Volume 86, Issue 10

1 September 2012

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Spintronic mechanics of a magnetic nanoshuttle

Robert I. Shekhter, Artem Pulkin, and Mats Jonson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100404(R) (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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Insensitivity of the pressure dependences of characteristic energy scales in Ce $_{1 - x} R_{x}$ CoIn $_{5}$ ( $R = Yb, Y, Gd$ ) to the electronic configuration of the rare-earth ion

B. D. White, J. J. Hamlin, K. Huang, L. Shu, I. K. Lum, R. E. Baumbach, M. Janoschek, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100502(R) (2012) - Published 11 September, 2012

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Superconducting qubit in a waveguide cavity with a coherence time approaching 0.1 ms

Chad Rigetti, Jay M. Gambetta, Stefano Poletto, B. L. T. Plourde, Jerry M. Chow, A. D. Córcoles, John A. Smolin, Seth T. Merkel, J. R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, Mark B. Ketchen, and M. Steffen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100506(R) (2012) - Published 24 September, 2012

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Structure and energetics of a ferroelectric organic crystal of phenazine and chloranilic acid

Kyuho Lee, Brian Kolb, T. Thonhauser, David Vanderbilt, and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104102 (2012) - Published 5 September, 2012

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Discrete antiferromagnetic spin-wave excitations in the giant ferric wheel Fe $_{18}$

J. Ummethum, J. Nehrkorn, S. Mukherjee, N. B. Ivanov, S. Stuiber, Th. Strässle, P. L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, H. Mutka, G. Christou, O. Waldmann, and J. Schnack

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104403 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

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Generic quantum spin ice

SungBin Lee, Shigeki Onoda, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104412 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012

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Effects of Al substitution on the multiferroic properties of TbMnO $_{3}$

Vera Cuartero, Javier Blasco, J. Alberto Rodríguez-Velamazán, Joaquín García, Gloria Subías, Clemens Ritter, Jolanta Stankiewicz, and Laura Canadillas-Delgado

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104413 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012

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Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Vibrational symmetry breaking of supported nanospheres

Vassilios Kotaidis, Thomas Dekorsy, Shyjumon Ibrahimkutty, Daniel Issenmann, Dmitry Khakhulin, and Anton Plech

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100101(R) (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

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Combined experimental and computational study of the recrystallization process induced by electronic interactions of swift heavy ions with silicon carbide crystals

A. Debelle, M. Backman, L. Thomé, W. J. Weber, M. Toulemonde, S. Mylonas, A. Boulle, O. H. Pakarinen, N. Juslin, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, F. Garrido, and D. Chaussende

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100102(R) (2012) - Published 6 September, 2012

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Role of the illumination spatial-frequency spectrum for ptychography

Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Mirko Holler, Ana Diaz, Joan Vila-Comamala, Oliver Bunk, and Andreas Menzel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100103(R) (2012) - Published 24 September, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

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Dynamic exciton-polariton macroscopic coherent phases in a tunable dot lattice

Edgar A. Cerda-Méndez, Dmitry N. Krizhanovskii, Klaus Biermann, Rudolf Hey, Maurice S. Skolnick, and Paulo V. Santos

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100301(R) (2012) - Published 25 September, 2012

Magnetism

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Spin ordering and electronic texture in the bilayer iridate Sr $_{3}$ Ir $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

Chetan Dhital, Sovit Khadka, Z. Yamani, Clarina de la Cruz, T. C. Hogan, S. M. Disseler, Mani Pokharel, K. C. Lukas, Wei Tian, C. P. Opeil, Ziqiang Wang, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100401(R) (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

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Frustrated magnets and quantum paramagnetic phases at finite temperature

L. Isaev and G. Ortiz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100402(R) (2012) - Published 12 September, 2012

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Indication for macroscopic quantum tunneling below 10 K in nanostructures of SrRuO $_{3}$

Omer Sinwani, James W. Reiner, and Lior Klein

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100403(R) (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

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Spintronic mechanics of a magnetic nanoshuttle

Robert I. Shekhter, Artem Pulkin, and Mats Jonson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100404(R) (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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Ultrafast inverse Faraday effect in a paramagnetic terbium gallium garnet crystal

R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, E. Hendry, and V. V. Kruglyak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100405(R) (2012) - Published 28 September, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Pseudogap in underdoped Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ as seen via optical conductivity

Y. M. Dai, B. Xu, B. Shen, H. H. Wen, J. P. Hu, X. G. Qiu, and R. P. S. M. Lobo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100501(R) (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

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Insensitivity of the pressure dependences of characteristic energy scales in Ce $_{1 - x} R_{x}$ CoIn $_{5}$ ( $R = Yb, Y, Gd$ ) to the electronic configuration of the rare-earth ion

B. D. White, J. J. Hamlin, K. Huang, L. Shu, I. K. Lum, R. E. Baumbach, M. Janoschek, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100502(R) (2012) - Published 11 September, 2012

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Near-zero-energy end states in topologically trivial spin-orbit coupled superconducting nanowires with a smooth confinement

G. Kells, D. Meidan, and P. W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100503(R) (2012) - Published 12 September, 2012

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Topological indices, defects, and Majorana fermions in chiral superconductors

Daichi Asahi and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100504(R) (2012) - Published 14 September, 2012

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Emergence of superconductivity in BaNi $_{2}$ (Ge $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ at a structural instability

Daigorou Hirai, F. von Rohr, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100505(R) (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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Superconducting qubit in a waveguide cavity with a coherence time approaching 0.1 ms

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100506(R) (2012) - Published 24 September, 2012

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Possible pairing symmetries in SrPtAs with a local lack of inversion center

Jun Goryo, Mark H. Fischer, and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100507(R) (2012) - Published 25 September, 2012

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Magnetic response in the underdoped cuprates

A. J. A. James, R. M. Konik, and T. M. Rice

Phys. Rev. B 86, 100508(R) (2012) - Published 25 September, 2012

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Effect of dimensionality and spin-orbit coupling on charge-density-wave transition in 2H-TaSe $_{2}$

Yizhi Ge and Amy Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104101 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

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Structure and energetics of a ferroelectric organic crystal of phenazine and chloranilic acid

Kyuho Lee, Brian Kolb, T. Thonhauser, David Vanderbilt, and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104102 (2012) - Published 5 September, 2012

Giant elastocaloric effect in ferroelectric Ba $_{0.5}$ Sr $_{0.5}$ TiO $_{3}$ alloys from first-principles

S. Lisenkov and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104103 (2012) - Published 6 September, 2012

Ferroelectric charged domain walls in an applied electric field

M. Y. Gureev, P. Mokrý, A. K. Tagantsev, and N. Setter

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104104 (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

Density functional theory study of phase stability, vibrational, and electronic properties of Mo $_{3}$ Al $_{2}$ C

D. Reith, C. Blaas-Schenner, and R. Podloucky

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104105 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012

Size estimation of embedded Cu nanoprecipitates in Fe by using affinitively trapped positrons

T. Toyama, Z. Tang, K. Inoue, T. Chiba, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono, Y. Nagai, and M. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104106 (2012) - Published 13 September, 2012

Cube-shaped diffuse scattering and the ground state of BaMg $_{1 / 3}$ Ta $_{2 / 3}$ O $_{3}$

A. Cervellino, S. N. Gvasaliya, B. Roessli, G. M. Rotaru, R. A. Cowley, S. G. Lushnikov, T. A. Shaplygina, A. Bossak, and D. Chernyshov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104107 (2012) - Published 14 September, 2012

Evidence for anisotropic polar nanoregions in relaxor Pb(Mg $_{1 / 3}$ Nb $_{2 / 3}$ )O $_{3}$ : A neutron study of the elastic constants and anomalous TA phonon damping in PMN

C. Stock, P. M. Gehring, H. Hiraka, I. Swainson, Guangyong Xu, Z.-G. Ye, H. Luo, J.-F. Li, and D. Viehland

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104108 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Pressure-induced amorphization of methane hydrate

Niall J. English and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104109 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Magnéli-like phases in epitaxial anatase TiO $_{2}$ thin films

R. Ciancio, E. Carlino, G. Rossi, C. Aruta, U. Scotti di Uccio, A. Vittadini, and A. Selloni

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104110 (2012) - Published 21 September, 2012

Sequential multiscale modelling of SiC/Al nanocomposites reinforced with WS $_{2}$ nanoparticles under static loading

E. I. Volkova, I. A. Jones, R. Brooks, Y. Zhu, and E. Bichoutskaia

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104111 (2012) - Published 24 September, 2012

Ab initio prediction of pressure-induced structural phase transitions of CrVO $_{4}$ -type orthophosphates

S López-Moreno and D. Errandonea

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104112 (2012) - Published 25 September, 2012

Charge-ice dynamics in the negative thermal expansion material Cd(CN) $_{2}$

Vanessa E. Fairbank, Amber L. Thompson, Richard I. Cooper, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104113 (2012) - Published 27 September, 2012

Molecular dynamics of irradiation-induced defect production in GaN nanowires

Wei Ren, Antti Kuronen, and Kai Nordlund

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104114 (2012) - Published 27 September, 2012

Quantum Monte Carlo study of pressure-induced $B 3 - B 1$ phase transition in GaAs

C. N. M. Ouma, M. Z. Mapelu, N. W. Makau, G. O. Amolo, and Ryo Maezono

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104115 (2012) - Published 28 September, 2012

Resonant x-ray scattering from chiral materials: $α$ -quartz and $α$ -berlinite

Jun-ichi Igarashi and Manabu Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104116 (2012) - Published 28 September, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Probing defects in Al-Mg-Si alloys using muon spin relaxation

Sigurd Wenner, Randi Holmestad, Kenji Matsuda, Katsuhiko Nishimura, Teiichiro Matsuzaki, Dai Tomono, Francis L. Pratt, and Calin D. Marioara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104201 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

Static and dynamic structures of liquid tin at high pressure from ab initio molecular dynamics

S. Munejiri, F. Shimojo, and K. Hoshino

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104202 (2012) - Published 26 September, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Thermal transport in phase-change materials from atomistic simulations

Gabriele C. Sosso, Davide Donadio, Sebastiano Caravati, Jörg Behler, and Marco Bernasconi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104301 (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

Plasmonic-type acoustic cloak made of a bilaminate shell

Matthew D. Guild, Michael R. Haberman, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104302 (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

Giant negative thermal expansion in La-doped CaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

A. Rebello, J. J. Neumeier, Zhaoshun Gao, Yanpeng Qi, and Yanwei Ma

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104303 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012

Complexity of band structures: Semi-analytical finite element analysis of one-dimensional surface phononic crystals

Istvan A. Veres and Thomas Berer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104304 (2012) - Published 12 September, 2012

Berry curvature and the phonon Hall effect

Tao Qin, Jianhui Zhou, and Junren Shi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104305 (2012) - Published 13 September, 2012

Application of the wavelet transform to nanoscale thermal transport

Christopher H. Baker, Donald A. Jordan, and Pamela M. Norris

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104306 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

Length-dependent thermal conductivity of single extended polymer chains

Jun Liu and Ronggui Yang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104307 (2012) - Published 24 September, 2012

Quantum effects and the local environment of water hydrogen: Deep inelastic neutron scattering study

A. Giuliani, M. A. Ricci, F. Bruni, and J. Mayers

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104308 (2012) - Published 26 September, 2012

Magnetism

Determination of the magnetic order and the crystal symmetry in the multiferroic ground state of Ba $_{2}$ CoGe $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

V. Hutanu, A. Sazonov, M. Meven, H. Murakawa, Y. Tokura, S. Bordács, I. Kézsmárki, and B. Náfrádi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104401 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

Decomposition of modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and corresponding analytic solutions

Taichi Kosugi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104402 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discrete antiferromagnetic spin-wave excitations in the giant ferric wheel Fe $_{18}$

J. Ummethum, J. Nehrkorn, S. Mukherjee, N. B. Ivanov, S. Stuiber, Th. Strässle, P. L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, H. Mutka, G. Christou, O. Waldmann, and J. Schnack

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104403 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

Inelastic neutron scattering study on the noncentrosymmetric compounds PrCuAl $_{3}$ and NdCuAl $_{3}$

D. T. Adroja and V. K. Anand

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104404 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

Calculation of high-frequency permeability of magnonic metamaterials beyond the macrospin approximation

O. Dmytriiev, M. Dvornik, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, M. Franchin, H. Fangohr, L. Giovannini, F. Montoncello, D. V. Berkov, E. K. Semenova, N. L. Gorn, A. Prabhakar, and V. V. Kruglyak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104405 (2012) - Published 4 September, 2012

Route to high Néel temperatures in 4 $d$ and 5 $d$ transition metal oxides

S. Middey, Ashis Kumar Nandy, S. K. Pandey, Priya Mahadevan, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104406 (2012) - Published 5 September, 2012

Soft phonon mode coupled with antiferromagnetic order in incipient-ferroelectric Mott insulators Sr $_{1 - x}$ Ba $_{x}$ MnO $_{3}$

H. Sakai, J. Fujioka, T. Fukuda, M. S. Bahramy, D. Okuyama, R. Arita, T. Arima, A. Q. R. Baron, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104407 (2012) - Published 5 September, 2012

Magnetic phase diagram in the Co-rich side of the $L$ Co $_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{x}$ AsO ( $L$ $=$ La, Sm) system

Y. K. Li, X. F. Xu, C. Cao, C. Y. Shen, Y. K. Luo, Q. Tao, X. Lin, L. Zhang, G. H. Cao, and Z. A. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104408 (2012) - Published 5 September, 2012

Theoretical analysis of electronic and magnetic properties of NaV $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ : Crucial role of the orbital degrees of freedom

Z. V. Pchelkina, I. V. Solovyev, and R. Arita

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104409 (2012) - Published 6 September, 2012

Structural, magnetic, and EPR studies of the Aurivillius phase Bi $_{6}$ Fe $_{2}$ Ti $_{3}$ O $_{18}$ and Bi $_{6}$ FeCrTi $_{3}$ O $_{18}$

J. Yang, W. Tong, Z. Liu, X. B. Zhu, J. M. Dai, W. H. Song, Z. R. Yang, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104410 (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

Spin nematic ground state of the triangular lattice $S = 1$ biquadratic model

Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104411 (2012) - Published 7 September, 2012

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Generic quantum spin ice

SungBin Lee, Shigeki Onoda, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104412 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012

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Effects of Al substitution on the multiferroic properties of TbMnO $_{3}$

Vera Cuartero, Javier Blasco, J. Alberto Rodríguez-Velamazán, Joaquín García, Gloria Subías, Clemens Ritter, Jolanta Stankiewicz, and Laura Canadillas-Delgado

Phys. Rev. B 86, 104413 (2012) - Published 10 September, 2012