Volume 80, Issue 6

1 August 2009

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Anisotropy of hardness from first principles: The cases of ${ReB}_{2}$ and ${OsB}_{2}$

Antonín Šimůnek

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060103(R) (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

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Excitation of two spatially separated Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons

O. Dzyapko, V. E. Demidov, M. Buchmeier, T. Stockhoff, G. Schmitz, G. A. Melkov, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060401(R) (2009) - Published 14 August, 2009

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${BaPtSi}_{3}$ : A noncentrosymmetric BCS-like superconductor

E. Bauer, R. T. Khan, H. Michor, E. Royanian, A. Grytsiv, N. Melnychenko-Koblyuk, P. Rogl, D. Reith, R. Podloucky, E.-W. Scheidt, W. Wolf, and M. Marsman

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064504 (2009) - Published 10 August, 2009

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Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Role of di-interstitial clusters in oxygen transport in ${UO}_{2 + x}$ from first principles

D. A. Andersson, T. Watanabe, C. Deo, and B. P. Uberuaga

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060101(R) (2009) - Published 10 August, 2009

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Mixed Bloch-Néel-Ising character of $180 °$ ferroelectric domain walls

Donghwa Lee (이동화), Rakesh K. Behera, Pingping Wu, Haixuan Xu (徐海譞), Y. L. Li, Susan B. Sinnott, Simon R. Phillpot, L. Q. Chen, and Venkatraman Gopalan

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060102(R) (2009) - Published 12 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Anisotropy of hardness from first principles: The cases of ${ReB}_{2}$ and ${OsB}_{2}$

Antonín Šimůnek

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060103(R) (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Pressure-induced suppression of the Peierls distortion of liquid As and $Ge X$ $(X = S, Se, Te)$

Ayano Chiba, Masatoshi Tomomasa, Takazumi Hayakawa, Stephen M. Bennington, Alex C. Hannon, and Kazuhiko Tsuji

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060201(R) (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

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Phase transition in ${Ti}_{50} {Ni}_{44} {Fe}_{6}$ studied by x-ray fluorescence holography

Wen Hu, Kouichi Hayashi, Tokujiro Yamamoto, Naohisa Happo, Shinya Hosokawa, Tomoyuki Terai, Takashi Fukuda, Tomoyuki Kakeshita, Honglan Xie, Tiqiao Xiao, and Motohiro Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060202(R) (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Magnetism

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Excitation of two spatially separated Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons

O. Dzyapko, V. E. Demidov, M. Buchmeier, T. Stockhoff, G. Schmitz, G. A. Melkov, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060401(R) (2009) - Published 14 August, 2009

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Direct measurement of nonlinear ferromagnetic damping via the intrinsic foldover effect

Y. S. Gui, A. Wirthmann, N. Mecking, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060402(R) (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

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Fully relativistic ab initio description of spin-polarized STM experiments in terms of magnetic-field-dependent tunneling currents

P. Weinberger

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060403(R) (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

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Origin of the spectral linewidth in nonlinear spin-transfer oscillators based on MgO tunnel junctions

B. Georges, J. Grollier, V. Cros, A. Fert, A. Fukushima, H. Kubota, K. Yakushijin, S. Yuasa, and K. Ando

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060404(R) (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Decoupling of the superconducting and magnetic/structural phase transitions in electron-doped ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

P. C. Canfield, S. L. Bud’ko, Ni Ni, J. Q. Yan, and A. Kracher

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060501(R) (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

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Evidence for two-gap nodeless superconductivity in ${SmFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ from point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy

D. Daghero, M. Tortello, R. S. Gonnelli, V. A. Stepanov, N. D. Zhigadlo, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060502(R) (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

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Superconducting state in the noncentrosymmetric ${Mg}_{9.3} {Ir}_{19} B_{16.7}$ and ${Mg}_{10.5} {Ir}_{19} B_{17.1}$ revealed by NMR

K. Tahara, Z. Li, H. X. Yang, J. L. Luo, S. Kawasaki, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060503(R) (2009) - Published 11 August, 2009

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Limits on Bose-Einstein condensation in confined solid ${}^{4}H e$

S. O. Diallo, R. T. Azuah, O. Kirichek, J. W. Taylor, and H. R. Glyde

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060504(R) (2009) - Published 12 August, 2009

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Specific heat of underdoped cuprates: Resonating valence bond description versus Fermi arcs

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

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060505(R) (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

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Evidence from magnetoresistance measurements for an induced triplet superconducting state in ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3} / {YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ multilayers

T. Hu, H. Xiao, C. Visani, Z. Sefrioui, J. Santamaria, and C. C. Almasan

Phys. Rev. B 80, 060506(R) (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Strain dependence of peak widths of reciprocal- and real-space distribution functions of metallic glasses from in situ x-ray scattering and molecular dynamics simulations

R. T. Ott, M. I. Mendelev, M. F. Besser, M. J. Kramer, J. Almer, and D. J. Sordelet

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064101 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Formation and migration of charged native point defects in ${MgH}_{2}$ : First-principles calculations

Min Sik Park, Anderson Janotti, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064102 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Intermediate temperature scale $T^{*}$ in lead-based relaxor systems

B. Dkhil, P. Gemeiner, A. Al-Barakaty, L. Bellaiche, E. Dul’kin, E. Mojaev, and M. Roth

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064103 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Configurational dependence of elastic modulus of metallic glass

Y. Q. Cheng and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064104 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

High-pressure phases, vibrational properties, and electronic structure of $Ne {(He)}_{2}$ and $Ar {(He)}_{2}$ : A first-principles study

C. Cazorla, D. Errandonea, and E. Sola

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064105 (2009) - Published 10 August, 2009

Equation of state for solid neon from quantum theory

P. Schwerdtfeger and Andreas Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064106 (2009) - Published 11 August, 2009

Evolution of neck radius and relaxation of coalescing nanoparticles

David N. McCarthy and Simon A. Brown

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064107 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Elastic effects of vacancies in strontium titanate: Short- and long-range strain fields, elastic dipole tensors, and chemical strain

Daniel A. Freedman, D. Roundy, and T. A. Arias

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064108 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Band structures and native defects of ammonia borane

D. West, Sukit Limpijumnong, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064109 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Temperature and density dependence of XANES spectra in warm dense aluminum plasmas

V. Recoules and S. Mazevet

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064110 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Structural characterization of bimetallic nanomaterials with overlapping x-ray absorption edges

Laurent D. Menard, Qi Wang, Joo H. Kang, Andrew J. Sealey, Gregory S. Girolami, Xiaowei Teng, Anatoly I. Frenkel, and Ralph G. Nuzzo

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064111 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Dynamic light scattering in network-forming sodium ultraphosphate liquids near the glass transition

R. Fabian, Jr. and D. L. Sidebottom

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064201 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Density of states in solid deuterium: Inelastic neutron scattering study

A. Frei, E. Gutsmiedl, C. Morkel, A. R. Müller, S. Paul, M. Urban, H. Schober, S. Rols, T. Unruh, and M. Hölzel

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064301 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Li diffusion properties of mixed conducting ${TiO}_{2} -B$ nanowires

M. Wilkening, J. Heine, C. Lyness, A. R. Armstrong, and P. G. Bruce

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064302 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Magnetism

Giant antiferromagnetically coupled moments in a molecule-based magnet with interpenetrating lattices

Randy S. Fishman, Satoshi Okamoto, William W. Shum, and Joel S. Miller

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064401 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Lattice-form-dependent orbital shape and charge disproportionation in charge- and orbital-ordered manganites

D. Okuyama, Y. Tokunaga, R. Kumai, Y. Taguchi, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064402 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Spin-polarized electronic structure for the layered two-dimensional $[{Fe}^{II} (TCNE) {(NCMe)}_{2}] [{Fe}^{III} {Cl}_{4}]$ organic-based magnet

William W. Shum, Arthur J. Epstein, and Joel S. Miller

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064403 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Classification of quantum phases for the star-lattice antiferromagnet via a projective symmetry group analysis

Ting-Pong Choy and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064404 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Substrate-induced antiferromagnetism of a Fe monolayer on the Ir(001) surface

Josef Kudrnovský, František Máca, Ilja Turek, and Josef Redinger

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064405 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Magnetic properties of a Heisenberg coupled-trimer molecular magnet: General results and application to spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ vanadium clusters

J. T. Haraldsen, T. Barnes, J. W. Sinclair, J. R. Thompson, R. L. Sacci, and J. F. C. Turner

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064406 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Evidence for continuous change of spin states between impurity-induced order and pressure-induced order in ${TlCu}_{0.985} {Mg}_{0.015} {Cl}_{3}$ probed via muon spin rotation

Takao Suzuki, Isao Watanabe, Fumiko Yamada, Yasuyuki Ishii, Kazuki Ohishi, Risdiana, Takayuki Goto, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064407 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Magnetic oxide nanowires with strain-controlled uniaxial magnetic anisotropy direction

M. Mathews, R. Jansen, G. Rijnders, J. C. Lodder, and D. H. A. Blank

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064408 (2009) - Published 14 August, 2009

Spin-torque driven magnetization dynamics in a nanocontact setup for low external fields: Numerical simulation study

D. V. Berkov and N. L. Gorn

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064409 (2009) - Published 14 August, 2009

$S U (2)$ slave-boson formulation of spin nematic states in $S = \frac{1}{2}$ frustrated ferromagnets

Ryuichi Shindou and Tsutomu Momoi

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064410 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Interplay of anisotropy and frustration: Triple transitions in a triangular-lattice antiferromagnet

P.-É. Melchy and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064411 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Tensor damping in metallic magnetic multilayers

Neil Smith

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064412 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

$Z_{2}$ spin-orbital liquid state in the square lattice Kugel-Khomskii model

Fa Wang and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064413 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Threshold phenomena under photoexcitation of spin-crossover materials with cooperativity due to elastic interactions

Seiji Miyashita, Per Arne Rikvold, Takashi Mori, Yusuké Konishi, Masamichi Nishino, and Hiroko Tokoro

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064414 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Strong perpendicular anisotropy in ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x}$ alloy films epitaxially grown on mismatching Pd(001), Ir(001), and Rh(001) substrates

F. Yildiz, M. Przybylski, X.-D. Ma, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064415 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Nearest and next-nearest superexchange interactions in orthorhombic perovskite manganites $R {MnO}_{3}$ ( $R = rare$ earth)

Beom Hyun Kim and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064416 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Ab initio study of the interface properties of Fe/GaAs(110)

A. Grünebohm, H. C. Herper, and P. Entel

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064417 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Monte Carlo studies of chiral and spin ordering of the three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass

Dao Xuan Viet and Hikaru Kawamura

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064418 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Spin-liquid and magnetic phases in the anisotropic triangular lattice: The case of $κ − {(ET)}_{2} X$

Luca F. Tocchio, Alberto Parola, Claudius Gros, and Federico Becca

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064419 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Magnetic phase diagram of magnetoelectric ${CuFeO}_{2}$ in high magnetic fields

G. Quirion, M. L. Plumer, O. A. Petrenko, G. Balakrishnan, and C. Proust

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064420 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Stress-induced large Curie temperature enhancement in ${Fe}_{64} {Ni}_{36}$ Invar alloy

Pedro Gorria, David Martínez-Blanco, María J. Pérez, Jesús A. Blanco, Antonio Hernando, María A. Laguna-Marco, Daniel Haskel, N. Souza-Neto, Ronald I. Smith, William G. Marshall, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Alejandro Fernández-Martínez, Jesús Chaboy, L. Fernandez Barquín, J. A. Rodriguez Castrillón, M. Moldovan, J. I. García Alonso, Jianzhong Zhang, Anna Llobet, and J. S. Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064421 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Duality, quantum skyrmions, and the stability of a SO(3) two-dimensional quantum spin glass

C. M. S. da Conceição and E. C. Marino

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064422 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Magnetic characteristics of nanocrystalline multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$ at low temperatures

S. Vijayanand, M. B. Mahajan, H. S. Potdar, and P. A. Joy

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064423 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Two-dimensional electromagnetic solitons in a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic slab

H. Leblond and M. Manna

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064424 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Thermodynamics of layered Heisenberg magnets with arbitrary spin

I. Juhász Junger, D. Ihle, and J. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064425 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Phase transition, crystal structure, and magnetic order in VOCl

Andreas Schönleber, Joachim Angelkort, Sander van Smaalen, Lukáš Palatinus, Anatoliy Senyshyn, and Wolfgang Morgenroth

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064426 (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

Exchange bias in Co/CoO core-shell nanowires: Role of antiferromagnetic superparamagnetic fluctuations

Thomas Maurer, Fatih Zighem, Frédéric Ott, Grégory Chaboussant, Gilles André, Yaghoub Soumare, Jean-Yves Piquemal, Guillaume Viau, and Christophe Gatel

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064427 (2009) - Published 31 August, 2009

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Pseudogap opening and formation of Fermi arcs as an orbital-selective Mott transition in momentum space

Michel Ferrero, Pablo S. Cornaglia, Lorenzo De Leo, Olivier Parcollet, Gabriel Kotliar, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064501 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Nonadiabatic transitions between adiabatic surfaces: Phase diffusion in superconducting atomic point contacts

H. Fritz and J. Ankerhold

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064502 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Prediction of superconducting properties of ${CaB}_{2}$ using anisotropic Eliashberg theory

Hyoung Joon Choi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064503 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${BaPtSi}_{3}$ : A noncentrosymmetric BCS-like superconductor

E. Bauer, R. T. Khan, H. Michor, E. Royanian, A. Grytsiv, N. Melnychenko-Koblyuk, P. Rogl, D. Reith, R. Podloucky, E.-W. Scheidt, W. Wolf, and M. Marsman

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064504 (2009) - Published 10 August, 2009

Electronic and phononic Raman scattering in detwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.95}$ and $Y_{0.85} {Ca}_{0.15} {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.95}$ : $s$ -wave admixture to the $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ -wave order parameter

M. Bakr, A. P. Schnyder, L. Klam, D. Manske, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, M. Cardona, and C. Ulrich

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064505 (2009) - Published 10 August, 2009

Phonon anomalies in pure and underdoped $R_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ( $R = Ba$ , Sr) investigated by Raman light scattering

M. Rahlenbeck, G. L. Sun, D. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, and C. Ulrich

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064509 (2009) - Published 13 August, 2009

Structural properties and superconductivity in the ternary intermetallic compounds $M A B$ ( $M = Ca$ , Sr, Ba; $A = Al$ , Ga, In; $B = Si$ , Ge, Sn)

Michael J. Evans, Yang Wu, Verina F. Kranak, N. Newman, Armin Reller, F. Javier Garcia-Garcia, and Ulrich Häussermann

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064514 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: First-principles characterization of Ni diffusion kinetics in $β − Ni Al$ [Phys. Rev. B 78, 184105 (2008)]

Kristen A. Marino and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 80, 069901 (2009) - Published 12 August, 2009