Volume 87, Issue 10

1 March 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heat capacity jump at $T_{c}$ and pressure derivatives of superconducting transition temperature in the Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ( $0.2 \leq x \leq 1.0$ ) series

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Mihai Sturza, Duck Young Chung, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100509(R) (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

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Stability maps to predict anomalous ductility in B2 materials

Ruoshi Sun and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104107 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

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Phenomenological $Z_{2}$ lattice gauge theory of the spin-liquid state of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Yuan Wan and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104408 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-metal lateral spin valve operated by spin pumping

Nils Kuhlmann, Christian Swoboda, Andreas Vogel, Toru Matsuyama, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104409 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Control of magnetic interaction and ferroelectricity by nonmagnetic Ga substitution in multiferroic YMn $_{2}$ O $_{5}$

H. Kimura, Y. Sakamoto, M. Fukunaga, H. Hiraka, and Y. Noda

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104414 (2013) - Published 29 March, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Codetermination of crystal structures at high pressure: Combined application of theory and experiment to the intermetallic compound AuGa $_{2}$

B. K. Godwal, S. Stackhouse, J. Yan, S. Speziale, Burkhard Militzer, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100101(R) (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Prediction of stable insulating intermetallic compounds

M. Mihalkovič, M. Krajčí, and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100201(R) (2013) - Published 6 March, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electric-field effects on the optical vibrations in AB-stacked bilayer graphene

R. Stein, D. Hughes, and Jia-An Yan

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100301(R) (2013) - Published 29 March, 2013

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Prediction of two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductors: Doped monolayer MoS $_{2}$ systems

Y. C. Cheng, Z. Y. Zhu, W. B. Mi, Z. B. Guo, and U. Schwingenschlögl

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100401(R) (2013) - Published 5 March, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Skyrmion dynamics in multiferroic insulators

Ye-Hua Liu, You-Quan Li, and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100402(R) (2013) - Published 13 March, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Determination of long-range all-in-all-out ordering of Ir $^{4 +}$ moments in a pyrochlore iridate Eu $_{2}$ Ir $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ by resonant x-ray diffraction

H. Sagayama, D. Uematsu, T. Arima, K. Sugimoto, J. J. Ishikawa, E. O’Farrell, and S. Nakatsuji

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100403(R) (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Neutron scattering study of spin dynamics in superconducting (Tl,Rb) $_{2}$ Fe $_{4}$ Se $_{5}$

Songxue Chi, Feng Ye, Wei Bao, Minghu Fang, H. D. Wang, C. H. Dong, A. T. Savici, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, and R. S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100501(R) (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

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Superconductivity, charge- or spin-density wave, and metal-nonmetal transition in BaTi $_{2}$ (Sb $_{1 - x}$ Bi $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ O

Hui-Fei Zhai, Wen-He Jiao, Yun-Lei Sun, Jin-Ke Bao, Hao Jiang, Xiao-Jun Yang, Zhang-Tu Tang, Qian Tao, Xiao-Feng Xu, Yu-Ke Li, Chao Cao, Jian-Hui Dai, Zhu-An Xu, and Guang-Han Cao

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100502(R) (2013) - Published 8 March, 2013

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Vortex lock-in transition and evidence for transitions among commensurate kinked vortex configurations in single-layered Fe arsenides

G. Li, G. Grissonnanche, B. S. Conner, F. Wolff-Fabris, C. Putzke, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, Z. Bukowski, J. Karpinski, and L. Balicas

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100503(R) (2013) - Published 11 March, 2013

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Realization of the $π$ -state in junctions formed by multiband superconductors with a spin density wave

Andreas Moor, Anatoly F. Volkov, and Konstantin B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100504(R) (2013) - Published 15 March, 2013

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Topological $π$ Josephson junction in superconducting Rashba wires

Teemu Ojanen

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100506(R) (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Formation of the density wave energy gap in Na $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ Sb $_{2}$ O: An optical spectroscopy study

Y. Huang, H. P. Wang, W. D. Wang, Y. G. Shi, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100507(R) (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Stabilizing fractional vortices in multiband superconductors with periodic pinning arrays

Shi-Zeng Lin and Charles Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100508(R) (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heat capacity jump at $T_{c}$ and pressure derivatives of superconducting transition temperature in the Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ( $0.2 \leq x \leq 1.0$ ) series

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Mihai Sturza, Duck Young Chung, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100509(R) (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anomalous Josephson current in superconducting topological insulator

Ai Yamakage, Masatoshi Sato, Keiji Yada, Satoshi Kashiwaya, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100510(R) (2013) - Published 25 March, 2013

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Possible triplet superconductivity in the quasi-one-dimensional conductor Li $_{0.9}$ Mo $_{6}$ O $_{17}$

A. G. Lebed and O. Sepper

Phys. Rev. B 87, 100511(R) (2013) - Published 27 March, 2013

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Critical phenomena in higher dimensional spaces: The hexagonal-to-orthorhombic phase transition in aperiodic $n$ -nonadecane/urea

C. Mariette, L. Guérin, P. Rabiller, C. Ecolivet, P. García-Orduña, P. Bourges, A. Bosak, D. de Sanctis, Mark D. Hollingsworth, T. Janssen, and B. Toudic

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104101 (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

Impact of critical point on piezoelectric and electrocaloric response in barium titanate

Nikola Novak, Raša Pirc, and Zdravko Kutnjak

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104102 (2013) - Published 6 March, 2013

Effect of spatial redistribution of valence holes on the formation of a defect halo of swift heavy-ion tracks in LiF

N. A. Medvedev, A. E. Volkov, K. Schwartz, and C. Trautmann

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104103 (2013) - Published 7 March, 2013

Interplay between elastic interactions in a core-shell model for spin-crossover nanoparticles

H. Oubouchou, A. Slimani, and K. Boukheddaden

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104104 (2013) - Published 7 March, 2013

Pathway and energetics of xenon migration in uranium dioxide

Alexander E. Thompson and C. Wolverton

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104105 (2013) - Published 11 March, 2013

Molecular dynamics and object kinetic Monte Carlo study of radiation-induced motion of voids and He bubbles in bcc iron

G. J. Galloway and G. J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104106 (2013) - Published 12 March, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stability maps to predict anomalous ductility in B2 materials

Ruoshi Sun and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104107 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Phase transitions in an Fe system containing a bcc/fcc phase boundary: An atomistic study

Binjun Wang and Herbert M. Urbassek

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104108 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Ab initio study of boron in $α$ -iron: Migration barriers and interaction with point defects

A. F. Bialon, T. Hammerschmidt, and R. Drautz

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104109 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Heterogeneities and strain glass behavior: Role of nanoscale precipitates in low-temperature-aged Ti $_{48.7}$ Ni $_{51.3}$ alloys

Yuanchao Ji, Xiangdong Ding, Turab Lookman, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104110 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Temperature dependent effective potential method for accurate free energy calculations of solids

Olle Hellman, Peter Steneteg, I. A. Abrikosov, and S. I. Simak

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104111 (2013) - Published 25 March, 2013

High-precision Fourier Monte Carlo simulation of crystalline membranes

A. Tröster

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104112 (2013) - Published 25 March, 2013

Local atomic structure deviation from average structure of Na $_{0.5}$ Bi $_{0.5}$ TiO $_{3}$ : Combined x-ray and neutron total scattering study

Elena Aksel, Jennifer S. Forrester, Juan C. Nino, Katharine Page, Daniel P. Shoemaker, and Jacob L. Jones

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104113 (2013) - Published 27 March, 2013

Thermal properties of fluorinated graphene

Sandeep Kumar Singh, S. Goverapet Srinivasan, M. Neek-Amal, S. Costamagna, Adri C. T. van Duin, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104114 (2013) - Published 29 March, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Ab initio study of collective dynamics in the liquid phase of the equimolar alloy CsAu: Evidence for a nonmetallic state

Taras Bryk and Ivan Klevets

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104201 (2013) - Published 7 March, 2013

Disordered topological metals

Julia S. Meyer and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104202 (2013) - Published 26 March, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamical calculations of Sc $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ single crystals

N. D. Todorov, M. V. Abrashev, V. Marinova, M. Kadiyski, L. Dimowa, and E. Faulques

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104301 (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

Phonon probe of local strains in SnS $_{x}$ Se $_{2 - x}$ mixed crystals

V. G. Hadjiev, D. De, H. B. Peng, J. Manongdo, and A. M. Guloy

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104302 (2013) - Published 15 March, 2013

Hydrogen diffusion in the protonic conductor BaCe $_{1 - x}$ Gd $_{x}$ O $_{3 - \frac{x}{2}}$ from density functional theory

Jessica Hermet, Marc Torrent, François Bottin, Guilhem Dezanneau, and Grégory Geneste

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104303 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Magnetism

Phase gap in pseudoternary $R_{1 - y} R_{y}^{'}$ Mn $_{2}$ $X_{2 - x} X_{x}^{'}$ compounds

J. L. Wang, S. J. Kennedy, S. J. Campbell, M. Hofmann, and S. X. Dou

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104401 (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

Broken discrete symmetries in a frustrated honeycomb antiferromagnet

H. D. Rosales, D. C. Cabra, C. A. Lamas, P. Pujol, and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104402 (2013) - Published 7 March, 2013

Magnetic phase transition in single crystals of the chiral helimagnet Cr $_{1 / 3}$ NbS $_{2}$

N. J. Ghimire, M. A. McGuire, D. S. Parker, B. Sipos, S. Tang, J.-Q. Yan, B. C. Sales, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104403 (2013) - Published 11 March, 2013

Stabilized helical spin order and multiferroic phase coexistence in MnWO $_{4}$ : Consequence of $4 d$ Ru substitution of Mn

H. W. Yu, M. F. Liu, X. Li, L. Li, L. Lin, Z. B. Yan, and J.-M. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104404 (2013) - Published 11 March, 2013

Low-energy magnetic excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional spin-1 chain compound SrNi $_{2}$ V $_{2}$ O $_{8}$

Zhe Wang, M. Schmidt, A. K. Bera, A. T. M. N. Islam, B. Lake, A. Loidl, and J. Deisenhofer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104405 (2013) - Published 12 March, 2013

Classifying fractionalization: Symmetry classification of gapped $Z_{2}$ spin liquids in two dimensions

Andrew M. Essin and Michael Hermele

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104406 (2013) - Published 14 March, 2013

Anti-ordinary Hall effect near the ferromagnetic quantum phase transition in Ni $_{x}$ Pt $_{1 - x}$ thin films

Taras Golod, Andreas Rydh, Peter Svedlindh, and Vladimir M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104407 (2013) - Published 14 March, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phenomenological $Z_{2}$ lattice gauge theory of the spin-liquid state of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Yuan Wan and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104408 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-metal lateral spin valve operated by spin pumping

Nils Kuhlmann, Christian Swoboda, Andreas Vogel, Toru Matsuyama, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104409 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Growth, magnetism and ferromagnetic thickness gap in Fe films on the W(111) surface

Qiang Wu, R. Zdyb, E. Bauer, and M. S. Altman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104410 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Phasons, amplitude modes, and spin waves in the amplitude-modulated magnetic phase of PrNi $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$

J. A. Blanco, B. Fåk, J. Jensen, M. Rotter, A. Hiess, D. Schmitt, and P. Lejay

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104411 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in various garnet ferrites

K. Uchida, T. Nonaka, T. Kikkawa, Y. Kajiwara, and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104412 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Magnetic order and low-energy excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet CuSe $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ with staggered fields

M. Herak, A. Zorko, M. Pregelj, O. Zaharko, G. Posnjak, Z. Jagličić, A. Potočnik, H. Luetkens, J. van Tol, A. Ozarowski, H. Berger, and D. Arčon

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104413 (2013) - Published 25 March, 2013

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Control of magnetic interaction and ferroelectricity by nonmagnetic Ga substitution in multiferroic YMn $_{2}$ O $_{5}$

H. Kimura, Y. Sakamoto, M. Fukunaga, H. Hiraka, and Y. Noda

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104414 (2013) - Published 29 March, 2013

Effect of Dirac spinons on angle-resolved photoemission signatures of herbertsmithite

Sumiran Pujari and Michael Lawler

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104415 (2013) - Published 29 March, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Pair breaking caused by magnetic impurities in the high-temperature superconductor Bi $_{2.1}$ Sr $_{1.9}$ Ca(Cu $_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ O $_{y}$

S. Parham, T. J. Reber, Y. Cao, J. A. Waugh, Z. Xu, J. Schneeloch, R. D. Zhong, G. Gu, G. Arnold, and D. S. Dessau

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104501 (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

Superconducting proximity effect in quantum wires without time-reversal symmetry

M. A. Skvortsov, P. M. Ostrovsky, D. A. Ivanov, and Ya. V. Fominov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104502 (2013) - Published 4 March, 2013

Orientation peculiarities of dc Josephson tunneling between $d$ -wave superconductors with charge density waves

Alexander M. Gabovich, Mai Suan Li, Henryk Szymczak, and Alexander I. Voitenko

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104503 (2013) - Published 5 March, 2013

Athermal energy loss from x-rays deposited in thin superconducting films on solid substrates

Alexander G. Kozorezov, Colin J. Lambert, Simon R. Bandler, Manuel A. Balvin, Sarah E. Busch, Peter N. Nagler, Jan-Patrick Porst, Stephen J. Smith, Thomas R. Stevenson, and John E. Sadleir

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104504 (2013) - Published 5 March, 2013

Models of superconducting Cu:Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ : Single- versus two-band description

S.-K. Yip

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104505 (2013) - Published 6 March, 2013

Interplane resistivity of isovalent doped BaFe $_{2}$ (As $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$

M. A. Tanatar, K. Hashimoto, S. Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104506 (2013) - Published 7 March, 2013

Andreev bound states and current-phase relations in three-dimensional topological insulators

M. Snelder, M. Veldhorst, A. A. Golubov, and A. Brinkman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104507 (2013) - Published 8 March, 2013

Nonlocal effect and dimensions of Cooper pairs measured by low-energy muons and polarized neutrons in type-I superconductors

V. Kozhevnikov, A. Suter, H. Fritzsche, V. Gladilin, A. Volodin, T. Moorkens, M. Trekels, J. Cuppens, B. M. Wojek, T. Prokscha, E. Morenzoni, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, M. J. Van Bael, K. Temst, C. Van Haesendonck, and J. O. Indekeu

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104508 (2013) - Published 11 March, 2013

Majorana fermions and odd-frequency Cooper pairs in a normal-metal nanowire proximity-coupled to a topological superconductor

Yasuhiro Asano and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104513 (2013) - Published 15 March, 2013

Multifractal scaling of flux penetration in the iron-based superconductor Ba(Fe $_{0.93}$ Co $_{0.07}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

Mathieu N. Grisolia, Cornelis J. van der Beek, Yanina Fasano, Anne Forget, and Dorothée Colson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 104517 (2013) - Published 26 March, 2013