December 2001 Preprints

I. Abal'osheva, A. Abal'oshev, P. Gierlowski, S. J. Lewandowski, C. J. van der Beek, M. V. Indenbom, M. Konczykowski, and S. Barbanera, "Strong pinning by correlated and point disorder in YBa2Cu3O7-d thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Instytut Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland; e-mail abali@ifpan.edu.pl. Key words: thin films, critical current, flux pinning, YBa2Cu3O7-d.

D. Agassi, "Intrinsic 1/f noise in a superconductor strip." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, 9500 MacArthur Blvd., West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700; tel. 301 227 5658; fax 301 227 4732; e-mail agassiyd@nswccd.navy.mil.

Ar. Abanov and Andrey V. Chubukov, "The differential sum rule for the relaxation rate in the cuprates." E-mail aga@andrey.physics.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112085.

Ar. Abanov, A. V. Chubukov, M. Eschrig, M. R. Norman, and J. Schmalian, "What the resonance peak can do." E-mail aga@andrey.physics.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/112126.

I. M. Abu-Shiekah, O. Bakharev, H. B. Brom, and J. Zaanen, "First time determination of the microscopic structure of a stripe phase: Low temperature NMR in La2NiO4.17." Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 237201 (2001). H. B. Brom's e-mail brom@phys.leidenuniv.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112054.

A. S. Alexandrov, G. M. Zhao, H. Keller, B. Lorenz, Y. S. Wang, and C. W. Chu, "Evidence for Novel Polaronic Fermi-Liquid in Doped Oxides." Preprint #01:092; submitted to Physical Review Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March, and R. Pucci, "Superconducting transition temperatures and coherence length in non s-wave pairing materials correlated with spin-fluctuation mediated interaction." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail giuseppe.angilella@ct.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112397.

G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March, and R. Pucci, "Tc for non s-wave pairing superconductors correlated with coherence length and effective mass." Phys. Rev. B 62, 13919 (2000). E-mail giuseppe.angilella@ct.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112396.

A. Angrisani Armenio, C. Attanasio, S. Barbanera, L. Maritato, L. V. Mercaldo, S. L. Prischepa, and M. Salvato, "Melting of the vortex lattice in perforated Nb/CuMn multilayers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Universita degli Studi di Salerno and INFM, Baronissi, Salerno I-84081, Italy; tel. 39 8 996 5313; fax 39 8 996 5275; e-mail achille@sa.infn.it. Key words: multilayers, antidots, quantum melting.

M. Angst, R. Puzniak, A. Wisniewski, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, J. Roos, and H. Keller, "Evidence for a Temperature and Field Dependence of the Anisotropy of MgB2." E-mail angst@phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112166.

M. Angst, R. Puzniak, A. Wisniewski, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, J. Roos, and H. Keller, "Non-universality of Ginzburg-Landau Anisotropy of MgB2." E-mail angst@phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112171.

A. D. Armour, M. P. Blencowe, and K. C. Schwab, "Entanglement and decoherence of a micromechanical resonator via coupling to a Cooper box." M. P. Blencowe's e-mail miles.p.blencowe@dartmouth.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112403.

C. Artini, M. M. Carnasciali, G. A. Costa, M. Ferretti, M. R. Cimberle, M. Putti, and R. Masini, "Synthesis and characterization of superconducting RuSr2GdCu2O8." To be published in Physica C. R. Masini's e-mail masini@tempe.mi.cnr.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112412.

Nurit Avraham, Boris Khaykovich, Yuri Myasoedov, Michael Rappaport, Hadas Shtrikman, Dima E. Feldman, Eli Zeldov, Tsuyoshi Tamegai, Peter H. Kes, Ming Li, Marcin Konczykowski, and Kees van der Beek, "First-order disorder-driven transition and inverse melting of the vortex lattice." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Eli Zeldov, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel; e-mail eli.zeldov@weizmann.ac.il. Key words: type II superconductivity, vortex lattice melting, disorder-driven transition, inverse melting, critical point.

E. Babic, Dj. Miljanic, K. Zadro, I. Kusevic, Z. Marohnic, Dj. Drobac, X. L. Wang, and S. X. Dou, "Enhancement of Flux Pinning in Neutron Irradiated MgB2 Superconductor." FIZIKA A 10 (2001) 87. I. Kusevic's e-mail ikusevic@phy.hr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112170.

A. Badia and C. Lopez, "Vector magnetic hysteresis of hard superconductors." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail anabadia@posta.unizar.es; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112284.

In-Cheol Baek, Young-Je Yun, and Mu-Yong Choi, "Vortex lattice melting in a 2D Josephson array with a low-vortex density." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Mu-Yong Choi, BK21 Physics Division and Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea; e-mail mychoi@skku.ac.kr. Key words: vortex lattice melting, Josephson junction array, depinning transition.

B. J. Baelus, S. V. Yampolskii, and F. M. Peeters, "Coupled mesoscopic superconductors." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. S. V. Yampolskii's e-mail yampolsk@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112122.

B. J. Baelus, S. V. Yampolskii, and F. M. Peeters, "Magnetic coupling between mesoscopic superconducting rings." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; e-mail bbaelus@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112027. Key words: mesoscopic, superconductivity, Ginzburg-Landau theory, magnetic coupling.

A. Bagrets, C. Lacroix, and A. Vedyayev, "To a theory of proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures." E-mail bagrets@magn.phys.msu.su; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112034.

H.-J. Barthelmess, B. Schiefenhovel, and M. Schilling. "DC-SQUID magnetometers from YBa2Cu3O7-d in AC fields for application in multichannel systems." To be published in Physica C (in press). Universitat Hamburg, Institut fur Angewandte Physik und Zentrum fur Mikrostrukturforschung, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany; tel. 49 40 42838 4202; 49 40 42838 4368; e-mail barthelmess@physnet.uni-hamburg.de. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-d, SQUID, magnetometer, unshielded environment. 85.25Dq.

F. Baudenbacher, N. T. Peters, P. Baudenbacher, and J. P. Wikswo, "High resolution imaging of biomagnetic fields generated by action currents in cardiac tissue using a LTS-SQUID microscope." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Living State Physics Group, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235; fax 615 322 4977; e-mail f.baudenbacher@vanderbilt.edu. Key words: SQUID microscope, cardiac tissue, action currents, Bidomain model, magnetocardiogram.

M. Baziljevich, A. V. Bobyl, D. V. Shantsev, T. H. Johansen, and S. I. Lee, "Origin of dendritic flux patterns in MgB2 films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact T. H. Johansen, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1048, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway; e-mail t.h.johansen@fys.uio.no.

F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov, "Local density of states in superconductor-strong ferromagnet structures." E-mail sebas@tp3.ruhr-uni-bochum.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112024.

Damien Bertrand, Jan Govaerts, and Geoffrey Stenuit, "Nanoscopic superconducting slab in static electric and magnetic fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; e-mail bertrand@fynu.ucl.ac.be.

R. N. Bhattacharya, Z. Xing, J. Z. Wu, J. Chen, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren, and R. D. Blaugher, "Superconducting thallium oxide and mercury oxide films." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401-3393; tel. 303 384 6577; fax 303 384 6430; e-mail raghu_bhattacharya@nrel.gov. Key words: thallium oxide, mercury oxide, superconductors.

M. Bindi, F. Fuso, E. Arimondo, A. Tampieri, G. Celotti, and D. Rinaldi, "Fabrication and characterization of Hg-based superconductive thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact F. Fuso, INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Enrico Fermi, Universita di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; tel. 39 50 911 244/229; fax 39 50 48277; e-mail fuso@mailbox.difi.unipi.it. Key words: Hg-based cuprates, superconductive thin films. 74.72.Gr; 74.76.Bz; 81.15.Fg.

S. Blanchard, C. Marcenat, J. Marcus, T. Klein, and A. Sulpice, "Thermodynamic phase diagram of the cubic (K,Ba)BiO3 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratoire d'Etudes des Proprietes Electroniques des Solides, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; tel. 33 476 88 74 69; fax 33 476 88 79 88; e-mail sylvain.blanchard@polycnrs.gre.fr. Key words: vortex matter, phase diagram.

Ya. M. Blanter and V. M. Vinokur, "Correlation functions for an elastic string in a random potential: Instanton approach." E-mail blanter@tnntw14.tn.tudelft.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112101.

Lilia Boeri, Giovanni B. Bachelet, Emmanuele Cappelluti, and Luciano Pietronero, "Small Fermi energy and phonon anharmonicity in MgB2 and related compounds." Giovanni B. Bachelet's e-mail giovanni.bachelet@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112075.

D. Botta, A. Chiodoni, R. Gerbaldo, G. Giunchi, G. Ghigo, L. Gozzelino, F. Laviano, B. Minetti, and E. Mezzetti, "Temperature, field and current dependence of the flux creep activitation energy in bulk MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact E. Mezzetti, Department of Physics, INFN-Sez. Torino, Politecnico di Torino, c.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy; 39 11 564 7314/7349; fax 39 11 564 7399; e-mail mezzetti@polito.it. Key words: flux creep activation energy, flux pinning, flux-line lattice dynamics, magnesium diboride.

Ernst Helmut Brandt, "Electromagnetic response of type-II superconductors: effects of specimen shape, field orientation, and London depth." To be published in Physica C (in press). Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, P.O. Box 800665, D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany; fax 49 711 689 1010; e-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de.

Ernst Helmut Brandt, "Vortices in superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, P.O. Box 800665, D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany; fax 49 711 689 1010; e-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de.

Ernst Helmut Brandt, Johan Vanacken, and Victor V. Moshchalkov, "Vortices in physics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany; tel. 49 711 689 1823; fax 49 711 689 1932; e-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de.

Gavin Burnell, Edward J. Tarte, Dae-Joon Kang, Robert H. Hadfield, and Mark G. Blamire, "Asymmetry modulated SQUIDs made by direct focused ion beam milling." To be published in Physica C (in press). Device Materials Group, Department of Materials Science and IRC in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK; fax 44 1223 334373; e-mail gb119@cus.cam.ac.uk. Key words: nanolithography, SQUIDs, X-ray detectors.

Leonardo R. E. Cabral, Clecio C. de Souza Silva, Ernst Helmut Brandt, and J. Albino Aguiar, "Magnetization curves and geometric barrier in BSCCO-2212." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact J. Albino Aguiar, Laboratorio de Supercondutividade, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901 Recife, Brazil; e-mail albino@npd.ufpe.br.

G. Carapella, G. Costabile, R. Latempa, N. Martucciello, M. Cirillo, A. Polcari, and G. Filatrella, "Experimental realization of a relativistic fluxon ratchet." To appear in PHYSICA C. E-mail giocar@sa.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112467.

V. V. Chabanenko, V. F. Rusakov, A. I. D'yachenko, E. M. Roizenblat, S. Piechota, S. Vasil'ev, and H. Szymczak, "Role of the field dependence of the heat capacity for the flux jump process in HTSC materials." To be published in Physica C (in press). Physical and Technical Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Ulitsa R Luxemburg 72, 83114 Donetsk, Ukraine; fax 38 0622 521 074; e-mail chaban@host.dipt.donetsk.ua. Key words: mixed state, lattice dynamics, thermal conductivity. 74.60 Ge; 74.72 Bk.

V. V. Chabanenko, V. F. Rusakov, A. Nabialek, S. Piechota, S. Vasiliev, and H. Szymczak, "Oscillation mode in the screening properties of Nb-Ti plate as a result of flux jumps." To be published in Physica C (in press). Physical and Technical Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Ulitsa R Luxemburg 72, 83114 Donetsk, Ukraine; fax 380 622 521 074; e-mail chaban@host.dipt.donetsk.ua. Key words: mixed state, flux lattice, lattice dynamics, thermal conductivity. 74.60Ge.

V. V. Chabanenko, V. F. Rusakov, S. Piechota, A. Nabialek, S. Vasiliev, and H. Szymczak, "The structure of vortex matter avalanches in a niobium plate." To be published in Physica C (in press). Physical and Technical Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Ulitsa R Luxemburg 72, 83114 Donetsk, Ukraine; fax 380 622 521 074; e-mail chaban@host.dipt.donetsk.ua. Key words: mixed state, flux lattice, lattice dynamics. 74.60 Ge.

Sudip Chakravarty, Hae-Young Kee, and Chetan Nayak, "Orbital Magnetism in the Cuprates." Invited talk at the PPHMF-IV meeting at Santa Fe. E-mail sudip@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112109.

D.-X. Chen, J. J. Moreno, A. Hernando, and A. Sanchez, "Enhancement and deterioration of the critical current by defects in Josephson-junction arrays." A. Sanchez' e-mail alvar@elema.uab.es; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112251.

Yan Chen and C. S. Ting, "Theory of Magnetic Field Induced Spin Density Wave in High Temperature Superconductors." E-mail ychen@mira.tcs.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112369.

L. F. Chibotaru, A. Ceulemans, G. Teniers, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Nucleation of superconductivity in regular polygons: superconducting vector potential gauge approach." To be published in Physica C (in press). Afdeling Kwantumchemie, Celestijnenlaan 200F, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail liviu.chibotaru@chem.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: phenomenological theories, type II superconductivity, superconductivity phase diagrams. 74.20.De; 74.60.-w; 74.25.Dw.

Y. M. Cho, "Topological Superconductor and Quantization of Supercurrent." E-mail ymcho@yongmin.snu.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112498.

C. W. Chu and G. M. Zhao, "Comment on Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CuO6+d : New Evidence for the common origin of the Pseudogap and Superconductivity." Preprint #01:090; submitted to Physical Review Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

J. R. Claycomb and J. H. Miller Jr., "Avalanche Behavior in the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions." Preprint #01:009; submitted to Physical Review Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

S. Colson, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, M. B. Gaifullin, Y. Matsuda, P. Gierlowski, Ming Li, and P. H. Kes, "Josephson plasma resonance in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, CNRS-UMR 7642, CEA/DSM/DRECAM, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France; e-mail sylvian.colson@netcourrier.com.

Valerio Dallacasa, "Internal spinor fields and London's equation." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratory for Materials Analysis, Scientific and Technological Department, Verona University, Verona, Italy. 39 045 802 7936; fax 39 045 802 7928; e-mail dallacasa@beta.sci.univr.it.

D. Darminto, I. M. Sutjahja, A. A. Nugroho, A. Rusydi, A. A. Menovsky, and M. O. Tjia, "Suppression of 2D fluctuation effect in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d single crystal with excessive-oxygen content." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact M. O. Tjia, Department of Physics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Jl. Ganesa 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia; tel. 62 22 251 2672; fax 62 22 250 6452; e-mail motjia@melsa.net.id. Key words: Bi-2212, excessive-oxygen doping, magnetization, fluctuation effect. 74.25.Ha; 74.40.+k; 74.72.Hs.

M. L. Della Rocca, C. Attanasio, G. Carapella, L. V. Mercaldo, M. Salvato, and L. Maritato, "Tunnel measurements on Nb/CuMn multilayer based planar junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Salerno and INFM, Baronissi, Salerno I-84081, Italy; tel. 39 89 965313; fax 39 89 965275; e-mail marilu@sa.infn.it. Key words: superconductivity and magnetism, multilayers, tunnel junctions.

L. E. De Long, V. V. Metlushko, S. Kryukov, M. Yun, S. Lokhre, V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bryunseraede, "Whatever happened to Mott?" To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, CP 177, Lexington, KY 40506-0055; tel. 859 257 4775; 859 323 2846; e-mail lander@uky.edu. Key words: superconductivity, thin films, vortex pinning, vortex glass, antidot lattice.

Clecio C. de Souza Silva, Leonardo R. E. Cabral, and J. Albino Aguiar, "Vortices in superconducting strips: interplay between surface effects and the pinning landscape." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil; e-mail clecio@df.ufpe.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112313.

Matthew J. W. Dodgson, "Stable vortex crossing in layered superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK; tel. 44 1223 337004; fax 44 1223 337356; e-mail mjwd1@phy.cam.ac.uk. Key words: vortex crossing, layered superconductors.

C. Dolabdjian, A. Qasimi, D. Bloyet, and V. Mosser, "Spatial resolution of SQUID magnetometers and comparison with low noise room temperature magnetic sensors." To be published in Physica C (in press). GREYC UMR 6072, ISMRA and University of Caen, 6 Bd. du Marechal Juin, F-14050 Caen Cedex, France; tel. 33 2 31452695; 33 2 31452698; e-mail c.dolabdjian@greyc.ismra.fr. Key words: magnetometers, spatial resolution, figure of merit, SQUID, NDE.

S. V. Dordevic, E. J. Singley, D. N. Basov, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, E. Bucher, C. C. Homes, and M. Strongin, "Global trends in the interplane penetration depth of layered superconductors." E-mail sasa@physics.ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112042.

C. F. Driscoll, D. Z. Jin, D. A. Schecter, E. J. Moreau, and D. H. E. Dubin, "Dynamics, statistics and vortex crystals in the relaxation of 2D turbulence." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; e-mail fdriscoll@ucsd.edu. 47.15.Ki; 47.32.Cc; 52.25.Wz; 52.35.Ra; 05.65.+b.

Kevin P. Duncan and Balazs L. Gyorffy, "Semiclassical theory of quasiparticles in the superconducting state." Submitted to Academic Press. E-mail kevin.duncan@bristol.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112160.

A. M. Dyugaev, I. D. Vagner, and P. Wyder, "Nuclear ferromagnetism induced Fulde-Ferell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112286.

M. Eisterer, M. Zehetmayer, S. Toenies, H. W. Weber, M. Kambara, N. Hari Babu, D. A. Cardwell, and L.R. Greenwood, "Neutron Irradiation of MgB2 Bulk Superconductors." To be published in Superconductor Science and Technology. E-mail eisterer@ati.ac.at; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112121.

Andreas Engel, "Vortex Dynamics and Superconducting Phase Diagrams in TaxGe1-x/Ge Multilayers with Coplanar Defects." Ph.D. thesis August 2001 (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). DLR, Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, Rutherfordstr. 2, 12105 Berlin, Germany; tel: 49 30 67055580; e-mail andreas.engel@dlr.de. Keywords: type-II superconductor, vortex dynamics, pinning, extended defects, phase diagrams, vortex glass, Bose glass. 74.60.Ge, 74.25.Dw, 74.76.Db, 74.25.Fy.

Vittorio Cataudella Rosario Fazio, "Glassy dynamics of Josephon arrays on a dice lattice." E-mail vittorio.cataudella@na.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112307.

H.A. Fertig, "Deconfinement in Two Dimensions." E-mail fertig@pa.uky.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112106.

Orjan Festin, Peter Svedlindh, and Zdravko Ivanov, "'Double superconducting transition' in YBCO thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 534, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden; fax 46 18 50 01 31; e-mail orjan.festin@angstrom.uu.se.

J. Figueras, T. Puig, X. Obradors, A. Erb, and E. Walter, "Anisotropic behaviour of the melting line and the low critical field in YBCO." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain; tel. 34 93 580 18 53; fax 34 93 580 57 29; e-mail figueras@icmab.es. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-d, vortex dynamics, melting, low critical point. 74.25.Fy; 74.60.Ge; 74.72.Bk.

V. V. Flambaum, G. A. Stewart, G. J. Russell, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou, "Superconducting transition temperature of MgB2 H0.03 is higher than that of MgB2." E-mail flambaum@phys.unsw.edu.au; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112301.

A. M. Gabovich, A. I. Voitenko, Mai Suan Li, H. Szymczak, and M. Pekala, "Heat capacity of mesoscopically disordered superconductors: implications to MgB2." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Mai Suan Li's e-mail masli@ifpan.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112100.

Artem V. Galaktionov and Andrei D. Zaikin, "Quantum interference and supercurrent in multiple-barrier proximity structures." E-mail galaktionov@int.fzk.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112242.

John Gallop, P. W. Josephs-Franks, Julia Davies, Ling Hao, and John Macfarlane, "Miniature dc SQUID devices for the detection of single atomic spin-flips." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Physical Laboratory, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, UK; fax 44 20 8943 6939; e-mail john.gallop@npl.co.uk. Key words: SQUID, electronic spin, scanned probe microscopy.

C. Granata, A. Monaco, C. Di Russo, and M. Russo, "Low critical temperature superconducting quantum interference device with integrated additional positive feedback." To be published in Physica C (in press). Instituto di Cibernetica Eduardo Caianiello del CNR, via Nuova Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy; fax 39 8 1804 2519; e-mail c.granata@cib.na.cnr.it. Key words: magnetometers, superconducting devices, SQUIDs.

V. G. Hadjiev, J. Backstrom, V. N. Popov, M. N. Iliev, R. L. Meng, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu, "Symmetry of Phonon, Magnetic, and Spin-Phonon Excitations in GdSr2RuCu2O8 Single Crystals." Preprint #01:019; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Vincent Hakim, Anael Lemaitre, and Kirone Mallick, "Giant vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau description of superconductivity." Phys. Rev. B 64, 134512 (2001). Kirone Mallick's e-mail mallick@spht.saclay.cea.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112413.

L. Hao, J. C. Gallop, J. C. Macfarlane, and C. Carr, "HTS cryogenic current comparator for non-invasive sensing of charged-particle beams." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact J. C. Macfarlane, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK; tel. 44 181 552 4400; fax 44 181 552 2891; e-mail john.macfarlane@npl.co.uk. Key words: cryogenic current comparator, charged-particle beam.

A. K. Heilman, Y. Y. Xue, B. Lorenz, B. J. Campbell, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, Y. S. Wang, and C. W. Chu, "Distinct Insulating State Below the Curie Point in Pr0.7Ba0.3MnO3." Preprint #01:084; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Andrew D. Hibbs, Michael A. Krupka, Linas R. Kunstmanas, D. K. Lathrop, Carissa Say, Wei Zheng, and Mark S. DiIorio, "New amplifier configuration based on the circulating current state of a DC SQUID." To be published in Physica C (in press). Quantum Applied Science and Research Inc., 6730 Mesa Ridge Rd., San Diego, CA 92121; tel. 858 373 0232; fax 858 373 0235; e-mail andy@quasarusa.com. Key words: SQUID amplifier, stochastic dynamics, cryogenic receiver.

R. W. Hill, Cyril Proust, Louis Taillefer, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene, "Breakdown of Fermi-liquid theory in a cuprate superconductor." Nature, Vol. 414 p.711 (2001). E-mail robhill@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112269.

K. D. Irwin, "SQUID multiplexers for transition-edge sensors." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Institute of Standards & Technology, Mail Stop 814.03, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303; tel 303 497 5911; fax 303 497 3042; e-mail irwin@boulder.nist.gov. Key words: SQUID, multiplexer, transition-edge sensor.

T. Jarlborg, "Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and superconductivity in the hcp-phase of Fe." E-mail thomas.jarlborg@physics.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112382.

T. Jarlborg, "Spin-phonon interaction in doped high-TC superconductors from density functional calculations." E-mail thomas.jarlborg@physics.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112357.

M. Jeng, A. W. W. Ludwig, T. Senthil, and C. Chamon, "Interaction Effects on Quasiparticle Localization in Dirty Superconductors." Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 46, 231 (2001). E-mail momo@physics.ucsb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112044.

J. C. Jiang, Y. Lin, C. L. Chen, C. W. Chu, and E. I. Meletis, "Microstructures and Surface Step-Induced Antiphase Boundaries in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 Thin Film on MgO." Preprint #01:027; submitted to Physical Review Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

B. B. Jin, N. Klein, W. N. Kang, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Eun-Mi Choi, and Sung-Ik Lee, "Energy gap, penetration depth and surface resistance of MgB2 thin films determined by microwave resonator mesurements." Submitted to PRL. E-mail b.b.jin@fz-juelich.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112350.

I. Joumard, T. Klein, S. Blanchard, J. Marcus, and R. Cubitt, "Small angle neutron scattering investigation of the magnetic history dependence of the vortex structure in the cubic (K,Ba)BiO3 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact T. Klein, Laboratoire d'Etudes des Proprietes Electroniques des Solides, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BP166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; fax 33 4 7688 7688; e-mail klein@lepes.polycnrs-gre.fr. Key words: vortex matter, neutron diffraction. 7460.Ge; 7430.C; 7470.V.

R. Kadono, W. Higemoto, A. Koda, Y. Kawasaki, M. Hanawa, and Z. Hiroi, "Quasiparticle Excitation in the Superconducting Pyrochlore Cd2Re2O7 Probed by Muon Spin Rotation." To appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail ryosuke.kadono@kek.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112448.

I. Kakeya, T. Wada, K. Kadowaki, and M. Machida, "Josephson Plasma Excitation and Vortex Oscillation Mode in Josephson Vortes State." Submitted to Proceedings of ISS 2001, Kobe, Japan. E-mail kakeya@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0111094.

A. S. Kalabukhov, M. A. Tarasov, E. A. Stepantsov, S. Gevorgian, A. Deleniv, Z. G. Ivanov, O. V. Snigirev, O. G. Vendik, and O. A. Mukhanov, "A high-Tc L-band SQUID amplifier combined with superconductive thin-film filters." To be published in Physica C (in press). MINA, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden; fax 46 31 772 3417; e-mail ascry@fy.chalmers.se. Key words: dc SQUID, RF amplifiers, high-Tc superconductor filters.

George Kastrinakis, "Comment on cond-mat/0007299 by Schofield and Sandeman: inconsistency with experiments." E-mail kast@iesl.forth.gr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112478.

V. A. Khodel and J. W. Clark, "Non-BCS pairing in anisotropic strongly correlated electron systems in solids." E-mail khodel@pretty.mbslab.kiae.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112059.

D. Kim and J. Economou, "Energy and Angular Distributions of Ions and Neutrals Extracted from a Slot in Contact with a High Density Plasma." Preprint #01:071. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Ilwon Kim, Paul N. Barnes, Sankar Sambasivan, Scott A. Barnett, Rand Biggers, Gregory Kozlowski, Chakrapani Varanasi, Iman Maartens, Rama Nekkanti, Tim Peterson, Amit Goyal, and Tim Haugan, "Growth of YBCO thin films on TiN(001) and CeO2-coated TiN surfaces." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Paul N. Barnes, Air Force Research Laboratory/PRPG, Bldg. 450, 2645 Fifth St., Ste. 13, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7919; tel. 937 255 4410; fax 937 656 4095; e-mail paul.barnes@wpafb.af.mil. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-d, TiN, nitride buffer layers, HTS coated conductors. 74.72.B; 74.76.B; 74.70.A.

Young Hoon Kim and Pei Herng Hor, "Novel Insulator to Metal Transition and Superconductivity in Sr-doped La2CuO4." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Pei Herng Hor's e-mail pei-herng.hor@mail.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112250.

Young Hoon Kim and Pei Herng Hor, "Wigner Lattice Order, Collective Mode, and Superconductivity in La1.985Sr0.015CuO4+delta System." Modern Physics Letters B, Vol. 15, No. 15 (2001) 497-513. Pei Herng Hor's e-mail pei-herng.hor@mail.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112134.

J. R. Kirtley, "SQUID microscopy for fundamental studies." To be published in Physica C (in press). IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; e-mail kirtly@us.ibm.com. Key words: magnetic imaging, scanning SQUID microscope, tricrystal, pairing symmetry, Josephson vortex, interlayer tunneling model, fractionalization, vision, nanoparticles.

Hagen Kleinert and Flavio S. Nogueira, "Critical behavior of Ginzburg-Landau model coupled to massless Dirac fermions." Flavio S. Nogueira's e-mail nogueira@physik.fu-berlin.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112030.

Erik Koch, "Enhancing Tc in field-doped Fullerenes by applying uniaxial stress." E-mail koch@and.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112329.

Alejandro B. Kolton, Daniel Dominguez, and Niels Gronbech-Jensen, "Mode-locking in driven vortex lattices with transverse ac-drive and random pinning." E-mail koltona@cab.cnea.gov.ar; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112318.

N. B. Kopnin and V. M. Vinokur, "Spectral flow dissipation in superconducting point contacts." E-mail kopnin@boojum.hut.fi; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112265.

V. K. Kornev, G. A. Ovsyannikov, P. B. Mozhaev, I. V. Borisenko, and N. F. Pedersen, "Bicrystal pi-interferometers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia; tel./fax 7 95 939 3000; vkorn@cryo.phys.msu.su. Key words: Josephson junction, grain boundary, facets, parallel array, interferometer.

Maxim M. Korshunov and Sergei G. Ovchinnikov, "Electronic Properties of the Effective Singlet-Triplet Model." E-mail mkor@iph.krasn.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112447.

R. H. Kraus Jr., P. Volegov, K. Maharajh, M. A. Espy, A. N. Matlashov, and E. R. Flynn, "Performance of a novel SQUID-based superconducting imaging-surface magnetoencephalography system." To be published in Physica C (in press). Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D454 Los Alamos, NM 87545; tel. 505 665 1938; fax 505 665 4507; e-mail rkraus@lanl.gov. Key words: magnetoencephalography, source localization, SQUID array.

H.-J. Krause and M. v. Kreutzbruck, "Recent developments in SQUID NDE." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; e-mail h.-j.krause@fz-juelich.de. Key words: SQUID, nondestructive testing, magnetic flux leakage, eddy current.

N. Kristoffel, "Doping created vibronic phonon softening channel in cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Riia 142, 51014 Tartu, Estonia; tel. 372 7 428 164; fax 372 7 383 033; e-mail kolja@fi.tartu.ee. Key words: two-band model, vibronic, structural destabilization, phonons renormalization. 74.2K-z; 74.25.Kc; 74.72Bk.

B. Kyung, J. S. Landry, D. Poulin, and A.-M.S. Tremblay, "Comment on 'Absence of a Slater Transition in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model.'" A.-M.S. Tremblay's e-mail tremblay@pauli.physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112273.

K. M. Lang, V. Madhavan, J. E. Hoffman, E. W. Hudson, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis, "Imaging the granular structure of high-Tc superconductivity in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x." To appear in Nature. E-mail kmlang@socrates.berkeley.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112232.

M. Li, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and P. H. Kes, "The Bose-glass transition in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x crystals with columnar defects." To be published in Physica C (in press). Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, P. O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands; e-mail mingli@phys.leidenuniv.nl. Key words: BSCCO single crystals, Bose-glass transition, doping dependence.

S. Li, M. C. de Andrade, R. P. Dickey, A. Amann, M. B. Maple, K. D. D. Rathnayaka, D. G. Naugle, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, and W. P. Beyerman, "Magnetic and Transport Properties of Lu1-xYbxNi2B2C." Preprint #01:037; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Zhuang-Zhi Li, Yi Xuan, Hong-Jie Tao, Peng-Shun Luo, Zhi-An Ren, Guang-Can Che, Bai-Ru Zhao, and Zhong-Xian Zhao, "Josephson tunneling in MgB2 break junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Hong-Jie Tao, National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; fax 86 10 8264 9531; e-mail hjtao@aphy.iphy.ac.cn. Key words: Josephson effects, MgB2, break junction. 74.50.+r; 74.80.Fp; 74.70.-b.

G. Litak, "Spatial Fluctuations of the Order Parameter in P-Wave Superconductors." To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B. E-mail litak@archimedes.pol.lublin.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112485.

G. Litak, "Van Hove Singularity and Superconductivity in Disordered Hubbard Model." Accepted for publication by Physica Status Solidi B. E-mail litak@archimedes.pol.lublin.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112470.

G. L. Liu, J. S. Zhou, and J. B. Goodenough, "Interplay Between Charge, Orbital, and Magnetic Ordering in La1-xSrxMnO3." Preprint 01:016; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

M. Lu, C. Lupu, S. M. Lee, and J. W. Rabalais, "Modification of Diffusion Coefficients in MgO (100) through the Chemical Properties of Implanted Ions." Preprint # 01:004; submitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics (December 18, 2000). Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

M. Lu, C. Lupu, S. M. Lee, and J. W. Rabalais, "Radiation Enhanced Diffusion of Ti in MgO(100) Induced by Pre-Bombardment of Various Inert Ions." Preprint #01:005; submitted to Journal of Applied Physics Radiation. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

J. L. Luo, J. W. Loram, T. Xiang, J. R. Cooper, and J. L. Tallon, "The magnetic field dependence of the electronic specific heat of Y{0.8}Ca{0.2}Ba2Cu3O{6+x}." T. Xiang's e-mail txiang@itp.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112065.

K. B. Ma, Y. Zhang, Y. Postrekhin, and W. K. Chu, "Reaction Wheel Using HTS Bearings for Low Power Budget Applications on Board Mini-Satellites." Preprint #01:018; submitted to ISTEC-MRS Joint Workshop, Hawaii (June 24-27, 2001). Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

A. Maeda, Y. Togawa, and H. Kitano, "An experimental approach to understand dynamical phase diagram of driven vortices of high-Tc superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; tel. 81 3 5454 6747; 81 3 5454 6992; e-mail maeda@maildbs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

J. B. Majer, J. R. Butcher, and J. E. Mooij, "Simple Phase Bias for Superconducting Circuits." E-mail majer@qt1.tn.tudelft.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112433.

Yuriy Makhlin, Gerd Schon, and Alexander Shnirman, "Josephson quantum bits in the flux regime." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Gerd Schon, Institut fur Theoretische Festkorperphysik, Universitat Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany; fax 49 721 698 150; e-mail gerd.schoen@phys.uni-karlsruhe.de.

M. Mali, J. Roos, H. Keller, J. Karpinski, and K. Conder, "Oxygen Isotope Effect of the Plane-Copper NQR Frequency in YBa2Cu4O8." J. Roos' e-mail jroos@physik.unizh.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112212.

S. Manalo and U. Klein, "Influence of orbital pair breaking on paramagnetically limited states in clean superconductor." Submitted to PRB. U. Klein's e-mail ulf.klein@jk.uni-linz.ac.at; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112353.

J. I. Martin, M. Velez, E. M. Gonzalez, A. Hoffmann, D. Jaque, M. I. Montero, E. Navarro, J. E. Villegas, Ivan K. Schuller, and J. L. Vicent, "Interplay between the vortex lattice and arrays of submicrometric pinning centers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departamento de Fisicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Oviedo, 33007 Oviedo, Spain; fax 34 985 102 952; e-mail jmartin@condmat01.geol.uniovi.es. Key words: type II superconductors, thin films, transport properties, nanometric pinning array.

Kateryna Medvedyeva, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen, "Splitting of the superconducting transition in the two weakly coupled 2D XY models." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Theoretical Physics, Umea University, 90187 Umea, Sweden; tel. 46 90 786 7760; fax 46 90 786 9556; e-mail medv@tp.umu.se. Key words: XY model, dynamics, complex conductivity. 74.76.Bz; 74.40.+k; 74.50.+r; 74.25.Fy.

R. L. Meng, B. Lorenz, Y. Y. Xue, D. Pham, J. Cmaidalka, J. K. Meen, Y. Y. Sun, and C. W. Chu, "Synthesis and Performance of MgB2." Preprint #01:073; submitted to MRS Fall Proceedings, Boston, MA, Nov. 27-29 (2001). Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

R. L. Meng, D. Pham, J. Cmaidalka, I. A. Rusakova, S. W. Chan, and C. W. Chu, "Low-Cost Process for YBCO Coated Conductor Fabrication." Preprint #01:024; submitted to Proceedings of the 2001 International Workshop on Superconductivity Co-sponsored by ISTEC and MRS, Oahu, Hawaii, June 24-27, 2001. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Marcin Mierzejewski and Maciej M. Maska, "Upper critical field for underdoped high-Tc superconductors. Pseudogap and stripe-phase." Maciej M. Maska's e-mail maciek@tartarus.phys.us.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112352.

J. H. Miller, Jr., G. Cardenas, A. Garcia, W. More, A. W. Beckwith, and J. P. McCarten, "Soliton Tunneling Transistor." Preprint #01:035; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

V. R. Misko, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese, "Vortex states in a multi-conoid superconducting nanosized bridge." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact V. M. Fomin, Department of Theoretical Physics, State University of Moldova, str. Mateevici 60, MD-2009 Antwerpen, Belgium; e-mail fomin@uia.ua.ac.be. Key words: mesoscopic structures, Ginzburg-Landau theory.

R. Monaco, J. Mygind, and R. Rivers, "The Dynamics of Spontaneous Fluxon formation in Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Letts. E-mail roberto@sa.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112321.

M. Morelle, G. Teniers, L. F. Chibotaru, A. Ceulemans, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Nucleation of superconductivity in a mesoscopic triangle." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail mathieu.morelle@fys.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: Ginzburg-Landau theory, phase diagram, coherence. 74.60.Ec; 74.25.Dw; 73.23.-b; 74.20.De; 74.76.-w.

Takao Morinari, "Mechanism of unconventional superconductivity induced by skyrmion excitations in two-dimensional strongly-correlated electron systems." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail morinari@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112374.

Victor V. Moshchalkov, "Organization." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

Victor V. Moshchalkov, "Welcome Address." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

Yu. G. Naidyuk, I. K. Yanson, L. V. Tyutrina, N. L. Bobrov, P. N. Chubov, W. N. Kang, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Eun-Mi Choi, and Sung-Ik Lee, "Superconducting energy gap distribution in c-axis oriented MgB2 thin film from point contact study." Sent to CMD19 Conference of EPS (Brighton, April 2002). E-mail NAIDYUK@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112452.

Jin Nakamura, Masamitsu Watanabe, Tamio Oguchi, Sin-ya Nasubida, Eiki Kabasawa, Nobuyoshi Yamada, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hisashi Yamazaki, Shik Shin, Yuji Umeda, Shin Minakawa, Noriaki Kimura, and Haruyoshi Aoki, "Electronic Structure of B-2p State in AlB2 Single Crystal: Direct Observation ofp\sigma and p\pi Density of States." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail jin@pc.uec.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112409.

W. K. Neils, D. J. Van Harlingen, S. Oh, J. N. Eckstein, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart, A. Schmehl, C. W. Schneider, and R. R. Schulz, "Probing unconventional superconducting symmetries using Josephson interferometry." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801; fax 217 244 2278; e-mail neils@uiuc.edu. Key words: Josephson junction transport, superconducting pairing symmetry.

J. Nyhus, U. Thisted, N. Kikugawa, T. Suzuki, and K. Fossheim, "Elastic and specific heat critical properties of La1.85Sr0.15CuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact U. Thisted, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; e-mail ulrik.thisted@phys.ntnu.no.

Tadafumi Ohsaku, "BCS and generalized BCS superconductivity in relativistic quantum field theory. I. formulation." To be published in Phys. Rev. B 65, 024512 (2002). E-mail tadafumi@phys.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112456.

Yumie Ono, Naoko Kasai, Atsushi Ishiyama, T. Miyashita, and Y. Terada, "A basic study on algorithm for automatic diagnosis by magnetocardiography." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of E. E. C. E., Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; tel. 81 3 5286 3376; 81 3 3208 9337; e-mail ono@super.elec.waseda.ac.jp. Key words: SQUID, magnetocardiography, spatial frequency analysis, cardiac necrosis.

Shuuichi Ooi, Takashi Mochiku, and Kazuto Hirata, "Periodic Oscillations of Josephson-Vortex Flow Resistance in Bi{}2Sr{}2CaCu{}2O{}{8+y}." E-mail ooi.shuuichi@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112209.

T. P. Orlando, Lin Tian, D. S. Crankshaw, S. Lloyd, C. H. van der Wal, J. E. Mooij, and F. Wilhelm, "Engineering the quantum measurement process for the persistent current qubit." To be published in Physica C (in press). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139; e-mail orlando@mit.edu. Key words: quantum bit, quantum computing, superconductive devices. 03.67.Lx; 74.90.+n; 85.25.Dq; 85.25.Cp J.

N. Oukhanski, R. Stoltz, V. Zakosarenko, and H.-G. Meyer, "Low-drift broadband directly coupled dc SQUID read-out electronics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Cryoelectronics, Institute for Physical High Technology, Winzerlaer Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany; fax 49 3641 20 6199; e-mail ukhansky@ipht-jena.de. Key words: SQUIDs, low-drift broadband read-out SQUID electronics, noise measurements.

D. Pal, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover, M. J. Higgins, and Mahesh Chandran, "Modulation in the non-uniformity of the vortex state across the peak effect: evidence via the magnetic quadrupole moment in a very clean crystal of 2H-NbSe2 for H{parallels}c." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India; e-mail dilip@mailhost.tifr.res.in. Key words: vortex state, quadrupole moment, peak effect.

N. F. Pedersen and G. Filatrella, "Linear and nonlinear flux dynamics in multilayered Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electric Power Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark; e-mail nfp@eltek.dtu.dk.

F. M. Peeters and B. J. Baelus, "Vortex structure in mesoscopic superconductors." To appear in the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'New trends in superconductivity' (Yalta (Ukraine), September 16-20, 2001). B. J. Baelus' e-mail bbaelus@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112309.

F. M. Peeters, V. A. Schweigert, and B. J. Baelus, "Fractional and negative flux penetration in mesoscopic superconducting disks." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; tel. 32 3 280 2478; fax 32 3 280 2245; e-mail peeters@uia.ua.ac.be. Key words: mesoscopic, superconductivity, Ginzburg-Landau theory, magnetic coupling.

C. Perozcor, C. Villard, A. Sulpice, and P. Butaud, "Vortex dynamics at high velocities and proximity effect in superconducting thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Centre de Recherches sur les Tres Basses Temperatures, CNRS, BP 166X, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; e-mail peroz@labs.polycnrs.gre.fr. Key words: vortex, proximity effect, flux flow, critical field, thin film, niobium. 7460G; 7460J; 7450.

J. C. Phillips, "Universal Intermediate Phases of Dilute Electronic and Molecular Glasses." E-mail jcph@physics.rutgers.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112198.

J. C. Phillips, "Universality of the Intermediate Phase and High-Temperature Superconductivity in C60." Phil. Mag. B 82 (7) (May 2002). E-mail jcph@physics.rutgers.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112028.

Y. V. Postrekhin, K. Ma, H. Ye, and W. K. Chu, "Angular Dependence of Electromagnetic Torque in a Bulk High-Temperature Seperconductor." Preprint 01:077; proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference on Mapultism Materials, Seatle, Washington, Nov. 12-16 (2001). Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

M. Pozek, A. Dulcic, D. Paar, A. Hamzic, M. Basletic, E. Tafra, G. V. M. Williams, and S. Kraemer, "Decoupled CuO2 and RuO2 layers in superconducting and magnetically ordered RuSr2GdCu2O8." Submitted to PRB. E-mail mpozek@phy.hr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112406.

"Pressure-Induced Superconducting Phase Separaction in Oxygen-Doped La2-xSrxCuO4+d." Preprint #01:046; presented at NATo Advanced Research Workshop on the Frontiers of High Pressure Research II: Aplication of High Pressure to Low-Dimensional Novel Electronic Materials, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 10-15 (2001). Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Y. Prykarpatsky, "About the vortex structure of Josephson media equations within the framework of Chern-Simons-Higgs Lagrangian model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, 3 Tereshchenkivska strasse, Kyiv 01601, Ukraine; e-mail yarchyk@imath.kiev.ua.

P. T. Putnam and K. Salama, "Energy Conversion in Electromagnetic Launchers Containing Monolithic YBa1Cu2O7-d." Preprint #01:053; submitted to Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

P. T. Putnam and K. Salama, "Model for an Electromagnetic Launcher Containing Monolithic YBCO." Preprint #01:054; submitted to IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Y. Radzyner, A. Shaulov, Y. Yeshurun, I. Felner, K. Kishio, and J. Shimoyama, "Disorder and thermally driven vortex-lattice melting in La{2-x}Sr{x}CuO{4} crystals." To be published in Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. E-mail radzyner@mail.biu.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112435.

Sophie Raedts, Margriet J. Van Bael, Kristiaan Temst, Martin Lange, Lieve Van Look, Johan Swerts, Victor V. Moshchalkov, and Yvan Bruynseraede, "Pinning of domain walls and flux lines in a nanostructured ferromagnet/superconductor bilayer." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail sophie.raedts@fys.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: nanostructured ferromagnet/superconductor hybrid system, flux pinning.

A. Rysak and S. Z. Korczak, "Nonlinear AC magnetic response of the Hg1223 powder." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland; fax 48 81 537 6191; e-mail rysak@tytan.umcs.lublin.pl. Key words: granular superconductivity, critical state, surface barrier, and nonlinear magnetization. 74.25.H; 74.60.G; 74.60.E.

Shinsei Ryu and Yasuhiro Hatsugai, "Topological Origin of Zero-Energy Edge States in Particle-Hole Symmetric Systems." E-mail ryuu@pothos.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112197.

W. Sakikawa and O. Narikiyo, "Multifractal Behavior of the Two-Dimensional Ising Model at small spatio-temporal scales." O. Narikiyo's e-mail narikiyo@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112345.

P. Samuely, P. Szabo, J. Kacmarcik, A. G. M. Jansen, A. Lafond, A. Meerschaut, and A. Briggs, "Two-dimensional behavior of the naturally layered superconductor (LaSe)1.14(NbSe2)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, SK-04353 Kosice, Slovakia; tel./fax 421 95 6228158; e-mail samuely@saske.sk. Key words: dimensional crossover, critical fields, transport properties, tunneling phenomena.

H. Schmidt, J. F. Zasadzinski, K. E. Gray, and D. G. Hinks, "Evidence for Two-Band Superconductivity from SIS Tunneling on MgB2." E-mail hschmidt@anl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112144.

P. M. Singer and T. Imai, "Systematic (63)Cu NQR and (89)Y NMR Study of Spin Dynamics in Y(1-z)Ca(z)Ba(2)Cu(3)O(y) Across Superconductor-Insulator Boundary." E-mail singerp@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112234.

A. V. Sologubenko, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, and H. R. Ott, "Temperature dependence and anisotropy of the bulk upper critical field H_c2 of MgB2." E-mail sologubenko@solid.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112191.

Fernando Sols, "Vortex matter in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departamento de Fisica Teorica de la Materia Condensada, Instituto 'Nicolas Cabrera', Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain; e-mail sols@ccuam3.sdi.uam.es. 03.75.Fi; 67.40.Db; 32.80.Lg.

H. Suderow, M. Crespo, P. Martinez-Samper, J. G. Rodrigo, G. Rubio-Bollinger, S. Vieira, N. Luchier, J. P. Brison, and P. C. Canfield, "Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at very low temperatures." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales Nicolas Cabrera, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain; tel. 34 1 3974756; fax 34 1 3973961; e-mail hermann.suderow@uam.es. Key words: superconductivity, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.

Hongli Suo, J.-Y. Genoud, M. Schindl, E. Walker, and R. Flukiger, "Reinforced {110} Textured Ag/Ni Composite Ribbons for Biaxially Oriented YBCO Coated Tapes." Supercond. Sci. Technol. 14 (2001) 854-861. Tel: 41-22-7026578; fax: 41-22-7026869; e-mail Hongli.suo@physics.unige.ch. Keywords: texture, textured Ag/Ni composite substrate; YBCO coated tapes.

I. M. Sutjahja, D. Darminto, R. Sutarto, A. A. Nugroho, M. O. Tjia, A. A. Menovsky, and J. J. M. Franse, "Thermodynamic fluctuations in T*-phase SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-d single crystal." To be published in Physica C (in press). Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE, Amsterdam, Netherlands; tel. 31 20 525 5718; fax 31 20 525 5788; e-mail sutjahja@wins.uva.nl. Key words: magnetization; crossing point, thermodynamic scaling, GL-LLL theory, SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-d single crystal. 74.25.Ha; 74.40.+k; 74.72.Dn.

M. Tarasov, S. Gudoshnikov, A. Kalabukhov, H. Seppa, M. Kiviranta, and L. Kuzmin, "Towards a dc SQUID read-out for the normal metal hot-electron microbolometer." To be published in Physica C (in press). MINA, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden; fax 46 31 7723 224; e-mail tarasov@fy.chalmers.se. Key words: dc SQUID, SIN tunnel junction, SQUID femtoamperemeter.

E. J. Tarte, P. E. Magnelind, A. Ya. Tzalenchuk, A. Lohmus, D. A. Ansell, M. G. Blamire, Z. G. Ivanov, and R. E. Dyball, "High Tc SQUID systems for magnetophysiology." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and IRC in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK; fax 44 1223 334373; e-mail ejt12@cam.ac.uk. Key words: biomagnetism, SQUIDs, neuromagnetism.

Nizam A.Taylanov, " Flux Creep and Thermomagnetic Waves in Type II Superconductors." Submitted to Journal Phys. Solid State, (Russia). Fax: 98 712 144 32 53; e-mail nizom_taylanov@hotmail.com. Keywords: vortex motion, thermomagnetic instability, critical state.

Nizam A. Taylanov, " Nonlinear Thermomagnetic Waves in Type II Superconductors." Fax: 98 712 144 32 53; e-mail nizom_taylanov@hotmail.com; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/cond-mat/0104257. Keywords: nonlinear wave, vortex motion, resistive state.

Nizam A. Taylanov, " Stability of nonlinear stationary waves in composite superconductors." Fax: 98 712 144 32 53; e-mail nizom_taylanov@hotmail.com; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0104007. Keywords: stability of critical state, nonlinear wave, II-type superconductors.

Nizam A. Taylanov, " Thermoelectric effects and an instability of critical state

in a composite superconductors." Submitted to Journal Phys. Solid State. Fax: 98 712 144 32 53; e-mail nizom_taylanov@hotmail.com. Keywords: thermomagnetic instability, superconductors II-type.

J. Tempere and J. T. Devreese, "Vorticity in Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gases." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact J. T. Devreese, Departement Natuurkunde, Theoretische Vaste Stof Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, B2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; tel. 32 3 820 2459; fax 32 3 820 2245; e-mail devreese@uia.ua.ac.be.

Bennie ten Haken, Jan-Jaap Rabbers, and Herman H. J. ten Kate, "Magnetization and AC loss in a superconductor with an elliptical cross-section and arbitrary aspect ratio." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Low Temperature Division, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; tel. 31 53 489 3889; fax 31 53 489 1099; e-mail b.tenhaken@tn.utwente.nl. Key words: AC loss, magnetization, critical state model, Bi-based cuprates. 74.25Ha; 74.76-w; 85.25Kx.

Gerd Teniers, Martin Lange, and Victor V. Moshchalkov, "Vortex dynamics in superconductors with a lattice of magnetic dots." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; tel. 32 1632 7112; fax 32 1632 7893; e-mail gerd.teniers@fys.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: superconductivity, flux pinning, critical currents, molecular dynamics calculations. 74.60.Ge; 74.60.Jy; 71.15.D.

G. Testa, C. Granata, C. Calidonna, C. Di Russo, M. Mango Furnari, S. Pagano, M. Russo, and E. Sarnelli, "Performance of asymmetric superconducting quantum interference devices." To be published in Physica C (in press). Instituto di Cibernetica Eduardo Caianiello del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei 34, Comprensorio Olivetti, Edificio 70, I-80078 Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy; fax 39 81 804 2519; g.testa@cib.na.cnr.it. Key words: magnetometers, superconducting devices, SQUIDs.

A. Tonomura, H. Kasai, O. Kamimura, T. Matsuda, K. Harada, Y. Nakayama, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, T. Hanaguri, K. Kitazawa, M. Sasase, and S. Okayasu, "Lorentz microscopy observation of vortices inside Bi-2212 thin films with columnar defects." To be published in Physica C (in press). Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0395, Japan; tel. 81 492 96 6111; 82 492 96 6006/6007; e-mail tonomura@harl.hitachi.co.jp. Key words: vortex, superconductor, Bi-2212, electron miscroscope. 74.60.Ge; 74.72.Hs; 61.16.Bg.

G. J. C. van Baarle, A. M. Troianovski, P. H. Kes, and J. Aarts, "STM imaging of vortex configurations in films of a-Mo3Ge through a Au layer." To be published in Physica C (in press). Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300RA Leiden, Netherlands; e-mail baarle@phys.leidenuniv.nl.

M. J. Van Bael, L. Van Look, M. Lange, J. Bekaert, S. J. Bending, A. N. Grigorenko, K. Temst, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede, "Ferromagnetic pinning arrays." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Y. Bruynseraede, Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail yvan.bruynseraede@fys.kuleuven.ac.be.

P. A. W. van der Heide, "Systematic X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study of La1-xSrx Based Perovskite Type Oxides." Preprint #01:056; submitted to Surface and Interface Analysis. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

L. Van Look, B. Y. Zhu, R. Jonckheere, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Anisotropic vortex pinning by a square array of rectangular antidots." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail lieve.vanlook@fys.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: periodic pinning array, anisotropic critical current density. 74.76.Db; 74.60.Ge; 74.60.Jg; 74.25.Fy.

A. Vecchione, D. Zola, G. Carapella, M. Gombos, S. Pace, G. Costabile, and C. Noce, "Low frequency transport measurements in GdSr2RuCu2O8." E-mail giocar@sa.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112364.

J. E. Villegas, E. Navarro, D. Jaque, E. M. Gonzalez, J. I. Martin, and J. L. Vicent, "Mixed-state properties of superconducting Nb/Ni superlattices." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departamento de Fisica de los Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; tel. 34 91 394 4548; fax 34 91 394 4547; e-mail jeville@eucmos.sim.ucm.es. Key words: superconducting superlattices, magnetism, proximity effect, critical fields.

L. Viverit, "Boson induced s-wave pairing in dilute boson-fermion mixtures." E-mail luciano.viverit@mi.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112354.

A. Volodin, K. Temst, Y. Bruynseraede, C. Van Haesendonck, M. I. Montero, Ivan K. Schuller, B. Dam, J. M. Huijbregtse, and R. Griessen, "Magnetic force microscopy of vortex pinning at grain boundaries in superconducting thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail alexander.volodin@fys.kuleuven.ac.be. Key words: flux pinning, magnetic force microscopy. 74.60.Ge; 68.37.RT.

R. Wordenweber, P. Lahl, and P. Dymashevski, "Magnetic flux in active and passive superconducting devices." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institut fur Schichten und Grenzflachen (ISG), Forschungszentrum Julich, 52425 Julich, Germany; tel. 49 246 161 2365; 49 246 161 2940; e-mail r.woerdenweber@fz-juelich.de. Key words: antidots, low-frequency noise, SQUIDs, vortex penetration.

D. S. Wu, C. Y. Han, S. Y. Wang, N. L. Wu, and I. A. Rusakova, "Microwave Assisted Solution Synthesis of SnO Nanocrystallites." Preprint #01:065; accepted for publication in Material Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Shin-Tza Wu and Chung-Yu Mou, "Generalized Method of Image and the tunneling spectroscopy in High-Tc Superconductors." E-mail stwu@phys.nthu.edu.tw; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112262.

Yi Xiao, David A. Huse, Paul M. Chaikin, Mark J. Higgins, Shobo Bhattacharya, and David Spencer, "Comparison of Phase Boundaries between Kagom\'{e} and Honeycomb Superconducting Wire Networks." David A. Huse's e-mail huse@princeton.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112017.

S. V. Yampolskii and F. M. Peeters, "Giant vortices in small mesoscopic disks: an approximate description." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; e-mail yampolsk@uia.ua.ac.be. Key words: mesoscopic, superconductivity, Ginzburg-Landau theory, giant vortex.

E. A. Yelland, J. R. Cooper, A. Carrington, N. E. Hussey, P. J. Meeson, S. Lee, A. Yamamoto, and S. Tajima, "de Haas-van Alphen effect in single crystal MgB2." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. A. Carrington's e-mail a.carrington@bris.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112392.

A. T. Yokobori, T. Kobayashi, K. Hashimoto, T. Yokobori, and K. Salama, "Correlation Between Characteristics of Mechanical Properties and Electric Current Under Thermal Shock for YBa2Cu3Ox Superconductors." Preprint #01:074; submitted to Physical Review Letters. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Jaesung Yoon, Tae-Hyoung Gimm, Hyun C. Lee, and Han-Yong Choi, "Zn impurity induced moments and tunneling conductance asymmetry in cuprate superconductors." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail jason@phys1.skku.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112332.

S. P. Yukon, "A multi-Josephson junction qubit." To be published in Physica C (in press). Air Force Research Laboratory, Electromagnetics Technology Division, Hanscom, AFB MA 01731; tel. 781 377 2968; fax 781 235 2717; e-mail stanford.yukon@hanscom.af.mil. Key words: Josephson junction, qubit, triangular: qubit gate, control Z gate.

Young-Je Yun, In-Cheol Baek, and Mu-Yong Choi, "Vortex-lattice-melting transitions in a square Josephson junction array." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Mu-Yong Choi, BK21 Physics Division and Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea; e-mail mychoi@skku.ac.kr. Key words: disorder effect, phase transition, Josephson Junction array, two-dimensional frustrated XY model.

J. Zagrodzinski, "Vortices in different branches of physics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland; e-mail zagro@ifpan.edu.pl. Key words: vortex, quantum mechanics, magnetism, Josephson matter. 47.32.Cc; 3.65.-w; 75.40.Mg; 74.50.

H. W. Zandbergen, M. Y. Wu, H. Jiang, M. A. Hayward, M. K. Haas, and R. J. Cava, "The complex superstructure in Mg1-xAlxB2 at x {approx} 0.5." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratory of Materials Science, National Centre for HREM, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands; tel. 31 15 278 2266; fax 31 15 278 6730; e-mail h.w.zandbergen@tnw.tudelft.nl.

Jianming Zeng, Penchu Chou, Xin Zhang, ZhongJia Tang, and Alex Ignatiev, "Single liquid precursor delivery photo-assisted metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of high quality YBa2Cu3O7-x thin/thick films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center and Texas Center for Superconductors, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5004; fax 713 747 7724; jmzeng@orbit.svec.uh.edu. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-x films, liquid delivery technique, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. 81.15.Gh; 74.76.-w; 68.60.-p.

Y. Zhang, Y. Postrekhin, K. Bui, and W. K. Chu, "Reaction Wheel with HTS Bearings for Mini-Satellite Attitude Control." Preprint #01:076; submitted to Superconductor: Science and Technology. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

Ying Zhang, Eugene Demler, and Subir Sachdev, "Competing orders in a magnetic field: spin and charge density waves in the cuprate superconductors." Subir Sachdev's e-mail subir.sachdev@yale.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0112343.

J. S. Zhou, G. Liu, and J. B. Goodenough, "Pressure-Induced Transitions in Single-Crystal La0.84Sr0.16MnO3." Preprint #01:023; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

J. S. Zhou, H. Q. Yin, and J. B. Goodenough, "Vibronic Superexchange in Single-Crystal LaMn1-xGaxO3." Preprint #01:014; submitted to Physical Review B. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprint@uh.edu.

B. Y. Zhu, L. Van Look, B. R. Zhao, Z. X. Zhao, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Angular dependence of vortex depinning and dynamics in regular arrays of asymmetric pinning centers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail beiyi.zhu@fys.kuleuven.ac.be.