October 2003 Preprints

M. Ahoranta, J. Lehtonen, and P. Kovac, "Feasibility of iron-sheathed MgB2 wires for magnet applications." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Electromagnetics, Tampere University of Technology, PO Box 692, 33 101 Tampere, Finland; tel. 358 3 3115 2009; fax 358 3 3115 2160; e-mail maria.ahoranta@tut.fi. Key words: MgB2, magnet applications, iron sheath. 85.25.Am; 85.25.Ly; 74.70.-b.

W. A. Al-Saidi and D. Stroud, "Langevin vortex dynamics for a layered superconductor in the lowest Landau level approximation." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail waalsa@wm.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310045.

W. A. Al-Saidi and D. Stroud, "Quantum Monte Carlo Study of a Disordered 2-D Josephson Junction Array." To be published in Physica C. E-mail waalsa@wm.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310047. Key words: Josephson junctions, quantum Monte Carlo, disorder. 74.25.Dw; 05.30.Jp; 85.25.Cp.

M. H. S. Amin, A. Yu. Smirnov, A. M. Zagoskin, T. Lindstrom, S. Charlebois, T. Claeson, and A. Ya. Tzalenchuk, "Silent Phase Qubit Based on d-Wave Josephson Junctions." E-mail amin@dwavesys.com; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310224.

Jin An and Chang-De Gong, "Local enhancement of spin and orbital antiferromagnetism around a single vortex in high-Tc superconductors." E-mail anjin@nju.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310134.

V. V. Aristov and A. V. Nikulov, "Quantum Power Source. Putting in Order of a Brownian Motion without Maxwell's Demon." Presented on International Scientific Symposium "Quantum Informatics-2002", Moscow, October 2002; published in the Proceedings of SPIE, 2003, vol. 5128 "Quantum informatics". A. V. Nikulov's e-mail nikulov@ipmt-hpm.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310073.

Y. Asano, Y. Tanaka, Y. Tanuma, K. Kuroki, and H. Tsuchiura, "Josephson effect in quasi one-dimensional unconventional superconductors." E-mail asano@eng.hokudai.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310276.

V. P. S. Awana, Anurag Gupta, H. Kishan, S. K. Malik, W. B. Yelon, J. Linden, M. Karppinen, and H. Yamauchi, "Structural and magnetic properties of MSr2Y1.5Ce0.5Cu2Oz (M-1222) compounds with M = Fe and Co." MMM/Intermag Proceedings; to appear in J. Appl. Phys. Superconductivity and Cryogenics Division, National Physical Laboratory, K. S. Krishnan Marg, NEW DELHI 110012, INDIA; fax 0091-11-25726938 or 25726952; e-mail: awana@mail.nplindia.ernet.in. Key words: Magnetism, Superconductivity, Neutron powder diffraction, Mossbauer Spectroscopy. 74.52Bh, 74.72Bk.

G. Baskaran, "Quantum Charge Liquid - a new metallic state in 2 dimensions? Application to Na\{0.7\}CoO2 family." E-mail baskaran@imsc.res.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310241.

V. I. Belyavsky, Yu. V. Kopaev, and S. V. Shevtsov, "Mirror Nesting of the Fermi Contour and Superconducting Pairing from the Repulsive Interaction." Yu. V. Kopaev's e-mail kopaev@mail1.lebedev.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310096.

L. Berger, "Influence Of Current Leads On Critical Current For Spin Precession In Magnetic Multilayers." Submitted to J. Magn. Magn. Mater. E-mail lberger@andrew.cmu.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310408.

J. Bok and J. Bouvier, "Hall effect in the normal state of high Tc cuprates." E-mail julien.bok@espci.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310116.

A. T. Boothroyd, P. G. Freeman, D. Prabhakaran, A. Hiess, M. Enderle, J. Kulda, and F. Altorfer, "Spin correlations among the charge carriers in an ordered stripe phase." To be published in Physical Review Letters. E-mail a.boothroyd1@physics.ox.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310631.

K. Brake, B. J. Powell, R. H. McKenzie, T. Baruah, and M. R. Pederson, "First-principle density-functional calculation of the Raman spectra of BEDT-TTF." Submitted to the proceedings of ISCOM 2003. E-mail brake@physics.uq.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310197.

A. Brinkman, A. A. Golubov, H. Rogalla, F. K. Wilhelm, and M. Yu. Kupriyanov, "Microscopic nonequilibrium theory of double-barrier Josephson junctions." Accepted for Phys. Rev. B. E-mail a.brinkman@tn.utwente.nl; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310420.

D. M. Broun, P. J. Turner, G. K. Mullins, D. E. Sheehy, X. G. Zheng, S. K. Kim, N. A. Frederick, M. B. Maple, W. N. Hardy, and D. A. Bonn, "Microwave Spectroscopy of PrOs4Sb12: Josephson-Coupled Two-Band Superconductivity and Itinerant f Electrons." E-mail dbroun@sfu.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310613.

J.-G. Caputo and Y. Gaididei, "Two point Josephson junctions in a superconducting stripline: static case." To be published in Physica C (in press). Laboratoire de Mathematiques, INSA de Rouen, Boite Postale 8, 76131 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France; tel. 33 235 5283 44; fax 33 235 5283 32; e-mail caputo@insa-rouen.fr. 85.25.Cp; 74.50.+r; 75.80.

A. L. Carr, J. J. Trafton, S. Dukan, and Z. Tesanovic, "Low-Temperature Specific Heat of an Extreme-Type-II Superconductor at High Magnetic Fields." To appear in Physical Review B. S. Dukan's e-mail sdukan@goucher.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310775.

W. J. Carr, Jr., "Calculation of the surface charge on a circular type-II superconducting wire carrying transport current." To be published in Physica C (in press). 1460 Jefferson Hts., Pittsburgh, PA 15235; tel./fax 412 824 3456; e-mail wjamescarrjr@att.net. Key words: superconductors, surface charge, transport current. 74.25.Fy; 74.25.-q; 74.60.-w.

R. Casalbuoni and G. Tonini, "Two tricritical lines from a Ginzburg-Landau expansion: application to the LOFF phase." E-mail casalbuoni@fi.infn.it; preprint also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0310128.

Sara Casalbuoni, Lars von Sawilski, and Jurgen Kotzler, "Superconductivity Above H\{c2\} as a Probe for Niobium RF-Cavity Surfaces." 11th Workshop on RF Superconductivity, SRF2003, Germany. E-mail scasalbu@physnet.uni-hamburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310565.

A. Casey, B. Cowan, M. Digby, H. Dyball, R. Korber, J. Li, C. Lusher, V. Maidanov, J. Nyeki, J. Saunders, D. Drung, and T. Schurig, "Nuclear magnetic resonance using DC SQUIDs with APF." To be published in Physica C (in press); contribution to the SQUID 2001 Proceedings. Contact C. Lusher, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK; e-mail c.lusher@rhul.ac.uk.

Han-Dong Chen, Chyh-Hong Chern, Congjun Wu, Jiang-Ping Hu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang, "Non-abelian Berry's phase and Chern numbers in higher spin pairing condensates." Chyh-Hong Chern's e-mail chern@stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310089.

Han-Dong Chen, Congjun Wu, Shou-Cheng Zhang, "Quantitative Test of SO(5) Symmetry in the Vortex State of Nd\{1.85\}Ce\{0.15\}CuO4." E-mail hdchen@stanford.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310289.

Ji-sheng Chen, Peng-fei Zhuang, and Jia-rong Li, "^1 S_0 pairing correlation in symmetric nuclear matter with Debye screening effects." E-mail chenjs@iopp.ccnu.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309033.

Chung-Hou Chung and Yong Baek Kim, "Competing Orders and Superconductivity in the Doped Mott Insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice." E-mail chung@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310430.

L. Civale, B. Maiorov, A. Serquis, J. O. Willis, J. Y. Coulter, H. Wang, Q. X. Jia, P. N. Arendt, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, M. P. Maley, and S. R. Foltyn, "Angular dependent vortex pinning mechanisms in YBCO coated conductors and thin films." Submitted to APL. A. Serquis' e-mail aserquis@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310568.

R. Combescot, "Threshold of molecular bound state and BCS transition in dense ultracold Fermi gases with Feshbach resonance." E-mail combesco@lps.ens.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310583.

Y. Dagan, M. M. Qazilbash, C. P. Hill, V. N. Kulkarni, and R. L. Greene, "Evidence for a quantum phase transition in the electron-doped cuprate Pr2-xCexCuO4+d from Hall and resistivity measurements." E-mail dagan@squid.umd.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310475.

Y. Dai, W. J. Kossler, K. G. Petzinger, and A. J. Greer, "Magnetic field distributions in a large single crystal of YBa2Cu3O7-d with cylindrical non-conducting inclusions." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, 680 Alstonefield Dr., Alpharetta, GA 30004; tel. 757 221 3560; fax 757 221 3540; e-mail yxdai@physics.wm.edu. Key words: Muon-spin rotation, non-conducting inclusions, penetration depth. 74.25.Ha; 74.25.Qt; 74.72.Bk.

J. T. Dawley, P. G. Clem, T. J. Boyle, L. M. Ottley, D. L. Overmyer, and M. P. Siegal, "Rapid processing method for solution deposited YBa2Cu3O7-d thin films." To be published in Physica C (in press). Sandia National Laboratories, Microsystem Materials, Tribology and Technologies, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185; tel. 505 844 8453; fax 505 844 9781; e-mail jtdawle@sandia.gov.

Denis Dalidovich and Philip Phillips, "Nonlinear Transport Near a Quantum Phase Transition in Two Dimensions." Philip Phillips' e-mail philip@vfemmes.physics.uiuc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310129.

Shanti Deemyad and James S. Schilling, "Superconducting phase diagram of Li Metal in nearly hydrostatic pressures up to 67 GPa." James S. Schilling's e-mail schill@wuphys.wustl.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304598.

J. Demsar, R. D. Averitt, A. J. Taylor, V. V. Kabanov, W. N. Kang, H. J. Kim, E. M. Choi, and S. I. Lee, "Pair-breaking and superconducting state recovery dynamics in MgB2." To be published in Physical Review Letters. E-mail jdemsar@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310379.

D. Djurek, Z. Medunic, M. Paljevic, and A. Tonejc, "Colossal Electric Conductivity in Ag-defect Ag5Pb2O6." E-mail danijel.djurek@inet.hr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310011.

G. L. Dorofeev, E. P. Krasnoperov, Yu. D. Kuroedov, and V. S. Vyatkin, "Evolution of thermomagnetic instability along a superconducting wire." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact E. P. Krasnoperov, RRC, Kurchatov Institute, Solid State Physics, Kurchatov sq. 1, 123182 Moscow, Russia; tel. 7 9 5196 7109; fax 7 9 5196 5973; e-mail kep@isssph.kiae.ru. Key words: flux jump, thermomagnetic instability. 74.60.-w; 74.25.Qt.

S. X. Dou, W. K. Yeoh, J. Horvat, and M. Ionescu, "Effect of carbon nanotube doping on critical current density of MgB2 superconductor." J. Horvat's e-mail jhorvat@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310196.

M. Dzero and L. P. Gor'kov, "Breakup of a Stoner model for the 2D ferromagnetic quantum critical point." E-mail dzero@ameslab.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310124.

A. Eiguren, S. de Gironcoli, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and E. Tosatti, "Electron-phonon interaction at the Be(0001) surface." Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail wabeigoa@sq.ehu.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310069.

Liang Fang-Ying, "Thermodynamic properties of high temperature superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Science and Technology for OPTO-Electronic Information of Yan Tai University, 264005 Yan Tai, PR China; tel./fax 86 535 690 3076; e-mail yangming88@eastday.com. Key words: thermodynamic properties, superconductor. 74.25.Bt; 74.25.Fy; 74.60.-w.

D. M. Feldmann, D. C. Larbalestier, R. Feenstra, A. A. Gapud, J. D. Budai, T. G. Holesinger, and P. N. Arendt, "Through-thickness superconducting and normal-state transport properties revealed by thinning of thick film ex situ YBa2Cu3O7-x coated conductors." To appear in Applied Physics Letters. E-mail feldmann@cae.wisc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310123.

L. Fruchter, I. Sfar, Z. Z. Li, and H. Raffy, "Non linear excess conductivity of Bi2Sr2Ca\{n-1\}CunO\{2n+4+x\} (n = 1,2), thin films." E-mail fruchter@lps.u-psud.fr; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310013.

A. Agliolo Gallitto, M. Li Vigni, and G. Vaglica, "Time Evolution of the Microwave Second-Harmonic Response of MgB2 Superconductor." Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Vortex Matter in Superconductors, to be published in Physica C. E-mail agliolo@fisica.unipa.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310313.

C. H. Gardiner, A. T. Boothroyd, B. H. Larsen, W. Reichardt, A. A. Zhokhov, N. H. Andersen, S. J. S. Lister, and A. R. Wildes, "Phonon Dispersion Relations in PrBa2Cu3O6+x (x ~ 0.2)." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail carol.gardiner@npl.co.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310555.

F. Ghaboussi, "A two dimensional model of superconductivity." E-mail ghabbousi@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310171.

R. Gilardi, A. Hiess, N. Momono, M. Oda, M. Ido, and J. Mesot, "Unusual interplay between copper-spin and vortex dynamics in slightly overdoped La\{1.83\}Sr\{0.17\}CuO\{4\}." E-mail raffaele.gilardi@psi.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310298.

S. M. Girvin, Ren-Shou Huang, Alexandre Blais, Andreas Wallraff, and R. J. Schoelkopf, "Prospects for Strong Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Circuits." Andreas Wallraff's e-mail andreas.wallraff@yale.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310670.

D. S. Golubovic, W. V. Pogosov, M. Morelle, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "Little-Parks effect in a superconducting loop with magnetic dot." To be published in Phys. Rev. B - Brief Reports. E-mail dusan.golubovic@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310201.

H. Gonzalez-Jorge, D. Gonzalez-Salgado, J. Peleteiro, E. Carballo, and G. Domarco, "Evidence of current stabilization after long-time decay in high-Tc superconductors." Submitted to Physical Review B. E-mail higiniog@uvigo.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310470.

Koichi Hamada and Daijiro Yoshioka, "Nontrivial behavior of the Fermi arc in the staggered-flux ordered phase." E-mail koichi@toki.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310371.

C. Y. He, Y. Hou, L. Liu, and Z. X. Gao, "Trapped field and related properties in a superconducting-disk magnetized by pulse field." E-mail chyhe@pku.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310509.

R. Heid, B. Renker, H. Schober, P. Adelmann, D. Ernst, and K.-P. Bohnen, "Phonon spectrum and soft-mode behavior of MgCNi3." E-mail heid@ifp.fzk.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310592.

Wataru Higemoto, Kazuki Ohishi, Akihiro Koda, Ryosuke Kadono, Kenji Ishida, Kazunori Takada, Hiroya Sakurai, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, and Takayoshi Sasaki, "Possible unconventional superconductivity in NaxCoO2yH2O probed by \\muSR." E-mail wataru.higemoto@kek.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310324.

A. T. Holmes, D. Jaccard, G. Behr, Y. Inada, and Y. Onuki, "Unconventional superconductivity and normal state properties of epsilon-iron at high pressure." Proceedings of Airapt 19/EHPRG 41, Bordeaux 2003. E-mail alexander.holmes@physics.unige.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310519.

K. Iida, T. Kono, T. Kaneko, K. Katagiri, N. Sakai, M. Murakami, and N. Koshizuka, "Joining of different Y-Ba-Cu-O blocks." To be published in Physica C (in press). SRL-ISTEC, Morioka Laboratory for Applied Superconductivity Technology, Division III, 3-35-2 Iioka-Shinden, Morioka, Iwate 020-0852, Japan; tel. 81 19 635 9015; fax 81 19 635 9017; e-mail iida@istec.or.jp.

M. N. Iliev, A. P. Litvinchuk, R. L. Meng, Y. Y. Sun, J. Cmaidalka, and C. W. Chu, "Raman Phonons and Ageing-Related Surface Disorder in NaxCoO2." To be published in Physica C (in press). E-mail miliev@uh.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308065.

T. Ito, Y. Fudamoto, A. Fukaya, I. M. Gat-Malureanu, M. I. Larkin, P. L. Russo, A. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, K. Groves, R. Breslow, K. Hotehama, S. Yamanaka, P. Kyriakou, M. Rovers, G. M. Luke, and K. M. Kojima, "Two dimensional nature of superconductivity in intercalated layered systems Li\{x\}HfNCl and Li\{x\}ZrNCl: muon spin relaxation and magnetization measurements." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Y. J. Uemura's e-mail tomo@lorentz.phys.columbia.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310736.

Yogesh N. Joglekar and Allan H. MacDonald, "Comment on 'Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in ferromagnetic metals'." E-mail yojoglek@hymer.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310704.

A. A. Katanin and A. P. Kampf, "Anomalous self-energy and pseudogap formation in the 2D Hubbard model: functional RG analysis near van Hove band fillings." E-mail andrey.katanin@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310112.

Masaru Katoa, Masayuki Akoa, Masahiko Machidab, Tomio Koyamab, and Takekazu Ishidab, "Ginzburg-Landau calculations of d-wave superconducting dot in s-wave superconducting matrix." Proceedings of ISS2003. E-mail kato@ms.osakafu-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310750.

A.-K. Klehe, T. Tomita, J. S. Schilling, A. M. Kini, and J. A. Schlueter, "Comparative pressure studies of the superconducting transition temperature in isotopically substituted samples of kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK; tel. 44 1865 272310; fax 44 1865 272400; e-mail a.klehe1@physics.ox.ac.uk. Key words: pressure, organic molecular metal, organic superconductor, superconducting transition temperature, susceptibility.

Akito Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Masao Ogata, and Yoshikazu Suzumura, "Charge fluctuation induced superconducting state in two-dimensional quarter-filled electron systems." Submitted to Journal of the Phys. Soc. of Japan. E-mail akito@slab.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310576.

V. G. Kogan, John R. Clem, and R. G. Mints, "Properties of mesoscopic superconducting thin-film rings. London approach." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. R. G. Mints' e-mail mints@ccsg.tau.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310393.

S. E. Korshunov and B. Doucot, "Fluctuations and vortex ordering in fully frustrated XY model with honeycomb lattice." E-mail serkor@landau.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310536.

N. Kristoffel and P. Rubin, "Superconducting gaps and pseudogaps in a composite model of two-component cuprate." To be published in Physica C (in press). Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Riia 142, Tartu 51014, Estonia; tel. 372 7 428 102; fax 372 7 383 033; e-mail kolja@fi.tartu.ee. Key words: cuprate, gaps, pseudogaps, doping, two-band model. 74.20.-z; 74.72.-h.

C. J. Lambert, J. Koltai, and J. Cserti, "Non-local current correlations in ferromagnet/superconductor nanojunctions." Published in 'Towards The Controllable Quantum States (Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Spintronics)', 119-125, Eds H. Takayanagi and J. Nitta, World Scientific., (2003). J. Cserti's e-mail cserti@galahad.elte.hu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310414.

M. Lange, M. J. Van Bael, and V. V. Moshchalkov, "The phase diagram of a superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer." Accepted for publication in PRB. E-mail martin.lange@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310132.

K. Le Hur and J. Hopkinson, "The optical conductivity of half-filled Hubbard ladders." J. Hopkinson's e-mail johnhop@physique.usherb.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302385.

Jian-Xin Li and Z. D. Wang, "Spin resonance peak in Na\{x\}CoO\{2\}\\cdot yH\{2\}O superconductors: A probe of the pairing symmetry." E-mail jxli@nju.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310308.

Tao Li, "The Zinc Doping Induced STM Resonance as a Zero Mode." E-mail tli@castu.tsinghua.edu.cn; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310439.

Yang Li, Ruifei Duan, Xiaotao Xiong, Baoyi Wang, Guohui Cao, Long Wei, D. N. Zheng, Z. X. Zhao, and Joseph H. Ross, Jr., "Positron annihilation study of the O-T phase transition for Eu1+xBa2-xCu3O7-d superconductors." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242; tel. 979 845 7823; fax 979 845 2590; e-mail ylibp@hotmail.com. Key words: positron annihilation, Ba site occupying, orthorhombic-tetragonal transition, Eu-123 superconductor. 74.70; 74.60.G; 74.60.J; 61.80.F.

T. Lueck, "Influence of surface roughness on subdominant pairing in d-wave superconductors." Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 12, 438 (2003). E-mail lueckt@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310254.

T. Lueck, P. Schwab, U. Eckern, and A. Shelankov, "Disordered Josephson Junctions of d-Wave Superconductors." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. E-mail lueckt@physik.uni-augsburg.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310250.

Alec Maassen van den Brink, "Hamiltonian for two coupled flux qubits." E-mail alec@dwavesys.com; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310425.

Boris Malomed and Alexey Ustinov, "Creation of classical and quantum fluxons by a current dipole in a long Josephson junction." E-mail malomed@post.tau.ac.il; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310596.

Ivar Martin and Alexander Shnirman, "Ground state cooling of mechanical resonators." E-mail ivar@viking.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310229.

J.-P. Mathieu, I. G. Cano, T. Koutzarova, A. Rulmont, Ph. Vanderbemden, D. Dew-Hughes, M. Ausloos, and R. Cloots, "The contribution of 211 particles to the mechanical reinforcement mechanism of 123 superconducting single domains." Submitted to Supercond. Sci. Technol. M. Ausloos' e-mail marcel.ausloos@ulg.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310071.

M. Matsukawa and Y. Yamada, et al, "Superconductivity in Pr2Ba4Cu7O15-delta with metallic double chains." E-mail matsukawa@iwate-u.ac.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302508.

Awanish K. Mishra, N. Hari Babu, P. He, D. Isfort, X. Chaud, Altan M. Ferendeci, D. A. Cardwell, Robert Tournier, David Mast, and Donglu Shi, "Surface resistance measurements of single domain YBa2Cu3Ox." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Donglu Shi, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012; tel. 513 556 3100; fax 513 556 1004; e-mail shid@email.uc.edu.

B. Mitrovic, K. Samokhin, and S. K. Bose, "Anisotropy in the helicity modulus of a quantum 3D XY-model: application to YBCO." E-mail mitrovic@brocku.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310310.

Catalin Pascu Moca, Gergely Zarand, Eugene Demler, and Boldizsar Janko, "Shiba multiplets due to Mn impurities in MgB2." E-mail mocap@uoradea.ro; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310748.

A. S. Moskvin and N. V. Melnikova, "Dynamical charge inhomogeneity and crystal-field fluctuations for 4f ions in high-Tc cuprates." E-mail alexandr.moskvin@usu.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310370.

O. I. Motrunich and Patrick A. Lee, "Possible effects of charge frustration in NaxCoO2: bandwidth suppression, charge orders and resurrected RVB superconductivity." E-mail motrunch@mit.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310396.

S. G. Ovchinnikov, A. A. Borisov, V. A. Gavrichkov, and M. M. Korshunov, "Prediction of the in-Gap States Above the Top of the Valence Band in the Undoped Insulating Cuprates due to Spin-Polaron Effect." M. M. Korshunov's e-mail mkor@iph.krasn.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310442.

O. Ozogul, N. Guclu, and A. Gencer, "Ac magnetic response of MgB2 bulk superconductor based on Anderson-Kim model." To be published in Physica C (in press). Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Ankara University, 06100-Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey; e-mail ozogul@science.ankara.edu.tr. 74.25.Ha; 74.70.Ad; 74.25.Sv.

Tuson Park, Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon, E. D. Bauer, I. Vekhter, J. D. Thompson, Eun Mi Choi, Heon Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, and P. C. Canfield, "Evidence for the Coexistence of Anisotropic Superconducting Gap and Nonlocal Effects in the Non-magnetic Superconductor LuNi2B2C." E-mail tuson@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310663.

Philip Phillips and Denis Dalidovich, "The Elusive Bose Metal." Science, vol. 302, (2003). E-mail philip@vfemmes.physics.uiuc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310316.

D. J. Priour, Jr. and H. A. Fertig, "Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array." E-mail djpriour@mercury.pa.uky.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310221.

I. Puica, W. Lang, "Non-Ohmic Critical Fluctuation Conductivity of Layered Superconductors in Magnetic Field." To be published in Phys. Rev. B. Institut for Materialphysik, University of Vienna Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien, Austria; e-mail ipuica@ap.univie.ac.at; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310454. Key words: fluctuation conductivity, high electric field PACs. 74.20.De; 74.25.Fy; 74.40.+k.

M. Putti, V. Braccini, C. Ferdeghini, I. Pallecchi, A. S. Siri, F. Gatti, P. Manfrinetti, and A. Palenzona, "Critical Field of MGB2 : Crossover from Clean to Dirty Regimes." E-mail putti@fisica.unige.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310461.

R. Ramakumar and Sudhakar Yarlagadda, "Jahn-Teller polarons and their superconductivity in a molecular conductor." Submitted to Phys. Rev. B. Sudhakar Yarlagadda's e-mail sudhakar@cmp.saha.ernet.in; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310354.

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt, "Local Melting and Drag for a Particle Driven Through a Colloidal Crystal." C. J. Olson Reichhardt's e-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310052.

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt, "Ratchet Effects for Vortices in Superconductors with Periodic Pinning Arrays." Proceedings of Third European Conference on Vortex Matter in Superconductors. C. J. Olson Reichhardt's e-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310572.

C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, and A. R. Bishop, "Fibrillar templates and soft phases in systems with short-range dipolar and long-range interactions." E-mail olson@nitrogen.lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307479.

F. Reinert, B. Eltner, G. Nicolay, D. Ehm, S. Schmidt, and S. Huefner, "Electron-phonon coupling and its evidence in the photoemission spectra of lead." Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. E-mail friedel@mx.uni-saarland.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310119.

A. V. Rozhkov, "Variational description of the dimensional cross-over in the array of coupled one-dimensional conductors." Phys. Rev. B 68, 115108 (2003). E-mail arozhkov@uci.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310471.

A. Rusanov, M. Hesselberth, S. Habraken, and J. Aarts, "Depairing currents in superconductor / ferromagnet Nb/CuNi trilayers close to Tc." To be published in Physica C. J. Aarts' e-mail aarts@physics.leidenuniv.nl; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310443.

P. D. Sacramento, "Coexistence of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the Anderson lattice." Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 15, 6285 (2003). E-mail pdss@cfif.ist.utl.pt; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310018.

H. Sakurai, K. Takada, F. Izumi, D. A. Dilanian, T. Sasaki, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, "The role of the water molecules in novel superconductor, Na\{0.35\}CoO\{2\}\\cdot1.3H\{2\}O." Proceedings of ISS2003 (Physica C). E-mail sakurai.hiroya@nims.go.jp; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310717.

Morsy M. A. Sekkina and Khaled M. Elsabawy, "High energy Nd-laser irradiation effect on optimally co-doped terbium-neodymium BPSCCO bismuth cuprate superconductor." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Khaled M. Elsabawy, Department of Chemistry, HTc-Ceramic Superconductors Unit, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt; fax 20 40 335 0804; e-mail ksabawy@yahoo.com. Key words: laser, irradiation, superconductor, x-ray, SEM, Co-doping.

I. A. Sergienko, "Generalized BCS and Ginsburg-Landau approaches to mixed-parity superconductivity." E-mail isergien@physics.mun.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310673.

Shin-ichi Shamoto, Ken Takeuchi, Shoji Yamanaka, and Tsuyoshi Kajitani, "Structural Study on NaxHfNCl System." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; tel./fax 81 22 217 7970; e-mail shamoto@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp. Key words: neutron powder diffraction, crystal structure, double honeycomb lattice, (-HfNCl. 61.12.Ld; 61.12.Dw; 72.62.Bf.

A. Shengelaya, M. Bruun, B. I. Kochelaev, A. Safina, K. Conder, and K. A. Muller, "A metallic phase in lightly doped La\{2-x\}Sr\{x\}CuO\{4\} observed by electron paramagnetic resonance." E-mail salex@physik.unizh.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310152.

D. Shi, D. Isfort, X. Chaud, P. Odier, D. Mast, and R. Tournier, "Suppression of ab-plane crack formation in single domain YBa2Cu3Ox by uniaxial c-axis pressure." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012; tel. 513 556 3100; fax 513 556 1004; e-mail donglu.shi@uc.edu.

D. V. Shopova and D. I. Uzunov, "Thermodynamic properties of the phase transitions in a class of spin-triplet ferromagnetic superconductors." Submitted in Compt. Rend. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 25. D. I. Uzunov's e-mail uzun@issp.bas.bg; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310016.

A. V. Silhanek, J. R. Thompson, L. Civale, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. Canfield, "The Role of Nonlocality in the Pinning Properties of Borocarbides Materials." To be published in Horizons in Superconductivity Research, edited by Frank Colombus, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2003). E-mail alejandro.silhanek@fys.kuleuven.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310188.

N. Stefanakis, "BdG equations within lattice Hubbard model for the description of \\pi-states in nanoscale S-FF-S junctions." E-mail nikos.stephanakis@uni-tuebingen.de; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310271.

M. Sugano and K. Osamura, "Stress-strain behavior and degradation of critical current of Bi2223 composite tapes." To be published in Physica C (in press). Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; tel. 81 75 753 5440; fax 81 75 753 5486; e-mail sugano@hightc.mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Key words: Bi2223, stress-strain curve, residual strain, reversible change of Ic. 85.25.K; 62.20.F; 74.60.J.

J. Sugiyama, J. H. Brewer, E. J. Ansaldo, H. Itahara, T. Tani, M. Mikami, Y. Mori, T. Sasaki, S. Hebert, and A. Maignan, "Dome-shaped magnetic phase diagram of thermoelectric layered cobaltites." Submitted to PRL. E-mail e0589@mosk.tytlabs.co.jp. Key words: thermoelectric layered cobaltites, magnetism, muon spin rotation, incommendurate spin density waves. 76.75.+I; 75.30.Fv; 72.15.Jf; 75.30.Kz.

Oleg P. Sushkov and Valeri N. Kotov, "Superconducting Spiral Phases in the two-dimensional t-J model." E-mail sushkov@phys.unsw.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310635.

A. Suter, E. Morenzoni, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, T. Prokscha, and N. Garifianov, "Direct observation of non-local effects in a superconductor." E-mail andreas.suter@psi.ch; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310203.

T. Tajima, F. L. Krawczyk, J. Liu, D. C. Nguyen, D. L. Schrage, A. Serquis, A. H. Shapiro, V. F. Nesterenko, and Y. Gu, "RF Surface Resistance of a HIPped MgB2 Sample at 21 GHz." EUCAS2003 J. Liu's e-mail jfliu@lanl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310213.

Shina Tan and K. Levin, "Nernst Effect and Anomalous Transport in Cuprates: A Preformed-Pair Alternative to the Vortex Scenario." E-mail tansn@uchicago.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302248.

G. Testa, A. Monaco, E. Esposito, E. Sarnelli, D.-J. Kang, E. J. Tarte, S. H. Mennema, and M. G. Blamire, "Direct Observation of a Temperature Dependent 0-pi Junction Transition in a Mesoscopic High Critical Temperature Grain Boundary Junction." E-mail g.testa@cib.na.cnr.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310727.

Sumanta Tewari, Sudip Chakravarty, John Ove Fjaerestad, Chetan Nayak, and Richard S. Thompson, "Infrared Hall angle in the d-density wave state: a comparison of theory and experiment." Sudip Chakravarty's e-mail sudip@physics.ucla.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310165.

J. M. Tranquada, C. H. Lee, K. Yamada, Y. S. Lee, L. P. Regnault, and H. M. Ronnow, "Evidence for an incommensurate magnetic resonance in La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4)." E-mail jtran@bnl.gov; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310231.

O. Tschauner, D. Errandonea, and G. C. Serghiou, "Phase transition in MgB2 at elevated pressure and temperature." E-mail olivert@physics.unlv.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310312.

G. A. Ummarino, R. S. Gonnelli, S. Massidda, and A. Bianconi, "Two-band Eliashberg equations and the experimental Tc of the diboride Mg1-xAlxB2." E-mail giovanni.ummarino@infm.polito.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310284.

L. S. Uspenskaya, I. G. Naumenko, and A. A. Zhokhov, "Influence of twin structure on flux turbulence near the front of vortex annihilation." To be published in Physica C. E-mail uspenska@issp.ac.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310272. Key words: YBCO, turbulence, vortices, twins, relaxation. 74.60.Ec; 74.60.Jg; 74.60.Ge; 74.25.Ha.

Ph. Vanderbemden, B. Vertruyen, A. Rulmont, R. Cloots, G. Dhalenne, and M. Ausloos, "AC magnetic behavior of large grain magneto-resistive La0.78Ca0.22Mn0.90Ox materials." M. Ausloos' e-mail marcel.ausloos@ulg.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310376.

P. Vasek, "Transverse voltage in zero external magnetic fields, its scaling and violation of the time reversal symmetry in MgB2." E-mail vasek@fzu.cz; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310136.

Kartik Venkataraman, A. Jeremy Kropf, Carlo U. Segre, Q. X. Jia, A. Goyal, B. W. Kang, S. Chattopadhyay, H. You, and Victor A. Maroni, "Detection of interfacial strain and phase separation in MBa2Cu3O7-x thin films using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction space mapping." To be published in Physica C (in press). Contact Victor A. Maroni, Argonne National Laboratory, Chemical Technology Division, Bldg. 205, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4837; tel. 630 252 4547; fax 630 972 4547; e-mail maroni@cmt.anl.gov. Key words: MBa2Cu3O7-x, X-ray diffraction, phase separation, strain, Raman. 61.10.Lx; 78.30.Hv; 68.60.Wm; 74.76.Bz.

D. Vodolazov, B. J. Baelus, and F. M. Peeters, "Dynamics of the superconducting condensate in the presence of a magnetic field. Channelling of vortices in superconducting strips at high currents." Proceedings of Third European Conference on Vortex Matter in Superconductors. E-mail denis@uia.ua.ac.be; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310438.

L. M. Volkova, S. A. Polyshchuk, and F. E. Herbeck, "Why Tc of MgB2 is the highest in a number of diborides?" From the chapter, "Correlation of Tc with Crystal Chemical Parameters in High-Tc Cuprates, Diborides and Borocarbides: Concept of Arrangement and Function of Layered Superconductors" in "Focus on Superconductivity Research," Barry P. Martins., Ed., Nova Science Publisher, Inc. N.Y., 2003, (in print). E-mail volkova@ich.dvo.ru; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310511.

C. M. Wilson and D. E. Prober, "Quasiparticle number fluctuations in superconductors." E-mail christopher.wilson@yale.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310525.

Wenhao Wu and E. Bielejec, "Measurement of the localization length through the superconductor-insulator transition of ultrathin amorphous beryllium films." E-mail wwu@pas.rochester.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310190.

G. J. Xu, J.-C. Grivel, A. B. Abrahamsen, X. P. Chen, and N. H. Andersen, "Structure and superconductivity of double-doped Mg1-x(Al0.5Li0.5)xB2." To be published in Physica C (in press). Materials Research Department, Riso National Laboratory, PO Box 49, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark; e-mail xugj@ustc.edu.cn. MgB2, substitution effect, AC-susceptibility, irreversibility field, superconductivity.

Z. Yamani, W. A. MacFarlane, B. W. Statt, D. Bonn, R. Liang, and W. N. Hardy, "Cu NMR Study of Detwinned Single Crystals of Ortho--II YBCO6.5." Submitted to Physica C. B. W. Statt's e-mail statt@physics.utoronto.ca; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310255.

H.-B. Yang, S.-C. Wang, A. K. P. Sekharan, H. Matsui, S. Souma, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, T. Takeuchi, J. C. Campuzano, R. Jin, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, Z. Wang, and H. Ding, "ARPES on Na\{0.6\}CoO\{2\}: Fermi surface, extended flat dispersion, and unusual band splitting." H. Ding's e-mail dingh@bc.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310532.

I. K. Yanson, S. I. Beloborod'ko, and Yu. G. Naidyuk, "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.

A. Levy Yeyati, A. Martin-Rodero, and E. Vecino, "Non-equilibrium dynamics of Andreev states in the Kondo regime." E-mail a.l.yeyati@uam.es; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310554.

Tadahiro Yokosawa, Veer Pal Singh Awana, Koji Kimoto, Eiji Takayama- Muromachi, Maarit Karppinen, Hisao Yamauchi, and Yoshio Matsui, "Electron microscope studies of nano-domain structures in Rubased magneto-superconductors: RuSr2Gd1.5Ce0.5Cu2O1(Ru-1222) and RuSr2GdCu2O8 (Ru-1212)." Accepted in Ultramicroscopy. Contact Dr. V. P. S. Awana, Superconductivity & Cryogenics Division, Nat. Phys. Lab., New Delhi-110012, India; telephone/fax 0091-11-25748709; Cell No. 9811712999; e-mail awana@mail.nplindia.ernet.in. Key words: Electron diffraction; Electron microscopy; Rutheno-cuprate; 1222- and 1212-type structures; Superlattice; Nano-domain. 74.52Bh.

Yue Zhao, Mihail Ionescu, Alexey V. Pan, Shi Xue Dou, and E. W. Collings, "In situ annealing of superconducting MgB2 films prepared by pulsed laser deposition." E-mail yz70@uow.edu.au; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310755.

A. A. Zhukov, E. T. Filby, P. A. J. de Groot, V. V.Metlushko, and B. Ilic, "Commensurability effects induced by a periodic array of nanoscale anti-dots in Nb superconductor." E. T. Filby's e-mail etf@phys.soton.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310526.

A. A. Zhukov, E. T. Filby, M. A. Ghanem, P. N. Bartlett, and P. A. J. de Groot, "Superconducting anti-dot arrays from self-assembly template methods." E. T. Filby's e-mail etf@phys.soton.ac.uk; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310459.

R. J. Zieve, R. Duke, and J. L. Smith, "Pressure and linear heat capacity in the superconducting state of thoriated UBe13." E-mail zieve@london.ucdavis.edu; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310009.

D. Zola, F. Gomory, M. Polichetti, F. Strycek, E. Seiler, I. Husek, P. Kovac, and S. Pace, "Study of coupling loss on bi-columnar BSCCO/Ag tapes by a.c. susceptibility measurements." Submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology. E-mail zoldan@sa.infn.it; preprint also available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310158.