December 2003 Preprints

Myung-Ho Bae and Hu-Jong Lee, "Collective resonance modes of Josephson vortices in sandwiched stack of Bi{2}Sr{2}CaCu{2}O{8+x} intrinsic Josephson junctions." E-mail pae11@postech.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312452.

R. A. Barankov, L. S. Levitov, and B. Z. Spivak, "Solitons and Rabi Oscillations in a Time-Dependent BCS Pairing Problem." L. S. Levitov's e-mail levitov@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312053.

G. Baskaran and S.A. Jafari, "Reply to a comment by Peres et al." Preprint available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312264.

A. Bauer, J. Bentner, M. Aprili, M. L. Della Rocca, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, and C. Strunk, "Spontaneous supercurrent induced by ferromagnetic pi-junctions." E-mail andreas.bauer@physik.uni-regensburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312165.

S. Bayrakci, C. Bernhard, D. P. Chen, B. Keimer, R. K. Kremer, P. Lemmens, C. T. Lin, C. Niedermayer, and J. Strempfer, "Bulk antiferromagnetism in \bf Na{0.82}CoO2 single crystals." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. B. Keimer's e-mail b.keimer@fkf.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312376.

B. I. Belevtsev, N. V. Dalakova, V. N. Savitsky, A. V. Bondarenko, A. S. Panfilov, and I. S. Braude, "Magnetoresistive study of antiferromagnetic--weak ferromagnetic transition in single-crystal La{2}CuO{4+\delta}." E-mail belevtsev@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312409.

D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick, "Split transition in ferromagnetic superconductors." E-mail dbelitz@uoregon.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312383.

W. Belzig, "Full Counting Statistics in Quantum Contacts." Proceedings of Summer School/Conference on Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe (2003). E-mail wolfgang.belzig@unibas.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312180.

G. Blatter, V. B. Geshkenbein, and J. A. G. Koopmann, "Weak- to strong pinning crossover." J. A. G. Koopmann's e-mail koopmann@phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312199.

S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, A. Koitzsch, M. Knupfer, and J. Fink, "Angle-resolved photoemission using the circularly polarized light in Pb-Bi2212." E-mail s.borysenko@ifw-dresden.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312104.

S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, S. Legner, T. K. Kim, M. Knupfer, C. M. Schneider, J. Fink, M. S. Golden, M. Sing, R. Claessen, A. Yaresko, H. Berger, C. Grazioli, and S. Turchini, "Circular dichroism and bilayer splitting in the normal state of underdoped (Pb,Bi)2Sr2(CaxY{1-x})Cu2O{8+\delta} and overdoped (Pb,Bi)2Sr2CaCu2O{8+\delta}." E-mail s.borysenko@ifw-dresden.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312036.

Ernst Helmut Brandt and John R. Clem, "Superconducting thin rings with finite penetration depth." E-mail ehb@mf.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312497.

L. Bulaevskii, M. Hruvska, A. Shnirman, D. Smith, and Yu. Makhlin, "Nondemolition measurements of a single quantum spin using Josephson oscillations." M. Hruska's e-mail maeukemi@mocha.phys.washington.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312274.

Matteo Calandra, Nathalie Vast, and Francesco Mauri, "Superconductivity from doping boron icosahedra." E-mail matteo.calandra@lmcp.jussieu.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312200.

T. D. Cao, S. L. Guo, C. Q. Li, and G. S. Cheng, "Crossover from d-p pairing to p-p pairing in cuprate superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing 210044, China; e-mail wlzrb@mail.njim.edu.cn. Key words: d-p pairing, electron-phonon interaction, spectral weight transfer, superconductivity. 74.20.-z; 71.10.-w; 74.25.Kc.

A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, Y. Takata, K. Tamasaku, M. Taguchi, T. Shimojima, N. Kamakura, K. Horiba, S. Tsuda, S. Shin, D. Miwa, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, M. Yabashi, K. Kobayashi, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, K. Takada, T. Sasaki, H. Sakurai, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, "Evidence for charge-order in Na{0.35}CoO{2}.1.3H{2}O." E-mail chainani@spring8.or.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312293.

Venkat Chandrasekhar, "An introduction to the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity for diffusive proximity-coupled systems." Chapter to appear in The Physics of Superconductors: Vol. II, Ed. K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson, Springer, Berlin, 2004. Preprint available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312507.

F. Chen, B. Gorshunov, G. Cristiani, H.-U. Habermeier, and M. Dressel, "Suppression of Superconductivity in YBCO/LCMO Superlattices." M. Dressel's e-mail dressel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312280.

Sang L. Chu, A. T. Bollinger, and A. Bezryadin, "Phase slips and vortex-antivortex pairs in superconducting films with constrictions." E-mail abolling@uiuc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312269.

M. Daumling, "Ac loss in two ac carrying superconducting concentric tubes--the duoblock model." To be published in Physica C (in press). NKT Research/Ultera Dk, Blokken 84, Dk-3460 Birkerod, Denmark.

A. V. Dmitriev and W. Nolting, "On details of the thermodynamical derivation of the Ginsburg--Landau equations." Accepted for publication in Superconductor Science and Technology. E-mail dmitriev@lt.phys.msu.su; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312094.

V. A. Drozd, A. M. Gabovich, P. Gierlowski, M. Pekala, and H. Szymczak, "Transport properties of bulk and thin-film MgB2 superconductors: effects of preparation conditions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Chemistry, Kiev State University, 64 Volodymyrs'ka St. 01033 Kiev, Ukraine; tel. 380 44 2393306; e-mail vdrozd@univ.kiev.ua. Key words: MgB2, superconductivity, electrical resistivity, thermopower. 74.25; 74.62; 74.70; 74.76.

Adam Dubroka and Dominik Munzar, "Phonon anomalies in trilayer high-Tc superconductors." Submitted to Physica C. E-mail dubroka@physics.muni.cz; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312219.

R. Falconi, J. A. Azamar and R. Escudero, "Electronic Behavior In Mats Of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Under Pressure." Accepted for publication in Solid State Communications. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-360, 04510 Mexico, D. F.; e-mail falconi@correo.unam.mx; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312330. Key words: Nanotubes, Kondo, Pressure. 73.62.-b; 71.30.+h; 74.10.+v; 75.20.Hr; 74.62.Fj.

Maw Lin Foo, Yayu Wang, Satoshi Watauchi, H. W. Zandbergen, Tao He, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong, "Charge-ordering, commensurability and metallicity in the phase diagram of layered Na(x)CoO(2)." Yayu Wang's e-mail yywang@princeton.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312174.

Minyi Fu, Xiaofeng Xu, Zhengkuan Jiao, H. Kumakura, K. Togano, Liren Ding, Futang Wang, and Jinglin Chen, "Minimum quench energy and normal zone propagation velocity in MgB2 superconducting tape." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; tel. 86 571 8795 1327; fax 86 571 8795 1913; e-mail myfu@css.zju.edu.cn. Key words: MgB2 tape, minimum quench energy, normal zone propagation velocity. 74.70.Ad; 85.25.Kx.

M. E. Gallamore, G. E. D. McCormack, and T. P. Devereaux, "Critical Current Peaks at 3B{\Phi} in Superconductors with Columnar Defects: Recrystalizing the Interstitial Glass." T. P. Devereaux's e-mail tpd@lorax.uwaterloo.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312182.

A. Agliolo Gallitto, G. Bonsignore, S. Fricano, M. Guccione, and M. Li Vigni, "Microwave Response of Ceramic MgB2 Samples." Chapter review in "Progress in Superconductivity Research", Ed. Frank Columbus, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2003). E-mail agliolo@fisica.unipa.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312069.

K. Gibson, P. Ziegler, and H.-J. Meyer, "Synthesis of the Bi,Pb-2223 high Tc superconductor through a novel oxide nitrate route." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact P. Ziegler, Abteilung fur Festkorperchemie und Theoretische, Anorganische Chemie, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany; tel. 49 7071 29 76231; fax 49 7071 29 5702; e-mail peter.ziegler@student.uni-tuebingen.de. Key words: 2223, precursor, reactivity, NOx atmosphere, oxide nitrate. 74.72.Hs; 74.62.Bf.

P. A. Goddard, S. J. Blundell, J. Singleton, R. D. McDonald, A. Ardavan, A. Narduzzo, J. A. Schlueter, A. M. Kini, and T. Sasaki, "Angle Dependent Magnetoresistance of the Layered Organic Superconductor \kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2: Simulation and Experiment." E-mail pgoddard@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312197.

D. S. Golubovic, W. V. Pogosov, M. Morelle, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Influence of the stray field of magnetic dot on the nucleation of superconductivity in a disk." To be published in Europhysics Letters. E-mail dusan.golubovic@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312295.

A. K. Gupta, L. Cretinon, N. Moussy, B. Pannetier, and H. Courtois, "Anomalous density of states in a metallic film in proximity with a superconductor." H. Courtois' e-mail Herve.Courtois@grenoble.cnrs.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312126.

C. C. Homes, S. V. Dordevic, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy, and T. Timusk, "Coherence and incoherence along the c axis of YBa2Cu3O{6+x}." E-mail homes@bnl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312211.

M. Huecker, K. Chung, M. Chand, T. Vogt, J. M. Tranquada, and D. J. Buttrey, "Oxygen and Strontium Codoping of La2NiO4: Room Temperature Phase Diagrams." E-mail huecker@neutrons.phy.bnl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312421.

Zahirul Islam, X. Liu, S. K. Sinha, J. C. Lang, S. C. Moss, D. Haskel, G. Srajer, P. Wochner, D. R. Lee, D. R. Haeffner, and U. Welp, "A 4-unit-cell superstructure in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O6.92 superconductor." Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312622. 74.72.Bk; 61.10.Eq; 74.25.-q.

A. Izmalkov, M. Grajcar, E. Il'ichev, Th. Wagner, H.-G. Meyer, A. Yu. Smirnov, M. H. S. Amin, Alec Maassen van den Brink, and A. M. Zagoskin, "Experimental evidence for entangled states formation in a system of two coupled flux qubits." M. H. S. Amin's e-mail amin@dwavesys.com; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312332.

Arun A. Joseph, Sander Heuvelmans, Gerrit J. Gerritsma, and Hans G. Kerkhoff, "Test structures and their application in structural testing of digital RSFQ circuits." To be published in Physica C (in press). Testable Design and Testing of Microsystems Group, MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, ELTN 3268, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; tel. 31 53 494007; fax 31 53 491034; e-mail a.j.arun@el.utwente.nl. Key words: structural testing, defect-oriented testing, superconductor devices, RSFQ circuit testing, fault modeling.

George Kastrinakis, "Quasiparticle scattering rate in overdoped superconducting cuprates." E-mail kast@iesl.forth.gr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312043.

Marijana Kircan and Matthias Vojta, "Critical properties of the Fermi-Bose Kondo and pseudogap Kondo models: Renormalized perturbation theory." Matthias Vojta's e-mail vojta@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312150.

U. Klein, "A Two-dimensional Superconductor in a Tilted Magnetic Field - new states with finite Cooper-pair momentum." E-mail ulf.klein@jku.at; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312095.

S. A. Ktitorov, "London's limit for the lattice superconductor." E-mail ktitorov@mail.ioffe.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312209.

B. Kyung, V. Hankevych, A.-M. Dare, and A.-M.S. Tremblay, "Pseudogap and spin fluctuations in the normal state of electron-doped cuprates." E-mail bkyung@physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312501.

L. Liu, Y. Hou, C. Y. He, Z. X. Gao, L. Xiao, H. T. Ren, Y. L. Jiao, and M. H. Zheng, "Effect of magnetization process on levitation force between a superconducting disk and a permanent magnet." E-mail liuliang@pku.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312341.

S. Y. Liu and X. L. Lei, "Quantum transport through a quantum dot between two superconducting leads in Kondo regime." Submitted to PRB. E-mail liusy@mail.sjtu.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312148.

S. Lupi, M. Ortolani, and P. Calvani, "The infrared spectrum of Na0.57CoO2." P. Calvani's e-mail paolo.calvani@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312512.

Th. A. Maier, "On the nature of superconductivity in the t-J model of high-Tc superconductors." E-mail maierta@ornl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312447.

M.S. Mar'enko, C. Bourbonnais, and A.-M.S. Tremblay, "Superconducting fluctuation corrections to ultrasound attenuation in layered superconductors." E-mail maxim@physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312269.

C. A. Marianetti, G. Kotliar, and G. Ceder, "The Role of hybridization in NaxCoO2 and the Effect of Hydration." E-mail cam1@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312514.

H. Martinho, A. A. Martin, C. Rettori, C. T. Lin, and C. Bernhard, "On the origin of the A{1g} and B{1g} electronic Raman scattering peaks in the superconducting state of YBa2Cu3O7-delta." Submited to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail hercules@ifi.unicamp.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312032.

T. Masui, S. Lee, and S. Tajima, "Carbon-substitution effect on the electronic properties of MgB2 single crystals." E-mail masui@istec.or.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312458.

Taeko Matsuura, Kei Iida, Tetsuo Hatsuda, and Gordon Baym, "Thermal Fluctuations of Gauge Fields and First Order Phase Transitions in Color Superconductivity." E-mail matsuura@nt.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0312042.

R. Melin, "Interplay between Zeeman splitting and Andreev bound states in ferromagnet/superconductor hybrids." E-mail melin@grenoble.cnrs.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312029.

M.-Carmen Miguel and Stefano Zapperi, "Tearing transition and plastic flow in superconducting thin films." Nature Materials 2, 477 (2003). E-mail carmen@ffn.ub.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211327.

Petter Minnhagen, Beom Jun Kim, and A. Gronlund, "Scaling determination of the nonlinear I-V characteristics for 2D superconducting networks." To appear in PRB. Beom Jun Kim's e-mail beomjun@ajou.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312506.

P. Miranovic, M. Ichioka, and K. Machida, "The effect of nonmagnetic impurities on the local density of states in s-wave superconductors." E-mail pedjam@dell.pmf.cg.ac.yu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312420.

Todor M. Mishonov, Valery L. Pokrovsky, and Hongduo Wei, "Two-band BCS model describes well the thermodynamics of MgB2." Hongduo Wei's e-mail hwei@physics.tamu.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312210.

Paolo Moretti, M.-Carmen Miguel, Michael Zaiser, and Stefano Zapperi, "Growth of a vortex polycrystal in type II superconductors." M. Carmen Miguel's e-mail carmen@ffn.ub.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312382.

A. Mourachkine, "The oxygen isotope effect on critical temperature in superconducting copper oxides." E-mail am586@cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312229.

Yu. G. Naidyuk, "Comment on 'Experimental determination of superconducting parameters for the intermetallic perovskite superconductor MgCNi3'." E-mail naidyuk@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312397.

S. H. Naqib, J. R. Cooper, J. L. Tallon, R. S. Islam, and R. A. Chakalov, "The doping phase diagram of Y1-xCaxBa2(Cu1-yZny)3O7-delta from transport measurements: tracking the pseudogap below Tc." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B, an updated version of cond-mat/0301375 with new data. E-mail s.naqib@irl.cri.nz; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312443.

Zaira Nazario and David I. Santiago, "Spin Density Wave and D-Wave Superconducting Order Parameter 'Coexistence'." David I. Santiago's e-mail david@small.stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312451.

Marios Nikolaou and Mats Wallin, "Zero Temperature Glass Transition in the Two-Dimensional Gauge Glass Model." E-mail marios@theophys.kth.se; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312066.

Flavio S. Nogueira and Dirk Manske, "Critical dynamics, duality, and the exact dynamic exponent in extreme type II superconductors." E-mail nogueira@physik.fu-berlin.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312070.

N. Nygaard, G. M. Bruun, B. I. Schneider, C. W. Clark, and D. L. Feder, "Vortex line in a neutral finite-temperature superfluid Fermi gas." E-mail nicolai.nygaard@nist.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312258.

Fusayoshi J. Ohkawa, "Electron-phonon interaction in cuprate-oxide superconductors." E-mail fohkawa@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312085.

E. Ohmichi, T. Masui, S. Lee, S. Tajima, and T. Osada, "Enhancement of the irreversibility field by carbon substitution in single crystal MgB2." E-mail ohmichi@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312348.

Seiichiro Onari, Ryotaro Arita, Kazuhiko Kuroki, and Hideo Aoki, "Phase diagram of the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model: Quantum phase transitions between different pairing symmetries when charge and spin fluctuations coexist." E-mail onari@cms.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312314.

N. P. Ong, Yayu Wang, S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, and S. Uchida, "Vorticity and the Nernst Effect in Cuprate Superconductors." To be published in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig, Germany). Yayu Wang's e-mail yywang@princeton.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312213.

E. Paladino, L. Faoro, and G. Falci, "Decoherence due to discrete noise in Josephson qubits." Adv. Sol. State Phys., 43, 747, (2003). E-mail elisabetta.paladino@dmfci.unict.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312445.

M. E. Palistrant, "Superconductivity in two-band system with low carrier density." Submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics B. E-mail statphys@asm.md; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312302.

Alain Pautrat, Christophe Goupil, Charles Simon, Bart Andrewjewski, A. I. Rykov, and S. Tajima, "The vortex depinning transition in untwinned YBaCuO using complex impedance measurements." To be published in the proceedings of M2S RIO. E-mail pautrat@ismra.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312251.

J. P. Pekola, T. T. Heikkila, A. M. Savin, J. T. Flyktman, F. Giazotto, and F. W. J. Hekking, "Limitations in cooling electrons by normal metal - superconductor tunnel junctions." T. T. Heikkila's e-mail ttheikki@boojum.hut.fi; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312401.

N. M. R. Peres, M. A. N. Araujo, and A. H. Castro Neto, "Comment on 'Gapless Spin-1 Neutral Collective Mode Branch for Graphite'." E-mail peres@fisica.uminho.pt; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312263.

M. Pissas, D. Stamopoulos, S. Lee, and S. Tajima, "Influence of carbon doping in the vortex matter properties of MgB2." E-mail pissas@ath.forthnet.gr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312350.

Leo Radzihovsky, Jae Park, and Peter Weichman, "Superfluid transitions in bosonic atom-molecule mixtures near Feshbach resonance." Submitted to PRL. E-mail radzihov@colorado.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312237.

S. Raymond and A. Huxley, "Spin dynamics of the ferromagnetic superconductor UGe{2}." Presented at the European Conference on Neutron Scattering, Montpellier 2003; to appear in Physica B. E-mail raymond@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312515.

Z. A. Ren, G. C. Che, Y. M. Ni, C. Dong, H. Chen, S. L. Jia, and Z. X. Zhao, "Fe{0.5}Cu{0.5}(Ba{1-x}Sr{x})2YCu2O{7+\delta} (x = 0, 0.5 and 1) superconductors prepared by high pressure synthesis." Accepted by Physical Review B. E-mail renzhian@ssc.iphy.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312089.

Stefan Rombouts, Dimitri Van Neck, and Jorge Dukelsky, "Solving the Richardson equations for Fermions." Submitted to Phys. Rev. C. E-mail stefan.rombouts@rug.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0312070.

A. Yu. Rusanov, M. B. S. Hesselberth, and J. Aarts, "Depairing currents in superconducting films of Nb and amorphous MoGe." J. Aarts' e-mail aarts@physics.leidenuniv.nl; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312470.

H. Salamati and P. Kameli, "The effect of Bi-2212 phase on the weak link behavior of Bi-2223 superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84154, Iran; tel. 98 311 391 2375; fax 98 311 391 2376; e-mail pkameli@sepahan.iut.ac.ir. Key words: high-Tc superconductors, AC susceptibility, Bi-2212 phase, weak link.

P. Samuelsson, W. Belzig, and Yu. V. Nazarov, "Andreev reflection eigenvalue density in mesoscopic conductors." E-mail samuel@kalymnos.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312133.

J. Scherbel, M. Mans, F. Schmidl, H. Schneidewind, and P. Seidel, "Low-frequency voltage noise in mesa-shaped stacks of intrinsic high-Tc Josephson junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institut fur Festkorperphysik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Helmholtzweb 5, D-07743 Jena, Germany; tel. 49 36 4194 7427; fax 49 36 4194 7412; e-mail scherbel@ifk.uni-jena.de. Key words: Josephson junction, low-frequency noise, random telegraph noise, quasiparticle injection. 74.40.+k; 74.72.Jt; 74.81; 85.25; 73.40.-c.

I. R. Shein and A. L. Ivanovskii, "Electronic band structure of novel 18-K superconductor Y2C3 as compared with YC and YC2." E-mail shein@ihim.uran.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312391.

K. M. Shen, T. Yoshida, D. H. Lu, F. Ronning, N. P. Armitage, W. S. Lee, X. J. Zhou, A. Damascelli, D. L. Feng, N. J. C. Ingle, H. Eisaki, Y. Kohsaka, H. Takagi, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, P. K. Mang, M. Greven, Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, M. Azuma, M. Takano, A. Fujimori, and Z.-X. Shen, "Fully Gapped Single-Particle Excitations in the Lightly Doped Cuprates." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail kmshen@stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312270.

Alejandro V. Silhanek and Leonardo Civale, "Anisotropic scaling in YBa2Cu3O7 crystals with columnar defects." To be published in J. Low Temp. Phys. E-mail alejandro.silhanek@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312405.

Alexey Snezhko and Ruslan Prozorov, "Temperature dependence of the magnetic penetration depth in BKBO superconductor." Ruslan Prozorov's e-mail prozorov@boson.physics.sc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312334.

Y. H. Su, J. Chang, H. T. Lu, H. G. Luo, and T. Xiang, "Effect of bilayer coupling on tunneling conductance of double-layer high T{c} cuprates." To be published in PRB. E-mail yuehua@tsinghua.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312091.

P. Sule, "Chiral charge ordered superconducting state and inter-layer coupling in cuprates." E-mail sule@mfa.kfki.hu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312474.

G. B. Teitel'baum, V. E. Kataev, E. L. Vavilova, P. L. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, and W. G. Moulton, "Interplay between the magnetic fluctuations and superconductivity in the lanthanum cuprates." E-mail grteit@dionis.kfti.knc.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312393.

I. Tsukada, Y. Nagao, and Yoichi Ando, "In-situ epitaxial growth of superconducting La-based bilayer cuprate thin films." To appear in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communications. E-mail ichiro@criepi.denken.or.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312428.

T. Watanabe, Y. Kasahara, K. Izawa, T. Sakakibara, C. J. van der Beek, T. Hanaguri, H. Shishido, R. Settai, Y. Onuki, and Y. Matsuda, "New High Field State of Flux Line Lattice in Unconventional Superconductor CeCoIn5." E-mail tadataka@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312062.

S. Wehrli and C. Helm, "Interface steps in field effect devices." Submitted to J. Appl. Phys. E-mail swehrli@itp.phys.ethz.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312441.

R. H. T. Wilke, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, D. K. Finnemore, Raymond J. Suplinskas, S. T. Hannahs, "Systematic effects of carbon doping on the superconducting properties of Mg(B{1-x}Cx)2." S. L. Bud'ko's e-mail budko@ameslab.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312235.

M. Yokoi, H. Watanabe, Y. Mori, T. Moyoshi, Y. Kobayashi, and M. Sato, "Impurity Effects on the Superconducting Transition Temperature of NazCoO2.yH2O." Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. M. Sato's e-mail e43247a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312242.

Bernhard Zeimetz, K. Tadinada, D. E. Eves, T. A. Coombs, J. E. Evetts, and A. M. Campbell, "Thermal Instability and Current-Voltage Scaling in Superconducting Fault Current Limiters." Submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology (Dec 2003). E-mail bernhard.zeimetz@inpg.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312190.

Kun Zhao and H. K. Wong, "Suppressed superconducting transition temperature of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3/YBa2Cu4O8/La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 sandwiches." To be published in Physica C (in press). Magnetoelectronics Laboratory, School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, 252059 Shandong, China; tel. 86 635 8238055; fax 86 635 8258641; e-mail ainiphoto@163.com. Key words: high temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, proximity effect. 74.76.Bz; 75.30.Vn; 74.50.+r.

X. B. Zhu, S. P. Zhao, G. H. Chen, H. J. Tao, C. T. Lin, S. S. Xie, and Q. S. Yang, "Controllable Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d/Au contacts fabricated at liquid-nitrogen temperatures." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact S. P. Zhao, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China; fax 86 1 256 8834; e-mail spzhao@aphy.iphy.ac.cn. 74.50.+r; 74.72.Hs; 74.80.Dm.

Kh. A. Ziq, "Scaling of Vortex Flux Pinning with the Thermodynamic Critical Field in MgB2 Superconductor." Submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology. E-mail: kaziq@kfupm.edu.sa. Key words: Flux pinning, reversible magnetization, scaling behavior. 74.25.Op, 74.25.Qt, 74.25.Sv.

A. B. Zorin, "Josephson charge-phase qubit with radio frequency readout: coupling and decoherence." E-mail alexander.zorin@ptb.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312225.