Volume 87, Issue 14

1 April 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamically generated pure spin current in single-layer graphene

Zhenyao Tang, Eiji Shikoh, Hiroki Ago, Kenji Kawahara, Yuichiro Ando, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140401(R) (2013) - Published 2 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Realization of higher Wess-Zumino-Witten models in spin chains

Frédéric Michaud, Salvatore R. Manmana, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140404(R) (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Prediction of the kink-pair formation enthalpy on screw dislocations in $α$ -iron by a line tension model parametrized on empirical potentials and first-principles calculations

Laurent Proville, Lisa Ventelon, and David Rodney

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144106 (2013) - Published 23 April, 2013

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Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice

Songbo Jin, Arnab Sen, Wenan Guo, and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144406 (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of spin Hall magnetoresistance

Yan-Ting Chen, Saburo Takahashi, Hiroyasu Nakayama, Matthias Althammer, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Eiji Saitoh, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144411 (2013) - Published 12 April, 2013

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Three-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phase close to antiferromagnetic Néel order

Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144421 (2013) - Published 25 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mott insulators of ultracold fermionic alkaline earth atoms in three dimensions

Hao Song (宋昊) and Michael Hermele

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144423 (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$s + i s$ state with broken time-reversal symmetry in Fe-based superconductors

Saurabh Maiti and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144511 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Grain-boundary structural transformation induced by geometry and chemistry

Yukio Sato, Ji-Young Roh, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140101(R) (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Investigation of the electromagnon excitations in the multiferroic TbMn $_{2}$ O $_{5}$

S. Petit, V. Balédent, C. Doubrovsky, M. B. Lepetit, M. Greenblatt, B. Wanklyn, and P. Foury-Leylekian

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140301(R) (2013) - Published 25 April, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Minimum thermal conductivity in superlattices: A first-principles formalism

Jivtesh Garg and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140302(R) (2013) - Published 26 April, 2013

Magnetism

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamically generated pure spin current in single-layer graphene

Zhenyao Tang, Eiji Shikoh, Hiroki Ago, Kenji Kawahara, Yuichiro Ando, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140401(R) (2013) - Published 2 April, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Gapless spin liquids: Stability and possible experimental relevance

Maissam Barkeshli, Hong Yao, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140402(R) (2013) - Published 2 April, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Improper ferroelectricity and multiferroism in 2 $H$ -BaMnO $_{3}$

Julien Varignon and Philippe Ghosez

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140403(R) (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Realization of higher Wess-Zumino-Witten models in spin chains

Frédéric Michaud, Salvatore R. Manmana, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140404(R) (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electric-field-controlled antiferromagnetic domains in epitaxial BiFeO $_{3}$ thin films probed by neutron diffraction

W. Ratcliff, II, Zahra Yamani, V. Anbusathaiah, T. R. Gao, P. A. Kienzle, H. Cao, and I. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140405(R) (2013) - Published 15 April, 2013

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Magnetic and crystal structures of ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ : A neutron diffraction study

Feng Ye, Songxue Chi, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca, Tongfei Qi, and G. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140406(R) (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

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Simplex $Z_{2}$ spin liquids on the kagome lattice with projected entangled pair states: Spinon and vison coherence lengths, topological entropy, and gapless edge modes

Didier Poilblanc and Norbert Schuch

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140407(R) (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

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Magnetic anisotropic energy gap and low-energy spin wave excitation in the antiferromagnetic block phase of K $_{2}$ Fe $_{4}$ Se $_{5}$

Y. Xiao, S. Nandi, Y. Su, S. Price, H.-F. Li, Z. Fu, W. Jin, A. Piovano, A. Ivanov, K. Schmalzl, W. Schmidt, T. Chatterji, Th. Wolf, and Th. Brückel

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140408(R) (2013) - Published 26 April, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Slow noise processes in superconducting resonators

J. Burnett, T. Lindström, M. Oxborrow, Y. Harada, Y. Sekine, P. Meeson, and A. Ya. Tzalenchuk

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140501(R) (2013) - Published 5 April, 2013

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Effect of a magnetic field on the quasiparticle recombination in superconductors

Xiaoxiang Xi, J. Hwang, C. Martin, D. H. Reitze, C. J. Stanton, D. B. Tanner, and G. L. Carr

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140502(R) (2013) - Published 5 April, 2013

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High-temperature surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite

N. B. Kopnin, M. Ijäs, A. Harju, and T. T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140503(R) (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

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Disentangling Majorana fermions from topologically trivial low-energy states in semiconductor Majorana wires

T. D. Stanescu and Sumanta Tewari

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140504(R) (2013) - Published 11 April, 2013

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Nodal superconductivity in isovalently substituted SrFe $_{2}$ (As $_{1 - x}$ P $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ pnictide superconductor at the optimal doping $x = 0.35$

J. Murphy, C. P. Strehlow, K. Cho, M. A. Tanatar, N. Salovich, R. W. Giannetta, T. Kobayashi, S. Miyasaka, S. Tajima, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140505(R) (2013) - Published 16 April, 2013

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Strong enhancement of the critical current at the antiferromagnetic transition in ErNi $_{2}$ B $_{2}$ C single crystals

M. Weigand, L. Civale, F. J. Baca, Jeehoon Kim, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and B. Maiorov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140506(R) (2013) - Published 18 April, 2013

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Superconducting properties of the In-substituted topological crystalline insulator SnTe

G. Balakrishnan, L. Bawden, S. Cavendish, and M. R. Lees

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140507(R) (2013) - Published 23 April, 2013

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Coexistence of the superconducting energy gap and pseudogap above and below the transition temperature of cuprate superconductors

J. L. Tallon, F. Barber, J. G. Storey, and J. W. Loram

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140508(R) (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

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Two-dimensional magnetic interactions in LaFeAsO

M. Ramazanoglu, J. Lamsal, G. S. Tucker, J.-Q. Yan, S. Calder, T. Guidi, T. Perring, R. W. McCallum, T. A. Lograsso, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. B 87, 140509(R) (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Topological magnon insulator in insulating ferromagnet

Lifa Zhang, Jie Ren, Jian-Sheng Wang, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144101 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

Complex nanoprecipitate structures induced by irradiation in immiscible alloy systems

Shipeng Shu, P. Bellon, and R. S. Averback

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144102 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

Quantum Drude oscillator model of atoms and molecules: Many-body polarization and dispersion interactions for atomistic simulation

Andrew P. Jones, Jason Crain, Vlad P. Sokhan, Troy W. Whitfield, and Glenn J. Martyna

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144103 (2013) - Published 15 April, 2013

Complex role for thallium in PbTe:Tl from local probe studies

T. Keiber, F. Bridges, B.C. Sales, and H. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144104 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

Structure change, layer sliding, and metallization in high-pressure MoS $_{2}$

Liliana Hromadová, Roman Martoňák, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144105 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Prediction of the kink-pair formation enthalpy on screw dislocations in $α$ -iron by a line tension model parametrized on empirical potentials and first-principles calculations

Laurent Proville, Lisa Ventelon, and David Rodney

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144106 (2013) - Published 23 April, 2013

Method to account for arbitrary strains in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Gopinath Subramanian, Danny Perez, Blas P. Uberuaga, Carlos N. Tomé, and Arthur F. Voter

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144107 (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Polaronic model of two-level systems in amorphous solids

Kartiek Agarwal, Ivar Martin, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144201 (2013) - Published 3 April, 2013

Analytical and numerical study of uncorrelated disorder on a honeycomb lattice

Kean Loon Lee (李健伦), Benoît Grémaud, Christian Miniatura, and Dominique Delande

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144202 (2013) - Published 10 April, 2013

Classical-field renormalization flow of one-dimensional disordered bosons

Lode Pollet, Nikolay V. Prokof'ev, and Boris V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144203 (2013) - Published 24 April, 2013

Contribution of vacancies to relaxation in amorphous materials: A kinetic activation-relaxation technique study

Jean-Francois Joly, Laurent Karim Béland, Peter Brommer, and Normand Mousseau

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144204 (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Parametric amplification in Josephson junction embedded transmission lines

O. Yaakobi, L. Friedland, C. Macklin, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144301 (2013) - Published 1 April, 2013

Anharmonic vibrational properties in periodic systems: energy, electron-phonon coupling, and stress

Bartomeu Monserrat, N. D. Drummond, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144302 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

Dynamic control of quantum geometric heat flux in a nonequilibrium spin-boson model

Tian Chen, Xiang-Bin Wang, and Jie Ren

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144303 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

Anti-phase synchronization in microelectromechanical systems and effect of impulsive perturbations

Qingfei Chen, Ying-Cheng Lai, Junseok Chae, and Younghae Do

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144304 (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

Lattice dynamics of KNi $_{2}$ Se $_{2}$

N. Lazarević, M. Radonjić, M. Šćepanović, Hechang Lei (雷和畅), D. Tanasković, C. Petrovic, and Z. V. Popović

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144305 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

Magnetism

Atomistic spin dynamics of low-dimensional magnets

Lars Bergqvist, Andrea Taroni, Anders Bergman, Corina Etz, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144401 (2013) - Published 4 April, 2013

Irreversible magnetization switching using surface acoustic waves

L. Thevenard, J.-Y. Duquesne, E. Peronne, H. J. von Bardeleben, H. Jaffres, S. Ruttala, J-M. George, A. Lemaître, and C. Gourdon

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144402 (2013) - Published 4 April, 2013

Origin of multiferroicity in MnWO $_{4}$

I. V. Solovyev

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144403 (2013) - Published 4 April, 2013

Irreversible magnetic-field dependence of low-temperature heat transport of spin-ice compound Dy $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ in a [111] field

C. Fan, Z. Y. Zhao, H. D. Zhou, X. M. Wang, Q. J. Li, F. B. Zhang, X. Zhao, and X. F. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144404 (2013) - Published 5 April, 2013

Neutron scattering study of correlated phase behavior in Sr $_{2}$ IrO $_{4}$

Chetan Dhital, Tom Hogan, Z. Yamani, Clarina de la Cruz, Xiang Chen, Sovit Khadka, Zhensong Ren, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144405 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice

Songbo Jin, Arnab Sen, Wenan Guo, and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144406 (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

Low-temperature anisotropic magnetoresistance and planar Hall effect in SrRuO $_{3}$

Noam Haham, Yishai Shperber, James W. Reiner, and Lior Klein

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144407 (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

Evolution of magnetic and crystal structures in the multiferroic FeTe $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ Br

M. Pregelj, P. Jeglič, A. Zorko, O. Zaharko, T. Apih, A. Gradišek, M. Komelj, H. Berger, and D. Arčon

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144408 (2013) - Published 9 April, 2013

Even-odd effect in short antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains

A. Machens, N. P. Konstantinidis, O. Waldmann, I. Schneider, and S. Eggert

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144409 (2013) - Published 10 April, 2013

Gate-tunable exchange coupling between cobalt clusters on graphene

Hua Chen, Qian Niu, Zhenyu Zhang, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144410 (2013) - Published 10 April, 2013

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Theory of spin Hall magnetoresistance

Yan-Ting Chen, Saburo Takahashi, Hiroyasu Nakayama, Matthias Althammer, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Eiji Saitoh, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144411 (2013) - Published 12 April, 2013

Antiferromagnetic exchange interactions in the Ni $_{2}$ Mn $_{1.4}$ In $_{0.6}$ ferromagnetic Heusler alloy

K. R. Priolkar, P. A. Bhobe, D. N. Lobo, S. W. D'Souza, S. R. Barman, Aparna Chakrabarti, and S. Emura

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144412 (2013) - Published 15 April, 2013

Spin crossover in a single Fe(phen $)_{2}$ (NCS $)_{2}$ molecule adsorbed onto metallic substrates: An ab initio calculation

S. Gueddida and M. Alouani

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144413 (2013) - Published 15 April, 2013

Spin-polarized ground states and ferromagnetic order induced by low-coordinated surface atoms and defects in nanoscale magnesium oxide

Takashi Uchino and Toshinobu Yoko

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144414 (2013) - Published 18 April, 2013

Charge ordering and antiferromagnetism in (TMTTF) $_{2}$ SbF $_{6}$

Noriaki Matsunaga, Shinji Hirose, Naoki Shimohara, Takehito Satoh, Tomoyuki Isome, Masatoshi Yamomoto, Yang Liu, Atsushi Kawamoto, and Kazushige Nomura

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144415 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

Charge gap and charge-phonon coupling in LuFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

A. Glamazda, K.-Y. Choi, P. Lemmens, D. Wulferding, S. Park, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144416 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

Nematic phase and phase separation near saturation field in frustrated ferromagnets

Hiroaki T. Ueda and Tsutomu Momoi

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144417 (2013) - Published 22 April, 2013

Persistence of local-moment antiferromagnetic order in Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Mn $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

J. Lamsal, G. S. Tucker, T. W. Heitmann, A. Kreyssig, A. Jesche, Abhishek Pandey, Wei Tian, R. J. McQueeney, D. C. Johnston, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144418 (2013) - Published 24 April, 2013

Exact ground state of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice with classical Heisenberg spins

Alexei Grechnev

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144419 (2013) - Published 25 April, 2013

Quantum dynamics of vortices in mesoscopic magnetic disks

R. Zarzuela, E. M. Chudnovsky, J. M. Hernandez, and J. Tejada

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144420 (2013) - Published 25 April, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phase close to antiferromagnetic Néel order

Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144421 (2013) - Published 25 April, 2013

Oxygen vacancy-mediated room-temperature ferromagnetism in insulating cobalt-substituted SrTiO $_{3}$ epitaxially integrated with silicon

Agham B. Posadas, Chandrima Mitra, Chungwei Lin, Ajit Dhamdhere, David J. Smith, Maxim Tsoi, and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144422 (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

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Mott insulators of ultracold fermionic alkaline earth atoms in three dimensions

Hao Song (宋昊) and Michael Hermele

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144423 (2013) - Published 29 April, 2013

Double-exchange theory of ferroelectric polarization in orthorhombic manganites with twofold periodic magnetic texture

I. V. Solovyev and S. A. Nikolaev

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144424 (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

Magnetic transition in K $_{4}$ Cu $_{4}$ OCl $_{10}$ : A model system of three-dimensional spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ tetrahedra

Masayoshi Fujihala, Xu-Guang Zheng, Hiroki Morodomi, Tatsuya Kawae, and Isao Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144425 (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

Spin wave excitations in exchange-coupled [Co/Pd]-NiFe films with tunable tilting of the magnetization

S. Tacchi, T. N. Anh Nguyen, G. Carlotti, G. Gubbiotti, M. Madami, R. K. Dumas, J. W. Lau, Johan Åkerman, A. Rettori, and M. G. Pini

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144426 (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

Structural and magnetic properties in the quantum $S = \frac{1}{2}$ dimer system Ba $_{3}$ (Cr $_{1 - x}$ V $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ O $_{8}$ with site disorder

Tao Hong, L. Y. Zhu, X. Ke, V. O. Garlea, Y. Qiu, Y. Nambu, H. Yoshizawa, M. Zhu, G. E. Granroth, A. T. Savici, Zheng Gai, and H. D. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144427 (2013) - Published 30 April, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Early stages of magnetization relaxation in superconductors

Mihajlo Vanević, Zoran Radović, and Vladimir G. Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144501 (2013) - Published 1 April, 2013

Nodal gap in iron-based superconductor CsFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ probed by quasiparticle heat transport

X. C. Hong, X. L. Li, B. Y. Pan, L. P. He, A. F. Wang, X. G. Luo, X. H. Chen, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144502 (2013) - Published 1 April, 2013

High-resistance state of phase coherent nanoscale thin-film Al superconducting nanorings in magnetic fields

S. D. Snyder, T. Dunn, M. J. Erickson, J. Kinney, Yeonbae Lee, J. Nelson, and A. M Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144503 (2013) - Published 3 April, 2013

Electron-phonon superconductivity in $A$ Pt $_{3}$ P ( $A = Sr$ , Ca, La) compounds: From weak to strong coupling

Alaska Subedi, Luciano Ortenzi, and Lilia Boeri

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144504 (2013) - Published 5 April, 2013

Discerning electronic fingerprints of nodal and antinodal nestings and their phase coherences in doped cuprate superconductors

Tanmoy Das

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144505 (2013) - Published 8 April, 2013

Dynamic structure factor for $^{3}$ He in two dimensions

M. Nava, D. E. Galli, S. Moroni, and E. Vitali

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144506 (2013) - Published 12 April, 2013

Experimental observation of the triplet spin-valve effect in a superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructure

V. I. Zdravkov, J. Kehrle, G. Obermeier, D. Lenk, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, C. Müller, M. Yu. Kupriyanov, A. S. Sidorenko, S. Horn, R. Tidecks, and L. R. Tagirov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 144507 (2013) - Published 12 April, 2013