Volume 86, Issue 22

1 December 2012

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Field-tuned critical fluctuations in YFe $_{2}$ Al $_{10}$ : Evidence from magnetization, $^{27}$ Al NMR, and NQR investigations

P. Khuntia, A. M. Strydom, L. S. Wu, M. C. Aronson, F. Steglich, and M. Baenitz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220401(R) (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Minimal electronic models for superconducting BiS $_{2}$ layers

Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, and Kazuhiko Kuroki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220501(R) (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Quantum state sensitivity of an autoresonant superconducting circuit

K. W. Murch, E. Ginossar, S. J. Weber, R. Vijay, S. M. Girvin, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220503(R) (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

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BiS $_{2}$ -based layered superconductor Bi $_{4}$ O $_{4}$ S $_{3}$

Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yoshito Gotoh, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Hidetomo Usui, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Satoshi Demura, Yoshihiko Takano, Hiroki Izawa, and Osuke Miura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220510(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

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Hydrostatic-pressure tuning of magnetic, nonmagnetic, and superconducting states in annealed Ca(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

E. Gati, S. Köhler, D. Guterding, B. Wolf, S. Knöner, S. Ran, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and M. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220511(R) (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

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Defect stability in phase-field crystal models: Stacking faults and partial dislocations

Joel Berry, Nikolas Provatas, Jörg Rottler, and Chad W. Sinclair

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224112 (2012) - Published 27 December, 2012

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Dualism of the 5 $f$ electrons of the ferromagnetic superconductor UGe $_{2}$ as seen in magnetic, transport, and specific-heat data

R. Troć, Z. Gajek, and A. Pikul

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224403 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Spin-triplet supercurrent in Co/Ni multilayer Josephson junctions with perpendicular anisotropy

E. C. Gingrich, P. Quarterman, Yixing Wang, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224506 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

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Possible multigap superconductivity and magnetism in single crystals of superconducting La $_{2}$ Pt $_{3}$ Ge $_{5}$ and Pr $_{2}$ Pt $_{3}$ Ge $_{5}$

N. H. Sung, C. J. Roh, K. S. Kim, and B. K. Cho

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224507 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Birefringence and polarization rotation in resonant x-ray diffraction

Yves Joly, S. P. Collins, Stéphane Grenier, Helio C. N. Tolentino, and Maurizio De Santis

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220101(R) (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

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Atomistic modeling of phase transformations: Point-defect concentrations and the time-scale problem

M. Nastar and F. Soisson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220102(R) (2012) - Published 18 December, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phonon softening and dispersion in EuTiO $_{3}$

David S. Ellis, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Satoshi Tsutsui, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Kenichi Kato, Daisuke Ishikawa, and Alfred Q. R. Baron

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220301(R) (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Fluctuating-surface-current formulation of radiative heat transfer for arbitrary geometries

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, M. T. Homer Reid, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220302(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Magnetism

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Field-tuned critical fluctuations in YFe $_{2}$ Al $_{10}$ : Evidence from magnetization, $^{27}$ Al NMR, and NQR investigations

P. Khuntia, A. M. Strydom, L. S. Wu, M. C. Aronson, F. Steglich, and M. Baenitz

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220401(R) (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Identifying the spectroscopic modes of multiferroic BiFeO $_{3}$

Randy S. Fishman, Nobuo Furukawa, Jason T. Haraldsen, Masaaki Matsuda, and Shin Miyahara

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220402(R) (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

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Magnetic structural change of Sr $_{2}$ IrO $_{4}$ upon Mn doping

S. Calder, G.-X. Cao, M. D. Lumsden, J. W. Kim, Z. Gai, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220403(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Minimal electronic models for superconducting BiS $_{2}$ layers

Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, and Kazuhiko Kuroki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220501(R) (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Abrupt enhancement of noncentrosymmetry and appearance of a spin-triplet superconducting state in Li $_{2}$ (Pd $_{1 - x}$ Pt $_{x}$ ) $_{3}$ B beyond $x = 0.8$

S. Harada, J. J. Zhou, Y. G. Yao, Y. Inada, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220502(R) (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Quantum state sensitivity of an autoresonant superconducting circuit

K. W. Murch, E. Ginossar, S. J. Weber, R. Vijay, S. M. Girvin, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220503(R) (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

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Evidence of a critical hole concentration in underdoped YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{y}$ single crystals revealed by $^{63}$ Cu NMR

S.-H. Baek, T. Loew, V. Hinkov, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, B. Büchner, and H.-J. Grafe

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220504(R) (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

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Unique phase diagram with narrow superconducting dome in EuFe $_{2}$ (As $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ due to Eu $^{2 +}$ local magnetic moments

Y. Tokiwa, S.-H. Hübner, O. Beck, H. S. Jeevan, and P. Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220505(R) (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

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Splitting of the zero-bias conductance peak as smoking gun evidence for the existence of the Majorana mode in a superconductor-semiconductor nanowire

S. Das Sarma, Jay D. Sau, and Tudor D. Stanescu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220506(R) (2012) - Published 21 December, 2012

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Model description of the supersolid state in YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{6 + x}$

A. M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220508(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

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Effect of pressure on the neutron spin resonance in the unconventional superconductor FeTe $_{0.6}$ Se $_{0.4}$

K. Marty, A. D. Christianson, A. M. dos Santos, B. Sipos, K. Matsubayashi, Y. Uwatoko, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, C. A. Tulk, T. A. Maier, B. C. Sales, and M. D. Lumsden

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220509(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

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BiS $_{2}$ -based layered superconductor Bi $_{4}$ O $_{4}$ S $_{3}$

Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yoshito Gotoh, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Hidetomo Usui, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Satoshi Demura, Yoshihiko Takano, Hiroki Izawa, and Osuke Miura

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220510(R) (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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Hydrostatic-pressure tuning of magnetic, nonmagnetic, and superconducting states in annealed Ca(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

E. Gati, S. Köhler, D. Guterding, B. Wolf, S. Knöner, S. Ran, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and M. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 220511(R) (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

First-principles study of the structural and elastic properties of rhenium-based transition-metal alloys

Maarten de Jong, David L. Olmsted, Axel van de Walle, and Mark Asta

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224101 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

First-principles study of hexagonal tungsten trioxide: Nature of lattice distortions and effect of potassium doping

Peter Krüger, Issam Koutiri, and Sylvie Bourgeois

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224102 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Release of helium from vacancy defects in yttria-stabilized zirconia under irradiation

Xin Ou, Reinhard Kögler, Hong-Bo Zhou, Wolfgang Anwand, Jörg Grenzer, René Hübner, Matthias Voelskow, Maik Butterling, Shengqiang Zhou, and Wolfgang Skorupa

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224103 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Polymorphism and melt in high-pressure tantalum

Justin B. Haskins, John A. Moriarty, and Randolph Q. Hood

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224104 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Phase transitions in ferroelectric Pb $_{0.5}$ Sr $_{0.5}$ TiO $_{3}$ films probed by spectroscopic ellipsometry

M. Tyunina, A. Dejneka, D. Chvostova, J. Levoska, M. Plekh, and L. Jastrabik

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224105 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Neutron scattering study of ferroelectric Sn $_{2}$ P $_{2}$ S $_{6}$ under pressure

P. Ondrejkovic, M. Kempa, Y. Vysochanskii, P. Saint-Grégoire, P. Bourges, K. Z. Rushchanskii, and J. Hlinka

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224106 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

Influence of Ni on the lattice stability of Fe-Ni alloys at multimegabar pressures

O. Yu. Vekilova, S. I. Simak, A. V. Ponomareva, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224107 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Scaling coefficient for three-dimensional grain coalescence of ZnO on Si(111)

Marcel Ruth and Cedrik Meier

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224108 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Decomposition kinetics of Fe-Cr solid solutions during thermal aging

Enrique Martínez, Oriane Senninger, Chu-Chun Fu, and Frédéric Soisson

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224109 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Low-energy structures of zinc borohydride Zn(BH $_{4}$ ) $_{2}$

Tran Doan Huan, Maximilian Amsler, Vu Ngoc Tuoc, Alexander Willand, and Stefan Goedecker

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224110 (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

Pressure dependence of the monoclinic phase in $(1 - x)$ Pb(Mg $_{1 / 3}$ Nb $_{2 / 3}$ )O $_{3}$ - $x$ PbTiO $_{3}$ solid solutions

Muhtar Ahart, Stanislav Sinogeikin, Olga Shebanova, Daijo Ikuta, Zuo-Guang Ye, Ho-kwang Mao, R. E. Cohen, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224111 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defect stability in phase-field crystal models: Stacking faults and partial dislocations

Joel Berry, Nikolas Provatas, Jörg Rottler, and Chad W. Sinclair

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224112 (2012) - Published 27 December, 2012

Ab initio simulations of hot dense methane during shock experiments

Benjamin L. Sherman, Hugh F. Wilson, Dayanthie Weeraratne, and Burkhard Militzer

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224113 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Enhancement of dielectric constant of BaTiO $_{3}$ nanoparticles studied by resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy

Nobuo Nakajima, Megumi Oki, Yoichi Isohama, Hiroshi Maruyama, Yasuhisa Tezuka, Kotaro Ishiji, Toshiaki Iwazumi, and Kozo Okada

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224114 (2012) - Published 28 December, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Structural properties of glassy Ge $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ from first-principles molecular dynamics

Sébastien Le Roux, Assil Bouzid, Mauro Boero, and Carlo Massobrio

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224201 (2012) - Published 19 December, 2012

Thermodynamic integration based on classical atomistic simulations to determine the Gibbs energy of condensed phases: Calculation of the aluminum-zirconium system

J.-P. Harvey, A. E. Gheribi, and P. Chartrand

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224202 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Lattice dynamics in Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ and Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ : Te and Sb density of phonon states

D. Bessas, I. Sergueev, H.-C. Wille, J. Perßon, D. Ebling, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224301 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Dynamics of confined cavity modes in a phononic crystal slab investigated by in situ time-resolved experiments

R. Marchal, O. Boyko, B. Bonello, J. Zhao, L. Belliard, M. Oudich, Y. Pennec, and B. Djafari-Rouhani

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224302 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Phononic filter effect of rattling phonons in the thermoelectric clathrate Ba $_{8}$ Ge $_{40 + x}$ Ni $_{6 - x}$

H. Euchner, S. Pailhès, L. T. K. Nguyen, W. Assmus, F. Ritter, A. Haghighirad, Y. Grin, S. Paschen, and M. de Boissieu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224303 (2012) - Published 20 December, 2012

Electrostriction and guidance of acoustic phonons in optical fibers

Jean-Charles Beugnot and Vincent Laude

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224304 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

Magnetism

Accelerating the switching of magnetic nanoclusters by anisotropy-driven magnetization dynamics

Corina Etz, Marcio Costa, Olle Eriksson, and Anders Bergman

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224401 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Spin injection from a half-metal at finite temperatures

K. D. Belashchenko, J. K. Glasbrenner, and A. L. Wysocki

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224402 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dualism of the 5 $f$ electrons of the ferromagnetic superconductor UGe $_{2}$ as seen in magnetic, transport, and specific-heat data

R. Troć, Z. Gajek, and A. Pikul

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224403 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Towards the chemical tuning of entanglement in molecular nanomagnets

I. Siloi and F. Troiani

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224404 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Two-wave mixing in nonlinear magnetization dynamics: A perturbation expansion of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

J. Marsh and R. E. Camley

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224405 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Low-energy effective theory and two distinct critical phases in a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ frustrated three-leg spin tube

Yang Zhao, Shou-Shu Gong, Yong-Jun Wang, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224406 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

Canted antiferromagnetism on a nanodimensional spherical surface geometry: The case of MnCO $_{3}$ small hollow nanospheres

Jin Bae Lee, Won G. Hong, Hae Jin Kim, Z. Jagličić, S. Jazbec, M. Wencka, A. Jelen, and J. Dolinšek

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224407 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Sign of the superexchange coupling between next-nearest neighbors in EuO

Pan Liu, Juan A.Colón Santana, Qilin Dai, Xianjie Wang, Peter A. Dowben, and Jinke Tang

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224408 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Paired chiral spin liquid with a Fermi surface in $S = 1$ model on the triangular lattice

Samuel Bieri, Maksym Serbyn, T. Senthil, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224409 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

First-principles determination of the rhombohedral magnetostriction of Fe $_{100 - x}$ Al $_{x}$ and Fe $_{100 - x}$ Ga $_{x}$ alloys

Yanning Zhang, Hui Wang, and Ruqian Wu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224410 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Gapless edge states and their stability in two-dimensional quantum magnets

Takafumi Suzuki and Masahiro Sato

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224411 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

ESR intensity and the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction of the nanoscale molecular magnet V $_{15}$

Manabu Machida, Toshiaki Iitaka, and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224412 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Magnetic order induced by Fe substitution of Al site in the heavy-fermion systems $α$ -YbAlB $_{4}$ and $β$ -YbAlB $_{4}$

Kentaro Kuga, Gregory Morrison, LaRico Treadwell, Julia Y. Chan, and Satoru Nakatsuji

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224413 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Magnetization reversal in Ni/FeF $_{2}$ heterostructures with the coexistence of positive and negative exchange bias

Miroslavna Kovylina, Rafael Morales, Amílcar Labarta, and Xavier Batlle

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224414 (2012) - Published 17 December, 2012

Electronic and magnetic properties of bimetallic $L 1_{0}$ cuboctahedral clusters by means of fully relativistic density-functional-based calculations

R. Cuadrado and R. W. Chantrell

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224415 (2012) - Published 18 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-triplet supercurrent in Co/Ni multilayer Josephson junctions with perpendicular anisotropy

E. C. Gingrich, P. Quarterman, Yixing Wang, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224506 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Possible multigap superconductivity and magnetism in single crystals of superconducting La $_{2}$ Pt $_{3}$ Ge $_{5}$ and Pr $_{2}$ Pt $_{3}$ Ge $_{5}$

N. H. Sung, C. J. Roh, K. S. Kim, and B. K. Cho

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224507 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure dependence of superconducting transition temperature of KFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Yong Liu, Thomas A. Lograsso, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 86, 224514 (2012) - Published 26 December, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Three-dimensional imaging of a phase object from a single sample orientation using an optical laser”

Haiqing Wei and Shiyuan Liu

Phys. Rev. B 86, 226101 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Reply to “Comment on ‘Three-dimensional imaging of a phase object from a single sample orientation using an optical laser’ ”

Chien-Chun Chen, Huaidong Jiang, Lu Rong, Sara Salha, Rui Xu, Thomas G. Mason, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. B 86, 226102 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Comment on “Symmetry of Kelvin-wave dynamics and the Kelvin-wave cascade in the $T = 0$ superfluid turbulence”

Victor S. L’vov and Sergey V. Nazarenko

Phys. Rev. B 86, 226501 (2012) - Published 27 December, 2012

Reply to “Comment on ‘Symmetry of Kelvin-wave dynamics and the Kelvin-wave cascade in the $T = 0$ superfluid turbulence’ ”

E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. B 86, 226502 (2012) - Published 27 December, 2012