Volume 88, Issue 17

1 November 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantification of octahedral rotations in strained LaAlO $_{3}$ films via synchrotron x-ray diffraction

R. L. Johnson-Wilke, D. Marincel, S. Zhu, M. P. Warusawithana, A. Hatt, J. Sayre, K. T. Delaney, R. Engel-Herbert, C. M. Schlepütz, J.-W. Kim, V. Gopalan, N. A. Spaldin, D. G. Schlom, P. J. Ryan, and S. Trolier-McKinstry

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174101 (2013) - Published 1 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lattice instability and elastic response of metastable Mo $_{1 - x}$ Si $_{x}$ thin films

A. Fillon, C. Jaouen, A. Michel, G. Abadias, C. Tromas, L. Belliard, B. Perrin, and Ph. Djemia

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174104 (2013) - Published 12 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectric precursor behavior in PbSc $_{0.5}$ Ta $_{0.5}$ O $_{3}$ detected by field-induced resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy

Oktay Aktas, Ekhard K. H. Salje, Sam Crossley, Giulio I. Lampronti, Roger W. Whatmore, Neil D. Mathur, and Michael A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174112 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Majorana spin liquid and dimensional reduction in Cs $_{2}$ CuCl $_{4}$

Tim Herfurth, Simon Streib, and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174404 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic fan structures in Ba $_{0.5}$ Sr $_{1.5}$ Zn $_{2}$ Fe $_{12}$ O $_{22}$ hexaferrite revealed by resonant soft x-ray diffraction

Alexander J. Hearmon, R. D. Johnson, T. A. W. Beale, S. S. Dhesi, X. Luo, S.-W. Cheong, P. Steadman, and Paolo G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174413 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantification of octahedral rotations in strained LaAlO $_{3}$ films via synchrotron x-ray diffraction

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174101 (2013) - Published 1 November, 2013

Positron lifetime measurements of hydrogen passivation of cation vacancies in yttrium aluminum oxide garnets

F. A. Selim, C. R. Varney, M. C. Tarun, M. C. Rowe, G. S. Collins, and M. D. McCluskey

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174102 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Ab initio study of thermodynamic, electronic, magnetic, structural, and elastic properties of Ni $_{4}$ N allotropes

P. Hemzalová, M. Friák, M. Šob, D. Ma, A. Udyansky, D. Raabe, and J. Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174103 (2013) - Published 12 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lattice instability and elastic response of metastable Mo $_{1 - x}$ Si $_{x}$ thin films

A. Fillon, C. Jaouen, A. Michel, G. Abadias, C. Tromas, L. Belliard, B. Perrin, and Ph. Djemia

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174104 (2013) - Published 12 November, 2013

From parallel to single crystallization kinetics in high-density amorphous ice

Markus Seidl, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Philip H. Handle, Gerhard Zifferer, and Thomas Loerting

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174105 (2013) - Published 15 November, 2013

Flexoelectricity from density-functional perturbation theory

Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174106 (2013) - Published 19 November, 2013

First-principles theory and calculation of flexoelectricity

Jiawang Hong and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174107 (2013) - Published 19 November, 2013

Simultaneous detection of acoustic emission and Barkhausen noise during the martensitic transition of a Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape-memory alloy

Jordi Baró, Steve Dixon, Rachel S. Edwards, Yichao Fan, Dean S. Keeble, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174108 (2013) - Published 20 November, 2013

Subsurface nanodomains with in-plane polarization in uniaxial ferroelectrics via scanning force microscopy

N. A. Pertsev and A. L. Kholkin

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174109 (2013) - Published 21 November, 2013

Quantum disproportionation: The high hydrides at elevated pressures

Kazutaka Abe and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174110 (2013) - Published 22 November, 2013

Latent ion tracks in amorphous silicon

T. Bierschenk, R. Giulian, B. Afra, M. D. Rodriguez, D. Schauries, S. Mudie, O. H. Pakarinen, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, O. Osmani, N. Medvedev, B. Rethfeld, M. C. Ridgway, and P. Kluth

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174111 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectric precursor behavior in PbSc $_{0.5}$ Ta $_{0.5}$ O $_{3}$ detected by field-induced resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy

Oktay Aktas, Ekhard K. H. Salje, Sam Crossley, Giulio I. Lampronti, Roger W. Whatmore, Neil D. Mathur, and Michael A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174112 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Role of magnetism in Cu precipitation in $α$ -Fe

O. I. Gorbatov, I. K. Razumov, Yu. N. Gornostyrev, V. I. Razumovskiy, P. A. Korzhavyi, and A. V. Ruban

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174113 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Local structural evidence for strong electronic correlations in spinel LiRh $_{2}$ O $_{4}$

K. R. Knox, A. M. M. Abeykoon, H. Zheng, W.-G. Yin, A. M. Tsvelik, J. F. Mitchell, S. J. L. Billinge, and E. S. Bozin

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174114 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Lead-free and lead-based $A B$ O $_{3}$ perovskite relaxors with mixed-valence $A$ -site and $B$ -site disorder: Comparative neutron scattering structural study of (Na $_{1 / 2}$ Bi $_{1 / 2}$ )TiO $_{3}$ and Pb(Mg $_{1 / 3}$ Nb $_{2 / 3}$ )O $_{3}$

Wenwei Ge, Christopher P. Devreugd, D. Phelan, Qinhui Zhang, Muhtar Ahart, Jiefang Li, Haosu Luo, Lynn A. Boatner, Dwight Viehland, and Peter M. Gehring

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174115 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Ab initio studies of effect of copper substitution on the electronic and magnetic properties of Ni $_{2}$ MnGa and Mn $_{2}$ NiGa

Aparna Chakrabarti, Mario Siewert, Tufan Roy, Krishnakanta Mondal, Arup Banerjee, Markus E. Gruner, and Peter Entel

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174116 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

First-principles molecular dynamics study of glassy GeS $_{2}$ : Atomic structure and bonding properties

M. Celino, S. Le Roux, G. Ori, B. Coasne, A. Bouzid, M. Boero, and C. Massobrio

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174201 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Inversion symmetric two-level systems and the low-temperature universality in disordered solids

M. Schechter and P. C. E. Stamp

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174202 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

First-principles study of the amorphous In $_{3}$ SbTe $_{2}$ phase change compound

Jan H. Los, Thomas D. Kühne, Silvia Gabardi, and Marco Bernasconi

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174203 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

Charge-carrier relaxation in disordered organic semiconductors studied by dark injection: Experiment and modeling

M. Mesta, C. Schaefer, J. de Groot, J. Cottaar, R. Coehoorn, and P. A. Bobbert

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174204 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Ab initio investigation of the elastic properties of Ni $_{3}$ Fe

Guisheng Wang, Qing-Miao Hu, Kalevi Kokko, Börje Johansson, and Levente Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174205 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Dynamic universality class of Model C from the functional renormalization group

D. Mesterházy, J. H. Stockemer, L. F. Palhares, and J. Berges

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174301 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Physical properties of the thermoelectric cubic lanthanum chalcogenides La $_{3 - y} X_{4}$ ( $X$ = S, Se, Te) from first principles

Romain Viennois, Kinga Niedziolka, and Philippe Jund

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174302 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

Magnetism

Antiferromagnetic resonance in alkali-metal clusters in sodalite

Takehito Nakano, Hajime Tsugeno, Atsufumi Hanazawa, Takanari Kashiwagi, Yasuo Nozue, and Masayuki Hagiwara

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174401 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Pinning of a Bloch point by an atomic lattice

Se Kwon Kim and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174402 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Gigantic magnetic-field-induced polarization and magnetoelectric coupling in a ferrimagnetic oxide CaBaCo $_{4}$ O $_{7}$

V. Caignaert, A. Maignan, K. Singh, Ch. Simon, V. Pralong, B. Raveau, J. F. Mitchell, H. Zheng, A. Huq, and L. C. Chapon

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174403 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Majorana spin liquid and dimensional reduction in Cs $_{2}$ CuCl $_{4}$

Tim Herfurth, Simon Streib, and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174404 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Spin-orbital liquids in non-Kramers magnets on the kagome lattice

Robert Schaffer, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174405 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

High magnetic field study of the Tm $_{2}$ Fe $_{17}$ and Tm $_{2}$ Fe $_{17}$ D $_{3.2}$ compounds

O. Isnard, A. V. Andreev, M. D. Kuz'min, Y. Skourski, D. I. Gorbunov, J. Wosnitza, N. V. Kudrevatykh, A. Iwasa, A. Kondo, A. Matsuo, and K. Kindo

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174406 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Exchange coupling in the correlated electronic states of amorphous GdFe films

H. J. Elmers, A. Chernenkaya, K. Medjanik, M. Emmel, G. Jakob, G. Schönhense, D. Gottlob, I. Krug, F. M. F. de Groot, and A. Gloskovskii

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174407 (2013) - Published 11 November, 2013

Diluted antiferromagnets in a field seem to be in a different universality class than the random-field Ising model

Björn Ahrens, Jianping Xiao, Alexander K. Hartmann, and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174408 (2013) - Published 13 November, 2013

Exchange coupling and magnetic anisotropy at Fe/FePt interfaces

C. J. Aas, P. J. Hasnip, R. Cuadrado, E. M. Plotnikova, L. Szunyogh, L. Udvardi, and R. W. Chantrell

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174409 (2013) - Published 13 November, 2013

Various regimes of quantum behavior in an $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with fourfold periodicity

H. Yamaguchi, T. Okubo, K. Iwase, T. Ono, Y. Kono, S. Kittaka, T. Sakakibara, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, and Y. Hosokoshi

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174410 (2013) - Published 15 November, 2013

Controlled nucleation of topological defects in the stripe domain patterns of lateral multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

A. Hierro-Rodriguez, M. Vélez, R. Morales, N. Soriano, G. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L. M. Álvarez-Prado, J. I. Martín, and J. M. Alameda

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174411 (2013) - Published 15 November, 2013

Stabilization of multiferroic spin cycloid in Ni $_{3}$ V $_{2}$ O $_{8}$ by light Co doping

N. Qureshi, E. Ressouche, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, S. N. Barilo, S. V. Shiryaev, and V. Skumryev

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174412 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic fan structures in Ba $_{0.5}$ Sr $_{1.5}$ Zn $_{2}$ Fe $_{12}$ O $_{22}$ hexaferrite revealed by resonant soft x-ray diffraction

Alexander J. Hearmon, R. D. Johnson, T. A. W. Beale, S. S. Dhesi, X. Luo, S.-W. Cheong, P. Steadman, and Paolo G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174413 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

Electronic structure of the austenitic and martensitic state of magnetocaloric Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloy films

P. Klaer, H. C. Herper, P. Entel, R. Niemann, L. Schultz, S. Fähler, and H. J. Elmers

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174414 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

Experimental evidence of a collinear antiferromagnetic ordering in the frustrated CoAl $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ spinel

B. Roy, Abhishek Pandey, Q. Zhang, T. W. Heitmann, D. Vaknin, D. C. Johnston, and Y. Furukawa

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174415 (2013) - Published 18 November, 2013

Phase relations, crystal chemistry, and physical properties of MgZn $_{2}$ -type Laves phases in the Mn-Cu-Si and Mn-Ni-Si systems

X. Yan, M. W. Pieper, H. Michor, G. Hilscher, M. Reissner, A. Grytsiv, P. Rogl, V. Pomjakushin, G. Giester, E. Bauer, and S. Paschen

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174416 (2013) - Published 19 November, 2013

Parametric excitation of magnetic vortex gyrations in spin-torque nano-oscillators

P. Bortolotti, E. Grimaldi, A. Dussaux, J. Grollier, V. Cros, C. Serpico, K. Yakushiji, A. Fukushima, H. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, and S. Yuasa

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174417 (2013) - Published 20 November, 2013

Criticality in a disordered quantum antiferromagnet studied by neutron diffraction

E. Wulf, D. Hüvonen, J.-W. Kim, A. Paduan-Filho, E. Ressouche, S. Gvasaliya, V. Zapf, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174418 (2013) - Published 20 November, 2013

Surfactant-mediated growth of ferromagnetic Mn $δ$ -doped Si

S. Kahwaji, R. A. Gordon, E. D. Crozier, S. Roorda, M. D. Robertson, J. Zhu, and T. L. Monchesky

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174419 (2013) - Published 22 November, 2013

Crystal and magnetic structure of CaCo $_{1.86}$ As $_{2}$ studied by x-ray and neutron diffraction

D. G. Quirinale, V. K. Anand, M. G. Kim, Abhishek Pandey, A. Huq, P. W. Stephens, T. W. Heitmann, A. Kreyssig, R. J. McQueeney, D. C. Johnston, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174420 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Spin correlations and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Cs $_{2}$ CuCl $_{4}$

M. A. Fayzullin, R. M. Eremina, M. V. Eremin, A. Dittl, N. van Well, F. Ritter, W. Assmus, J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174421 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Spin-orbital frustration in molybdenum pyrochlores $A_{2}$ Mo $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ ( $A =$ rare earth)

Hiroshi Shinaoka, Yukitoshi Motome, Takashi Miyake, and Shoji Ishibashi

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174422 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Spectroscopic studies on the electronic and magnetic states of Co-doped perovskite manganite Pr $_{0.8}$ Ca $_{0.2}$ Mn $_{1 - y}$ Co $_{y}$ O $_{3}$ thin films

K. Yoshimatsu, H. Wadati, E. Sakai, T. Harada, Y. Takahashi, T. Harano, G. Shibata, K. Ishigami, T. Kadono, T. Koide, T. Sugiyama, E. Ikenaga, H. Kumigashira, M. Lippmaa, M. Oshima, and A. Fujimori

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174423 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Coexistence of long-range magnetic ordering and singlet ground state in the spin-ladder superconductor SrCa $_{13}$ Cu $_{24}$ O $_{41}$

Guochu Deng, Michel Kenzelmann, Sergey Danilkin, Andrew J. Studer, Vladimir Pomjakushin, Paolo Imperia, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, and Kazimierz Conder

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174424 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Magnetic ordering of implanted Mn in HOPG substrates

Samaresh Guchhait, Hendrik Ohldag, Elke Arenholz, Domingo A. Ferrer, Apurva Mehta, and Sanjay K. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174425 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Strong coupling of Jahn-Teller distortion to oxygen-octahedron rotation and functional properties in epitaxially strained orthorhombic LaMnO $_{3}$

Jun Hee Lee, Kris T. Delaney, Eric Bousquet, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174426 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Magnetization properties and vortex phase diagram of Cu $_{x}$ TiSe $_{2}$ single crystals

P. Husaníková, J. Fedor, J. Dérer, J. Šoltýs, V. Cambel, M. Iavarone, S. J. May, and G. Karapetrov

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174501 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

In-plane Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov instability in a superconductor–normal metal bilayer system under nonequilibrium quasiparticle distribution

I. V. Bobkova and A. M. Bobkov

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174502 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Observation of single flux quantum vortices in the intermediate state of a type-I superconducting film

Junyi Ge, Joffre Gutierrez, Jo Cuppens, and Victor V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174503 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Systematic investigation of the effects of disorder at the lowest order throughout the BCS-BEC crossover

F. Palestini and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174504 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Phase-dependent Andreev spectrum in a diffusive SNS junction: Static and dynamic current response

M. Ferrier, B. Dassonneville, S. Guéron, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174505 (2013) - Published 8 November, 2013

Doping and critical-temperature dependence of the energy gaps in Ba(Fe $_{1 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ thin films

P. Pecchio, D. Daghero, G. A. Ummarino, R. S. Gonnelli, F. Kurth, B. Holzapfel, and K. Iida

Phys. Rev. B 88, 174506 (2013) - Published 11 November, 2013

ERRATA

Erratum: Nonequilibrium dynamics of the Holstein polaron driven by an external electric field [Phys. Rev. B 83, 134301 (2011)]

Lev Vidmar, Janez Bonča, Marcin Mierzejewski, Peter Prelovšek, and Stuart A. Trugman

Phys. Rev. B 88, 179901 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Publisher's Note: Magnetostatics and optics of noncentrosymmetric metals [Phys. Rev. B 88, 134514 (2013)]

V. P. Mineev

Phys. Rev. B 88, 179902 (2013) - Published 11 November, 2013

Erratum: Magnetic exchange interactions in B-, Si-, and As-doped Fe $_{2}$ P from first-principles theory [Phys. Rev. B 85, 224435 (2012)]

E. K. Delczeg-Czirjak, Z. Gercsi, L. Bergqvist, O. Eriksson, L. Szunyogh, P. Nordblad, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 88, 179903 (2013) - Published 19 November, 2013