Volume 86, Issue 2

1 July 2012

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Effect of elasticity on torsional oscillator experiments probing the possible supersolidity of helium

Humphrey J. Maris

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020502(R) (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Crystallization kinetics of nanocrystalline alloys revealed by in situ nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation

M. Miglierini, V. Prochazka, S. Stankov, P. Svec, Sr., M. Zajac, J. Kohout, A. Lancok, D. Janickovic, and P. Svec

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020202(R) (2012) - Published 31 July, 2012

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Ferromagnetism and superconductivity in CeFeAs $_{1 - x}$ $P_{x}$ O ( $0 \leq x \leq 40 %$ )

A. Jesche, T. Förster, J. Spehling, M. Nicklas, M. de Souza, R. Gumeniuk, H. Luetkens, T. Goltz, C. Krellner, M. Lang, J. Sichelschmidt, H.-H. Klauss, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020501(R) (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

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Competing many-body instabilities and unconventional superconductivity in graphene

Maximilian L. Kiesel, Christian Platt, Werner Hanke, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020507(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Dynamics of dark-soliton formation in a polariton quantum fluid

G. Grosso, G. Nardin, F. Morier-Genoud, Y. Léger, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020509(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Negative refraction and backward waves in layered acoustic metamaterials

Johan Christensen and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024301 (2012) - Published 3 July, 2012

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Magnetic order tuned by Cu substitution in Fe $_{1.1 - z}$ Cu $_{z}$ Te

Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu, Guangyong Xu, M. D. Lumsden, P. N. Valdivia, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Genda Gu, Dung-Hai Lee, J. M. Tranquada, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024401 (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

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Elastic properties of the Zintl ferromagnet Yb $_{14}$ MnSb $_{11}$

Sriparna Bhattacharya, D. C. Marinescu, James R. Morris, Ivan A. Sergienko, Brian Sales, David Mandrus, and Veerle Keppens

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024402 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

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Spin liquid ground state of the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ square $J_{1}$ - $J_{2}$ Heisenberg model

Hong-Chen Jiang, Hong Yao, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024424 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

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Universality and critical behavior at the critical endpoint in the itinerant-electron metamagnet UCoAl

K. Karube, T. Hattori, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, N. Kimura, and T. Komatsubara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024428 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Spin-dependent Seebeck coefficients of Ni $_{80}$ Fe $_{20}$ and Co in nanopillar spin valves

F. K. Dejene, J. Flipse, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024436 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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Decay of persistent precessing domains in $^{3}$ He- $B$ at very low temperatures

S. N. Fisher, G. R. Pickett, P. Skyba, and N. Suramlishvili

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024506 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

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Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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First-principles modeling of temperature- and concentration-dependent solubility in the phase-separating alloy Fe $_{x}$ Cu $_{1 - x}$

D. Reith, M. Stöhr, R. Podloucky, T. C. Kerscher, and S. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020201(R) (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Crystallization kinetics of nanocrystalline alloys revealed by in situ nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation

M. Miglierini, V. Prochazka, S. Stankov, P. Svec, Sr., M. Zajac, J. Kohout, A. Lancok, D. Janickovic, and P. Svec

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020202(R) (2012) - Published 31 July, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

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Loschmidt echo with a nonequilibrium initial state: Early-time scaling and enhanced decoherence

Victor Mukherjee, Shraddha Sharma, and Amit Dutta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020301(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Magnetism

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Scaling of the decoherence factor of a qubit coupled to a spin chain driven across quantum critical points

Tanay Nag, Uma Divakaran, and Amit Dutta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020401(R) (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

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Spin excitations in K $_{2}$ Fe $_{4 + x}$ Se $_{5}$ : Linear response approach

Liqin Ke, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and Vladimir Antropov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020402(R) (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

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Raman study of the phonon symmetries in BiFeO $_{3}$ single crystals

C. Beekman, A. A. Reijnders, Y. S. Oh, S. W. Cheong, and K. S. Burch

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020403(R) (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

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Significance of nutation in magnetization dynamics of nanostructures

D. Böttcher and J. Henk

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020404(R) (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

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Nonmonotonic evolution of the charge gap in ZnV $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ under pressure

Christine Kuntscher, Kaneez Rabia, M. K. Forthaus, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, F. Rivadulla, Y. Kato, and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020405(R) (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

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Switchable Fermi surface sheets in greigite

B. Zhang, G. A. de Wijs, and R. A. de Groot

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020406(R) (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Spin disorder dependence of the exchange bias effect

Xiaozhi Zhan, Zhongquan Mao, Xiao Xu, Xi Chen, and Wolfgang Kleemann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020407(R) (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

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Shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions from first principles

Kai Liu, Ke Xia, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020408(R) (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Anisotropic magnetoresistance in Co $_{2}$ (Fe,Mn)Si Heusler epitaxial films: A fingerprint of half-metallicity

F. J. Yang, Y. Sakuraba, S. Kokado, Y. Kota, A. Sakuma, and K. Takanashi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020409(R) (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Low-temperature magnetization in geometrically frustrated Tb $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, C. Marin, and S. Vanishri

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020410(R) (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Ferromagnetism and superconductivity in CeFeAs $_{1 - x}$ $P_{x}$ O ( $0 \leq x \leq 40 %$ )

A. Jesche, T. Förster, J. Spehling, M. Nicklas, M. de Souza, R. Gumeniuk, H. Luetkens, T. Goltz, C. Krellner, M. Lang, J. Sichelschmidt, H.-H. Klauss, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020501(R) (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

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Effect of elasticity on torsional oscillator experiments probing the possible supersolidity of helium

Humphrey J. Maris

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020502(R) (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Competition between stripe and checkerboard magnetic instabilities in Mn-doped BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

G. S. Tucker, D. K. Pratt, M. G. Kim, S. Ran, A. Thaler, G. E. Granroth, K. Marty, W. Tian, J. L. Zarestky, M. D. Lumsden, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020503(R) (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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Evidence for intra-unit-cell magnetic order in Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ CaCu $_{2}$ O $_{8 + δ}$

S. De Almeida-Didry, Y. Sidis, V. Balédent, F. Giovannelli, I. Monot-Laffez, and P. Bourges

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020504(R) (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Geometric phases of $d$ -wave vortices in a model of lattice fermions

Zhenyu Zhou, Oskar Vafek, and Alexander Seidel

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020505(R) (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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How chemical pressure affects the fundamental properties of rare-earth pnictides: An ARPES view

M. G. Holder, A. Jesche, P. Lombardo, R. Hayn, D. V. Vyalikh, K. Kummer, S. Danzenbächer, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, E. D. L. Rienks, S. L. Molodtsov, and C. Laubschat

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020506(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Competing many-body instabilities and unconventional superconductivity in graphene

Maximilian L. Kiesel, Christian Platt, Werner Hanke, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020507(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Doping-dependent anisotropic superconducting gap in Na $_{1 - δ}$ (Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ )As from London penetration depth

K. Cho, M. A. Tanatar, N. Spyrison, H. Kim, Y. Song, Pengcheng Dai, C. L. Zhang, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020508(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Dynamics of dark-soliton formation in a polariton quantum fluid

G. Grosso, G. Nardin, F. Morier-Genoud, Y. Léger, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020509(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

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Nanoscale-textured superconductivity in Ru-substituted BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ : A challenge to a universal phase diagram for the pnictides

Y. Laplace, J. Bobroff, V. Brouet, G. Collin, F. Rullier-Albenque, D. Colson, and A. Forget

Phys. Rev. B 86, 020510(R) (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Mechanical properties of ZnS nanowires and thin films: Microscopic origin of the dependence on size and growth direction

Taraknath Mandal, Prabal K. Maiti, and Chandan Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024101 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Kramers-Kronig constrained modeling of soft x-ray reflectivity spectra: Obtaining depth resolution of electronic and chemical structure

Kevin H. Stone, S. Manuel Valvidares, and Jeffrey B. Kortright

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024102 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Amorphous to crystalline phase transition in carbon induced by intense femtosecond x-ray free-electron laser pulses

J. Gaudin et al.

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024103 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Domain wall and interphase boundary motion in a two-phase morphotropic phase boundary ferroelectric: Frequency dispersion and contribution to piezoelectric and dielectric properties

Jacob L. Jones, Elena Aksel, Goknur Tutuncu, Tedi-Marie Usher, Jun Chen, Xianran Xing, and Andrew J. Studer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024104 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Angle-resolved transmission spectroscopy of opal films

M. Muldarisnur, I. Popa, and F. Marlow

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024105 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Pressure-temperature phase diagram of Ti $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ and physical properties in the golden Th $_{2}$ S $_{3}$ -type phase

Sergey V. Ovsyannikov, Xiang Wu, Alexander E. Karkin, Vladimir V. Shchennikov, and Geeth M. Manthilake

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024106 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Experimental assessment of nonergodicity in tetracene single crystals

G. B. Parravicini, M. Campione, F. Marabelli, M. Moret, and A. Sassella

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024107 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Contribution of thermally scattered electrons to atomic resolution elemental maps

B. D. Forbes, A. J. D'Alfonso, R. E. A. Williams, R. Srinivasan, H. L. Fraser, D. W. McComb, B. Freitag, D. O. Klenov, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024108 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Identification of superlattice structure $c I 16$ in the P-VI phase of phosphorus at 340 GPa and room temperature via x-ray diffraction

Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Yuichi Akahama, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yoshiki Ozawa, Hiroshi Fukui, Naohisa Hirao, and Yasuo Ohishi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024109 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Influence of energetic disorder on electroluminescence emission in polymer:fullerene solar cells

Wei Gong, Mark A. Faist, Nicholas John Ekins-Daukes, Zheng Xu, Donal D. C. Bradley, Jenny Nelson, and Thomas Kirchartz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024201 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Collective excitations in molten iron above the melting point: A generalized collective-mode analysis of simulations with embedded-atom potentials

Taras Bryk and A. B. Belonoshko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024202 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Cation disorder in Mg $X_{2}$ O $_{4}$ ( $X$ = Al, Ga, In) spinels from first principles

Chao Jiang, Kurt E. Sickafus, Christopher R. Stanek, Sven P. Rudin, and Blas P. Uberuaga

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024203 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Anomalous x-ray diffraction measurements of long-range order in (001)-textured $L 1_{0}$ FePtCu thin films

M. Maret, C. Brombacher, P. Matthes, D. Makarov, N. Boudet, and M. Albrecht

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024204 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

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Negative refraction and backward waves in layered acoustic metamaterials

Johan Christensen and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024301 (2012) - Published 3 July, 2012

Neutron diffraction study of gallium nanostructured within a porous glass

Y. A. Kibalin, I. V. Golosovsky, Y. A. Kumzerov, V. Y. Pomjakushin, A. A. Bosak, and P. P. Parshin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024302 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Negative refraction induced acoustic concentrator and the effects of scattering cancellation, imaging, and mirage

Qi Wei, Ying Cheng, and Xiao-jun Liu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024303 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Magnetism

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Magnetic order tuned by Cu substitution in Fe $_{1.1 - z}$ Cu $_{z}$ Te

Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu, Guangyong Xu, M. D. Lumsden, P. N. Valdivia, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Genda Gu, Dung-Hai Lee, J. M. Tranquada, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024401 (2012) - Published 2 July, 2012

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Elastic properties of the Zintl ferromagnet Yb $_{14}$ MnSb $_{11}$

Sriparna Bhattacharya, D. C. Marinescu, James R. Morris, Ivan A. Sergienko, Brian Sales, David Mandrus, and Veerle Keppens

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024402 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Parity quantum numbers in the density matrix renormalization group

Yu-Chin Tzeng (曾郁欽)

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024403 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Theory of laser-induced ultrafast superdiffusive spin transport in layered heterostructures

M. Battiato, K. Carva, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024404 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Magnetization of a garnet film through a change in its multidomain structure under circularly polarized light

G. M. Genkin, Yu. N. Nozdrin, A. V. Okomel'kov, and I. D. Tokman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024405 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Theoretical study of magnetic domain walls through a cobalt nanocontact

László Balogh, Krisztián Palotás, László Udvardi, László Szunyogh, and Ulrich Nowak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024406 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Magnetic properties of a GdFe $_{5}$ Al $_{7}$ single crystal

D. I. Gorbunov, A. V. Andreev, and M. D. Kuz’min

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024407 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Quantum phase transition from a spin-liquid state to a spin-glass state in the quasi-one-dimensional spin- $1$ system Sr $_{1 - x}$ Ca $_{x}$ Ni $_{2}$ V $_{2}$ O $_{8}$

A. K. Bera and S. M. Yusuf

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024408 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Negative differential magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic wires with domain walls

N. Sedlmayr and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024409 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Spin-assisted ferroelectricity in ferrimagnetic CaBaCo $_{4}$ O $_{7}$

K. Singh, V. Caignaert, L. C. Chapon, V. Pralong, B. Raveau, and A. Maignan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024410 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Magnetic interactions in LiCu $_{2}$ O $_{2}$ : Single-chain versus double-chain models

Rémi Maurice, Abdul-Muizz Pradipto, Coen de Graaf, and Ria Broer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024411 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Spin-wave dynamics for the high-magnetic-field phases of the frustrated CuFeO $_{2}$ antiferromagnet: Predictions for inelastic neutron scattering

J. T. Haraldsen, R. S. Fishman, and G. Brown

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024412 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Evidence of magnetic phase separation in LuFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

J. Bourgeois, G. André, S. Petit, J. Robert, M. Poienar, J. Rouquette, E. Elkaïm, M. Hervieu, A. Maignan, C. Martin, and F. Damay

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024413 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Strong-field magnetotransport in a two-constituent columnar composite medium where the constituents have comparable resistivity tensors

David J. Bergman and Yakov M. Strelniker

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024414 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

First-principles study of a pressure-induced spin transition in multiferroic Bi $_{2}$ FeCrO $_{6}$

Marco Goffinet, Jorge Íñiguez, and Philippe Ghosez

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024415 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Neutron scattering experiments and simulations near the magnetic percolation threshold of ${Fe}_{x} {Zn}_{1 - x} F_{2}$

G. Álvarez, N. Aso, D. P. Belanger, Aren M. Durand, V. Martín-Mayor, K. Motoya, and Y. Muro

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024416 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Phase diagram of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya helimagnet Ba $_{2}$ CuGe $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ in canted magnetic fields

S. Mühlbauer, S. Gvasaliya, E. Ressouche, E. Pomjakushina, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024417 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a Pt/Co/Pt ultrathin film arising from a lattice distortion induced by ion irradiation

M. Sakamaki, K. Amemiya, M. O. Liedke, J. Fassbender, P. Mazalski, I. Sveklo, and A. Maziewski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024418 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

First-principles study of magnetism in Pd $_{3}$ Fe under pressure

Biswanath Dutta, Sumanta Bhandary, Subhradip Ghosh, and Biplab Sanyal

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024419 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Strain-driven transition from $E$ -type to $A$ -type magnetic order in YMnO $_{3}$ epitaxial films

F. Jiménez-Villacorta, J. A. Gallastegui, I. Fina, X. Marti, and J. Fontcuberta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024420 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Magnetization reversal signatures in the magnetoresistance of magnetic multilayers

P. Perna, C. Rodrigo, M. Muñoz, J. L. Prieto, A. Bollero, D. Maccariello, J. L. F. Cuñado, M. Romera, J. Akerman, E. Jiménez, N. Mikuszeit, V. Cros, J. Camarero, and R. Miranda

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024421 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Test of band structure calculations for Heusler compounds by spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

M. Kolbe, S. Chadov, E. Arbelo Jorge, G. Schönhense, C. Felser, H.-J. Elmers, M. Kläui, and M. Jourdan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024422 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

Interplay of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in the absorption lineshape of fermions in two dimensions

R. Glenn, O. A. Starykh, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024423 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

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Spin liquid ground state of the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ square $J_{1}$ - $J_{2}$ Heisenberg model

Hong-Chen Jiang, Hong Yao, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024424 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Towards high-frequency negative permeability using magnonic crystals in metamaterial design

M. Mruczkiewicz, M. Krawczyk, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, and V. V. Kruglyak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024425 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

First-principles study of tunneling magnetoresistance in Fe/MgAl $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ /Fe(001) magnetic tunnel junctions

Yoshio Miura, Shingo Muramoto, Kazutaka Abe, and Masafumi Shirai

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024426 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Phase stability of Ni $_{2}$ (Mn $_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{x}$ )Ga: A first-principles study

Hu-Bin Luo, Qing-Miao Hu, Chun-Mei Li, Rui Yang, Börje Johansson, and Levente Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024427 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Universality and critical behavior at the critical endpoint in the itinerant-electron metamagnet UCoAl

K. Karube, T. Hattori, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, N. Kimura, and T. Komatsubara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024428 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Collapse of skyrmions in two-dimensional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets

Liufei Cai, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, and D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024429 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Converse magnetoelectric experiments on a room-temperature spirally ordered hexaferrite

Khabat Ebnabbasi, Carmine Vittoria, and Allan Widom

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024430 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Pattern formation in the dipolar Ising model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice

Robert Rüger and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024431 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Molecular analog of multiferroics: Electric and magnetic field effects in many-electron mixed-valence dimers

Cristian Bosch-Serrano, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Eugenio Coronado, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Andrew Palii, and Boris Tsukerblat

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024432 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Ferroelectric control of magnetization in La $_{1 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ MnO $_{3}$ manganites: A first-principles study

Hanghui Chen and Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024433 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Heterogeneous freezing in a geometrically frustrated spin model without disorder: Spontaneous generation of two time scales

O. Cépas and B. Canals

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024434 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Anomalous and spin Hall effects in hcp cobalt from GGA+ $U$ calculations

Jen-Chuan Tung, Huei-Ru Fuh, and Guang-Yu Guo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024435 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

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Spin-dependent Seebeck coefficients of Ni $_{80}$ Fe $_{20}$ and Co in nanopillar spin valves

F. K. Dejene, J. Flipse, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024436 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Similar zone-center gaps in the low-energy spin-wave spectra of Na $_{1 - δ}$ FeAs and BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

J. T. Park, G. Friemel, T. Loew, V. Hinkov, Yuan Li, B. H. Min, D. L. Sun, A. Ivanov, A. Piovano, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, Y. S. Kwon, and D. S. Inosov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024437 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Ordered magnetic dipoles: Controlling anisotropy in nanomodulated continuous ferromagnetic films

Tuhin Maity, Shunpu Li, Lynette Keeney, and Saibal Roy

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024438 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Large spontaneous magnetostriction in FeTiO $_{3}$ and adjustable magnetic configuration in Fe(III)-doped FeTiO $_{3}$

M. Charilaou, D. Sheptyakov, J. F. Löffler, and A. U. Gehring

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024439 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Effect of $A$ cation on magnetic properties of double perovskite compounds: From ferromagnetic Ca $_{2}$ CrSbO $_{6}$ to antiferromagnetic Sr $_{2}$ CrSbO $_{6}$

Santu Baidya and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024440 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Measurement of the magnetic penetration depth of a superconducting MgB $_{2}$ thin film with a large intraband diffusivity

Jeehoon Kim, N. Haberkorn, Shi-Zeng Lin, L. Civale, E. Nazaretski, B. H. Moeckly, C. S. Yung, J. D. Thompson, and R. Movshovich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024501 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Neutron scattering studies of spin excitations in superconducting Rb $_{0.82}$ Fe $_{1.68}$ Se $_{2}$

Miaoyin Wang, Chunhong Li, D. L. Abernathy, Yu Song, Scott V. Carr, Xingye Lu, Shiliang Li, Zahra Yamani, Jiangping Hu, Tao Xiang, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024502 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Microwave photonics with Josephson junction arrays: Negative refraction index and entanglement through disorder

David Zueco, Juan J. Mazo, Enrique Solano, and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024503 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Topological minigap in quasi-one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor Majorana wires

Sumanta Tewari, T. D. Stanescu, Jay D. Sau, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024504 (2012) - Published 5 July, 2012

Magnetic excitations in underdoped Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ with $x = 0.047$

G. S. Tucker, R. M. Fernandes, H.-F. Li, V. Thampy, N. Ni, D. L. Abernathy, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, D. Vaknin, J. Schmalian, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024505 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decay of persistent precessing domains in $^{3}$ He- $B$ at very low temperatures

S. N. Fisher, G. R. Pickett, P. Skyba, and N. Suramlishvili

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024506 (2012) - Published 6 July, 2012

Quantitative analysis of quantum phase slips in superconducting Mo $_{76}$ Ge $_{24}$ nanowires revealed by switching-current statistics

T. Aref, A. Levchenko, V. Vakaryuk, and A. Bezryadin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024507 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Electron doping evolution of the anisotropic spin excitations in BaFe $_{2 - x}$ Ni $_{x}$ As $_{2}$

Huiqian Luo, Zahra Yamani, Yanchao Chen, Xingye Lu, Meng Wang, Shiliang Li, Thomas A. Maier, Sergey Danilkin, D. T. Adroja, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024508 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Optimizing the Majorana character of SQUIDs with topologically nontrivial barriers

M. Veldhorst, C. G. Molenaar, C. J. M. Verwijs, H. Hilgenkamp, and A. Brinkman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024509 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Anomalous surface impedance in a normal-metal/superconductor junction with a spin-active interface

Yasuhiro Asano, Masahiro Ozaki, Tetsuro Habe, Alexander A. Golubov, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024510 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Self-energy and fluctuation spectra in cuprates: Comparing optical and photoemission results

R. S. Markiewicz, Tanmoy Das, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024511 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Stability of fractional vortex states in a two-band mesoscopic superconductor

Juan C. Piña, Clécio C. de Souza Silva, and Milorad V. Milošević

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024512 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Distinct behaviors of suppression to superconductivity in LaRu $_{3}$ Si $_{2}$ induced by Fe and Co dopants

Sheng Li, Jian Tao, Xiangang Wan, Xiaxin Ding, Huan Yang, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024513 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Surface impedance of superconductors with magnetic impurities

Maxim Kharitonov, Thomas Proslier, Andreas Glatz, and Michael J. Pellin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024514 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Vortex creep and critical current densities in superconducting (Ba,K)Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals

M. Konczykowski, C. J. van der Beek, M. A. Tanatar, Huiqian Luo, Zhaosheng Wang, Bing Shen, Hai Hu Wen, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024515 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Superconductivity in electron-doped layered TiNCl with variable interlayer coupling

Shuai Zhang, Masashi Tanaka, and Shoji Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024516 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Theory of the electrical transport in tilted layered superconducting Josephson junctions

C. Nappi, S. De Nicola, M. Adamo, and E. Sarnelli

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024517 (2012) - Published 17 July, 2012

Effect of magnetic Gd impurities on the superconducting state of amorphous Mo-Ge thin films with different thickness and morphology

Hyunjeong Kim, Anil Ghimire, Shirin Jamali, Thaddee K. Djidjou, Jordan M. Gerton, and A. Rogachev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024518 (2012) - Published 18 July, 2012

Doping dependence of femtosecond quasiparticle relaxation dynamics in Ba(Fe,Co) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals: Evidence for normal-state nematic fluctuations

L. Stojchevska, T. Mertelj, Jiun-Haw Chu, Ian R. Fisher, and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024519 (2012) - Published 19 July, 2012

Interference between magnetic field and cavity modes in an extended Josephson junction

V. Humbert, M. Aprili, and J. Hammer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024520 (2012) - Published 20 July, 2012

Thermally activated dynamics of spontaneous perpendicular vortices tuned by parallel magnetic fields in thin superconducting films

Milind N. Kunchur, Manlai Liang, and Alex Gurevich

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024521 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Ca $_{3}$ Ir $_{4}$ Sn $_{13}$ : A weakly correlated nodeless superconductor

Kefeng Wang (王克锋) and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024522 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Topological superconducting phase in the vicinity of ferromagnetic phases

Yuan-Yuan Xiang, Wan-Sheng Wang, Qiang-Hua Wang, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024523 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Interplay of superconductivity and charge density wave ordering in pseudoternary alloy compounds: Lu $_{2}$ Ir $_{3}$ (Si $_{1 - x}$ Ge $_{x}$ ) $_{5}$ , Lu $_{2}$ (Ir $_{1 - x}$ Rh $_{x}$ ) $_{3}$ Si $_{5}$ , and (Lu $_{1 - x}$ Sc $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ Ir $_{3}$ Si $_{5}$

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

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024524 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Breakdown of the field-induced superconductivity by dynamical spin reversal

Yugo Oshima, Hiroyuki Nojiri, Shinya Uji, James S. Brooks, Takahisa Tokumoto, Heng-Bo Cui, Reizo Kato, Akiko Kobayashi, and Hayao Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024525 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

$d$ -wave superconductivity induced by short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in the two-dimensional Kondo lattice model

Yu Liu, Huan Li, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024526 (2012) - Published 30 July, 2012

Surface-induced magnetic fluctuations in a single-crystal NiBi $_{3}$ superconductor

Xiangde Zhu (朱相德), Hechang Lei (雷和畅), Cedomir Petrovic, and Yuheng Zhang (张裕恒)

Phys. Rev. B 86, 024527 (2012) - Published 31 July, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Vortex-assisted photon counts and their magnetic field dependence in single-photon superconducting detectors”

A. Gurevich and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. B 86, 026501 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012

Reply to “Comment on ‘Vortex-assisted photon counts and their magnetic field dependence in single-photon superconducting detectors”’

L. N. Bulaevskii, Matthias Graf, and V. G. Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 026502 (2012) - Published 16 July, 2012