G. Ahmad, A. Hashizume, S. Iwasaki, K. Yoshii, B. J. Reddy, M. Shahabuddin, S. Uthayakumar, R. Jayavel, and T. Endo, "Microwave absorption spectrum and reentrant phase in Bi2212 single crystal: microwave power dependence." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact T. Endo, Faculty of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan; tel. 81 59 231 9400; fax 81 59 231 9471; e-mail endo@elec.mie-u.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2212 single crystal, reentrant phase, microwave absorption, microwave power, temperature rise. 74.60.Ge; 74.25.Nf; 74.22.Hs.
Jong-Rok Ahn, Soon-Gul Lee, Yunseok Hwang, Gun Yong Sung, and Do Kyung Kim, "Fabrication of MgB2 thin film by rf magnetron sputtering." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Soon-Gul Lee, fax 82 41 865 0939; e-mail sglee@korea.ac.kr. Key words: MgB2 thin film, superconducting, sputtering.
Yoshiya Akagi, Hiroyuki Sasakura, Satoru Noguchi, Takashi Oka, Motoaki Adachi, and Shigeki Tsukui, "Synthesis of new Ru-based cuprate with 1232 structure, RuSr2+xSmCe2-xCu2Oz." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan; e-mail akagi@hama-med.ac.jp. Key words: new Ru-based cuprate, 1232 phase, superconductivity, RuSr2+xSmCe2-xCu2Oz.
Mikko Alava and Cristian Moukarzel, "Transport on percolation clusters with power-law distributed bond strengths: when do blobs matter?" Submitted to PRE. Cristian Moukarzel's e-mail cristian@mda.cinvestav.mx; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212132.
Dragos-Victor Anghel and Leonid Kuzmin, "Capacitively coupled hot-electron nanobolometer as far-infrared photon counter." E-mail dragos@fys.uio.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212288.
T. Aono, A. Golub, and Y. Avishai, "Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime coupled to p-wave superconductors." Y. Avishai's e-mail yshai@bgumail.bgu.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212261.
C. Appert, C. Tenaud, X. Chavanne, S. Balibar, F. Caupin, and D. d'Humi`eres, "Non-linear effects and shock formation in the focusing of a spherical acoustic wave : Numerical simulations and experiments in liquid helium." Submitted to The European Physical Journal B. E-mail cecile.appert@lps.ens.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212192.
N. P. Armitage, D. H. Lu, C. Kim, A. Damascelli, K. M. Shen, F. Ronning, D. L. Feng, P. Bogdanov, X. J. Zhou, W. L. Yang, Z. Hussain, P. K. Mang, N. Kaneko, M. Greven, Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, and Z.-X. Shen, "An ARPES spectral function analysis of the electron doped cuprate Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail npa@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212172.
E. Arrigoni and S. A. Kivelson, "The optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity." E-mail arrigoni@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212256.
Yoshihiro Asai, "Possible change of the superconducting symmetry in the vicinity of the SC-AF transition in NH3A3C60." To be published in Physica C (in press). Research Institute for Computational Sciences (RICS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba Central 2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; e-mail yo-asai@aist.go.jp. Key words: intraband and interband e-MV couplings, nonadiabatic corrections to the Migdal approximation, NH3K3C60.
Y. Asano, Y. Tanaka, M. Sigrist, and S. Kashiwaya, "Josephson current in s-wave superconductor/Sr2RuO4 junctions." E-mail asano@eng.hokudai.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212353.
Toshiyuki Atsumi, Mitsuyuki Tsuji, Mingxiang Xu, Hideaki Kitazawa, and Takekazu Ishida, "Temperature dependence of magnetic torque for a single crystal MgB2 in 10 kG." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Takekazu Ishida, Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan; e-mail ishida@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp. Key words: torque, anisotropy, MgB2, refrigerator.
A. Baikalov, Y. Q. Wang, B. Shen, B. Lorenz, S. Tsui, Y. Y. Sun, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu, "Field-Driven Hysteretic and Reversible Resistive Switch at the Ag-Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Interface." C. W. Chu's e-mail tchristensen@uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212464.
Maciej Bak and Roman Micnas, "Extended bound states of fermions on 2D square lattice beyond the nn hopping and interactions." Proceedings of XXII International School of Theoretical Physics: Quantum Coherence in Superconductors and Nanostructures, Molecular Physics Reports 24. E-mail karen@delta.amu.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9909089.
A. V. Balatsky and J. X. Zhu, "Competing orders and field induction of d+id' state." To be published in Physica C (in press). Theory Division, T-11 MS B 262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; tel. 505 665 0077; fax 505 665 4063; e-mail avb@lanl.gov. Key words: d+id' superconductor, d-density wave, pseudogap, competing order, field-induced component.
Leon Balents and Arun Paramekanti, "XY ring-exchange model on the triangular lattice." Arun Paramekanti's e-mail arun@kitp.ucsb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212589.
R. Beck, Y. Dagan, A. Milner, A. Gerber, and G. Deutscher, "Order parameter node removal in the \textit{d-wave} superconductor YBa{2}Cu{3}O{7-x} under magnetic field." E-mail roy@tau.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212447.
F. Bouquet, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, D. G. Hinks, and J. D. Jorgensen, "Specific heat of Mg11B2: evidence for two energy gaps." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact N. E. Phillips, Department of Chemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; tel. 510 642 4855; fax 510 642 2835; e-mail nephill@cchem.berkeley.edu. Key words: specific heat, superconductivity, Mg11B2, two energy gaps, phenomenological fit.
E. H. Brandt and G. P. Mikitik, "Thermal melting and order-disorder transition in high-Tc superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany; e-mail ehb@mf.mpg.de. Key words: H-T phase diagrams of high-Tc superconductors, melting of flux-line lattice, quenched disorder.
H. Breitzke, K. Luders, K. A. Lokshin, and E. V. Antipov, "Zeeman splitting of the 63,65Cu NQR line in optimally doped Hg1Ba2Ca2Cu3O8+d below Tc." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; e-mail breitzke@physik.fu-berlin.de. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, Hg-cuprates, NQR, Zeeman splitting.
S. Burdin and V. Zlatic, "Kondo effect in 'bad metals'." E-mail burdin@ill.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212222.
A. Buzdin and I. Baladie, "Theoretical description of the ferromagnetic \pi -junctions near the critical temperature." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. I. Baladie's e-mail baladie@pth.u-bordeaux.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212031.
Shixun Cao, Pinglin Li, Guixin Cao, and Jincang Zhang, "Effect of magnetic ion Ni doping for Cu in the CuO2 plane on electronic structure and superconductivity on Y123 cuprate." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shangda Road 99, Shanghai 200436, PR China; e-mail sxcao@mail.shu.edu.cn. Key words: high-Tc superconductor, electron structure, positron annihilation, Ni substitution.
Shixun Cao, Jincang Zhang, Xiaoling Qin, Katsuhiko Nishimura, and Katsunori Mori, "Thermal conductivity study on the borocarbide superconductor LuNi2B2C under applied magnetic fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shangda Road 99, Shanghai 200436, PR China; e-mail sxcao@mail.shu.edu.cn. Key words: superconductivity, thermal conductivity, upper critical field, LuNi2B2C.
C. Capan, K. Behnia, Z. Z. Li, H. Raffy, and C. Marin, "Anomalous dissipation in the mixed state of underdoped cuprates close to the superconductor-insulator boundary." K. Behnia's e-mail kamran.behnia@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212473.
Ladislav Ceniga and Pavel Diko, "Matrix crack formation in Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 043 53 Kosice, Slovak Republic; tel. 421 55 633 8115; fax 421 55 633 7108; e-mail ceniga@saske.sk. Key words: thermal-induced stress, anisotropic particle-matrix system, thermal expansion coefficient, particle critical radius. 46.50; 65.40.D.
S. Ceresara, M. Ciotti, F. Felli, G. Giunchi, A. Mauro, T. Petrisor, and M. Spadoni, "Manufacture of Nb3Al superconducting wires by the rapid heating and quenching technique." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact M. Ciotti, Superconductivity Division, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, ENEA CR Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy; tel. 39 6 9400 5391; fax 39 6 9400 5393; e-mail ciotti@frascati.enea.it. Key words: Nb3Al, rapid heating and quenching. 74.70.Ad; 85.25.Kx.
T. Charikova, A. Ignatenkov, A. Ponomarev, A. Ivanov, T. Klimchuk, and W. Sadowski, "In-plane and out-of-plane temperature dependencies of the resistivity in single crystals and films of Nd2CuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Metal Physics RAS, S. Kovalevskaya Str. 18, 620219 Ekaterinburg, Russia; tel. 7 3432 499233; fax 7 3432 745244; e-mail charikova@imp.uran.ru. Key words: transport properties, anisotropy, single crystals, films.
Noriko Chikumoto, Mayu Oishi, Junko Yoshioka, Kazumasa Iida, and Masato Murakami, "Current distribution in the welded YBCO bulk material." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Tamachi Laboratory, Division 3, 1-16-25 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0023, Japan; tel. 81 3 3454 9284; fax 81 3 3454 9287; e-mail chiku@istec.or.jp. Key words: magneto-optical measurement, YBCO, critical current density, grain boundary.
Hyoung Joon Choi, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie, "Anisotropic Eliashberg theory of MgB2: Tc, isotope effects, superconducting energy gaps, quasiparticles, and specific heat." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 366 LeConte Hall 7300, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300; tel. 510 642 1709; fax 510 643 9473; e-mail sglouie@uclink.berkeley.edu. Key words: MgB2, electron-phonon interaction, Eliashberg equation. 74.25.Jb; 74.25.B; 71.15.H.
H. Y. Cui, "Relativistic mechanism of superconductivity." E-mail hycui@buaa.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212370.
Ch. Cura, J. Pal, R. Schubert, S. Ewert, G. Fuchs, and G. Krabbes, "Magnetostriction and magnetoacoustic measurements on pure and Zn-doped YBCO crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, University of Cottbus, 03013 Cottbus, Germany; e-mail christian.cura@tu-cottbus.de. Key words: magnetostriction, vortex melting, YBa2Cu3O7.
T. Dahm and N. Schopohl, "Influence of Fermi surface topology on the upper critical field in two-band superconductors--application to MgB2." E-mail dahm@uni-tuebingen.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212188.
D. Darminto, M. Diantoro, I. M. Sutjahja, A. A. Nugroho, W. Loeksmanto, and M. O. Tjia, "Erratum to: 'Different roles of anisotropy and disorder on the vortex matter of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d single crystal' [Physica C 378-381 (2002) 479-482]." 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.
Benoit des Ligneris, Marcel Aubin, and Julian Cave, "Measurement of AC losses in superconducting tapes by reproduction of thermometric dynamic response." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departement de Physique, Centre de Recherche sur les Proprietes Electronique de Materiaux Avances, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Que., Canada J1K 2R1; tel. 819 821 8000/3040; fax 819 821 8046; e-mail bligneri@physique.usherb.ca.
John D. Dow and Dale R. Harshman, "SrO and BaO high-temperature superconductivity." To be published in Physica C (in press). 6031 East Cholla Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85253; tel. 480 423 8540; fax 480 423 5183; e-mail cats@dancris.com. Key words: high-Tc compounds, Y-based cuprates.
Thorsten Emig and Simon Bogner, "Is there a Glass Transition in Planar Vortex Systems?" E-mail te@thp.uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212335.
Xiao-Bing Feng and N. M. Harrison, "The Electronic Structure of CaCuO2 From the B3LYP Hybrid Functional." E-mail xbf@ic.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212588.
D. K. Finnemore, W. E. Straszheim, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, N. E. Anderson Jr., and R. J. Suplinskas, "CVD routes to MgB2 conductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; tel. 515 294 3455; fax 515 294 0689; e-mail finnemor@ameslab.gov. 74.25.Bt; 74.25.Fy; 74.25.Ha.
R. A. Fisher, F. Bouquet, N. E. Phillips, M. F. Hundley, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, and J. D. Thompson, "Specific heat of CeRhIn5: pressure-driven transition from antiferromagnetism to heavy-fermion superconductivity." To be published in Physica C (in press). Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; tel. 510 642 7444; fax 510 643 8911; e-mail rafisher@cchem.berkeley.edu. Key words: specific heat, pressure-driven transition, antiferromagnetism, superconductivity, heavy fermion, CeRhIn5.
H. Fujimoto, H. Ozaku, and E. Ohtabara, "Sm-Ba-Cu-O bulk superconductors melt processed in air, using Nd123/MgO thin film cold seeding." To be published in Physica C (in press). Applied Superconductivity, Materials Technology Division, Railway Technical Research Institute, 2-8-38 Hikari-cho, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo 185-8540, Japan; tel. 81 42 573 7297; fax 81 42 573 7360; e-mail fujimoto@rtri.or.jp. Key words: Sm-Ba-Cu-O, melt process, isothermal solidification, Nd123 thin film, single domain.
Naoki Fujiwara, Nobuo Mori, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Takehiko Matsumoto, Naoki Motoyama, and Sinichi Uchida, "Spin fluctuation in Sr2Ca12Cu24O41 under high pressure up to 3.0 GPa." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; e-mail naokif@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: spin ladder, Sr2Ca12Cu24O41, NMR, low dimensional cuprate.
S. Fujiyama, M. Takigawa, and S. Horii, "Charge Freezing in Zig-zag Chain Cuprates PrBa2Cu4O8 Observed by Cu Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance." M. Takigawa's e-mail masashi@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212621.
T. Fukami, K. Mizuseki, Y. Kishikawa, F. Ichikawa, T. Arai, T. Yamasaki, B. Sinozaki, and T. Aomine, "Vortex liquid phase in Pb-8.23wt.%In alloy films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Himeji Institute of Technology, Himeji 671-2201, Japan; e-mail fukami@mse.eng.himeji-tech.ac.jp. Key words: vortex liquid phase, Pb-In alloy, scaling law, critical exponents.
Brian W. Gardner, Janice C. Wynn, Doug A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, Walter N. Hardy, and Kathryn A. Moler, "Vortex-antivortex annihilation in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.354." To be published in Physica C (in press). Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; e-mail bgardner@stanford.edu. Key words: vortex pinning, cuprate, scanning SQUID.
M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, K. M. O'Hara, and J. E. Thomas, "Mechanical Stability of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms." Submitted to Physical Review Letters. J. E. Thomas' e-mail jet@phy.duke.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212499.
S. R. Ghorbani and O. Rapp, "An anomalous dip in thermoelectric power of Nd1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Solid State Physics, Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology, KTH Electrum 229, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden; e-mail ghorbani@ftf.kth.se. Key words: superconductivity, thermoelectric power, Pr doping.
Tae-Hyoung Gimm and Han-Yong Choi, "Self-energy analysis of frequency-dependent conductivity: Application to Pb, Nb, and MgB2 in normal state." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail thgim@phys1.skku.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212361.
Jun Goryo, "A phenomenology for multiple phases in the heavy fermion skutterudite superconductor PrOs4Sb12." E-mail jungoryo@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212094.
Tomoko Goto, Kazuo Watanabe, and Eriko Ban, "Critical current density for melt-processed filamentary monolithic RE123 (RE = Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd) superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan; tel. 81 52 735 5265; fax 81 52 735 5294; e-mail zwgoto@mse.nitech.ac.jp. Key words: filamentary RE123, oxygen controlled melt growth, initial RE element.
E. Guilmeau, B. Andrzejewski, and J. G. Noudem, "The effect of MgO addition on the formation and the superconducting properties of the Bi2223 phase." To be published in Physica C (in press). CRISMAT Laboratory, 6 Bd. Marechal Juin, 14050 CAEN, France; e-mail emmanuel.guilmeau@ismra.fr. Key words: MgO addition, phase formation, intergranular current.
F. Guinea, "Simple model of anisotropic pairing with repulsive interactions." E-mail pguinea@moncayo.icmm.csic.es; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212225.
K. Das Gupta, Swati S. Soman, and N. Chandrasekhar, "Critical fields and flux-flow resistances in strongly disordered ultra-thin superconducting films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK; e-mail kd241@hermes.cam.ac.uk. Key words: flux-flow, critical field, vortex-solid, disorder, quench-condensed.
Tribikram Gupta and D. M. Gaitonde, "Ultrasonic Attenuation in the Vortex State of d-wave Superconductors." Submitted to Physica C. E-mail gupta@mri.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212550.
A. Gurevich, "Enhancement of the upper critical field by nonmagnetic impurities in dirty two-gap superconductors." E-mail agourevi@facstaff.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212129.
N. Hakim, C. Kusko, S. Sridhar, A. Soukiassian, X. H. Zeng, and X. X. Xi, "The superconducting gap of \QTR{em}{in situ} MgB2 thin films by microwave surface impedance measurements." Appl. Phys. Lett., 81, 3603 (2002). E-mail hakim.n@neu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212009.
Hiroaki Hamada, Tomohiro Shibata, Yuh Yamada, Shugo Kubo, and Akiyuki Matsushita, "Pressure effects on the superconductivity in FeSr2YCu2O7+d oxide superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Tomohiro Shibata, Department of Materials Science, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan; e-mail s019111@matsu.shimane-u.ac.jp. Key words: pressure effect, oxide superconductor, multiple annealing process.
Takuya Harada and Katsukuni Yoshida, "Pr and Ca co-doping effects on the flux pinning properties in (Y1-x-yPrxCay)Ba2Cu3O7-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Fundamental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto-fu 611-0011, Japan; e-mail takuya@uji.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-d, Pr doping, Ca doping, critical current density, flux pinning, magnetization. 74.72.Bk; 74.60.Jg; 74.62.Dh.
Hisatomo Harima and Katsuhiko Takegahara, "Fermi surface of the filled skutterudite LaOs4Sb12." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; tel. 81 6 6879 8537; fax 81 6 6879 8539; e-mail harima@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp. Key words: Fermi surface, LaOs4Sb12, band structure, skutterudite.
Masahiko Hayashi and Hiromichi Ebisawa, "Heterogeneous high temperature cuprate superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; tel. 81 22 217 5847; fax 81 22 217 5851; e-mail hayashi@cmt.is.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: high temperature superconductivity, t-J model, boundary.
T. W. Heitmann, S. D. Bu, D. M. Kim, J. H. Choi, J. Giencke, C. B. Eom, K. A. Regan, N. Rogado, M. A. Hayward, T. He, J. S. Slusky, P. Khalifah, M. Haas, R. J. Cava, D. C. Larbalestier, and M. S. Rzchowski, "MgB2 Energy Gap Determination by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy." E-mail twheitmann@students.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212194.
M. Hirai, A. Iyo, H. Kito, A. Crisan, K. Tokiwa, T. Watanabe, J. Arai, and Y. Tanaka, "Annealing effect of the irreversibility fields in (Cu,C)Ba2Can-1CunOy(n = 3 and 4)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Nanoelectronics Research Institute (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; e-mail manabu-hirai@aist.go.jp. Key words: (Cu,C)-1223, (Cu,C)-1234, annealing effect, irreversibility field, high-pressure synthesis.
Carsten Honerkamp and Patrick A. Lee, "Staggered flux fluctuations and the quasiparticle scattering rate in the SU(2) gauge theory of the t-J model." E-mail carsten@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212101.
Carsten Honerkamp and Manfred Salmhofer, "Flow of the quasiparticle weight in the N-patch renormalization group scheme." E-mail carsten@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212066.
Tatsuya Honma, Pei Herng Hor, and Mitsuho Tanimoto, "Critical temperature oscillation in the thermal cycle below 16 K in Y0.83Ca0.17Ba2Cu3O6." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Asahikawa Medical College, Midorigaoka-Higashi 2-1-1-1, Asahikawa 078-8502, Japan; e-mail homma@asahikawa-med.ac.jp. Key words: granular superconductivity, pressure effect, Josephson coupling, charge redistribution.
B. W. Hoogenboom, C. Berthod, M. Peter, O. Fischer, and A. A. Kordyuk, "Modeling scanning tunneling spectra of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O{8+\delta}." E-mail bart.hoogenboom@unibas.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212329.
J. Hove and A. Sudbo, "Criticality versus q in the 2+1-dimensional Z_q clock model." E-mail joakim.hove@phys.ntnu.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212255.
Koichi Ichimura, Kazushige Nomura, Hiroshi Fukuoka, and Shoji Yamanaka, "STM spectroscopy on Ba8Si46." To be published in Physica C (in press). Division of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 0810, Japan; e-mail ichimura@sci.hokudai.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, silicon clathrate, STM, electron tunneling.
Hiroshi Ikuta, Masaaki Matsuura, and Tetsushi Biwa, "Low-temperature specific heat of overdoped Bi2201 single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). CIRSE, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464 8603, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 4462; fax 81 52 789 5317; e-mail ikuta@nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: specific heat, d-wave symmetry, pair-breaking, impurity effect.
G. Ilonca, T. R. Yang, A. V. Pop, G. Stiufiuc, R. Stiufiuc, and C. Lung, "Critical currents of Bi:2212 doped by Fe and Ni." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Str. M. Kogalniceanu 1, 3400 Cluj Napoca, Romania; tel. 40 6440 5300; fax 40 6419 1906; e-mail gilonca@phys.ubbcluj.ro.
Yoshinori Imai, Masatsune Kato, Yoji Koike, and Arthur W. Sleight, "Synthesis of the electron-doped bismuth oxide (Ba0.6Bi0.4)BiO3-x." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 08, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; e-mail imai@teion.apph.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: substitution, electron doping, bismuth oxide, perovskite.
Y. Itoh, T. Machi, N. Watanabe, S. Adachi, and N. Koshizuka, "Ni impurity spin fluctuations in YBa2(Cu1-xNix)4O8 and YBa2(Cu1-xNix)3O6.92 via Cu NQR." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1-10-13 Shinonome, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan; e-mail itoh@istec.or.jp. Key words: magnetic impurity Ni effect, nuclear quadrupole resonance, YBa2Cu4O8, YBa2Cu3O7.
Z. Jiang, H. Lim, J. Eom, and V. Chandrasekhar, "Local thermometry technique based on proximity-coupled superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor devices." E-mail z-jiang@northwestern.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212425.
Toby Joseph and Chandan Dasgupta, "Structure and Magnetization of Two-Dimensional Vortex Arrays in the Presence of Periodic Pinning." E-mail toby@physics.iisc.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212531.
L. Joukovskaya, "The Role of Phonon Mechanism in Electron Coupling." E-mail l_joukovskaya@mtu-net.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212197.
M. Jourdan, N. Bluemer, and H. Adrian, "Superconductivity of SrTiO{3-delta}." N. Bluemer's e-mail nils.bluemer@uni-mainz.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212649.
Martin Jourdan and Hermann Adrian, "Possibility of unconventional superconductivity of SrTiO3-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany; tel. 49 613 139 3635; fax 49 613 139 5156; e-mail jourdan@mail.uni-mainz.de. Key words: bipolaronic superconductivity, SrTiO3, Bc2(T).
A. Junod, Y. Wang, F. Bouquet, I. Sheikin, P. Toulemonde, M. R. Eskildsen, M. Eisterer, H. W. Weber, S. Lee, and S. Tajima, "Specific heat of ceramic and single crystal MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Section de Physique, Universite de Geneva, 24 quai E.-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland; e-mail alain.junod@physics.unige.ch. Key words: MgB2, specific heat, single crystal, irradiation.
Kazuo Kadowaki, Shintaro Hayama, Kazuhiro Kimura, Jovan Mirkovic, and Sergey Savel'ev, "Phase diagram in highly anisotropic layered superconductors: crossing lattice melting transitions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan; tel. 81 298 53 5291; fax 81 298 55 7440; e-mail kadowaki@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, vortex phase diagram, crossing vortex lattice, broken symmetry, novel phase transition.
B. Kalisky, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Magneto-optical investigation of 'supercooled' disordered vortex states in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact A. Shaulov, Institute of Superconductivity, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; e-mail shaulov@physnet.ph.biu.ac.il. Key words: magneto-optics, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d, vortex states, vortex phase transitions.
A. Kallio, J. Hissa, and V. Braysy, "New magnetic field scaling of NMR in cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact J. Hissa, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland; e-mail johannes.hissa@oulu.fi. Key words: superconductivity, NMR, stripes.
M. Kamada and S. Okuma, "Vortex states just below the vortex-glass phase probed by voltage noise." To be published in Physica C (in press). Research Center for Low Temperature Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ohokayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan; tel. 81 3 5734 3252; fax 81 3 5734 2749; e-mail mkamada@o.cc.titech.ac.jp. Key words: voltage noise, low field, vortex glass, plastic flow.
Naoto Kameda, Masashi Tokunaga, Tsuyoshi Tamegai, and Marcin Konczykowski, "Josephson plasma resonance in partially irradiated Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; tel./fax 81 3 5841 6848; e-mail tt07261mail@ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y, Josephson plasma resonance, columnar defects, partial irradiation.
A. P. Kampf and A. A. Katanin, "Competing phases in the extended U-V-J Hubbard model near the van Hove fillings." A. A. Katanin's e-mail andrey.katanin@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212190.
N. Karchev, "Magnon Exchange Mechanism of Ferromagnetic Superconductivity." Accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.B. E-mail naoum@phys.uni-sofia.bg; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212520.
Shigeru Kasahara, Fumitoshi Tateishi, Hiroyuki Caneko, Takashi Hara, Yutaka Nishio, and Koji Kajita, "Pinning anomalies in organic layered superconductor k-(BEDT-TTF)2X {X = Cu(NCS)2, Cu[N(CN)2]Br}." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi 274-8510, Japan; tel. 81 47 472 6991; fax 81 47 475 1855; e-mail kasahara@ph.sci.toho-u.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, vortex dynamics, complex susceptibility, flow resistance.
Masatsune Kato, Akira Inoue, Ichiro Nagai, Masato Kakihana, Arthur W. Sleight, and Yoji Koike, "Superconductivity in the electrochemically Li-intercalated niobates with the layered perovskite structure." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 08, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; e-mail kato@teion.apph.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: superconductor, Li-intercalation, niobium oxide, layered perovskite structure.
Hikaru Kawamura, "Nature of the vortex-glass order in the type-II limit." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan; e-mail kawamura@ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp. Key words: vortex glass, flux lines, Monte Carlo simulation.
Hae-Young Kee, K. Maki, and C. H. Chung, "Raman Spectra of Triplet Superconductor in Sr2RuO4." E-mail hykee@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212155.
Naoki Kikugawa, Kazuhiko Deguchi, and Yoshiteru Maeno, "Superconducting order parameter of Sr2RuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Yoshiteru Maeno, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; fax 81 75 753 3783; e-mail maeno@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: Sr2RuO4, pairing symmetry, spin-triplet, gap structure.
K. Kinoshita, Y. Inoue, T. Umetsu, H. Kitano, A. Maeda, T. Hanaguri, T. Nishizaki, T. Sato, K. Shibata, and N. Kobayashi, "Millimeter wave and microwave electrodynamic spectroscopy of YBa2(Cu1-xZnx)3Oy in the Meissner and mixed state." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; tel./fax 81 3 5454 6763; e-mail kinosita@maeda1.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: vortex core, surface impedance, relaxation time.
P. W. Klamut, B. Dabrowski, S. M. Mini, M. Maxwell, J. Mais, I. Felner, U. Asaf, F. Ritter, A. Shengelaya, R. Khasanov, I. M. Savic, H. Keller, A. Wisniewski, R. Puzniak, I. M. Fita, C. Sulkowski, and M. Matusiak, "On the effect of heterovalent substitutions in ruthenocuprates." Proceedings of the 3rd Polish-US Workshop on Magnetism and Superconductivity of Advanced Materials, July 14-19, 2002, Ladek Zdroj (Poland); to appear in Physica C. E-mail klamut@niu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212018.
Ulf Klein, "Antivortices in the mixed paramagnetic-orbital pair-breaking regime." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute forTheoretical Physics, University of Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, Linz A-4040, Austria; e-mail ulf.klein@jku.at. Key words: antivortices, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state, orbital pair breaking, paramagnetic pair breaking.
Shinichiro Koba, Masahiro Saito, Zon Mori, Toshiya Doi, and Yoshinori Hakuraku, "Superconductivity of YBCO/(Sr,Ca)-Cu-O/YBCO system." To be published in Physica C (in press). Yatsushiro National College of Tech., 2627 Hirayama-shinmachi, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto 866-8501, Japan; fax 81 965 53 1319; e-mail koba@as.yatsushiro-nct.ac.jp. Key words: sandwiched thin films, compound cuprate, YBCO.
Y. Kohori, T. Kohara, N. Sato, and T. Kinokiri, "Sb NQR study of superconducting YbSb2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan; e-mail kohori@physics.s.chiba-u.ac.jp. Key words: Sb NQR, superconductivity, YbSb2.
Ryusuke Kondo, Seiichi Kagoshima, and Mitsuhiko Maesato, "Crystal and band structures of organic superconductor under the uniaxial strain." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; tel./fax 81 3 5454 6761; e-mail crkondo@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, uniaxial compression, x-ray diffraction, crystal structure.
E. M. Kopnin, A. Sato, T. Asaka, Y. Matsui, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, "Structure Analysis of Au-containing Cuprate of Au1+xBA2Ca2Cu3-xO9 (Au-1223)." Physica C, accepted for publication. Pirelli Labs SpA, C2140, viale Sarca, 222, Milan 20126 Italy; fax 39-02-6442-9431; e-mail eugene.kopnin@rocketmail.com. Key words: Au-containing cuprates, high-pressure synthesis, crystal structure, superconductivity.
R. Korber, A. Casey, B. P. Cowan, M. E. Digby, J. Li, J. Luo, C. P. Lusher, J. Saunders, D. Drung, T. Schurig, J. B. Kycia, J. I. Hong, D. N. Seidman, and W. P. Halperin, "Low field DC SQUID nuclear magnetic resonance on single crystal UPt3." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK; e-mail r.koerber@rhul.ac.uk. Key words: UPt3, DC SQUID, NMR.
N. Koshizuka, F. Ishikawa, H. Nasu, M. Murakami, K. Matsunaga, S. Saito, O. Saito, Y. Nakamura, H. Yamamoto, R. Takahata, Y. Itoh, H. Ikezawa, and M. Tomita, "Progress of superconducting bearing technologies for flywheel energy storage systems." To be published in Physica C (in press). Morioka Laboratory, ISTEC-SRL, 3-35-2 Iioka-shinden, Morioka 020-0852, Japan; tel. 81 19 635 9015; fax 81 19 635 9017; e-mail koshizuka@istec.or.jp. Key words: superconducting magnetic bearing, flywheel energy storage system, levitation force, rotation loss, active magnetic bearing. 74.72.Bk; 75.50.Ww; 85.25.Ly; 85.70.Rp.
L. K. Kovalev, K. V. Ilushin, K. L. Kovalev, V. T. Penkin, V. N. Poltavets, S. M.-A. Koneev, I. I. Akimov, W. Gawalek, B. Oswald, and G. Krabbes, "High output power electric motors with bulk HTS elements." To be published in Physica C (in press). Moscow State Aviation Institute (MAI), Technical University, Department 310, Volokolamskoe Shosse 4, Moscow 125993, Russia; tel. 7 95 158 4567; fax 7 95 963 5089; e-mail kovalev@mail.sitek.net. Key words: electric motor, bulk and foliate high temperature superconducting elements, rotating magnetic field, electromagnetic process.
V. I. Kozub, A. V. Lopatin, and V. M. Vinokur, "Josephson transport through a Hubbard impurity center." A. V. Lopatin's e-mail lopatin@physics.rutgers.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212537.
Serguei Ktitorov, "Fractal vortex structure in the lattice model of superconductors." Submitted for publication in Technical Physics Letters (St. Petersburg). E-mail ktitorov@svs.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212650.
Kazue Kudo, "On the magnetic-field dependence of the longitudinal ultrasonic attenuation in a type-II superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan; e-mail kudo@degway.phys.ocha.ac.jp. Key words: vortex, ultrasonic attenuation, magnetic field. 74.25.Ld; 74.60.Ec.
Milind N. Kunchur, Sung-Ik Lee, and W. N. Kang, "The pair-breaking critical current density of magnesium diboride." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Related preprints/reprints by our group can be found on http://www.physics.sc.edu/kunchur; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212108. Key words: pair, breaking, depairing, superconductor, superconductivity, flux, fluxon, vortex, Mgb2.
Y. Kunii, T. Suzuki, A. Kakishima, T. Goto, S. Nakajima, and T. Fukase, "Tl, Cu-NMR study on high-Tc cuprate TlBa2Y1-xCaxCu2O7." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan; tel. 81 3 3238 3356; e-mail y-kunii@sophia.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc cuprate, NMR, spin-gap.
I. L. Landau and H. R. Ott, "Reinterpretation of the equilibrium magnetization of a Tl-based single crystal. Another phase transition in the mixed state of high-Tc superconductors?" E-mail landau@solid.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212137.
F. Laviano, D. Botta, A. Chiodoni, R. Gerbaldo, G. Ghigo, L. Gozzelino, and E. Mezzetti, "Evidences of Vortex Curvature and Anisotropic Pinning in Superconducting Films by Quantitative Magneto-optics." To be submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Contact E. Mezzetti, tel. 39-011-564-734; fax 39-011-564-7399; e-mail enrica.mezzetti@polito.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212096. Key words: thin-films, magneto-optics, vortex curvature; current density. 74.78.Bz; 74.25.Ha; 74.25.Qt; 74.25.Sv.
Dominic J. Lee, "Solution of mass/gap equations for strong velocity anisotropy in the QED3 theory of underdoped cuprates." E-mail doml@sfu.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212204.
Sergey Lee, "Crystal growth of MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, 1-10-13 Shinonome, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan; tel. 81 3 3536 0618; fax 81 3 3536 5717; e-mail lee@istec.or.jp. Key words: MgB2, single crystals, high pressure, flux growth, encapsulation. 74.70.Ad; 81.10.h; 07.35.+k.
Sung-Sik Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, "Doping and temperature dependence of superfluid weights for high Tc cuprates." E-mail ssong@anyon.postech.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212582.
Sung-Sik Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, "Universal scaling behavior of pseudogap with doping in high Tc cuprates; temperature and doping dependence of spectral intensity." E-mail ssong@anyon.postech.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212436.
Yu-Wen Lee and Yu-Li Lee, "Spin gap phase in the extended t-J chain." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Yu-Li Lee's e-mail c00lyl00@nchc.gov.tw; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212207.
X. Leng, H. Luo, L. Qiu, Y. Liu, Z. H. Wang, S. Y. Ding, and H. Zhang, "Second peak and critical current for YBa1.9Na0.1Cu3Oy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact S. Y. Ding, Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China; tel. 86 25 359 3661; fax 86 25 359 5535/21 6251 3510; e-mail syding@netra.nju.edu.cn. Key words: second peak, critical current density, AC susceptibility. 74.60.Jg; 74.62.Dh.
X. Leng, L. Qiu, Z. H. Wang, H. Luo, Y. Liu, S. Y. Ding, H. Zhang, and J. W. Lin, "Flux pinning energy of YBa1.9Na0.1Cu3O7-d." Contact S. Y. Ding, Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China; fax 86 25 3595535; e-mail syding@nju.edu.cn. Key words: Na-doping, MTG-YBa1.9Na0.1Cu3Oy, flux pinning. 74.72.Bk; 74.62.Dh; 74.60.Ge.
Y. Levinson, "Quantum noise in current biased Josephson junction." E-mail lwlevins@wicc.weizmann.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212587.
M. Li, B. Ma, R. E. Koritala, B. L. Fisher, K. Venkataraman, V. A. Maroni, V. Vlasko-Vlasov, P. Berghuis, U. Welp, K. E. Gray, and U. Balachandran, "Pulsed laser deposition of c-axis untilted YBCO films on c-axis tilted ISD MgO-buffered metallic substrates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439; tel. 630 252 3823; fax 630 252 3604; e-mail myli@anl.gov. Key words: YBCO-coated conductor, biaxial texture, ISD, pulsed laser deposition. 68.55.-a; 74.72.Bk; 74.76.Bz; 81.15.-z.
Mai Suan Li and Thomas Nattermann, "Flux-lattice melting in two-dimensional disordered superconductors." E-mail masli@ifpan.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212229.
X. Z. Liao, A. Serquis, Y. T. Zhu, J. Y. Huang, L. Civale, D. E. Peterson, F. M. Mueller, and H. F. Xu, "Mg(B,O)2 precipitation in MgB2." To be published in J. Applied Physics. A. Serquis' e-mail aserquis@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212571.
J.-Y. Lin, H. D. Yang, and C.-Q. Jin, "Magnetic field dependence of the low-temperature specific heat of MgCNi3." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC; fax 886 3 572 0728; e-mail ago@cc.nctu.edu.tw. Key words: MgCNi3, specific heat, order parameter, the mixed state.
Pavel Lipavsky, Klaus Morawetz, Jan Kolavcek, Jivri J. Marevs, and Ernst Helmut Brandt, "Budd-Vannimenus theorem for superconductors." Klaus Morawetz's e-mail morawetz@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212152.
Grzegorz Litak, "Charge and Phase Fluctuations in Attractive Hubbard Model." Physica C (accepted). E-mail litak@archimedes.pol.lublin.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212337.
J. W. Loram, J. L. Tallon, and W. Y. Liang, "Absence of gross inhomogeneity in HTS cuprates." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters. J. L. Tallon's e-mail j.tallon@irl.cri.nz; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212461.
C. W. Luo, S. J. Liu, M. H. Chen, K. H. Wu, J.-Y. Lin, J.-M. Chen, J. Y. Juang, T. M. Uen, and Y. S. Gou, "Polarization-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy of in-plane aligned (100) YBa2Cu3O7-d thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact K. H. Wu, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC; tel. 886 3 5712121x56114; fax 886 3 5725230; e-mail khwu@cc.nctu.edu.tw. Key words: polarization-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy; a-axis oriented YBa2Cu3O7-d; XAS of E{parallels}a, E{parallels}b, E{parallels}c.
H. Luo, J. W. Lin, X. Leng, Y. Liu, L. Qiu, and S. Y. Ding, "Determination of critical current density in flux creep state for MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact S. Y. Ding, Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China; e-mail syding@netra.nju.edu.cn. Key words: jc, flux creep state, AC susceptibility.
A. N. Lykov, "Generation of the electromagnetic radiation by superconducting films." To be published in Physica C (in press). P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, Leninsky prosp. 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia; tel. 7 95 132 6767; fax 7 95 938 2251; e-mail lykov@mail1.lebedev.ru. Key words: vortex, pinning, microwave radiation.
L. H. Machtoub, T. Suemoto, J. Shimoyama, and K. Kishio, "Magnetic excitations investigated by ultrashort pulse excitation in high-Tc superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Chiba 277-8581, Japan; tel. 81 471 36 3545; e-mail lina@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: dynamics, Raman, magnon.
Kouta Maeda, Takahiro Suzuki, Michinori Kim, and Yoshiko Fujii, "Magnetic torque in the vortex state of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d single crystal below 30 K." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan; e-mail s01pm11@physics.dap.ous.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d single crystal, magnetic torque, intrinsic pinning, flux pinning.
K. Maki, P. Thalmeier, Q. Yuan, K. Izawa, and Y. Matsuda, "Multiphase Superconductivity in Skutterudite PrOs4Sb12." P. Thalmeier's e-mail thalm@cpfs.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212090.
M. Maki, T. Nishizaki, and N. Kobayashi, "LT-STM observation of YBa2(Cu1-xZnx)3O7-d single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact N. Kobayashi, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980 8577, Japan; e-mail koban@imr.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: STM, YBa2Cu3O7-d, Zn impurity.
K. Makise, Y. Yadoguchi, F. Ichikawa, T. Fukami, T. Aomine, Z. Hao, B. Zhu, B. Xu, B. R. Zhao, T. Nishizaki, and N. Kobayashi, "Temperature dependence of the Hall angle in disordered Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-d thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact F. Ichikawa, Department of Physics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860 8555, Japan; e-mail ichikawa@kumamoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: superconductor-insulator transition, Hall angle, Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-d thin films.
M. B. Maple, P.-C. Ho, V. S. Zapf, W. M. Yuhasz, N. A. Frederick, and E. D. Bauer, "Heavy fermion superconductivity in the filled skutterudite compound PrOs4Sb12." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; e-mail mbmaple@physics.ucsd.edu. Key words: superconductivity, heavy fermion, f-electron material, filled skutterudite.
Hiroaki Matsueda and Kenji Takanaka, "Electronic states of high-Tc cuprate in the anomalous metallic regime." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; e-mail matsu@nlap.apph.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc cuprate, equation of motion method, composite operator, intersite spin correlation.
Y. Matsumoto, I. Shigeta, T. Abiru, Y. Terasaki, T. Akune, and N. Sakamoto, "Critical current density and flux pinning characteristics of powdered MgB2 specimens." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electrical Engineering, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan; tel. 81 92 871 6631; fax 81 92 871 7667; e-mail matumoto@fukuoka-u.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2, magnetization, critical current density, flux pinning.
N. Matsunaga, K. Yamashita, M. Yamashita, A. Kawamoto, and K. Nomura, "Phase diagram of partially deuterated {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br." To be published in Physica C (in press). Division of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan; tel. 81 11 706 4427; fax 81 11 706 4926; e-mail mat@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp. Key words: organic crystals, electric transport, {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br, metal-insulator transition.
Eiko Matsushita, "On the limit of Tc in C60-based superconductivity." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; tel. 81 58 293 2805; fax 81 58 230 1894; e-mail matusita@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp. Key words: C60, superconductivity, phonon, s-wave.
Toshiaki Matsuzaki, Masayuki Ido, Naoki Momono, and Migaku Oda, "Superconducting condensation energy in the pseudogap region of La2-xSrxCuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Masayuki Ido, Department of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan; fax 81 117064926; e-mail mido@sci.hokudai.ac.jp. Key words: condensation energy, pseudogap, La2-xSrxCuO4, specific heat.
I. I. Mazin, O. K. Andersen, O. Jepsen, A. A. Golubov, O. V. Dolgov, and J. Kortus, "Comment on 'First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism'." O. Jepsen's e-mail jepsen@fkf.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212417.
L. S. Mazov, "Spin density wave and pseudogap in HTSC cuprates." Proc. of Eurasian Symp. "Trends in Magnetism" EASTMAG 2001, February-March 2001, Ekaterinburg, Russia); Phys.of Metals and Metallogr. 93 (2002). E-mail mazov@ipm.sci-nnov.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212128.
M. N. McBrien, N. E. Hussey, L. Balicas, S. Horii, and H. Ikuta, "Dimensional crossover phenomena in PrBa2Cu4O8." To be published in Physica C (in press). H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK; e-mail matt.mcbrien@bristol.ac.uk. Key words: quasi-1D transport, cuprate, dimensional crossovers, doped Mott insulator.
Akakii Melikidze, "Orthogonality Catastrophe for Vortices in d-Wave Superconductors." E-mail akakii@kitp.ucsb.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212640.
T. Mertelj and V. V. Kabanov, "Vortex-antivortex configurations and their stability in mesoscopic superconducting square." V. V. Kabanov's e-mail viktor.kabanov@ijs.si; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212274.
C. Meyers, "Surface superconducting states and paramagnetism in mesoscopic superconductors." E-mail meyers@pth.u-bordeaux.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212474.
R. Micnas, S. Robaszkiewicz, and A. Bussmann-Holder, "On the Superconductivity in the Induced Pairing Model." Proceedings of the 3rd Polish-US Workshop on Magnetism and Superconductivity of Advanced Materials, July 14-19, 2002, Ladek Zdroj (Poland); to appear in Physica C. E-mail rom@alpha.amu.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212371.
T. M. Mishonov, L. A. Atanasova, T. I. Ivanov, and E. S. Penev, "Temperature dependence of the specific heat for anisotropic-gap BCS superconductors." E-mail mishonov@phys.uni-sofia.bg; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212499.
K. Miyagawa, H. Kawamura, K. Kanoda, Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura, "63Cu NMR study on Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Bunkyo-ku, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; e-mail kazuya@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc superconductor, electron dope, NMR.
K. Mochizuki, J.-H. Choi, T. C. Messina, Y. Ando, K. Nakamura, and J. T. Markert, "Extreme smallness of the transverse force on moving vortices in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact J. T. Markert, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712; e-mail markert@physics.utexas.edu. Key words: vortex, superconductivity, magnus, mechanical oscillator, transverse force.
Zon Mori, Koji Eitoku, Toshiya Doi, Shin-ichiro Koba, and Yoshinori Hakuraku, "MgB2 thin film fabrication by rf magnetron sputtering." To be published in Physica C (in press). Yatsushiro National College of Technology, 2627 Hirayama-Shinmati, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto 866-8501, Japan; tel. 81 965 351611; fax 81 965 330616; e-mail mori@as.yatsushiro-nct.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2 thin film, rf magnetron sputtering, oxidation of Mg.
Shuichi Murakami and Naoto Nagaosa, "Berry phase in Magnetic Superconductors." To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail murakami@appi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0209001.
Shuichi Murakami and Naoto Nagaosa, "Superconductivity with nonzero Chern numbers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; tel. 81 3 3812 2111; fax 81 3 5689 7337; e-mail murakami@appi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: Chern number, Quantum Hall effect, condensation, superconductivity.
Takashi Murata, Masashi Tokunaga, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai, "Local permeability studies of vortex states in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y under tilted fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Tsuyoshi Tamegai, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; tel. 81 3 5841 6846; fax 81 3 5841 8886; e-mail tamegai@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y, local permeability, crossing-lattices.
Akihito Naito, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuya Saito, Hiromi Taniguchi, Kazushi Kanoda, and Michio Sorai, "Low-temperature heat capacity measurements of {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)4Hg2.89Br8." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan; e-mail nakazawa@chem.titech.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, heat capacity, electron correlation.
S. Nakamae, K. Behnia, N. Mangkorntong, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, S. J. C. Yates, and N. E. Hussey, "The ground state of heavily-overdoped non-superconducting La{2-x}Sr_xCuO4." N. E. Hussey's e-mail n.e.hussey@bristol.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212283.
Victor N. Naumov, Anatoly I. Romanenko, Galina I. Frolova, Veronika V. Nogteva, Olga B. Anikeeva, and Tooru Atake, "Heat capacity peculiarity of 90 K samples of YBa2Cu3O6+x above Tc." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; e-mail naumov@casper.che.nsk.su. Key words: superconductivity, normal state, heat capacity, YBa2Cu3O6+x system.
Yuri A. Nefyodov and Mikhail R. Trunin, "Microwave surface impedance anisotropy of YBa2Cu3Ox single crystals with different oxygen content." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia; e-mail nefyodov@issp.ac.ru. Key words: surface impedance anisotropy, microwave conductivity, YBa2Cu3Ox, doping.
V. F. Nesterenko and Y. Gu, "Elastic properties of hot isostatically pressed magnesium diboride." E-mail vnestere@mechanics.ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212585.
Vitali F. Nesterenko, "Bulk Magnesium Diboride, Mechanical and Superconducting Properties." Invited talk at Eleventh International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials, ASM Materials Solutions, 2002, October 7-10, Columbus, Ohio; Conference Proceedings, in press. E-mail vnestere@mechanics.ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212543.
Kwok-Wai Ng and Anjan K. Gupta, "Coexistence of superconducting gap and pseudogap in underdoped Bi2212." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055; e-mail kwng@uky.edu. Key words: pseudogap, BSCCO, high Tc, density of states, tunneling.
J. C. Nie, P. Badica, M. Hirai, Y. Kodama, A. Crisan, A. Sundaresan, Y. Tanaka, and H. Ihara, "Electron-doped superconductivity in Sr1-xCaxCuO2-d infinite-layer thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba Central 2, Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; tel. 81 298 61 5442; fax 81 298 61 5447; e-mail jc-nie@aist.go.jp. Key words: infinite-layer, electron-dope superconductivity, oxygen vacancy.
Takuji Nomura and Kosaku Yamada, "Theory of superconducting mechanism and gap structure of Sr2RuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyoto Univeristy, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; e-mail takuji@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: Sr2RuO4, superconducting mechanism, gap structure, specific heat.
Yoshihiko Nonomura and Xiao Hu, "Bragg-Bose glass phase in vortex states of high-T{\rm c} superconductors with sparse and weak columnar defects." E-mail nonomura.yoshihiko@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212609.
J. R. O'Brien, H. S. Kim, and H. Oesterreicher, "Superconducting transitions in orthorhombic RBa2Cu3Oy (R = Yb, Er)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Quantum Design, 11578 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, CA 92121; e-mail jobrien@qdusa.com. Key words: cuprates, oxygen ordering.
Roberto Ocana and Pablo Esquinazi, "Vanishing of the nodal properties with temperature in the longitudinal thermal conductivity of YBa2Cu3O{7-x}." Pablo Esquinazi's e-mail esquin@physik.uni-leipzig.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212085.
K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J. E. Thomas, "Observation of a Strongly-Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms." Science (2002). J. E. Thomas' e-mail jet@phy.duke.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212463.
K. Ohishi, K. Kakuta, J. Akimitsu, A. Koda, W. Higemoto, R. Kadono, J. E. Sonier, A. N. Price, R. I. Miller, R. F. Kiefl, M. Nohara, H. Suzuki, and H. Takagi, "Excess quasiparticles outside the vortex cores in Y(Ni1-xPtx)2B2C." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan; e-mail kazuki.ohishi@kek.jp. Key words: penetration depth, vortex core radius, quasiparticle excitations, borocarbide.
Kazuki Ohishi, Takahiro Muranaka, Jun Akimitsu, Akihiro Koda, Wataru Higemoto, and Ryosuke Kadono, "Quasiparticle Excitations outside the Vortex Cores in MgB2 Probed by Muon Spin Rotation." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail kazuki.ohishi@kek.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212022.
P. Olsson and S. Teitel, "In Search of the Vortex Loop Blowout Transition for a type-II Superconductor in a Finite Magnetic Field." S. Teitel's e-mail stte@pas.rochester.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212499.
Gendo Oomi, Daisuke Masaoka, Tomoko Kagayama, Noritaka Kuroda, B. K. Cho, and P. C. Canfield, "Effect of pressure on the superconducting properties of Ho0.5Y0.5Ni2B2C." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810-8560, Japan; fax 81 92 726 4841; e-mail oomi@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp. Key words: high pressure, superconductivity, borocarbide.
Johnpierre Paglione, M. A. Tanatar, D. G. Hawthorn, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, C. Petrovic, and P.C. Canfield, "Field-Induced Fermi Liquid State in CeCoIn5." Submitted to PRL. E-mail paglione@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212502.
Alexey V. Pan, Shi Xue Dou, and Hua Kun Liu, "Magnetic flux distribution in a superconducting core of Bi-2223 tape." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; tel. 61 2 4221 5727; fax 61 2 4221 5731; e-mail pan@uow.edu.au. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, magnetic flux distribution, single vortex pinning, thermally activated depinning.
Vladimir M. Pan, Yuri V. Fedotov, Sergey M. Ryabchenko, Ernst A. Pashitskii, Alexei V. Semenov, Victor I. Vakaryuk, Victor S. Flis, and Yuri V. Cherpak, "Nature of magnetic field and angular dependencies of the critical current density in epitaxial HTS YBa2Cu3O7-d films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Superconductivity, Institute for Metal Physics, Vernadsky Blvd. 36, 03142 Kiev, Ukraine; fax 380 44 450 3277; e-mail pan@imp.kiev.ua. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, epitaxially grown thin films, pinning by edge dislocations.
Mi-Ae Park and Yong-Jihn Kim, "A New Interpretation of Flux Quantization." E-mail yjim@feynman.uprm.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212048. Key words: Flux quantization. 74.20Fg, 74.25.Jb,74.62.-c.
Yu. A. Pashkin, T. Yamamoto, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, D. V. Averin, and J. S. Tsai, "Quantum oscillations in two coupled charge qubits." Submitted to Nature. E-mail pashkin@frl.cl.nec.co.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212314.
Nianhua Peng, G. Shao, C. Jeynes, R. P. Webb, R. M. Gwilliam, G. Boudreault, D. M. Astill, and W. Y. Liang, "Ion-Beam Synthesis of Superconducting MgB2 Thin Films." Submitted to Applied Physics Letters. Advanced Technology Institute, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK; e-mail ees1np@eim.surrey.ac.uk. Key words: Ion-beam synthesis, MgB2, thin film. 74.70.
A. Perali, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati, "Size shrinking of a condensed fermionic cloud in a trap approaching the BEC limit." E-mail andrea.perali@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212067.
Enrico Perfetto, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Michele Cini, "On-Site Repulsion as the Source of Pairing in Carbon Nanotubes and Intercalated Graphite." European Physical Journal B 30, (2002). Michele Cini's e-mail michele.cini@roma2.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212122.
J. C. Phillips, "Sliding charge density waves and zero-resistance states in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212416.
A. Pimenov, A. V. Pronin, A. Loidl, A. Tsukada, and M. Naito, "Far-infrared and submillimeter-wave conductivity in electron-doped cuprate La{2-x}Ce_xCuO4." E-mail andrei.pimenov@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212400.
Lothar Pintschovius, Winfriedt Reichardt, Thomas Wolf, and Marion Klaeser, "In-plane anisotropy and temperature dependence of oxygen phonon modes in YBa2Cu3O6.6." To be published in Physica C (in press). Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, IFP, PO Box 3640, Karlsruhe D-76021, Germany; e-mail pini@ifp.fzk.de. Key words: phonons, stripes, YBa2Cu3O6.6.
B. Placais, N. Lutke-Entrup, J. Bellessa, P. Mathieu, Y. Simon, and E. B. Sonin, "Peak-effect and surface crystal-glass transition for surface-pinned vortex array." E-mail placais@lpmc.ens.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212510.
L. V. Potanina, A. K. Shikov, G. P. Vedernikov, A. E. Vorobieva, V. I. Pantsyrnyi, I. N. Gubkin, A. G. Sylaev, E. I. Plashkin, E. A. Dergunova, and S. V. Soudjev, "Recent progress of low temperature superconducting materials at Bochvar Institute." To be published in Physica C (in press). A. A. Bochvar All-Russia Research Institute of Inorganic Materials, VNIINM, PO Box 369, Moscow 123060, Russia; tel. 795 190 8316; fax 795 196 6701; e-mail skb@bochvar.ru. Key words: Nb3Sn, NbTi, strand, characteristics. 74.70.-b.
B. Prijamboedi, S. Kashiwaya, H. Shibata, Y. Asano, and Y. Tanaka, "Superconductivity in NCCO thin films and effect of Gd and Ni doping." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tennoudai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8573, Japan; fax 81 298 55 7440; e-mail bambang-p@aist.go.jp. Key words: NCCO, S-I transition, thin films.
James W. Quilty, Sergey Lee, Ayako Yamamoto, Setsuko Tajima, and Akio Yamanaka, "A Raman scattering study of superconductivity in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Tokyo University, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; tel. 81 3 5841 8796; fax 81 3 5841 8864; e-mail quilty@wyvern.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: Raman spectroscopy, superconducting gap, MgB2.
Alessandro Romito, Francesco Plastina, and Rosario Fazio, "Decoherence in a Cooper pair shuttle." E-mail a.romito@sns.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212414.
Shinsei Ryu and Yasuhiro Hatsugai, "Zero-energy edge states and their origin in particle-hole symmetric systems: symmetry and topology." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; e-mail ryuu@pothos.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: zero-energy edge states, d-wave superconductivity, graphite ribbons, coexistence of different order parameters.
Nobuyoshi Sakamoto, Tadahiro Akune, Hamid R. Khan, and Klaus Luders, "AC susceptibilities in Ag-based composites of Hg(Pb,Bi)-1223 superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503 Fukuoka, Japan; fax 81 92 673 5091; e-mail saka@te.kyusan-u.ac.jp. Key words: Ag-Hg1223, AC susceptibility, reversible motion, loss.
T. Sasaki, T. Fukuda, T. Nishizaki, T. Fujita, N. Yoneyama, and N. Kobayashi, "Quantum vortex liquid state in the quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductor {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; tel. 81 22 215 2027; fax 81 22 215 2026; e-mail takahiko@imr.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2, quantum vortex liquid, non-ohmic resistivity.
Noriaki K. Sato, "Magnetism and superconductivity in UT2Al3 (T = Pd, Ni) and UGe2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan; e-mail kensho@edu3.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: UPd2Al3, UNi2Al3, UGe2, URu2Si2, magnetic exciton.
P. Schilbe, K. Luders, M. Baenitz, D. A. Pavlov, A. Abakumov, and E. V. Antipov, "Magnetic investigations of the high-Tc superconductor Hg-1212." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact K. Luders, Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin D-14195, Germany; e-mail lueders@physik.fu-berlin.de. Key words: irreversibility field, AC-susceptibility, high-Tc superconductor.
Alexander Seidel and Patrick A. Lee, "Doped dimerized spin chains: Another path to superconductivity." E-mail seidel@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212199.
Sergei Sergeenkov, "Chemomagnetism, magnetoconcentration effect and 'fishtail' anomaly in chemically-induced granular superconductors." To be published in JETP Letters (January 2003). E-mail ssa@thsun1.jinr.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212507.
Daisuke Serita, Takahiro Kato, Kazuki Yamanaka, Yuh Yamada, and Shugo Kubo, "Anisotropic properties of RuSr2GdCu2O8 thin films grown on SrTiO3(100) and (110) substrates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Takahiro Kato, Department of Materials Science, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan; e-mail s019106@matsu.ipc.shimane-u.ac.jp. Key words: oxide superconductor, thin film, epitaxial growth.
V. R. Shaginyan, "Behavior of Fermi Systems Approaching Fermion Condensation Quantum Phase Transition from Disordered Phase." E-mail vasily@ctsps.cau.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212624.
D. Shaltiel, M. Golosovsky, M. Bezalel, T. Tamegai, and E. Walker, "Magnetic fields double frequency, ac and microwave, interaction with the vortex system in highly anisotropic BSCCO." To be published in Physica C (in press). Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91984 Jerusalem, Israel; tel. 972 2 671 5829; fax 972 2 658 437; e-mail shaltiel@vms.huji.ac.il. Key words: BSCCO, vortex dynamics, anisotropy, AC fields and microwaves. 74.60.ge; 74.50+r; 74.72.Hs.
D. V. Shantsev, P. E. Goa, F. L. Barkov, T. H. Johansen, W. N. Kang, and S. I. Lee, "Interplay of dendritic avalanches and gradual flux penetration in superconducting MgB2 films." Submitted to Supercond. Sci. Technol. E-mail daniel.shantsev@fys.uio.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212404.
Boris Ya. Shapiro, B. Rosenstein, Irena Shapiro, and G. Bel, "Coreless vortex in p-wave superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; fax 972 35 35 3298; e-mail shapib@mail.biu.ac.il. Key words: p-wave superconductor, flux lines, vortex core.
I. R. Shein, N. I. Medvedeva, and A. L. Ivanovskii, "Band structure of new superconducting AlB2-like ternary silicides M(Al{0.5}Si{0.5})2 and M(Ga{0.5}Si{0.5})2 (M= Ca, Sr and Ba)." E-mail irshein@mail.ur.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212047.
Qingfei Shen, Xu Xie, Guohua Zhang, Qingrong Feng, Xiaolin Xu, Chunguang Li, Zhengxiang Gao, Sheng Luo, Yusheng He, and Duo Jin, "Electric transport study of superconducting MgB2 wire." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; e-mail qfshen@cl.cryo.ac.cn. Key words: V-I characteristics, MgB2 wire, pulse current method.
Hiroyuki Shibata, "Josephson plasma in Ru- and Fe-cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan; e-mail shibata@will.brl.ntt.co.jp. Key words: Josephson plasma, RuSr2GdCu2O8, FeSr2YCu2Oy, pi-phase.
Kenji Shibata, Makoto Maki, Terukazu Nishizaki, and Norio Kobayashi, "Quasiparticle spectra and their spatial variation on YBa2Cu3Oy by scanning tunneling spectroscopy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; e-mail shibata@imr.edu. Key words: scanning tunneling spectroscopy, quasiparticle density of state, YBa2Cu3Oy.
Takasada Shibauchi, Jun Hashimoto, Ken-ichi Fujita, Takao Watanabe, Azusa Matsuda, and Minoru Suzuki, "Microwave-induced zero-current crossings in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y intrinsic Josephson junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; e-mail shiba@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: intrinsic tunneling, current-voltage characteristics, Shapiro step, Josephson vortex.
Daisuke Shimada, Makoto Saitoh, and Nobuo Tsuda, "Phonon structure in the tunneling conductance of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan; tel. 81 54 238 4742; fax 81 54 238 0993; e-mail spdsima@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp. Key words: tunneling, phonon mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8, inhomogeneity.
Junko Shimizu, Masahito Nakagawa, and Yasukage Oda, "The normal state magnetic susceptibility of La2CuO4+d with excess oxygen." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Yasukage Oda, Department of Material Science, Graduate School of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Ako-Gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan; e-mail oda@sci.himeji-tech.ac.jp. Key words: high Tc superconductivity, La2CuO4+d, excess oxygen.
M. Shizuya, S. Ueda, Y. Mogami, T. Nishio, H. Minami, and H. Uwe, "Pressure effect on Ba1-xKxBiO3 near the composition of metal-semiconductor transition." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan; fax 81 298 55 7440; e-mail s995304@ipe.tsukuba.ac.jp. Key words: high pressure, oxide superconductor, Ba1-xKxBiO3.
Valerij A. Shklovskij, "New Hall voltages in a planar pinning potential." To be published in Physica C (in press). Kharkov National University, Physical Department, 4 Svobody Sq., 61077 Kharkov, Ukraine; tel. 380 572 663 613; fax 380 572 351 738; e-mail valerij.a.shklovskij@univer.kharkov.ua. Key words: vortex, guiding, Hall-effect.
E. Silva, R. Fastampa, M. Giura, and S. Sarti, "Normal state resistivity of BSCCO single crystals: description with a two barriers model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Dip. Di Fisica "E. Amaldi" and Unita INFM, Universita Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy; e-mail silva@fis.uniroma3.it. Key words: cuprates, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8, normal state, dc resistivity.
E. Silva, R. Marcon, R. Fastampa, M. Giura, and S. Sarti, "DC and microwave fluctuational conductivity of anisotropic superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Dip. Di Fisica "E. Amaldi" and Unita INFM, Universita Rome Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, Rome 00146, Italy; e-mail silva@fis.uniroma3.it. Key words: fluctuations, paraconductivity, cuprates, MgB2.
M. Sinder and J. Pelleg, "Preparation of the Silver Boride: Preliminary Results." Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; e-mail micha@bgumail.bgu.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212632.
Prabhakar P. Singh, "Acoustical-Mode-Driven Electron-Phonon Coupling in Transition-Metal Diborides." E-mail ppsingh@phy.iitb.ac.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212443.
A. V. Sologubenko, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, and H. R. Ott, "Anomalous low-temperature thermal conductivity of MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratorium fur Festkorperphysik, ETH Honggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland; fax 41 1 633 10 77; e-mail sologubenko@solid.phys.ethz.ch. Key words: MgB2, superconductivity, thermal conductivity, mixed state.
Oleksiy K. Soroka, Michael Huth, Valerij A. Shklovskij, Jens Oster, and Hermann Adrian, "Guided vortex motion in Nb films on facetted substrate surfaces." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany; e-mail soroka@mail.uni-mainz.de. Key words: pinning, vortex dynamics, guiding.
Markus J. Storcz and Frank K. Wilhelm, "Decoherence and gate performance of coupled solid state qubits." Submitted to Phys. Rev. A. E-mail storcz@theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212374.
Ryoko Sugano, Toshiyuki Onogi, Kazuto Hirata, and Masashi Tachiki, "Point-defects-induced vortex phase diagram in high-Tc superconductors: Monte Carlo simulation study." To be published in Physica C (in press). Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0395, Japan; tel. 81 492 96 6111; fax 81 492 96 6006; e-mail sugano@harl.hitachi.co.jp. Key words: vortex phase diagram, copper-oxide superconductors, point defects, Monte Carlo simulation.
A. A. Sukhanov and V. I. Omelchenko, "Negative magnetoresistance in granular HTSC with trapped magnetic flux." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS, Vvedenskogo sq. 1, Fryazino 141190, Moscow Dist., Russia; e-mail sukh@ms.ire.rssi.ru. Key words: granular superconductor, magnetic field trapping, magnetoresistance.
A. Sumiyama, D. Katayama, R. Hata, Y. Oda, Y. Inada, D. Aoki, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, and Y. Onuki, "Josephson effect in heavy-fermion superconductor CeTIn5 (T = Co, Ir)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Material Science, Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan; tel. 81 791 58 0143; fax 81 791 58 0132; e-mail sumiyama@sci.himeji-tech.ac.jp. Key words: heavy-fermion superconductor, Josephson effect, CeIrIn5, CeCoIn5.
A. B. Surzhenko, M. Zeisberger, T. Habisreuther, W. Gawalek, and L. S. Uspenskaya, "Inter- and intragrain currents in bulk melt-grown YBaCuO rings." E-mail surzhenko@ipht-jena.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212533.
Takao Suzuki, Takayuki Goto, Hideto Goka, Masaki Fujita, and Kazuyoshi Yamada, "Elastic constant of the vortex lattice in La1.875Ba0.065Sr0.060CuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan; e-mail suzukit@sophia.ac.jp. Key words: stripe, La2-x-yBaxSryCuO4, elastic constant.
P. Szabo, P. Samuely, J. Kacmarcik, T. Klein, J. Marcus, and A. G. M. Jansen, "Point-contact spectroscopy of MgB2 in high magnetic fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, SK-043 53 Kosice, Slovakia; e-mail pszabo@saske.sk. Key words: point-contact spectroscopy, MgB2, two-band superconductivity, electron-phonon interaction.
Masashi Tachiki, Masahiko Machida, and Takeshi Egami, "Vibronic mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Masahiko Machida's e-mail mac@koma.jaeri.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212083.
Setsuko Tajima, Takahiko Masui, James Quilty, Sergey Lee, Ayako Yamamoto, and Ako Yamanaka, "Experimental study of electron-phonon interaction in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Shinome 1-10-13, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan; tel. 81 3 3536 5708; fax 81 3 3536 5708; e-mail tajima@istec.or.jp. Key words: MgB2, electron-phonon coupling, Raman scattering, two gaps.
M. Tajmar and C. J. de Matos, "Gravitomagnetic field of a rotating superconductor and of a rotating superfluid." To be published in Physica C (in press). Space Propulsion Section, ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria; tel. 43 50550 3142; fax 43 50550 3366/2813; e-mail martin.tajmar@arcs.ac.at. Key words: gravitational drag, gravitomagnetism, London moment. 04.80.Cc; 04.25.Nx; 74.90.+n.
Ken'ichi Takahashi, Mingxiang Xu, Hideaki Kitazawa, and Takekazu Ishida, "Evidence for superconductivity in the boron layers of MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Takekazu Ishida, Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan; e-mail ishida@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp. Key words: torque, anisotropy, MgB2, layered superconductor.
S. Takahashi and S. Maekawa, "Spin Injection and Detection in Magnetic Nanostructures." E-mail takahasi@imr.tohoku.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212317.
T. Takahashi, H. Matsui, T. Sato,S.-C. Wang, H.-B. Yang, H. Ding, T. Fujii, T. Watanabe, and A. Matsuda, "Direct evidence for superconducting quasiparticle in triple-layered high-Tc superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Tohoku University,Sendai 980-8578, Japan; tel. 81 22 217 6417; fax 81 22 217 3104; e-mail t.takahashi@arpes.phys.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: quasiparticle, ARPES, BCS theory.
Yoshihiko Takano, Takeshi Hatano, Akihiro Fukuyo, Akira Ishii, Masashi Ohmori, Shunichi Arisawa, Kazumasa Togano, and Masashi Tachiki, "d-like Symmetry of the Order Parameter and Intrinsic Josephson Effects in Bi2212 Cross-Whisker Junctions." Physical Review B 65, 2002. E-mail takano.yoshihiko@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212143.
T. Takasaki, T. Ekino, T. Muranaka, H. Fujii, and J. Akimitsu, "Multiple-gap structure of the binary superconductor MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan; e-mail takasaki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp. Key words: tunneling spectroscopy, multiple-gap structure, break junction, MgB2.
Tetsuya Takimoto, Takashi Hotta, and Kazuo Ueda, "Superconductivity in the Orbital Degenerate Model for Heavy Fermion Systems." E-mail takimoto@season.tokai.jaeri.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212467.
Y. Tanaka, A. A. Golubov , and S. Kashiwaya, "Theory of charge transport in diffusive normal metal / conventional superconductor point contacts." E-mail ytanaka@nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212019.
Y. Tanuma, K. Kuroki, Y. Tanaka, R. Arita, S. Kashiwaya, and H. Aoki, "How to determine pairing symmetry of quasi-1D organic superconductors through magnetotunneling spectroscopy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; fax 81 86 251 7830; e-mail tanuma@mp.okayama-u.ac.jp. Key words: tunneling spectroscopy, pairing symmetry, Andreev bound states, doppler shift.
L. Tewordt and D. Fay, "Specific heat and thermal conductivity in the vortex state of the two-gap superconductor MgB2." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. D. Fay's e-mail fay@physnet.uni-hamburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212503.
Svetlana G. Titova, Vladimir F. Balakirev, Yasuo Ohishi, Ingrid Bryntse, and Dmitrii I. Kochubey, "Stripes and superconductivity in the HTSC copper oxides." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Metallurgy, Urals Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg 620016, Russia; e-mail titova@imet.mplik.ru. Key words: high temperature superconductivity, stripe structure, Rietveld refinement, EXAFS spectroscopy.
K. Tokiwa, S. Ito, H. Okumoto, W. Higemoto, K. Nishiyama, A. Iyo, Y. Tanaka, and T. Watanabe, "{mu}SR study on multi-layered HgBa2Ca4Cu5Oy (Hg-1245) superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Electronics, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan; e-mail tokiwa@te.noda.tus.ac.jp. Key words: {mu}SR, Hg-1245, cohabitation of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity.
Ugur Topal, Lev Dorosinskii, Husnu Ozkan, and Hasbi Yavuz, "Effect of thermal neutron irradiation in boron-doped melt-textured YBCO superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). TUBITAK-UME (National Metrology Institute), P.K. 54, 41470 Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey; e-mail ugurt@ume.tubitak.gov.tr. Key words: boron-doped, melt-textured, critical current, thermal neutron irradiation.
Ugur Topal, Lev Dorosinskii, Husnu Ozkan, and Hasbi Yavuz, "Effect of thermal neutron irradiation on the pinning properties of TSMG Sm-123 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). TUBITAK-UME (National Metrology Institute), P.K. 54, 41470 Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey; e-mail ugurt@ume.tubitak.gov.tr. Key words: Sm-123, melt-textured, critical current, thermal neutron irradiation.
K. B. Traito, R. Laiho, E. Lahderanta, and E. B. Sonin, "Vortex structures in the ferromagnet-superconductor bilayer." To be published in Physica C (in press). Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland; e-mail traito@tesla.fys.utu.fi. Key words: superconductivity, ferromagnetism, vortices, domains.
Paolo Tripodi, Daniele Di Gioacchino, Rodolfo Borelli, and Jenny Darja Vinko, "Possibility of high temperature superconducting phases in PdH." To be published in Physica C (in press). ENEA-Centro Ricerche Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati, Italy; e-mail paolo.tripodi@frascati.enea.it. Key words: PdH, HTSC, new superconducting material.
I. Tsukada, X. F. Sun, Seiki Komiya, A. N. Lavrov, and Yoichi Ando, "Significant suppression of weak ferromagnetism in (La{1.8}Eu{0.2})CuO4." E-mail ichiro@criepi.denken.or.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212360.
Koh-ichi Ueda, Takao Kohara, Moritami Okada, Hisao Kodaka, Kiyomi Miyata, Satoshi Watauchi, and Isao Tanaka, "Depression of the superconducting transition temperature in neutron irradiated La2CuO4+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Division of Material Science, Graduate School of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Kamigori-cho, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan; tel. 81 791 580 134; fax 81 791 580 132; e-mail ueda@sci.himeji-tech.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, La2CuO4, neutron irradiation.
Mitsuru Uehara, Shigeki Nimori, Takashi Mochiku, and Takenori Numazawa, "A new phase in the vortex solid region in Bi2Sr2CaCuO8." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, 305-0003 Ibaraki, Japan; e-mail uehara.mitsuru@nims.go.jp. Key words: vortex state, relaxation time, phase transition.
Y. J. Uemura, "Superfluid density of high-Tc cuprate systems: implication on condensation mechanisms, heterogeneity and phase diagram." Invited paper presented at the HTSC Workshop, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 7-8, 2002; to appear in Solid State Communications (Special Issue edited by A. J. Millis, S. Uchida, Y. J. Uemura). E-mail tomo@lorentz.phys.columbia.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212643.
S. Uji, C. Terakura, T. Terashima, T. Yakabe, Y. Terai, Y. Imanaka, S. Yasuzuka, M. Tokumoto, F. Sakai, A. Kobayashi, H. Tanaka, H. Kobayashi, L. Balicas, and J. S. Brooks, "Large anisotropy in magnetic field induced superconductors {lambda}-(BETS)2FexGa1-xCl4." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Research Institute for Mets, NIMS, 3-13 Sakura, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0003, Japan tel. 81 298 59 5078; fax 81 298 59 5010; e-mail uji.shinya@nims.go.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, anisotropy, {lambda}-(BETS)2FexGa1-xCl4.
L. Ya. Vinnikov, J. Karpinski, S. M. Kazakov, J. Jun, J. Anderegg, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield, "Bitter decoration of vortex structure in MgB2 single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia; fax 7 96 576 4111; e-mail vinnik@issp1.issp.ac.ru. 74.60.Ge; 74.70.Ad.
A. F. Volkov, F. S. Bergeret, and K. B. Efetov, "Odd triplet superconductivity in superconductor/ferromagnet multilayered structures." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. F. S. Bergeret's e-mail sebas@tp3.ruhr-uni-bochum.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212348.
L. M. Volkova, S. A. Polyshchuk, S. A. Magarill, and F. E. Herbeck, "Crystal Chemical Concept of Arrangement and Function of Layered Superconducting Materials." E-mail volkova@ich.dvo.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212625.
M. B. Walker and C. Detlefs, "Lockin to Weak Ferromagnetism in TbNi2B2C and ErNi2B2C." E-mail walker@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212535.
Y. D. Wang, Y. B. Gao, and C. P. Sun, "Engineering Progressive Decoherence with Quantum Jumps in Charge Qubit." C. P. Sun's e-mail suncp@itp.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0212088.
U. Welp, A. Rydh, G. Karapetrov, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, C. Marcenat, L. M. Paulius, L. Lyard, T. Klein, J. Marcus, S. Blanchard, P. Samuely, P. Szabo, A. G. M. Jansen, K. H. P. Kim, C. U. Jung, H.-S. Lee, B. Kang, and S.-I. Lee, "Superconducting phase diagram of single-crystal MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; e-mail welp@anl.gov.
Hengyi Xu, Xiaoming Zhu, and Daole Yin, "Nonlinear material equation and its application in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Peking University, Box 26, 140, Beijing 100871, China; tel. 86 10 6275 9879; fax 86 10 6275 1615; e-mail xmzhu@ufp.nju.edu.cn. Key words: nonlinear material equation, longitudinal resistivity, Hall resistivity, pinning. 74.60.Ge; 74.25.Fy; 72.15.Gd.
A. K. Yahya, F. M. Salleh, N. Ibrahim, and R. Abd-Shukor, "Effects of Ti substitutions on superconductivity of TlSr-1212 ceramics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Sel., Malaysia; tel. 60 3 554 44613; fax 60 3 554 44562; e-mail akamalh@hotmail.com. Key words: TlSr-1212, Ti-doping. 74.70; 74.72; 74.62.D.
Yoshiharu Yamada, Kenkichi Anagawa, Takenori Fujii, Takao Watanabe, Azusa Matsuda, Takasada Shibauchi, and Minoru Suzuki, "Superconducting gap and pseudogap in Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+d by short-pulse interlayer tunneling spectroscopy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; e-mail y_yamada@suzuki.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: interlayer tunneling spectroscopy, Bi-2223, superconducting gap, pseudogap, doping dependence.
T. R. Yang, G. Ilonca, A. V. Pop, R. Stiufiuc, and O. Furdui, "Superconductivity of MgB2 wires." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal university, No 88 Sec.4 Tingchou Road, Taipei 117, Taiwan, ROC; tel. 886 2 2934 6620; fax 886 2 2933 5075; e-mail yang1@scc.ntnu.edu.tw.
I. K. Yanson, Yu. G. Naidyuk, O. E. Kvitnitskaya, V. V. Fisun, N. L. Bobrov, P. N. Chubov, V. V. Ryabovol, G. Behr, W. N. Kang, E.-M. Choi, H.-J. Kim, S.-I. Lee, T. Aizawa, S. Otani, and S.-L. Drechsler, "Study of the electron-phonon interaction in metal diborides MeB2 (Me=Zr, Nb, Ta, Mg) by point-contact spectroscopy." Proceedings of conference, "Modern Problems in Superconductivity", Sept. 2002, Yalta, Ukraine. Yu. G. Naidyuk's e-mail naidyuk@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212599.
S. Yata, G. Shimizu, Y. Yamada, S. Kubo, and A. Matsushita, "Superconducting properties of B on Mg bilayer films sequentially deposited at low substrate temperatures." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan; e-mail s029118@matsu.shimane-u.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2 superconductor, thin film, sequential deposition, low temperature synthesis.
V. S. Yefanov, S. Kagoshima, M. A. Tanatar, T. Ishiguro, V. A. Bondarenko, N. D. Kushch, and E. B. Yagubskii, "Electronic and structural properties of organic superconductor {kappa}-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]I." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; e-mail cyefanov@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, thermopower, superstructure, uniaxial compression.
W. J. Yeh, Bo Cheng, and B. L. Justus, "I-V characteristics of YBCO thin films with a periodic array of Ni dots." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844; e-mail wyeh@uidaho.edu. Key words: external pinning, periodic array, cuprate.
Katsukuni Yoshida, Katsuya Ota, Takamasa Hayasaka, Takuya Harada, and Sizumasa Ueda, "Non-ohmic resistance due to nanostructural inhomogeneity in RPrBaCuO." To be published in Physica C (in press). Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto-fu, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan; fax 81 774 38 4425; e-mail yoshida@energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: cuprates, percolation, clusters, negative resistance, non-ohmic conduction.
N. Yoshida, H. Itoh, Y. Asano, Y. Tanaka, J. Inoue, and S. Kashiwaya, "Zero-bias conductance peak in disordered ferromagnetic metal/dx2-y2-wave superconductor junction." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 3701; fax 81 52 789 3298; e-mail yossy@rover.nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: zero energy states, zero-bias conductance peak, disorder, spin-polarized tunneling.
Jaejun Yu, Young Woo Son, and Jisoon Ihm, "Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect and superconductivity in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). School of Physics and Center for Strongly Correlated Materials Research, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea; e-mail jyu@phya.snu.ac.kr. Key words: superconductivity, MgB2, multiple order-parameters, Jahn-Teller effect.
A. Yurgens, D. Winkler, T. Claeson, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando, "Intrinsic tunneling spectra of Bi2(Sr{2-x}La_x)CuO6." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail yurgens@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212562.
Guohua Zhang, Sheng Luo, Qingfei Shen, Chunguang Li, Rongtao Lu, Shaolin Yan, Saijun Huang, and Yusheng He, "The study of c-axis I-V characteristics of Tl:2212 thin film." To be published in Physica C (in press). School of Applied Science, University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China; e-mail lee@sdu.edu.cn. Key words: Tl:2212 thin film, I-V characteristics, modified A-H model.
Y. Z. Zhang, R. Deltour, H. H. Wen, and Z. X. Zhao, "Observation of quantum effects of vortices in MgB2 superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 603, Beijing 100080, China; e-mail usersc8@aphy.iphy.ac.cn. Key words: quantum effects, vortex matter, MgB2.
Yingmin Zhang, Zhengxiang Luo, Kai Yang, and Qishao Zhang, "Measurement method of microwave surface resistance of high Tc superconductive thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Microwave Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, PO Box W-503, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China.
Guo-meng Zhao, "Transport and magnetic properties in multi-walled carbon nanotube ropes: Evidence for superconductivity above room temperature." E-mail gmzhao@uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0208197.
Larisa N. Zherikhina, A. I. Golovashkin, A. V. Gudenko, G. V. Kuleshova, A. M. Tskhovrebov, and M. L. Norton, "H-T phase diagram of high-Tc Ba-K-Bi-O." To be published in Physica C (in press). P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Pr. 53, Moscow 117924, Russia; e-mail zherikh@sci.lebedev.ru. Key words: Ba-K-Bi-O, magnetic moment, hysteresis loop.
N. D. Zhigadlo, P. Odier, J. Ch. Marty, P. Bordet, and A. Sulpice, "High-temperature phase changes in RuSr2GdCu2O8 and physical properties." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact P. Odier, Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, BP 166, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 09, France; tel. 33 47 68 81045; fax 33 47 68 81038; e-mail odier@polycnrs-gre.fr. Key words: rutheno-cuprates, RuSr2GdCu2O8, sol-gel, in situ XRD, DTA, magnetic measurements.
F. Zhou, W. X. Ti, J. W. Xiong, Z. X. Zhao, X. L. Dong, P. H. Hor, Z. H. Zhang, and W. K. Chu, "Under-doped La2-xSrxCuO4 with x = 0.063 - 0.125: TSFZ growth of high-quality crystals and anomalous doping dependences of superconducting properties." To be published in Superconductor Science and Technology. X. L. Dong's e-mail xiaoli.dong@mail.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212282.