Volume 107, Issue 5

1 February 2023

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Universality of grain boundary phases in fcc metals: Case study on high-angle [111] symmetric tilt grain boundaries

Tobias Brink, Lena Langenohl, Hanna Bishara, and Gerhard Dehm

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054103 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

It has been reported that different ordered structures can appear at the same grain boundaries. Thermodynamically, they can be regarded as interface phases (“complexions”). The authors use atomistic simulations to show that several fcc transition and post-transition metals exhibit the same two grain boundary phases in [111] tilt grain boundaries. This remains true even when using unphysical pair potentials, highlighting that the occurrence of different grain boundary phases is not an exceptional special case, but common across different materials.

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Ferroelectric switching pathways and domain structure of ${SrBi}_{2} {(Ta,Nb)}_{2} O_{9}$ from first principles

Nabaraj Pokhrel and Elizabeth A. Nowadnick

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054108 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

The energy barrier for polarization reversal is a key property that impacts the performance of ferroelectric materials. Here, the authors combine symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations to understand the origin of low-energy polarization switching in the Aurivillius-phase ferroelectrics SrBi $_{2}$ Ta $_{2}$ O $_{9}$ and SrBi $_{2}$ Nb $_{2}$ O $_{9}$ . They show that polarization reverses via a low-energy two-step process facilitated by nonpolar structural order parameter rotations. Analysis of the ferroelectric domain structure shows that the formation of domain wall vortices is energetically favorable.

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Influence of chirp and carrier-envelope phase on noninteger high-harmonic generation

Maximilian Graml, Maximilian Nitsch, Adrian Seith, Ferdinand Evers, and Jan Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054305 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

For high-harmonic generation, an intense laser pulse is targeted on a substrate producing high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. The high-harmonic spectrum emitted is strongly influenced by the properties of the substrate material and the laser pulse waveform. Here, the authors derive a simple analytical formula that describes the relation between laser pulse parameters and peak positions in the high-harmonic spectrum. The formula explains quantitatively why the high-harmonic spectrum may peak at frequencies that are not integer multiples of the laser pumping frequency.

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Surface dynamics of graphite probed by soft x-ray linear dichroism in Auger-emission yield

G. Schiwietz, T. Kachel, R. Mitzner, and K. Holldack

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054306 (2023) - Published 13 February, 2023

Element-specific investigation of the dynamics of surface atoms is not a trivial task. Here, the authors show that time-resolved near-edge x-ray absorption for strongly anisotropic excitation resonances – combined with Auger-electron detection – yields such information, whereby the small Auger-electron escape depth provides surface sensitivity. The method is applied to highly oriented graphite in a pump-probe scheme, based on femtosecond laser excitation and x-ray probe pulses with variable polarization direction and delay time, both of which influence transient changes in the $K V V$ Auger yield.

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Multipartite entanglement in the one-dimensional spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Varun Menon, Nicholas E. Sherman, Maxime Dupont, Allen O. Scheie, D. Alan Tennant, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054422 (2023) - Published 17 February, 2023

Multipartite entanglement was thought to be intrinsically difficult to measure in solids, but recent work has established connections between multipartite entanglement, dynamic susceptibilities, and neutron scattering data, via the quantum Fisher information. This work focuses on the paradigmatic spin-half chain and shows that there are further simplifications: even static structure factors contain quantitative information about multipartite entanglement at low temperatures. Theory, numerics, and experiment then suggest that a high degree of multipartite entanglement is observable in Heisenberg chain compounds, including KCuF $_{3}$ .

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Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of Majorana zero modes in a Kitaev spin liquid

Tim Bauer, Lucas R. D. Freitas, Rodrigo G. Pereira, and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054432 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

The experimental detection of Majorana zero modes represents a major open problem. In topological superconductors, scanning tunneling spectroscopy provides evidence through zero-bias conductance peaks, which can however be confused with disorder-induced Andreev states. The theory here suggests that the Majorana zero modes bound to vortices in Kitaev spin liquids offer a more favorable testing ground: the Majorana-induced conductance features found are quite distinct from those of an alternative scenario based on magnons.

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Heat conduction in herbertsmithite: Field dependence at the onset of the quantum spin liquid regime

Quentin Barthélemy, Étienne Lefrançois, Jordan Baglo, Patrick Bourgeois-Hope, Dipranjan Chatterjee, Pierre Lefloïc, Matias Velázquez, Victor Balédent, Bernard Bernu, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Fabrice Bert, Philippe Mendels, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054434 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Thermal conductivity and thermal Hall effect measurements in the quantum kagome antiferromagnet herbertsmithite reveal that there is no significant contribution to the heat conduction from mobile spin excitations. A clear field dependence of the thermal conductivity is discovered to onset at a new temperature scale, attributed to the establishment of a quantum spin liquid and the gradual polarization of magnetic defects. Their magnetization profile is extracted and found incompatible with a Brillouin function, indicating that they are not isolated paramagnetic objects.

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Spin wave spectra of single crystal ${CoPS}_{3}$

A. R. Wildes, B. Fåk, U. B. Hansen, M. Enderle, J. R. Stewart, L. Testa, H. M. Rønnow, C. Kim, and Je-Geun Park

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054438 (2023) - Published 27 February, 2023

CoPS $_{3}$ is a van der Waals antiferromagnet with the Co $^{2 +}$ ions forming decoupled honeycomb layers. It was a candidate to host exotic magnetic properties such as valence-bond states or Kitaev-like physics. Here, the authors show, using neutron inelastic scattering, that CoPS $_{3}$ does not have these states. Instead, well-defined excitations are observed that are accurately modeled using linear spin wave theory with high-spin $S$ =3/2 and biaxial single-ion anisotropy, giving insight for the reasons behind the absence of exotic states.

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Spin-dependent coupling of supercurrent and nonequilibrium quasiparticles in high-field superconductors

P. Maier and D. Beckmann

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054504 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

The interplay of the spin degree of freedom with supercurrents is investigated here in the context of superconducting spintronics. Based on a recent theoretical prediction, the authors experimentally demonstrate a spin-dependent coupling of supercurrent and nonequilibrium quasiparticles. The coupling appears when the superconductor is subject to a large spin splitting, in this case a Zeeman splitting induced by an applied magnetic field. The results may be useful for the mutual control of spin-polarized supercurrents and quasiparticles in superconducting spintronics devices.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Hierarchical compositional ordering in lead-based perovskite relaxors

Yanxing Zhang, Jiale Zhang, Nan Zhang, Laijun Liu, Alexei A. Bokov, Zuo-Guang Ye, and Dawei Wang

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054101 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Quantum theory of light-driven coherent lattice dynamics

Fabio Caruso and Marios Zacharias

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054102 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universality of grain boundary phases in fcc metals: Case study on high-angle [111] symmetric tilt grain boundaries

Tobias Brink, Lena Langenohl, Hanna Bishara, and Gerhard Dehm

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054103 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Two-dimensional crystal phases of graphene monoxide

Danylo Radevych, Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, and Michael Weinert

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054104 (2023) - Published 14 February, 2023

Exploring interacting topological insulator in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Xiaofan Zhou, Jian-Song Pan, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054105 (2023) - Published 14 February, 2023

Comparative structural evolution under pressure of powder and single crystals of the layered antiferromagnet ${FePS}_{3}$

David M. Jarvis, Matthew J. Coak, Hayrullo Hamidov, Charles R. S. Haines, Giulio I. Lampronti, Cheng Liu, Shiyu Deng, Dominik Daisenberger, David R. Allan, Mark R. Warren, Andrew R. Wildes, and Siddharth S. Saxena

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054106 (2023) - Published 14 February, 2023

Light: A new handle to control the structure of cesium lead iodide

Charles Paillard and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054107 (2023) - Published 16 February, 2023

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Ferroelectric switching pathways and domain structure of ${SrBi}_{2} {(Ta,Nb)}_{2} O_{9}$ from first principles

Nabaraj Pokhrel and Elizabeth A. Nowadnick

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054108 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Kitaev formula for periodic, quasicrystal, and fractal Floquet topological insulators

Yan-kun Chen, Qing-hui Liu, Bingsuo Zou, and Yongyou Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054109 (2023) - Published 27 February, 2023

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Enhanced wave localization in multifractal scattering media

Y. Chen, F. Sgrignuoli, Y. Zhu, T. Shubitidze, and L. Dal Negro

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054201 (2023) - Published 2 February, 2023

Amorphous-amorphous transformation induced in glasses by intense x-ray beams

E. Alfinelli, F. Caporaletti, F. Dallari, A. Martinelli, G. Monaco, B. Ruta, M. Sprung, M. Zanatta, and G. Baldi

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054202 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Elastic-stripe formation at electronic transitions

Giuliano Chiriacò and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054203 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Tracking locality in the time evolution of disordered systems

Tomasz Szołdra, Piotr Sierant, Maciej Lewenstein, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054204 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Evidence of the disorder-independent electron-phonon scattering time in thin NbN films

A. I. Lomakin, E. M. Baeva, A. D. Triznova, N. A. Titova, P. I. Zolotov, A. V. Semenov, D. E. Sunegin, A. V. Lubenchenko, A. I. Kolbatova, and G. N. Goltsman

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054205 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Electronic states of a disordered two-dimensional quasiperiodic tiling: From critical states to Anderson localization

Anuradha Jagannathan and Marco Tarzia

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054206 (2023) - Published 27 February, 2023

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Topological effects in two-dimensional quantum emitter systems

Miguel Bello and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054301 (2023) - Published 1 February, 2023

Uncovering extreme nonlinear dynamics in solids through time-domain field analysis

P. D. Keathley, S. V. B. Jensen, M. Yeung, M. R. Bionta, and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054302 (2023) - Published 3 February, 2023

Quantum-corrected thickness-dependent thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon predicted by machine learning molecular dynamics simulations

Yanzhou Wang, Zheyong Fan, Ping Qian, Miguel A. Caro, and Tapio Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054303 (2023) - Published 6 February, 2023

Tunneling-induced fractal transmission in valley Hall waveguides

Tirth Shah, Florian Marquardt, and Vittorio Peano

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054304 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of chirp and carrier-envelope phase on noninteger high-harmonic generation

Maximilian Graml, Maximilian Nitsch, Adrian Seith, Ferdinand Evers, and Jan Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054305 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surface dynamics of graphite probed by soft x-ray linear dichroism in Auger-emission yield

G. Schiwietz, T. Kachel, R. Mitzner, and K. Holldack

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054306 (2023) - Published 13 February, 2023

Theory and simulations of angular momentum transfer from swift electrons to spherical nanoparticles in scanning transmission electron microscopy

José Ángel Castellanos-Reyes, Jesús Castrejón-Figueroa, and Alejandro Reyes-Coronado

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054307 (2023) - Published 13 February, 2023

Anomalous transport in periodic photonic chains with designed loss

I. Peshko, G. Ya. Slepyan, and D. Mogilevtsev

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054308 (2023) - Published 17 February, 2023

Spin-phonon interaction and short-range order in ${Mn}_{3} {Si}_{2} {Te}_{6}$

S. Djurdjić Mijin, A. Šolajić, J. Pešić, Y. Liu, C. Petrovic, M. Bockstedte, A. Bonanni, Z. V. Popović, and N. Lazarević

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054309 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Maximally charged single-pair multi-Weyl point phonons in $P 23$ -type ${BeH}_{2}$

Ying Yang, Chengwu Xie, Yuting Cui, Xiaotian Wang, and Weikang Wu

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054310 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

From Green-Kubo to the full Boltzmann kinetic approach to heat transport in crystals and glasses

Alfredo Fiorentino and Stefano Baroni

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054311 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Nonharmonic contributions to the high-temperature phonon thermodynamics of Cr

C. M. Bernal-Choban, H. L. Smith, C. N. Saunders, D. S. Kim, L. Mauger, D. L. Abernathy, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054312 (2023) - Published 27 February, 2023

Restricted multicanonical sampling for machine learning potential construction

Kazutoshi Miwa

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054313 (2023) - Published 28 February, 2023

Magnetism

Construction of entangled many-body states via the Higgs mechanism

Pureum Noh and Eun-Gook Moon

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054401 (2023) - Published 3 February, 2023

Brillouin light scattering from quantized spin waves in nanowires with antisymmetric exchange interactions

Jun-Wen Xu, Grant A. Riley, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, and Andrew D. Kent

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054402 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Electric Grüneisen parameters for a biaxial spin-chain system

A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054403 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Giant efficiency of long-range orbital torque in Co/Nb bilayers

Fu Liu, Bokai Liang, Jie Xu, Chenglong Jia, and Changjun Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054404 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Large exchange bias in Mn-Ni-Sn Heusler alloys: Role of cluster spin glass state

Jyoti Sharma, K. G. Suresh, and Aftab Alam

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054405 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Computational capability for physical reservoir computing using a spin-torque oscillator with two free layers

Terufumi Yamaguchi, Sumito Tsunegi, Kohei Nakajima, and Tomohiro Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054406 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Coherent description of the magnetic properties of ${SeCuO}_{3}$ versus temperature and magnetic field

Xavier Rocquefelte, Mirta Herak, Atsushi Miyake, William Lafargue-Dit-Hauret, Helmuth Berger, Masashi Tokunaga, and Andres Saúl

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054407 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Topological spin textures in $1 T$ -phase Janus magnets: Interplay between Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, magnetic frustration, and isotropic higher-order interactions

Peng Li, Dongxing Yu, Jinghua Liang, Yonglong Ga, and Hongxin Yang

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054408 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Evolution of short-range magnetic correlations in ferromagnetic Ni-V alloys

Shiva Bhattarai, Hind Adawi, Jean-Guy Lussier, Adane Gebretsadik, Maxim Dzero, Kathryn L. Krycka, and Almut Schroeder

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054409 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Ultrafast magnetization and energy flow in the laser-induced dynamics of transition metal compounds

G. Stegmann, W. Töws, and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054410 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Magnetic phase diagram and possible Kitaev-like behavior of the honeycomb-lattice antimonate ${Na}_{3} {Co}_{2} {SbO}_{6}$

E. Vavilova, T. Vasilchikova, A. Vasiliev, D. Mikhailova, V. Nalbandyan, E. Zvereva, and S. V. Streltsov

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054411 (2023) - Published 13 February, 2023

Replica theory for disorder-free spin-lattice glass transition on a treelike simplex network

Kota Mitsumoto and Hajime Yoshino

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054412 (2023) - Published 13 February, 2023

Theory of Floquet-driven dissipative cavity magnonics

Ying Yang, Yang Xiao, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054413 (2023) - Published 15 February, 2023

Possible electronic state quasi-half-valley metal in a ${VGe}_{2} P_{4}$ monolayer

San-Dong Guo, Yu-Ling Tao, Hao-Tian Guo, Zhuo-Yan Zhao, Bing Wang, Guangzhao Wang, and Xiaotian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054414 (2023) - Published 15 February, 2023

Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy enabled by resistive switching

Pavel Salev, Iana Volvach, Dayne Sasaki, Pavel Lapa, Yayoi Takamura, Vitaliy Lomakin, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054415 (2023) - Published 15 February, 2023

Self-consistent solution of magnetic and friction energy losses of a magnetic nanoparticle

Santiago Helbig, Claas Abert, Pedro A. Sánchez, Sofia S. Kantorovich, and Dieter Suess

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054416 (2023) - Published 16 February, 2023

Hysteresis and training effect in the electric control of spin current in $Pt / Y_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ heterostructures

Y. D. Sun, Lei Wang, Lili Lang, Ke Xia, and S. M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054417 (2023) - Published 16 February, 2023

Electrically excited magnetoelastic waves and magnetoacoustic resonance in ferromagnetic films with voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy

Andrei V. Azovtsev and Nikolay A. Pertsev

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054418 (2023) - Published 16 February, 2023

Non-Kitaev versus Kitaev honeycomb cobaltates

Xiaoyu Liu and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054420 (2023) - Published 16 February, 2023

Influence of substrate on interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in epitaxial ${Tm}_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ films

Takian Fakhrul, Siying Huang, Yixuan Song, Bharat Khurana, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, and Caroline A. Ross

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054421 (2023) - Published 17 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multipartite entanglement in the one-dimensional spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Varun Menon, Nicholas E. Sherman, Maxime Dupont, Allen O. Scheie, D. Alan Tennant, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054422 (2023) - Published 17 February, 2023

Magnetic excitations in the square-lattice iridate ${Ba}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

J. P. Clancy, H. Gretarsson, A. Lupascu, J. A. Sears, Z. Nie, M. H. Upton, Jungho Kim, Z. Islam, M. Uchida, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054423 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Variational optimization of tensor-network states with the honeycomb-lattice corner transfer matrix

I. V. Lukin and A. G. Sotnikov

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054424 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in ${CaMn}_{2} P_{2}$

Farhan Islam, Thaís V. Trevisan, Thomas Heitmann, Santanu Pakhira, Simon X. M. Riberolles, N. S. Sangeetha, David C. Johnston, Peter P. Orth, and David Vaknin

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054425 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Spin Hall magnetoresistance in quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnetic-insulator/metal bilayer systems

T. Ishikawa, M. Matsuo, and T. Kato

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054426 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Magnetic ground state dependent magnetostriction effects on the chiral magnet ${CrNb}_{3} S_{6}$

Masaki Mito, Takayuki Tajiri, Yusuke Kousaka, Jun Akimitsu, Jun-ichiro Kishine, and Katsuya Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054427 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Laser-induced magnetization switching in synthetic-ferrimagnetic bilayer

V. N. Gridnev

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054428 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Low-temperature specific heat and heat transport of ${Tb}_{2} {Ti}_{2 - x} {Zr}_{x} O_{7}$ single crystals

H. L. Che, S. J. Li, J. C. Wu, N. Li, S. K. Guang, K. Xia, X. Y. Yue, Y. Y. Wang, X. Zhao, Q. J. Li, and X. F. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054429 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Electronic structure, magnetic properties, spin orientation, and doping effect in ${Mn}_{3} {Si}_{2} {Te}_{6}$

Yang Zhang, Ling-Fang Lin, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054430 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Hybrid symmetry breaking in classical spin models with subsystem symmetries

Giovanni Canossa, Lode Pollet, and Ke Liu (刘科子竞)

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054431 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

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Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of Majorana zero modes in a Kitaev spin liquid

Tim Bauer, Lucas R. D. Freitas, Rodrigo G. Pereira, and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054432 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Magnetic coupling of guest metallocene molecules with SURMOF-2 host matrix

Alexei Nefedov, Chun Li, Kai Müller, Anemar Bruno Kanj, Lars Heinke, Chen Luo, Kai Chen, Florin Radu, Evangelos Golias, Wolfgang Kuch, and Christof Wöll

Phys. Rev. B 107, 054433 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

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