Volume 85, Issue 5

Jun Sugiyama, Hiroshi Nozaki, Masashi Harada, Kazuya Kamazawa, Yutaka Ikedo, Yasuhiro Miyake, Oren Ofer, Martin Månsson, Eduardo J. Ansaldo, Kim H. Chow, Genki Kobayashi, and Ryoji Kanno

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054111 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Dense and nanometric electronic excitations induced by swift heavy ions in an ionic CaF $_{2}$ crystal: Evidence for two thresholds of damage creation

M. Toulemonde, A. Benyagoub, C. Trautmann, N. Khalfaoui, M. Boccanfuso, C. Dufour, F. Gourbilleau, J. J. Grob, J. P. Stoquert, J. M. Costantini, F. Haas, E. Jacquet, K.-O. Voss, and A. Meftah

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054112 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Domain annihilation due to temperature and thickness gradients in single-crystal BaTiO $_{3}$

L. J. McGilly, T. L. Burnett, A. Schilling, M. G. Cain, and J. M. Gregg

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054113 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

High-density amorphous phase of silicon carbide obtained under large plastic shear and high pressure

Valery I. Levitas, Yanzhang Ma, Emre Selvi, Jianzhe Wu, and John A. Patten

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054114 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

High-resolution x-ray scattering studies of structural phase transitions in Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Cr $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

J. P. Clancy, B. D. Gaulin, and A. S. Sefat

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054115 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Stability and crystal structures of iron carbides: A comparison between the semi-empirical modified embedded atom method and quantum-mechanical DFT calculations

C. M. Fang, M. A. van Huis, B. J. Thijsse, and H. W. Zandbergen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054116 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Embedded atom method potentials for Al-Pd-Mn phases

Daniel Schopf, Peter Brommer, Benjamin Frigan, and Hans-Rainer Trebin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054201 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

First-principles calculation of phase equilibrium of V-Nb, V-Ta, and Nb-Ta alloys

C. Ravi, B. K. Panigrahi, M. C. Valsakumar, and Axel van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054202 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Ground-state characterizations of systems predicted to exhibit $L 1_{1}$ or $L 1_{3}$ crystal structures

Lance J. Nelson, Gus L. W. Hart, and Stefano Curtarolo

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054203 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Localized zero-energy modes in the Kitaev model with vacancy disorder

Santhosh G., V. Sreenath, Arul Lakshminarayan, and Rajesh Narayanan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054204 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Role of intermolecular charge delocalization on electron transport in fullerene aggregates

Hiroyuki Tamura and Masaru Tsukada

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054301 (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

Cascading photoinduced, elastic, and thermal switching of spin states triggered by a femtosecond laser pulse in an Fe(III) molecular crystal

M. Lorenc, Ch. Balde, W. Kaszub, A. Tissot, N. Moisan, M. Servol, M. Buron-Le Cointe, H. Cailleau, P. Chasle, P. Czarnecki, M. L. Boillot, and E. Collet

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054302 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Phonon Raman scattering of $R$ CrO $_{3}$ perovskites ( $R = Y$ , La, Pr, Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho, Yb, Lu)

M. C. Weber, J. Kreisel, P. A. Thomas, M. Newton, K. Sardar, and R. I. Walton

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054303 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Heat flow in nanostructures in the Casimir regime

Humphrey J. Maris and Shin-ichiro Tamura

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054304 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Efficient computation of magnon dispersions within time-dependent density functional theory using maximally localized Wannier functions

Bruno Rousseau, Asier Eiguren, and Aitor Bergara

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054305 (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

First-principles description of anomalously low lattice thermal conductivity in thermoelectric Cu-Sb-Se ternary semiconductors

Yongsheng Zhang, Eric Skoug, Jeffrey Cain, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, Donald Morelli, and C. Wolverton

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054306 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Cation and anion dynamics in supercooled and glassy states of the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate: Results from $^{13}$ C, $^{31}$ P, and $^{19}$ F NMR spectroscopy

Takatsugu Endo, Scarlett Widgeon, Ping Yu, Sabyasachi Sen, and Keiko Nishikawa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054307 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Magnetism

Influence of magnetoelectric coupling on electric field induced magnetization reversal in a composite unstrained multiferroic chain

Paul P. Horley, Alexander Sukhov, Chenglong Jia, Eduardo Martínez, and Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054401 (2012) - Published 1 February, 2012

Frustrated magnetic vortices in hexagonal lattice of magnetic nanocaps

M. V. Sapozhnikov, O. L. Ermolaeva, B. G. Gribkov, I. M. Nefedov, I. R. Karetnikova, S. A. Gusev, V. V. Rogov, B. B. Troitskii, and L. V. Khokhlova

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054402 (2012) - Published 1 February, 2012

Entanglement spectra of coupled $S = \frac{1}{2}$ spin chains in a ladder geometry

Andreas M. Läuchli and John Schliemann

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054403 (2012) - Published 1 February, 2012

Ordering process and ferroelectricity in a spinel derived from FeV $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

Q. Zhang, K. Singh, F. Guillou, C. Simon, Y. Breard, V. Caignaert, and V. Hardy

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054405 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Charge pumping by magnetization dynamics in magnetic and semimagnetic tunnel junctions with interfacial Rashba or bulk extrinsic spin-orbit coupling

Farzad Mahfouzi, Jaroslav Fabian, Naoto Nagaosa, and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054406 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

First-principles study of structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of small Fe-Rh alloy clusters

Junais Habeeb Mokkath and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054407 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Critical temperature and correlation length of an elastic interaction model for spin-crossover materials

Taro Nakada, Takashi Mori, Seiji Miyashita, Masamichi Nishino, Synge Todo, William Nicolazzi, and Per Arne Rikvold

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054408 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Effects of magnetic field, anisotropy, and biquadratic interactions in type-IIA fcc antiferromagnets studied by linear spin-wave theory

Trinanjan Datta and Dao-Xin Yao

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054409 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Field-induced phases in UPt $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$

D. Schulze Grachtrup, M. Bleckmann, B. Willenberg, S. Süllow, M. Bartkowiak, Y. Skourski, H. Rakoto, I. Sheikin, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054410 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Phase transitions in spin-orbital models with spin-space anisotropies for iron pnictides: Monte Carlo simulations

Ryan Applegate, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Cheng-Chien Chen, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054411 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Determination of spin pumping as a source of linewidth in sputtered Co $_{90}$ Fe $_{10}$ /Pd multilayers by use of broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy

Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, and T. J. Silva

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054412 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Frequency-dependent transport through a spin chain

Kevin A. van Hoogdalem and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054413 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanomechanical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance using a silicon nanowire oscillator

John M. Nichol, Eric R. Hemesath, Lincoln J. Lauhon, and Raffi Budakian

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054414 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Electron spin resonance study of anisotropic interactions in a two-dimensional spin-gap magnet (C $_{4}$ H $_{12}$ N $_{2}$ )(Cu $_{2}$ Cl $_{6}$ )

V. N. Glazkov, T. S. Yankova, J. Sichelschmidt, D. Hüvonen, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054415 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Spin-chirality separation and $S_{3}$ symmetry breaking in the magnetization plateau of the quantum spin tube

Kouichi Okunishi, Masahiro Sato, Tôru Sakai, Kiyomi Okamoto, and Chigak Itoi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054416 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-phonon coupling effects in transition-metal perovskites: A DFT + $U$ and hybrid-functional study

Jiawang Hong, Alessandro Stroppa, Jorge Íñiguez, Silvia Picozzi, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054417 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Renormalization group analysis of a spin-1 Kondo dot: Nonequilibrium transport and relaxation dynamics

Christoph B. M. Hörig, Dirk Schuricht, and Sabine Andergassen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054418 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Magnetism in multiferroic Pb $_{5}$ Cr $_{3}$ F $_{19}$

Robert Blinc, Pavel Cevc, Gašper Tavčar, Boris Žemva, Valentin Laguta, Zvonko Trontelj, Marko Jagodič, Damir Pajić, Armandas Balčytis, and James F. Scott

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054419 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Magnetic structure of the noncentrosymmetric perovskites ${PbVO}_{3}$ and ${BiCoO}_{3}$ : Theoretical analysis

I. V. Solovyev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054420 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Magnetic phase diagram of the frustrated $S = \frac{1}{2}$ chain magnet LiCu $_{2}$ O $_{2}$

A. A. Bush, V. N. Glazkov, M. Hagiwara, T. Kashiwagi, S. Kimura, K. Omura, L. A. Prozorova, L. E. Svistov, A. M. Vasiliev, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054421 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Time-dependent spin-wave theory

Andreas Rückriegel, Andreas Kreisel, and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054422 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Ground-state properties of antiferromagnetic anisotropic $S = 1$ Heisenberg spin chains

D. Peters, I. P. McCulloch, and W. Selke

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054423 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Spin waves in periodically perturbed films

P. Landeros and D. L. Mills

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054424 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Itinerant electrons in the Coulomb phase

L. D. C. Jaubert, Swann Piatecki, Masudul Haque, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054425 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Strong single-ion anisotropy and anisotropic interactions of magnetic adatoms induced by topological surface states

Z. L. Li, J. H. Yang, G. H. Chen, M.-H. Whangbo, H. J. Xiang, and X. G. Gong

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054426 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Tailoring of magnetism in Pt/Co/Pt ultrathin films by ion irradiation

A. Maziewski, P. Mazalski, Z. Kurant, M. O. Liedke, J. McCord, J. Fassbender, J. Ferré, A. Mougin, A. Wawro, L. T. Baczewski, A. Rogalev, F. Wilhelm, and T. Gemming

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054427 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Spin dynamics in the ordered spin ice Tb $_{2}$ Sn $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

Sylvain Petit, Pierre Bonville, Isabelle Mirebeau, Hannu Mutka, and Julien Robert

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054428 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Energy barrier enhancement by weak magnetic interactions in Co/Nb granular films assembled by inert gas condensation

J. A. De Toro, J. A. González, P. S. Normile, P. Muñiz, J. P. Andrés, R. López Antón, J. Canales-Vázquez, and J. M. Riveiro

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054429 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Magnetic levitation of metamaterial bodies enhanced with magnetostatic surface resonances

Yaroslav Urzhumov, Wenchen Chen, Chris Bingham, Willie Padilla, and David R. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054430 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Reversible mechanism for spin crossover in transition-metal cyanides

Mukul Kabir and Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054431 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Anisotropic magnetic deflagration in single crystals of Gd $_{5}$ Ge $_{4}$

S. Vélez, J. M. Hernandez, A. García-Santiago, J. Tejada, V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, and P. V. Santos

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054432 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Correlation between the interlayer Josephson coupling strength and an enhanced superconducting transition temperature of multilayer cuprate superconductors

Y. Hirata, K. M. Kojima, M. Ishikado, S. Uchida, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, and S. Tajima

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054501 (2012) - Published 2 February, 2012

Complex mixed state of the Pauli-limited superconductor CeCoIn $_{5}$

X. Gratens, L. Mendonça-Ferreira, Y. Kopelevich, N. F. Oliveira, Jr., R. R. Urbano, R. A. Ribeiro, R. Movshovich, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, Z. Fisk, and P. G. Pagliuso

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054502 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Gradual destruction of magnetism in the superconducting family NaFe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ As

J. D. Wright, T. Lancaster, I. Franke, A. J. Steele, J. S. Möller, M. J. Pitcher, A. J. Corkett, D. R. Parker, D. G. Free, F. L. Pratt, P. J. Baker, S. J. Clarke, and S. J. Blundell

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054503 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Quantum-control approach to realizing a Toffoli gate in circuit QED

Vladimir M. Stojanović, A. Fedorov, A. Wallraff, and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054504 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

$s$ -wave superconductivity with orbital-dependent sign change in checkerboard models of iron-based superconductors

Xiaoli Lu, Chen Fang, Wei-Feng Tsai, Yongjin Jiang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054505 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Physical properties of $A_{x}$ Fe $_{2 - y}$ S $_{2}$ ( $A = K$ , Rb, and Cs) single crystals

J. J. Ying, Z. J. Xiang, Z. Y. Li, Y. J. Yan, M. Zhang, A. F. Wang, X. G. Luo, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054506 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Effect of doping on electrical, magnetic, and superconducting properties of K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2 - y}$ S $_{2}$

Jiangang Guo, Xiaolong Chen, Gang Wang, Shifeng Jin, Tingting Zhou, and Xiaofang Lai

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054507 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Zero-temperature transition and correlation-length exponent of the frustrated $X Y$ model on a honeycomb lattice

Enzo Granato

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054508 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Two gaps with one energy scale in cuprate superconductors

Shiping Feng, Huaisong Zhao, and Zheyu Huang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054509 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Grand canonical variational approach for the $t - J$ model

Chung-Pin Chou, Fan Yang, and Ting-Kuo Lee

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054510 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Temperature dependence of the resonance and low-energy spin excitations in superconducting FeTe $_{0.6}$ Se $_{0.4}$

Leland W. Harriger, O. J. Lipscombe, Chenglin Zhang, Huiqian Luo, Meng Wang, Karol Marty, M. D. Lumsden, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054511 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Extended object tunneling: Current-carrying states of Abrikosov vortices in a superconductor with artificial nanobarriers

B. Rosenstein, I. Shapiro, B. Ya. Shapiro, Dingping Li, A. Frydman, S. Poran, and D. Berco

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054512 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Effect of impurities on the superheating field of type-II superconductors

F. Pei-Jen Lin and A. Gurevich

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054513 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Pulsed laser deposition growth of heteroepitaxial YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{7}$ /La $_{0.67}$ Ca $_{0.33}$ MnO $_{3}$ superlattices on NdGaO $_{3}$ and Sr $_{0.7}$ La $_{0.3}$ Al $_{0.65}$ Ta $_{0.35}$ O $_{3}$ substrates

V. K. Malik, I. Marozau, S. Das, B. Doggett, D. K. Satapathy, M. A. Uribe-Laverde, N. Biskup, M. Varela, C. W. Schneider, C. Marcelot, J. Stahn, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054514 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Evolution of the nuclear and magnetic structures of TlFe $_{1.6}$ Se $_{2}$ with temperature

Huibo Cao, Claudia Cantoni, Andrew F. May, Michael A. McGuire, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Stephen J. Pennycook, Radu Custelcean, Athena S. Sefat, and Brian C. Sales

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054515 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Strong correlation between anomalous quasiparticle scattering and unconventional superconductivity in the hidden-order phase of URu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$

Nayouki Tateiwa, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Yoshinori Haga, and Zachary Fisk

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054516 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi $_{2}$ (Ge $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ system

R. J. Goetsch, V. K. Anand, Abhishek Pandey, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054517 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Magnetic properties of spin-diluted iron pnictides from $μ$ SR and NMR in LaFe $_{1 - x}$ Ru $_{x}$ AsO

Pietro Bonfà, Pietro Carretta, Samuele Sanna, Gianrico Lamura, Giacomo Prando, Alberto Martinelli, Andrea Palenzona, Matteo Tropeano, Marina Putti, and Roberto De Renzi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 054518 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Electrical current driven by a coherent spin wave in a bulk ferromagnetic semiconductor [Phys. Rev. B 84, 012402 (2011)]

A. A. Fraerman, K. R. Muhamatchin, and I. D. Tokman

Phys. Rev. B 85, 059901 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Infrared optical response of LuFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ under dc electric field [Phys. Rev. B 85, 014303 (2012)]

Chul Lee, JooYoun Kim, S. W. Cheong, and E. J. Choi

Phys. Rev. B 85, 059902 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Spin-ordering and magnetoelastic coupling in the extended kagome system YBaCo $_{4}$ O $_{7}$ [Phys. Rev. B 83, 094412 (2011)]

D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, B. Ouladdiaf, A. Huq, P. W. Stephens, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, and L. C. Chapon

Phys. Rev. B 85, 059903 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Density of states spectra in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures [Phys. Rev. B 83, 214506 (2011)]

Hao Meng, Lin Wen, Guo-Qiao Zha, and Shi-Ping Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 85, 059904 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012