Volume 87, Issue 2

1 January 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Matching domain-wall configuration and spin-orbit torques for efficient domain-wall motion

A. V. Khvalkovskiy, V. Cros, D. Apalkov, V. Nikitin, M. Krounbi, K. A. Zvezdin, A. Anane, J. Grollier, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020402(R) (2013) - Published 4 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Microscopic model for ultrafast magnetization dynamics of multisublattice magnets

A. J. Schellekens and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020407(R) (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Domain formation and dielectric response in PbTiO $_{3}$ : A first-principles free-energy landscape analysis

Anil Kumar, Karin M. Rabe, and Umesh V. Waghmare

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024107 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique for frustrated spin systems

S. A. Kulagin, N. Prokof'ev, O. A. Starykh, B. Svistunov, and C. N. Varney

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024407 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-filtering efficiency of ferrimagnetic spinels CoFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ and NiFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

Nuala M. Caffrey, Daniel Fritsch, Thomas Archer, Stefano Sanvito, and Claude Ederer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024419 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronically driven superconductor-insulator transition in electrostatically doped La $_{2}$ CuO $_{4 + δ}$ thin films

J. Garcia-Barriocanal, A. Kobrinskii, X. Leng, J. Kinney, B. Yang, S. Snyder, and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024509 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Vortex emission from quantum turbulence in superfluid $^{4}$ He

Y. Nago, A. Nishijima, H. Kubo, T. Ogawa, K. Obara, H. Yano, O. Ishikawa, and T. Hata

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024511 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Derivation of the Johnson-Samwer $T^{2 / 3}$ temperature dependence of the yield strain in metallic glasses

Ratul Dasgupta, Ashwin Joy, H. G. E. Hentschel, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020101(R) (2013) - Published 28 January, 2013

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

From antiferromagnetic insulator to ferromagnetic metal: Effects of hydrogen substitution in LaMnAsO

Taku Hanna, Satoru Matsuishi, Katsuaki Kodama, Toshiya Otomo, Shin-ichi Shamoto, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020401(R) (2013) - Published 2 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Matching domain-wall configuration and spin-orbit torques for efficient domain-wall motion

A. V. Khvalkovskiy, V. Cros, D. Apalkov, V. Nikitin, M. Krounbi, K. A. Zvezdin, A. Anane, J. Grollier, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020402(R) (2013) - Published 4 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy of the room-temperature antiferromagnet $c$ -FeSi

Igor Altfeder, Wei Yi, and V. Narayanamurti

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020403(R) (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

High-field irreversible moment reorientation in the antiferromagnet Fe $_{1.1}$ Te

W. Knafo, R. Viennois, G. Ballon, X. Fabrèges, F. Duc, C. Detlefs, J. Léotin, and E. Giannini

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020404(R) (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ferrimagnetism in PrCoO $_{3}$ epitaxial films

Virat V. Mehta, Shameek Bose, Jodi M. Iwata-Harms, Elke Arenholz, C. Leighton, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020405(R) (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quasi-two-dimensional noncollinear magnetism in the Mott insulator Sr $_{2}$ F $_{2}$ Fe $_{2}$ OS $_{2}$

Liang L. Zhao, Shan Wu, Jiakui K. Wang, J. P. Hodges, C. Broholm, and E. Morosan

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020406(R) (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Microscopic model for ultrafast magnetization dynamics of multisublattice magnets

A. J. Schellekens and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020407(R) (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bond randomness induced magnon decoherence in a spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ ladder compound

B. Náfrádi, T. Keller, H. Manaka, U. Stuhr, A. Zheludev, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020408(R) (2013) - Published 28 January, 2013

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Field-free synthetic-ferromagnet spin torque oscillator

Yan Zhou, Jiang Xiao (萧江), Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and F. C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020409(R) (2013) - Published 29 January, 2013

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Strong magnon softening in tetragonal FeCo compounds

Ersoy Şaşıoğlu, Christoph Friedrich, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020410(R) (2013) - Published 29 January, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Onset of superconductivity in a voltage-biased normal-superconducting-normal microbridge

Maksym Serbyn and Mikhail A. Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020501(R) (2013) - Published 2 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Tunneling spectroscopy using a probe qubit

A. J. Berkley, A. J. Przybysz, T. Lanting, R. Harris, N. Dickson, F. Altomare, M. H. Amin, P. Bunyk, C. Enderud, E. Hoskinson, M. W. Johnson, E. Ladizinsky, R. Neufeld, C. Rich, A. Yu. Smirnov, E. Tolkacheva, S. Uchaikin, and A. B. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020502(R) (2013) - Published 3 January, 2013

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Vortex-induced strain and magnetization in type-II superconductors

V. G. Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020503(R) (2013) - Published 4 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Superconductivity induced by La doping in Sr $_{1 - x}$ La $_{x}$ FBiS $_{2}$

Xi Lin, Xinxin Ni, Bin Chen, Xiaofeng Xu, Xuxin Yang, Jianhui Dai, Yuke Li, Xiaojun Yang, Yongkang Luo, Qian Tao, Guanghan Cao, and Zhuan Xu

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020504(R) (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Unified character of correlation effects in unconventional Pu-based superconductors and $δ$ -Pu

A. B. Shick, J. Kolorenc, J. Rusz, P. M. Oppeneer, A. I. Lichtenstein, M. I. Katsnelson, and R. Caciuffo

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020505(R) (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Ferroelectric soft phonons, charge density wave instability, and strong electron-phonon coupling in BiS $_{2}$ layered superconductors: A first-principles study

T. Yildirim

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020506(R) (2013) - Published 17 January, 2013

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Anisotropy of the critical temperature of a superconducting niobium thin film with an array of nanoscale holes in an external magnetic field

M. L. Latimer, Z. L. Xiao, J. Hua, A. Joshi-Imre, Y. L. Wang, R. Divan, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020507(R) (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

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Resistance in transition-edge sensors: A comparison of the resistively shunted junction and two-fluid models

Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel S. Swetz, Daniel R. Schmidt, and Joel N. Ullom

Phys. Rev. B 87, 020508(R) (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Bonding, structures, and band gap closure of hydrogen at high pressures

Alexander F. Goncharov, John S. Tse, Hui Wang, Jianjun Yang, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Ross T. Howie, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024101 (2013) - Published 2 January, 2013

Domain walls in a perovskite oxide with two primary structural order parameters: First-principles study of BiFeO $_{3}$

Oswaldo Diéguez, Pablo Aguado-Puente, Javier Junquera, and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024102 (2013) - Published 4 January, 2013

Mechanism for the $α \to ε$ phase transition in iron

Bertrand Dupé, Bernard Amadon, Yves-Patrick Pellegrini, and Christophe Denoual

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024103 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

First-principles study of rare gas incorporation in titanium nitride

R. Bès, Y. Pipon, N. Millard-Pinard, S. Gavarini, and M. Freyss

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024104 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Formalism to model stacking fault effects on surface phase stability in alloys

Koretaka Yuge, Ryuichiro Saito, and Jun Kawai

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024105 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Structural investigation of strontium titanate nanoparticles and the core-shell model

J. M. Kiat, C. Bogicevic, P. Gemeiner, A. Al-Zein, F. Karolak, N. Guiblin, F. Porcher, B. Hehlen, Ll. Yedra, S. Estradé, F. Peiró, and R. Haumont

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024106 (2013) - Published 16 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Domain formation and dielectric response in PbTiO $_{3}$ : A first-principles free-energy landscape analysis

Anil Kumar, Karin M. Rabe, and Umesh V. Waghmare

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024107 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Phase transitions in $X Y$ antiferromagnets on plane triangulations

Jian-Ping Lv, Timothy M. Garoni, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024108 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Structural short-range forces between solid-melt interfaces

R. Spatschek, A. Adland, and A. Karma

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024109 (2013) - Published 29 January, 2013

Phase-field-crystal study of grain boundary premelting and shearing in bcc iron

Ari Adland, Alain Karma, Robert Spatschek, Dorel Buta, and Mark Asta

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024110 (2013) - Published 29 January, 2013

Large built-in electric fields due to flexoelectricity in compositionally graded ferroelectric thin films

J. Karthik, R. V. K. Mangalam, J. C. Agar, and L. W. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024111 (2013) - Published 30 January, 2013

H $_{4}$ O and other hydrogen-oxygen compounds at giant-planet core pressures

Shuai Zhang, Hugh F. Wilson, Kevin P. Driver, and Burkhard Militzer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024112 (2013) - Published 31 January, 2013

Local structure, pseudosymmetry, and phase transitions in Na $_{1 / 2}$ Bi $_{1 / 2}$ TiO $_{3}$ –K $_{1 / 2}$ Bi $_{1 / 2}$ TiO $_{3}$ ceramics

I. Levin, I. M. Reaney, E-M. Anton, Wook Jo, J. Rödel, J. Pokorny, L. A. Schmitt, H-J. Kleebe, M. Hinterstein, and J. L. Jones

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024113 (2013) - Published 31 January, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Joint diffraction and modeling approach to the structure of liquid alumina

Lawrie B. Skinner, Adrian C. Barnes, Philip S. Salmon, Louis Hennet, Henry E. Fischer, Chris J. Benmore, Shinji Kohara, J. K. Richard Weber, Aleksei Bytchkov, Martin C. Wilding, John B. Parise, Thomas O. Farmer, Irina Pozdnyakova, Sonia K. Tumber, and Koji Ohara

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024201 (2013) - Published 3 January, 2013

Thermodynamic measure of the magnetoelectric coupling in a three-dimensional topological insulator

Doron L. Bergman and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024202 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Mobility relaxation and electron trapping in a donor/acceptor copolymer

Marcel Schubert, Eduard Preis, James C. Blakesley, Patrick Pingel, Ullrich Scherf, and Dieter Neher

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024203 (2013) - Published 17 January, 2013

Boundary critical phenomena of the random transverse Ising model in $D \geq 2$ dimensions

István A. Kovács and Ferenc Iglói

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024204 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Adiabatic pumping in the quasi-one-dimensional triangle lattice

Michael Schulze, Dario Bercioux, and Daniel F. Urban

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024301 (2013) - Published 4 January, 2013

Anomaly in the viscosity of liquid KCl at high pressures

Yoshio Kono, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Changyong Park, Guoyin Shen, and Yanbin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024302 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Relaxation oscillations during the laser-induced spin state transition of a [Fe(PM-BiA) $_{2}$ (NCS) $_{2}$ ] complex

B. Viquerat, J. Degert, J. F. Létard, and E. Freysz

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024303 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Nonlinearity in nanomechanical cantilevers

L. G. Villanueva, R. B. Karabalin, M. H. Matheny, D. Chi, J. E. Sader, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024304 (2013) - Published 28 January, 2013

Magnetism

Correlating the interface structure to spin injection in abrupt Fe/GaAs(001) films

L. R. Fleet, K. Yoshida, H. Kobayashi, Y. Kaneko, S. Matsuzaka, Y. Ohno, H. Ohno, S. Honda, J. Inoue, and A. Hirohata

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024401 (2013) - Published 2 January, 2013

Magnetic texture-induced thermal Hall effects

Kevin A. van Hoogdalem, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024402 (2013) - Published 2 January, 2013

Theoretical study of the magnetic order in $α$ -CoV $_{2}$ O $_{6}$

A. Saúl, D. Vodenicarevic, and G. Radtke

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024403 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Magnetic states of the two-leg-ladder alkali metal iron selenides $A$ Fe $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$

Qinlong Luo, Andrew Nicholson, Julián Rincón, Shuhua Liang, José Riera, Gonzalo Alvarez, Limin Wang, Wei Ku, German D. Samolyuk, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024404 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Real and effective thermal equilibrium in artificial square spin ices

Jason P. Morgan, Johanna Akerman, Aaron Stein, Charudatta Phatak, R. M. L. Evans, Sean Langridge, and Christopher H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024405 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Source of magnetic anisotropy in quasi-two-dimensional $X Y$ ${{Cu}_{4}$ (tetrenH $_{5}$ )W(CN) $_{8}$ ] $_{4}$ $\cdot$ 7.2H $_{2}$ O ${)}}_{n}$ bilayer molecular magnet

O. Zaharko, M. Pregelj, A. Zorko, R. Podgajny, A. Gukasov, J. van Tol, S. I. Klokishner, S. Ostrovsky, and B. Delley

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024406 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique for frustrated spin systems

S. A. Kulagin, N. Prokof'ev, O. A. Starykh, B. Svistunov, and C. N. Varney

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024407 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Broadband diamagnetism in anisotropic metamaterials

Mikhail Lapine, Anastasia K. Krylova, Pavel A. Belov, Chris G. Poulton, Ross C. McPhedran, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024408 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Antiferromagnetic spin structure and lithium ion diffusion in Li $_{2}$ MnO $_{3}$ probed by $μ^{+}$ SR

Jun Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Mukai, Hiroshi Nozaki, Masashi Harada, Martin Månsson, Kazuya Kamazawa, Daniel Andreica, Alex Amato, and Adrian D. Hillier

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024409 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Ordinary and intrinsic anomalous Hall effects in Nb $_{1 - y}$ Fe $_{2 + y}$

Sven Friedemann, Manuel Brando, William J Duncan, Andreas Neubauer, Christian Pfleiderer, and F Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024410 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

CoFe alloy as middle layer for strong spin dependent quantum well resonant tunneling in MgO double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions

R. S. Liu, See-Hun Yang, Xin Jiang, X.-G. Zhang, Charles Rettner, Li Gao, Teya Topuria, Philip M. Rice, Weifeng Zhang, C. M. Canali, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024411 (2013) - Published 16 January, 2013

Ferromagnetic resonance measurements of GaP epilayers with embedded MnP nanoclusters grown on GaP(001)

Christian Lacroix, Samuel Lambert-Milot, Remo A. Masut, Patrick Desjardins, and David Ménard

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024412 (2013) - Published 16 January, 2013

Quantum theory of magnetoelectricity in rare-earth multiferroics: Nd, Sm, and Eu ferroborates

A. I. Popov, D. I. Plokhov, and A. K. Zvezdin

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024413 (2013) - Published 17 January, 2013

Spin glasses in a field: Three and four dimensions as seen from one space dimension

Derek Larson, Helmut G. Katzgraber, M. A. Moore, and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024414 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Exotic disordered phases in the quantum $J_{1}$ - $J_{2}$ model on the honeycomb lattice

Hao Zhang and C. A. Lamas

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024415 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Phase transitions in Sr $_{2}$ YRuO $_{6}$ investigated by Mössbauer spectroscopy, magnetization, and thermodynamic measurements

G. Long, M. DeMarco, D. Coffey, M. K. Toth, and M. S. Torikachvili

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024416 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Prediction of the bias voltage dependent magnetic contrast in spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

Krisztián Palotás

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024417 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Reversal of magnetization of a single-domain magnetic particle by the ac field of time-dependent frequency

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

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024418 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-filtering efficiency of ferrimagnetic spinels CoFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ and NiFe $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

Nuala M. Caffrey, Daniel Fritsch, Thomas Archer, Stefano Sanvito, and Claude Ederer

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024419 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Generalized Slater-Pauling rule for the inverse Heusler compounds

S. Skaftouros, K. Özdoğan, E. Şaşıoğlu, and I. Galanakis

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024420 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Unconventional quantum ordered and disordered states in the highly frustrated spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Ising-Heisenberg model on triangles-in-triangles lattices

Jana Čisárová and Jozef Strečka

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024421 (2013) - Published 29 January, 2013

Frustrated pentagonal Cairo lattice in the non-collinear antiferromagnet Bi $_{4}$ Fe $_{5}$ O $_{13}$ F

Artem M. Abakumov, Dmitry Batuk, Alexander A. Tsirlin, Clemens Prescher, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Denis V. Sheptyakov, Walter Schnelle, Joke Hadermann, and Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Phys. Rev. B 87, 024423 (2013) - Published 30 January, 2013