January Preprints

Ar. Abanov, Andrey V. Chubukov, and A. M. Finkel'stein, "Coherent vs incoherent pairing in 2D systems near magnetic instability." E-mail aga@andrey.physics.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9911445.

Ar. Abanov, Andrey V. Chubukov, and Jorg Schmalian, "Singularities in the optical response of cuprates." E-mail aga@andrey.physics.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101220.

A. S. Alexandrov, C. J. Dent, "Quasiparticle lifetimes in the charged Bose gas and the cuprates." C. J. Dent's e-mail c.j.dent@lboro.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012234.

Steve Allen, "Two-particle self-consistent approximation, pseudogap and superconductivity in the attractive Hubbard model." Report-no: CERPEMA-00-06. E-mail allen@CRM.UMontreal.CA; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012301.

E. Almaas and D. Stroud, "Resonant-Cavity-Induced Phase Locking and Voltage Steps in a Josephson Array." Submitted to PRB Rapid Comm. E-mail almaas.1@osu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012363.

Luigi Amico, Antonio Di Lorenzo, and Andreas Osterloh, "Integrable model for interacting electrons in metallic grains." Antonio Di Lorenzo's e-mail antonio@femto.if.ing.unict.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101029.

S. Andergassen, S. Caprara, C. Di Castro, and M. Grilli, "Anomalous isotopic effect near the charge-ordering quantum criticality." E-mail marco.grilli@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012477.

M. Basset, G. Jakob, G. Wirth and H. Adrian, "Patterned Irradiation of YBa_2Cu_3O_(7-x) Thin Films." Submitted to PRB. E-mail basset@mail.uni-mainz.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012381.

P. Benetatos and M. C. Marchetti, "Hydrodynamics of liquids of arbitrarily curved flux-lines and vortex loops." E-mail pbenetat@cmts.harvard.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101222.

A. Bille, R. A. Klemm, and K. Scharnberg, "Models of c-Axis Twist Josephson Tunneling." Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany. 74.50.+r; 74.80.Dm; 74.72.Hs; 74.60.Jg.

Igor Bluestein, Randall D. Kamien, and T.C. Lubensky, "Dislocation Geometry in the TGB-A Phase: Linear Theory." Randall D. Kamien's e-mail kamien@physics.upenn.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101270.

Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, Cyril Proust, C. Lupien, Louis Taillefer, and P. C. Canfield, "Delocalized quasiparticles throughout the vortex state in s-wave superconductor LuNi_2B_2C." E-mail eboaknin@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012441.

A. V. Bobyl, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, and T. H. Johansen, "Symmetry of the remanent state flux distribution in superconducting thin strips: Probing the critical state." Submitted to PRB. D. V. Shantsev's e-mail daniel.shantsev@fys.uio.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012476.

V. Bobrovskii, A. Mirmelstein, A. Podlesnyak and I. Zhdakhin, "The calculation of parameters for Stevens Hamiltonian in a crystalline field generated by the electric charge uniformly extended in one direction." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012400.

Simon Bogner and Stefan Scheidl, "Pinning of stripes in cuprate superconductors." E-mail sb@thp.uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101269.

A. V. Boris, P. Mandal, C. Bernhard, N. N. Kovaleva, K. Pucher, J. Hemberger, and A. Loidl, "Phonon anomalies and electron-phonon interaction in RuSr_2GdCu_2O_8 ferromagnetic superconductor: Evidence from infrared conductivity." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail alexander.boris@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012510.

Malek Bou-Diab, Matthew J. W. Dodgson, and Gianni Blatter, "Vortex Collisions: Crossing or Recombination?" E-mail mboudiab@itp.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012328.

T. L. Boyadjiev and M. D. Todorov, "Josephson Junctions with Minimal Length." Submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology; Report-no: SU-FMI-TLB: 3/00. M. D. Todorov's e-mail mtod@vmei.acad.bg; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012468.

S. L. Bud'ko, G. Lapertot, C. Petrovic, C. E. Cunningham, N. Anderson, and P. C. Canfield, "Boron Isotope Effect in Superconducting MgB_2." E-mail budko@ameslab.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101463.

Annette Bussmann-Holder, K. Alex Muller, Roman Micnas, Helmut Buttner, Arndt Simon, Alan R. Bishop, and Takeshi Egami, "Theory of Dynamic Stripe Induced Superconductivity." Roman Micnas' e-mail rom@alpha.amu.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012448.

C. Cantoni, T. Aytug, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, E. D. Specht, D. P. Norton, and D. K. Christen, "Conductive Buffer Layers and Overlayers for the Thermal Stability of Coated Conductors." Accepted for publication in the March 2001 issue of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Building 3115, MS-6061, Oak Ridge, TN 37831; phone (865)574-6264; fax (865)574-6263; e-mail vkc@ornl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101384. Key words: Buffer layers, contact resistance, critical currents, metallic oxides, superconducting tapes. 84.70.+p, 74.60.Jg, 74.76.Bz, 85.40.Ls.

Sudip Chakravarty, Hae-Young Kee, and Chetan Nayak, "Neutron Scattering Signature of d-density Wave Order in the Cuprates." E-mail sudip@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101204.

Sudip Chakravarty and Steven A. Kivelson, "Electronic Mechanism of Superconductivity in the Cuprates, C_{60}, and Polyacenes." E-mail sudip@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012305.

J. Chiaverini, K. Yasumura, and A. Kapitulnik, "Microcantilever Studies of Angular Field Dependence of Vortex Dynamics in BSCCO." A. Kapitulnik's e-mail ak@loki.stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012453.

C. W. Chu, Y. Y. Xue, Y. S. Wang, A. K. Heilman, B. Lorenz, R. L. Meng, J. Cmaidalka, and L. M. Dezaneti, " Unusual Phase-Transitions in Ruthenate-Cuprate Superconducting Ferromagnets." Preprint #00:032; submitted to Proceedings of the Conference on Major Trends in Superconductivity in the New Millennium, Klosters, Switzerland, March 31 - April 6, 2000. Contact Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprints@www.tcs.uh.edu.

C. H. Chung, J. B. Marston, and Ross H. McKenzie, "Large-N solutions of the Heisenberg and Hubbard-Heisenberg models on the anisotropic triangular lattice: application to Cs_2CuCl_4 and to the layered organic superconductors \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_2X." E-mail chung@het.brown.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012216.

J. C. Cuevas and M. Fogelstrom, "Quasiclassical description of transport through superconducting contacts." M. Fogelstrom's e-mail fogelstr@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101203.

C. Di Castro, M. Grilli, and S. Caprara, "Charge-ordering quantum criticality in the phase diagram of the cuprates." M. Grilli's e-mail marco.grilli@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101231.

M. Eremin, I. Eremin, and S. Varlamov, "Dynamical charge susceptibility in layered cuprates: the influence of screened inter-site Coulomb repulsion." E-mail ieremin@physik.fu-berlin.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101052.

M. Eschrig, J. Ferrer, and M. Fogelstrom, "Mixed-Parity Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4." M. Fogelstrom's e-mail fogelstr@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101208.

G. Falci and A. Fubini, "Quantum fluctuations in superconducting dots at finite temperature." To be published on International Journal of Modern Physics B. E-mail falci@lepes.polycnrs-gre.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012339.

M. Franz and Z. Tesanovic, "Marginal Fermi liquid from phase fluctuations: "topological" fermions, vortex "berryons" and QED_3 theory of cuprate superconductors." E-mail franz@benz.pha.jhu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012445.

Y. M. Galperin, V. L. Gurevich, V. I. Kozub, and A. L. Shelankov, "On the theory of thermoelectric phenomena in superconductors." E-mail iouri.galperine@fys.uio.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012347.

V. F. Gantmakher, G. A. Emelchenko, I. G. Naumenko, and G. E. Tsydynzhapov, "Temperature Dependence of Upper Critical Field as an Indicator of Boson Effects in Superconductivity in NdCeCuO." JETP Letters 72, 21 (2000). G. E. Tsydynzhapov's e-mail gombo@issp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101028.

V. Garnier, I. Monot-Laffez, and G. Desgardin, "Kinetics Study Of The Bi-2223 Grain Growth Thickness." Physica C 349 (2001) 103-112. ISMRA / CRISMAT, CNRS UMR 6508, 6 Bd Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen Cedex, France; e-mail vincent.garnier@ismra.fr. Key words: Bi-2223, Kinetics, Johnson-Melh-Avrami, Thickness. 74.72.hs, 82.20.pm.

J. M. E. Geers, M. B. S. Hesselberth, J. Aarts, and A. A. Golubov, "Depairing currents in the superconductor/ferromagnet proximity system Nb/Fe." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. J. Aarts' e-mail aarts@phys.leidenuniv.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101138.

Z. D. Genchev and T. L. Boyadjiev, "On the solution of the modified Ginzburg-Landau type equation for one-dimensional superconductor in presence of a normal layer." Submitted to Euro. Jnl. of Apl. Math; Report-no: SU-FMI-TLB: 4/2000. T. L. Boyadjiev's e-mail todorlb@fmi.uni-sofia.bg; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012471.

Angsula Ghosh and Sadhan K. Adhikari, "Mixing of superconducting d_{x^2-y^2} state with s-wave states for different filling and temperature." Accepted in Physica C. Sadhan K. Adhikari's e-mail adhikari@ift.unesp.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012407.

R. S. Gonnelli, A. Calzolari, D. Daghero, L. Natale, G. A. Ummarino, V. A. Stepanov and M. Ferretti, "Evidence for pseudogap and phase-coherence gap separation by Andreev reflection experiments in Au/La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_4 point-contact junctions." E-mail gonnelli@polito.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101209.

Matthias J. Graf and Daryl W. Hess, "Antiferromagnetic Domains and Superconductivity in UPt3." To appear in Phys. Rev. B; Report-no: LA-UR: 00-3510. E-mail graf@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012408.

Enzo Granato, "Phase-coherence transition in granular superconductors with \pi junctions." Proc. of ICM 2000, to appear in J. Magn. Magn. Mater. E-mail enzo@las.inpe.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012238.

Jung Hoon Han, Qiang-Hua Wang, and Dung-Hai Lee, "Staggered Currents in the Vortex Core." E-mail hanjh@socrates.berkeley.edu.

A. P. Harju, E. Arrigoni, W. Hanke, B. Brendel, and S. A. Kivelson, "Stripes and superconducting pairing in the t-J model with Coulomb interactions." E. Arrigoni's e-mail arrigoni@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012293.

L. Hedin and J. D. Lee, "External losses in photoemission from strongly correlated quasi two-dimensional solids." J. D. Lee's e-mail jdlee@wyvern.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101105.

K. C. Hewitt and J. C. Irwin, "Doping dependence of the superconducting gap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O{8 + delta}." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail hewittk@is.dal.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012413.

J. E. Hirsch, "Consequences of charge imbalance in superconductors within the theory of hole superconductivity." E-mail jhirsch@ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012517.

M. J. Hogg, F. Kahlmann, E. J. Tarte, Z. H. Barber, and J. E. Evetts, "Vortex Channeling and the V-I Characteristic of YBa2Cu3O7 Low Angle Grain Boundaries." To be published in Appl. Phys. Lett. E-mail mjh67@cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101303. Key words: Low angle grain boundary, Vortex chanelling, Viscous flux flow, Transport characteristics. 74.60.Ge, 74.25.Fy, 74.60.Jg, 74.72.Bk.

T. Honma and P. H. Hor, "Pressure Induced Superconductivity in Y0.83Ca0.17Ba2Cu3O6." Preprint #00:068; submitted to Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-HTSC-VI), Houston, Texas, February 20-25, 2000; to be published in Physica C. Contact Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprints@www.tcs.uh.edu.

C. Howald, P. Fournier, and A. Kapitulnik, "Inherent Inhomogeneities in Tunneling Spectra of BSCCO Crystals in the Superconducting State." E-mail howald@stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101251.

Masanori Ichioka, Mitsuaki Takigawa and Kazushige Machida, "Vortex Structure in Superconducting Stripe States." E-mail oka@mp.okayama-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012486.

R. Jayavel, T. Mochiku, S. Ooi, and K. Hirata, "Studies on the Growth Aspects of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d Whiskers by VLS Mechanism." Accepted for publication in the special issue of Physica C-Proceedings of ISS 200 (Tokyo). First Research Group, National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047; Japan; tel. +81-298-59-2311; fax +81-298-59-2301; e-mail rjvel@nrim.go.jp. Key words: Bi-2212 whiskers, VLS mechanism, superconductivity. 74.72 Hs, 81.10 Bk, 85.25 Kx.

A. Ingerman G. Johansson V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin, "Coherent multiple Andreev reflections and current resonances in SNS junctions." E-mail ingerman@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101286. 74.50.+r, 74.80.Fp, 74.20.Fg, 73.23.Ad.

A. Kadigrobov, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson, "Quantum Spin Fluctuations as a Source of Long-Range Proximity Effects in Diffusive Ferromagnet-Superconductor Structures." Report-no: APS 2000-111. M. Jonson's e-mail jonson@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012437.

Gunter Kaiser, Ursula Boehm, Armin Binneberg, Sven Linzen, and Paul Seidel, "Advanced Stirling Cryogenic Unit for Cooling of a Highly Sensitive HTS/Hall-Magnetometer Used in a System for Nondestructive Evaluation." To appear in Proc. of ASC2000. ILK Dresden, Bertolt-Brecht-Allee 20, D-01309 Dresden, Germany; fax +49-(0)-351-4081635; e-mail g.kaiser@gmx.net. Key words: cryocooler, cooling system, nondestructive evaluation.

Y. Kawasaki, K. Ishida, T. Mito, C. Thessieu, G.-q. Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich, "Exotic Superconducting Phase in CeCu2Si2 Close to Antiferromagnetism: A Cu-NQR Study under Hydrostatic Pressure." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail kawasaki@nmr.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012493.

Beom Jun Kim, Mahn-Soo Choi, Petter Minnhagen, Gun Sang Jeon, H. J. Kim, and M. Y. Choi, "Spatiotemporal Stochastic Resonance in Fully Frustrated Josephson Ladders." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail kim@tp.umu.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012307.

Hyun-Tak Kim, Kwang-Yong Kang, Bong-Jun Kim, Y. C. Kim, W. Schmidbauer, and J. W. Hodby, "Observation of a linear temperature dependence of the critical current density in a Ba_{0.63}K_{0.37}BiO_3 single crystal." Physica C Vol. 341-348, 729 (2000). E-mail htkim@utopia.etri.re.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0003253.

Wonkee Kim and J. P. Carbotte, "C-axis Optical Sum Rule in Josephson Coupled Vortex State." E-mail kimw@violet.physics.mcmaster.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101288.

Alejandro B. Kolton, Daniel Dominguez, and Niels Gronbech-Jensen, "Mode-locking in ac-driven vortex lattices with random pinning." Daniel Dominguez's e-mail domingd@cab.cnea.gov.ar; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012368.

N. B. Kopnin, "Vortex Dynamics and the Problem of the Transverse Force in Clean Superconductors and Fermi Superfluids." Proceeding of the Dresden Workshop Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors and Superfluids - Microscopic Structure and Dynamics. E-mail kopnin@boojum.hut.fi; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012399.

Vladimir E. Korepin and Itzhak Roditi, "Charge and spin separation in the 1D Hubbard model." Report-no: YITP-SB-00-86. Itzhak Roditi's e-mail roditi@insti.physics.sunysb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012266.

J. Kortus, I. I. Mazin, K. D. Belashchenko, V. P. Antropov, and L. L. Boyer, "Superconductivity of metallic boron in MgB_2." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. I. I. Mazin's e-mail mazin@dave.nrl.navy.mil; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101446.

V. M. Krasnov, A. Yurgens, D. Winkler, and P. Delsing, "Self-heating in small mesa structures." E-mail krasnov@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101241.

A. Krichevsky, M. Schechter, Y. Imry, and Y. Levinson, "Spectrum and thermodynamic currents in one dimensional Josephson elements." Phys. Rev. B 61, 3723 (2000). M. Schechter's e-mail cmschech@wicc.weizmann.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012236.

A. B. Kuklov and V. S. Boyko, "Strong interconversion of non-polar phonons and Josephson plasma oscillations induced by equilibrium Josephson currents in high T_c superconductors." E-mail abk@bluebird.apsc.csi.cuny.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101139.

K. Kumagai, K. Nozaki, and Yuji Matsuda, "Charged Vortices in High Temperature Superconductors Probed by NMR." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. Yuji Matsuda's e-mail ym@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012492.

Hyok-Jon Kwon, "Dual proximity effect near superconductor-insulator transition." E-mail hjkn@physics.umd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101076.

Bumsoo Kyung, "Microscopic origin of pseudogap in high temperature superconductors." E-mail bkyung@amst-4.physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101063.

Bumsoo Kyung, "Short-range spin correlations and induced pairing interaction in high temperature superconductors." E-mail bkyung@amst-4.physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0005269.

A. Lamacraft and B. D. Simons, "Superconductors with Magnetic Impurities: Instantons and Sub-gap States." B. D. Simons' e-mail bds10@cus.cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101080.

M. Lange, M. J. Van Bael, L. Van Look, K. Temst, J. Swerts, G. Guentherodt, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede, "Asymmetric flux pinning in laterally nanostructured ferromagnetic / superconducting bilayers." Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters. E-mail martin.lange@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012428.

C. Lannert, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and T. Senthil, "The Electron Spectral Function in Two-Dimensional Fractionalized Phases." E-mail lannert@physics.ucsb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101249.

Jae-Weon Lee, In-Ho Lee, and Sang Boo Nam, "Calculation of Magnetic Penetration Depth Length \mbox{\boldmath \lambda(T)} in High Tc Superconductors." Sang Boo Nam's e-mail wonkinam@kriss.re.kr; preprint also avai lable at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101011.

B. Leridon , A. Defossez, J. Dumont, J. Lesueur, and J. P. Contour, "Conductivity of underdoped YBa2Cu3O7-d: Evidence for incoherent pair correlations in the pseudogap regime." J. Lesueur's e-mail jerome.lesueur@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101094.

Nie Luo, "Variational Bounds on the Ground-state Energy of Three Electrons and One Hole in Two-dimension." E-mail nlu182@nwu.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101004. Key words: Pairing mechanism, excitonic mechanism. 71.35.-y.

R. Manzke, R. Mueller, C. Janowitz, M. Schneider, A. Krapf, and H. Dwelk, "Novel Fine-Structure in the Low-Energy Excitation Spectrum of a High-Tc Superconductor by Polarization Dependent Photoemission." To appear in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.). R. Mueller's e-mail ralph.mueller@physik.hu-berlin.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012286.

R. S. Markiewicz, F. Cordero, A. Paolone, and R. Cantelli, "Cluster Spin Glass Distribution Functions in La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4." E-mail markiewic@research.neu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012483.

I. Martin, A.V. Balatsky, and J. Zaanen, "Impurity states and interlayer tunneling in high temperature superconductors." E-mail ivar@viking.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012446.

V. P. Maslov, "Quantization of Thermodynamics, Supersecondary Quantization, and a New Variational Principle." E-mail pm@miem.edu.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012498.

Masashige Matsumoto and Rolf Heeb, "Vortex Charging Effect in a Chiral p_x\pm i p_y-Wave Superconductor." E-mail spmmatu@sppc24.sci.shizuoka.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101155.

Kateryna Medvedyeva, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen, "Ubiquitous finite-size scaling features in IV characteristics of various dynamic XY models in two dimensions." Accepted in Physica C. E-mail kateryna.medvedyeva@tp.umu.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101187.

P. Mikheenko, M. S. Colclough, C. Severac, R. Chakalov, F. Welhoffer, and C. M. Muirhead, "Effect of Spin Polarised Injection on the Mixed State of YBa2Cu3O7-d." Applied Physics Letters 78 No 3 (15 January 2001), pp. 356 - 358. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.; phone (01) 21 4147322; fax (01) 21 4144719; e-mail P.MIKHEENKO@bham.ac.uk. Key words: YBa2Cu3Ox film, colossal magnetoresistance materials, critical state, magnetic moment, spin injection. 74.76.Bz, 74.80.Dm, 75.70. i, 75.30.Vn, 74.60.Jg, 85.25.Am.

R. G. Mints and Ilya Papiashvili, "Fractional Josephson vortices at YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x} grain boundaries." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail mints@ccsg.tau.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101085.

O. V. Misochko, "Coherent Phonons and Their Properties." Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, accepted. E-mail misochko@issp.ac.ru. Key words: Raman scattering, time-resolved experiments, coherent and squeezed phonons. 78.47.+p,74.72.Bk.

B. H. Moeckly, "All Ya-Ba-Cu-O c-axis Trilayer Interface-engineered Josephson Junctions." To be published in Appl. Phys. Lett., Feb. 5, 2001. Conductus, Inc., 969 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086; tel. 408-523-9452; fax 408-523-9999; e-mail moeckly@conductus.com. Key words: High-Tc, Josephson junctions, trilayer junctions, YBCO thin films. 85.25.Cp, 74.50.+r, 74.76.Bz, 74.72.Bk.

M. R. Norman, A. Kaminski, J. Mesot, and J. C. Campuzano, "The Temperature Evolution of the Spectral Peak in High Temperature Superconductors." E-mail norman@hexi.msd.anl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012335.

S. Ostertun, J. Kiltz, A. Bock, U. Merkt, and T. Wolf, "Superconductivity-induced changes of the phonon resonances in RBa_2Cu_3O_7 (R=rare earth)." E-mail ostertun@physnet.uni-hamburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101217.

P. M. Ostrovsky, M. A. Skvortsov, and M. V. Feigel'man, "Density of States below the Thouless Gap in a Mesoscopic SNS Junction." M. A. Skvortsov's e-mail skvor@itp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012478.

P. G. Pagliuso, C. Petrovic, R. Movshovich, D. Hall, M. F. Hundley, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and Z. Fisk, "Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in CeRh1-xIrxIn5." M. F. Hundley's e-mail hundley@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101316.

Arun Paramekanti, Mohit Randeria and Nandini Trivedi, "Projected Wavefunctions and High Temperature Superconductivity." Mohit Randeria's e-mail randeria@cmphys.theory.tifr.res.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101121.

C. Petrovic, R. Movshovich, M. Jaime, P. G. Pagliuso, M. F. Hundley, J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, and J. D. Thompson, "A New Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeIrIn5: Relative of the Cuprates?" M. F. Hundley's e-mail hundley@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012261.

E. Postrekhin, C. Wang, K. B. Ma, Q. Chen, and W. K. Chu, "Axial Force in a Superconductor Magnet Journal Bearing." Preprint #00:065; presented at AIRAPT-17 International Conference on High-Pressure Science and Technology, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 25-30, 1999. Contact Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprints@www.tcs.uh.edu.

M. Saint Jean, C. Even and C. Guthmann, "Macroscopic 2D Wigner Islands." E-mail saintjean@gps.jussieu.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101285.

M. M. Savosta, V. D. Doroshev, V. A. Borodin, Yu. G. Pashkevich, V. I. Kamenev, T. N. Tarasenko, J. Englich, J. Kohout, A. G. Soldatov, S. N. Barilo, and S. V. Shiryaev, "NQR of barium in BaBiO3 and BaPbO3." Yu. G. Pashkevich's e-mail pashkevi@kinetic.ac.donetsk.ua; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012429.

E. Schachinger and J. P. Carbotte, "Signatures of Spin Degrees of Freedom in Charge Dynamics of YBa_2Cu_3O_6.95." Invited talk, New^3SC conference, Jan. 2001, Honolulu. E-mail schachinger@itp.tu-graz.ac.at; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012425.

T. Schneider, G. I. Meijer, J. Perret, J.-P. Locquet, and P. Martinoli, "Dynamic critical properties of the vortex--glass transition derived from angular-dependent properties of La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} films." E-mail tschnei@physik-rzu.unizh.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012221.

J. Schuler, S. Weiss, T. Bauch, A. Marx, D. Koelle, and R. Gross, "Comparison of Josephson Vortex Flow Transistors with Different Gate Line Confgurations." Accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett. Contact D. Koelle, Universitaet zu Koeln, II. Physikalisches Institut, Zuelpicherstr.77, D-50937 Koeln, Germany; e-mail koelle@ph2.uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101183. Key words: High-transition temperature superconductors, superconducting devices, Josephson vortex flow transistors. 85.25.-j, 85.25.Am, 85.25.Cp, 74.50.+r.

Sergei G. Sharapov, Hans Beck, and Vadim M. Loktev, "Finite Temperature Time-Dependent Effective Theory for the Phase Field in 2D d-wave and s-wave Superconductor." E-mail sergei.sharapov@unine.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012511.

S. V. Shulga, "Electron-boson effects in the infrared properties of metals." The lecture for Nato-ASI ''Material Science, Fundamental Properties and Future Electronic Applications of High-Tc Superconductors", Albena, Bulgaria, September 1998, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht, pp. 323-360 (2001). E-mail s.shulga@ifw-dresden.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101243.

Qimiao Si, "Heat transport and spin-charge separation in the normal state of high temperature superconductors." E-mail qmsi@kaitum.rice.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012373.

Y. Sidis, C. Ulrich, P. Bourges, C. Bernhard, C. Niedermayer, L.P. Regnault, N. H. Andersen, and B. Keimer, "Antiferromagnetic ordering in superconducting {\bf YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.5}}." P. Bourges' e-mail bourges@bali.saclay.cea.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101095.

A. A. Sinchenko, V. Ya. Pokrovski, S. G. Zybtsev, I. G. Gorlova, Yu. I. Latyshev, and P. Monceau, "Critical current in charge-density wave transport." V. Ya. Pokrovski's e-mail pok@mail.cplire.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101124.

F. Taddei, S. Sanvito, and C. J. Lambert, "Material-specific spin filtering in ferromagnet/superconductor ballistic nanojunctions." E-mail taddei@meso.if.ing.unict.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012352.

Y. Tanaka, Y. Tanuma, and S. Kashiwaya, "Influence of impurity scattering on tunneling conductance in normal metal-- d -wave superconductor junctions." E-mail ytanaka@nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101277.

Y. Tavrin, G. S. Krivoy, J. H. Hinken, and J. P. Kallmeyer, "A Thermoelectric Method to Detect Weak Local Structural Changes and Inclusions in Metal Parts." To be published in Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 20, Ames, Iowa, 16-21 July 2000, AIP Conf. Proc. (Melville, New York). Contact G. S. Krivoy, F.I.T. Messtechnik GmbH, P.O. Box 1147, D-31158 Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany; fax +49 5063 959966; e-mail fitm@fitm.com. Key words: High-Tc SQUID gradiometer, non-destructive evaluation, thermoelectric effect. 85.25.Dq 74.50.+r.

Sumanta Tewari, Hae-Young Kee, Chetan Nayak, and Sudip Chakravarty, "Spin and Current Correlation Functions in the \bf d-density Wave State of the Cuprates." Sudip Chakravarty's e-mail sudip@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101033.

K. Thangaraj, A. N. Iyer, K. Ross, and K. Salama, "Thermomechanical Treatment Studies on Melt-Processed Bi-2212 Ag-Sheathed Tapes." Preprint #00:034; submitted to Superconductivity Science and Technology (June 2000). Contact Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932; phone (713) 743-8200; fax (713) 743-8201; e-mail preprints@www.tcs.uh.edu.

Smitha Vishveshwara and Matthew P. A. Fisher, "Critical Dynamics of Thermal Conductivity at the Normal-Superconducting Transition." Report-no: NSF-ITP-00-125. E-mail smitha@physics.ucsb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012481.

D. Yu. Vodolazov, I. L. Maksimov, and E. H. Brandt, "Vortex entry conditions in type-II superconductors: Effect of surface defects." E-mail vodolazov@phys.unn.runnet.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101074.

H. H. Wen, S. L. Li, G. H. Chen, and X. S. Ling, "Possible Evidence for a Slush Vortex Phase in the Vicinity of Vortex Glass Transition in YBa_{2}Cu_3O_{7-\delta} Thin Films." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. S. L. Li's e-mail slli@ssc.iphy.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101111.

H. Won and K. Maki, "Nonlinear response and scaling law in the vortex state of d-wave superconductors." E-mail kyungw@usc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012336.

W. C. Wu and I. F. Herbut, "Superconducting zero temperature phase transition in two dimensions and in the magnetic field." E-mail wu@proton.phy.ntnu.edu.tw; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101249.

Kun Yang, "Inhomogeneous superconducting state in quasi-one-dimensional systems." E-mail kunyang@magnet.fsu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012385.

Jinwu Ye and A. Millis, "Zero temperature transition from d-wave superconductor to underdoped regime." E-mail jinwu@mira.tcs.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101032.

Joonhyun Yeo and M. A. Moore, "First-Order Transition and Critical End-Point in Vortex Liquids in Layered Superconductors." E-mail jhyeo@konkuk.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012421.

Xue Heng Zheng, "Understanding BCS Theory." E-mail xhz@queens-belfast.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101088.

Jian-Xin Zhu and C. S. Ting, "Local Quasiparticle States near a Unitary Impurity with Induced Magnetic Moment in a d-Wave Superconductor." E-mail jxzhu@mira.tcs.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012276.

A. B. Zorin, "Radio-frequency Bloch-transistor electrometer." E-mail alexander.zorin@ptb.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0012314.