November 2003 Preprints

V. C. Aguilera-Navarro, M. Fortes, M. de Llano, and F. J. Sevilla, "Cooper Pairing Revisited." To be published in Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 19 (Nova, NY). F. J. Sevilla's e-mail sevillap@fisica.unam.mx; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312001.

G. Amano, S. Akutagawa, T. Muranaka, Y. Zenitani, and J. Akimitsu, "The enhancement of superconducting transition temperature in yttrium sesquicarbide system, Y2C3, with the maximum Tc of Tc=18K." Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. T. Muranaka's e-mail muranaka@phys.aoyama.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311517.

M. H. S. Amin, "Charge-Phase Qubit in Phase Regime." E-mail amin@dwavesys.com; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311220.

P. W. Anderson, P. A. Lee, M. Randeria, T. M. Rice, N. Trivedi, and F. C. Zhang, "The Physics Behind High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates: The "Plain Vanilla" Version Of RVB." N. Trivedi's e-mail ntrivedi@theory.tifr.res.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311467.

M. A. Ansari, V. P. S. Awana, Anurag Gupta, R. B. Saxena, and H. Kishan, "Effect of Sr substitution on the stability of CuO chains in oxygen and nitrogen annealed YBa2-xSrxCu3O(x = 0.0, 0.50, 1.0) superconducting system." Proceedings NCMA-2004. V. P. S. Awana's e-mail awana@mail.nplindia.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311564. Key words: Y-123, Sr substitution, superconducting transition.

P. Ao, "Yes, 60 years later we are still working hard on vortices." E-mail ao@dirac.phys.washington.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311495.

H. Aoki, T. Sakakibara, H. Shishido, R. Settai, Y. Onuki, P. Miranovc, and K. Machida, "Field-angle Dependence of the Zero-Energy Density of States in the Unconventional Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5." To be published in J. Phys. Condens. Matter. E-mail haoki@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312012.

E. Arrigoni, E. Fradkin, and S. A. Kivelson, "Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity in a striped Hubbard Model." E. Fradkin's e-mail eduardo@buenosaires.physics.uiuc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309572.

V. P. S. Awana, M. A. Ansari, Rashmi Nigam, Anurag Gupta, R. B. Saxena, and H. Kishan, "Comparison of the superconducting critical transition temperature of LaBaCaCu3O7-d and NdBaCaCu3O7-d." NCMA-2004. E-mail awana@mail.nplindia.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311565.

R. Bel, K. Behnia, Y. Nakajima, K. Izawa, Y. Matsuda, H. Shishido, R. Settai, and Y. Onuki, "Giant Nernst effect in a Kondo lattice close to a quantum critical point." K. Behnia's e-mail kamran.behnia@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311473.

Cristina Bena, Sudip Chakravarty, Jiangping Hu, and Chetan Nayak, "Quasiparticle scattering and local density of states in the d-density wave phase." Jiangping Hu's e-mail hujp@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311299.

L. Benfatto and C. Morais Smith, "Optical response for a discrete stripe." M2s-Rio 2003 Proceedings; to appear in Physica C. E-mail lara.benfatto@roma1.infn.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311626.

E. V. Bezuglyi, E. N. Bratus', V. S. Shumeiko, and V. Vinokur, "Phase dependent current statistics in short-arm Andreev interferometer." To be published in Proc. NATO ARW "Quantum Transport in Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures", St. Petersburg, 2003. E-mail bezugly@anl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311176.

V. Bobrovskii, V. Kazantsev, N. Mushnikov, E. Mitberg, A. Podlesnyak, E. Khlybov, and A. Mirmelstein, "Superconducting magnetization and pressure effect on Tc in the infinite-layer high-Tc superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Nuclear Reactor Research Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Metal Physics, S. Kovalevskaya Str. 18, 620219 Ekaterinburg GSP-170, Russia; tel./fax 7 3432 740003; e-mail bobrovskii@imp.uran.ru. Key words: electron-doped high-Tc superconductors, neutron diffraction, magnetization, scaling behavior. 74.72.-h.

L. Boeri, E. Cappelluti, C. Grimaldi, and L. Pietronero, "Poor screening and nonadiabatic superconductivity in correlated systems." Accepted by Physical Review B. E-mail lilia@pil.phys.uniroma1.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311281.

V. N. Bogomolov, "Superconductors with Superconducting Transition Temperatures Tc = 91K (1999), 120K (1994), 340K (2000), and 371K (1995): Experimental Errors or a Technological Puzzle? Two-Component Nonstoichiometric Compounds and the Insulator--Superconductor--Metal Transition." E-mail V.Bogomolov@mail.ioffe.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311265.

P. Brovetto, V. Maxia, and M. Salis, "On the theory of high temperature superconductivity." E-mail brovetto@vaxca1.unica.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312015.

Andrew N. Cleland and Michael R. Geller, "Superconducting Qubit Storage and Entanglement with Nanomechanical Resonators." Michael R. Geller's e-mail mgeller@physast.uga.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311007.

R. Combescot and C. Mora, "The low temperature Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phases in 3 dimensions." E-mail combesco@lps.ens.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311042.

D. S. Crankshaw, K. Segall, D. Nakada, T. P. Orlando, L. S. Levitov, S. Lloyd, S. O. Valenzuela, N. Markovic, M. Tinkham, and K. K. Berggren, "DC measurements of macroscopic quantum levels in a superconducting qubit structure with a time-ordered meter." E-mail dscrank@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311458.

Mario Cuoco, Paola Gentile, and Canio Noce, "Coexistence of ferromagnetism and singlet superconductivity via kinetic exchange." Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 197003 (2003). E-mail marcuo@sa.infn.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311063.

Kazuhiko Deguchi, Takehiko Ishiguro, and Yoshiteru Maeno, "Field-Orientation Dependent Heat Capacity Measurements at Low Temperatures with a Vector Magnet System." Submitted to Rev. Sci. Instrum. E-mail deguchi@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311591.

Kazuhiko Deguchi, Zhiqiang Mao, Hiroshi Yaguchi, and Yoshiteru Maeno, "Gap Structure of the Spin-Triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4 Determined from the Field-Orientation Dependence of Specific Heat." To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail deguchi@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311366.

G. A. Farnan, G. F. Cairns, P. Dawson, S. M. O'Prey, M. P. McCurry, and D. G. Walmsley, "Mid-infrared a-b plane response of YBa2Cu3O7-d as a function of doping and temperature determined by attenuated total reflection." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact D. G. Walmsley, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK; tel. 44 2890 273531; fax 44 2890 236226; e-mail dg.walmsley@qub.ac.uk. Key words: infrared spectroscopy, optical reflectivity, thin films, surface plasmons, attenuated total reflection. 74.72.Bk; 78.20.Ci; 73.20.Mf.

Yakov Fominov, "Proximity and Josephson effects in superconducting hybrid structures." PhD thesis; hardcopies are available upon request to fominov@landau.ac.ru. E-mail fominov@landau.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311359.

Eduardo Fradkin, David A. Huse, R. Moessner, V. Oganesyan, and S. L. Sondhi, "On bipartite Rokhsar-Kivelson points and Cantor deconfinement." R. Moessner's e-mail moessner@lpt.ens.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311353.

O. Friedt, P. Steffens, M. Braden, Y. Sidis, S. Nakatsuji, and Y. Maeno, "Strongly Enhanced Magnetic Fluctuations in a Heavy-mass Layered Ruthenate." E-mail friedt@ph2.uni-koeln.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311652.

P. Frigeri, D. F. Agterberg, A. Koga, and M. Sigrist, "Superconductivity without inversion symmetry: MnSi versus CePt3Si." D. F. Agterberg's e-mail agterber@uwm.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311354.

M. Fujita, M. Matsuda, S. Katano, and K. Yamada, "Magnetic Field Effect on Static Antiferromagnetism in Electron-Doped Superconductor Pr{1-x}LaCexCuO4 (x=0.11 and 0.15)." E-mail fujita@imr.tohoku.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311269.

Y. Gallais, A. Sacuto, and D. Colson, "Resonant Raman scattering in mercurate single crystals." M2S-Rio (invited paper); to appear in Physica C. E-mail yann.gallais@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311579.

S. Garcia and L. Ghivelder, "I-V curves and intergranular flux creep activation energy in the magnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8." L. Ghivelder's e-mail luisghiv@if.ufrj.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311515.

Mariusz Gebarowski and Marcin Mierzejewski, "Temperature induced modification of phonons in the boson-fermion model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Marcin Mierzejewski, Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, University of Silesia, Katowice 40-007, Poland; fax 48 32 588 431; e-mail marcin@tartarus-phys.us.edu.pl. Key words: pseudogap, electron-phonon coupling. 74.20.-z; 74.25.Kc.

Yu. A. Genenko and S. V. Yampolskii, "Bean-Livingston barrier on a superconductor/magnet boundary." E-mail yugenen@tgm.tu-darmstadt.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311157.

F. Giazotto, T. T. Heikkila, F. Taddei, Rosario Fazio, J. P. Pekola, and F. Beltram, "Tailoring Josephson coupling through superconductivity-induced nonequilibrium." E-mail giazotto@sns.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311384.

E. Goldobin, A. Sterck, T. Gaber, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner, "Dynamics of semifluxons in Nb long Josephson 0-pi junctions." E-mail gold@uni-tuebingen.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311610.

Denis A. Gorokhov, "Surface Superconductivity of Dirty Two-Band Superconductors: Applications to {\rm MgB}2." E-mail gorokhov@ccmr.cornell.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312014.

Enzo Granato, "Resistive transition in \pi-junction superconductors." To appear in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail enzo@las.inpe.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311083.

Francisco Guinea, Robert S. Markiewicz, and Maria A. H. Vozmediano, "Superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates: Gap shape change and symmetry crossover with doping." Accepted for Phys. Rev. B. Maria A. H. Vozmediano's e-mail vozmediano@icmm.csic.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206208.

Zsolt Gulacsi, "Exact ground-state for the periodic Anderson model in D=2 dimensions at finite value of the interaction and absence of the direct hopping in the correlated f-band." Published in Eur. Phys. Jour. B 30. E-mail gulacsi@dtp.atomki.hu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311405.

Zsolt Gulacsi, "Plaquette operators used in the rigorous study of ground-states of the Periodic Anderson Model in D = 2 dimensions." Phys. Rev. B 66. E-mail gulacsi@dtp.atomki.hu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311407.

Stephan Haas, Kazumi Maki, Thomas Dahm, and Peter Thalmeier, "Anatomy of Gossamer Superconductivity." E-mail shaas@physsh.usc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311537.

T. Haugan, P. N. Barnes, I. Maartense, C. B. Cobb, E. J. Lee, and M. Sumption, "Island growth of Y2BaCuO5 nanoparticles in (211~1.5 nm/123~10 nm)xN composite multilayer structures to enhance flux pinning YBa2Cu3O7-delta films." J. Mat. Res. 18 (2003). E-mail timothy.haugan@wpafb.af.mil; available online at http://www.mrs.org/publications/jmr/jmra/2003/nov/. Key words: YBa2Cu3O7-delta, Y2BaCuO5, pulsed laser deposition, flux pinning, critical current density, composite structures, HTS thin films, island-growth, nanoparticles, YBCO, area particle density. 74.76.B; 74.72.B; 85.25.

C. Y. He, Y. Hou, L. Liu, and Z. X. Gao, "Trapped field and related properties in a superconducting disk magnetized by pulse field." Y. Hou's e-mail houyang@pku.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311490.

Y. Hou, C. Y. He, L. Liu, and Z. X. Gao, "Trapped field in a superconducting disk magnetized with low swept-down rate of applied field." E-mail houyang@pku.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311499.

Hui-fen Huang and Jun-fa Mao, "The capacitance equivalent circuit for quasi-TEM HTS microstrip and the basic capacitance model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China. Key words: HTS, microstrip, capacitance. 74.76; 84.40.D; 84.37.

A. Huxley, V. Mineev, B. Grenier, E. Ressouche, D. Aoki, J. P. Brison, and J. Flouquet, "Order parameter symmetry in the superconducting ferromagnets UGe2 and URhGe." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact D. Aoki, IMR, Tohoku University, Narita, Oarai; tel. 81 29 2673181; fax 81 29 2674947; e-mail aoki@imr.edu. Key words: superconductivity, ferromagnetism. 74.70.Tx; 74.25.Fy.

Masafumi Ito, Yukio Yasui, Satoshi Iikubo, Minoru Soda, Akito Kobayashi, Masatoshi Sato, Kazuhisa Kakurai, Chul-Ho Lee, and Kazuyoshi Yamada, "Studies on Magnetic Excitation Spectra of High-Tc Superconductors." Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Masatoshi Sato's e-mail e43247a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311058.

Z. Janu and G. M. Tsoi, "Scattering approach to the magnetic susceptibility of HTSC." Europhysics Letters, Vol. 64 (2003). E-mail janu@fzu.cz. Key words: magnetic properties, transport properties, weak magnetic fields, resonance back-scattering. 74.25.Ha, 74.25.Fy.

B. Kalisky, Y. Bruckental, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun, "Dynamics of transient disordered vortex states in BSCCO." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail ph50@mail.biu.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311037.

A. Kaminski, S. Rosenkranz, H. M. Fretwell, J. Mesot, M. Randeria, J. C. Campuzano, M. R. Norman, Z. Z. Li, H. Raffy, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, and K. Kadowaki, "Identifying the Background Signal in ARPES of High Temperature Superconductors." E-mail a.kaminski@swan.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311451.

A. Kanigel, A. Keren, L. Patlagan, K. B. Chashka, B. Fisher, P. King, and A. Amato, "Muon Spin Relaxation Measurements in NaxCoO2*yH2O." A. Keren's e-mail keren@physics.technion.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311427.

A. E. Karakozov, E. G. Maksimov, and A. V. Pronin, "Far-infrared electrodynamics of superconducting Nb: comparison of theory and experiment." Accepted to Solid State Commun. A. V. Pronin's e-mail pronin@ran.gpi.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311600.

Y. Kawasaki, K. Ishida, S. Kawasaki, T. Mito, G.-q. Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich, "Exotic superconductivity in the coexistent phase of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in CeCu2(Si0.98Ge0.02)2: A Cu-NQR study under hydrostatic pressure." To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail yu@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311296.

S. Khlebnikov, "Quasiparticle production by quantum phase slips." E-mail skhleb@physics.purdue.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311045.

Chul Koo Kim , A. Rakhimov, and Jae Hyung Yee, "Post Gaussian effective potential in the Ginzburg Landau theory of superconductivity." A. Rakhimov's e-mail abdulla@phya.yonsei.ac.kr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311226.

Hiori Kino, Hiroshi Kontani, and Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, "Phase Diagram of \beta'-(BEDT-TTF)2ICl2 under High Pressure Based on the First-Principles Electronic Structure." Accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. E-mail kino.hiori@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311436.

Z. Kis and E. Paspalakis, "Arbitrary rotation and entanglement of flux SQUID qubits." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail zsolt@szfki.hu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311027.

Takafumi Kita, "Entropy and Spin Susceptibility of s-wave Type-II Superconductors near H{c2}." E-mail kita@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311562.

V. G. Kogan and N. V. Zhelezina, "Penetration depth anisotropy in two-band superconductors." E-mail kogan@ameslab.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311331.

A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, A. N. Yaresko, S.-L. Drechsler, H. Rosner, T. K. Kim, A. Koitzsch, K. A. Nenkov, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, R. Follath, H. Berger, B. Keimer, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando, "Evidence for CuO conducting band splitting in the nodal direction of Bi-2212." E-mail kordyuk@imp.kiev.ua; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311137.

M. M. Korshunov, V. A. Gavrichkov, S. G. Ovchinnikov, D. Manske, and I. Eremin, "Effective parameters of the band dispersion in n-type high-Tc superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact I. Eremin, Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arnimalle 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; tel. 49 30 8385 1422; fax 49 30 8385 7422; e-mail ieremin@physik.fu-berlin.de. Key words: high-Tc superconductivity, electronic correlations, electron-doped cuprates. 74.72.-h; 74.25.Dw; 74.25.Jb.

M. Krawiec and K. I. Wysokinski, "Electron transport through strongly interacting quantum dot coupled to normal metal and superconductor." Accepted for publication in Supercond. Sci. Technol. E-mail krawiec@kft.umcs.lublin.pl; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311445.

K. Kudo, M. Yamazaki, T. Kawamata, T. Adachi, T. Noji, Y. Koike, T. Nishizaki, and N. Kobayashi, "Field-induced magnetic order in La{2-x}SrxCuO4 (x = 0.10, 0.115, 0.13) studied by the in-plane thermal conductivity." E-mail kudo@imr.tohoku.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311402.

M. N. Kunchur, C. Wu, D. H. Arcos, B. I. Ivlev, Eun-Mi Choi, Kijoon H. P. Kim, W. N. Kang, and Sung-Ik Lee, "Critical flux pinning and enhanced upper-critical-field in magnesium diboride films." Phys. Rev. B 68, 100503 (2003). Preprint available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311364. Key words: pair, breaking, depairing, superconductor, superconductivity, flux, fluxon, vortex, Mgb2.

I. Kusevic, E. Babic, O. Husnjak, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, and S. X. Dou, "Correlated vortex pinning in Si-nanoparticle doped MgB2." E-mail ikusevic@phy.hr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311425.

R. E. Lagos and G. G. Cabrera, "A two band model for Superconductivity: Probing interband pair formation." G. G. Cabrera's e-mail cabrera@ifi.unicamp.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311196. 74.20.-z; 74.20.Fg; 74.70.Ad.

J. Lauwers and A. Verbeure, "A microscopic model for Josephson currents." E-mail joris.lauwers@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311031.

M. A. R. LeBlanc and Moh'd Rezeq, "Ic hysteresis in polycrystalline high Tc superconductors Double-valued Ic curves with identically magnetized grains, final fields and temperature: an effect of edge return fields." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5; tel. 613 562 5800x6771; fax 613 562 5190; e-mail mleblanc@physics.uottawa.ca. 74.25.Ha; 74.60.Ge; 74.60.Jg.

J. H. Lee, R. Baek, G. C. Kim, Y. C. Kim, and D. Y. Jeong, "Anomalous ac susceptibility of superconducting (TlPb)-(SrBa)-Ca-Cu-O with unconventional granular morphology." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, South Korea; tel. 82 51 5103421; fax 82 51 5137664; e-mail jhleexxx@empal.com. Key words: Ac susceptibility, Tl-based superconductor, granular morphology. 74.72.-h.

Grigory I. Leviev, Menachem I. Tsindlekht, Edouard B. Sonin, and Israel Felner, "The internal magnetic field in superconducting ferromagnets." Menachem I. Tsindlekht's e-mail mtsindl@vms.huji.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311245.

Tao Li, "The Driving Force of Superconducting Transition in High Temperature Superconductors." E-mail tli@castu.tsinghua.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311282.

P. Lipavsky, K. Morawetz, J. Kolacek, J. J. Mares, E. H. Brandt, and M. Schreiber, "Bernoulli potential in type-I and weak type-II superconductors: I. Surface charge." Phys. Rev. B, in press. K. Morawetz' e-mail klaus.morawetz@physik.tu-chemnitz.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311166.

P. Lipavsky, K. Morawetz, J. Kolacek, J. J. Mares, E. H. Brandt, and M. Schreiber, "Bernoulli potential in type-I and weak type-II supercoductors: II. Surface dipole." K. Morawetz' e-mail klaus.morawetz@physik.tu-chemnitz.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311167.

Bin Liu, Ying Liang, Shiping Feng, and Wei Yeu Chen, "Charge transport of electron doped Mott insulators on a triangular lattice." Shiping Feng's e-mail spfeng@sun.ihep.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311557.

W. Q. Lu, Y. Yamamoto, I. Ohkubo, V. V. Petrykin, M. Kakihana, Y. Matsumoto, and H. Koinuma, "Highly c-oriented RuSr2(Eu1.5Ce0.5)Cu2O10-d thin film growth by pulsed laser deposition and subsequent post-annealing." To be published in Physica C (in press). Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsudatyo, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; tel. 81 459 245 378; fax 81 459 245 399; e-mail luwenqi@oxide.msl.titech.ac.jp. Key words: Ru-1222 film, c-oriented, superconducting, ferromagnetic. 74.72.-h; 74.76.Bz; 74.25.Ha; 75.70.-i.

C. W. Luo, M. H. Chen, S. P. Chen, K. H. Wu, J. Y. Juang, J.-Y. Lin, T. M. Uen, and Y. S. Gou, "Spatial Symmetry of Superconducting Gap in YBa2Cu3O7-\delta Obtained from Femtosecond Spectroscopy." To be published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications. E-mail cwluo.ep87g@nctu.edu.tw; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311430.

A. Lupascu, C. J. M. Verwijs, R. N. Schouten, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij, "Nondestructive readout for a superconducting flux qubit." Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail adrian@qt2.tn.tudelft.nl; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311510.

Tianxing Ma and Shiping Feng, "Unusual heat transport in underdoped cuprates." E-mail txma@bnu.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311094.

I. J. Maasilta, J. T. Karvonen, J. M. Kivioja, and L. J. Taskinen, "Electrons and phonons at sub-Kelvin temperatures: validation of the disorder-mediated scattering theory." E-mail maasilta@phys.jyu.fi; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311031.

F. P. Mancini, P. Sodano, and A. Trombettoni, "Self-Consistent Mean-Field Theory for Frustrated Josephson Junction Arrays." Presented by F. P. Mancini at the Conference "Highlights in Condensed Matter Physics", May 9-11, 2003, Salerno, Italy; in Highlights in Condensed Matter Physics, A. Avella, R. Citro, C. Noce and M. Salerno eds., AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 695, pp. 164-175, AIP Press, New York (2003), ISBN 0-7354-0167-5. E-mail francescopaolo.mancini@pg.infn.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311640.

K. V. R. M. Murali, D. S. Crankshaw, T. P. Orlando, Z. Dutton, and W. D. Oliver, "Probing Decoherence with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Superconductive Quantum Circuits." W. D. Oliver's e-mail oliver@ll.mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311491.

T. Nakane, T. Mochiku, H. Kito, M. Nagao, J. Itoh, H. Kumakura, and Y. Takano, "Upper Critical Field of a Novel 18-K Superconductive Phasein Metastable Yttrium Sesquicarbide Prepared Using High Pressure Technique." E-mail NAKANE.Takayuki@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311561.

Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes, M. S. Figueira, and E. V. L. de Mello, "Heavy fermion d-wave superconductivity: a X-boson approach." Submitted to the Proceedings of the ICM 2003-Rome. E-mail lizardo@if.uff.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311118.

P. M. Ostrovsky, M. A. Skvortsov, and M. V. Feigel'man, "Coulomb Blockade of Proximity Effect at Large Conductance." E-mail ostrov@itp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311242.

Thereza Paiva, Mohammed El-Massalami, and Raimundo R. dos Santos, "A layering model for superconductivity in the borocarbides." J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, 7917 (2003). E-mail tclp@if.ufrj.br; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311173.

Natalia Pavlenko, "Modulation of Superconducting Properties by Ferroelectric Polarization in Confined FE-S-FE Films." E-mail natalia.pavlenko@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311376.

T. Pereg-Barnea, P. J. Turner, R. Harris, G. K. Mullins, J. S. Bobowski, M. Raudsepp, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy, "Absolute values of the London penetration depth in YBa2Cu3O6+y measured by zero field ESR spectroscopy on Gd doped single crystals." E-mail tami@physics.ubc.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311555.

P. Pieri, L. Pisani, and G. C. Strinati, "Pairing fluctuation effects on the single-particle spectra for the superconducting state." E-mail pierbiagio.pieri@unicam.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311424.

Yu. G. Pogorelov and V. M. Loktev, "Group expansions for impurities in superconductors." E-mail ypogorel@fc.up.pt; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311392.

B. J. Powell and Ross H. McKenzie, "Constraints on Microscopic Theories of Superconductivity in Layered Organic Superconductors from Measurements of the London Penetration Depth." E-mail powell@physics.uq.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311498.

T. A. Prikhna, W. Gawalek, Ya. M. Savchuk, V. E. Moshchil, N. V. Sergienko, T. Habisreuther, M. Wendt, R. Hergt, Ch. Schmidt, J. Dellith, V. S. Melnikov, A. Assmann, D. Litzkendorf, and P. A. Nagorny, "High-pressure synthesis of MgB2 with addition of Ti." Institute for Superhard Materials, 2 Avtozavodskaya Street, Kiev 04074, Ukraine; tel. 380 44 430 11 26; fax 380 44 468 86 25; e-mail prikhna@iptelecom.net.ua. Key words: MgB2-based bulk superconductor, Ti, high-pressure synthesis. 74.72.Yg; 74.62.Bf.

J. H. T. Ransley, S. H. Mennema, K. G. Sandeman, G. Burnell, J. I. Kye, B. Oh, E. J. Tarte, J. E. Evetts, and M. G. Blamire, "The Normal State Resistivity of Grain Boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7-delta." K. G. Sandeman's e-mail kgs20@hermes.cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311386.

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt, "Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking for Driven Interacting Particles on Triangular Substrates." C. J. Olson Reichhardt's e-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311489.

A. Salem, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian, "Preparation, scaling behavior of activation energy, Hall effect, and flux-flow anisotropy of (Hg0.9Re0.1)Ba2CaCu2O6+d HTS thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudingerweg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany; tel. 49 61 3183 88165; fax 49 61 3139 24076; e-mail asalem@mail.uni-mainz.de. Key words: (Hg0.9Re0.1)Ba2CaCu2O6+d thin films, high-Tc superconductors, critical current density. 74.76.Bz; 74.72.Gr; 74.25.Fy; 74.60.Jg.

K. V. Samokhin, E. S. Zijlstra, and S. K. Bose, "CePt3Si: an unconventional superconductor without inversion center." E-mail kirill.samokhin@brocku.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311181.

P. Samuelsson, A. Ingerman, G. Johansson, E. V. Bezuglyi, V. S. Shumeiko, G. Wendin, R. Kursten, A. Richter, T. Matsuyama, and U. Merkt, "Coherent current transport in wide ballistic Josephson junctions." E-mail samuel@kalymnos.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311344.

N. S. Saravanamuttu, M. J. W. Dodgson, and P. B. Littlewood, "Coexistence and Competition of Isotropic Superconductivity and Itinerant Antiferromagnetism." E-mail nss21@cam.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311580.

M. Savolainen, V. Touboltsev, P. Koppinen, K.-P. Riikonen, and K. Arutyunov, "Ion beam sputtering method for progressive reduction of nanostructures dimensions." K. Arutyunov's e-mail Konstantin.Arutyunov@phys.jyu.fi; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311383.

K. Sengupta, Stephen Powell, and Subir Sachdev, "Quench dynamics across quantum critical points." Subir Sachdev's e-mail subir.sachdev@yale.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311355.

G. G. Sergeeva and A. A. Soroka, "Pseudogap state of underdoped cuprate HTSC as a display of the Jahn-Teller pseudoeffect." E-mail gsergeeva@kipt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311177.

I. A. Sergienko, "Mixed-parity superconductivity in centrosymmetric crystals." Submitted to PRB. E-mail isergien@physics.mun.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310673.

L. Shan, H. Gao, Y. G. Shi, H. P. Yang, X. F. Lu, G. H. Cao, Z. A. Xu, and H. H. Wen, "Tunneling spectroscopy of Na{x}CoO2 and Na{x}CoO2\cdot yH2O." E-mail shanlei@ssc.iphy.ac.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311572.

G. Sheet, S. Mukhopadhyay, and P. Raychaudhuri, "The role of critical current on point contact Andreev Reflection spectrum between a normal metal and a superconductor." E-mail goutam@tifr.res.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311648.

L. Shkedy, P. Aronov, G. Koren, and E. Polturak, "Observation of McMillan-Rowell like oscillations in underdoped YBCO junctions oriented along the node of the d-wave order parameter." G. Koren's e-mail gkoren@physics.technion.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311449.

M. A. Skvortsov, A. I. Larkin, and M. V. Feigel'man, "Dephasing in disordered metals with superconductive grains." E-mail skvor@itp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311178.

J. Strempfer, I. Zegkinoglou, U. Ruett, M. v. Zimmermann, C. Bernhard, C. T. Lin, Th. Wolf, and B. Keimer, "Oxygen superstructures throughout the phase diagram of \bf (Y,Ca)Ba2 Cu3 O{6+x}." B. Keimer's e-mail b.keimer@fkf.mpg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311570.

Keiichi Tanaka, Toshimitsu Morooka, Akikazu Odawara, Kazuo Chinone, and Yasunori Mawatari, "Optimized positions of Josephson junctions to prevent trapping of magnetic fluxes in cooling under the static environment." To be published in Physica C (in press). Seiko Instruments Inc., 563 Takatsuka-shinden Matsudo-shi, Chiba 270-222, Japan; tel. 81 47 391 2142; fax 81 47 391 0960; e-mail keiichi.tanaka@sii.co.jp. Key words: trapped flux, SQUID microscope, surface barrier, penetration depth. 74.25.Qt.

Y. Tanaka, Yu. V. Nazarov, A. A. Golubov, and S. Kashiwaya, "Theory of charge transport in diffusive normal metal / unconventional singlet superconductor contacts." E-mail ytanaka@nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311523.

Yasuhiro Tanaka, Youichi Yanase, and Masao Ogata, "Superconductivity in NaxCoO2yH2O by charge fluctuation." Masao Ogata's e-mail ogata@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311266.

J. J. Toppari, J. M. Kivioja, J. P. Pekola, and M. T. Savolainen, "Turnstile behaviour of the Cooper-pair pump." E-mail jussi.toppari@phys.jyu.fi; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311135.

J. J. Toppari, G. S. Paraoanu, A. M. Halvari, and J. P. Pekola, "Elastic cotunnelling of quasiparticles in superconducting Al/Nb/Al single electron transistor." E-mail jussi.toppari@phys.jyu.fi; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311148.

A. Tsukada, Y.Krockenberger, H. Yamamoto, and M. Naito, "New superconducting T'-(La3+)2-x(RE3+)xCuO4 with isovalent doping (RE = Sm, Eu, Tb, Lu, and Y)." E-mail tsukada@will.brl.ntt.co.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311380.

K. Yamaura, D. P. Young, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, "Investigation of the ferromagnetic transition in the correlated 4d perovskites SrRu{1-x}Rh_xO3." Accepted for publication in PRB. E-mail yamaura.kazunari@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311228.

I. K. Yanson, S. I. Beloborod'ko, Yu. G. Naidyuk, O. V. Dolgov, and A. A. Golubov, "Self-energy Effect of Superconducting Energy Gap in Point-Contact Spectra of MgB2." E-mail yanson@ilt.kharkov.ua; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310577.

N. Yoneyama, A. Higashihara, T. Sasaki, T. Nojima, and N. Kobayashi, "Impurity Effect on the In-plane Penetration Depth of the Organic Superconductors \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2X (X = Cu(NCS)2 and Cu[N(CN)2]Br)." E-mail yone@imr.tohoku.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311300.

Yang Yu, D. Nakada, Janice C. Lee, Bhuwan Singh, D. S. Crankshaw, T. P. Orlando, William D. Oliver, and Karl K. Berggren, "Energy Relaxation Time between Macroscopic Quantum Levels in a Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit." E-mail yangyu@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311289.

Stefano Zapperi, Jose S. Andrade Jr., and Andre A. Moreira, "Vortex nucleation and flux front propagation in type II superconductors." Submitted to Physica A, proceedings of LAWNP 03. E-mail zapperi@pil.phys.uniroma1.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311034.

J. F. Zasadzinski, L. Coffey, P. Romano, and Z. Yusof, "Tunneling Spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d: Eliashberg Analysis of Spectral Dip Feature." Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.) (accepted). E-mail zasadzinski@iit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311140.

Changjin Zhang, Chun Mu, Weixian Wang, Yuheng Zhang, "Electrical and optical properties of La1.85-xSr0.15+xCu1-xNixO4." To be published in Physica C (in press). Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China; tel. 86 55 13602808; fax 86 22 13602803; e-mail jins@mail.ustc.edu.cn. Key words: pd{sigma} hybridization, mid-infrared absorption spectrum, infrared reflectivity spectra. 74.72.Dn; 72.10.-d; 74.25.Gz.

Y. Zhao, M. Ionescu, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou, "Comparative study of in situ and ex situ MgB2 films deposited by pulsed laser deposition." E-mail yz70@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311556.

Y. Zhao, M. Ionescu, J. Horvat, A. H. Li, and S. X. Dou, "Si doping on MgB2 thin films by pulsed laser deposition." E-mail yz70@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311055.

A. P. Zhuravel, Steven M. Anlage, and A. V. Ustinov, "RF Current Imaging of HTS Passive Microwave Components by Low-Temperature Laser Scanning Microscopy (LTLSM)." Presented at EUCAS 2003; submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology. Steven M. Anlage's e-mail anlage@squid.umd.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311512.