Volume 92, Issue 21

1 December 2015

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Highlighting Impact and the Impact of Highlighting: PRB Editors' Suggestions

Manolis Antonoyiannakis

Phys. Rev. B 92, 210001 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical and experimental study of the core structure and mobility of dislocations and their influence on the ferroelectric polarization in perovskite ${KNbO}_{3}$

P. Hirel, A. F. Mark, M. Castillo-Rodriguez, W. Sigle, M. Mrovec, and C. Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214101 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

A collaboration of researchers from France, Germany, and Spain present a comprehensive study of the structure and motion of dislocations in a technologically important ferroelectric KNbO $_{3}$ perovskite.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Control of mesoscopic transport by modifying transmission channels in opaque media

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Seng Fatt Liew, Mikhael Guy, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214206 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

Based on experiments and simulations, the authors use waveguides of nonuniform cross-sectional width to tailor the spatial distribution of the energy density of transmission channels and to realize conversion between evanescent and propagating channels. For particular geometries, perfect reflection channels are created, and their large penetration depth into the medium as well as the complete return of probe light to the input end should greatly benefit sensing and imaging applications.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in homogeneously disordered superconducting films

E. J. König, A. Levchenko, I. V. Protopopov, I. V. Gornyi, I. S. Burmistrov, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214503 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

A comprehensive theory for the vortex unbinding transition in disordered superconducting films is developed.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical and experimental study of the core structure and mobility of dislocations and their influence on the ferroelectric polarization in perovskite ${KNbO}_{3}$

P. Hirel, A. F. Mark, M. Castillo-Rodriguez, W. Sigle, M. Mrovec, and C. Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214101 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Co-GISAXS technique for investigating surface growth dynamics

Meliha G. Rainville, Christa Wagenbach, Jeffrey G. Ulbrandt, Suresh Narayanan, Alec R. Sandy, Hua Zhou, Randall L. Headrick, and Karl F. Ludwig, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214102 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Enhanced piezoelectricity and modified dielectric screening of two-dimensional group-IV monochalcogenides

Lídia C. Gomes, A. Carvalho, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214103 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

How the aggregation of oxygen vacancies in rutile-based ${TiO}_{2 - δ}$ phases causes memristive behavior

Wolfgang Heckel, Michael Wehlau, Sascha B. Maisel, Thomas Frauenheim, Jan M. Knaup, and Stefan Müller

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214104 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015

Spectral shape of stimulated Brillouin scattering in crystals

S. Ohno, T. Sonehara, E. Tatsu, A. Koreeda, and S. Saikan

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214105 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015

Structural diversity in lithium carbides

Yangzheng Lin, Timothy A. Strobel, and R. E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214106 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015

Phase boundary at $x = 0.03$ and its anomalous influence on the structure and properties in the lead-free piezoelectric $(1 - x) N a_{1 / 2} B i_{1 / 2} Ti O_{3} - (x) BaTi O_{3}$

Badari Narayana Rao, Maxim Avdeev, Brendan Kennedy, and Rajeev Ranjan

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214107 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Electrostatic engineering of strained ferroelectric perovskites from first principles

Claudio Cazorla and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214108 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Average and local structure of the Pb-free ferroelectric perovskites ${(Sr, Sn) TiO}_{3}$ and $(Ba, Ca, Sn) {TiO}_{3}$

Geneva Laurita, Katharine Page, Shoichiro Suzuki, and Ram Seshadri

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214109 (2015) - Published 16 December, 2015

In situ spectroscopic study of the plastic deformation of amorphous silicon under nonhydrostatic conditions induced by indentation

Y. B. Gerbig, C. A. Michaels, J. E. Bradby, B. Haberl, and R. F. Cook

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214110 (2015) - Published 17 December, 2015

Theory of inelastic multiphonon scattering and carrier capture by defects in semiconductors: Application to capture cross sections

Georgios D. Barmparis, Yevgeniy S. Puzyrev, X.-G. Zhang, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214111 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Quantum properties of charged ferroelectric domain walls

B. Sturman, E. Podivilov, M. Stepanov, A. Tagantsev, and N. Setter

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214112 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Segregation, precipitation, and $α − α^{'}$ phase separation in Fe-Cr alloys

A. Kuronen, S. Granroth, M. H. Heinonen, R. E. Perälä, T. Kilpi, P. Laukkanen, J. Lång, J. Dahl, M. P. J. Punkkinen, K. Kokko, M. Ropo, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214113 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Small polarons and point defects in barium cerate

Michael Swift, Anderson Janotti, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214114 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Switching dynamics in ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) thin films

Dong Zhao (赵冬), Ilias Katsouras, Kamal Asadi, Paul W. M. Blom, and Dago M. de Leeuw

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214115 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Proton configurations in the hydrogen bonds of ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ as seen by resonant x-ray diffraction

G. Beutier, S. P. Collins, G. Nisbet, K. A. Akimova, E. N. Ovchinnikova, A. P. Oreshko, and V. E. Dmitrienko

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214116 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Modeling interfaces between solids: Application to Li battery materials

N. D. Lepley and N. A. W. Holzwarth

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214201 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Gain properties of dye-doped polymer thin films

I. Gozhyk, M. Boudreau, H. Rabbani Haghighi, N. Djellali, S. Forget, S. Chénais, C. Ulysse, A. Brosseau, R. Pansu, J.-F. Audibert, S. Gauvin, J. Zyss, and M. Lebental

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214202 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Ballistic to diffusive transition in a two-dimensional quantum dot lattice

Fabrizio Cleri

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214203 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Many-body localization transition in Rokhsar-Kivelson-type wave functions

Xiao Chen, Xiongjie Yu, Gil Young Cho, Bryan K. Clark, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214204 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

From disordered quantum walk to physics of off-diagonal disorder

Qifang Zhao and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214205 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Control of mesoscopic transport by modifying transmission channels in opaque media

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Seng Fatt Liew, Mikhael Guy, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214206 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Electron-phonon coupling and thermal transport in the thermoelectric compound ${Mo}_{3} {Sb}_{7 - x} {Te}_{x}$

Dipanshu Bansal, Chen W. Li, Ayman H. Said, Douglas L. Abernathy, Jiaqiang Yan, and Olivier Delaire

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214301 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Phonon coupling to dynamic short-range polar order in a relaxor ferroelectric near the morphotropic phase boundary

John A. Schneeloch, Zhijun Xu, B. Winn, C. Stock, P. M. Gehring, R. J. Birgeneau, and Guangyong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214302 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Proposal for ultrafast switching of ferroelectrics using midinfrared pulses

Alaska Subedi

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214303 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

Magnetism

Multiplicative logarithmic corrections to quantum criticality in three-dimensional dimerized antiferromagnets

Yan Qi Qin, B. Normand, Anders W. Sandvik, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214401 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Enhancement of spin accumulation in ballistic transport regime

Kai Chen and Shufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214402 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Spin diffusion in Pt as probed by optically generated spin currents

F. Bottegoni, A. Ferrari, F. Rortais, C. Vergnaud, A. Marty, G. Isella, M. Finazzi, M. Jamet, and F. Ciccacci

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214403 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Spin dynamics near a putative antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in Cu-substituted ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ and its relation to high-temperature superconductivity

M. G. Kim, M. Wang, G. S. Tucker, P. N. Valdivia, D. L. Abernathy, Songxue Chi, A. D. Christianson, A. A. Aczel, T. Hong, T. W. Heitmann, S. Ran, P. C. Canfield, E. D. Bourret-Courchesne, A. Kreyssig, D. H. Lee, A. I. Goldman, R. J. McQueeney, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214404 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Evaluation of spin diffusion length of AuW alloys using spin absorption experiments in the limit of large spin-orbit interactions

P. Laczkowski, H. Jaffrès, W. Savero-Torres, J.-C. Rojas-Sánchez, Y. Fu, N. Reyren, C. Deranlot, L. Notin, C. Beigné, J.-P. Attané, L. Vila, J.-M. George, and A. Marty

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214405 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Electrical manipulation of ferromagnetic NiFe by antiferromagnetic IrMn

V. Tshitoyan, C. Ciccarelli, A. P. Mihai, M. Ali, A. C. Irvine, T. A. Moore, T. Jungwirth, and A. J. Ferguson

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214406 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Nonlocal torque operators in ab initio theory of the Gilbert damping in random ferromagnetic alloys

I. Turek, J. Kudrnovský, and V. Drchal

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214407 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Nonlinear domain wall resonance in garnet films with perpendicular anisotropy: Critical role of nonlinear damping

N. Vukadinovic, J. Ben Youssef, N. Beaulieu, and V. Castel

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214408 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Spin Casimir effect in noncollinear quantum antiferromagnets: Torque equilibrium spin wave approach

Z. Z. Du, H. M. Liu, Y. L. Xie, Q. H. Wang, and J.-M. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214409 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Thermal and electrical conductivity of approximately 100-nm permalloy, Ni, Co, Al, and Cu films and examination of the Wiedemann-Franz Law

A. D. Avery, S. J. Mason, D. Bassett, D. Wesenberg, and B. L. Zink

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214410 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Decoupling of the antiferromagnetic and insulating states in Tb-doped $S r_{2} Ir O_{4}$

J. C. Wang, S. Aswartham, Feng Ye, J. Terzic, H. Zheng, Daniel Haskel, Shalinee Chikara, Yong Choi, P. Schlottmann, Radu Custelcean, S. J. Yuan, and G. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214411 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Imaging interfaces defined by abruptly varying internal magnetic fields by means of scanned nanoscale spin wave modes

Chunhui Du, Inhee Lee, Rohan Adur, Yuri Obukhov, Christine Hamann, Bernd Buchner, Jeffrey McCord, Denis V. Pelekhov, and P. Chris Hammel

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214413 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015

Multiband electronic characterization of the complex intermetallic cage system $Y_{1 - x} {Gd}_{x} {Co}_{2} {Zn}_{20}$

M. Cabrera-Baez, A. Naranjo-Uribe, J. M. Osorio-Guillén, C. Rettori, and M. A. Avila

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214414 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Interplay of interchain interactions and exchange anisotropy: Stability and fragility of multipolar states in spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ quasi-one-dimensional frustrated helimagnets

Satoshi Nishimoto, Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, Roman Kuzian, Johannes Richter, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214415 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Coexistence of spin glass type freezing and cooperative paramagnetic state in $S r_{3} MnTi O_{7}$

S. Chowki, S. Rayaprol, A. Mukhopadhyay, and N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214416 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Low-temperature thermodynamics of multiflavored hardcore bosons by the Brückner approach

Benedikt Fauseweh and Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214417 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015

Temperature chaos in a Ge:Mn thin-film spin glass

Samaresh Guchhait and Raymond L. Orbach

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214418 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Strain-controlled switch between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism in $1 T − Cr X_{2}$ ( $X = Se$ , Te) monolayers

H. Y. Lv, W. J. Lu, D. F. Shao, Y. Liu, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214419 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Analytic theory for the switch from Bloch to Néel domain wall in nanowires with perpendicular anisotropy

M. D. DeJong and K. L. Livesey

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214420 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Structural and magnetic phase transitions in ${CeCu}_{6 - x} T_{x}$ $(T = Ag, Pd)$

L. Poudel, C. de la Cruz, E. A. Payzant, A. F. May, M. Koehler, V. O. Garlea, A. E. Taylor, D. S. Parker, H. B. Cao, M. A. McGuire, W. Tian, M. Matsuda, H. Jeen, H. N. Lee, T. Hong, S. Calder, H. D. Zhou, M. D. Lumsden, V. Keppens, D. Mandrus, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214421 (2015) - Published 15 December, 2015

On the equivalence of models with similar low-energy quasiparticles

Mirko M. Möller and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214422 (2015) - Published 16 December, 2015

Absence of actual plateaus in zero-temperature magnetization curves of quantum spin clusters and chains

Vadim Ohanyan, Onofre Rojas, Jozef Strečka, and Stefano Bellucci

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214423 (2015) - Published 16 December, 2015

Tunable damping, saturation magnetization, and exchange stiffness of half-Heusler NiMnSb thin films

P. Dürrenfeld, F. Gerhard, J. Chico, R. K. Dumas, M. Ranjbar, A. Bergman, L. Bergqvist, A. Delin, C. Gould, L. W. Molenkamp, and J. Åkerman

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214424 (2015) - Published 16 December, 2015

Angular-dependent magnetization reversal processes in artificial spin ice

D. M. Burn, M. Chadha, and W. R. Branford

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214425 (2015) - Published 17 December, 2015

Ferromagnetism and the effect of free charge carriers on electric polarization in the double perovskite $Y_{2} {NiMnO}_{6}$

Hariharan Nhalil, Harikrishnan S. Nair, C. M. N. Kumar, André M. Strydom, and Suja Elizabeth

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214426 (2015) - Published 17 December, 2015

Quasi-soliton scattering in quantum spin chains

R. Vlijm, M. Ganahl, D. Fioretto, M. Brockmann, M. Haque, H. G. Evertz, and J.-S. Caux

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214427 (2015) - Published 18 December, 2015

Magnetopiezoelectric effect and magnetocapacitance in ${SmFe}_{3} ({BO}_{3})_{4}$

T. N. Gaydamak, I. A. Gudim, G. A. Zvyagina, I. V. Bilych, N. G. Burma, K. R. Zhekov, and V. D. Fil

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214428 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Strain-induced magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial thin films of the spinel ${CoCr}_{2} O_{4}$

J. A. Heuver, A. Scaramucci, Y. Blickenstorfer, S. Matzen, N. A. Spaldin, C. Ederer, and B. Noheda

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214429 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Emergent quantum criticality from fractionalizing one-dimensional SO(5) symmetric valence-bond solid states

Wen-Jia Rao, Kang Cai, Xin Wan, and Guang-Ming Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214430 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Computation of ESR spectra from the time evolution of the magnetization: Comparison of autocorrelation and Wiener-Khinchin-relation-based methods

Hiroki Ikeuchi, Hans De Raedt, Sylvain Bertaina, and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214431 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Magnetization reversal of an individual exchange-biased permalloy nanotube

A. Buchter, R. Wölbing, M. Wyss, O. F. Kieler, T. Weimann, J. Kohlmann, A. B. Zorin, D. Rüffer, F. Matteini, G. Tütüncüoglu, F. Heimbach, A. Kleibert, A. Fontcuberta i Morral, D. Grundler, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle, and M. Poggio

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214432 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Origin of modulated phases and magnetic hysteresis in ${TmB}_{4}$

Keola Wierschem, Sai Swaroop Sunku, Tai Kong, Toshimitsu Ito, Paul C. Canfield, Christos Panagopoulos, and Pinaki Sengupta

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214433 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Magnetic compensation, field-dependent magnetization reversal, and complex magnetic ordering in ${Co}_{2} {TiO}_{4}$

S. Nayak, S. Thota, D. C. Joshi, M. Krautz, A. Waske, A. Behler, J. Eckert, T. Sarkar, M. S. Andersson, R. Mathieu, V. Narang, and M. S. Seehra

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214434 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Crucial role of interlayer distance for antiferromagnet-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Bo-Yao Wang, Po-Han Lin, Ming-Shian Tsai, Chun-Wei Shih, Meng-Ju Lee, Chun-Wei Huang, Nae-Yeou Jih, Pei-Yu Cheng, and Der-Hsin Wei

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214435 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Anomalous polarization conversion in arrays of ultrathin ferromagnetic nanowires

Andrey A. Stashkevich, Yves Roussigné, Alexander N. Poddubny, S.-M. Chérif, Y. Zheng, Franck Vidal, Ilya V. Yagupov, Alexei P. Slobozhanyuk, Pavel A. Belov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214436 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Magnon-phonon interconversion in a dynamically reconfigurable magnetic material

Sergio C. Guerreiro and Sergio M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214437 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Spin diffusion in disordered organic semiconductors

Ling Li, Nan Gao, Nianduan Lu, Ming Liu, and Heinz Bässler

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214438 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Three-sublattice skyrmion crystal in the antiferromagnetic triangular lattice

H. D. Rosales, D. C. Cabra, and Pierre Pujol

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214439 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Resonant magneto-optic Kerr effect in the magnetic topological insulator $Cr : ({Sb}_{x}, {Bi}_{1 - x})_{2} {Te}_{3}$

Shreyas Patankar, J. P. Hinton, Joel Griesmar, J. Orenstein, J. S. Dodge, Xufeng Kou, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, Jing Wang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214440 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

Unidirectional terahertz light absorption in the pyroelectric ferrimagnet ${CaBaCo}_{4} O_{7}$

S. Bordács, V. Kocsis, Y. Tokunaga, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, Y. Takahashi, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214441 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Spin-polarized edge currents and Majorana fermions in one- and two-dimensional topological superconductors

Kristofer Björnson, Sergey S. Pershoguba, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214501 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Majorana edge states in superconductor-noncollinear magnet interfaces

Wei Chen and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214502 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in homogeneously disordered superconducting films

E. J. König, A. Levchenko, I. V. Protopopov, I. V. Gornyi, I. S. Burmistrov, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214503 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

A comprehensive theory for the vortex unbinding transition in disordered superconducting films is developed.

Topological Weyl superconductor to diffusive thermal Hall metal crossover in the $B$ phase of ${UPt}_{3}$

Pallab Goswami and Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214504 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Bogoliubov quasiparticles coupled to the antiferromagnetic spin mode in a vortex core

C. Berthod

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214505 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Spectroscopy of metal “superatom” nanoclusters and high- $T_{c}$ superconducting pairing

Avik Halder and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214506 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Coordinated wave function for the ground state of liquid ${}^{4}{He}$

Y. Lutsyshyn

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214507 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Superconductivity and crystal structural origins of the metal-insulator transition in ${Ba}_{6 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Nb}_{10} O_{30}$ tetragonal tungsten bronzes

Taras Kolodiazhnyi, Hiroya Sakurai, Masaaki Isobe, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Scott Forbes, Yurij Mozharivskyj, Timothy J. S. Munsie, Graeme M. Luke, Mary Gurak, and David R. Clarke

Phys. Rev. B 92, 214508 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015