January 2003 Preprints

M. Agop, P. D. Ioannou, C. Gh. Buzea, and P. Nica, "Hydrodynamic formulation of scale relativity theory and unified superconductivity by means of a fractal string." To be published in Physica C (in press). Str. Moara de Foc no. 10, Bl. 406, Sc. B, Ap. 35, Iasi 6600, Romania; e-mail picardout@phys-iasi.ro. 03.65; 04:25.Nx; 04.60.-m.

D. F. Agterberg, "Novel magnetic field effects in unconventional superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201; tel. 414 224 3472; fax 414 224 5589; e-mail agterber@uwm.edu. Key words: superconductivity, vortex, phenomenological.

Javed Ahmad, Taichiro Nishio, and Hiromoto Uwe, "A new IR excitation in semiconducting Ba1-xKxBiO3 single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan; e-mail javed_okara@yahoo.com. Key words: Ba1-xKxBiO3, optical reflectivity, CDW, spectral weight.

Jun Akimitsu and Takahiro Muranaka, "Superconductivity in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8572, Japan; e-mail jun@soliton.phys.aoyama.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, boride compounds, MgB2, electron-phonon interaction.

Tadahiro Akune, Hiroyuki Abe, Nobuyoshi Sakamoto, and Yasukuni Matsumoto, "Magnetization and irreversibility field in powdered MgB2 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503 Fukuoka, Japan; e-mail akune@te.kyusan-u.ac.jp. Key words: MgB2, magnetization, AC susceptibility.

A. S. Alexandrov, "Superlight bipolarons and criterion of BCS-BEC crossover in cuprates." Invited paper at the New3SC-4 Conference (San Diego, CA, January 2003). E-mail a.s.alexandrov@lboro.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301541.

M. Ya. Amusia, A. Z. Msezane, and V. R. Shaginyan, "From the Bose-Einstein to Fermion Condensation." To be published in Yadernaya Fizika, special edition for the 80th birthday of Professor S.T. Belyaev. V. R. Shaginyan's e-mail vasily@ctsps.cau.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301077.

Kenkichi Anagawa, Takashi Hamatani, Takasada Shibauchi, Takao Watanabe, and Minoru Suzuki, "Temperature and field dependence of the gap structure in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d studied 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 anagawa@suzuki.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: interlayer tunneling spectroscopy, pseudogap, superconducting gap.

Brian M. Andersen and Per Hedegard, "Quantum interference between multiple impurities in anisotropic superconductors." E-mail bma@fys.ku.dk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301225.

Magnus Andersson, Bjorn Lundqvist, and Osten Rapp, "Vortex liquid-to-solid transition in underdoped YBa2Cu3O7-d single crystals with B{parallels}ab." To be published in Physica C (in press). Solid State Physics, IwMIT, KTH, Electrum 229, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden; e-mail magnus@ftf.kth.se. Key words: vortex liquid-to-solid transition, YBa2Cu3O7-d, single crystals.

Y. Aoki, T. Namiki, S. Ohsaki, S. R. Saha, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato, "Specific heat study on the anomalous normal state of heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami Ohsawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan; e-mail aoki@phys.metro-u.ac.jp. Key words: heavy-fermion superconductor, filled skutterudites, specific heat, PrOs4Sb12.

Y. Asano, T. Hirai, Y. Tanaka, J. Inoue, M. Sigrist, and S. Kashiwaya, "Effects of spin-orbit scattering on Josephson current between s-wave superconductor and Sr2RuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact T. Hirai, Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8063, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 3701; fax 81 52 789 3298; e-mail h002305d@mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: p-wave, Josephson current, spin-orbit scattering.

S. M. Ashimov and J. G. Chigvinadze, "Study of pinning at 3D-2D phase transition in vortex matter of strongly anisotropic high-temperature superconductors of BiPbSrCaCuO system." J. G. Chigvinadze's e-mail jaba@iph.hepi.edu.ge; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301434.

W. A. Atkinson, P. J. Hirschfeld, and Lingyin Zhu, "Quantum interference in nested d-wave superconductors: a real-space perspective." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail watkinson@physics.siu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301630.

M. Avdeev, J. D. Jorgensen, R. A. Ribeiro, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield, "Crystal Chemistry of Carbon-Substituted MgB2." J. D. Jorgensen's e-mail jjorgensen@anl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301025.

M. T. Ayvazyan, K. Z. Papazian, and R. A. Vardanian, "Vortex-lattice characteristics measured inside a hollow YBaCuO superconducting cylinder." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact R. A. Vardanian, Solid-State Division, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Ashtarak-2, Armenia 378410, Armenia; e-mail rvard@irphe.am. Key words: ceramic YBaCuO, vortex, oscillation. 74.60.Ge.

P. Badica, A. Crisan, M. Hirai, A. Iyo, H. Kito, G. Aldica, and Y. Tanaka, "LiF addition to (Cu,C) Ba2Ca3Cu4Oy superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact A. Iyo, NeRI, AIST, Central 2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; tel. 81 298 61 5435; fax 81 298 61 5447; e-mail iyo-akira@aist.go.jp. Key words: (Cu0.6C0.4)Ba2Ca3Cu4Oy, LiF, morphology, critical current density, critical temperature.

In-Cheol Baek, Young-Je Yun, and Mu-Yong Choi, "Vortex state of a 2D Josephson junction array at irrational frustration." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Mu-Yong Choi, BK21 Physics Division and Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea; e-mail yjyun@nature.skku.ac.kr. Key words: vortex state, irrational frustration, Josephson junction array, frustrated XY model.

Eriko Ban, Tomoko Goto, and Yoshiharu Matsuoka, "Partial melting in filamentary Sm-Ba-Cu-O superconductors under various oxygen atmospheres." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Meijo University, 1-501 Shiogamaguchi, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan; e-mail ban@ccmfs.meijo-u.ac.jp. Key words: filamentary Sm123, oxygen-controlled-melt-growth, critical current density.

Bidisa Bandyopadhyay, Biplab Chattopadhyay, and Asok Poddar, "Effects of Co-substitution on superconductivity and transport in Tl2Ba2Ca1-xYx(Cu1-yCoy)2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Asok Poddar, 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: high-Tc cuprate superconductors, Tc-suppression by impurities, pair-breaking formalism, pseudogap. 74.72.-h; 74.72.Hs; 74.72.Fq; 74.25.Fy.

S. S. Banerjee, A. Soibel, Y. Myasoedov, M. Rappaport, E. Zeldov, M. Menghini, Y. Fasano, F. de la Cruz, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and T. Tamegai, "Melting of 'porous' vortex matter." Paper to appear in Physical Review Letters; additional information/movies of the melting process at http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fnsup/research-porous.html#movies. E-mail banerjee@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301227.

Stewart Barnes and Sadamichi Maekawa, "Bi- and tri-layer splittings in a new formulation for the t-J model of cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124; e-mail barnes@physics.miami.edu. Key words: high-Tc cuprates, theory t-J model, ARPES, multi-layer cuprates.

B. I. Belevtsev, B. D. Hennings, K. D. D. Rathnayaka, and D. G. Naugle, "Thermal Conductivity in Magnetic Superconductors." Review article, to appear in "Studies of High Temperature Superconductors", vol. 46, ed. A. V. Narlikar (Nova Science Publ., New York). E-mail boris@ltcm.physics.tamu.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301207.

J. J. Betouras, V. A. Ivanov, and F. M. Peeters, "Ginzburg-Landau theory and effects of pressure on a two-band superconductor : application to MgB2." E-mail betouras@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301491.

Daniel Bintley and P. J. Meeson, "Measurement of an anisotropic superconducting gap parameter resolved to a single Fermi surface sheet: YNi2B2C." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact P. J. Meeson, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Royal Fort, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK; tel. 44 117 928 8726; fax 44 117 925 8726; e-mail p.j.meeson@bristol.ac.uk. Key words: superconductivity, de Haas-van Alphen effect, gap anisotropy, YNi2B2C.

T. Bjornangen, A. Rydh, and O. Rapp, "Vortex liquid and solid correlation in untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Solid State Physics, IMIT, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH Electrum 229, SE-164 40 Stockholm-Kista, Sweden; e-mail therese@ftf.kth.se. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-d, vortex correlation.

G. Blumberg, P. Littlewood, A. Gozar, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida, "Spin dynamics and sliding density wave in Sr14Cu24O41 ladders." To be published in Physica C (in press). Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974; e-mail grish@bell-labs.com. Key words: spin ladders, charge density waves, superconductivity, Raman spectroscopy.

J. A. Bonetti, D. J. Van Harlingen, and M. B. Weissman, "Electronic transport in underdoped YBCO nanowires: possible observation of stripe domains." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801; e-mail bonetti@uiuc.edu. Key words: cuprates, pseudogap, stripes, nanowires.

M. Braden, O. Friedt, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, P. Pfeuty, S. Nakatsuji, Z. Mao, N. Kikugawa, M. Minakata, and Y. Maeno, "Magnetic excitations in 214-ruthenates." To be published in Physica C (in press). II. Physikalisches Institut, Universitat zu Koln, Zulpicher Str. 77, Koln D-50937, Germany; e-mail braden@ph2.uni-koeln.de. Key words: Sr2RuO4, magnetic excitations, inelastic neutron scattering, ruthenates.

Ernst Helmut Brandt and Edouard B. Sonin, "Interlayer Josephson coupling in layered superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany; e-mail ehb@mf.mpg.de. Key words: layered superconductors, pancakes, magnetoabsorption resonance, Josephson plasma resonance.

H. F. Braun, T. P. Papageorgiou, T. Herrmannsdorfer, L. Bauernfeind, and O. Korf, "Magnetization of superconducting RuSr2GdCu2O8 and of concurrent phases." To be published in Physica C (in press). Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany; tel. 49 921 553330; fax 49 921 553647; e-mail hans.braun@uni-bayreuth.de. Key words: superconductivity, DC magnetization, ruthenocuprates, ruthenates.

A. S. Bystrov, A. S. Mel'nikov, D. A. Ryzhov, I. M. Nefedov, I. A. Shereshevskii, and P. P. Vysheslavtsev, "Singular and nonsingular vortices in high-temperature superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact D. A. Ryzhov, Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia; e-mail ryzhov@ipm.sci-nnov.ru. Key words: mixed state, unconventional pairing, high-temperature superconductors.

G. Cao, L. Balicas, Y. Xin, J. E. Crow, and C. S. Nelson, "Interplay between different degrees of freedom: unusual physical phenomena in Ca3Ru2O7." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506; e-mail cao@uky.edu. Key words: ruthenates, quantum oscillations, magnetoresistance, single crystal.

Yigang Cao and Zhengkuan Jiao, "Numerical study on the ac response of a moving disordered vortex lattice." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China. Key words: vortex lattice, AC response, mode locking. 74.60.Ge; 05.60.+w.

H. Castro and G. Deutscher, "Transport measurements in overdoped YBCO thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; e-mail hcastro@post.tau.ac.il. Key words: superconductivity, transport properties, Hall effect, overdoped samples.

W. C. Chan, "The effect of sample geometry on magnetic levitation force for a disk-shape YBCO superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Taipei Hsien, Tamsui 25137, Taiwan, ROC; tel. 86 226215656; fax 86 226221523; e-mail wcchan@mail.tku.edu.tw. Key words: shape effect, levitation force, first critical field. 74.60.Jg; 74.25.Ha.

H.-S. Chang, D.-I. Chang, J. Kim, H.-J. Lee, M.-H. Bae, B.-C. Woo, and M. Oda, "Collective motion of Josephson vortices in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d mesa structures." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, South Korea; e-mail chsik@kbsi.re.kr. Key words: fluxon dynamics, Josephson vortex, intrinsic Josephson junction.

R. W. Cherng and C. A. R. Sa de Melo, "F-wave versus P-wave Superconductivity in Organic Conductors." C. A. R. Sa de Melo's e-mail cs164@prism.gatech.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301567.

Noriko Chikumoto, Ayako Yamamoto, Marcin Konczykowski, and Masato Murakami, "Effect of heavy-ion irradiation on the pinning properties of MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconductivity Research Laboratory, Tamachi Laboratory, Division 3, ISTEC, 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: MgB2, heavy-ion irradiation, critical current density, flux creep.

C. H. Chin and H.-C. I. Kao, "Effect of substitution in the (Gd1-xCax)Ba2Cu3Oy and Gd(Ba2-xAx)Cu3Oy(A = Ca, Sr) superconducting compounds." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, Tamsui 251, Taiwan; e-mail kaohci@mail.tku.edu.tw. Key words: orthorhombicity, hole concentration, Tc, {angle}O(1)-Ba-O(1).

M. Ciszek, O. Tsukamoto, J. Ogawa, and M. Shiokawa, "Energy loss in YBCO-123 coated conductor due to AC/DC transport current and AC external perpendicular magnetic field." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan; tel. 48 71 343 5021; fax 48 71 344 1029; e-mail ciszek@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: AC losses, dynamic resistance, coated conductors, high-Tc superconductors.

F. Cordero, M. Ferretti, M. R. Cimberle, and R. Masini, "Formation and mobility of oxygen vacancies in RuSr2GdCu2O8." E-mail cordero@idac.rm.cnr.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301302.

A. Crisan, P. Badica, M. Hirai, H. Kito, A. Iyo, and Y. Tanaka, "Intra- and inter-grain critical current density in (Cu,C):1234 superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK; fax 44 1225 386110; e-mail pysalh@bath.ac.uk. Key words: (Cu0.6C0.4) Ba2Ca3Cu4Oy, critical current density, magnetization, susceptibility.

B. Dabrowski, and O. Chmaissem, S. Kolesnik, J. Mais, and J. D. Jorgensen, "Correlation of magnetic transition temperatures to disorder for atomically arranged perovskites." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, FW 216, DeKalb, IL 60115; tel. 815 753 6474; fax 815 753 8565; e-mail dabrowski@anl.gov. Key words: manganites, synthesis, structural properties, tolerance factor.

M. Decroux, L. Antognazza, S. Reymond, W. Paul, M. Chen, and O. Fischer, "Studies of YBCO Strip Lines under Voltage Pulses: Optimisation of the Design of Fault Current Limiters." Presented at the Applied Superconductivity Conference in Houston, TX (August 2002); to be published in IEEE Trans. On Appl. Supercond. L. Antognazza's e-mail louis.antognazza@physics.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301382.

Hiroyuki Deguchi, Miyoko Yasunaka, Ryo Oniki, Seishi Takagi, Kuniyuki Koyama, and Kiyoshi Mizuno, "Dynamical scaling analysis of susceptibility in ceramic YBCO superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan; e-mail deguchi@tobata.isc.kyutech.ac.jp. Key words: YBCO, ceramics, chiral-glass, ac-susceptibility.

E. V. L. de Mello, E. S. Caixeiro, and J. L. Gonzalez, "A Theory for High-Tc Superconductors Considering Inhomogeneous Charge Distribution." Phys. Rev. B 67, 024502 (2003). E-mail evandro@if.uff.br; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0110519.

Clecio C. de Souza Silva and J. Albino Aguiar, "Vortex dynamics in mesoscopic strips." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901 Recife-PE, Brazil; e-mail clecio@df.ufpe.br. Key words: vortex patterns, surface barrier, mesoscopic, vortex dynamics.

C. D. Dewhurst, S. J. Levett, and D. McK. Paul, "Small-angle neutron scattering studies of vortex lattice morphology in YNi2B2C." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institut Laue Langevin, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble, France; e-mail dewhurst@ill.fr. Key words: vortex lattice, small-angle neutron scattering, YNi2B2C, borocarbide.

R. G. Dias and J. A. Silva, "Huge metastability in high-Tc superconductors induced by parallel magnetic field." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail rdias@fis.ua.pt; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301379.

Daniele Di Gioacchino, Paolo Tripodi, and Umberto Gambardella, "Third harmonic ac susceptibility measurements on MgB2 bulk: irreversibility line and frequency dynamic behavior." To be published in Physica C (in press). I. N. F. N., Frascati National Laboratory, via Enrico Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, Italy; e-mail daniele.digioacchino@lnf.infn.it. Key words: MgB2, irreversibility line, dynamic transport.

P. Diko, L. Shlyk, and G. Krabbes, "Ru assisted total 211 particle pushing in melt-grown Y123 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact G. Krabbes, Institute of Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, IFW Dresden 13, PO Box 270016, 01171 Dresden, Germany; tel. 49 351 4659 410; fax 49 351 4659 480; e-mail g.krabbes@ifw-dresden.de. Key words: melt-processed YBaCuO, bulk superconductors, Ru additions, microstructures. 74.72.Bk; 74.62.Bf; 74.62.Dh.

O. V. Dolgov, R. S. Gonnelli, G. A. Ummarino, A. A. Golubov, S. V. Shulga, and J. Kortus, "Can one extract the electron-phonon-interaction from tunneling data in case of the multigap superconductor MgB2?" Submitted to Phys. Rev. B (Brief Reports). E-mail o.dolgov@fkf.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301542.

Balazs Dora, Kazumi Maki, and Attila Virosztek, "Optical conductivity of superconducting Sr2RuO4." E-mail dora@kapica.phy.bme.hu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301381.

C. A. M. dos Santos, S. Moehlecke, Y. Kopelevich, and A. J. S. Machado, "Inhomogeneous superconductivity in Bi2Sr2Ca1-xPrxCu2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Grupo de Supercondutividade, Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, FAENQUIL, Polo Urbo--Industrial Gleba A1-6, Lorena-SP 12.600-000, Brazil; fax 55 12 553 3006; e-mail cams@demar.faenquil.br. Key words: Bi2Sr2Ca1-xPrxCu2O8+d, superconducting critical temperature, percolation. 74.25.Fy; 74.50.+r; 74.72.-h.

M. Dumm, D. N. Basov, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando, "Anisotropic electromagnetic in-plane response of La1.96Sr0.04CuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany; e-mail dumm@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de. Key words: stripe order, high-temperature superconductivity, infrared spectroscopy, doped Mott-Hubbard insulators.

J. H. Durrell, S. H. Mennema, Ch. Jooss, G. Gibson, Z. H. Barber, H. W. Zandbergen, and J. E. Evetts, "Flux line lattice structure and behaviour in anti-phase boundary free vicinal YBa2Cu3O7-d thin films." Submitted to Journal of Applied Physics. E-mail jhd25@cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301524.

K. Dyakonov, A. Goltsev, L. Kulakova, E. Yakhkind, V. Popov, A. B. Abal'oshev, V. P. Dyakonov, P. Gierlowski, A. Klimov, S. J. Lewandowski, and H. Szymczak, "Acoustoelectric currents in manganite thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact S. J. Lewandowski, Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland; tel. 48 22 843 6601x3125; fax 48 22 843 0926; e-mail lewan@ifpan.edu.pl. Key words: manganites, thin films, acoustoelectric effect, magnetoresistance.

T. Ekino, T. Takasaki, H. Fujii, and S. Yamanaka, "Tunneling spectroscopy of the electron-doped layered superconductor Li0.48(THF)0.3HfNCl." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Integrated Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan; tel. 81 824 24 6552; fax 81 824 24 0757; e-mail ekino@hiroshima-u.ac.jp. Key words: tunneling spectroscopy, superconducting gap, break junction, Li0.48(THF)0.3HfNCl.

H. Eschrig, K. Koepernik, and I. Chaplygin, "Density Functional Application to Strongly Correlated Electron Systems." Invited paper in Journal of Solid State Chemistry. K. Koepernik's e-mail k.koepernik@ifw-dresden.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301558.

M. R. Eskildsen, M. Kugler, G. Levy, S. Tanaka, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, and O. Fischer, "Vortex lattice imaging in single crystal MgB2 by scanning tunneling spectroscopy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Departement de Physique de la Matiere Condensee, Universite de Geneve, 24 Quai E.-Ansermet, CH-1211, Geneve 4, Switzerland; tel. 41 22 702 6499; fax 41 22 702 6869; e-mail morten.eskildsen@physics.unige.ch. Key words: MgB2, STS, vortex.

Qing-rong Feng, Xin-jie Wang, and Ke Cao, "Study of the behavior of the p-T curve of YBa2Cu3Oy during synthesis in ambient air." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China; tel./fax 86 01 6275 1731; e-mail qrfeng@pku.edu.cn. Key words: YBa2Cu3Oy sample, p-T curve, resistivity, phase transformation, synthesis process.

H. A. Fertig and Joseph P. Straley, "Deconfinement and Dissipation in Quantum Hall 'Josephson' Tunneling." E-mail fertig@pa.uky.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301128.

J. P. Franck, J. Jung, and M. Abdelhadi, "Persistent supercurrents in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada T6G 2J1; e-mail franck@phys.ualberta.ca. Key words: MgB2, persistent current, magnetization, magnetic relaxation.

Mario Freamat and K.-W. Ng, "Order parameter oscillations in Fe/Ag/Bi2Sr2CaCu2O{8+delta} tunnel junctions." Submitted to Physical Review Letters. E-mail mario@pa.uky.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301081.

Takenori Fujii and Ichiro Terasaki, "Transport Properties of Bi2Sr{2-x}La_xCaCu2O{8+\delta} Single Crystals Grown by a Floating-Zone Method." Proceedings of International Symposium on Superconductivity 2002; submitted to Physica C. E-mail fujii@htsc.phys.waseda.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301404.

Satoshi Fujimoto, "Pseudogap phenomena in the BCS pairing model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; e-mail fuji@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: pseudogap, BCS pairing model, superconductivity.

Y. Fujita, H. Sugisaki, and H. Iwasaki, "Growth of Nd1-xCexBa2Cu3Oy single crystals by travelling solvent floating zone method." To be published in Physica C (in press). School of Materials Science, JAIST, Asahidai 1-1, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan; e-mail yfujita@jaist.ac.jp. Key words: Nd1-xCexBa2Cu3Oy single crystal, travelling solvent floating zone, high-temperature Ar anneal.

Hirono Fukazawa, Hiroaki Ikeda, and Kosaku Yamada, "Perturbation analysis of superconductivity in Hubbard model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; fax 81 75 753 3783; e-mail hirono@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, perturbation theory, vertex correction.

V. M. Galitski and S. Das Sarma, "Renormalization of the upper critical field by superconducting fluctuations." E-mail galitski@glue.umd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301196.

Xu Gaojie, Pu Qirong, Liu Biao, Zhang Jianwu, Zhang Changjin, Ding Zejun, and Zhang Yuheng, "Different Tc-suppression rates between Mn doped La214 and Bi2201 systems." To be published in Physica C (in press). Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China. Key words: superconductivity, electron spin resonance, infrared spectrum.

M. Gazda and B. Kusz, "Structure changes in (Bi-Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O glass ceramics during the first minutes of crystallization." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdansk University of Technology, ulica Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland; fax 48 58 347 2821; e-mail maria@mif.pg.gda.pl. Key words: glass ceramics, crystallization, high-Tc superconductors.

M. Gazda, B. Kusz, S. Chudinov, S. Stizza, and R. Natali, "Electrical conductivity and superconductivity in (Bi-Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O glass ceramics during the first minutes of crystallization." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdansk University of Technology, ulica Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland; fax 48 58 347 2821; e-mail maria@mif.pg.gda.pl. Key words: granular metal, high-Tc superconductors, variable range hopping.

Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Hitomi Nakamura, Masashi Tokunaga, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai, "Superconductivity in Y2PdGe3-xSix: interplay between Debye temperature and coupling constant." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan; e-mail ajay@ap6.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: germanide superconductors, critical temperature, magnetisation, specific heat.

F. Giazotto, P. Pingue, and F. Beltram, "Coherent transport in Nb/delta-doped-GaAs hybrid microstructures." To be published in Mod. Phys. Lett. B. E-mail f.giazotto@sns.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301072.

D. Giller, B. Kalisky, I. Shapiro, B. Ya. Shapiro, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Dynamics of the second magnetization peak in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Superconductivity, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; e-mail yeshurun@mail.biu.ac.il. Key words: fishtail, second peak, magneto-optics, flux lines, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d, vortex phase transitions, phase dynamics.

B. A. Glowacki, D. J. Fray, X.-Y. Yan, and G. Chen, "Superconducting Nb3Sn intermetallics made by electrochemical reduction of Nb2O5-SnO2 oxides." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK; tel. 44 1223 331 738; fax 44 1223 334 567; e-mail bag10@cam.ac.uk. Key words: Nb3Sn, superconducting conductors, electrodeoxidation.

B. A. Glowacki, M. Majoros, M. Eisterer, S. Toenies, H. W. Weber, M. Fukutomi, K. Komori, and K. Togano, "MgB2 superconductors for applications." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK; tel. 44 1223 331 738; fax 44 1223 334 373; e-mail bag10@cam.ac.uk. Key words: MgB2, coated conductors, composites, ac losses.

Hideto Goka, Shin-ichi Kuroshima, Masaki Fujita, Kazuyoshi Yamada, Haruhiro Hiraka, Yasuo Endoh, and Christopher D. Frost, "Magnetic excitations in the spin-glass phase of La2-xSrxCuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasyo, Uji 611-0011, Japan; e-mail goka@msk.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: La2-xSrxCuO4, spin excitation, neutron scattering.

Akira Goto, Yoshiki Hori, and Masa-aki Ozaki, "Symmetry classes of triplet vortex lattice solutions of the Bogoliubov de-Gennes equation in a square lattice." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Yoshiki Hori, Kochi National College of Technology, Nankoku 783-8508, Japan; e-mail goto@ge.kochi-ct.ac.jp. Key words: triplet superconductivity, vortex lattice, symmetry, Sr2RuO4.

A. J. Greer, D. R. Harshman, W. J. Kossler, A. Goonewardene, D. Ll. Williams, E. Koster, W. Kang, R. N. Kleiman, and R. C. Haddon, "Muon Spin Rotation study of the (TMTSF)2ClO4 system." To be submitted to Physica C. E-mail greera@phy.gonzaga.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301241.

Takashi Hamatani, Kenkichi Anagawa, Takao Watanabe, and Minoru Suzuki, "Extended-range short-pulse interlayer tunneling spectroscopy for Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d intrinsic Josephson junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Minoru Suzuki, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; e-mail suzuki@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d, interlayer tunneling spectroscopy, intrinsic Josephson junctions short-pulse. 74.72.Hs; 74.50.+r; 74.25.Jb.

T. R. E. Hammad, R. Horyn, E. Bukowska, and A. J. Zaleski, "On the problem of holes and electrons in Ce-doped Nd2CuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact R. Horyn, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Science, Okolna 2, 50-950 Wroclaw, Poland; tel. 48 71 343 5021; fax 48 71 344 1029; e-mail horyn@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: Ce-doped Nd2CuO4, Novel mechanism of Ce/Nd substitution.

S. H. Han, I. Bryntse, J. Axnas, B. R. Zhao, and O. Rapp, "Fluctuation conductivity of polycrystalline Hg, Tl-1223." To be published in Physica C (in press). National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, CAS, PO Box 603, Beijing 100080, China; e-mail shunhui@ftf.kth.se. Key words: fluctuation conductivity; Hg, Tl-1223.

Takuya Harada and Katsukuni Yoshida, "The effect of Pr- and Ca-doping on the flux pinning and superconducting properties in YBa2Cu3O7-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, chemical doping, critical current density, flux pinning.

Seiya Haraguchi, Yuuya Kawabata, Tomoyuki Naito, Hidel Iwasaki, Terukazu Nishizaki, and Norio Kobayashi, "Four-fold symmetry of 90 K YBCO single crystals in magnetic fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). School of Materials Science, JAIST, Tatsunokuchi 923-1292, Japan; tel. 81 761 51 1573; fax 81 761 51 1575; e-mail sharagu@jaist.ac.jp. Key words: in-plane anisotropy, resistivity, Josephson vortex, YBa2Cu3O7-d single crystal.

Walter N. Hardy, "From H2 to cryogenic H masers to HiTc superconductors: An unlikely but rewarding path." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1; e-mail hardy@physics.ubc.ca. Key words: London Prize, solid hydrogen, atomic hydrogen, HiTc superconductors.

N. Harrison, M. Jaime, and J. A. Mydosh, "Re-entrant hidden order at a metamagnetic quantum critical end point." Physical Review Letters, in press. E-mail nharrison@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301244.

Yoshiaki Hata, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Itsuhiro Kakeya, Kazuo Kadowaki, Akikazu Odawara, Atsushi Nagata, Satoshi Nakayama, and Kazuo Chinone, "Flux quantization in a superconducting microdisk." To be published in Physica C (in press). Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan; fax 81 29 282 5939 e-mail hata@neutrons.tokai.jaeri.go.jp. Key words: scanning SQUID microscopy, microdisk, YBa2Cu3O7-d.

Yasuhiro Hatsugai and Shinsei Ryu, "Dirac monopole and spin Hall conductance for anisotropic superconductivities." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; tel. 81 3 3812 2111/6809; fax 81 3 5689 8253; e-mail hatsugai@pothos.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: spin Hall conductance, topological invariant, Dirac monopole, the Chern number.

D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, C. Proust, F. Ronning, Mike Sutherland, Etienne Boaknin, C. Lupien, M. A. Tanatar, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Wakimoto, H. Zhang, Louis Taillefer, T. Kimura, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, and N. E. Hussey, "Field-Induced Thermal Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Underdoped LSCO." E-mail hawthodg@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301107.

Zygmunt Henkie, Andrzej Wojakowski, Tomasz Cichorek, Ryszard Wawryk, M. Brian Maple, Eric D. Bauer, and Frank Steglich, "On evaluation of Kondo-like electron transport characteristics of TLS-Kondo ferromagnets; uranium pnictochalcogenides." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-950 Wroclaw, Poland; tel. 48 71 343 5021; fax 48 71 344 1029; e-mail henkie@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: Kondo scattering, ferromagnetism, uranium compound.

Thomas Herrmannsdorfer, Frank Pobell, Josef Sebek, and Pavel Svoboda, "First observation of superconductivity in LaCu6 and possible applications." To be published in Physica C (in press). Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, High Field Lab, PO Box 51 01 19, D-01314 Dresden, Germany; e-mail t.herrmannsdoerfer@fz-rossendorf.de. Key words: superconductivity, interplay phenomena in superconductors, magnetic superconductors, heavy fermion superconductors.

J. E. Hirsch, "Electron-hole asymmetry is the key to superconductivity." Presented at the New3SC-4 meeting, San Diego, Jan. 16-21 2003; to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B. E-mail jhirsch@ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301610.

J. E. Hirsch, "Superconductors as giant atoms predicted by the theory of hole superconductivity." To be published in Phys. Lett. A. E-mail jhirsch@ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301611.

J. Hissa, V. Braysy, and A. Kallio, "Stripes and a two-component interpretation of NMR in cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). 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.

P.-C. Ho, S. Moehlecke, and M. B. Maple, "Magnetic Relaxation in the Peak Effect Region of CeRu2." E-mail pch@physics.ucsd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301281. 74.25.Qt, 74.70.Ad.

J. E. Hoffman, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis, "Vortex-induced quasi-particle 'checkerboard' in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300; e-mail jhoffman@socrates.berkeley.edu. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, vortices, scanning tunneling microscopy, electronic density of states, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d.

Petter Holme, Petter Minnhagen, and Beom Jun Kim, "Phase Transitions in the Two-Dimensional Random Gauge XY Model." To appear in PRB. Beom Jun Kim's e-mail kim@tp.umu.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301279.

Carsten Honerkamp and T. Maurice Rice, "Single band model for the unconventional superconductivity in both cuprates and ruthenates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Theoretical Physics, ETH Honggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland; fax 41 633 1115; e-mail rice@itp.phys.ethz.ch. Key words: unconventional superconductivity, Hubbard model, renormalization group analysis.

Ryuta Honma, Yoshinori Kuwasawa, Kazunuki Yamamoto, and Tsutomu Nojima, "Study of vortex configuration in the mixed state of a-W/Si multilayers." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Kazunuki Yamamoto, Department of Materials Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan; e-mail kazunuki@xtal.tf.chiba-us.ac.jp. Key words: vortex line configuration, crossing lattice, W/Si multilayer, current-voltage characteristics.

Jun'ya Hori, Shingo Iwata, Hiromi Kurisaki, Fumihiko Nakamura, Takashi Suzuki, and Toshizo Fujita, "Superconductivity and in-plane resistivity in La2-xSrxCuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739 8530, Japan; e-mail junya@dab.hi-ho.ne.jp. Key words: La2-xSrxCuO4, resistivity measurement, anisotropic pressure effect, localization.

Yuuji Horie, Kenji Yamasaki, Teruaki Nomiyama, and Tomoyuki Miyazaki, "Flux flow excited by ultrasonic deformation of flux line lattice in high temperature superconducting ceramics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890 0065, Japan; e-mail horie@eee.kagoshima-u.ac.jp. Key words: flux flow, flux pinning, irreversibility line, ultrasound attenuation.

R. Horyn, A. Sikora, and E. Bukowska, "Crystallochemical features of La1-2xNaxKxMnO3+d solid solution." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-950 Wroclaw, Poland; fax 48 71 344 1029; e-mail horyn@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: manganites, synthesis, structural properties, X-ray diffraction.

R. Horyn, A. J. Zaleski, C. Sulkowski, E. Bukowska, and A. Sikora, "Magnetic features of La1-2xNaxKxMnO3+d solid solution." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-950 Wroclaw, Poland; fax 48 71 344 1029; e-mail horyn@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: manganites, structural properties, magnetic properties, thermo-electric power.

A. Hu, N. Sakai, and M. Murakami, "Spatial variation of superconducting properties and compositional fluctuation in large melt-processed (Sm-Eu)123 single domains." Physica C, in press. Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center, 1-16-25 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0023, Japan; e-mail amhu@istec.or.jp. Key words: (Sm0.5Eu0.5)Ba2Cu3O7-d; melt processing, compositional fluctuation. 74.72.BK, 74.62.Dh, 74.60.Jg.

A. Hu, H. Zhou, D. X. Huang, N. Chikumoto, N. Sakai, M. Murakami, "The modulation of the peak effect in melt-processed (Sm-Eu)123 superconductors with compositional fluctuations." Presented in ASC2002, Houston, USA; to be publised in IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center , 1-16-25 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0023, Japan; fax 0081-3-34549287; e-mail amhu@istec.or.jp. Key words: peak effect, (Sm-Eu)123, melt-processed material, compositional fluctuation. 74.60.Ge, 74.40.+K, 74.62.Dh.

Xiao Hu, "Effects of thermal fluctuations and magnetic field in the SO(5) theory." To be published in Physica C (in press). Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan; tel. 81 298 59 2627; fax 81 298 59 2601; e-mail hu.xiao@nims.go.jp. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, SO(5) theory, bicritical point.

Bor-Luen Huang and Chung-Yu Mou, "Quasiparticle density of state in d-wave superconducting superlattice systems." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Chung-Yu Mou, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan; e-mail mou@phys.nthu.edu.tw. Key words: superlattice, superconductor, density of state. 74.20.-z; 74.80.-g; 74.25.Fy; 74.50.+r.

Saijun Huang, Guohua Zhang, Jing Chen, Sheng Luo, and Yusheng He, "Scaling behavior of the c-axis E-J characteristics for Bi:2212 single crystal." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Sheng Luo, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China; e-mail sluo@sas.ustb.edu.cn. Key words: scaling, vortex glass, I-V curves.

Masanori Ichioka, Kenji Shiroyama, and Kazushige Machida, "Field dependence of vortex structure in p{x} plus or minus ip{y}-wave superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; fax 81 86 251 7830; e-mail oka@mp.okayama-u.ac.jp. Key words: vortex structure, p-wave superconductor, local density of states, quasi-classical theory.

Elinor K. Irish and K. Schwab, "Quantum Measurement of a Coupled Nanomechanical Resonator\textemdash Cooper-Pair Box System." K. Schwab's e-mail schwab@lps.umd.edu; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301252.

K. Ishida, H. Tou, N. Tateiwa, Y. Kitaoka, K. N. Sato, N. Aso, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich, "Al Knight-shift measurement in the superconducting state of UNi2Al3." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; e-mail kishida@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: heavy-fermion compound, UNi2Al3, NMR, Knight shift, spin-triplet superconductivity.

Takekazu Ishida, Kazumasa Katayama, Nariaki Yamamoto, Seiji Adachi, and Setsuko Tajima, "Evidence for spin density wave in the superconducting YBa2Cu4O8." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan; e-mail ishida@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp. Key words: YBa2Cu4O8, peak effect, spin density wave, underdope.

Toru Ishigaki and Yutaka Ogasawara, "Synthesis and properties of TiSr2(RE1-xCex)2Cu2Oz (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd)." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Muroran Institute for Technology, Muroran 050-8585, Japan; e-mail ishigaki@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp. Key words: Ti-1222, titanium-cuprate, superconducting related materials, structure refinement.

Salavat M. Ishikaev, Edward V. Matizen, Valery V. Ryazanov, and Vladimir A. Oboznov, "Magnetic properties of square Josephson arrays with SIS and SNS junctions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Edward V. Matizen, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS, Pr. Acad. Lavrent'eva, 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; e-mail matizen@casper.che.hsk.su. Key words: Josephson arrays, magnetic moment, avalanches of flux quanta, self-organised criticality.

Hiroshi Ito, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Masaki Hanada, Kiyonori Kato, Jun-ichi Yamada, and Gunzi Saito, "Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the superconducting fluctuation region of k-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8063, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 5164; fax 81 52 789 3712; e-mail ito@nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, organic superconductor, pressure, superconducting fluctuation.

M. Ito, H. Harashina, Y. Yasui, M. Sato, and K. Kakurai, "Neutron scattering studies on in-plane longitudinal phonons of YBa2Cu3Oy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact M. Sato, Division of Material Science, Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8062, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 3537; fax 81 52 789 2856; e-mail e43247a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: YBa2Cu3Oy, neutron scattering, phonons, stripes.

Masafumi Ito, Yukio Yasui, Satoshi Iikubo, Minoru Soda, Masatoshi Sato, Akito Kobayashi, and Kazuhisa Kakurai, "Effects of 'Stripes' on the Magnetic Excitation Spectra of La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4." Masatoshi Sato's e-mail e43247a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301616.

Y. Itoh, T. Machi, C. Kasai, S. Adachi, N. Watanabe, N. Koshizuka, and M. Murakami, "Zn-Neighbor Cu NQR in Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3O7-d and YBa2Cu4O8." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail itoh@istec.or.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301432.

Y. Iwasa, T. Takenobu, H. Kitano, and A. Maeda, "Metal-insulator transition in C60 fullerides." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; tel. 81 22 215 2030; fax 81 22 215 2031; e-mail iwasa@imr.edu. Key words: fullerides, antiferromagnetic insulator, Mott-Jahn Teller system.

Hideo Iwasaki, Yuuya Kawabata, Tomoyuki Naito, Yukitoshi Fujita, Seiya Haraguchi, Takahiko Sasaki, and Norio Kobayashi, "Vortex glass transition of the Josephson vortex system in LSCO crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Asahidai 1-1, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan; tel. 81 761 51 1571; fax 81 761 51 1575; e-mail hideo@jaist.ac.jp. Key words: vortex glass transition, Josephson vortex, LSCO system.

Akira Iyo, Manabu Hirai, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, Tsuneo Watanabe, Madoka Tokumoto, Minoru Ariyama, and Yasumoto Tanaka, "Anomalous suppression of Tc in an overdoped region of TlBa2Ca2Cu3O9-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST Central 2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; tel. 81 298 61 5435; fax 81 298 61 5447; e-mail iyo-akira@aist.go.jp. Key words: TlBa2Ca2Cu3O9-d (Tl-1223), overdoped state, suppression of superconductivity, stripe order, multi-layered superconductor, Tl valence change.

K. Izawa, H. Yamaguchi, Y. Matsuda, H. Shishido, R. Settai, and Y. Onuki, "Gap structure and anomalous superconducting state of quasi-2D heavy-fermion CeCoIn5." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8581, Chiba, Japan; e-mail koichi@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: CeCoIn5, d{x2-y2}-wave symmetry, first order phase transition, thermal conductivity.

Zdenek Janu, Georgiy M. Tsoy, and Miloslav Novak, "Observation of sequence of transitions from 2D to 3D superconducting state in YBa2Cu3O6+x single crystal." To be published in Physica C (in press). Joint Low Temperature Laboratory, Institute of Physics, ASCR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic; e-mail janu@fzu.cz. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7, critical temperature, dimensional crossover, transition.

F. Jean, D. Colson, G. Collin, N. Blanchard, and A. Forget, "Determination and Control of Oxygen Stoichiometry in the Cuprate Bi2sr2cuo6+D." Proceedings of CIMTEC 2002-4th International Conference on Science and Engineering of HTC Superconductivity, Florence, Italy. D. Colson's e-mail colson@drecam.saclay.cea.fr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301063.

V. Jeudy, C. Gourdon, G. Karczewski, and Tu Le Anh, "Transformation from flux tube to labyrinthine stripe pattern in the intermediate state of superconducting Indium." To be published in Physica C (in press). Groupe de Physique des Solides Tour 23, Univ. Paris 6 et 7, CNRS UMR 75-88, 2 Place Jussieu 75251, Paris Cedex 05, France; e-mail jeudy@gps.jussieu.fr. Key words: magnetic flux structures, intermediate state, Type I superconductivity.

C. Q. Jin, Y. L. Zhang, Z. X. Liu, F. Y. Li, W. Yu, and R. C. Yu, "Thermodynamic properties of MgCNi3 superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 603, Beijing 100080, PR China; e-mail cqjin@aphy.iphy.ac.cn. Key words: MgCNi3 superconductor, magnetic property, thermodynamic parameter.

M. Jirsa, V. Zablotskii, T. Nishizaki, N. Kobayashi, M. Muralidhar, and M. Murakami, "Relaxation study of RE-123 materials with different types of pinning defects." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, ASCR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic; tel. 420 2 6605 2718; fax 420 2 821227; e-mail jirsa@fzu.cz. Key words: relaxation, high-Tc superconductors, magnetic hysteresis loop.

H. Johannesson and G. I. Japaridze, "Pairing and Density Correlations of Stripe Electrons in a Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet." E-mail tfkhj@fy.chalmers.se; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301585.

Takanobu Jujo, "Nonlinear response in the vortex state of unconventional superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan; fax 81 75 753 3819; e-mail jujo@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: mixed state, density of states, the specific heat.

R. Kadono, W. Higemoto, A. Koda, M. I. Larkin, G. M. Luke, A. T. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, K. M. Kojima, T. Okamoto, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, T. Ito, and K. Oka, "Large vortex core at low magnetic induction in La2-xSrxCuO4 probed by muon spin rotation." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan; fax 81 298 64 5623; e-mail ryosuke.kadono@kek.jp. Key words: flux lines, LSCO, antiferromagnetic core, {mu}SR.

I. Kakeya, S. Aman, K. Suzuki, and K. Kadowaki, "Josephson vortex flow and pinning probed by c-axis transport measurements." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan; tel. 81 298 53 5292; fax 81 298 55 7440; e-mail kakeya@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp. Key words: Josephson vortex, intrinsic Josephson junctions, flux flow resistance, peak effect.

Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Ken-ich Kumagai, Yuji Matsuda, and Masashi Hasegawa, "Antiferromagnetic vortex core of Tl2Ba2CuO6+d studied by {205}Tl-NMR." To be published in Physica C (in press). Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0180, Japan; e-mail kaku@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp. Key words: NMR, vortex core, high-Tc superconductor, antiferromagnetism.

B. Kalisky, Y. Wolfus, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Coexisting ordered and disordered vortex phases in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Superconductivity, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; e-mail ph50@mail.biu.ac.il. Key words: vortex states, vortex phase transitions, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d, magneto-optics.

H. Kambara, K. Yokota, T. Matsui, I. Ueda, T. Shishido, M. Wada, N. Kikugawa, Y. Maeno, and H. Fukuyama, "Preliminary scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of Sr2RuO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; e-mail kambara@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: Sr2RuO4, spin-triplet BCS state, STM.

Kenji Kamide, Takashi Kimura, Munihiro Nishida, and Susumu Kurihara, "New type of superconductivity in carbon nanotubes." E-mail kamide@kh.phys.waseda.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301115.

I. Kanazawa, "The fluctuation of a local magnetic field in underdoped cuprates." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8501, Japan; tel. 81 42 329 7548; fax 81 42 329 7491; e-mail kanazawa@u-gakugei.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc cuprates, spin glass, spin chirality.

G. Karapetrov, M. Iavarone, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, D. G. Hinks, and S. I. Lee, "Momentum-dependent scanning tunneling spectroscopy in MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; tel. 630 252 5668; fax 630 252 7777; e-mail goran@anl.gov. Key words: MgB2, STM, scanning tunneling spectroscopy, multi-gap superconductivity.

Junpei Kasai, Noriaki Okazaki, Yuri Nakayama, Teruki Motohashi, Jun-ichi Shimoyama, Kohji Kishio, Hideomi Koinuma, and Tetsuya Hasegawa, "Local magnetic properties of high-Tc superconductors probed by scanning SQUID microscopy." To be published in Physica C (in press). Frontier Collaborative Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; tel./fax 81 459 245876; e-mail jkasai1@rlem.titech.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, scanning SQUID microscopy, Josephson vortex.

Kazumasa Katayama, Takekazu Ishida, Seiji Adachi, and Setsuko Tajima, "Vortex phase diagrams of YBa2Cu4O8 in H{parallels}c and H{parallels}b." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan; e-mail katakazu@pe.osakafu-u.ac.jp. Key words: vortex, phase diagram, YBa2Cu4O8, single crystal.

Yusuke Kato and Nobuhiko Hayashi, "Physics of vortex core in chiral p-wave superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; fax 81 3 5454 6534; e-mail yusuke@phys.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: vortex core, chiral p-wave superconductor, coherence effect, impurity scattering.

C. Kawabata, M. Takeuchi, N. Hayashi, F. Ono, S. R. Shenoy, and A. R. Bishop, "Monte Carlo study of pseudo-gap temperature T* within JJA model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; fax 81 86 273 6750; e-mail kawabatact@nifty.com. Key words: pseudo-gap temperature, high-Tc cuprate superconductor, Josephson junction array model, Ginzburg-Landau theory.

Takaaki Kawaguchi, "Plastic vortex flow in current-driven disordered Josephson junction networks." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Technology, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan; tel./fax 81 852 32 6355; e-mail kawaguch@edu.shimane-u.ac.jp. Key words: Josephson junction, array, plastic flow, vortices.

Shinji Kawasaki, Yu Kawasaki, Takeshi Mito, Guo-qing Zheng, Yoshio Kitaoka, Shingo Araki, Rikio Settai, and Yoshichika Onuki, "Unconventional superconductivity in CeIn3:115In-NQR study under pressure." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-cho, 1-3 Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan; e-mail shinji@nmr.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp. Key words: heavy-fermion, CeIn3, NQR, pressure-induced superconductivity.

Naoki Kikugawa and Yoshiteru Maeno, "Specific heat of the spin triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 with nonmagnetic impurities." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; tel. 81 75 753 3793; fax 81 75 753 3783; e-mail kiku@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: Sr2RuO4, nonmagnetic impurity effect, specific heat, non-Fermi liquid.

C. Kim, A. Mehta, D. L. Feng, K. M. Shen, N. P. Armitage, K. Char, S. H. Moon, Y. Y. Xie, and J. Wu, "X-ray diffraction measurements of the c-axis Debye-Waller factors of YBa2Cu3O7 and HgBa2CaCu2O6." To be published in Physical Review B. E-mail cykim@phya.yonsei.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301057.

D. C. Kim, J. S. Kim, B. H. Kim, Y. W. Park, C. U. Jung, and S. I. Lee, "Thermoelectric power of MgB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Y. W. Park, Department of Physics, School of Physics and Condensed Matter Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea; tel. 82 2 880 6607; fax 82 2 873 7037; e-mail ywpark@phya.snu.ac.kr. Key words: MgB2, thermoelectric power, bismuthates, electron-phonon coupling. 74.25.Fy; 74.70.-b; 74.72.Jt.

Hyun-Tak Kim, "Josephson current and product demonstrated by means of measurement for an inhomogeneous superconductor: Extension of the Ambegaokar - Baratoff theory." E-mail htkim@etri.re.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301097.

Mun Dae Kim, Dongkwan Shin, and Jongbae Hong, "Double-Well Potentials in Current Qubits." E-mail mdkim@phya.yonsei.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301470.

Go Kinoda, Shoichiro Nakao, Teruki Motohashi, Yuri Nakayama, Keisuke Shimizu, Junichi Shimoyama, Koji Kishio, Tetsuo Hanaguri, Koichi Kitazawa, and Tetsuya Hasegawa, "Inhomogeneous electronic structures in heavily Pb-doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy single crystals probed by low temperature STM/STS." To be published in Physica C (in press). Frontier Collaborative Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; tel./fax 81 459245876; e-mail kinoda@nano.fcrc.titech.ac.jp. Key words: electronic inhomogeneity, Pb-doped Bi2212, STM/STS.

H. Kitano, R. Inoue, A. Maeda, N. Motoyama, K. M. Kojima, and S. Uchida, "Nonlinear conductivity in the slightly hole-doped Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 ladder compounds." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan; e-mail hkitano@maeda1.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: collective mode, charge order, sliding motion, Sr14-xCaxCu24O41.

Hijiri Kito, Akira Iyo, A. Crisan, Manabu Hirai, Madoka Tokumoto, Satoru Okayasu, Masahito Sasase, Hideo Ihara, and Yasumoto Tanaka, "Heavy-ion irradiation dependence of the superconducting properties of (Cu,C)Ba2Ca3Cu4O10.5-d." To be published in Physica C (in press). Superconducting Materials Group, Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1, Umezono, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan; e-mail h.kito@aist.go.jp. Key words: heavy-ion irradiation, (Cu,C)-1234, magnetic measurement, critical current density (Jc), irreversibility field (H{irrr}).

R. F. Klie, Y. Zhu, G. Schneider and J. Tafto, "Experimental probing of the anisotropy of the empty p states near the Fermi level in MgB2." E-mail klie@bnl.gov; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301575.

Anton Knigavko and Frank Marsiglio, "Vortex lattice structures in tetragonal BCS superconductors due to Fermi surface anisotropy." To be published in Physica C (in press). McMaster University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1; tel. 905 525 9140; fax 905 546 1252; e-mail aknigavko@phys.ualberta.ca. Key words: quasiclassical theory of superconductivity, vortex lattice, anisotropy, nonlocality.

Akito Kobayashi, Atsushi Tsuruta, Tamifusa Matsuura, and Yoshihiro Kuroda, "The electron-hole asymmetry in the cuprate superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8062, Japan; tel. 81 52 789 2911; fax 81 52 789 2928; e-mail akito@edu2.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp. Key words: cuprate, pseudogap, superconductivity, strong correlation.

Kazuaki Kobayashi and Masao Arai, "LiBC and related compounds under high pressure." To be published in Physica C (in press). Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, RCCNM, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan; fax 81 298 52 7449; e-mail kobayashi.kazuaki@nims.go.jp. Key words: LiBC, lattice anomaly, high pressure, first principles calculation.

A. Kohen, G. Leibovitch, and G. Deutscher, "Andreev reflections on Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-delta evidence for an unusual proximity effect." E-mail kohen@tau.ac.il; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301288.

Y. Kohsaka, T. Hanaguri, K. Kitazawa, M. Azuma, M. Takano, and H. Takagi, "STM/STS study on Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; e-mail kk17106@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: scanning tunneling microscopy, high-Tc superconductor, metal-insulator transition, Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2.

Soh Koike, Takashi Yanagisawa, and Kunihiko Yamaji, "Variational Monte Carlo study of the superconducting condensation energy on the dependence of epsilon_p - epsilon_d in the two-dimensional d-p model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Condensed Matter Physics Group, Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan; e-mail koike.so@aist.go.jp. Key words: superconducting condensation energy, d-p model, epsilon_p - epsilon_d dependence, variational Monte Carlo method.

Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, X. F. Sun, and A. N. Lavrov, "Peculiar evolution of the c-axis charge transport in La2-xSrxCuO4 single crystals from antiferromagnetic insulator to superconducting regime." To be published in Physica C (in press). Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Komae, Tokyo 201-8511, Japan; e-mail komiya@criepi.denken.or.jp. Key words: La2-xSrxCuO4, transport properties, charge stripes, c-axis transport.

Ryuji Kondo, Takeshi Fukami, Kazumasa Makise, and Tuyoshi Tamegai, "Magnetic relaxation in Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Engineering, Oita University, 700 Dannoharu Oita, Japan; e-mail longsi@susi.oita-u.ac.jp. Key words: superconductivity, magnetic relaxation, YBCO, Hall probe, local field.

Hiroshi Kontani, "Theory of Nernst coefficient and magnetoresistance in high-Tc cuprates: The role of superconducting fluctuations." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Saitama 338-8570, Japan; tel./fax 81 48 858 3740; e-mail kon@phy.saitama-u.ac.jp. Key words: Nernst coefficient, vertex correction, FLEX+T-matrix approximation, Fermi liquid theory.

T. K. Kopec, "Effect of phase fluctuations on the penetration depth in local-pair superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw 50-950, Poland; e-mail kopec@int.pan.wroc.pl. Key words: superconductivity, local pairs, penetration depth, phase fluctuations.

T. K. Kopec and T. P. Polak, "Ground state properties of charge and magnetically frustrated two--dimensional quantum Josephson--junction arrays." Phys. Rev. B 66. T. P. Polak's e-mail polak@int.pan.wroc.pl; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301212.

Takashi Koretsune and Masao Ogata, "Effect of a geometrical frustration in the doped Mott insulator." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; tel./fax 81 3 5841 4185; e-mail koretune@hosi.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Key words: frustration, resonating valence bond, ferromagnetism.

H. Kotegawa, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Araki, G.-q. Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, K. Tokiwa, T. Watanabe, A. Iyo, H. Kito, Y. Tanaka, and H. Ihara, "Microscopic coexistence of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in HgBa2Ca4Cu5Oy:Cu-NMR study." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan; e-mail kotegawa@nmr.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp. Key words: multilayered high-Tc cuprates, NMR, antiferromagnetism.

Kuniyuki Koyama, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Seishi Takagi, and Kiyoshi Mizuno, "Pressure dependence of chiral-glass transition in Y-Ba-Cu-O ceramics." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima, 1-1 Minamijosanjima, Tokushima 770-8502, Japan; tel. 81 88 656 7233; fax 81 88 656 7298; e-mail koyama@ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp. Key words: YBCO ceramics, chiral-glass, Josephson network, pressure effects.

M. Krawiec, B. L. Gyorffy, and J. F. Annett, "Andreev bound states in ferromagnet-superconductor nanostructures." To be published in Physica C (in press). H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK; e-mail m.a.krawiec@bristol.ac.uk. Key words: proximity effect, ferromagnetic-superconducting heterostructures, FFLO state.

L. Krusin-Elbaum, T. Shibauchi, G. Blatter, C. H. Mielke, M. Li, M. P. Maley, and P. H. Kes, "Pseudogap state in overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y." To be published in Physica C (in press). IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; tel. 914 945 2548; fax 914 945 2141; e-mail krusin@us.ibm.com. Key words: pseudogap, phase diagram, interlayer tunneling, quantum fluctuations.

Ken-ich Kumagai, Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Yuji Matsuda, and Masashi Hasegawa, "Antiferromagnetic vortex core in HTSC studied by spatially resolved NMR." To be published in Physica C (in press). Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0180, Japan; tel. 81 11 706 5266; fax 81 11 706 4926; e-mail kumagai@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp. Key words: NMR, vortex core, high-Tc superconductor, antiferromagnetic order, Tl2Ba2CuO6+d.

Akio Kurita, Masashi Miyashita, Hiromi Taniguchi, Kazuhiko Satoh, Masafumi Tamura, Reizo Kato, Masato Hedo, and Yoshiya Uwatoko, "Development of AC susceptibility technique under high pressure and its application to organic superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan; e-mail kurita.a@hp.phy.saitama-u.ac.jp. Key words: organic superconductor, high pressure, phase diagram.

Kazuhiko Kuroki, Takashi Kimura, and Ryotaro Arita, "Possible high temperature superconductivity in systems with nested Fermi surface pockets." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan; e-mail kuroki@e-one.uec.ac.jp. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, disconnected Fermi surface, Dimer array lattice, Hubbard model.

Yuriy I. Kuzmin, "Anomalous statistical properties of the critical current distribution in superconductor containing fractal clusters of a normal phase." Phys. Lett. A 300. E-mail yurk@mail.ioffe.ru; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301233.

J. Lages, P. D. Sacramento, and Z. Tesanovic, "Quasiparticle density of states of d-wave superconductors in a disordered vortex lattice." E-mail lages@gtae3.ist.utl.pt; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301170.

F. Laube, G. Goll, M. Eschrig, M. Fogelstrom, and Ralph Werner, "Excess current in superconducting Sr2RuO4." Ralph Werner's e-mail werner@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301221.

A. N. Lavrov, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando, "Freezing of stripes in lightly-doped La2-xSrxCuO4 as manifested in magnetic and transport properties of untwinned single crystals." To be published in Physica C (in press). Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 2-11-1 Iwado-kita, Komae, Tokyo 201-8511, Japan; e-mail lavrov@crie