J. S. Brooks' e-mail brooks@magnet.fsu.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008348.

Mahn-Soo Choi, C. Bruder, and Daniel Loss, "Spin-Dependent Josephson Current through Double Quantum Dots and Measurement of Entangled Electron States." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail choi@ubaclu.unibas.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0001011.

M. Y. Choi, Gun Sang Jeon, and Mina Yoon, "Boundary Effects on Dynamic Behavior of Josephson-Junction Arrays." Report-no: SNUTP 99-028; to appear in Phys. Rev. B. Gun Sang Jeon's e-mail gun@phya.snu.ac.kr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008265.

J. R. Cooper, "An Empirical Pair-breaking Picture for the Non-linear Meissner Effect in d-wave Superconductors." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008270.

J. C. Cuevas, A. Levy Yeyati, and A. Martin-Rodero, "Kondo Effect in Normal-Superconductor Quantum Dots." E-mail cuevas@tfp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009112.

Philippe Curty and Hans Beck, "First Order Transition in the Ginzburg-Landau Model." Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 796 (2000). E-mail philippe.curty@unine.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008428.

A. Damascelli, D. H. Lu, K. M. Shen, N. P. Armitage, F. Ronning, D. L. Feng, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, "Fermi Surface, Surface States, and Surface Reconstruction in Sr_2RuO_4." E-mail damascel@stanford.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008462.

A. Dertinger, R. E. Dinnebier, A. Kreyssig, P. W. Stephens, S. Pagola, M. Loewenhaupt, S. van Smaalen, and H. F. Braun, "Microscopic Changes in HoNi2B2C due to Thermal Treatment, and its Effect on Superconductivity." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail armin@dertinger.de. Key words: borocarbides, superconductivity, thermal treatment. 74.70.Dd, 74.62.Bf, 61.10.Nz.

C. D. Dewhurst, R. A. Doyle, G. Balakrishnan, G. Wirth and D. McK. Paul, "Separation of Enhanced and Residual Pinning Mechanisms in Single Crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d Irradiated with Heavy Ions." Accepted for Publication, Phys. Rev. B, 01 Dec (2000). E-mail dewhurst@ill.fr. Key words: BSCCO, Pinning, Irradiation, Magnetisation. 74.25.Dw, 74.25.Ha, 74.60.Ge, 74.60.Jg, 74.72.Hs.

J. Eroles, G. Ortiz, A. V. Balatsky and A. R. Bishop, "Photoemission Spectroscopy from Inhomogeneous Models of Cuprates." E-mail eroles@material.princeton.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008341.

D. L. Feng, D. H. Lu, K. M. Shen, C. Kim, H. Eisaki, A. Damascelli, R. Yoshizaki, J.-i. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, G. D. Gu, S. Oh, A. Andrus, J. O'Donnell, J. N. Eckstein, and Z.-X. Shen, "Signature of Superfluid Density in the Single-Particle Excitation Spectrum of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta." Science 280, (July, 2000) 277; submitted 11 April 2000. E-mail dlfeng@stanford.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009306.

A. K. Geim, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, F. M. Peeters, and V. A. Schweigert, "Non-Quantized Penetration of Magnetic Field in the Vortex State of Superconductors." Nature v.407, p.55-57 (2000). E-mail geim@sci.kun.nl preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009126.

Yu. A. Genenko, A. Snezhko, and H. C. Freyhardt. "Overcritical States of a Superconductor Strip in a Magnetic Environment." Phys. Rev. B 62, 3453-3472 (2000). E-mail yugenen@hrz2.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008248.

E. Goldobin, A. Sterck, and D. Koelle, "Josephson Vortex in a Ratchet Potential: Theory." E-mail e.goldobin@fz-juelich.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008237.

J. Goryo, "An Axial Anomaly Effect in Chiral p-wave Superconductor." Accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.; Report-no: YITP-00-48. E-mail goryo@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009186.

G. Gritzner, M. Eder, A. Cigan, J. Manka, G. Plesch, and V. Zrubec, "The Effect of Rare Earth Oxide Substitution on the Magnetic Properties of Tl - based Superconductors." Sent for publication to Phys. C. J. Manka's e-mail umermana@savba.sk. Key words: La, Sm, Pr, Dy - substituted Tl-1223 superconductors, magnetization, annealing in O2, intragrain and intergrain properties. 74.72.Fq.

Yu. M. Gufan, Al. V. Popov, G. Sartori, V. Talamini, G. Valente, and E. B. Vinberg, "Geometric Invariant Theory Approach to the Determination of Ground States of D-wave Condensates in Isotropic Space." Submitted to J. Math. Phys.; Report-no: DFPD 00/CM/38. G. Valente's e-mail gianpaolo.valente@pd.infn.it preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009080.

R. Haslinger, Andrey V. Chubukov, and Ar. Abanov, "Spectral Function and Conductivity in the Normal State of the Cuprates: A Spin Fluctuation Study." Ar. Abanov's e-mail aga@andrey.physics.wisc.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009051.

Igor F. Herbut, "Zero-temperature d-Wave Superconducting Phase Transition." Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 85, p. 1532 (2000). E-mail iherbut@sfu.ca preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0004055.

M. Himmerich and M. Letz, "The Electron Gas with a Strong Pairing Interaction: Three Particle Correlations and the Thouless Instability." Report-no: KOMA-00-18. M. Letz's e-mail letz@anderson.physik.uni-mainz.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009262.

Yusuke Kato, "Phase-Sensitive Impurity Effects in Vortex Core of Moderately Clean Chiral Superconductors." To appear in JPSJ Vol. 69, No. 10 (2000). E-mail kato@appi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009296.

K. Kawano, J. S. Abell, A. Ohtake, and A. Oota, "A Study of the Magnetic Field Distribution in an Ag-sheathed Bi2223 Tape using Scanning Hall Sensor and Magneto-Optical Techniques." Supercond.Sci.Technol 13 (2000) 1373-1377. School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom; telephone (UK=44)-(0)121 414 5249; telefax (UK=44)-(0)121 414 5232; e-mail k.kawano@bham.ac.uk. Key words: Ag-Bi2223 tape, Hall sensor, MO, Jc-B. 74.25.Ha; 74.60.Jg; 74.76.Bz.

Hae-Young Kee, "Effect of Doping-induced Disorder on T_c in Cuprates." E-mail hykee@mail.itp.ucsb.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008434.

J. Kierfeld, H. Nordborg, and V. M. Vinokur, "Theory of Plastic Vortex Creep." E-mail kierfeld@sol.mpikg-golm.mpg.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008365.

Yong Baek Kim and Ziqiang Wang, "Quantum-disordered Slave-boson Theory of Underdoped Cuprates." Europhys. Lett. 50, 656 (2000). E-mail ybkim@phys.psu.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9901003.

Valery P. Kisel, Adkham A. Paiziev, and Arkady D. Styrkas, "Impact Proofs for the Work-Hardening Nature of Low- and High-TC Superconductivity: Possible Forecast of the Parameters of Superconductors Through the All-Range Temperature Tests." E-mail kisel@issp.ac.ru preprint alsoavailable at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009246.

T. Knetter, G. Schrod er, M. J. Alava, and H. Rieger, "Disorder Induced Roughening Transition of many Elastic Lines in a Periodic Potential." H. Rieger's e-mail rieger@lusi.uni-sb.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009108.

J. Kolacek, P. Lipavsky, E.H. Brandt, "Charge Profile in Vortices." E-mail kolacek@fzu.cz preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008299.

T. Kontos, M. Aprili, J. Lesueur, and X. Grison, "Oscillations of the Superconducting Order Parameter in a Ferromagnet." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. M. Aprili's e-mail aprili@csnsm.in2p3.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009192.

Simon Kos, "Zero-Bias States and the Mechanism of the Surface d->d+is Transition." E-mail s-kos@uiuc.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008410.

A. E. Koshelev and I. S. Aranson, "Resonances, Instabilities, and Structure Selection of Driven Josephson Lattice in Layered Superconductors." To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail koshelev@twain.msd.anl.gov preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009137.

Ekkehard Kruger, "Nonadiabatic Extension of the Heisenberg Model." E-mail krueger@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009101. H. V. Kruis, I. Martin and A.V. Balatsky, "Impurity Induced Resonant State in a Pseudogap State of a High Temperature Superconductor." E-mail hvkruis@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008349.

J. Krupka and J. Mazierska "Single Crystal Dielectric Resonators for Low Temperature Electronics Applications." Instytut Mikroelektroniki i Optoelektroniki Politechniki Warszawskiej, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, POLAND; J. Mazierska's e-mail at James Cook University janina.mazierska@jcu.edu.au.

E. Z. Kuchinskii and M. V. Sadovskii, "Superconductivity in the Pseudogap State Due to Fluctuations of Short-Range Order." Submitted to JETP. Contact M. V. Sadovskii, Institute for Electrophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch, Ekaterinburg 620016, RUSSIA; e-mail sadovski@iep.uran.ru preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008377. Key words: Pseudogap, Gorkov equations, Ginzburg-Landau expansion. 74.20.Fg, 74.20.De.

Bumsoo Kyung, "Conjectures for the Microscopic Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity." E-mail bkyung@amst-4.physique.usherb.ca preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008406.

Bumsoo Kyung, "New Interpretation of Slave Boson Mean-field Theory of the t-J Model: Short-range Antiferromagnetic and d-Wave Pairing Correlations." E-mail bkyung@amst-4.physique.usherb.ca preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008384.

Patrick A. Lee and Xiao-Gang Wen, "Vortex Structure in Underdoped Cuprates." Xiao-Gang Wen's e-mail wen@dao.mit.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008419.

Kenneth Leong and Janina Mazierska, "Accurate Measurements of Surface Resistance of HTS Films using a Novel Transmission Mode Q-factor Technique." Submitted to Journal of Superconductivity, June 2000. Electrical and Computer Engineering, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville Q4811, AUSTRALIA; Janina Mazierska's e-mail janina.mazierska@jcu.edu.au. Key words: surface resistance, dielectric resonators, Q-factor, HTS films, microwave measurements.

Gordey B. Lesovik, Thierry Martin, and Gianni Blatter, "Electronic Entanglement in the Vicinity of a Superconductor." Thierry Martin's e-mail martin@cpt.univ-mrs.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009193.

Dingping Li and Baruch Rosenstein, "Improved Perturbation Theory in the Vortex Liquids State of Type II Superconductors." E-mail lidp@phux1.phys.nthu.edu.tw preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009204.

Mai Suan Li and Daniel Dominguez, "AC Resistivity of d-Wave Ceramic Superconductors." Phys. Rev. B (in press). E-mail masli@rea.ifpan.edu.pl preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009122.

Tao Li, "Theory of Sinusoidal Modulation of the Resonant Neutron Scattering in High Temperature Superconductors." E-mail tli@castu.phys.tsinghua.edu.cn preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009191.

X. S. Ling, S. R. Park, B. A. McClain, S. M. Choi, D. C. Dender, and J. W. Lynn, "Direct Observation of Superheating and Supercooling of Vortex Matter using Neutron Diffraction." E-mail xsling@brown.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008353.

W. Vincent Liu and Eduardo Fradkin, "Antiferromagnetic Spin Ladders Effectively Coupled by One-dimensional Electron Liquids." E-mail wvliu@uiuc.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008394.

I. Luk'yanchuk, "Theory of Superconductor with kappa Close to 1/sqrt{2}." E-mail lukyanc@itp.ac.ru preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009030.

N. Lutke-Entrup, R. Blaauwgeers, B. Placais, A. Huwley, S. Kambe, M. Krusius, P. Mathieu, and Y. Simon, "Anisotropy of Flux-Flow Resistivity in UPt3." B. Placais' e-mail bernard.placais@lpmc.ens.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009079.

Kazushige Machida and Tetsuo Ohmi, "Theory of Ferromagnetic Superconductivity." E-mail machida@mp.okayama-u.ac.jp preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008245.

S. G. Magalhaes and A. A. Schmidt, "Fermionic Heisenberg Model for Spin Glasses with BCS Pairing Interaction." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. A. A. Schmidt's e-mail alex@euler.ccne.ufsm.br preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008257.

Cristina Manuel, "Lifetime Effects in Color Superconductivity at Weak Coupling." Accepted for publication in PRD; Report-no: CERN-TH/2000-160. E-mail cristina.manuel@cern.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0006106.

Ivar Martin, Gerardo Ortiz, A. V. Balatsky, and A. R. Bishop, "Competing Quantum Orderings in Cuprate Superconductors: A Minimal Model." E-mail ivar@viking.lanl.gov preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009067.

J. I. Martin, M. Velez, A. Hoffmann, I. K. Schuller, and J. L. Vicent, "Temperature Dependence and Mechanisms for Vortex Pinning by Periodic Arrays of Ni Dots in Nb Films." Accepted in Physical Review B. M. Velez's e-mail mvelez@condmat01.geol.uniovi.es preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009257.

J. Mazierska and C. Wilker "Accuracy Issues in Surface Resistance Measurements of High Temperature Superconductors using Dielectric Resonators." Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, August 2000. Electrical and Computer Engineering, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville Q4811, AUSTRALIA; e-mail janina.mazierska@jcu.edu.au. Key words: dielectric resonator, measurement standard, surface resistance measurement, superconducting films.

Kateryna Medvedyeva, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen, "Analysis of Current-Voltage Characteristics of Two-dimensional Superconductors: Finite-size Scaling Behavior in the Vicinity of the Kosterlitz Thouless Transition." Accepted in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail kateryna.medvedyeva@tp.umu.se preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009291.

O. V. Misochko and E. Ya. Sherman, "Electronic Raman Scattering in Optimally-doped Bi{2}{2}{2}{8+x} Superconductor at Different Excitation Wavelengths." To be published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, RUSSIA; e-mail misochko@issp.ac.ru. Key words: superconducting gap,electronic Raman scattering, resonance effects. 74.25Gz, 74.72Hs, 74.62Dh.

M. M. Mola, S. Hill, J. S. Brooks, and J. S. Qualls, "Quantum Melting of the Quasi-Two-dimensional Vortex Lattice in kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2." S. Hill's e-mail hill@physics.montana.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008262.

E. Montevecchi and J. O. Indekeu, "Eff ects of Confinement and Surface Enhancement on Superconductivity." Accepted for Phys. Rev. B. J. O. Indekeu's e-mail joseph.indekeu@fys.kuleuven.ac.be preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009328.

W. A. M. Morgado, M. M. Doria and G. Carneiro, "Vortex Lines or Vortex-Line Chains at the Lower Critical Field in Anisotropic Superconductors?" Accepted to appear on Physica C. E-mail welles@if.ufrj.br preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008261.

M. Muralidhar and M. Murakami, "Effect of Matrix Composition on the Flux Pinning in (Nd,Eu,Gd)Ba2Cu3Oy Superconductor." Accepted for publication in Physical Review B. Superconducting Research Laboratory (SRL)-ISTEC, Div. 3, 3-35-2, Iioka-Shinden, Morioka, Iwate 020-0852, JAPAN; telephone +81-19-635-9015; telefax +81-19-635-9017; e-mail miryala1@istec.or.jp. Key words: NEG-123, matrix chemical ratio, high critical current density, pinning mechanisms. 74.25 Ha, 74.60 Ge, 74.60 Jg.

Y. Naveh, Vijay Patel, D. V. Averin, K. K. Likharev, and J. E. Lukens, "Universal Distribution of Transparencies in Highly Conductive Nb/AlO_x/Nb Junctions." E-mail yehuda@hana.physics.sunysb.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0006153.

D. Niebieskikwiat, A. V. Silhanek, L. Civale, G. Nieva, P. Levy, and L. Krusin-Elbaum, "Suppression of Matching Field Effects by Splay and Pinning Energy Dispersion in YBa_2Cu_3O_7 with Columnar Defects." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. A. V. Silhanek's e-mail silhanek@cabbat1.cnea.gov.ar preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009316.

N. Nucker, M. Merz, C. A. Kuntscher, S. Gerhold, S. Schuppler, R. Neudert, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, D. Schild, S. Stadler, V. Chakarian, J. Freeland, Y. U. Idzerda, K. Conder, M. Uehara, T. Nagata, J. Goto, J. Akimitsu, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi, "Hole Distribution for (Sr,Ca,Y,La)_14 Cu_24 O_41 Ladder Compounds Studied by x-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy." Accepted by Phys. Rev. B. S. Schuppler's e-mail schupp@ifp.fzk.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008320.

C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, R. T. Scalettar, G. T. Zimanyi, and N. Gronbech-Jensen, "Disordering Transitions in Vortex Matter: Peak Effect and Phase Diagram." E-mail olson@moran.ucdavis.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008350.

Philip Phillips, "Turning Insulators into Superconductors." E-mail philip@vfemmes.physics.uiuc.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009131. The recent observation by Batlogg and colleagues of superconductivity in an organic field-effect transistor is reviewed.

C. Preis, C. Helm, K. Schmalzl, J. Keller, R. Kleiner, and P. Mueller, "Phonons in Intrinsic Josephson Systems with Parallel Magnetic Field." Invited Paper to the 2nd International Symposium on Intrinsic Josephson Effects and Plasma Oscillations in High-Tc Superconductors, 22-24 August 2000, Sendai, Japan, to be published in Physica C. E-mail christian.preis@physik.uni-regensburg.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009195.

R. Prozorov, R. W. Giannetta, J. Schlueter, A. M. Kini, J. Mohtasham, R. W. Winter, and G. L. Gard, "Unusual Temperature Dependence of the London Penetration Depth in All-organic \beta``-(ET)_2SF_5CH_2CF_2SO_3 Single Crystals." E-mail prozorov@uiuc.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009118.

P. Quemerais and S. Fratini, "Is the Quantum Melting of a Polaron Wigner Crystal an Insulator-to-Superconductor Transition?" Int. Conf. M2S-HTSC-VI (Houston 2000) to be published in Physica C. E-mail quemerai@lepes.polycnrs-gre.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009293.

G. Ravikumar, "Dynamics of Metastable Vortex States in Weakly Pinned Superconductors: A Phenomenological Model." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009254.

V. V. Ryazanov, V. A. Oboznov, A. Yu. Rusanov, A. V. Veretennikov, A. A. Golubov, and J. Aarts, "Coupling of Two Superconductors through a Ferromagnet: Evidence for a pi-Junction." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. J. Aarts' e-mail aarts@phys.leidenuniv.nl preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008364.

Subir Sachdev and Matthias Vojta, "Non-magnetic Impurities as Probes of Insulating and Doped Mott Insulators in Two Dimensions." Proceedings of the XIII International Congress on Mathematical Physics, July 2000, London; despite the venue, the article is non-technical and intended for an audience of experimentalists. E-mail subir.sachdev@yale.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009202.

G. Seibold and M. Grilli, "Influence of Incommensurate Dynamic Charge-density Wave Scattering on the Line Shape of High-T_c Cuprates." E-mail goetz@physik.tu-cottbus.de preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008442.

Douglas Singleton and Jerzy Dryzek, "Electromagnetic Field Angular Momentum in Condensed Matter Systems." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail dougs@csufresno.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009068.

M. A. Skvortsov, A. I. Larkin, and M. V. Feigel'man, "Superconductive Proximity Effect in Interacting Disordered Conductors." E-mail skvor@itp.ac.ru preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008463.

Jurij Smakov, Ivar Martin, and Alexander V. Balatsky, "Josephson Scanning Tunneling Microscopy." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail jurijus@theophys.kth.se preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009310.

Robert A Smith, Beccy S Handy, and Vinay Ambegaokar, "Width and Magnetic Field Dependence of Transition Temperature in Ultranarrow Superconducting Wires." E-mail ras@th.ph.bham.ac.uk preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008439.

S. Sorella, "Generalized Lanczos Algorithm for Variational Quantum Monte Carlo." E-mail sorella@sissa.it preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009149.

N. Stefanakis and N. Flytzanis, "Critical Currents in Josephson Junctions with Macroscopic Defects." Submitted to Supercond. Sci. Technol. E-mail stefan@iesl.forth.gr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009088.

H. Suderow and S. Vieira, "Nonequilibrium Effects in Superconducting Necks of Nanoscopic Dimensions." To be published in Physics Letters A. E-mail hermann.suderow@uam.es preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009127.

O. Tchernyshyov, M. R. Norman, and A. V. Chubukov, "Where is the pi Particle?" E-mail oleg@ias.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009072.

B. R. Trees and R. A. Murgescu, "Instabilities in Josephson Ladders with Current Induced Magnetic Fields." E-mail brtrees@cc.owu.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008278.

A. A. Tulapurkar, D. Heidarian, S. Sarkar, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover, E. Yamamoto, Y. Haga, M. Hedo, Y. Inada, and Y. Onuki, "Establishment of a Stable Vortex State in the Peak Effect Region in a Weakly Pinned Superconductor CeRu_2." E-mail ashwin@tifr.res.in preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009069.

C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, A. V. Samoilov, N. Chikumoto, S. Bouffard, and M. V. Feigel'man, "Defect-unbinding and the Bose-glass Transition in Layered Superconductors." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail beek@hp1sesi.polytechnique.fr preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0003299.

Anton V. Velichko, Adrian Porch, and Richard G. Humphreys, "Anomalous Features in Surface Impedance of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films: Dependence on Frequency, RF and DC Fields." Submitted to ASC'2000 Conference Proceedings. E-mail velichav@eee.bham.ac.uk preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008302.

Ch. Walti, H. R. Ott, Z. Fisk, and J. L. Smith, "Spectroscopic Evidence for Unconventional Superconductivity in UBe_{13}." E-mail waelti@solid.phys.ethz.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008342.

Qiang-Hua Wang and A. V. Balatsky, "Proximity to a Nearly Superconducting Quantum Critical Liquid." E-mail qhwang@socrates.berkeley.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009312.

Yuxing Wang, Bernard Revaz, Andreas Erb, and Alain Junod, "Direct Observation and Anisotropy of the Contribution of Gap Nodes in the Low Temperature Specific Heat of YBa_2Cu_3O_7." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail yuxing.wang@physics.unige.ch preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009194.

R. Warthmann, J. Albrecht, H. Kronmueller and Ch. Jooss, "Spectral Distribution of Activation Energies in YBa2Cu3O7-delta Thin Films." To be published in Phys. Rev. B 62 (Issue of November 1st, 2000). Contact J. Albrecht, Heisenbergstr.1, D-70569 Stuttgart, GERMANY; e-mail jalbrecht@vaxph.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de. Key words: Magnetooptics, critical currents, activation energy. 74.72Bk, 74.76Bz, 74.60Ge, 74.60Jg.

Z. Y. Weng, V. N. Muthukumar, D. N. Sheng, and C. S. Ting, "Spin-charge Separation in the Single Hole Doped Mott Antiferromagnet." E-mail weng@mira.tcs.uh.edu preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008346.

G. F. Zharkov, "Paramagnetic Meissner Effect in Superconductors from Self-Consistent Solutions of Ginzburg-Landau Equations." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail zharkov@lpi.ru preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009043.

X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, S. A. Kellar, P. V. Bogdanov, E. D. Lu, A. Lanzara, M. Nakamura, T. Noda, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, "Dual Nature of the Electronic Structure of the Stripe Phase." E-mail xjzhou@lbl.gov preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009002.

A. K. Zhuravlev and M. I. Katsnelson, "One-dimensional Spinless Fermion Model with Competing Interactions Beyond Half-filling." E-mail andrej.zhuravlev@imp.uran.ru preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0009238.