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REVIEW ARTICLES

Ginzburg-Landau theory of type II superconductors in magnetic field
Baruch Rosenstein and Dingping Li
Reviews of Modern Physics   82, 109-168 (2010)   
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Frustrated Metallic Systems: A Review of Some Peculiar Behavior
Claudine Lacroix
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 011008 (2010) (7 pages)   
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ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS

Noise-induced looping on the Bloch sphere: Oscillatory effects in dephasing of qubits subject to broad-spectrum noise
Dong Zhou and Robert Joynt
Physical Review A   81, 010103 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Tunneling qubit operation on a protected Josephson junction array
Zhi Yin, Sheng-Wen Li, and Yi-Xin Chen
Physical Review A   81, 012327 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Dressed relaxation and dephasing in a strongly driven two-level system
C. M. Wilson, G. Johansson, T. Duty, F. Persson, M. Sandberg, and P. Delsing
Physical Review B   81, 024520 (2010) (6 pages)   
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Multiphoton excitations and inverse population in a system of two flux qubits
E. Il'ichev, S. N. Shevchenko, S. H. W. van der Ploeg, M. Grajcar, E. A. Temchenko, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and H.-G. Meyer
Physical Review B   81, 012506 (2010) (4 pages)   
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SQUID-Based Microwave Cavity Search for Dark-Matter Axions
S. J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, M. Hotz, L. J Rosenberg, G. Rybka, J. Hoskins, J. Hwang, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, R. Bradley, and J. Clarke
Physical Review Letters   104, 041301 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Note: Highly sensitive superconducting quantum interference device microsusceptometers operating at high frequencies and very low temperatures inside the mixing chamber of a dilution refrigerator
M. J. Martínez-Pérez, J. Sesé, F. Luis, D. Drung, and T. Schurig
Review of Scientific Instruments   81, 016108 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Parameter scaling in the decoherent quantum-classical transition for chaotic rf superconducting quantum interference devices
Ting Mao and Yang Yu
Physical Review E   81, 016212 (2010) (4 pages)   
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High-J_c MgB₂ Josephson junctions with operating temperature up to 40 K
Ke Chen, C. G. Zhuang, Qi Li, Y. Zhu, P. M. Voyles, X. Weng, J. M. Redwing, R. K. Singh, A. W. Kleinsasser, and X. X. Xi
Applied Physics Letters   96, 042506 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Longitudinal Proximity Effects in Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors
John E. Sadleir, Stephen J. Smith, Simon R. Bandler, James A. Chervenak, and John R. Clem
Physical Review Letters   104, 047003 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Possibility of measuring intrinsic electronic correlations in graphene using a d-wave contact Josephson junction
Annica M. Black-Schaffer and Sebastian Doniach
Physical Review B   81, 014517 (2010) (5 pages)   
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Nonlocal transport in normal-metal/superconductor hybrid structures: Role of interference and interaction
J. Brauer, F. Hübler, M. Smetanin, D. Beckmann, and H. v. Löhneysen
Physical Review B   81, 024515 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Liquid-gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film
J. T. Ye, S. Inoue, K. Kobayashi, Y. Kasahara, H. T. Yuan, H. Shimotani, and Y. Iwasa
Nature Materials   9, 125-128 (2010)   
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Charge Imbalance Relaxation Due to Pair Breaking Perturbation by Magnetic Field
Kazuki Tsuboi and Ryuta Yagi
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 013704 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Catastrophic sliding bifurcations and onset of oscillations in a superconducting resonator
M. R. Jeffrey, A. R. Champneys, M. di Bernardo, and S. W. Shaw
Physical Review E   81, 016213 (2010) (10 pages)   
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MATERIALS IMPORTANT FOR APPLICATIONS

Optimal annealing conditions for Y₁Ba₂Cu₃O₇₋ thin films
Zon Mori, Toshiya Doi, and Yoshinori Hakuraku
Journal of Applied Physics   107, 023903 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-T_c superconductor
R. Daou, J. Chang, David LeBoeuf, Olivier Cyr-Choinière, Francis Laliberté, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and Louis Taillefer
Nature   463, 519-522 (2010)   
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Magnetoresistance studies of La_2/3Sr_1/3MnO₃-YBa₂Cu₃O₇-La_2/3Sr_1/3MnO₃ trilayers with ferromagnetic coupling along the nodal direction of YBa₂Cu₃O₇
Soumen Mandal
Physical Review B   81, 014515 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Mixed state properties of Bi₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀₊ single crystals before and after neutron irradiation
M. Weigand, M. Eisterer, E. Giannini, and H. W. Weber
Physical Review B   81, 014516 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Adsorption of iodine and potassium on Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊ investigated by low-energy alkali-ion scattering
R. D. Gann, J. X. Cao, R. Q. Wu, Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu, G. D. Gu, and J. A. Yarmoff
Physical Review B   81, 035418 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Effect of pseudogap formation on the penetration depth of underdoped high-T_c cuprates
J. P. Carbotte, K. A. G. Fisher, J. P. F. LeBlanc, and E. J. Nicol
Physical Review B   81, 014522 (2010) (13 pages)   
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Reduced effect of impurities on the universal pairing scale in the cuprates
A. B. Vorontsov, Ar. Abanov, M. G. Vavilov, and A. V. Chubukov
Physical Review B   81, 012508 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Oxygen isotope effect on quasiparticle and optical properties in cuprates
E. Schachinger and J. P. Carbotte
Physical Review B   81, 014519 (2010) (11 pages)   
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Boson-fermion duality and metastability in cuprate superconductors
J. Ranninger and T. Domański
Physical Review B   81, 014514 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Study of layered superconductors in the framework of an electron–phonon coupling mechanism
Iman Askerzade
Physics - Uspekhi   52, 977-988 (2009)   
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Impact of substitutional and interstitial carbon defects on lattice parameters in MgB₂
Amelia K. Bengtson, Chung Wung Bark, Jonathan Giencke, Wenqing Dai, Xiaoxing Xi, Chang-Beom Eom, and Dane Morgan
Journal of Applied Physics   107, 023902 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Gutzwiller Density Functional Studies of FeAs-Based Superconductors: Structure Optimization and Evidence for a Three-Dimensional Fermi Surface
GuangTao Wang, Yumin Qian, Gang Xu, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang
Physical Review Letters   104, 047002 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Magnetic impurity resonance states and symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in iron-based superconductors
Alireza Akbari, Ilya Eremin, and Peter Thalmeier
Physical Review B   81, 014524 (2010) (6 pages)   
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Sr₂VO₃FeAs as compared to other iron-based superconductors
I. I. Mazin
Physical Review B   81, 020507 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Highly Two-dimensional Electronic Structure and Strong Fermi-Surface Nesting of the Iron-Based Superconductor Sr₂ScFePO₃: A First-Principles Study
Hiroki Nakamura and Masahiko Machida
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 013705 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Electronic structure of Fe_1.04Te_0.66Se_0.34
Fei Chen, Bo Zhou, Yan Zhang, Jia Wei, Hong-Wei Ou, Jia-Feng Zhao, Cheng He, Qing-Qin Ge, Masashi Arita, Kenya Shimada, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, Zhong-Yi Lu, Jiangping Hu, Xiao-Yu Cui, and D. L. Feng
Physical Review B   81, 014526 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Weak anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field in Fe_1.11Te_0.6Se_0.4 single crystals
Minghu Fang, Jinhu Yang, F. F. Balakirev, Y. Kohama, J. Singleton, B. Qian, Z. Q. Mao, Hangdong Wang, and H. Q. Yuan
Physical Review B   81, 020509 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Studies on Effects of Impurity Doping and NMR Measurements of La 1111 and/or Nd 1111 Fe-Pnictide Superconductors
Masatoshi Sato, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Sang Chul Lee, Hidefumi Takahashi, Erika Satomi, and Yoko Miura
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 014710 (2010) (10 pages)   
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Magnetic and superconducting transitions in Ba_1−xK_xFe₂As₂ studied by specific heat
Ch. Kant, J. Deisenhofer, A. Günther, F. Schrettle, A. Loidl, M. Rotter, and D. Johrendt
Physical Review B   81, 014529 (2010) (6 pages)   
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Observation of Softened Fe Modes in K-Doped BaFe₂As₂ via ⁵⁷Fe Nuclear Resonant Inelastic Scattering
Satoshi Tsutsui, Chul-Ho Lee, Cedric Tassel, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Yoda, Kunihiro Kihou, Akira Iyo, and Hiroshi Eisaki
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 013706 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Suppression of magnetism in SrFe_2−xRu_xAs₂: First-principles calculations
Guangtao Wang, Lihua Zheng, Minping Zhang, and Zongxian Yang
Physical Review B   81, 014521 (2010) (5 pages)   
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Symmetry and disorder of the vitreous vortex lattice in overdoped BaFe_2−xCo_xAs₂: Indication for strong single-vortex pinning
D. S. Inosov, T. Shapoval, V. Neu, U. Wolff, J. S. White, S. Haindl, J. T. Park, D. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, E. M. Forgan, M. S. Viazovska, J. H. Kim, M. Laver, K. Nenkov, O. Khvostikova, S. Kühnemann, and V. Hinkov
Physical Review B   81, 014513 (2010) (12 pages)   
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Contrasting Spin Dynamics between Underdoped and Overdoped Ba(Fe_1-xCo_x)₂As₂
F. L. Ning, K. Ahilan, T. Imai, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, P. Cheng, B. Shen, and H.-H Wen
Physical Review Letters   104, 037001 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Nernst effect in single crystals of the pnictide superconductor CaFe_1.92Co_0.08As₂ and parent compound CaFe₂As₂
Marcin Matusiak, Zbigniew Bukowski, and Janusz Karpinski
Physical Review B   81, 020510 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Effective carrier type and field dependence of the reduced-T_c superconducting state in SrFe_2−xNi_xAs₂
N. P. Butch, S. R. Saha, X. H. Zhang, K. Kirshenbaum, R. L. Greene, and J. Paglione
Physical Review B   81, 024518 (2010) (8 pages)   
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PROPERTIES IMPORTANT FOR APPLICATIONS

Generic First-Order Orientation Transition of Vortex Lattices in Type II Superconductors
Kenta M. Suzuki, Kenji Inoue, Predrag Miranović, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan   79, 013702 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Impact of viscous flux flow on the stress in long rectangular slab superconductors
Yong Yang, Li-Ye Xiao, and Xiao-Hang Li
Journal of Applied Physics   107, 023910 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Scanning SQUID microscopy of vortex clusters in multiband superconductors
Taichiro Nishio, Vu Hung Dao, Qinghua Chen, Liviu F. Chibotaru, Kazuo Kadowaki, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
Physical Review B   81, 020506 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Kink-antikink vortex transfer in periodic-plus-random pinning potential: Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments
W. V. Pogosov, H. J. Zhao, V. R. Misko, and F. M. Peeters
Physical Review B   81, 024513 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Tunable Superconducting Phase Transition in Metal-Decorated Graphene Sheets
B. M. Kessler, Ç. Ö. Girit, A. Zettl, and V. Bouchiat
Physical Review Letters   104, 047001 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Guided nucleation of superconductivity on a graded magnetic substrate
M. V. Milošević, W. Gillijns, A. V. Silhanek, A. Libál, F. M. Peeters, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Applied Physics Letters   96, 032503 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Double Percolation Transition in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Nanocomposites
Xiangdong Liu, Raghava P. Panguluri, Zhi-Feng Huang, and Boris Nadgorny
Physical Review Letters   104, 035701 (2010) (4 pages)   
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