Volume 93, Issue 20

15 May 2016

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Observation of topological nodal fermion semimetal phase in ZrSiS

Madhab Neupane, Ilya Belopolski, M. Mofazzel Hosen, Daniel S. Sanchez, Raman Sankar, Maria Szlawska, Su-Yang Xu, Klauss Dimitri, Nagendra Dhakal, Pablo Maldonado, Peter M. Oppeneer, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Fangcheng Chou, M. Zahid Hasan, and Tomasz Durakiewicz

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201104(R) (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

The search for new topological phases of matter is a major new direction in condensed matter physics. Recent experimental realizations of Dirac and Weyl semimetal phases pave the way to look for other exotic phases of matter in real materials. In this paper, the authors present a systematic angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of ZrSiS, a potential topological nodal semimetal candidate. Their systematic measurements establish the spinless nodal fermion semimetal phase in ZrSiS, which is supported by their first-principles calculations. This work puts forward the ZrSiS-type material family as a new platform to explore exotic states of quantum matter.

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Gigantic directional asymmetry of luminescence in multiferroic $CuB_{2} O_{4}$

S. Toyoda, N. Abe, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201109(R) (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Multiferroic materials that simultaneously show electricity and magnetism provide an interesting playground for novel optical phenomena. One example is nonreciprocity, a change in optical properties with the reversal of the propagation direction of light. In this paper, the authors report that the luminescence intensity in multiferroic CuB $_{2}$ O $_{4}$ changes by 70% between the opposite directions of the emitted light. The observed asymmetry is about 100 times larger than the previously reported value. They demonstrate that the gigantic directional asymmetry of luminescence provides a tool to visualize the antiferromagnetic domain structure, which is impossible using the conventional linear optical Faraday or Kerr effects.

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Role of excited states in Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in wide-band-gap semiconductors

Audrius Alkauskas, Cyrus E. Dreyer, John L. Lyons, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201304(R) (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Defect-assisted nonradiative Shockley-Read-Hall recombination is an important process in wide-band-gap semiconductors. However, nonradiative capture rates decrease exponentially with the energy of the transition, and therefore the mechanisms by which such recombination can take place are unclear. The authors show here that excited states of defects play a key role in turning specific defects into efficient nonradiative centers. The wider the band gap of the material, the greater a role these excited states are likely to play. Specifically, the authors can explain why certain gallium vacancy complexes are efficient nonradiative centers in group-III nitrides, the key materials for solid-state lighting.

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Non-Abelian topological spin liquids from arrays of quantum wires or spin chains

Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Pedro R. S. Gomes, Titus Neupert, Claudio Chamon, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205123 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

In this paper, a family of non-Abelian topologically ordered states are built from arrays of quantum wires with fine-tuned electron-electron interactions. With the help of non-Abelian bosonization, the decoupled wires are described by conformal field theories. Electron-electron interactions are chosen to gap all conformal field theories except the one that describes the edge state. Hence, the construction makes it easy to engineer different topological ordered states. The authors prescribe, in particular, how to arrive at all the edge states described by the unitary conformal field theory minimal models using the spin degrees of freedom of the quantum wires alone. The construction provides a bridge between the field theory descriptions and the microscopic models of topological ordered states.

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${Ca}_{3} P_{2}$ and other topological semimetals with line nodes and drumhead surface states

Y.-H. Chan, Ching-Kai Chiu, M. Y. Chou, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205132 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

Topological nodal line semimetals exhibit protected one-dimensional Fermi lines, which arise due to an intricate interplay between the symmetry and topology of the electronic wave functions. In this paper, the authors derive the $Z$ invariants that guarantee the stability of the line nodes in the bulk under reflection symmetry and show that a quantized Berry phase (i.e, a $Z_{2}$ invariant) leads to the appearance of protected surfaces states, which take the shape of a drumhead. Most importantly, a relation between the $Z$ invariant, which characterizes the bulk, and the quantized Berry phase is derived. This relation is generally applicable to any topological nodal line semimetal with or without spin-orbit coupling. Moreover, it is shown that the Berry phase invariant can be simply obtained by computing the reflection parity eigenvalues. As a representative example of a topological nodal line semimetal, the authors examine Ca $_{3}$ P $_{2}$ , which has been identified as an ideal system with the line nodes at the Fermi energy. Using numerical calculations, they show that the drumhead surface state of Ca $_{3}$ P $_{2}$ has a rather weak dispersion, which implies that correlation effects are enhanced at the surface.

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Precise effective masses from density functional perturbation theory

J. Laflamme Janssen, Y. Gillet, S. Poncé, A. Martin, M. Torrent, and X. Gonze

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205147 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Effective mass calculations are currently based on finite-difference estimations of electronic band curvature (or Hessians). This requires an extra convergence study that can easily reach problematic levels if not carefully monitored. While these issues could be considered hindrances in traditional first-principles calculations, they become more fundamental limitations within the quickly expanding field of high-throughput material design. To eliminate these issues, a new method is developed based on density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) that directly computes the Hessian of DFT bands. The new method includes a generalized k.p formalism within which it is possible to define effective masses at degenerate band extrema. The result is a simulation method of effective masses that is general, robust, and simple to use, which should open new routes in high-throughput material design.

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Phonon analog of topological nodal semimetals

Hoi Chun Po, Yasaman Bahri, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205158 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Topological band structures are ubiquitous in both fermionic and bosonic problems, but conventional wisdom holds that the topological features in a noninteracting bosonic system are only visible to finite-frequency probes. Utilizing a recently proposed boson-to-fermion mapping, the authors demonstrate that topological gapless phonon modes can in fact be brought all the way down to zero frequency. In particular, they construct spring-mass models that are analogs of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, and hence feature topological zero-frequency phonon modes. These zero modes are physically distinct from the familiar Goldstone phonons, and are in fact present even in pinned disordered systems due to topological protection.

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Weak (anti)localization in tubular semiconductor nanowires with spin-orbit coupling

Michael Kammermeier, Paul Wenk, John Schliemann, Sebastian Heedt, and Thomas Schäpers

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205306 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Electrons in semiconductor nanowires can be radially confined to form a thin tubular conductive channel a few nanometers below the surface. The peculiar potential landscape, which can be either a result of Fermi level pinning due to surface reconstruction or band mismatch at the heterointerface in core/shell nanowires, gives rise to both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC). By utilizing k $\cdot$ p theory, the authors have developed models for the SOC in nanowires with zinc-blende crystal structure for various nanowire growth directions. Taking advantage of these models, the weak (anti)localization correction $Δ σ$ to the static Drude conductivity is derived. Finally, the theory is fitted to experimental data of an undoped $<$ 111 $>$ InAs nanowire device, which exhibits a gate-controlled crossover from positive to negative magnetoconductivity. Thereby, the authors extract transport parameters and quantify the distinct types of SOC individually. The close agreement of theory and experiment suggests that the model provides reliable information and underlines the relevance of Dresselhaus SOC, which was previously often considered absent.

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Dielectric function and plasmons in graphene: A self-consistent-field calculation within a Markovian master equation formalism

F. Karimi, A. H. Davoody, and I. Knezevic

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205421 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

The challenge of understanding the optical response and plasmon behavior in nanostructured materials, such as graphene and its nanoribbons, lies in describing screening in the presence of several concurrent electron scattering mechanisms. In this paper, the authors present a technique for calculating the dielectric function of nanostructures with an arbitrary band dispersion and Bloch wave functions. To calculate the linear response of a dissipative electronic system to an external electromagnetic field, the authors derive a quantum master equation within a self-consistent-field approach and solve it along with full-wave electromagnetic equations. This technique accurately captures interband electron-hole pair generation, as well as both interband and intraband electron scattering with phonons and impurities. The technique is employed to calculate the dielectric function, complex conductivity, as well as plasmon dispersion and propagation length for supported graphene. Plasmon propagation lengths are comparable on polar and nonpolar substrates and are on the order of tens of nanometers, considerably shorter than previously reported. They improve with fewer impurities, at lower temperatures, and at higher carrier densities.

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Local density of states and its mesoscopic fluctuations near the transition to a superconducting state in disordered systems

I. S. Burmistrov, I. V. Gornyi, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205432 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Disordered superconductors show remarkable physics governed by the interplay of superconductivity and Anderson localization. The competition between these phenomena leads to a quantum phase transition: the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT). In this paper, the authors develop a theory of local density of states (LDOS) – including its average and mesoscopic fluctuations – as measured in tunneling experiments near the SIT. They use the nonlinear sigma-model renormalization-group framework (“fermionic approach”) and treat systems with short-range and Coulomb interactions on equal footing. The average LDOS obtained shows a pronounced depletion around the Fermi energy, both in the metallic phase (i.e., above the superconducting critical temperature) and in the insulating phase near the SIT. The LDOS fluctuations are found to be particularly strong for the case of short-range interactions. The findings compare well with experimental observations of depletion of LDOS and of its large point-to-point fluctuations in the metallic and insulating phases near the SIT in TiN, InO, and NbN films. The observed effects are thus intrinsic properties of a macroscopically homogeneous system and do not require any additional assumptions, such as granularity.

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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${TaIrTe}_{4}$ : A ternary type-II Weyl semimetal

K. Koepernik, D. Kasinathan, D. V. Efremov, Seunghyun Khim, Sergey Borisenko, Bernd Büchner, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201101(R) (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

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Vortexlike excitations in the heavy-fermion superconductor ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

Yongkang Luo, P. F. S. Rosa, E. D. Bauer, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201102(R) (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

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Classification of topological phases in periodically driven interacting systems

Dominic V. Else and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201103(R) (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

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Observation of topological nodal fermion semimetal phase in ZrSiS

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201104(R) (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

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Superconducting proximity effect and Majorana flat bands at the surface of a Weyl semimetal

Anffany Chen and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201105(R) (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

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Nonequilibrium critical scaling in quantum thermodynamics

Abolfazl Bayat, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Simone Paganelli, Gabriele De Chiara, Henrik Johannesson, Sougato Bose, and Pasquale Sodano

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201106(R) (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

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Isolated energy level in the band gap of ${Yb}_{2} {Si}_{2} O_{7}$ identified by electron energy-loss spectroscopy

Takafumi Ogawa, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Masashi Wada, Craig A. J. Fisher, Akihide Kuwabara, Takeharu Kato, Masato Yoshiya, Satoshi Kitaoka, and Hiroki Moriwake

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201107(R) (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

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Many-electron expansion: A density functional hierarchy for strongly correlated systems

Tianyu Zhu, Piotr de Silva, Helen van Aggelen, and Troy Van Voorhis

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201108(R) (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

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Gigantic directional asymmetry of luminescence in multiferroic $CuB_{2} O_{4}$

S. Toyoda, N. Abe, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201109(R) (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

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Magnetic interactions in NiO at ultrahigh pressure

V. Potapkin, L. Dubrovinsky, I. Sergueev, M. Ekholm, I. Kantor, D. Bessas, E. Bykova, V. Prakapenka, R. P. Hermann, R. Rüffer, V. Cerantola, H. J. M. Jönsson, W. Olovsson, S. Mankovsky, H. Ebert, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201110(R) (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

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Fundamental limits of exciton-exciton annihilation for light emission in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Yiling Yu, Yifei Yu, Chao Xu, Andy Barrette, Kenan Gundogdu, and Linyou Cao

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201111(R) (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

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Interplay between quantum fluctuations and reentrant superconductivity with a highly enhanced upper critical field in URhGe

Y. Tokunaga, D. Aoki, H. Mayaffre, S. Krämer, M.-H. Julien, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, H. Sakai, T. Hattori, S. Kambe, and S. Araki

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201112(R) (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

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Plaquette order in the SU(6) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice

Pierre Nataf, Miklós Lajkó, Philippe Corboz, Andreas M. Läuchli, Karlo Penc, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201113(R) (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

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Topological nodal-line semimetals in alkaline-earth stannides, germanides, and silicides

Huaqing Huang, Jianpeng Liu, David Vanderbilt, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201114(R) (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

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Giant spatial-dispersion-induced birefringence in metamaterials

Maxim A. Gorlach, Stanislav B. Glybovski, Anna A. Hurshkainen, and Pavel A. Belov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201115(R) (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

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Edge instabilities of topological superconductors

Johannes S. Hofmann, Fakher F. Assaad, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201116(R) (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Light-induced polaron magnetization in EuTe at temperatures reaching 150 K

A. B. Henriques, G. D. Galgano, P. H. O. Rappl, and E. Abramof

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201201(R) (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

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Photovoltaic chiral magnetic effect in Weyl semimetals

Katsuhisa Taguchi, Tatsushi Imaeda, Masatoshi Sato, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201202(R) (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

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Coherence and degree of time-bin entanglement from quantum dots

Tobias Huber, Laurin Ostermann, Maximilian Prilmüller, Glenn S. Solomon, Helmut Ritsch, Gregor Weihs, and Ana Predojević

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201301(R) (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

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Dirty Weyl semimetals: Stability, phase transition, and quantum criticality

Soumya Bera, Jay D. Sau, and Bitan Roy

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201302(R) (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

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Striped quantum Hall state in a half-filled Landau level

Xin Wan and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201303(R) (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

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Role of excited states in Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in wide-band-gap semiconductors

Audrius Alkauskas, Cyrus E. Dreyer, John L. Lyons, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201304(R) (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Experimental observation of phonon generation and propagation at a $Mo S_{2} (0001)$ surface in the friction process

Makoto Ishikawa, Noriyuki Wada, Takahiko Miyakawa, Hiroshi Matsukawa, Masaru Suzuki, Naruo Sasaki, and Kouji Miura

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201401(R) (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

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All-electrical generation and control of odd-frequency $s$ -wave Cooper pairs in double quantum dots

Pablo Burset, Bo Lu, Hiromi Ebisu, Yasuhiro Asano, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201402(R) (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

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Perfect spin filtering by symmetry in molecular junctions

Dongzhe Li, Yannick J. Dappe, and Alexander Smogunov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201403(R) (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

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Superlubricity in quasicrystalline twisted bilayer graphene

Elad Koren and Urs Duerig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 201404(R) (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Mobile impurity approach to the optical conductivity in the Hubbard chain

Thomas Veness and Fabian H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205101 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Pressure tuning the Fermi surface topology of the Weyl semimetal NbP

R. D. dos Reis, S. C. Wu, Y. Sun, M. O. Ajeesh, C. Shekhar, M. Schmidt, C. Felser, B. Yan, and M. Nicklas

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205102 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Electronic and ionic conductivities in superionic ${Li}_{4} C_{60}$

D. Quintavalle, B. G. Márkus, A. Jánossy, F. Simon, G. Klupp, M. A. Győri, K. Kamarás, G. Magnani, D. Pontiroli, and M. Riccò

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205103 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Berry-phase description of topological crystalline insulators

A. Alexandradinata and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205104 (2016) - Published 3 May, 2016

Raman scattering study of spin-density-wave-induced anisotropic electronic properties in $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ( $A = Ca$ , Eu)

W.-L. Zhang, Z. P. Yin, A. Ignatov, Z. Bukowski, Janusz Karpinski, Athena S. Sefat, H. Ding, P. Richard, and G. Blumberg

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205106 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

High-resolution Mn $K$ -edge x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy study of the electronic and local structure of the three different phases in $N d_{0.5} S r_{0.5} Mn O_{3}$

S. Lafuerza, J. García, G. Subías, J. Blasco, and P. Glatzel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205108 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Classification of stable Dirac and Weyl semimetals with reflection and rotational symmetry

Zihao Gao, Meng Hua, Haijun Zhang, and Xiao Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205109 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Comparative study of exchange-correlation functionals for accurate predictions of structural and magnetic properties of multiferroic oxides

Hanghui Chen and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205110 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Coulomb enhancement of superconducting pair-pair correlations in a $\frac{3}{4}$ -filled model for $κ − (BEDT-TTF)_{2} X$

W. Wasanthi De Silva, N. Gomes, S. Mazumdar, and R. T. Clay

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205111 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Robust topological degeneracy of classical theories

Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi, Gerardo Ortiz, and Zohar Nussinov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205112 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Helical currents in metallic Rashba strips

Ignacio J. Hamad, Claudio J. Gazza, and José A. Riera

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205113 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Kaleidoscope of quantum phases in a long-range interacting spin-1 chain

Z.-X. Gong, M. F. Maghrebi, A. Hu, M. Foss-Feig, P. Richerme, C. Monroe, and A. V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205115 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Composite fermions and the field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition

Michael Mulligan and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205116 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Friedel oscillations as a probe of fermionic quasiparticles

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, David Benjamin, Yang He, David Dentelski, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205117 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Emerging giant resonant exciton induced by Ta substitution in anatase ${TiO}_{2}$ : A tunable correlation effect

Z. Yong, P. E. Trevisanutto, L. Chiodo, I. Santoso, A. R. Barman, T. C. Asmara, S. Dhar, A. Kotlov, A. Terentjevs, F. Della Sala, V. Olevano, M. Rübhausen, T. Venkatesan, and A. Rusydi

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205118 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Real-space renormalized dynamical mean field theory

Dai Kubota, Shiro Sakai, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205119 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Area law for gapless states from local entanglement thermodynamics

Brian Swingle and John McGreevy

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205120 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Energy transport between two integrable spin chains

Alberto Biella, Andrea De Luca, Jacopo Viti, Davide Rossini, Leonardo Mazza, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205121 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Thermally activated heavy states and anomalous optical properties in a multiband metal: The case of $SrMnS b_{2}$

H. J. Park, Luke J. Sandilands, J. S. You, Hyo Seok Ji, C. H. Sohn, J. W. Han, S. J. Moon, K. W. Kim, J. H. Shim, Jun Sung Kim, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205122 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

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Non-Abelian topological spin liquids from arrays of quantum wires or spin chains

Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Pedro R. S. Gomes, Titus Neupert, Claudio Chamon, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205123 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Density matrix renormalization group study in energy space for a single-impurity Anderson model and an impurity quantum phase transition

Tomonori Shirakawa and Seiji Yunoki

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205124 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Nearly free electron states in MXenes

Mohammad Khazaei, Ahmad Ranjbar, Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Masao Arai, Taizo Sasaki, Yunye Liang, and Seiji Yunoki

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205125 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Topological basis for understanding the behavior of the heavy-fermion metal $β − {YbAlB}_{4}$ under application of magnetic field and pressure

V. R. Shaginyan, A. Z. Msezane, K. G. Popov, J. W. Clark, V. A. Khodel, and M. V. Zverev

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205126 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Homogenization of metasurfaces formed by random resonant particles in periodical lattices

Andrei Andryieuski, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Mihail Petrov, and Sergei A. Tretyakov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205127 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Distribution of critical temperature at Anderson localization

Rayda Gammag and Ki-Seok Kim

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205128 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Unusual magnetotransport properties in a FeAs single crystal

Seunghyun Khim, Matthias Gillig, Rüdiger Klingeler, Sabine Wurmehl, Bernd Büchner, and Christian Hess

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205129 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Noiseless manipulation of helical edge state transport by a quantum magnet

P. G. Silvestrov, P. Recher, and P. W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205130 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

X-ray absorption study of the ferromagnetic Cu moment at the ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7} / {La}_{2 / 3} {Ca}_{1 / 3} {MnO}_{3}$ interface and variation of its exchange interaction with the Mn moment

K. Sen, E. Perret, A. Alberca, M. A. Uribe-Laverde, I. Marozau, M. Yazdi-Rizi, B. P. P. Mallett, P. Marsik, C. Piamonteze, Y. Khaydukov, M. Döbeli, T. Keller, N. Biškup, M. Varela, J. Vašátko, D. Munzar, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205131 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${Ca}_{3} P_{2}$ and other topological semimetals with line nodes and drumhead surface states

Y.-H. Chan, Ching-Kai Chiu, M. Y. Chou, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205132 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

Determining the chirality of Weyl fermions from circular dichroism spectra in time-dependent angle-resolved photoemission

Rui Yu, Hongming Weng, Zhong Fang, Hong Ding, and Xi Dai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205133 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the uniform electron gas without fixed nodes: The unpolarized case

T. Dornheim, S. Groth, T. Schoof, C. Hann, and M. Bonitz

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205134 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Magnetic properties of ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Ni}_{x}$ alloy from CPA+DMFT perspectives

Alexander I. Poteryaev, Nikolay A. Skorikov, Vladimir I. Anisimov, and Michael A. Korotin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205135 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Phase diagram and collective excitations in an excitonic insulator from an orbital physics viewpoint

Joji Nasu, Tsutomu Watanabe, Makoto Naka, and Sumio Ishihara

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205136 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Topological quasi-one-dimensional state of interacting spinless electrons

G. Sun and T. Vekua

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205137 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

Superconducting quantum criticality in three-dimensional Luttinger semimetals

Igor Boettcher and Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205138 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

Connection formulas for thermal density functional theory

A. Pribram-Jones and K. Burke

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205140 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

Physical properties of the ${Ce}_{2} M Al_{7} {Ge}_{4}$ heavy-fermion compounds $(M = Co, Ir, Ni, Pd)$

N. J. Ghimire, S. K. Cary, S. Eley, N. A. Wakeham, P. F. S. Rosa, T. Albrecht-Schmitt, Y. Lee, M. Janoschek, C. M. Brown, L. Civale, J. D. Thompson, F. Ronning, and E. D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205141 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

Simple proof of the detectability lemma and spectral gap amplification

Anurag Anshu, Itai Arad, and Thomas Vidick

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205142 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

Effect of impurity substitution on band structure and mass renormalization of the correlated ${FeTe}_{0.5} {Se}_{0.5}$ superconductor

S. Thirupathaiah, J. Fink, P. K. Maheshwari, V. V. Ravi Kishore, Z.-H. Liu, E. D. L. Rienks, B. Büchner, V. P. S. Awana, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205143 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

BEC-polaron gas in a boson-fermion mixture: A many-body extension of Lee-Low-Pines theory

Eiji Nakano and Hiroyuki Yabu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205144 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Valley plasmonics in transition metal dichalcogenides

R. E. Groenewald, M. Rösner, G. Schönhoff, S. Haas, and T. O. Wehling

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205145 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Entanglement entropy of disordered quantum chains following a global quench

Y. Zhao, F. Andraschko, and J. Sirker

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205146 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precise effective masses from density functional perturbation theory

J. Laflamme Janssen, Y. Gillet, S. Poncé, A. Martin, M. Torrent, and X. Gonze

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205147 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Laser from a many-body correlated medium

Eduardo Mascarenhas, Dario Gerace, Hugo Flayac, Marcelo F. Santos, Alexia Auffèves, and Vincenzo Savona

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205148 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Experimental elucidation of the origin of the ‘double spin resonances’ in $Ba {({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Meng Wang, M. Yi, H. L. Sun, P. Valdivia, M. G. Kim, Z. J. Xu, T. Berlijn, A. D. Christianson, Songxue Chi, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, X. D. Li, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Pengcheng Dai, D. H. Lee, T. A. Maier, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205149 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Pressure-induced crossing of the core levels in $5 d$ metals

Alexey A. Tal, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Marcus Ekholm, H. Johan M. Jönsson, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, and Igor A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205150 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Quasiparticle bands and structural phase transition of iron from Gutzwiller density-functional theory

Tobias Schickling, Jörg Bünemann, Florian Gebhard, and Lilia Boeri

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205151 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Large magnetoresistance in the antiferromagnetic semimetal NdSb

N. Wakeham, E. D. Bauer, M. Neupane, and F. Ronning

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205152 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Fractal dimensions of wave functions and local spectral measures on the Fibonacci chain

Nicolas Macé, Anuradha Jagannathan, and Frédéric Piéchon

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205153 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Nematic antiferromagnetic states in bulk FeSe

Kai Liu, Zhong-Yi Lu, and Tao Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205154 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Dynamical magnetic susceptibility in antiferromagnet ${UPtGa}_{5}$ determined by NMR: Comparison with isostructural superconducting ${CeMIn}_{5}$ systems

S. Kambe, T. Hattori, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, and R. E. Walstedt

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205155 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Tunable two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of thermoelectric material ${In}_{4} {Se}_{3}$

K. Fukutani, T. Sato, P. V. Galiy, K. Sugawara, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205156 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Topological quantum field theory of three-dimensional bosonic Abelian-symmetry-protected topological phases

Peng Ye and Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205157 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

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Phonon analog of topological nodal semimetals

Hoi Chun Po, Yasaman Bahri, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205158 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Renormalization group circuits for gapless states

Brian Swingle, John McGreevy, and Shenglong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205159 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Semiconductors I: bulk

Carrier-impurity spin transfer dynamics in paramagnetic II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors in the presence of a wave-vector-dependent magnetic field

M. Cygorek, P. I. Tamborenea, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205201 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Configuration dependence of band-gap narrowing and localization in dilute ${GaAs}_{1 - x} {Bi}_{x}$ alloys

Lars C. Bannow, Oleg Rubel, Stefan C. Badescu, Phil Rosenow, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Ralf Tonner, and Stephan W. Koch

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205202 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

Influence of the optical-acoustic phonon hybridization on phonon scattering and thermal conductivity

Wu Li, Jesús Carrete, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Natalio Mingo

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205203 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Charge carrier concentration dependence of encounter-limited bimolecular recombination in phase-separated organic semiconductor blends

Michael C. Heiber, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, and Carsten Deibel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205204 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

More realistic band gaps from meta-generalized gradient approximations: Only in a generalized Kohn-Sham scheme

Zeng-hui Yang, Haowei Peng, Jianwei Sun, and John P. Perdew

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205205 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

High-throughput $Z T$ predictions of nanoporous bulk materials as next-generation thermoelectric materials: A material genome approach

Qing Hao, Dongchao Xu, Na Lu, and Hongbo Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205206 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Orbital-frustration-induced ordering in semiconductor alloys

Kai Liu, Wanjian Yin, Shiyou Chen, X. G. Gong, S.-H. Wei, and H. J. Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205207 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Self-consistent calculation of dephasing in quantum cascade structures within a density matrix method

Will Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205301 (2016) - Published 3 May, 2016

Entanglement properties of quantum polaritons

D. G. Suárez-Forero, G. Cipagauta, H. Vinck-Posada, K. M. Fonseca Romero, B. A. Rodríguez, and D. Ballarini

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205302 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Pressure-induced topological insulator in NaBaBi with right-handed surface spin texture

Yan Sun, Qing-Ze Wang, Shu-Chun Wu, Claudia Felser, Chao-Xing Liu, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205303 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Hedgehog spin texture and competing orders associated with strains on the surface of a topological crystalline insulator

Cheng-Yi Huang, Hsin Lin, Yung Jui Wang, Arun Bansil, and Wei-Feng Tsai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205304 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Structure-induced resonant tail-state regime absorption in polymer: fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Thomas Pfadler, Thomas Kiel, Martin Stärk, Julia F. M. Werra, Christian Matyssek, Daniel Sommer, Johannes Boneberg, Kurt Busch, Jonas Weickert, and Lukas Schmidt-Mende

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205305 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Weak (anti)localization in tubular semiconductor nanowires with spin-orbit coupling

Michael Kammermeier, Paul Wenk, John Schliemann, Sebastian Heedt, and Thomas Schäpers

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205306 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Nonresonant optical control of a spinor polariton condensate

A. Askitopoulos, K. Kalinin, T. C. H. Liew, P. Cilibrizzi, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, N. G. Berloff, and P. G. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205307 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Nematic quantum phase transition of composite Fermi liquids in half-filled Landau levels and their geometric response

Yizhi You, Gil Young Cho, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205401 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

High-harmonic generation in a quantum electron gas trapped in a nonparabolic and anisotropic well

Jérôme Hurst, Kévin Lévêque-Simon, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Giovanni Manfredi, and Fernando Haas

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205402 (2016) - Published 3 May, 2016

Electron and phonon drag in thermoelectric transport through coherent molecular conductors

Jing-Tao Lü, Jian-Sheng Wang, Per Hedegård, and Mads Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205404 (2016) - Published 4 May, 2016

Quantum hydrodynamic theory for plasmonics: Impact of the electron density tail

Cristian Ciracì and Fabio Della Sala

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205405 (2016) - Published 4 May, 2016

From coupled Rashba electron- and hole-gas layers to three-dimensional topological insulators

Luka Trifunovic, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205406 (2016) - Published 4 May, 2016

Temperature-dependent nonlinear Hall effect in macroscopic Si-MOS antidot array

A. Yu. Kuntsevich, A. V. Shupletsov, and M. S. Nunuparov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205407 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Fluctuating-bias controlled electron transport in molecular junctions

Michael Ridley, Angus MacKinnon, and Lev Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205408 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Resonant electronic Raman scattering: A BCS-like system

Leonarde N. Rodrigues, A. Arantes, C. Schüller, M. J. V. Bell, and V. Anjos

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205409 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Nanometer-scale monitoring of quantum-confined Stark effect and emission efficiency droop in multiple GaN/AlN quantum disks in nanowires

L. F. Zagonel, L. H. G. Tizei, G. Z. Vitiello, G. Jacopin, L. Rigutti, M. Tchernycheva, F. H. Julien, R. Songmuang, T. Ostasevicius, F. de la Peña, C. Ducati, P. A. Midgley, and M. Kociak

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205410 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Efficient quantum modeling of inelastic interactions in nanodevices

Y. Lee, M. Lannoo, N. Cavassilas, M. Luisier, and M. Bescond

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205411 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Adsorption by design: Tuning atom-graphene van der Waals interactions via mechanical strain

Nathan S. Nichols, Adrian Del Maestro, Carlos Wexler, and Valeri N. Kotov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205412 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Optical properties of silicon nanocrystals covered by periodic array of gold nanowires

S. A. Dyakov, D. M. Zhigunov, A. Marinins, M. R. Shcherbakov, A. A. Fedyanin, A. S. Vorontsov, P. K. Kashkarov, S. Popov, M. Qiu, M. Zacharias, S. G. Tikhodeev, and N. A. Gippius

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205413 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Driven quantum tunneling and pair creation with graphene Landau levels

Denis Gagnon, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Joey Dumont, Catherine Lefebvre, and Steve MacLean

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205415 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Low-coverage surface diffusion in complex periodic energy landscapes. II. Analytical solution for systems with asymmetric hops

Miguel A. Gosálvez, Mikhail M. Otrokov, Nestor Ferrando, Anastasia G. Ryabishchenkova, Andres Ayuela, Pedro M. Echenique, and Evgueni V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205416 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Quantitative structure determination using grazing scattering of fast atoms: Oxygen-induced missing-row reconstruction of Mo(112)

J. Seifert and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205417 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Controlling multipolar surface plasmon excitation through the azimuthal phase structure of electron vortex beams

Daniel Ugarte and Caterina Ducati

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205418 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

High-temperature stability of electron transport in semiconductors with strong spin-orbital interaction

G. Tomaka, J. Grendysa, P. Śliż, C. R. Becker, J. Polit, R. Wojnarowska, A. Stadler, and E. M. Sheregii

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205419 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Electronic transport in B-N substituted bilayer graphene nanojunctions

Daniele Giofré, Davide Ceresoli, Guido Fratesi, and Mario I. Trioni

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205420 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

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Dielectric function and plasmons in graphene: A self-consistent-field calculation within a Markovian master equation formalism

F. Karimi, A. H. Davoody, and I. Knezevic

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205421 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Valley Zeeman energy in monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$ quantum rings: Aharonov-Bohm effect

D. Oliveira, Jiyong Fu, L. Villegas-Lelovsky, A. C. Dias, and Fanyao Qu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205422 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Exciton radiative lifetime in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

C. Robert, D. Lagarde, F. Cadiz, G. Wang, B. Lassagne, T. Amand, A. Balocchi, P. Renucci, S. Tongay, B. Urbaszek, and X. Marie

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205423 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Manifestation of a non-Abelian Berry phase in a $p$ -type semiconductor system

T. Li, L. A. Yeoh, A. Srinivasan, O. Klochan, D. A. Ritchie, M. Y. Simmons, O. P. Sushkov, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205424 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

Inversion of Zeeman splitting of exciton states in InGaAs quantum wells

P. S. Grigoryev, O. A. Yugov, S. A. Eliseev, Yu. P. Efimov, V. A. Lovtcius, V. V. Petrov, V. F. Sapega, and I. V. Ignatiev

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205425 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Self-passivation rule and structure of CdTe Σ3 (112) grain boundaries

Cheng-yan Liu, Yue-yu Zhang, Yu-sheng Hou, Shi-you Chen, Hong-jun Xiang, and Xin-gao Gong

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205426 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Proposal for realizing the quantum spin Hall phase in a gapped graphene bilayer

Xuechao Zhai and Guojun Jin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205427 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Surface structure of the Ag-In-(rare earth) complex intermetallics

S. S. Hars, H. R. Sharma, J. A. Smerdon, T. P. Yadav, A. Al-Mahboob, J. Ledieu, V. Fournée, R. Tamura, and R. McGrath

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205428 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Spin noise of electrons and holes in (In,Ga)As quantum dots: Experiment and theory

Ph. Glasenapp, D. S. Smirnov, A. Greilich, J. Hackmann, M. M. Glazov, F. B. Anders, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205429 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Luttinger liquid in contact with a Kramers pair of Majorana bound states

Dmitry I. Pikulin, Yashar Komijani, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205430 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Generic helical edge states due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a topological insulator

Laura Ortiz, Rafael A. Molina, Gloria Platero, and Anders Mathias Lunde

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205431 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

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Local density of states and its mesoscopic fluctuations near the transition to a superconducting state in disordered systems

I. S. Burmistrov, I. V. Gornyi, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 205432 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016