April 2003 Preprints

Hiroya Abe, Makio Naito, Kiyoshi Nogi, Motohide Matsuda, Michihiro Miyake, Satoshi Ohara, Akira Kondo, and Takehisa Fukui, "Low temperature formation of superconducting MgB2 phase from elements by mechanical milling." To be published in Physica C (in press). Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; tel./fax 81 6 6879 8660; e-mail h-abe@jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2, mechanical milling, composite particles. 74.62.Yb; 74.70.Ad.

L. M. Abreu, A. P. C. Malbouisson, J. M. C. Malbouisson, and A. E. Santana, "Large-N transition temperature for superconducting films in a magnetic field." A. P. C. Malbouisson's e-mail adolfo@cbpf.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304664.

A. A. Abrikosov, "Metal-insulator transition in layered cuprates (SDW model)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439; tel. 630 252 5482; fax 630 252 7777; e-mail abrikosov@anl.gov. 75.30.Fv; 75.30.Kz; 75.50.Ee; 74.25.Jb; 71.15.Fv.

C. P. Adams, J. W. Lynn, V. N. Smolyaninova, A. Biswas, R. L. Greene, W. Ratcliff II, S-W. Cheong, Y. M. Mukovskii, and D. A. Shulyatev, "First-order nature of the ferromagnetic phase transition in (La-Ca)MnO3 near optimal doping." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail cadams@stfx.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304034.

A. S. Alexandrov, V. N. Zavaritsky, and S. Dzhumanov, "Hall effect and resistivity in underdoped cuprates." E-mail a.s.alexandrov@lboro.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304152.

M. H. S. Amin, "Quasiparticle Decoherence in d-wave Superconducting Qubits." E-mail amin@dwavesys.com; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304255.

M. Ya. Amusia and V. R. Shaginyan, "Magnetic Field-Induced Landau Fermi Liquid in High-Tc Metals." V. R. Shaginyan's e-mail vasily@phys.huji.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304432.

Yoichi Ando, X. F. Sun, J. Takeya, and Seiki Komiya, "Peculiar roles of spins in the thermal conductivity of pure and doped La{2}CuO{4}: Comparison with CuGeO{3}." Invited paper at LT23 Conference; Physica B. E-mail ando@criepi.denken.or.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304569.

N. Andrenacci and H. Beck, "Internal structure of preformed Cooper pairs." E-mail natascia.andrenacci@unine.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304084.

M. Angst, D. Di Castro, R. Puzniak, A. Wisniewski, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, S. Kohout, and H. Keller, "Anisotropic properties of MgB2 by torque magnetometry." Submitted to Physica C (M2S-Rio proceedings). E-mail angst@physik.unizh.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304400.

P. I. Arseev., N. K. Fedorov, and S. O. Loiko, "Effect of symmetry of the electron states of HTSC on the current-voltage characteristics of SIS junctions." JETP, vol. 94. N. K. Fedorov's e-mail fedorov@lpi.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304525.

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

Ryan Barnett, Eugene Demler, and Efthimios Kaxiras, "Electron-phonon interaction in small-radius carbon nanotubes." E-mail rbarnett@fas.harvard.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0305006.

Romain Bel, Kamran Behnia, Cyril Proust, Peter van der Linden, Duncan Maude, and Sergey I. Vedeneev, "Verification of the Wiedemann-Franz law in an optimally-doped cuprate." Kamran Behnia's e-mail kamran.behnia@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304111.

I. S. Beloborodov, F. W. J. Hekking, and F. Pistolesi, "Influence of thermal fluctuations on an underdamped Josephson tunnel junction." To be published in the Proceedings of the NATO-ASI "New Directions in Mesoscopic Physics" (Erice, 2002). F. W. J. Hekking's e-mail frank.hekking@grenoble.cnrs.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304102.

Oleg Berman and Shaul Mukamel, "Generalized Coherent State Derivation of TDDFT Equations for Superconductors." E-mail berman@chem.rochester.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304531.

Bogdan A. Bernevig, Zaira Nazario, and David I. Santiago, "On Vortices and Phase Coherence in High Tc Superconductors." David I. Santiago's e-mail david@small.stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304419.

R. Besseling, O. Benningshof, N. Kokubo, and P. H. Kes, "Vortex lattice dynamics in a-NbGe detected by mode-locking experiments." Contribution to M2S-HTSC Rio. E-mail rbessel@phys.leidenuniv.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304046.

Etienne Boaknin, M. A. Tanatar, Johnpierre Paglione, D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, J. Sonier, S. M. Hayden, and J. W. Brill, "Multiband superconductivity in NbSe2 from heat transport." Submitted to M2S-Rio 2003 Proceedings. Johnpierre Paglione's e-mail paglione@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304499.

A. V. Bobyl, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, A. A. F. Olsen, T. H. Johansen, W. N. Kang, and S. I. Lee, "Mesoscopic flux jumps in MgB2 films visualized by magneto-optical imaging." Proceedings of M2S-Rio. D. V. Shantsev's e-mail daniel.shantsev@fys.uio.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304603.

V. N. Bogomolov, "Superconductivity of the two-component non-stoichiometric compounds with incommensurate sublattices." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304561.

B. H. Brandow, "Strongly anisotropic s-wave gaps in exotic superconductors." To be published in Philosophical Magazine. Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

Ernst Helmut Brandt, "Properties of the Ideal Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Lattice." E-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304237.

A. Carrington, P. J. Meeson, J. R. Cooper, L. Balicas, N. E. Hussey, E. A. Yelland, S. Lee, A. Yamamoto, S. Tajima, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski, "Determination of the Fermi Surface of MgB2 by the de Haas-van Alphen effect." E-mail a.carrington@bris.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304435.

Yan Chen and C. S. Ting, "States of Local Moment Induced by Nonmagnetic Impurities in Cuprate Superconductors." E-mail ychen@mira.tcs.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304646.

J. A. Clayhold, T. S. Fleming, and M. J. Skove, "Measuring the electrical charge of magnetic vortices in type-II superconductors: experimental design and data analysis." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Kinard Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0978; tel. 864 656 7869; fax 864 656 0805; e-mail jclayho@clemson.edu. 74.60.Ec; 74.25.Jb; 74.76.Bz.

T. Dahm, S. Graser, and N. Schopohl, "Fermi surface topology and vortex state in MgB2." E-mail dahm@uni-tuebingen.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304194.

Shanti Deemyad and James S. Schilling, "Superconducting Phase Diagram of Li Metal to 67 GPa." Submitted for publication. James S. Schilling's e-mail schill@wuphys.wustl.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304598.

Olga V. Dimitrova and M. V. Feigelman, "Phase diagram of a surface superconductor in parallel magnetic field." E-mail olgadim@itp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304445.

G. L. Dorofeev, E. P. Krasnoperov, Yu. D. Kuroedov, and V. S. Vyatkin, "Thermomagnetic instability evolution along a superconducting wire." E. P.Krasnoperov's e-mail kep@isssph.kiae.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304264.

C. A. M. dos Santos, M. S. da Luz, B. Ferreira, and A. J. S. Machado, "On the transport properties in granular or weakly coupled superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Grupo de Supercondutividade, Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Polo Urbo Industrial Gleba AI-6, FAENQUIL, 12600-000 Lorena SP, Brazil; tel. 55 12 315 99911; fax 55 12 553 3006; e-mail cams@demar.faenquil.br. Key words: granular superconductors, broadening of the superconducting transition, Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-d polycrystalline samples. 74.25.Fy; 74.50.+r; 74.72.-h.

Steven C. Erwin and I. I. Mazin, "Toward one-band superconductivity in MgB2." E-mail erwin@dave.nrl.navy.mil; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304456.

Zahra Faraii and Malek Zareyan, "Unconventional superconducting states induced in a ferromagnet by a d-wave superconductor." Malek Zareyan's e-mail zareyan@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304336.

Behnam Farid, "On the (anisotropic) uniform metallic ground states of fermions interacting through arbitrary two-body potentials in d dimensions." E-mail B.Farid@phys.uu.nl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304350.

I. Felner and E. Galstyan, "Competition of Superconductivity and Magnetism in MoSr2R1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10-d (R=Rare-earth, Mo-1222)." Submitted to PRB. E-mail israela@vms.huji.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304552.

I. Felner , E. Galstyan ,V. P. S. Awana, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, "Magnetism and Superconductivity in RuM1.5Ce0.5Sr2Cu2O10 (M=Eu and Y)." Submitted to M2S-HTSC-IIV Rio, May 2003. E-mail israela@vms.huji.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304607.

Shiping Feng, Jihong Qin, and Tianxing Ma, "Gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon description of the normal-state of underdoped cuprates." E-mail spfeng@sun.ihep.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304042.

V. Ferrando, C. Bernini, P. Manfrinetti, D. Marre', M. Putti, C. Tarantini, and C. Ferdeghini, "Upper critical fields of MgB2 thin films." Submitted to Physica C (M2S-Rio proceedings). E-mail ferrandov@ge.infm.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304478.

V. Ferrando, D. Marre, P. Manfrinetti, I. Pallecchi, C. Tarantini, and C. Ferdeghini, "Pulsed Laser Deposition of epitaxial titanium diboride thin films." In press, Thin Solid Films. E-mail ferrandov@ge.infm.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304680.

L. M. Fisher, A. Bobyl, T. H. Johansen, A. L. Rakhmanov, V. A. Yampol'skii, A. V. Bondarenko, and M. A. Obolenskii, "Direct Demonstration of the Anisotropic Origin of the Macroturbulent Instability in Type-II Superconductors." Submitted to Physical Review Letters. E-mail fisher@vei.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304345.

A. M. Fogg, J. B. Claridge, G. R. Darling, and M. J. Rosseinsky, "Synthesis and characterisation of LixBC - hole doping does not induce superconductivity." In press, Chem. Comm. E-mail afogg@liverpool.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304662.

Ya. V. Fominov, A. A. Golubov, and M. Yu. Kupriyanov, "Decoherence due to nodal quasiparticles in d-wave qubits." Submitted to JETP Letters. E-mail fominov@landau.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304383.

M. L. Foo, R. E. Schaak, V. L. Miller, T. Klimczuk, N. S. Rogado, Yayu Wang, G. C. Lau, C. Craley, H. W. Zandbergen, N. P. Ong, and R. J. Cava, "Chemical Instability of the Cobalt Oxyhydrate Superconductor under Ambient Conditions." E-mail mfoo@princeton.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304464.

H. Freire, E. Correa, and A. Ferraz, "Curvature and truncation for a flat Fermi surface." A Ferraz' e-mail aferraz@unb.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304347.

L. Fruchter, "Continuous melting of a driven two-dimensional flux lattice with strong pins." E-mail fruchter@lps.u-psud.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304523.

H. P. Goeckner, R. J. Olson, W. K. Kwok, H. Claus, and J. S. Kouvel, "Effects of Pb-ion irradiation on the vortex pinning in melt-textured YBa2Cu3Ox." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607-7059; tel. 312 996 5348; fax 312 996 9016; e-mail kouvel@uic.edu. Key words: melt-textured YBCO, Pb-ion irradiation, effects on vortex pinning. 74.60.Ge; 74.70.Jm.

R. Gonczarek and M. Krzyzosiak, "Some universal relations between the gap and thermodynamic functions plausible for various models of superconductors." To be published in Physica Status Solidi (B) (in press). Contact M. Krzyzosiak, Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland; e-mail mkrzyz@if.pwr.wroc.pl. Key words: energy gap amplitude, thermodynamic functions, specific heat, spin-singlet states. 74.20.-z; 74.25.Bt.

D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, Mike Sutherland, Etienne Boaknin, M. A. Tanatar, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Wakimoto, H. Zhang, and Louis Taillefer, "Field-induced thermal metal-to-insulator transition in underdoped LSCO." Submitted to M2S-Rio 2003. Johnpierre Paglione's e-mail paglione@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304495.

Ch. Helm, L. N. Bulaevskii, D. A. Ryndyk, J. Keller, S. Rother, Y. Koval, P. Muller, and R. Kleiner, "Electronic compressibility and charge imbalance relaxation in cuprate superconductors." To be published in Physica C as a proceeding of M2S-HTSC Rio 2003. E-mail helm@phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304167. Key words: intrinsic Josephson effect, optical spectroscopy, transport, charge imbalance, Bi, SmLash{1-x}sh{4-\delta}. 74.25.Gz; 74.50.+r; 74.72.-h.

R. Hlubina, M. Grajcar, and J. Mraz, "Josephson effect as a measure of quantum fluctuations in the cuprates." E-mail hlubina@fmph.uniba.sk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304213.

Carsten Honerkamp, "Instabilities of interacting electrons on the triangular lattice." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail carsten@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304460.

J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, and S. X. Dou, "The effect of sample size on field dependence of Jc for MgB2 superconductor." E-mail jhorvat@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304004.

Hui-Fen Huang and Jun-Fa Mao, "Tunable high Tc superconducting resonator using nonlinear equivalent inductance for Josephson junction." To be published in Physica C (in press). Electronic Eningeering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China. Key words: Josephson junction, tunable ring resonator, nonlinear inductance. 74.50.+r; 85.25.-j; 85.25.Am.

Neil C. Hyatt and Ian Gameson, "The crystal structure of Hg0.75Mo0.25Sr2CuO4+d, determined by neutron powder diffraction." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Engineering Materials, The Universityof Sheffield, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S1 3JD, UK; tel. 44 114 222 5973; fax 44 114 222 5943; e-mail n.c.hyatt@sheffield.ac.uk. Key words: high-temperature superconductor, crystal structure, neutron diffraction. 74.72.Jt; 61.12.-q; 61.66.-f; 74.72.-h.

Masanori Ichioka, Noriyuki Nakai, and Kazushige Machida, "On Superconducting Double Transition in PrOs4Sb12." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jp. E-mail oka@mp.okayama-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304538.

A. Ignatov, S. Y. Savrasov, and T. A. Tyson, "Superconductivity near instability in MgCNi3." S. Y. Savrasov's e-mail savrasov@oak.njit.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304466.

B. B. Jin, T. Dahm, A. I. Gubin, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun Jung Kim, Sung-IK Lee, W. N. Kang, and N. Klein, "Anomalous coherence peak in c-axis MgB2 thin film." E-mail b.b.jin@fz-juelich.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304051.

Yogesh N. Joglekar, A. H. Castro Neto, and Alexander V. Balatsky, "Nodal Cooper-pair stabilized phase dynamics in granular d-wave superconductors." E-mail yojoglek@hymer.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304536.

P. Jiji Thomas Joseph and Prabhakar P. Singh, "Theoretical Study of Electronic Structure and Superconductivity in Nb(1-x)B2 Alloys." Prabhakar P. Singh's e-mail ppsingh@phy.iitb.ac.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304437.

C. U. Jung, J. Y. Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, and Mun-Seog Kim, "Effect of the magnetic moments of Gd on the superconductivity in the infinite-layer superconductor Sr0.9Gd0.1CuO2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Tokura Spin Superstructure Project, ERATO, JST, AIST Tsukuba Central 4, Room 2111, Ibaraki 3058562, Japan; tel. 81 298 612 579; fax 81 298 612 586; e-mail cu-jung@aist.go.jp. Key words: infinite layer, high pressure, electron doped, pinning. 74.25.Ha; 74.60.-w; 74.60.Ge; 74.60.Jg; 74.72.-h.

M. H. Jung, H. C. Kim, F. Galli, and J. A. Mydosh, "Magnetic field and pressure effects on charge density wave, superconducting, and magnetic states in Lu5Ir4Si{10} and Er5Ir4Si{10}." E-mail mhjung@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304328.

B. Kalisky, Y. Wolfus, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Coexisting ordered and disordered vortex phases in BSCCO." To be published in Physica C; Proceedings of LT23. E-mail ph50@mail.biu.ac.il. Key words: vortex states, vortex phase diagram, magneto-optics, BSCCO. 74.60.Ge; 64.60.My; 74.72.Hs.

B. Kalisky, D. Giller, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Non-equilibrium order-disorder vortex transitions in BSCCO." To be published in PRB. E-mail ph50@mail.biu.ac.il. Key words: vortex states, vortex phase diagram, magneto-optics, BSCCO. 74.60.Ge; 64.60.My; 74.72.Hs.

J. Karpinski, S. M. Kazakov, J. Jun, N. D. Zhigadlo, M. Angst, R. Puzniak, and A. Wisniewski, "MgB2 and Mg1-xAlxB2 single crystals: high-pressure growth and physical properties." Submitted to Physica C (M2S-Rio proceedings). S. M. Kazakov's e-mail kazakov@solid.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304658.

A. A. Katanin and A. P. Kampf, "Renormalization group analysis of magnetic and superconducting instabilities near van Hove band fillings." E-mail andrey.katanin@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304189.

S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, J. Jun, P. Geiser, N. D. Zhigadlo, R. Puzniak, and A. V. Mironov, "Single crystal growth and properties of MgB2 and Mg(B1-xCx)2." Submitted to Physica C (M2S-Rio proceedings). E-mail kazakov@solid.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304656.

G. C. Kim, B. J. Kim, M. Y. Cheon, and Y. C. Kim, "Variation of pinning mechanism in Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2CaCu2O8+d single crystal." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, South Korea; tel. 82 51 510 2224; fax 82 51 513 7664; e-mail gckim@pusan.ac.kr. Key words: flux pinning, peak effect, magnetization. 74.60.-w; 74.60.Ge; 74.60.Jg.

Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio, and J. P. Carbotte, "Wiedemann-Franz violation in the vortex state of a d-wave superconductor." To be published in Physica C as a proceeding of M2S-HTSC Rio 2003. E-mail kimw@violet.physics.mcmaster.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304220.

A. Koitzsch, G. Blumberg, A. Gozar, B. S. Dennis, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene, "Low-energy excitations around (\pi/2, \pi/2) points in the pseudogap phase of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4." G. Blumberg's e-mail girsh@physics.bell-labs.com; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304175.

K. Kokko, V. Kulmala, J. A. Leiro, and W. Hergert, "Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra of magnesium diboride." E-mail kokko@utu.fi; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304682.

Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and S. N. Shevchenko, "Nonlocal mixing of supercurrents in Josephson ballistic point contact." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. A. N. Omelyanchouk's e-mail omelyanchouk@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304317.

Hiroshi Kontani, "Origin of the Superconductivity in \beta'-(BEDT-TTF)2ICl2 under High Pressure and \beta-(BEDT-TTF)2X at Ambient Pressure." To be published in Physical Review B Rapid Communications. E-mail kon@phy.saitama-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304452.

Maxim M. Korshunov, Sergei G. Ovchinnikov, and Alexei V. Sherman, "Spin fluctuations influence on quasiparticle spectrum of realistic p-d model." Submitted to ICM 2003 Conference. E-mail mkor@iph.krasn.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304147.

V. N. Krivoruchko and E. A. Koshina, "Critical current of a S/F-I-N/S tunnel structure in a parallel magnetic field." E-mail krivoruc@krivoruc.fti.ac.donetsk.ua; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304155.

Brijesh Kumar and B. Sriram Shastry, "Superconductivity in CoO2 Layers and the Resonating Valence Bond Mean Field Theory of the Triangular Lattice t-J model." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail brij@physics.iisc.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304210.

Ivan Kupcic, "In-plane optical features of the underdoped La2CuO4 based compounds: theoretical multiband analysis." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, POB 331, HR-10 002 Zagreb, Croatia; fax 385 1 4680 336; e-mail kupcic@phy.hr. Key words: superconductivity, high-Tc cuprates, La2-xSrxCuO4, optical properties, conductivity sum rules, Raman vertex functions. 74.25.Gz; 74.25.Nf.

Yuriy I. Kuzmin and Mladen Prester, "Initial dissipation and current-voltage characteristics of superconductors containing fractal clusters of a normal phase." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail yurk@mail.ioffe.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304354.

I. l. Landau and H. R. Ott, "Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of high-Tc superconductors from isothermal magnetization data. Influence of a temperature dependent Ginzburg-Landau parameter." E-mail landau@solid.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304308.

A. G. Lebed, "Field-Induced Spin-Density-Wave Phases in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors: Theory versus Experiment." Physical Review Letters, v. 88. E-mail lebed@mail.bc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304406.

A. G. Lebed and M. J. Naughton, "Interference Commensurate Oscillations in Q1D Conductors." E-mail lebed@mail.bc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304591.

Sung- Sik Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, "Holon-pair boson theory based on the U(1) and SU(2) slave-boson approaches to the t-J Hamiltonian." Sung-Ho Suck Salk's e-mail salk@postech.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304293.

E. Liarokapis, D. Palles, D. Lampakis, G. Boettger, K. Conder, and E. Kaldis, "Phase separation in fully oxygenated Y{1-y}Ca_yBa2Cu3O_x compounds." Submitted to PRB. E-mail eliaro@central.ntua.gr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304017.

Tomas Lofwander, Mikael Fogelstrom and J. A. Sauls, "Shot noise in normal metal-d-wave superconducting junctions." E-mail tomas@snowmass.phys.nwu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304588.

B. Lorenz, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu, "Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Superconductivity in NaxCoO2.yH2O." E-mail blorenz@bayou.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304537.

P. A. Marchetti, L. De Leo, G. Orso, Z. B. Su, and L. Yu, "Spin-Charge gauge approach to 'Pseudogap': theory versus experiments." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. G. Orso's e-mail orso@sissa.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304408.

Veronica Marconi, Alejandro Kolton, Daniel Dominguez, and Niels Gronbech-Jensen, "Transverse phase-locking in fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays: a new type of fractional giant steps." Daniel Dominguez' e-mail domingd@cab.cnea.gov.ar; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304402.

D. Marinaro, J. Horvat, S. X. Dou, R. Weinstein, and A. Gandini, "Effects of Fission-Fragment Damage on Vortex Dimensionality in Silver-sheathed Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox Tapes." J. Horvat's e-mail jhorvat@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304142.

H. Matsui, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, S.-C. Wang, H.-B. Yang, H. Ding, T. Fujii, T. Watanabe, and A. Matsuda, "BCS-like Bogoliubov Quasiparticle in High-Tc Superconductors Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy." To be published in Physical Review Letters. E-mail h.matsui@arpes.phys.tohoku.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304505.

Masashige Matsumoto, Cyril Belardinelli, and Manfred Sigrist, "Upper Critical Field of the 3 Kelvin Phase in Sr2RuO4." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 72 No. 7 (2003). E-mail spmmatu@itp.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304510.

Marcin Mierzejewski and Maciej M. Maska, "Critical field in a model with local pairs." Maciej M. Maska's e-mail maciek@phys.us.edu.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304559.

G. P. Mikitik and E. H. Brandt, "Effect of pinning on the vortex-lattice melting line in type-II superconductors." E. H. Brandt's e-mail ehb@physix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304380.

Petter Minnhagen and Beom Jun Kim, "Direct Evidence of the Discontinuous Character of the Kosterlitz-Thouless Jump." To appear in PRB. Beom Jun Kim's e-mail beomjun@ajou.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304226.

Dirk K. Morr and Roy H. Nyberg, "Localized Bosonic Modes in Superconductors." E-mail dkmorr@uic.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304169.

Dirk K. Morr and Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos, "Quantum Corrals, Eigenmodes and Quantum Mirages in s-wave Superconductors." E-mail dkmorr@uic.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304533.

A. V. Nikulov, "Reply to Comment on 'Quantum Force in a Superconductor'." E-mail nikulov@ipmt-hpm.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304313.

Masao Ogata, "Superconducting States in Frustrating t-J Model." E-mail ogata@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304405.

Yoji Ohashi, "Bound State and Order Parameter Mixing Effect by Nonmagnetic Impurity Scattering in Two-band Superconductors." J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 71. E-mail ohashi@cm.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304473.

C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, R. T. Scalettar, G. T. Zimanyi, and N. Gronbech-Jensen, "Metastability and Transient Effects in Vortex Matter Near a Decoupling Transition." To appear in PRB. E-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304352.

C. J. Olson and C. Reichhardt, "Simulations of Noise in Disordered Systems." SPIE Conference on Fluctuations and Noise 2003, invited contribution. E-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304353.

Peter Olsson and S. Teitel, "Kink-Antikink Unbinding Transition in the Two Dimensional Fully Frustrated XY Model." S. Teitel's e-mail stte@pas.rochester.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304593.

Y. Ono and K. Sano, "Magnetism and Superconductivity in a Two-band Hubbard Model in Infinite Dimensions." Proceedings of the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electrons with Orbital Degrees of Freedom (ORBITAL2001); J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 71. E-mail c42545a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304624.

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 quantum critical point in CeCoIn5." Submitted to M2S-Rio 2003 Proceedings. E-mail paglione@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304497.

C. Panagopoulos, T. Xiang, W. Anakool, J. R. Cooper, Y. S. Wang, and C. W. Chu, "Superfluid response in monolayer high-Tc cuprates." E-mail txiang@itp.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304043.

Thomas P. Papageorgiou, Hans F. Braun, Tobias Goerlach, Marc Uhlarz, and Hilbert v. Loehneysen, "Towards universal magnetization curves in the superconducting state of RuSr2GdCu2O8." E-mail thomas.papageo@uni-bayreuth.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304263.

A. Pautrat, A. Daignere, C. Goupil, Ch. Simon, B. Andrzejewski, A. I. Rykov, and S. Tajima, "Electrodynamics of the vortex lattice in untwinned YBaCuO by complex impedance measurements." Accepted for publication in EPJB. E-mail alain.pautrat@ismra.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304488.

J. C. Phillips, "Nanoscopic Filters as the Origin of d Wave Energy Gaps." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304501.

J. C. Phillips, "Network Topology and Subgap Resonances Observed by Fourier Transform Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304500.

A. Poddar, B. Bandyopadhyay, P. Mandal, D. Bhattacharya, P. Choudhury, U. Sinha, and B. Ghosh, "Studies of transport properties of MgB2 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064, India; tel. 91 337 534549; fax 91 33 3374637; e-mail poddar@cmp.saha.ernet.in. Key words: superconductor, resistivity, thermopower, thermal conductivity.

A. V. Pogrebnyakov, J. M. Redwing, J. E. Jones, X. X. Xi, S. Y. Xu, Q. Li, V. Vaithyanathan, and D. G. Schlom, "Thickness dependence of the properties of epitaxial MgB2 thin films grown by hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition." E-mail avp11@psu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304164.

M. Babaei Pour, D. K. Ross, P. A. Gorgiev, B. Khoshnevisan, and A. Yazdani, "Oxygen non-stoichiometry of bismuth-based Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (Bi-2212) high-temperature superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact D. K. Ross, Institute for Material Research, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK; tel. 44 161 2955881; fax 44 161 2955147; e-mail d.k.ross@salford.ac.uk.

Amit Pratap and Govind, "Normal state Fermi surface of cuprates: effects of bilayer interactions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Integrated Optics Group, Laser Science and Technology Center, Metcalfe House, Delhi 110 054, India. 71.25.Hc; 74.72.Hs; 79.60.Bm.

J. Quintanilla and B. L. Gyorffy, "Cooper pairing with finite angular momentum: BCS vs Bose limits." Proceedings of SCENM02 (to appear in J. Phys. A). E-mail quintanj@thsun11.ph.bham.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304462.

S. Rayaprol, K. Mavani, C. M. Thaker, D. S. Rana, R. G. Kulkarni, D. G. Kuberkar, D. Kundaliya, and S. K. Malik, "Effect of Mo-substitution on superconductivity, flux pinning and critical currents of La1.5Nd0.5Ca1Ba2Cu5Oz." To be published in Physica C (in press). Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India; tel. 91 281 571811; fax 91 281 77885; e-mail sudhindra@tifr.res.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304602. Key words: superconductivity, La-2125, Mo-substitution, critical current density, flux pinning. 74.25.Ha; 74.60.Ge.

S. Reich, G. Leitus, and S. Shalev, "Measurement of corrosion content of archaeological lead artifacts by their Meissner response in the superconducting state; a new dating method." E-mail shimon.reich@weizmann.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304238.

J. G. Rodrigo, H. Suderow, and S. Vieira, "Superconducting nanobridges under magnetic fields." Phys. Stat. Sol. (B) 237, No. 1. E-mail jose.rodrigo@uam.es; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304560.

J. Roehler, "Intraplanar couplings in the CuO2 lattice of cuprate superconductors." Submitted to Physica C (Proc. M2S-HTSC-VII). E-mail abb12@uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304628.

Hiroya Sakurai, Kazunori Takada, Shunsuke Yoshii, Takayoshi Sasaki, Koichi Kindo, and Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, "Unconventional Upper- and Lower-Critical Fields and Normal-State Magnetic Susceptibility of the Novel Superconducting Compound Na{0.35}CoO{2}\cdot1.3H{2}O." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail sakurai.hiroya@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304503.

Kazuhiro Sano and Yoshiaki Ono, "Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity in the multi-orbital Hubbard Model: Hund's Rule Coupling versus Crystal-Field Splitting." Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail l46682a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304620.

E. Schachinger, J. J. Tu, and J. P. Carbotte, "ARPES and optical renormalizations: phonons or spin fluctuations." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail schachinger@itp.tu-graz.ac.at; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304029.

P. Schilbe, K. Luders, M. Baenitz, D. A. Pavlov, I. Bryntse, A. Abakumov, and E. V. Antipov, "Irreversibility fields of the high-Tc superconductors Hg-1212 and (Hg,Tl)-1212." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, Arnimalle 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; tel. 49 30 838 52802; fax 49 30 838 51355; e-mail schilbe@physik.fu-berlin.de. Key words: high-Tc superconductors, mercury superconductors, irreversibility fields. 74.60.Ge; 74.72.Gr.

Guido Schmid and Matthias Troyer, "On the Melting of Bosonic Stripes." E-mail gschmid@itp.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304657.

K. P. Schmidt, C. Knetter, M. Gruninger, and G. S. Uhrig, "Charge order induced sharp Raman peak in Sr14Cu24O41." Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 167201 (2003). G. S. Uhrig's e-mail gu@thp.uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0210092.

I. A. Sergienko and S. H. Curnoe, "Structural order parameter and itinerant electron magnetism in Cd2Re2O7." Submitted to the Proceedings of ICM 2003, Rome. E-mail isergien@physics.mun.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304582.

S. G. Sharapov, V. P. Gusynin, and H. Beck, "d-density wave state in an external magnetic field." Submitted to M2S-Rio 2003 Proceedings. E-mail sergei.sharapov@unine.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304574.

Hiroshi Shimahara, "Internal Transition of Superconducting State by Impurity Doping with a Jump of Isotope Effect Coefficient in Multi-Band Superconductors." E-mail simahara@minerva.ias.hiroshima-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304516.

S. Shirai, H. Tsuchiura, Y. Asano, Y. Tanaka, J. Inoue, Y. Tanuma, and S. Kashiwaya, "Josephson effect in d-wave superconductor junctions in a lattice model." Y. Tanuma's e-mail tanuma@n.kanagawa-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304074.

D. D. Shivagan, P. M. Shirage, L. A. Ekal, and S. H. Pawar, "Room Temperature Electrochemical Synthesis of Hg-1212 Superconducting Thin Films." Submitted to Physica C. S. H. Pawar's e-mail shpawar_phy@unishivaji.ac.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304566.

T. Silver, J. Horvat, M. Reinhard, Y. Pei, S. Keshavarzi, P. Munroe, and S. X. Dou, "Uranium Doping and Thermal Neutron Irradiation Flux Pinning Effects in MgB2." J. Horvat's e-mail jhorvat@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304070.

D. J. Singh, "Quantum Critical Behavior and Possible Triplet Superconductivity in Electron Doped CoO2 Sheets." E-mail singh@dave.nrl.navy.mil; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304532.

Prabhakar P. Singh, "Carbon Doping in MgB2: Role of Boron and Carbon p_x(y) Bands." E-mail ppsingh@phy.iitb.ac.in; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304436.

A. Snezhko, R. Prozorov, D. D. Lawrie, R. W. Giannetta, J. Gauthier, J. Renaud, and P. Fournier, "Nodal Order Parameter in Electron-Doped Superconducting Films Pr(2-x)Ce(x)CuO(4-y) (x=0.13, 0.15 and 0.17)." E-mail snezhko@physics.sc.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304280.

V. N. Strocov, R. Claessen, and P. Blaha, "Origin of the photoemission final-state effects in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 by very-low-energy electron diffraction." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail F1XVS@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0210203.

X. F. Sun, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando, "Heat transport of La{2-y}Eu_yCuO4 and La{1.88-y}Eu_ySr{0.12}CuO4 single crystals." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail ko-xfsun@criepi.denken.or.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304126.

Mike Sutherland, D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, S. Wakimoto, H. Zhang, C. Proust, E. Boaknin, C. Lupien, M. A. Tanatar, J. Paglione, R. Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and Louis Taillefer, "Doping dependence of superconducting gap in YBa2Cu3O_y from universal heat transport." Submitted to M2S-Rio 2003 Proceedings. J. Paglione's e-mail paglione@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304498.

Akihiro Tanaka and Xiao Hu, "Possible spin triplet superconductivity in Na_xCoO{2}\cdot yH{2}0." E-mail tanaka.akihiro@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304409.

Nizam A.Taylanov, "Thermomagnetic shock waves in the vortex state of type-II superconductors." Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304298.

U. Thisted, J. Nyhus, T. Suzuki, J. Hori, and K. Fossheim, "Strong diamagnetic response and specific heat anomaly above Tc in underdoped La(2-x)Sr_xCuO4." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail ulrik.thisted@phys.ntnu.no; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304009.

P. Toulemonde and P. Odier, "Enhancement of Tc by Sr substitution for Ba in Hg-2212 superconductor." Submitted to Physica C. E-mail pierre.toulemonde@lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304373.

P. Toulemonde, P. Odier, P. Bordet, S. Le Floch, and E. Suard, "Chemical pressure effect of Sr on superconductivity in Hg2(Ba1-ySry)2YCu2O8-d." Submitted to Physical Review B. E-mail pierre.toulemonde@physics.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0207395.

Tsong-Ru Tsai, Cheng-Chung Chi, and Sheng-Fu Horng, "Terahertz responses of high-resistivity YBCO thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Cheng-Chung Chi, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan, ROC; tel. 886 3 571 5131; fax 886 3 571 3113; e-mail cchi@phys.nthu.edu.tw. 74.76.-w; 74.25.Nf; 74.72.Bk; 78.70.Gq.

S. Tsuda, R. Eguchi, A. Kosuge, T. Yokoya, A. Fukushima, S. Shin, A. Chainani, S. Otani, Y. Takano, K. Togano, and H. Kito, "X-ray absorption and resonant photoemission spectroscopy of ZrB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan; tel./fax 81 4 7136 3545; e-mail tsuda@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2 related compounds, photoemission. 78.70.Dm; 79.60.-i; 71.20.Lp.

S. Uthayakumar, E. Srinivasan, R. Jayavel, C. Subramanian, and T. Endo, "Growth of Bi2Sr2Ca(Cu1-xMnx)2O8 bulk textured crystals by IHFZ technique." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact R. Jayavel, Opto-Single Crystal Group, Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Research Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan; tel. 81 298 51 3354x2520; fax 81 298 51 6159; e-mail rjvel@hotmail.com. Key words: magnetic substitution, superconductors, immersed heater floating zone. 74.72.Hs; 74.62.Dh.

D. Y. Vodolazov, F. M. Peeters, L. Piraux, S. Matefi-Tempfli, and S. Michotte, "Current-voltage characteristics of quasi-one-dimensional superconductors: An S-curve in the constant voltage regime." E-mail denis@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304193.

Khee-Kyun Voo, Hong-Yi Chen, and W. C. Wu, "Comment on 'Relating atomic-scale electronic phenomena to wave-like quasiparticle states in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O{8+\delta'." W. C. Wu's e-mail wu@phy.ntnu.edu.tw; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304675.

T. Vuletic, B. Korin-Hamzic, S. Tomic, B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, M. Dressel, J. Akimitsu, T. Sasaki, and T. Nagata, "Variable-range hopping conductivity in the copper-oxygen chains of La3Sr3Ca8Cu24O41." Accepted for publication in PRB. E-mail tvuletic@ifs.hr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0212439.

H. Wada, M. Migita, E. S. Otabe, M. Kiuchi, T. Matsushita, Y. Mawatari, H. Yamasaki, and Y. Nakagawa, "Numerical calculation of critical current density and third harmonic voltage in superconducting films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact E. S. Otabe, Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka 820-8502, Japan; tel./fax 81 948 29 7683; e-mail otabe@cse.kyutech.ac.jp. Key words: critical current, superconducting films, FEM. 74.25.Sv; 74.76.-w; 02.70.Dh.

Qiang-Hua Wang, Dung-Hai Lee, and Patrick A. Lee, "Doped t-J Model on a Triangular Lattice: Possible Application to Na_xCoO2\cdot yH20 and Na{1-x}TiO2." Dung-Hai Lee's e-mail dunghai@socrates.berkeley.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304377.

Zheng-Yu Weng, "Understanding High Tc Superconductivity." Invited talk at the International Symposium on Frontiers of Science in celebration of the 80th birthday of Prof. Chen Ning Yang. E-mail weng@castu.tsinghua.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304261.

Zheng-Yu Weng, Yi Zhou, and V. N. Muthukumar, "Antiferromagnetism and d-wave superconductivity in (doped) Mott insulators: A wave function approach." E-mail weng@castu.tsinghua.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304388.

John A. Wilson, "Novel results in STM, ARPES, HREELS, Nernst, neutron, Raman, and isotope substitution experiments and their relation to bosonic modes and charge inhomogeneity, from perspective of negative-Ueff boson-fermion modelling of HTSC." Submitted to J. Phys. Cond. Matt. Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304661.

W. Wong-Ng, L. J. Swartzendruber, J. A. Kaduk, and L. H. Bennett, "Magnetic and structural properties of the 'brown phase' solid solution Ba(Nd2-xLax)CuO5." To be published in Physica C (in press). Material Science and Engineering Laboratory, Materials Building, Rm A-207, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899; tel. 301 975 5791; fax 301 975 5334/5791; e-mail winnie.wong-ng@nist.gov. Key words: Ba(Nd2-xLax)CuO5, ferromagnetism, crystal structure, superconductor-related.

Bai-Mei Wu, Dong-Sheng Yang, Wei-Hua Zeng, Shi-Yan Li, Bo Li, Rong Fan, Xian-Hui Chen, Lie-Zhao Cao, and Marcel Ausloos, "Two band gap field-dependent thermal conductivity of MgB2." Marcel Ausloos' e-mail marcel.ausloos@ulg.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304416.

Y. Y. Xue, F. Chen, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, and C. W. Chu, "Separation Between Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Transitions in Ru1-xCu_xSr2EuCu2O8+d." C. W. Chu's e-mail tchristensen@uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304163.

H. Yamagata, H. Miyamoto, K. Nakamura, M. Matsumura, and Y. Itoh, "Cu Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Study of La{2-x}Sr_xCu{1-y}ZnyO4 (x=0.10, 0.15 and 0.20): Zn-induced Wipeout Effect near the Magnetic and Electric Instability." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 72, No. 7 (2003). Y. Itoh's e-mail itoh@istec.or.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304477.

Oron Zachar, "New Model and Numerical Test of a High Temperature Pairing Mechanism in Stripes." E-mail zachar@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304470.

A. Zenchuk and E. Goldobin, "Analytical analysis of ground states on 0-\pi long Josephson junctions." Submited to PRE. E. Goldobin's e-mail gold@uni-tuebingen.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/nlin.PS/0304053.

Degang Zhang and C. S. Ting, "The Energy-dependent Checkerboard Patterns in Cuprate Superconductors." E-mail dgzhang@mira.tcs.uh.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0304176.

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