Volume 78, Issue 9

Yuji Furukawa, Kazuki Kiuchi, Ken-ichi Kumagai, Yoshitami Ajiro, Yasuo Narumi, Masahiro Iwaki, Koichi Kindo, Alberto Bianchi, Stefano Carretta, Grigore A. Timco, and Richard E. P. Winpenny

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092402 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Large reduction of the magnetoresistance in Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions due to small oxygen concentrations at a single FeO interface layer: A first-principles study

P. Bose, A. Ernst, I. Mertig, and J. Henk

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092403 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Anomalous pressure effect on the magnetic ordering in multiferroic ${BiMnO}_{3}$

C. C. Chou, S. Taran, J. L. Her, C. P. Sun, C. L. Huang, H. Sakurai, A. A. Belik, E. Takayama-Muromachi, and H. D. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092404 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Anomalous Hall effect in magnetite: Universal scaling relation between Hall and longitudinal conductivity in low-conductivity ferromagnets

Deepak Venkateshvaran, Wolfgang Kaiser, Andrea Boger, Matthias Althammer, M. S. Ramachandra Rao, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Matthias Opel, and Rudolf Gross

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092405 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

High-temperature superconductivity in ${Eu}_{0.5} K_{0.5} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

H. S. Jeevan, Z. Hossain, Deepa Kasinathan, H. Rosner, C. Geibel, and P. Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092406 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Compton limit of the Josephson supercurrent

K. Gloos, J. Sjölund, and G. Pristáš

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092501 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Experimental confirmation of the low B isotope coefficient of ${MgB}_{2}$

P. Brotto, M. Tropeano, C. Ferdeghini, P. Manfrinetti, A. Palenzona, E. Galleani d’Agliano, and M. Putti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092502 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Superconductivity induced by oxygen deficiency in ${La}_{0.85} {Sr}_{0.15} {FeAsO}_{1 - δ}$

G. Wu, H. Chen, Y. L. Xie, Y. J. Yan, T. Wu, R. H. Liu, X. F. Wang, D. F. Fang, J. J. Ying, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092503 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Magnetization relaxation and collective vortex pinning in the Fe-based superconductor ${SmFeAsO}_{0.9} F_{0.1}$

Huan Yang, Cong Ren, Lei Shan, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092504 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ${SmFeAsO}_{0.85}$ : Possible evidence for $d$ -wave order-parameter symmetry

Oded Millo, Itay Asulin, Ofer Yuli, Israel Felner, Zhi-An Ren, Xiao-Li Shen, Guang-Can Che, and Zhong-Xian Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092505 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Muon spin rotation studies of ${SmFeAsO}_{0.85}$ and ${NdFeAsO}_{0.85}$ superconductors

Rustem Khasanov, Hubertus Luetkens, Alex Amato, Hans-Henning Klauss, Zhi-An Ren, Jie Yang, Wei Lu, and Zhong-Xian Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092506 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Diagonal and collinear incommensurate spin structures in underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

S. R. Dunsiger, Y. Zhao, B. D. Gaulin, Y. Qiu, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, J. R. D. Copley, A. Kallin, E. M. Mazurek, and H. A. Dabkowska

Phys. Rev. B 78, 092507 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Theoretical trend of ion exchange ability with divalent cations in hydroxyapatite

Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Hiroki Inamori, and Hidenobu Murata

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094101 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Computational study of (111) epitaxially strained ferroelectric perovskites ${BaTiO}_{3}$ and ${PbTiO}_{3}$

Riku Oja, Karen Johnston, Johannes Frantti, and Risto M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094102 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Effect of grain size on the transition between ferroelectric and relaxor states in $0.8 Pb ({Mg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3} − 0.2 {PbTiO}_{3}$ ceramics

R. Jiménez, H. Amorín, J. Ricote, J. Carreaud, J. M. Kiat, B. Dkhil, J. Holc, M. Kosec, and M. Algueró

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094103 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Acoustic emission and energy dissipation during front propagation in a stress-driven martensitic transition

Erell Bonnot, Eduard Vives, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Ricardo Romero

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094104 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Elastic diffuse scattering of neutrons in FeNi Invar alloys

Y. Tsunoda, L. Hao, S. Shimomura, F. Ye, J. L. Robertson, and J. Fernandez-Baca

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094105 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Interplay of diffusion and dissociation mechanisms during hydrogen absorption in metals

A. Borgschulte, R. Gremaud, and R. Griessen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094106 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Electronic phase transition and amorphization in ${AuIn}_{2}$ at high pressure

B. K. Godwal, S. Speziale, S. M. Clark, J. Yan, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094107 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Jahn-Teller spin polarons in perovskite cobaltites

D. Phelan, J. Yu, and Despina Louca

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094108 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Bond-switching mechanism for the zircon-scheelite phase transition

M. B. Smirnov, A. P. Mirgorodsky, V. Yu. Kazimirov, and R. Guinebretière

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094109 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Carbon impurity dissolution and migration in bcc Fe-Cr: First-principles calculations

Nils Sandberg, Krister O. E. Henriksson, and Jan Wallenius

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094110 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Trapping and release of impurities in TiN: A first-principles study

L. Tsetseris, N. Kalfagiannis, S. Logothetidis, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094111 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Size-dependent characterization of embedded Ge nanocrystals: Structural and thermal properties

L. L. Araujo, R. Giulian, D. J. Sprouster, C. S. Schnohr, D. J. Llewellyn, P. Kluth, D. J. Cookson, G. J. Foran, and M. C. Ridgway

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094112 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Intrinsic defect formation in amorphous ${SiO}_{2}$ by electronic excitation: Bond dissociation versus Frenkel mechanisms

Koichi Kajihara, Masahiro Hirano, Linards Skuja, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094201 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Anisotropic interaction of two-level systems with acoustic waves in disordered cubic crystals

Dragoş-Victor Anghel and Dmitry Churochkin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094202 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Low-frequency vibrational mode anomalies and glass transition: Thermal stability, phonon scattering, and pressure effects

Gerardo G. Naumis and Hugo M. Flores-Ruiz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094203 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Vacancy-vacancy interaction and oxygen diffusion in stabilized cubic ${ZrO}_{2}$ from first principles

F. Pietrucci, M. Bernasconi, A. Laio, and M. Parrinello

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094301 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Dynamical properties and temperature induced molecular disordering of ${LiBH}_{4}$ and ${LiBD}_{4}$

F. Buchter, Z. Łodziana, Ph. Mauron, A. Remhof, O. Friedrichs, A. Borgschulte, A. Züttel, D. Sheptyakov, Th. Strässle, and A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094302 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Electron spin decoherence of single nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond

J. R. Maze, J. M. Taylor, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094303 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Generalized Langevin equation for solids. I. Rigorous derivation and main properties

L. Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094304 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Generalized Langevin equation for solids. II. Stochastic boundary conditions for nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

L. Kantorovich and N. Rompotis

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094305 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Calculation of band structures for surface waves in two-dimensional phononic crystals with a wavelet-based method

Zhi-Zhong Yan and Yue-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094306 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Magnetism

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in ${CeFe}_{2}$ : First-principles calculations

V. N. Antonov, D. A. Kukusta, and A. N. Yaresko

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094401 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Nonlocal Landau theory of the magnetic phase diagram of highly frustrated magnetoelectric ${CuFeO}_{2}$

M. L. Plumer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094402 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Spin-orbit effects in ${Na}_{4} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$ : A hyper-kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Gang Chen and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094403 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Class of exactly solvable $S O (n)$ symmetric spin chains with matrix product ground states

Hong-Hao Tu, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Tao Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094404 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Effect of environmental spins on Landau-Zener transitions

D. A. Garanin, R. Neb, and R. Schilling

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094405 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Character of magnetic excitations in a quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet near the quantum critical points: Impact on magnetoacoustic properties

O. Chiatti, A. Sytcheva, J. Wosnitza, S. Zherlitsyn, A. A. Zvyagin, V. S. Zapf, M. Jaime, and A. Paduan-Filho

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094406 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Theory of helimagnons in itinerant quantum systems. III. Quasiparticle description

T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz, and Ronojoy Saha

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094407 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Theory of helimagnons in itinerant quantum systems. IV. Transport in the weak-disorder regime

T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz, and Ronojoy Saha

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094408 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Electronic structure, optical spectra, and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in ${CoS}_{2}$

V. N. Antonov, O. V. Andryushchenko, A. P. Shpak, A. N. Yaresko, and O. Jepsen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094409 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Multiple magnetic states and metal-insulator transition in ${Ca}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} V_{2} O_{4}$ with double-chain structure

Hiroya Sakurai

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094410 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Finite-temperature dynamical structure factor of alternating Heisenberg chains

A. J. A. James, F. H. L. Essler, and R. M. Konik

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094411 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Reduction of the Yb valence in ${YbAl}_{3}$ nanoparticles

D. P. Rojas, L. Fernández Barquín, J. I. Espeso, J. Rodríguez Fernández, and J. Chaboy

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094412 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Critical thickness and orbital ordering in ultrathin ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ films

M. Huijben, L. W. Martin, Y.-H. Chu, M. B. Holcomb, P. Yu, G. Rijnders, D. H. A. Blank, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094413 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Dual magnetic correlations in filled skutterudite compound ${NdRu}_{4} P_{12}$

S. Masaki, T. Mito, S. Wada, H. Sugawara, D. Kikuchi, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094414 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Inverted hysteresis loops observed in a randomly distributed cobalt nanoparticle system

JungYup Yang, JooHyung Kim, JunSeok Lee, SeokJong Woo, JuneSik Kwak, JinPyo Hong, and MyungHwa Jung

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094415 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Magnetoelectric coupling in the cubic ferrimagnet ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

Jan-Willem G. Bos, Claire V. Colin, and Thomas T. M. Palstra

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094416 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Mechanism of chirality reversal for planar interface domain walls in exchange-coupled hard/soft magnetic bilayers

J. McCord, Y. Henry, T. Hauet, F. Montaigne, Eric E. Fullerton, and S. Mangin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094417 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Structural distortion and the spin liquid state in ${Tb}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

S. H. Curnoe

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094418 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Nonlinear exchange coupling and magnetic domain asymmetry in ferromagnetic/IrMn thin films

Jeffrey McCord, Christine Hamann, Rudolf Schäfer, Ludwig Schultz, and Roland Mattheis

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094419 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Jahn-Teller inactivity and magnetic frustration in ${GeCo}_{2} O_{4}$ probed by ultrasound velocity measurements

Tadataka Watanabe, Shigeo Hara, and Shin-Ichi Ikeda

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094420 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Weak ferromagnetism accompanying loop current order in underdoped cuprate superconductors

Vivek Aji, Arkady Shekhter, and C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094421 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Comparative $μ^{+} SR$ investigation of static magnetic order and anisotropy of the pure and Pb-doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Co}_{2} O_{y}$ layered cobalt dioxides

Jun Sugiyama, Yutaka Ikedo, Hiroshi Nozaki, Peter L. Russo, Jess H. Brewer, Eduardo J. Ansaldo, Gerald D. Morris, Kim H. Chow, Scott L. Stubbs, Daniel Andreica, Alex Amato, Takenori Fujii, Satoshi Okada, and Ichiro Terasaki

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094422 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Octupolar ordering of classical kagome antiferromagnets in two and three dimensions

M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094423 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

$DFT + U$ search for the energy minimum among eight collinear and noncollinear magnetic structures of ${GdB}_{4}$

Muhammad N. Huda and Leonard Kleinman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094424 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Thermal magnetic properties of the Ni sublattice in half-metallic NiMnSb: A theoretical study based on first-principles calculations

L. M. Sandratskii

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094425 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Antisymmetric exchange interactions in ${Ni}_{4}$ clusters

N. Kirchner, J. van Slageren, B. Tsukerblat, O. Waldmann, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094426 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Frustration and entanglement in the $t_{2 g}$ spin-orbital model on a triangular lattice: Valence-bond and generalized liquid states

Bruce Normand and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094427 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Simple tight-binding theory for magnetoresistance in perfect sandwiched structures

H. G. Silva and Y. G. Pogorelov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094428 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Curie temperature, exchange integrals, and magneto-optical properties in off-stoichiometric bismuth iron garnet epitaxial films

B. Vertruyen, R. Cloots, J. S. Abell, T. J. Jackson, R. C. da Silva, E. Popova, and N. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094429 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Strongly inhomogeneous conduction in cobaltite films: Non-Gaussian resistance noise

Vladimir Orlyanchik, M. B. Weissman, Maria A. Torija, M. Sharma, and C. Leighton

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094430 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Neutron diffraction study of the magnetic structure of the superconducting Ru-1222-type ruthenocuprate ${RuSr}_{2} Y_{1.5} {Ce}_{0.5} {Cu}_{2} O_{10 - δ}$ : Evidence for long-range antiferromagnetic order

A. C. Mclaughlin, I. Felner, and V. P. S. Awana

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094501 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Diverging giant magnetoresistance in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet trilayers

Soumen Mandal, R. C. Budhani, Jiaqing He, and Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094502 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Reliable determination of vortex parameters from measurements of the microwave complex resistivity

N. Pompeo and E. Silva

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094503 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in a self-doped bilayer $t − t^{'} − J$ model

J. Y. Gan, M. Mori, T. K. Lee, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094504 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Controlling Josephson dynamics by strong microwave fields

B. Chesca, S. E. Savel’ev, A. L. Rakhmanov, H. J. H. Smilde, and H. Hilgenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094505 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Anomalous far-infrared monochromatic transmission through a film of type-II superconductor in magnetic field

Oleg L. Berman, Vladimir S. Boyko, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, and Yurii E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094506 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Temperature dependence of the bond-stretching phonon anomaly in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.95}$

D. Reznik, L. Pintschovius, J. M. Tranquada, M. Arai, Y. Endoh, T. Masui, and S. Tajima

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094507 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum tunneling of vortices in two-dimensional superfluids

Daniel P. Arovas and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094508 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Route to high-temperature superconductivity in composite systems

Erez Berg, Dror Orgad, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094509 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Complementary pair-density-wave and $d$ -wave-checkerboard orderings in high-temperature superconductors

Kangjun Seo, Han-Dong Chen, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094510 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic structure and doping in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ and LiFeAs: Density functional calculations

D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094511 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Transition to the normal state induced by high current densities in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ thin films: A thermal runaway account

J. Maza, G. Ferro, J. A. Veira, and F. Vidal

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094512 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Signatures of superconducting gap inhomogeneities in optical properties

J. P. F. LeBlanc, E. J. Nicol, and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094513 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Anomalous effect of disorder on spin fluctuations in non-centrosymmetric superconductors

Victor M. Edelstein

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094514 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Origin of the inverse spin-switch behavior in manganite/cuprate/manganite trilayers

N. M. Nemes, M. García-Hernández, S. G. E. te Velthuis, A. Hoffmann, C. Visani, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, V. Peña, D. Arias, Z. Sefrioui, C. Leon, and J. Santamaría

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094515 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Theoretical analysis of perfect quantum state transfer with superconducting qubits

Frederick W. Strauch and Carl J. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094516 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Phase transitions in LaFeAsO: Structural, magnetic, elastic, and transport properties, heat capacity and Mössbauer spectra

Michael A. McGuire, Andrew D. Christianson, Athena S. Sefat, Brian C. Sales, Mark D. Lumsden, Rongying Jin, E. Andrew Payzant, David Mandrus, Yanbing Luan, Veerle Keppens, Vijayalaksmi Varadarajan, Joseph W. Brill, Raphaël P. Hermann, Moulay T. Sougrati, Fernande Grandjean, and Gary J. Long

Phys. Rev. B 78, 094517 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008