Volume 81, Issue 2

1 January 2010

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Geometrical frustration in an elemental solid: An Ising model to explain the defect structure of $β$ -rhombohedral boron

Tadashi Ogitsu, François Gygi, John Reed, Masafumi Udagawa, Yukitoshi Motome, Eric Schwegler, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020102(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Solution growth of a binary icosahedral quasicrystal of ${Sc}_{12} {Zn}_{88}$

P. C. Canfield, M. L. Caudle, C.-S. Ho, A. Kreyssig, S. Nandi, M. G. Kim, X. Lin, A. Kracher, K. W. Dennis, R. W. McCallum, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020201(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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$4 f$ charge-density deformation and magnetostrictive bond strain observed in amorphous ${TbFe}_{2}$ by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

S. Pascarelli, M. P. Ruffoni, A. Trapananti, O. Mathon, C. Detlefs, M. Pasquale, A. Magni, C. P. Sasso, F. Celegato, E. Olivetti, Y. Joly, and D. Givord

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020406(R) (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

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Low-temperature transition to a superconducting phase in boron-doped silicon films grown on (001)-oriented silicon wafers

C. Marcenat, J. Kačmarčík, R. Piquerel, P. Achatz, G. Prudon, C. Dubois, B. Gautier, J. C. Dupuy, E. Bustarret, L. Ortega, T. Klein, J. Boulmer, T. Kociniewski, and D. Débarre

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020501(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Nernst effect in single crystals of the pnictide superconductor ${CaFe}_{1.92} {Co}_{0.08} {As}_{2}$ and parent compound ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Marcin Matusiak, Zbigniew Bukowski, and Janusz Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020510(R) (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Theory of quantum paraelectrics and the metaelectric transition

G. J. Conduit and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024102 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

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Raman signature of the U(1) Dirac spin-liquid state in the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ kagome system

Wing-Ho Ko, Zheng-Xin Liu, Tai-Kai Ng, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024414 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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Pure and random-field quantum criticality in the dipolar Ising model: Theory of ${Mn}_{12}$ acetates

A. J. Millis, A. D. Kent, M. P. Sarachik, and Y. Yeshurun

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024423 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Stable topological superconductivity in a family of two-dimensional fermion models

Meng Cheng, Kai Sun, Victor Galitski, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024504 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Charge-ordering transition and incommensurate antiphase structure of ${Fe}_{2} {BO}_{4}$ as seen via transmission electron microscopy

Y. J. Song, H. X. Yang, H. F. Tian, C. Ma, Y. B. Qin, L. J. Zeng, H. L. Shi, J. B. Lu, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020101(R) (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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Geometrical frustration in an elemental solid: An Ising model to explain the defect structure of $β$ -rhombohedral boron

Tadashi Ogitsu, François Gygi, John Reed, Masafumi Udagawa, Yukitoshi Motome, Eric Schwegler, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020102(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Reorientation of magnetic dipoles at the antiferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition of ${Bi}_{1 - x} {Nd}_{x} {FeO}_{3}$ $(0.15 \leq x \leq 0.25)$

Igor Levin, Sarah Karimi, Virgil Provenzano, Cindi L. Dennis, Hui Wu, Tim P. Comyn, Tim J. Stevenson, Ronald I. Smith, and Ian M. Reaney

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020103(R) (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Solution growth of a binary icosahedral quasicrystal of ${Sc}_{12} {Zn}_{88}$

P. C. Canfield, M. L. Caudle, C.-S. Ho, A. Kreyssig, S. Nandi, M. G. Kim, X. Lin, A. Kracher, K. W. Dennis, R. W. McCallum, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020201(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Ballistic heat transport in nanocontacts

T. Y. Chen, C. L. Chien, M. Manno, L. Wang, and C. Leighton

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020301(R) (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

Magnetism

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Spin-singlet state formation in the cluster Mott insulator ${GaNb}_{4} S_{8}$ studied by $μ SR$ and NMR spectroscopy

T. Waki, Y. Kajinami, Y. Tabata, H. Nakamura, M. Yoshida, M. Takigawa, and I. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020401(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Noncollinear magnetic phases of a triangular-lattice antiferromagnet and of doped ${CuFeO}_{2}$

Randy S. Fishman and Satoshi Okamoto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020402(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Fully relativistic ab initio treatment of spin-flip scattering caused by impurities

Martin Gradhand, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020403(R) (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

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Control of chirality normal to the interface of hexagonal magnetic and nonmagnetic layers

Jason T. Haraldsen and Randy S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020404(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Ballistic heat transport of quantum spin excitations as seen in ${SrCuO}_{2}$

N. Hlubek, P. Ribeiro, R. Saint-Martin, A. Revcolevschi, G. Roth, G. Behr, B. Büchner, and C. Hess

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020405(R) (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

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$4 f$ charge-density deformation and magnetostrictive bond strain observed in amorphous ${TbFe}_{2}$ by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

S. Pascarelli, M. P. Ruffoni, A. Trapananti, O. Mathon, C. Detlefs, M. Pasquale, A. Magni, C. P. Sasso, F. Celegato, E. Olivetti, Y. Joly, and D. Givord

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020406(R) (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

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High-field instability of a field-induced triplon Bose-Einstein condensate

Abdulla Rakhimov, E. Ya. Sherman, and Chul Koo Kim

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020407(R) (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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Haldane charge conjecture in one-dimensional multicomponent fermionic cold atoms

H. Nonne, P. Lecheminant, S. Capponi, G. Roux, and E. Boulat

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020408(R) (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

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Field-induced spin supersolidity in frustrated $S = \frac{1}{2}$ spin-dimer models

Pochung Chen, Chen-Yen Lai, and Min-Fong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020409(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Direct imaging of domain-wall interactions in ${Ni}_{80} {Fe}_{20}$ planar nanowires

T. J. Hayward, M. T. Bryan, P. W. Fry, P. M. Fundi, M. R. J. Gibbs, D. A. Allwood, M.-Y. Im, and P. Fischer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020410(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Time-reversal symmetry breaking at the edge states of a three-dimensional topological band insulator

Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020411(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Splitting of a moving transverse domain wall in a magnetic nanostripe in a transverse field

S. Glathe, M. Zeisberger, U. Hübner, R. Mattheis, and D. V. Berkov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020412(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Domain-wall pinning, nonadiabatic spin-transfer torque, and spin-current polarization in permalloy wires doped with vanadium

S. Lepadatu, J. S. Claydon, C. J. Kinane, T. R. Charlton, S. Langridge, A. Potenza, S. S. Dhesi, P. S. Keatley, R. J. Hicken, B. J. Hickey, and C. H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020413(R) (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Wave function of a microwave-driven Bose-Einstein magnon condensate

Sergio M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020414(R) (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Low-temperature transition to a superconducting phase in boron-doped silicon films grown on (001)-oriented silicon wafers

C. Marcenat, J. Kačmarčík, R. Piquerel, P. Achatz, G. Prudon, C. Dubois, B. Gautier, J. C. Dupuy, E. Bustarret, L. Ortega, T. Klein, J. Boulmer, T. Kociniewski, and D. Débarre

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020501(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Stable fractional flux vortices in mesoscopic superconductors

L. F. Chibotaru and V. H. Dao

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020502(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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${}^{31}P$ and ${}^{75}A s$ NMR evidence for a residual density of states at zero energy in superconducting ${BaFe}_{2} {({As}_{0.67} P_{0.33})}_{2}$

Yusuke Nakai, Tetsuya Iye, Shunsaku Kitagawa, Kenji Ishida, Shigeru Kasahara, Takasada Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, and Takahito Terashima

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020503(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Measurement of the nonlinear Meissner effect in superconducting Nb films using a resonant microwave cavity: A probe of unconventional pairing symmetries

Nickolas Groll, Alexander Gurevich, and Irinel Chiorescu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020504(R) (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

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Transport phase diagram for superconducting thin films of tantalum with homogeneous disorder

Yize Li, Carlos L. Vicente, and Jongsoo Yoon

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020505(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020506(R) (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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${Sr}_{2} {VO}_{3} FeAs$ as compared to other iron-based superconductors

I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020507(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Mixed triplet and singlet pairing in ultracold multicomponent fermion systems with dipolar interactions

Congjun Wu and J. E. Hirsch

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020508(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Weak anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field in ${Fe}_{1.11} {Te}_{0.6} {Se}_{0.4}$ single crystals

Minghu Fang, Jinhu Yang, F. F. Balakirev, Y. Kohama, J. Singleton, B. Qian, Z. Q. Mao, Hangdong Wang, and H. Q. Yuan

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020509(R) (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Nernst effect in single crystals of the pnictide superconductor ${CaFe}_{1.92} {Co}_{0.08} {As}_{2}$ and parent compound ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Marcin Matusiak, Zbigniew Bukowski, and Janusz Karpinski

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020510(R) (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Superconducting state with a finite-momentum pairing mechanism in zero external magnetic field

Florian Loder, Arno P. Kampf, and Thilo Kopp

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020511(R) (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

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Antiferromagnetic phase in $β^{'} − {(BEDT-TTF)}_{2} {ICl}_{2}$ under pressure as seen via ${}^{13}C$ NMR

Yoshihiro Eto and Atsushi Kawamoto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 020512(R) (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Dynamic Peierls-Nabarro equations for elastically isotropic crystals

Yves-Patrick Pellegrini

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024101 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

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Theory of quantum paraelectrics and the metaelectric transition

G. J. Conduit and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024102 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

First-principles study of oxygen vacancies in ${Mg}_{x} {Zn}_{1 - x} O$ alloys

Adisak Boonchun and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024103 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Doping-induced ferroelectric phase transition in strontium titanate: Observation of birefringence and coherent phonons under ultraviolet illumination

Y. Koyama, T. Moriyasu, E. Okamura, Y. Yamada, K. Tanaka, and T. Kohmoto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024104 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Statistical model of defects in Al-H system

Min Ji, Cai-zhuang Wang, Kai-ming Ho, Saikat Adhikari, and Kurt R. Hebert

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024105 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Experimental and ab initio volume compressibility curves of ${NpCoGa}_{5}$

S. Heathman, P. Heines, S. Surblé, J.-C. Griveau, N. Magnani, R. Caciuffo, S. Elgazzar, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024106 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Elastic and plastic deformation of graphene, silicene, and boron nitride honeycomb nanoribbons under uniaxial tension: A first-principles density-functional theory study

M. Topsakal and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024107 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Continuous structural transitions in quasi-one-dimensional classical Wigner crystals

G. Piacente, G. Q. Hai, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024108 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Trapping of oxygen vacancies in the twin walls of perovskite

Liliana Goncalves-Ferreira, Simon A. T. Redfern, Emilio Artacho, Ekhard Salje, and William T. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024109 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Magnetic anisotropy in Li-phosphates and origin of magnetoelectricity in ${LiNiPO}_{4}$

Kunihiko Yamauchi and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024110 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Phase stability of ${Ti}_{2} AlC$ upon oxygen incorporation: A first-principles investigation

Martin Dahlqvist, Björn Alling, Igor A. Abrikosov, and Johanna Rosén

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024111 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Ordered magnesium-lithium alloys: First-principles predictions

Richard H. Taylor, Stefano Curtarolo, and Gus L. W. Hart

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024112 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Acoustically driven ferroelastic domain switching observed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction

H. Navirian, H. Enquist, R. Nüske, A. Jurgilaitis, C. v. Korff Schmising, P. Sondhauss, and J. Larsson

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024113 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Piezoelectric response around ferroelectric domain walls in crystals with engineered domain configuration

Haiyan Guo, Alexei A. Bokov, and Zuo-Guang Ye

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024114 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Phonon spectroscopy near phase transition temperatures in multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$ epitaxial thin films

R. Palai, J. F. Scott, and R. S. Katiyar

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024115 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Defect studies of nanocrystalline zirconia powders and sintered ceramics

Jakub Čížek, Oksana Melikhova, Ivan Procházka, Jan Kuriplach, Radomír Kužel, Gerhard Brauer, Wolfgang Anwand, Tatyana E. Konstantinova, and Igor A. Danilenko

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024116 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Binding in alkali and alkaline-earth tetrahydroborates: Special position of magnesium tetrahydroborate

Zbigniew Łodziana and Michiel J. van Setten

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024117 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

High-pressure EXAFS study of vitreous ${GeO}_{2}$ up to 44 GPa

M. Baldini, G. Aquilanti, H-k. Mao, W. Yang, G. Shen, S. Pascarelli, and W. L. Mao

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024201 (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

Revealing the pure confinement effect in glass-forming liquids by dynamic mechanical analysis

J. Koppensteiner, W. Schranz, and M. A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024202 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Macroscopic localization lengths of vibrational normal modes in a heuristic DNA model

C. J. Páez, R. Rey-González, and P. A. Schulz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024203 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Ni self-diffusion in refractory Al-Ni melts

S. Stüber, D. Holland-Moritz, T. Unruh, and A. Meyer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024204 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Spectral properties of strongly correlated bosons in two-dimensional optical lattices

Michael Knap, Enrico Arrigoni, and Wolfgang von der Linden

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024301 (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

Phonon and magnon scattering of antiferromagnetic ${Bi}_{2} {Fe}_{4} O_{9}$

M. N. Iliev, A. P. Litvinchuk, V. G. Hadjiev, M. M. Gospodinov, V. Skumryev, and E. Ressouche

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024302 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

High-energy neutron scattering from hydrogen using a direct geometry spectrometer

C. Stock, R. A. Cowley, J. W. Taylor, and S. M. Bennington

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024303 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Composition-dependent spin-phonon coupling in mixed crystals of the multiferroic manganite ${Eu}_{1 - x} Y_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ $(0 \leq x \leq 0.5)$ studied by Raman spectroscopy

S. Issing, A. Pimenov, V. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Mukhin, and J. Geurts

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024304 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Magnetism

Double negative metamaterials based on ferromagnetic microwires

Jorge Carbonell, Héctor García-Miquel, and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024401 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Magnetic map of Mn-based thin films on Ni/Cu

B. R. Malonda-Boungou, B. M’Passi-Mabiala, A. Debernardi, S. Meza-Aguilar, and C. Demangeat

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024402 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Ferromagnetism versus charge ordering in the ${Pr}_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ and ${La}_{0.5} {Ca}_{0.5} {MnO}_{3}$ nanocrystals

Z. Jirák, E. Hadová, O. Kaman, K. Knížek, M. Maryško, E. Pollert, M. Dlouhá, and S. Vratislav

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024403 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Short-range spin correlations in $β^{″} {-LiFeO}_{2}$ from bulk magnetization, neutron diffraction, and $μ SR$ experiments

Ryota Akiyama, Yutaka Ikedo, Martin Månsson, Tatsuo Goko, Jun Sugiyama, Daniel Andreica, Alex Amato, Kittiwit Matan, and Taku J. Sato

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024404 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Domain wall motion damped by the emission of spin waves

R. Wieser, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024405 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Strong reduction of the Korringa relaxation in the spin-density wave regime of ${EuFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ observed by electron spin resonance

E. Dengler, J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, Seunghyun Khim, J. S. Kim, Kee Hoon Kim, F. Casper, C. Felser, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024406 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Effect of electrical current pulses on domain walls in Pt/Co/Pt nanotracks with out-of-plane anisotropy: Spin transfer torque versus Joule heating

M. Cormier, A. Mougin, J. Ferré, A. Thiaville, N. Charpentier, F. Piéchon, R. Weil, V. Baltz, and B. Rodmacq

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024407 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Quantized antiferromagnetic spin waves in the molecular Heisenberg ring ${CsFe}_{8}$

J. Dreiser, O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, G. Carver, S. T. Ochsenbein, A. Sieber, H. U. Güdel, J. van Duijn, J. Taylor, and A. Podlesnyak

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024408 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Frustrated spin ladder with alternating spin-1 and spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ rungs

V. Ravi Chandra, N. B. Ivanov, and J. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024409 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Phase diagram of magnetic nanodisks measured by scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis

S.-H. Chung, R. D. McMichael, D. T. Pierce, and J. Unguris

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024410 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Critical properties of the unconventional spin-Peierls system TiOBr

J. P. Clancy, B. D. Gaulin, and F. C. Chou

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024411 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Reversal time of the magnetization of antiferromagnetic nanoparticles

Bachir Ouari, Safoin Aktaou, and Yuri P. Kalmykov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024412 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Samarium magnetism studied on ${SmPd}_{2} {Al}_{3}$ single crystal

J. Pospíšil, M. Kratochvílová, J. Prokleška, M. Diviš, and V. Sechovský

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024413 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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Raman signature of the U(1) Dirac spin-liquid state in the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ kagome system

Wing-Ho Ko, Zheng-Xin Liu, Tai-Kai Ng, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024414 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Interface-driven manipulation of the magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin Co films on Pt(111): Substrate deposition of hydrogen and model calculations

S. M. Valvidares, J. Dorantes-Dávila, H. Isern, S. Ferrer, and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024415 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

ac- and dc-driven noise and $I − V$ characteristics of magnetic nanostructures

O. A. Tretiakov and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024416 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Induced anisotropies in a ferromagnet coupled to a polycrystalline antiferromagnet

Jyotirmoy Saha, Kevin Garello, B. Viala, A. Marty, and N. Vukadinovic

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024417 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Ginzburg-Landau model of Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons

B. A. Malomed, O. Dzyapko, V. E. Demidov, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024418 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Ga substitution as an effective variation of Mn-Tb coupling in multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$

Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Nadir Aliouane, Ralf Feyerherm, Esther Dudzik, Anja U. B. Wolter, Andrey Maljuk, Klaus Kiefer, and Dimitri N. Argyriou

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024419 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Competing magnetic interactions in exchange-bias-modulated films

Christine Hamann, Jeffrey McCord, Ludwig Schultz, Boris P. Toperverg, Katharina Theis-Bröhl, Maximilian Wolff, Rainer Kaltofen, and Ingolf Mönch

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024420 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Resonant and Kondo tunneling through molecular magnets

Florian Elste and Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024421 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Band structure and itinerant magnetism in quantum critical ${NbFe}_{2}$

Alaska Subedi and David J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024422 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pure and random-field quantum criticality in the dipolar Ising model: Theory of ${Mn}_{12}$ acetates

A. J. Millis, A. D. Kent, M. P. Sarachik, and Y. Yeshurun

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024423 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Uniform spin-chain physics arising from N—C—N bridges in $CuNCN$ , the nitride analog of the copper oxides

Alexander A. Tsirlin and Helge Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024424 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Spectrum and reflection of spin waves in magnonic crystals with different interface profiles

V. S. Tkachenko, V. V. Kruglyak, and A. N. Kuchko

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024425 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

One-magnon inelastic light scattering in the canted antiferromagnet ${NiF}_{2}$

E. Meloche, M. G. Cottam, V. P. Gnezdilov, and D. J. Lockwood

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024426 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Nanoscale magnetic heat pumps and engines

Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Stefan Bretzel, Arne Brataas, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024427 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Electronic structure of hyper-kagome ${Na}_{4} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$

M. R. Norman and T. Micklitz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024428 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Positive muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements on the ferromagnetic superconductor ${UGe}_{2}$ at ambient and high pressure

S. Sakarya, P. C. M. Gubbens, A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, D. Andreica, A. Amato, U. Zimmermann, N. H. van Dijk, E. Brück, Y. Huang, and T. Gortenmulder

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024429 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Noncollinear spin-spiral phase for the uniform electron gas within reduced-density-matrix-functional theory

F. G. Eich, S. Kurth, C. R. Proetto, S. Sharma, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024430 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Griffiths phase and its evolution with Mn-site disorder in the half-doped manganite ${Pr}_{0.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {Mn}_{1 - y} {Ga}_{y} O_{3}$ ( $y = 0.0$ , 0.025, and 0.05)

A. K. Pramanik and A. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024431 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Structural and magnetic properties of the oxyborate ${Co}_{5} Ti {(O_{2} {BO}_{3})}_{2}$

D. C. Freitas, R. B. Guimarães, D. R. Sanchez, J. C. Fernandes, M. A. Continentino, J. Ellena, A. Kitada, H. Kageyama, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, G. G. Eslava, and L. Ghivelder

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024432 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Modeling a striped pseudogap state

Mats Granath and Brian M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024501 (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

Current-assisted thermally activated flux liberation in ultrathin nanopatterned NbN superconducting meander structures

H. Bartolf, A. Engel, A. Schilling, K. Il’in, M. Siegel, H.-W. Hübers, and A. Semenov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024502 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Induced supersolidity in a mixture of normal and hard-core bosons

Tapan Mishra, Ramesh V. Pai, and B. P. Das

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024503 (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stable topological superconductivity in a family of two-dimensional fermion models

Meng Cheng, Kai Sun, Victor Galitski, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024504 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Spin waves in $J_{1 a} − J_{1 b} − J_{2}$ orthorhombic square-lattice Heisenberg models: Application to iron pnictide materials

R. Applegate, J. Oitmaa, and R. R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024505 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Local antiferromagnetic correlations in the iron pnictide superconductors ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ and $Ca {({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} {As}_{2}$ as seen via normal-state susceptibility

R. Klingeler, N. Leps, I. Hellmann, A. Popa, U. Stockert, C. Hess, V. Kataev, H.-J. Grafe, F. Hammerath, G. Lang, S. Wurmehl, G. Behr, L. Harnagea, S. Singh, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024506 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Josephson phase qubit with an optimal point

Norihito Kosugi, Shigemasa Matsuo, Toshiyuki Fujii, and Noriyuki Hatakenaka

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024507 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Origin of the anomalous Hall effect in the overdoped $n$ -type superconductor ${Pr}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {Cuo}_{4}$ : Current-vertex corrections due to antiferromagnetic fluctuations

G. S. Jenkins, D. C. Schmadel, P. L. Bach, R. L. Greene, X. Béchamp-Laganière, G. Roberge, P. Fournier, Hiroshi Kontani, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024508 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Weak-coupling continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo study of the single impurity and periodic Anderson models with $s$ -wave superconducting baths

David J. Luitz and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024509 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Switching and jamming transistor effect for vortex matter in honeycomb pinning arrays with ac drives

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024510 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Magnetic degeneracy and hidden metallicity of the spin-density-wave state in ferropnictides

I. Eremin and A. V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024511 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Exchange-bias-modulated inverse superconducting spin switch in $CoO / Co / {YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ} / {La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ thin film hybrids

N. M. Nemes, C. Visani, Z. Sefrioui, C. Leon, J. Santamaría, M. Iglesias, F. Mompean, and M. García-Hernández

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024512 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024513 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Hydrodynamical description of long-wavelength density fluctuations of helium in wedges

E. S. Hernández

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024514 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024515 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Spatial modulation of midgap states in (001) ${La}_{1.88} {Sr}_{0.12} {CuO}_{4}$ films: Indications for antiphase ordering of the $d$ -wave order parameter

Ofer Yuli, Itay Asulin, Gad Koren, and Oded Millo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024516 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Low-temperature anomalies in the specific heat of ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

B. Andraka, M. E. McBriarty, and C. R. Rotundu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024517 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Effective carrier type and field dependence of the reduced- $T_{c}$ superconducting state in ${SrFe}_{2 - x} {Ni}_{x} {As}_{2}$

N. P. Butch, S. R. Saha, X. H. Zhang, K. Kirshenbaum, R. L. Greene, and J. Paglione

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024518 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Interplay of charge-density waves and superconductivity in the organic conductor $β^{″} − {(BEDT-TTF)}_{2} {AuBr}_{2}$

Ryusuke Kondo, Momoka Higa, Seiichi Kagoshima, Noriaki Hanasaki, Yoshio Nogami, and Hiroyuki Nishikawa

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024519 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024520 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Evidence for three-dimensional Fermi-surface topology of the layered electron-doped iron superconductor $Ba {({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} {As}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. B 79, 220503(R) (2009)]

P. Vilmercati, A. Fedorov, I. Vobornik, U. Manju, G. Panaccione, A. Goldoni, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, D. J. Singh, and N. Mannella

Phys. Rev. B 81, 029901 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010