Volume 88, Issue 10

1 September 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Transverse localization of sound

Alice Bretagne, Mathias Fink, and Arnaud Tourin

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100302(R) (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

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Phonon polaritons in uniaxial crystals: A Raman scattering study of polaritons in $α$ -GaN

Gert Irmer, Christian Röder, Cameliu Himcinschi, and Jens Kortus

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104303 (2013) - Published 12 September, 2013

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Crystal-field states of Pr $^{3 +}$ in the candidate quantum spin ice Pr $_{2}$ Sn $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

A. J. Princep, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and D. T. Adroja

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104421 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

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Response to a twist in systems with $Z_{p}$ symmetry: The two-dimensional $p$ -state clock model

Yuta Kumano, Koji Hukushima, Yusuke Tomita, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104427 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

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Quantum quench in a $p + i p$ superfluid: Winding numbers and topological states far from equilibrium

Matthew S. Foster, Maxim Dzero, Victor Gurarie, and Emil A. Yuzbashyan

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104511 (2013) - Published 16 September, 2013

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Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Towards three-dimensional structural determination of amorphous materials at atomic resolution

Chun Zhu, Chien-Chun Chen, Jincheng Du, Michael R. Sawaya, M. C. Scott, Peter Ercius, James Ciston, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100201(R) (2013) - Published 5 September, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

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Metadevices for the confinement of sound and broadband double-negativity behavior

J. Christensen, Z. Liang, and M. Willatzen

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100301(R) (2013) - Published 10 September, 2013

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Transverse localization of sound

Alice Bretagne, Mathias Fink, and Arnaud Tourin

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100302(R) (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

Magnetism

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Temperature dependence of the switching field in all-perpendicular spin-valve nanopillars

D. B. Gopman, D. Bedau, G. Wolf, S. Mangin, E. E. Fullerton, J. A. Katine, and A. D. Kent

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100401(R) (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

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Spontaneous spatial inversion symmetry breaking and spin Hall effect in a spin-ice double-exchange model

Hiroaki Ishizuka and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100402(R) (2013) - Published 5 September, 2013

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Phase coexistence and magnetically tuneable polarization in cycloidal multiferroics

I. Fina, V. Skumryev, D. O’Flynn, G. Balakrishnan, and J. Fontcuberta

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100403(R) (2013) - Published 6 September, 2013

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Unusual temperature-dependent exchange interaction in GdFe $_{2}$ Al $_{10}$ in comparison with GdRu $_{2}$ Al $_{10}$

M. Sera, H. Nohara, M. Nakamura, H. Tanida, T. Nishioka, and M. Matsumura

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100404(R) (2013) - Published 13 September, 2013

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Nanostripe of subwavelength width as a switchable semitransparent mirror for spin waves in a magnonic crystal

R. Huber, T. Schwarze, and D. Grundler

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100405(R) (2013) - Published 18 September, 2013

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Large spin pumping from epitaxial Y $_{3}$ Fe $_{5}$ O $_{12}$ thin films to Pt and W layers

H. L. Wang, C. H. Du, Y. Pu, R. Adur, P. C. Hammel, and F. Y. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100406(R) (2013) - Published 18 September, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Absence of superconductivity in the hole-doped Fe pnictide Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Mn $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ : Photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy studies

H. Suzuki, T. Yoshida, S. Ideta, G. Shibata, K. Ishigami, T. Kadono, A. Fujimori, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, Z.-X. Shen, K. Ono, E. Sakai, H. Kumigashira, M. Matsuo, and T. Sasagawa

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100501(R) (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

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Existence of an independent phonon bath in a quantum device

L. M. A. Pascal, A. Fay, C. B. Winkelmann, and H. Courtois

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100502(R) (2013) - Published 16 September, 2013

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Evidence of unconventional low-frequency dynamics in the normal phase of Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Rh $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ iron-based superconductors

L. Bossoni, P. Carretta, W. P. Halperin, S. Oh, A. Reyes, P. Kuhns, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100503(R) (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

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Fermiology, orbital order, orbital fluctuations, and Cooper pairing in iron-based superconductors

Fan Yang, Fa Wang, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. B 88, 100504(R) (2013) - Published 26 September, 2013

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Lifshitz and excited-state quantum phase transitions in microwave Dirac billiards

B. Dietz, F. Iachello, M. Miski-Oglu, N. Pietralla, A. Richter, L. von Smekal, and J. Wambach

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104101 (2013) - Published 4 September, 2013

Reinterpretation of the bond-valence model with bond-order formalism: An improved bond-valence-based interatomic potential for PbTiO $_{3}$

Shi Liu, Ilya Grinberg, Hiroyuki Takenaka, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104102 (2013) - Published 6 September, 2013

Structures, Li $^{+}$ mobilities, and interfacial properties of solid electrolytes Li $_{3}$ PS $_{4}$ and Li $_{3}$ PO $_{4}$ from first principles

N. D. Lepley, N. A. W. Holzwarth, and Yaojun A. Du

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104103 (2013) - Published 9 September, 2013

High-pressure structural transformations of Sn up to 138 GPa: Angle-dispersive synchrotron x-ray diffraction study

Ashkan Salamat, Richard Briggs, Pierre Bouvier, Sylvain Petitgirard, Agnès Dewaele, Melissa E. Cutler, Furio Corà, Dominik Daisenberger, Gaston Garbarino, and Paul F. McMillan

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104104 (2013) - Published 9 September, 2013

Molecular dynamics simulations of shock-induced deformation twinning of a body-centered-cubic metal

A. Higginbotham, M. J. Suggit, E. M. Bringa, P. Erhart, J. A. Hawreliak, G. Mogni, N. Park, B. A. Remington, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104105 (2013) - Published 17 September, 2013

Complex order parameter phase-field models derived from structural phase-field-crystal models

Nana Ofori-Opoku, Jonathan Stolle, Zhi-Feng Huang, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104106 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

Phonon spectrum, thermodynamic properties, and pressure-temperature phase diagram of uranium dioxide

Bao-Tian Wang, Ping Zhang, Raquel Lizárraga, Igor Di Marco, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104107 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

Evidence for weak ferromagnetism, isostructural phase transition, and linear magnetoelectric coupling in the multiferroic Bi $_{0.8}$ Pb $_{0.2}$ Fe $_{0.9}$ Nb $_{0.1}$ O $_{3}$ solid solution

Jay Prakash Patel, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Hartmut Fuess, and Dhananjai Pandey

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104108 (2013) - Published 25 September, 2013

Quantum mechanical modeling of hydrogen assisted cracking in aluminum

Yi Sun, Qing Peng, and Gang Lu

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104109 (2013) - Published 26 September, 2013

Optical probe of ferroelectric order in bulk and thin-film perovskite titanates

M. Rössle, C. N. Wang, P. Marsik, M. Yazdi-Rizi, K. W. Kim, A. Dubroka, I. Marozau, C. W. Schneider, J. Humlíček, D. Baeriswyl, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104110 (2013) - Published 26 September, 2013

Pressure-constrained deformation and superior strength: Compressed graphite versus diamond

Wei Zhou, Hong Sun, Yi Zhang, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104111 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Dynamics of liquid Au from neutron Brillouin scattering and ab initio simulations: Analogies in the behavior of metallic and insulating liquids

E. Guarini, U. Bafile, F. Barocchi, A. De Francesco, E. Farhi, F. Formisano, A. Laloni, A. Orecchini, A. Polidori, M. Puglini, and F. Sacchetti

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104201 (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Electromagnon in ferrimagnetic $ɛ - {Fe}_{2} O_{3}$ nanograin ceramics

Christelle Kadlec, Filip Kadlec, Veronica Goian, Martí Gich, Martin Kempa, Stéphane Rols, Maxim Savinov, Jan Prokleška, Milan Orlita, and Stanislav Kamba

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104301 (2013) - Published 4 September, 2013

Generalized energy and time-translation invariance in a driven dissipative system

Thomas Iadecola, Claudio Chamon, Roman Jackiw, and So-Young Pi

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104302 (2013) - Published 5 September, 2013

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Phonon polaritons in uniaxial crystals: A Raman scattering study of polaritons in $α$ -GaN

Gert Irmer, Christian Röder, Cameliu Himcinschi, and Jens Kortus

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104303 (2013) - Published 12 September, 2013

Site-selective transient photoluminescence enhancement of impurity-trapped excitons in NaMgF $_{3}$ :Yb $^{2 +}$

Rosa B. Hughes-Currie, Pubudu S. Senanayake, Jon-Paul R. Wells, Michael F. Reid, Giel Berden, Roger J. Reeves, and Andries Meijerink

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104304 (2013) - Published 16 September, 2013

Thermally populated intrinsic localized modes in pure alkali halide crystals

A. J. Sievers, M. Sato, J. B. Page, and T. Rössler

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104305 (2013) - Published 19 September, 2013

Simulation study of pressure and temperature dependence of the negative thermal expansion in Zn(CN) $_{2}$

Hong Fang, Martin T. Dove, Leila H. N. Rimmer, and Alston J. Misquitta

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104306 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

Fluctuation-electrodynamic theory and dynamics of heat transfer in systems of multiple dipoles

Riccardo Messina, Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104307 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Optical conductivity spectra of rattling phonons and charge carriers in the type-VIII clathrate Ba $_{8}$ Ga $_{16}$ Sn $_{30}$

K. Iwamoto, T. Mori, S. Kajitani, H. Matsumoto, N. Toyota, K. Suekuni, M. A. Avila, Y. Saiga, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104308 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Magnetism

Field-induced evolution of magnetic ordering in the quantum spin system (CuBr)Sr $_{2}$ Nb $_{3}$ O $_{10}$ with a $⅓$ magnetization plateau

C. Ritter, S. M. Yusuf, A. K. Bera, Y. Goto, C. Tassel, H. Kageyama, A. M. Arévalo-López, and J. P. Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104401 (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

Phenomenological model of anomalous magnon softening and damping in half-metallic manganites

A. Solontsov

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104402 (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

Ground state phase diagram of an $S = \frac{1}{2}$ two-leg Heisenberg spin ladder system with negative four-spin interaction

Keigo Hijii and Tôru Sakai

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104403 (2013) - Published 4 September, 2013

Magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial Py/FeMn/Cu(001) and Py/FeMn/Ni/Cu(001) films

A. Tan, J. Li, C. A. Jenkins, E. Arenholz, A. Scholl, C. Hwang, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104404 (2013) - Published 6 September, 2013

Thermally assisted spin-transfer torque dynamics in energy space

D. Pinna, A. D. Kent, and D. L. Stein

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104405 (2013) - Published 9 September, 2013

Strong coupling theory of spin and orbital excitations in Sr $_{2}$ IrO $_{4}$

Jun-ichi Igarashi and Tatsuya Nagao

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104406 (2013) - Published 9 September, 2013

Origin and spectroscopic determination of trigonal anisotropy in a heteronuclear single-molecule magnet

L. Sorace, M.-E. Boulon, P. Totaro, A. Cornia, J. Fernandes-Soares, and R. Sessoli

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104407 (2013) - Published 9 September, 2013

First-principles study of Co concentration and interfacial resonance states in Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ magnetic tunnel junctions

J. P. Trinastic, Yan Wang, and Hai-Ping Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104408 (2013) - Published 10 September, 2013

Tailoring magnetic properties of metallic thin films with quantum well states and external electric fields

T. R. Dasa, P. Ruiz-Díaz, O. O. Brovko, and V. S. Stepanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104409 (2013) - Published 12 September, 2013

Binding carriers to a nonmagnetic impurity in a two-dimensional square Ising antiferromagnet

Hadi Ebrahimnejad and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104410 (2013) - Published 12 September, 2013

Magnetic structure of the frustrated $S = \frac{1}{2}$ chain magnet LiCu $_{2}$ O $_{2}$ doped with nonmagnetic Zn

A. A. Bush, N. Büttgen, A. A. Gippius, V. N. Glazkov, W. Kraetschmer, L. A. Prozorova, L. E. Svistov, A. M. Vasiliev, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104411 (2013) - Published 13 September, 2013

Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals

D. T. Son and B. Z. Spivak

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104412 (2013) - Published 13 September, 2013

$S = 2$ quasi-one-dimensional spin waves in CrCl $_{2}$

M. B. Stone, G. Ehlers, and G. E. Granroth

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104413 (2013) - Published 16 September, 2013

Influence of Cr doping on the magnetic structure of the FeAs-strips compound CaFe $_{4}$ As $_{3}$ : A single-crystal neutron diffraction study

P. Manuel, L. C. Chapon, G. Trimarchi, I. S. Todorov, D. Y. Chung, B. Ouladdiaf, M. J. Gutmann, A. J. Freeman, and M. G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104414 (2013) - Published 17 September, 2013

Energy-resolved magnetic domain imaging in TbCo alloys by valence band photoemission magnetic circular dichroism

Pascal Melchior, Markus Rollinger, Philip Thielen, Sabine Alebrand, Ute Bierbrauer, Christian Schneider, Matthias Gottwald, Michel Hehn, Stéphane Mangin, Mirko Cinchetti, and Martin Aeschlimann

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104415 (2013) - Published 18 September, 2013

Weak ferromagnetism and domain effects in multiferroic LiNbO $_{3}$ -type MnTiO $_{3}$ -II

Angel M. Arévalo-López and J. Paul Attfield

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104416 (2013) - Published 18 September, 2013

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya driven helical-butterfly structure in Ba $_{3}$ NbFe $_{3}$ Si $_{2}$ O $_{14}$

V. Scagnoli, S. W. Huang, M. Garganourakis, R. A. de Souza, U. Staub, V. Simonet, P. Lejay, and R. Ballou

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104417 (2013) - Published 18 September, 2013

Modular invariance in the gapped $X Y Z$ spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ chain

Elisa Ercolessi, Stefano Evangelisti, Fabio Franchini, and Francesco Ravanini

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104418 (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

Orientation dependence of the critical magnetic field for multiferroic BiFeO $_{3}$

Randy S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104419 (2013) - Published 20 September, 2013

Huge magnetically coupled orbital moments of Co porphyrin molecules and their control by CO adsorption

Christian F. Hermanns, Matthias Bernien, Alex Krüger, Waldemar Walter, Yin-Ming Chang (張銀銘), Eugen Weschke, and Wolfgang Kuch

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104420 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

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Crystal-field states of Pr $^{3 +}$ in the candidate quantum spin ice Pr $_{2}$ Sn $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

A. J. Princep, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and D. T. Adroja

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104421 (2013) - Published 23 September, 2013

Magnetization switching and domain-wall propagation behavior in edge-modulated ferromagnetic nanowire structures

David M. Burn, Erhan Arac, and Del Atkinson

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104422 (2013) - Published 24 September, 2013

Dynamical exchange interaction from time-dependent spin density functional theory

Maria Stamenova and Stefano Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104423 (2013) - Published 25 September, 2013

Interplay between surface anisotropy and dipolar interactions in an assembly of nanomagnets

Z. Sabsabi, F. Vernay, O. Iglesias, and H. Kachkachi

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104424 (2013) - Published 25 September, 2013

Large Seebeck magnetic anisotropy in thin Co films embedded in Cu determined by ab initio investigations

Voicu Popescu and Peter Kratzer

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104425 (2013) - Published 25 September, 2013

Spin-torque switching efficiency in CoFeB-MgO based tunnel junctions

J. Z. Sun, S. L. Brown, W. Chen, E. A. Delenia, M. C. Gaidis, J. Harms, G. Hu, Xin Jiang, R. Kilaru, W. Kula, G. Lauer, L. Q. Liu, S. Murthy, J. Nowak, E. J. O’Sullivan, S. S. P. Parkin, R. P. Robertazzi, P. M. Rice, G. Sandhu, T. Topuria, and D. C. Worledge

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104426 (2013) - Published 26 September, 2013

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Response to a twist in systems with $Z_{p}$ symmetry: The two-dimensional $p$ -state clock model

Yuta Kumano, Koji Hukushima, Yusuke Tomita, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104427 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Competition between spin-orbit coupling and magnetic exchange splitting in Ca $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$

Guo-Qiang Liu

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104428 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Modification of magnetic anisotropy through $3 d - 4 f$ coupling in La $_{0.75}$ Pr $_{0.25}$ Co $_{2}$ P $_{2}$

Kirill Kovnir, Corey M. Thompson, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Daniel Haskel, Anatolii A. Polyanskii, Haidong Zhou, and Michael Shatruk

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104429 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Spin torque in magnetic tunnel junctions with asymmetric barriers

Alan Kalitsov, Whasington Silvestre, Mairbek Chshiev, and Julian P. Velev

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104430 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Interlayer coupling in spin valves studied by broadband ferromagnetic resonance

D. E. Gonzalez-Chavez, R. Dutra, W. O. Rosa, T. L. Marcondes, A. Mello, and R. L. Sommer

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104431 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Phase sticking in one-dimensional Josephson junction chains

Adem Ergül, David Schaeffer, Magnus Lindblom, David B. Haviland, Jack Lidmar, and Jan Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104501 (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

Possible nodal superconducting gap in Fe $_{1 + y}$ (Te $_{1 - x}$ Se $_{x}$ ) single crystals from ultralow temperature penetration depth measurements

Andrei Diaconu, Catalin Martin, Jin Hu, Tijiang Liu, Bin Qian, Zhiqiang Mao, and Leonard Spinu

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104502 (2013) - Published 3 September, 2013

Progressive slowing down of spin fluctuations in underdoped LaFeAsO $_{1 - x}$ F $_{x}$

F. Hammerath, U. Gräfe, T. Kühne, H. Kühne, P. L. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, G. Lang, S. Wurmehl, B. Büchner, P. Carretta, and H.-J. Grafe

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104503 (2013) - Published 4 September, 2013

Equilibrium intermediate-state patterns in a type-I superconducting slab in an arbitrarily oriented applied magnetic field

John R. Clem, Ruslan Prozorov, and Rinke J. Wijngaarden

Phys. Rev. B 88, 104504 (2013) - Published 4 September, 2013

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