Volume 86, Issue 21

1 December 2012

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: The End of PRB Brief Reports

Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 86, 210001 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sum rule for the magnetic permeability of arbitrary textures

André Thiaville, Nicolas Vukadinovic, and Olivier Acher

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214404 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electron-tunneling measurements of low- $T_{c}$ single-layer Bi $_{2 + x}$ Sr $_{2 - y}$ CuO $_{6 + δ}$ : Evidence for a scaling disparity between superconducting and pseudogap states

Th. Jacobs, S. O. Katterwe, H. Motzkau, A. Rydh, A. Maljuk, T. Helm, C. Putzke, E. Kampert, M. V. Kartsovnik, and V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214506 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synthesis and physical properties of metal-doped picene solids

Takashi Kambe, Xuexia He, Yosuke Takahashi, Yusuke Yamanari, Kazuya Teranishi, Hiroki Mitamura, Seiji Shibasaki, Keitaro Tomita, Ritsuko Eguchi, Hidenori Goto, Yasuhiro Takabayashi, Takashi Kato, Akihiko Fujiwara, Toshikaze Kariyado, Hideo Aoki, and Yoshihiro Kubozono

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214507 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity of doped Weyl semimetals: Finite-momentum pairing and electronic analog of the $^{3}$ He- $A$ phase

Gil Young Cho, Jens H. Bardarson, Yuan-Ming Lu, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214514 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic transport through ferromagnetic and superconducting junctions with spin-filter tunneling barriers

F. S. Bergeret, A. Verso, and A. F. Volkov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214516 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Tuning avalanche criticality: Acoustic emission during the martensitic transformation of a compressed Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal

R. Niemann, J. Baró, O. Heczko, L. Schultz, S. Fähler, E. Vives, L. Mañosa, and A. Planes

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214101 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Influence of elevated temperature on the wave propagation and spallation in laser shock-loaded iron

T. de Rességuier, E. Lescoute, and D. Loison

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214102 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Doping-induced phase transitions in ferroelectric BaTiO $_{3}$ from first-principles calculations

Yoshiki Iwazaki, Toshimasa Suzuki, Youichi Mizuno, and Shinji Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214103 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Proton tunneling in phase IV of hydrogen and deuterium

Ross T. Howie, Thomas Scheler, Christophe L. Guillaume, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214104 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Confined fluid and the fluid-solid transition: Evidence from absolute free energy calculations

Li Wan, Christopher R. Iacovella, Trung D. Nguyen, Hugh Docherty, and Peter T. Cummings

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214105 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Nanoscale local structures of rhombohedral symmetry in the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases of BaTiO $_{3}$ studied by convergent-beam electron diffraction

Kenji Tsuda, Rikiya Sano, and Michiyoshi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214106 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Stress-induced solid flow drives surface nanopatterning of silicon by ion-beam irradiation

M. Castro, R. Gago, L. Vázquez, J. Muñoz-García, and R. Cuerno

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214107 (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

Competing polarization reversal mechanisms in ferroelectric nanowires

Kevin McCash, A. Srikanth, and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214108 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Atomistic modeling of long-term evolution of twist boundaries under vacancy supersaturation

Enrique Martínez and Alfredo Caro

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214109 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Role of recombination kinetics and grain size in radiation-induced amorphization

Narasimhan Swaminathan, Dane Morgan, and Izabela Szlufarska

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214110 (2012) - Published 27 December, 2012

Kagome-like lattice distortion in the pyrochlore material Hg $_{2}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

J. van Duijn, R. Ruiz-Bustos, and A. Daoud-Aladine

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214111 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Competing allotropes of Bi deposited on the Al $_{13}$ Co $_{4}$ (100) alloy surface

S. Bobaru, É. Gaudry, M.-C. de Weerd, J. Ledieu, and V. Fournée

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214201 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Density fluctuations at the continuous liquid-liquid phase transition in chalcogen systems

Y. Kajihara, M. Inui, K. Matsuda, T. Nagao, and K. Ohara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214202 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Corner contribution to percolation cluster numbers

István A. Kovács, Ferenc Iglói, and John Cardy

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214203 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

Rounding of a first-order quantum phase transition to a strong-coupling critical point

Fawaz Hrahsheh, José A. Hoyos, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214204 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Role of magnetic and atomic ordering in the martensitic transformation of Ni-Mn-In from a first-principles study

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

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214205 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Scattering by linear defects in graphene: A continuum approach

J. N. B. Rodrigues, N. M. R. Peres, and J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214206 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Quantum dynamics of disordered bosons in an optical lattice

Chien-Hung Lin, Rajdeep Sensarma, K. Sengupta, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214207 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Neutron diffraction measurements and first-principles study of thermal motion of atoms in select $M_{n + 1} A X_{n}$ and binary $M X$ transition-metal carbide phases

Nina J. Lane, Sven C. Vogel, Gilles Hug, Atsushi Togo, Laurent Chaput, Lars Hultman, and Michel W. Barsoum

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214301 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Thermally driven classical Heisenberg model in one dimension

Debarshee Bagchi and P. K. Mohanty

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214302 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Inelastic neutron scattering study of phonon density of states in nanostructured Si $_{1 - x}$ Ge $_{x}$ thermoelectrics

Chetan Dhital, D. L. Abernathy, Gaohua Zhu, Zhifeng Ren, D. Broido, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214303 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Elastic relaxation behavior, magnetoelastic coupling, and order-disorder processes in multiferroic metal-organic frameworks

R. I. Thomson, P. Jain, A. K. Cheetham, and M. A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214304 (2012) - Published 21 December, 2012

Vibrational dynamics of single-crystal YVO $_{4}$ studied by polarized micro-Raman spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

Andrea Sanson, Marco Giarola, Barbara Rossi, Gino Mariotto, Enzo Cazzanelli, and Adolfo Speghini

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214305 (2012) - Published 21 December, 2012

Simulations and generalized model of the effect of filler size dispersity on electrical percolation in rod networks

Rose M. Mutiso, Michelle C. Sherrott, Ju Li, and Karen I. Winey

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214306 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Magnetism

Low-temperature properties of CeAu $_{2}$ Ge $_{2}$ single crystals grown from Au-Ge and Sn flux

C. L. Huang, V. Fritsch, W. Kittler, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214401 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Spontaneous magnetization in the presence of nanoscale inhomogeneities in diluted magnetic systems

Akash Chakraborty, Paul Wenk, Richard Bouzerar, and Georges Bouzerar

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214402 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic kagome lattice

P. H. Y. Li, R. F. Bishop, C. E. Campbell, D. J. J. Farnell, O. Götze, and J. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214403 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sum rule for the magnetic permeability of arbitrary textures

André Thiaville, Nicolas Vukadinovic, and Olivier Acher

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214404 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Magnetoelectric interactions in layered composites of piezoelectric quartz and magnetostrictive alloys

G. Sreenivasulu, V. M. Petrov, L. Y. Fetisov, Y. K. Fetisov, and G. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214405 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Low-temperature magnetic anomaly in magnetite

Z. Švindrych, Z. Janů, A. Kozłowski, and J. M. Honig

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214406 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

Influence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions on magnetic structure of a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ deformed kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Kyusung Hwang, Kwon Park, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214407 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Excitations in a quantum spin liquid with random bonds

D. Hüvonen, S. Zhao, G. Ehlers, M. Månsson, S. N. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214408 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Field-induced polar order at the Néel temperature of chromium in rare-earth orthochromites: Interplay of rare-earth and Cr magnetism

B. Rajeswaran, D. I. Khomskii, A. K. Zvezdin, C. N. R. Rao, and A. Sundaresan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214409 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Multispin correlations and pseudothermalization of the transient density matrix in solid-state NMR: Free induction decay and magic echo

Steven W. Morgan, Vadim Oganesyan, and Gregory S. Boutis

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214410 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Magnetoelastic coupling in [Ru $_{2}$ (O $_{2}$ CMe) $_{4}$ ] $_{3}$ [Cr(CN) $_{6}$ ] molecule-based magnet

T. V. Brinzari, P. Chen, L. -C. Tung, Y. Kim, D. Smirnov, J. Singleton, Joel. S. Miller, and J. L. Musfeldt

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214411 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Magnetization-based assessment of correlation energy in canted single-chain magnets

A. Barasiński, G. Kamieniarz, and A. Drzewiński

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214412 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Temperature-controlled interlayer exchange coupling in strong/weak ferromagnetic multilayers: A thermomagnetic Curie switch

A. F. Kravets, A. N. Timoshevskii, B. Z. Yanchitsky, M. A. Bergmann, J. Buhler, S. Andersson, and V. Korenivski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214413 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Exotic continuous quantum phase transition between $Z_{2}$ topological spin liquid and Néel order

Eun-Gook Moon and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214414 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Theory of orbital magnetization in disordered systems

Guobao Zhu, Shengyuan A. Yang, Cheng Fang, W. M. Liu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214415 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Temperature dependence of the frequencies and effective damping parameters of ferrimagnetic resonance

F. Schlickeiser, U. Atxitia, S. Wienholdt, D. Hinzke, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, and U. Nowak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214416 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Electron spin resonance and exchange paths in the orthorhombic dimer system Sr $_{2}$ VO $_{4}$

J. Deisenhofer, S. Schaile, J. Teyssier, Zhe Wang, M. Hemmida, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, R. M. Eremina, M. V. Eremin, R. Viennois, E. Giannini, D. van der Marel, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214417 (2012) - Published 18 December, 2012

Coupled vortex oscillations in mesoscale ferromagnetic double-disk structures

S. Jain, H. Schultheiss, O. Heinonen, F. Y. Fradin, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader, and V. Novosad

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214418 (2012) - Published 18 December, 2012

High-temperature onset of field-induced transitions in the spin-ice compound Dy $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

M. J. Matthews, C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, S. A. Grigera, D. Prabhakaran, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214419 (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

Spin-torque ac impedance in magnetic tunnel junctions

Silas Hoffman, Pramey Upadhyaya, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214420 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Element-selective magnetometry in ferrimagnetic erbium iron garnet

C. Strohm, T. Roth, C. Detlefs, P. van der Linden, and O. Mathon

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214421 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Quenched Slonczewski windmill in spin-torque vortex oscillators

V. Sluka, A. Kákay, A. M. Deac, D. E. Bürgler, R. Hertel, and C. M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214422 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Effect of lattice vibrations on magnetic phase transition in bcc iron

Junqi Yin, Markus Eisenbach, Don M. Nicholson, and Aurelian Rusanu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214423 (2012) - Published 21 December, 2012

Spin convertance at magnetic interfaces

Steven S.-L. Zhang and Shufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214424 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Magnetic behavior of dense nanoparticle assemblies: Interplay of interparticle interactions and particle system morphology

G. Margaris, K. N. Trohidou, V. Iannotti, G. Ausanio, L. Lanotte, and D. Fiorani

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214425 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Coherent sliding dynamics and spin motive force driven by crossed magnetic fields in a chiral helimagnet

Jun-ichiro Kishine, I. G. Bostrem, A. S. Ovchinnikov, and Vl. E. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214426 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Frustration and charge order in LuFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

Yu. B. Kudasov and D. A. Maslov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214427 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Magnetic structure of ground and field-induced ordered states of low-dimensional $α$ -CoV $_{2}$ O $_{6}$ : Experiment and theory

M. Lenertz, J. Alaria, D. Stoeffler, S. Colis, A. Dinia, O. Mentré, G. André, F. Porcher, and E. Suard

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214428 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Domain wall motion in nanopillar spin-valves with perpendicular anisotropy driven by spin-transfer torques

J. Cucchiara, S. Le Gall, E. E. Fullerton, J.-V. Kim, D. Ravelosona, Y. Henry, J. A. Katine, A. D. Kent, D. Bedau, D. Gopman, and S. Mangin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214429 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Observation of a phase transition at 55 K in single-crystal CaCu $_{1.7}$ As $_{2}$

V. K. Anand and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214501 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Phase diagram of Josephson junction between $s$ and $s_{\pm}$ superconductors in the dirty limit

A. E. Koshelev

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214502 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Unconventional superconducting states of interlayer pairing in bilayer and trilayer graphene

Mir Vahid Hosseini and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214503 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Artificial and self-assembled vortex-pinning centers in superconducting Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ thin films as a route to obtaining very high critical-current densities

C. Tarantini, S. Lee, F. Kametani, J. Jiang, J. D. Weiss, J. Jaroszynski, C. M. Folkman, E. E. Hellstrom, C. B. Eom, and D. C. Larbalestier

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214504 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

$d$ -wave superconductivity on the honeycomb bilayer

J. Vučičević, M. O. Goerbig, and M. V. Milovanović

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214505 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electron-tunneling measurements of low- $T_{c}$ single-layer Bi $_{2 + x}$ Sr $_{2 - y}$ CuO $_{6 + δ}$ : Evidence for a scaling disparity between superconducting and pseudogap states

Th. Jacobs, S. O. Katterwe, H. Motzkau, A. Rydh, A. Maljuk, T. Helm, C. Putzke, E. Kampert, M. V. Kartsovnik, and V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214506 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synthesis and physical properties of metal-doped picene solids

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214507 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Weak-coupling superconductivity in electron-doped NaFe $_{0.95}$ Co $_{0.05}$ As revealed by ARPES

S. Thirupathaiah, D. V. Evtushinsky, J. Maletz, V. B. Zabolotnyy, A. A. Kordyuk, T. K. Kim, S. Wurmehl, M. Roslova, I. Morozov, B. Büchner, and S. V. Borisenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214508 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

High-pressure flux growth, structural, and superconducting properties of $L n$ FeAsO ( $L n$ $=$ Pr, Nd, Sm) single crystals

N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Weyeneth, S. Katrych, P. J. W. Moll, K. Rogacki, S. Bosma, R. Puzniak, J. Karpinski, and B. Batlogg

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214509 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Spin dynamics of possible density wave states in the pseudogap phase of high-temperature superconductors

Chen-Hsuan Hsu, Zhiqiang Wang, and Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214510 (2012) - Published 18 December, 2012

Topological Fermi arcs in superfluid $^{3}$ He

M. A. Silaev and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214511 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Unexpected weak spatial variation in the local density of states induced by individual Co impurity atoms in superconducting Na(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ )As crystals revealed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Huan Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Delong Fang, Sheng Li, Toshikaze Kariyado, Genfu Chen, Masao Ogata, Tanmoy Das, A. V. Balatsky, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214512 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Effects of randomness on the critical temperature in quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductors

Enver Nakhmedov, Oktay Alekperov, and Reinhold Oppermann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214513 (2012) - Published 21 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity of doped Weyl semimetals: Finite-momentum pairing and electronic analog of the $^{3}$ He- $A$ phase

Gil Young Cho, Jens H. Bardarson, Yuan-Ming Lu, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214514 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Current-phase relation for Josephson effect through helical metal

Christopher T. Olund and Erhai Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214515 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic transport through ferromagnetic and superconducting junctions with spin-filter tunneling barriers

F. S. Bergeret, A. Verso, and A. F. Volkov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214516 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Intrinsic dependence of $T_{c}$ on hydrostatic (He-gas) pressure for superconducting LaFePO, PrFePO, and NdFePO single crystals

N. J. Hillier, N. Foroozani, D. A. Zocco, J. J. Hamlin, R. E. Baumbach, I. K. Lum, M. B. Maple, and J. S. Schilling

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214517 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Superconductivity appears in the vicinity of semiconducting-like behavior in CeO $_{1 - x}$ F $_{x}$ BiS $_{2}$

Jie Xing, Sheng Li, Xiaxin Ding, Huan Yang, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214518 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Spin-orbit-induced chirality of Andreev states in Josephson junctions

Andres A. Reynoso, Gonzalo Usaj, C. A. Balseiro, D. Feinberg, and M. Avignon

Phys. Rev. B 86, 214519 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Ferromagnetic elements by epitaxial growth: A density functional prediction [Phys. Rev. B 85, 024407 (2012)]

Stephan Schönecker, Manuel Richter, Klaus Koepernik, and Helmut Eschrig

Phys. Rev. B 86, 219901 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Erratum: Extending spin ice concepts to another geometry: The artificial triangular spin ice [Phys. Rev. B 85, 184410 (2012)]

L. A. S. Mól, A. R. Pereira, and W. A. Moura-Melo

Phys. Rev. B 86, 219902 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Erratum: Crystal structure and cation off-centering in Bi(Mg $_{1 / 2}$ Ti $_{1 / 2}$ )O $_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. B 86, 064105 (2012)]

Malliga Suewattana, David J. Singh, and Sukit Limpijumnong

Phys. Rev. B 86, 219903 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Erratum: Micromagnetism and magnetization reversal of embedded ferromagnetic elements [Phys. Rev. B 74, 184405 (2006)]

S. Blomeier, P. Candeloro, B. Hillebrands, B. Reuscher, A. Brodyanski, and M. Kopnarski

Phys. Rev. B 86, 219904 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012