Volume 84, Issue 6

1 August 2011

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Multiferroicity in NiBr $_{2}$ with long-wavelength cycloidal spin structure on a triangular lattice

Y. Tokunaga, D. Okuyama, T. Kurumaji, T. Arima, H. Nakao, Y. Murakami, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060406(R) (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

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Half-metallic surface states and topological superconductivity in NaCoO $_{2}$ from first principles

Hongming Weng, Gang Xu, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060408(R) (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Topological superconducting phase and Majorana fermions in half-metal/superconductor heterostructures

Suk Bum Chung, Hai-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060510(R) (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Temperature dependence of elastic moduli of polycrystalline β plutonium

Yoko Suzuki, V. R. Fanelli, J. B. Betts, F. J. Freibert, C. H. Mielke, J. N. Mitchell, M. Ramos, T. A. Saleh, and A. Migliori

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064105 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Checkerboards, stripes, and corner energies in spin models with competing interactions

Alessandro Giuliani, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Elliott H. Lieb

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064205 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Electric spectroscopy of vortex states and dynamics in magnetic disks

Minori Goto, Hiroshi Hata, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Yoshinobu Nakatani, Takehiro Yamaoka, Yukio Nozaki, and Hideki Miyajima

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064406 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

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Magnetic order in quasi-two-dimensional molecular magnets investigated with muon-spin relaxation

A. J. Steele, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, C. Baines, M. M. Conner, H. I. Southerland, J. L. Manson, and J. A. Schlueter

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064412 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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Layered transition-metal pnictide SrMnBi $_{2}$ with metallic blocking layer

Jiakui K. Wang, Liang L. Zhao, Quan Yin, G. Kotliar, M. S. Kim, M. C. Aronson, and E. Morosan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064428 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

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Phase diagram of CeVSb $_{3}$ under pressure and its dependence on pressure conditions

E. Colombier, G. Knebel, B. Salce, E. D. Mun, X. Lin, S. L. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064442 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Local electronic structure information contained in energy-filtered diffraction patterns

Ján Rusz, Stefano Rubino, Olle Eriksson, Peter M. Oppeneer, and Klaus Leifer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064444 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Density-operator theory of orbital magnetic susceptibility in periodic insulators

X. Gonze and J. W. Zwanziger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064445 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Relaxation and frequency shifts induced by quasiparticles in superconducting qubits

G. Catelani, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. H. Devoret, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064517 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Imaging the dynamics of martensitic transitions using acoustic emission

Eduard Vives, Daniel Soto-Parra, Lluís Mañosa, Ricardo Romero, and Antoni Planes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060101(R) (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Magnetism

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Thermodynamic properties of the kagome lattice in herbertsmithite

V. R. Shaginyan, A. Z. Msezane, and K. G. Popov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060401(R) (2011) - Published 1 August, 2011

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Inelastic neutron scattering study of the magnetic fluctuations in Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$

K. Iida, M. Kofu, N. Katayama, J. Lee, R. Kajimoto, Y. Inamura, M. Nakamura, M. Arai, Y. Yoshida, M. Fujita, K. Yamada, and S.-H. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060402(R) (2011) - Published 8 August, 2011

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Pressure-induced collapse of ferromagnetism in cobalt up to 120 GPa as seen via x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

R. Torchio, A. Monza, F. Baudelet, S. Pascarelli, O. Mathon, E. Pugh, D. Antonangeli, and J. Paul Itié

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060403(R) (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Helical magnetic order in MnSi thin films

E. A. Karhu, S. Kahwaji, M. D. Robertson, H. Fritzsche, B. J. Kirby, C. F. Majkrzak, and T. L. Monchesky

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060404(R) (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

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Symmetrical interfacial reconstruction and magnetism in La $_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3} / {YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7} / {La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ heterostructures

C. Visani, J. Tornos, N. M. Nemes, M. Rocci, C. Leon, J. Santamaria, S. G. E. te Velthuis, Yaohua Liu, A. Hoffmann, J. W. Freeland, M. Garcia-Hernandez, M. R. Fitzsimmons, B. J. Kirby, M. Varela, and S. J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060405(R) (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Multiferroicity in NiBr $_{2}$ with long-wavelength cycloidal spin structure on a triangular lattice

Y. Tokunaga, D. Okuyama, T. Kurumaji, T. Arima, H. Nakao, Y. Murakami, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060406(R) (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

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Domain-wall creep driven by spin torque in nanoscale ferromagnetic cylinders

Amrita Singh and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060407(R) (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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Half-metallic surface states and topological superconductivity in NaCoO $_{2}$ from first principles

Hongming Weng, Gang Xu, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060408(R) (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Ultralow-power spectroscopy of a rare-earth spin ensemble using a superconducting resonator

P. Bushev, A. K. Feofanov, H. Rotzinger, I. Protopopov, J. H. Cole, C. M. Wilson, G. Fischer, A. Lukashenko, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060501(R) (2011) - Published 5 August, 2011

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Successive transition from superconducting to antiferromagnetic phase in (Ca $_{6}$ (Al, Ti) $_{4}$ O $_{y}$ )Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ studied via $^{75}$ As and $^{27}$ Al NMR

T. Nakano, N. Fujiwara, S. Tsutsumi, H. Ogino, K. Kishio, and J. Shimoyama

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060502(R) (2011) - Published 8 August, 2011

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Gutzwiller-projected wave functions for the pseudogap state of underdoped high-temperature superconductors

Rajdeep Sensarma and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060503(R) (2011) - Published 9 August, 2011

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Topological phases and surface flat bands in superconductors without inversion symmetry

Andreas P. Schnyder and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060504(R) (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

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Phase-dependent quasiparticle tunneling in Josephson junctions: Measuring the $\cos φ$ term with a superconducting charge qubit

Juha Leppäkangas, Michael Marthaler, and Gerd Schön

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060505(R) (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Antiferromagnetism in semiconducting KFe $_{0.85}$ Ag $_{1.15}$ Te $_{2}$ single crystals

Hechang Lei (雷和畅), Emil S. Bozin, Kefeng Wang (王克锋), and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060506(R) (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

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Nodal gap structure of superconducting BaFe $_{2}$ (As $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ from angle-resolved thermal conductivity in a magnetic field

M. Yamashita, Y. Senshu, T. Shibauchi, S. Kasahara, K. Hashimoto, D. Watanabe, H. Ikeda, T. Terashima, I. Vekhter, A. B. Vorontsov, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060507(R) (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Paired superfluidity and fractionalized vortices in systems of spin-orbit coupled bosons

Chao-Ming Jian and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060508(R) (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Magnetic-field-dependent pinning potential in LiFeAs superconductor from its Campbell penetration depth

Plengchart Prommapan, Makariy A. Tanatar, Bumsung Lee, Seunghyun Khim, Kee Hoon Kim, and Ruslan Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060509(R) (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

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Topological superconducting phase and Majorana fermions in half-metal/superconductor heterostructures

Suk Bum Chung, Hai-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060510(R) (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Nanoscale phase separation in the iron chalcogenide superconductor K $_{0.8}$ Fe $_{1.6}$ Se $_{2}$ as seen via scanning nanofocused x-ray diffraction

A. Ricci, N. Poccia, G. Campi, B. Joseph, G. Arrighetti, L. Barba, M. Reynolds, M. Burghammer, H. Takeya, Y. Mizuguchi, Y. Takano, M. Colapietro, N. L. Saini, and A. Bianconi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060511(R) (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Topological competition of superconductivity in Pb/Ru/Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$ junctions

Taketomo Nakamura, R. Nakagawa, T. Yamagishi, T. Terashima, S. Yonezawa, M. Sigrist, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060512(R) (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Momentum-space electronic structures and charge orders of the high-temperature superconductors Ca $_{2 - x}$ Na $_{x}$ CuO $_{2}$ Cl $_{2}$ and Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ CaCu $_{2}$ O $_{8 + δ}$

Jian-Qiao Meng, M. Brunner, K.-H. Kim, H.-G. Lee, S.-I. Lee, J. S. Wen, Z. J. Xu, G. D. Gu, and G.-H. Gweon

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060513(R) (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

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Differential conductance of point contacts between an iron-based superconductor and a normal metal

D. Kuzmanovski and M. G. Vavilov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060514(R) (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

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Nonuniform and coherent motion of superconducting vortices in the picometer-per-second regime

Jonghee Lee, Hui Wang, Michael Dreyer, Helmuth Berger, and Barry I. Barker

Phys. Rev. B 84, 060515(R) (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Finite-temperature elasticity of fcc Al: Atomistic simulations and ultrasonic measurements

Hieu H. Pham, Michael E. Williams, Patrick Mahaffey, Miladin Radovic, Raymundo Arroyave, and Tahir Cagin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064101 (2011) - Published 8 August, 2011

Model for diffusion at the microcanonical superheating limit from atomistic computer simulations

Sergio Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko, Börje Johansson, and Anders Rosengren

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064102 (2011) - Published 10 August, 2011

Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgClO $_{4}$

D. Errandonea, L. Gracia, A. Beltrán, A. Vegas, and Y. Meng

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064103 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Modeling structural transformations in binary alloys with phase field crystals

Michael Greenwood, Nana Ofori-Opoku, Jörg Rottler, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064104 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Temperature dependence of elastic moduli of polycrystalline β plutonium

Yoko Suzuki, V. R. Fanelli, J. B. Betts, F. J. Freibert, C. H. Mielke, J. N. Mitchell, M. Ramos, T. A. Saleh, and A. Migliori

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064105 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Edge dislocation mobilities in bcc Fe obtained by molecular dynamics

S. Queyreau, J. Marian, M. R. Gilbert, and B. D. Wirth

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064106 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Equilibrium and stability of polarization in ultrathin ferroelectric films with ionic surface compensation

G. Brian Stephenson and Matthew J. Highland

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064107 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

First-principles calculations of electronic, vibrational, and structural properties of scheelite EuWO $_{4}$ under pressure

S. López-Moreno, P. Rodríguez-Hernández, A. Muñoz, A. H. Romero, and D. Errandonea

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064108 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Asymmetric cation nonstoichiometry in spinels: Site occupancy in Co $_{2}$ ZnO $_{4}$ and Rh $_{2}$ ZnO $_{4}$

Tula R. Paudel, Stephan Lany, Mayeul d’Avezac, Alex Zunger, Nicola H. Perry, Arpun R. Nagaraja, Thomas O. Mason, Joanna S. Bettinger, Yezhou Shi, and Michael F. Toney

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064109 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Shape-induced phase transition of domain patterns in ferroelectric platelets

A. Schilling, S. Prosandeev, R. G. P. McQuaid, L. Bellaiche, J. F. Scott, and J. M. Gregg

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064110 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Ab initio study of point defects in the strongly correlated system CoO

U. D. Wdowik

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064111 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Charged vacancies in ferroelectric PbTiO $_{3}$ : Formation energies, optimal Fermi region, and influence on local polarization

Yanpeng Yao and Huaxiang Fu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064112 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Manganese-doped $(1 - x)$ BiScO $_{3}$ – $x$ PbTiO $_{3}$ high-temperature ferroelectrics: Defect structure and mechanism of enhanced electric resistivity

Michael D. Drahus, Peter Jakes, Emre Erdem, Silke Schaab, Jun Chen, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Sergei Zvyagin, and Rüdiger-A. Eichel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064113 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Multitemperature crystal structures and physical properties of the partially filled thermoelectric skutterudites $M_{0.1} {Co}_{4} {Sb}_{12} (M = La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Yb, and Eu)$

Jian-Li Mi, Mogens Christensen, Eiji Nishibori, and Bo Brummerstedt Iversen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064114 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Irradiation damage in Gd $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ single crystals: Ballistic versus ionization processes

S. Moll, G. Sattonnay, L. Thomé, J. Jagielski, C. Decorse, P. Simon, I. Monnet, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064115 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Symmetry analysis for the Ruddlesden-Popper systems Ca $_{3}$ Mn $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ and Ca $_{3}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

A. B. Harris

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064116 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Incoherent Bi off-centering in Bi $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{6}$ O $^{'}$ and Bi $_{2}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{6}$ O $^{'}$ : Insulator versus metal

Daniel P. Shoemaker, Ram Seshadri, Makoto Tachibana, and Andrew L. Hector

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064117 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Metallic and superconducting gallane under high pressure

Guoying Gao, Hui Wang, Aitor Bergara, Yinwei Li, Guangtao Liu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064118 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Monte Carlo simulations of strain pseudospins: Athermal martensites, incubation times, and entropy barriers

N. Shankaraiah, K. P. N. Murthy, T. Lookman, and S. R. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064119 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Quantum Monte Carlo study of molecular polarization and antiferroelectric ordering in squaric acid crystals

Hiroaki Ishizuka, Yukitoshi Motome, Nobuo Furukawa, and Sei Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064120 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Nanotube bundles and tube-tube orientation: A van der Waals density functional study

Heiko Dumlich and Stephanie Reich

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064121 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Symmetry of domains in morphotropic PbZr $_{1 - x}$ Ti $_{x}$ O $_{3}$ ceramics

Roland Schierholz and Hartmut Fuess

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064122 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Porosity and crystallization of water ice films studied by positron and positronium annihilation

Y. C. Wu, J. Jiang, S. J. Wang, A. Kallis, and P. G. Coleman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064123 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

High-temperature correlation functions: Universality, extraction of exchange interactions, divergent correlation lengths, and generalized Debye length scales

Saurish Chakrabarty and Zohar Nussinov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064124 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Structural evolution across the insulator-metal transition in oxygen-deficient BaTiO $_{3 - δ}$ studied using neutron total scattering and Rietveld analysis

I.-K. Jeong, Seunghun Lee, Se-Young Jeong, C. J. Won, N. Hur, and A. Llobet

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064125 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Combined ab initio and classical potential simulation study on silicon carbide precipitation in silicon

F. Zirkelbach, B. Stritzker, K. Nordlund, J. K. N. Lindner, W. G. Schmidt, and E. Rauls

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064126 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Series of phase transitions in cesium azide under high pressure studied by in situ x-ray diffraction

Dongbin Hou, Fuxiang Zhang, Cheng Ji, Trevor Hannon, Hongyang Zhu, Jianzhe Wu, and Yanzhang Ma

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064127 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Low-temperature surface phase and phase transition of physisorbed oxygen on the Ag(111) surface

Yoshinori Kazama, Masuaki Matsumoto, Toshiki Sugimoto, Tatsuo Okano, and Katsuyuki Fukutani

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064128 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Multiferroicity and magnetoelectric coupling in $α$ -CaCr $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

Kiran Singh, Charles Simon, and Pierre Toledano

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064129 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Kinetic energy of protons in ice Ih and water: A path integral study

R. Ramírez and C. P. Herrero

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064130 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Elastic properties of MgO nanocrystals and grain boundaries at high pressures by Brillouin scattering

H. Marquardt, A. Gleason, K. Marquardt, S. Speziale, L. Miyagi, G. Neusser, H.-R. Wenk, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064131 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

High-pressure study of ScH $_{3}$ : Raman, infrared, and visible absorption spectroscopy

Tetsuji Kume, Hiroyuki Ohura, Tomoo Takeichi, Ayako Ohmura, Akihiko Machida, Tetsu Watanuki, Katsutoshi Aoki, Shigeo Sasaki, Hiroyasu Shimizu, and Kenichi Takemura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064132 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Structure and properties of oxygen centers in CaF $_{2}$ crystals from ab initio embedded cluster calculations

Andrey S. Mysovsky, Peter V. Sushko, Evgeny A. Radzhabov, Michael Reichling, and Alexander L. Shluger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064133 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

High-temperature elasticity and viscosity of Ge $_{x}$ Se $_{1 - x}$ glasses in the transition range

Yann Gueguen, Tanguy Rouxel, Pascal Gadaud, Cedric Bernard, Vincent Keryvin, and Jean-Christophe Sangleboeuf

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064201 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Interplay between intramolecular and intermolecular structures of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloro-1,2-difluoroethane

M. Rovira-Esteva, N. A. Murugan, L. C. Pardo, S. Busch, J. Ll. Tamarit, Sz. Pothoczki, G. J. Cuello, and F. J. Bermejo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064202 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Dynamic arrest and glass formation induced by self-aggregation of icosahedral clusters in Zr $_{1 - x}$ Cu $_{x}$ alloys

S. G. Hao, C. Z. Wang, M. Z. Li, R. E. Napolitano, and K. M. Ho

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064203 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Coulomb gap in the one-particle density of states in three-dimensional systems with localized electrons

A. L. Efros, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064204 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Checkerboards, stripes, and corner energies in spin models with competing interactions

Alessandro Giuliani, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Elliott H. Lieb

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064205 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Low-temperature polaronic relaxations with variable range hopping conductivity in FeTi $M O_{6} (M =$ Ta,Nb,Sb)

S. K. Deshpande, S. N. Achary, Rohini Mani, J. Gopalakrishnan, and A. K. Tyagi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064301 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Lattice dynamics in the FeSb $_{3}$ skutterudite

A. Möchel, I. Sergueev, N. Nguyen, Gary J. Long, Fernande Grandjean, D. C. Johnson, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064302 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Hydrogen transport in superionic system Rb $_{3}$ H(SeO $_{4}$ ) $_{2}$ : A revised cooperative migration mechanism

N. Pavlenko, A. Pietraszko, A. Pawlowski, M. Polomska, I. V. Stasyuk, and B. Hilczer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064303 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Acoustic transparency and slow sound using detuned acoustic resonators

Arturo Santillán and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064304 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Effective shear speed in two-dimensional phononic crystals

A. A. Kutsenko, A. L. Shuvalov, A. N. Norris, and O. Poncelet

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064305 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Vibronic activation of molecular vibrational overtones in the infrared spectra of charge-ordered organic conductors

Kaoru Yamamoto, Aneta Aniela Kowalska, Yue Yue, and Kyuya Yakushi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064306 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Theory of coherent generation and detection of THz acoustic phonons using optical microcavities

N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, A. Fainstein, B. Perrin, and B. Jusserand

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064307 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Classical Fano oscillator

D. M. Riffe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064308 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Magnetism

Current-induced rotational torques in the skyrmion lattice phase of chiral magnets

Karin Everschor, Markus Garst, R. A. Duine, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064401 (2011) - Published 1 August, 2011

Spectral dependence of photoinduced spin precession in DyFeO $_{3}$

Ryugo Iida, Takuya Satoh, Tsutomu Shimura, Kazuo Kuroda, B. A. Ivanov, Yusuke Tokunaga, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064402 (2011) - Published 2 August, 2011

Magnetic-crystallographic phase diagram of the superconducting parent compound Fe $_{1 + x}$ Te

E. E. Rodriguez, C. Stock, P. Zajdel, K. L. Krycka, C. F. Majkrzak, P. Zavalij, and M. A. Green

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064403 (2011) - Published 5 August, 2011

Evidence of defect-induced ferromagnetism in ZnFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ thin films

C. E. Rodríguez Torres, F. Golmar, M. Ziese, P. Esquinazi, and S. P. Heluani

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064404 (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

Magnetic topology of Co-based inverse opal-like structures

N. A. Grigoryeva, A. A. Mistonov, K. S. Napolskii, N. A. Sapoletova, A. A. Eliseev, W. Bouwman, D. V. Byelov, A. V. Petukhov, D. Yu. Chernyshov, H. Eckerlebe, A. V. Vasilieva, and S. V. Grigoriev

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064405 (2011) - Published 11 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric spectroscopy of vortex states and dynamics in magnetic disks

Minori Goto, Hiroshi Hata, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Yoshinobu Nakatani, Takehiro Yamaoka, Yukio Nozaki, and Hideki Miyajima

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064406 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Magnetic correlation in the square-lattice spin system (CuBr) ${Sr}_{2} {Nb}_{3} O_{10}$ : A neutron diffraction study

S. M. Yusuf, A. K. Bera, C. Ritter, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Yoshitami Ajiro, Hiroshi Kageyama, and J. Paul Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064407 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Linear magnetoresistivity in the ternary $A M_{2}$ B $_{2}$ and $A_{3}$ Rh $_{8}$ B $_{6}$ phases ( $A$ $=$ Ca, Sr; $M$ $=$ Rh, Ir)

Hiroyuki Takeya and Mohammed ElMassalami

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064408 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Phase diagram of the SO( $n$ ) bilinear-biquadratic chain from many-body entanglement

Román Orús, Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Hong-Hao Tu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064409 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Phase separation in paramagnetic Eu $_{0.6}$ La $_{0.4 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ MnO $_{3}$

R. M. Eremina, I. I. Fazlizhanov, I. V. Yatsyk, K. R. Sharipov, A. V. Pyataev, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, N. Pascher, A. Loidl, K. V. Glazyrin, and Ya. M. Mukovskii

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064410 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Absence of pure quadrupole ordering in SmSn $_{3}$ : Dipole-dipole and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions in Sm-based compounds

T. U. Ito, W. Higemoto, K. Ninomiya, and H. S. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064411 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Magnetic order in quasi-two-dimensional molecular magnets investigated with muon-spin relaxation

A. J. Steele, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, C. Baines, M. M. Conner, H. I. Southerland, J. L. Manson, and J. A. Schlueter

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064412 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Effect of subvolume excitation and spin-torque efficiency on magnetic switching

J. Z. Sun, R. P. Robertazzi, J. Nowak, P. L. Trouilloud, G. Hu, D. W. Abraham, M. C. Gaidis, S. L. Brown, E. J. O’Sullivan, W. J. Gallagher, and D. C. Worledge

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064413 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Spontaneous magnetization of an ideal ferromagnet: Beyond Dyson’s analysis

Christoph P. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064414 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Static and dynamic properties of single-chain magnets with sharp and broad domain walls

Orlando V. Billoni, Vivien Pianet, Danilo Pescia, and Alessandro Vindigni

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064415 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

FeMn/Fe/Co/Cu(1,1,10) films studied using the magneto-optic Kerr effect and photoemission electron microscopy

Y. Meng, J. Li, A. Tan, J. Park, E. Jin, H. Son, A. Doran, A. Scholl, E. Arenholz, H. W. Zhao, Chanyong Hwang, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064416 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Combined effect of hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field on the martensitic transition in the Ni $_{49}$ CuMn $_{34}$ In $_{16}$ alloy

M. K. Chattopadhyay, V. K. Sharma, Anil Chouhan, Parul Arora, and S. B. Roy

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064417 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Spin-chiral domains in Ba $_{0.5}$ Sr $_{1.5}$ Zn $_{2}$ Fe $_{12}$ O $_{22}$ observed by scanning resonant x-ray microdiffraction

Y. Hiraoka, Y. Tanaka, T. Kojima, Y. Takata, M. Oura, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, Y. Wakabayashi, S. Shin, and T. Kimura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064418 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Coupled spin-lattice fluctuations in a compound with orbital degrees of freedom: The Cr-based dimer system Sr $_{3}$ Cr $_{2}$ O $_{8}$

Dirk Wulferding, Peter Lemmens, Kwang-Yong Choi, Vladimir Gnezdilov, Yurii G. Pashkevich, Joachim Deisenhofer, Diana Quintero-Castro, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, and Bella Lake

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064419 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Nanometer-size magnetic domains and coherent magnetization reversal in a giant exchange-bias system

C. Dufour, M. R. Fitzsimmons, J. A. Borchers, M. Laver, K. L. Krycka, K. Dumesnil, S. M. Watson, W. C. Chen, J. Won, and S. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064420 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Spin-singlet trimer state induced by competing orbital order in triangular-lattice BaV $_{10}$ O $_{15}$

Yasuhiro Shimizu, Keniichiro Matsudaira, Masayuki Itoh, Tomomasa Kajita, and Takuro Katsufuji

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064421 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Two scenarios of spin-transfer switching and criteria for the corresponding threshold currents

Inti Sodemann and Ya. B. Bazaliy

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064422 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Coexistence of magnetic fluctuations and superconductivity in SmFe $_{0.95}$ Co $_{0.05}$ AsO seen in $^{57}$ Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy

G. Long, M. DeMarco, M. Chudyk, J. Steiner, D. Coffey, H. Zeng, Y. K. Li, G. H. Cao, and Z. A. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064423 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Phonon density of states of Fe $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ across high-pressure structural and electronic transitions

Jung-Fu Lin, John S. Tse, Esen E. Alp, Jiyong Zhao, Michael Lerche, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064424 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Electric polarization, toroidal moment, spin canting, and chirality induced by Dzialoshinsky–Moriya interactions in a $V_{3}$ cluster analog of multiferroics

Moisey I. Belinsky

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064425 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Real-time dynamics of a spin chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions: Spiral formation and quantum spin oscillations

E. Solano-Carrillo, R. Franco, and J. Silva-Valencia

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064426 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Thickness dependence of the magnetic properties of ripple-patterned Fe/MgO(001) films

Felix Büttner, Kun Zhang, Susanne Seyffarth, Tobias Liese, Hans-Ulrich Krebs, C. A. F. Vaz, and Hans Hofsäss

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064427 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

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Layered transition-metal pnictide SrMnBi $_{2}$ with metallic blocking layer

Jiakui K. Wang, Liang L. Zhao, Quan Yin, G. Kotliar, M. S. Kim, M. C. Aronson, and E. Morosan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064428 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Defect states and spin-orbital physics in doped vanadates Y $_{1 - x}$ Ca $_{x}$ VO $_{3}$

Peter Horsch and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064429 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Magnetic ordering and crystal field effects in the $R_{2}$ Ir $_{3}$ Sn $_{5}$ ( $R$ $=$ La–Nd, Gd–Tm) system

N. S. Sangeetha, A. Thamizhavel, C. V. Tomy, Saurabh Basu, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Pal

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064430 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Staggered-moment dependence on field-tuned quantum fluctuations in two-dimensional frustrated antiferromagnets

Mohammad Siahatgar, Burkhard Schmidt, and Peter Thalmeier

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064431 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Magnetic correlations and the influence of atomic disorder in frustrated isosceles triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuMnO $_{2}$

Noriki Terada, Yoshinori Tsuchiya, Hideaki Kitazawa, Toyotaka Osakabe, Naoto Metoki, Naoki Igawa, and Kenji Ohoyama

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064432 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

$μ$ SR investigation of magnetism and magnetoelectric coupling in Cu $_{2}$ OSeO $_{3}$

A. Maisuradze, Z. Guguchia, B. Graneli, H. M. Rønnow, H. Berger, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064433 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Magnetic order of the hexagonal rare-earth manganite Dy $_{0.5}$ Y $_{0.5}$ MnO $_{3}$

Joel S. Helton, Deepak K. Singh, Harikrishnan S. Nair, and Suja Elizabeth

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064434 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Ferro-orbital order induced by electron-lattice coupling in orthorhombic iron pnictides

Da-Yong Liu, Ya-Min Quan, Dong-Meng Chen, Liang-Jian Zou, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064435 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Ferrimagnetism and spontaneous ordering of transition metals in double perovskite La $_{2}$ CrFeO $_{6}$ films

S. Chakraverty, A. Ohtomo, D. Okuyama, M. Saito, M. Okude, R. Kumai, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, S. Tsukimoto, Y. Ikuhara, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064436 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Green’s function for magnetostatic surface waves and its application to the study of diffraction patterns

S. Tamaru, J. A. Bain, M. H. Kryder, and D. S. Ricketts

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064437 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Impurity effects in highly frustrated diamond-lattice antiferromagnets

Lucile Savary, Emanuel Gull, Simon Trebst, Jason Alicea, Doron Bergman, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064438 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Thermal relaxation rates of magnetic nanoparticles in the presence of magnetic fields and spin-transfer effects

William Rippard, Ranko Heindl, Matthew Pufall, Stephen Russek, and Anthony Kos

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064439 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Signatures of spin-glass behavior in the induced magnetic moment system PrRuSi $_{3}$

V. K. Anand, D. T. Adroja, A. D. Hillier, J. Taylor, and G. André

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064440 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Slow magnetic dynamics and hysteresis loops of the bulk ferromagnet Co $_{7}$ (TeO $_{3}$ ) $_{4}$ Br $_{6}$

M. Prester, I. Živković, D. Drobac, V. Šurija, D. Pajić, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064441 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase diagram of CeVSb $_{3}$ under pressure and its dependence on pressure conditions

E. Colombier, G. Knebel, B. Salce, E. D. Mun, X. Lin, S. L. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064442 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Zero-temperature random field Ising model on a Bethe lattice: Correlation functions along the hysteresis loop

Xavier Illa and Martin Luc Rosinberg

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064443 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Local electronic structure information contained in energy-filtered diffraction patterns

Ján Rusz, Stefano Rubino, Olle Eriksson, Peter M. Oppeneer, and Klaus Leifer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064444 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-operator theory of orbital magnetic susceptibility in periodic insulators

X. Gonze and J. W. Zwanziger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064445 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Mean-field solution of the Potts glass near the transition temperature to the ordered phase

V. Janiš and A. Klíč

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064446 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Control of the multiferroic transition in Ni $_{3}$ $V_{2}$ $O_{8}$ by transition metal doping

A. Kumarasiri and G. Lawes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064447 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Quantum interference of impurity bound states in Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ Ca(Cu $_{1 - x}$ Zn $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ O $_{8 + δ}$ probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Tadashi Machida, Takuya Kato, Hiroshi Nakamura, Masaki Fujimoto, Takashi Mochiku, Shuuichi Ooi, Ajay D. Thakur, Hideaki Sakata, and Kazuto Hirata

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064501 (2011) - Published 2 August, 2011

Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in $d$ -wave superconductors. I. Superflow contribution

Manas Kulkarni, Sriram Ganeshan, and Adam C. Durst

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064502 (2011) - Published 9 August, 2011

Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in $d$ -wave superconductors. II. Berry phase contribution

Sriram Ganeshan, Manas Kulkarni, and Adam C. Durst

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064503 (2011) - Published 9 August, 2011

Soft and isotropic phonons in PrFeAsO $_{1 - y}$

T. Fukuda, A. Q. R. Baron, H. Nakamura, S. Shamoto, M. Ishikado, M. Machida, H. Uchiyama, A. Iyo, H. Kito, J. Mizuki, M. Arai, and H. Eisaki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064504 (2011) - Published 10 August, 2011

Self-consistent spin-wave theory for a frustrated Heisenberg model with biquadratic exchange in the columnar phase and its application to iron pnictides

Daniel Stanek, Oleg P. Sushkov, and Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064505 (2011) - Published 12 August, 2011

Bands, spin fluctuations, and traces of Fermi surfaces in angle-resolved photoemission intensities for high- $T_{c}$ cuprates

T. Jarlborg

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064506 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Superconducting phase fluctuations in SmFeAsO $_{0.8}$ F $_{0.2}$ from diamagnetism at a low magnetic field above $T_{c}$

G. Prando, A. Lascialfari, A. Rigamonti, L. Romanó, S. Sanna, M. Putti, and M. Tropeano

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064507 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Two-gap features in the specific heat of ( $M$ ,K)Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ( $M$ $=$ Ba, Sr)

F. Y. Wei, B. Lv, Y. Y. Xue, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064508 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Characteristic energies, transition temperatures, and switching effects in clean S $|$ N $|$ S graphene nanostructures

Klaus Halterman, Oriol T. Valls, and Mohammad Alidoust

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064509 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Far-from-equilibrium superconductor in fluctuational regime

A. Petković, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064510 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Josephson effect and spin-triplet pairing correlations in SF $_{1}$ F $_{2}$ S junctions

Luka Trifunovic, Zorica Popović, and Zoran Radović

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064511 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Resistivity and Hall effect of LiFeAs: Evidence for electron-electron scattering

O. Heyer, T. Lorenz, V. B. Zabolotnyy, D. V. Evtushinsky, S. V. Borisenko, I. Morozov, L. Harnagea, S. Wurmehl, C. Hess, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064512 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

First-principles calculation of electronic transport in low-dimensional disordered superconductors

G. J. Conduit and Y. Meir

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064513 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Composite pairing in a mixed-valent two-channel Anderson model

Rebecca Flint, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, and Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064514 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Effect of long cyclic exchanges on the magnetic properties of bcc $^{3}$ He

Ladir Cândido, G.-Q. Hai, and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064515 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Exact solution for the energy spectrum of Kelvin-wave turbulence in superfluids

Laurent Boué, Ratul Dasgupta, Jason Laurie, Victor L’vov, Sergey Nazarenko, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064516 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

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Relaxation and frequency shifts induced by quasiparticles in superconducting qubits

G. Catelani, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. H. Devoret, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064517 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric BiPd

Bhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064518 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Unconventional superconducting gap in ${NaFe}_{0.95} {Co}_{0.05} As$ observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Z.-H. Liu, P. Richard, K. Nakayama, G.-F. Chen, S. Dong, J.-B. He, D.-M. Wang, T.-L. Xia, K. Umezawa, T. Kawahara, S. Souma, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, T. Qian, Yaobo Huang, Nan Xu, Yingbo Shi, H. Ding, and S.-C. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064519 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011