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Magnetoelectric and structural properties of Y2CoMnO6: The role of antisite defects

J. Blasco, J. García, G. Subías, J. Stankiewicz, J. A. Rodríguez-Velamazán, C. Ritter, J. L. García-Muñoz, and F. Fauth

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214401 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

The finding of new multiferroic materials, where electric and magnetic orders coexist, is a challenging task currently. The double perovskite Y2CoMnO6 shows spontaneous magnetization and electrical polarization at low temperature. Previous investigations of this compound did not reach agreement about the type of magnetic structure present. This study demonstrates that this compound exhibits a collinear ferromagnetic ordering of Co2+ and Mn4+ moments in the ac plane with a small antiferromagnetic canting along the b axis. A thorough characterization of the dielectric properties reveals the absence of any related anomaly in the dielectric permittivity and the lack of spontaneous electrical polarization (P) in the P(E, electric field) loops. The pyroelectric current is strongly dependent on the number of antisite defects in the Co/Mn arrangement, the heating rate, and the poling field. Thus, the observed electric polarization is due to thermally stimulated depolarization currents ascribed to defect dipoles mainly placed at the antiphase boundaries. No ferroelectric transition occurs in this material, disproving the existence of intrinsic magnetoelectric multiferroicity.

Highly anisotropic exchange interactions of jeff=12 iridium moments on the fcc lattice in La2BIrO6 (B=Mg,Zn)

A. A. Aczel, A. M. Cook, T. J. Williams, S. Calder, A. D. Christianson, G.-X. Cao, D. Mandrus, Yong-Baek Kim, and A. Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214426 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

A special type of anisotropic spin exchange called the “Kitaev interaction” provides rare exactly-soluble models of gapless quantum spin liquids in 2d and 3d. The main goals of this work were to identify other lattice geometries that support the elusive Kitaev interactions and understand the magnetic properties of such materials. By performing inelastic neutron scattering on La2MgIrO6 and La2ZnIrO6, the authors find that these magnets, which possess long-range antiferromagnetic order, yield clear signatures of gapped and nearly-dispersionless magnon excitations. They also show that spin-wave models with a dominant Kitaev interaction can naturally account for the magnetic ordering pattern as well as the inelastic neutron scattering data.

Challenges in design of Kitaev materials: Magnetic interactions from competing energy scales

Stephen M. Winter, Ying Li, Harald O. Jeschke, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214431 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Much interest has emerged in the realization of materials with quantum spin liquid ground states, which would provide fertile ground for realizing exotic excitations. Three “Kitaev” spin liquid candidate materials have been proposed – Na2IrO3, α-RuCl3, and α-Li2IrO3 – and there has been many diverging proposals for the most relevant interactions. Here, the authors re-evaluate carefully the magnetic interactions in these materials, using nonperturbative exact diagonalization methods. The results clarify misconceptions in the literature and help estimate the potential for realizing the spin liquid state in real materials.

Spin-wave excitation modes in thick vortex-state circular ferromagnetic nanodots

R. V. Verba, A. Hierro-Rodriguez, D. Navas, J. Ding, X. M. Liu, A. O. Adeyeye, K. Y. Guslienko, and G. N. Kakazei

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214437 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Magnetic vortex is one of the simplest nontrivial topological structure that can exist in magnetic nanodots. Due to nonzero topological charge, vortices exhibit complex and interesting dynamic under external excitation, which includes excitation of translational (gyrotropic) and spin-wave modes. Here, the authors study the vortex dynamic in thick magnetic nanodots, when the vortex becomes essentially three dimensional. The third dimension is shown to lead to the appearance of additional spin-wave modes with characteristic curled structure (“curled” modes), which becomes the lowest ones in frequency among spin-wave modes for a sufficiently thick nanodot. Besides an uncommon profile, the curled modes also show uncommon hybridization with gyrotropic modes: modes propagating in opposite directions (clockwise and counterclockwise) that can be hybridized with different order gyrotropic modes.

Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in hole-doped RbEuFe4As4

Yi Liu, Ya-Bin Liu, Zhang-Tu Tang, Hao Jiang, Zhi-Cheng Wang, Abduweli Ablimit, Wen-He Jiao, Qian Tao, Chun-Mu Feng, Zhu-An Xu, and Guang-Han Cao

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214503 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Superconductivity (SC) and local-moment ferromagnetism (FM) are mutually antagonistic collective phenomena, and their genuine coexistence is rarely seen in nature. Although recent years have witnessed the possible coexistence of SC and Eu-spin FM in some doped EuFe2As2 systems, evidence of simultaneous bulk SC and obvious FM is still absent. Here, the authors report a robust coexistence of SC and FM in the iron pnictide RbEuFe4As4. The newly synthesized material is virtually an intergrowth of RbFe2As2 and EuFe2As2, making it hole doped by itself. With decreasing temperature, SC emerges at 36.5 K, followed by a Eu-spin ferromagnetic ordering at 15 K. Bulk SC is unambiguously confirmed by a large specific heat jump ΔC=7.5 J mol-1 K-1 at 36 K, while the Eu-spin FM is demonstrated by a coersive field of 360 Oe as well as a saturation magnetization of 6.5 μB/Eu at 2 K. Additional interesting issues include a rarely observed third-order ferromagnetic transition and a possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state below 5 K. The findings not only provide an excellent playground to investigate the long-standing issue of how SC coexists with long-range local-moment FM, but also give hints for the mechanism of iron-based SC by answering why SC and FM are compatible in this particular system.

Electron doping evolution of the magnetic excitations in NaFe1xCoxAs

Scott V. Carr, Chenglin Zhang, Yu Song, Guotai Tan, Yu Li, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, G. E. Granroth, T. G. Perring, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214506 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Because of the unconventional nature of high-temperature superconductors, it has been proposed that magnons, rather than phonons, play an important role in Cooper pair formation. It is therefore of great importance to understand how magnetic excitations behave and evolve between superconducting and nonsuperconducting compounds. In this work, the authors present a comprehensive study of the magnetic excitations in electron-doped NaFe1-xCoxAs in several samples across the phase diagram, including both superconducting and nonsuperconducting compounds. They find a strong suppression of low-energy magnetic scattering connected with the onset of superconductivity but no effect on either high-energy scattering intensity or bandwidth. Additionally, through comparison with the related but structurally distinct compound BaFe2-xNixAs2, they find a comparable total moment despite a smaller ordered moment, narrower scattering bandwidth, and Tc. These features all point to magnetism as an agent in the formation of superconductivity.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Interpretation of unexpected behavior of infrared absorption spectra of ScF3 beyond the quasiharmonic approximation

Sergei Piskunov, Pjotrs A. Žguns, Dmitry Bocharov, Alexei Kuzmin, Juris Purans, Aleksandr Kalinko, Robert A. Evarestov, Shehab E. Ali, and Francesco Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214101 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Quantum model for entropic springs

Chiao-Hsuan Wang and Jacob M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214102 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Critical thickness for interface misfit dislocation formation in two-dimensional materials

Brian C. McGuigan, Pascal Pochet, and Harley T. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214103 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Potentially superhard hcp CrN2 compound studied at high pressure

Zhonglong Zhao, Kuo Bao, Fubo Tian, Defang Duan, Bingbing Liu, and Tian Cui

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214104 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Nonlinear elastic effects in phase field crystal and amplitude equations: Comparison to ab initio simulations of bcc metals and graphene

Claas Hüter, Martin Friák, Marc Weikamp, Jörg Neugebauer, Nigel Goldenfeld, Bob Svendsen, and Robert Spatschek

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214105 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Ab initio approach to structural, electronic, and ferroelectric properties of antimony sulphoiodide

Danila Amoroso and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214106 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Bond-order potential for magnetic body-centered-cubic iron and its transferability

Yi-Shen Lin, M. Mrovec, and V. Vitek

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214107 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Kinetics of the iron αɛ phase transition at high-strain rates: Experiment and model

N. Amadou, T. de Resseguier, E. Brambrink, T. Vinci, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, G. Huser, G. Morard, F. Guyot, K. Miyanishi, N. Ozaki, R. Kodama, and M. Koenig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214108 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Zone-center phonons of bulk, few-layer, and monolayer 1TTaS2: Detection of commensurate charge density wave phase through Raman scattering

Oliver R. Albertini, Rui Zhao, Rebecca L. McCann, Simin Feng, Mauricio Terrones, James K. Freericks, Joshua A. Robinson, and Amy Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214109 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Dislocation patterning in a two-dimensional continuum theory of dislocations

István Groma, Michael Zaiser, and Péter Dusán Ispánovity

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214110 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Density-based crystal plasticity: From the discrete to the continuum

Pierre-Louis Valdenaire, Yann Le Bouar, Benoît Appolaire, and Alphonse Finel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214111 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

High-temperature- and high-pressure-induced formation of the Laves-phase compound XeS2

Xiaozhen Yan, Yangmei Chen, Shikai Xiang, Xiaoyu Kuang, Yan Bi, and Haiyan Chen

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214112 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Collective mode splitting in hybrid heterostructures

Juan Gabriel Ramírez, J. de la Venta, Siming Wang, Thomas Saerbeck, Ali C. Basaran, X. Batlle, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214113 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Pressure effects on model ferroelectric BiFeO3PbTiO3: Multiple phase transitions

Abhisek Basu, Rajesh Jana, Rajeev Ranjan, and Goutam Dev Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214114 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Impact of local magnetism on stacking fault energies: A first-principles investigation for fcc iron

I. Bleskov, T. Hickel, J. Neugebauer, and A. Ruban

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214115 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Dramatically growing shear rigidity length scale in the supercooled glass former NiZr2

Nicholas B. Weingartner, Ryan Soklaski, K. F. Kelton, and Zohar Nussinov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214201 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Unveiling atomic-scale features of inherent heterogeneity in metallic glass by molecular dynamics simulations

Y. C. Hu, P. F. Guan, M. Z. Li, C. T. Liu, Y. Yang, H. Y. Bai, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214202 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Temperature and density dependence of the shear viscosity of liquid sodium

N. Meyer, H. Xu, and J.-F. Wax

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214203 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Pressure-driven transformation of the ordering in amorphous network-forming materials

Anita Zeidler and Philip S. Salmon

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214204 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Structural evolution mechanisms of amorphous and liquid As2Se3 at high pressures

L. Properzi, M. Santoro, M. Minicucci, F. Iesari, M. Ciambezi, L. Nataf, Y. Le Godec, T. Irifune, F. Baudelet, and A. Di Cicco

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214205 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Topological Anderson insulators in systems without time-reversal symmetry

Ying Su, Y. Avishai, and X. R. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214206 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Phononic heat transport in the transient regime: An analytic solution

Riku Tuovinen, Niko Säkkinen, Daniel Karlsson, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Robert van Leeuwen

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214301 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Different effects of electronic excitation on metals and semiconductors

Gai-Qin Yan, Xin-Lu Cheng, Hong Zhang, Zhi-Yang Zhu, and Da-Hua Ren

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214302 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Phonon anharmonicity and components of the entropy in palladium and platinum

Yang Shen, Chen W. Li, Xiaoli Tang, Hillary L. Smith, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214303 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Classical model of negative thermal expansion in solids with expanding bonds

Joseph T. Schick and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214304 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Phonon-glass dynamics in thermoelectric clathrates

Yaping Liu, Qing Xi, Jun Zhou, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214305 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Spin-phonon coupling and high-pressure phase transitions of RMnO3 (R=Ca and Pr): An inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles study

S. K. Mishra, M. K. Gupta, R. Mittal, A. I. Kolesnikov, and S. L. Chaplot

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214306 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

First-principles calculation and experimental investigation of lattice dynamics in the rare-earth pyrochlores R2Ti2O7 (R=Tb,Dy,Ho)

M. Ruminy, M. Núñez Valdez, B. Wehinger, A. Bosak, D. T. Adroja, U. Stuhr, K. Iida, K. Kamazawa, E. Pomjakushina, D. Prabakharan, M. K. Haas, L. Bovo, D. Sheptyakov, A. Cervellino, R. J. Cava, M. Kenzelmann, N. A. Spaldin, and T. Fennell

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214308 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Magnetism

Magnetoelectric and structural properties of Y2CoMnO6: The role of antisite defects

J. Blasco, J. García, G. Subías, J. Stankiewicz, J. A. Rodríguez-Velamazán, C. Ritter, J. L. García-Muñoz, and F. Fauth

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214401 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

The finding of new multiferroic materials, where electric and magnetic orders coexist, is a challenging task currently. The double perovskite Y2CoMnO6 shows spontaneous magnetization and electrical polarization at low temperature. Previous investigations of this compound did not reach agreement about the type of magnetic structure present. This study demonstrates that this compound exhibits a collinear ferromagnetic ordering of Co2+ and Mn4+ moments in the ac plane with a small antiferromagnetic canting along the b axis. A thorough characterization of the dielectric properties reveals the absence of any related anomaly in the dielectric permittivity and the lack of spontaneous electrical polarization (P) in the P(E, electric field) loops. The pyroelectric current is strongly dependent on the number of antisite defects in the Co/Mn arrangement, the heating rate, and the poling field. Thus, the observed electric polarization is due to thermally stimulated depolarization currents ascribed to defect dipoles mainly placed at the antiphase boundaries. No ferroelectric transition occurs in this material, disproving the existence of intrinsic magnetoelectric multiferroicity.

One-dimensional frustrated plaquette compass model: Nematic phase and spontaneous multimerization

Wojciech Brzezicki and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214402 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Magnetic transitions in the topological magnon insulator Cu(1,3-bdc)

R. Chisnell, J. S. Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, F. Demmel, C. Stock, D. G. Nocera, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214403 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Magnetovolume effect, macroscopic hysteresis, and moment collapse in the paramagnetic state of cubic MnGe under pressure

N. Martin, M. Deutsch, J.-P. Itié, J.-P. Rueff, U. K. Rössler, K. Koepernik, L. N. Fomicheva, A. V. Tsvyashchenko, and I. Mirebeau

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214404 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Cycloidal versus skyrmionic states in mesoscopic chiral magnets

Jeroen Mulkers, Milorad V. Milošević, and Bartel Van Waeyenberge

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214405 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Observation of large spin accumulation voltages in nondegenerate Si spin devices due to spin drift effect: Experiments and theory

Takayuki Tahara, Yuichiro Ando, Makoto Kameno, Hayato Koike, Kazuhito Tanaka, Shinji Miwa, Yoshishige Suzuki, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Tohru Oikawa, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214406 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Structural and magnetic properties of the 5d2 double perovskites Sr2BReO6 (B=Y, In)

A. A. Aczel, Z. Zhao, S. Calder, D. T. Adroja, P. J. Baker, and J.-Q. Yan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214407 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Influence of the sputtering flow regime on the structural properties and magnetic behavior of Fe-Ga thin films (Ga ∼ 30 at.%)

A. Muñoz-Noval, A. Ordóñez-Fontes, and R. Ranchal

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214408 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Electronic and transport properties of the Mn-doped topological insulator Bi2Te3: A first-principles study

K. Carva, J. Kudrnovský, F. Máca, V. Drchal, I. Turek, P. Baláž, V. Tkáč, V. Holý, V. Sechovský, and J. Honolka

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214409 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Ground-state candidate for the classical dipolar kagome Ising antiferromagnet

I. A. Chioar, N. Rougemaille, and B. Canals

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214410 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Tunable Fano resonance and magneto-optical response in magnetoplasmonic structure fabricated by pure ferromagnetic metals

Leyi Chen, Jinlong Gao, Wenbin Xia, Shaoyin Zhang, Shaolong Tang, Weiyi Zhang, Daoyong Li, Xiaoshan Wu, and Youwei Du

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214411 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Path to collapse for an isolated Néel skyrmion

S. Rohart, J. Miltat, and A. Thiaville

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214412 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Observation of resistivity minimum at low temperature in CoxCu1x (x0.170.76) nanostructured granular alloys

S. Dhara, R. Roy Chowdhury, and B. Bandyopadhyay

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214413 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Exploring metamagnetism of single crystalline EuNiGe3 by neutron scattering

X. Fabrèges, A. Gukasov, P. Bonville, A. Maurya, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214414 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Absence of magnetic proximity effects in magnetoresistive Pt/CoFe2O4 hybrid interfaces

M. Valvidares, N. Dix, M. Isasa, K. Ollefs, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, F. Sánchez, E. Pellegrin, A. Bedoya-Pinto, P. Gargiani, L. E. Hueso, F. Casanova, and J. Fontcuberta

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214415 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Anisotropy: Spin order and magnetization of single-crystalline Cu4(OH)6FBr barlowite

Tian-Heng Han, Eric D. Isaacs, John A. Schlueter, and John Singleton

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214416 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Quantum phase transitions in a generalized compass chain with three-site interactions

Wen-Long You, Yu-Cheng Qiu, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214417 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Anomalous Hall effect in localization regime

Lin Wu, Kai Zhu, Di Yue, Yuan Tian, and Xiaofeng Jin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214418 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Helical bunching and symmetry lowering inducing multiferroicity in Fe langasites

L. Chaix, R. Ballou, A. Cano, S. Petit, S. de Brion, J. Ollivier, L.-P. Regnault, E. Ressouche, E. Constable, C. V. Colin, A. Zorko, V. Scagnoli, J. Balay, P. Lejay, and V. Simonet

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214419 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Resonant elastic x-ray scattering from the skyrmion lattice in Cu2OSeO3

S. L. Zhang, A. Bauer, H. Berger, C. Pfleiderer, G. van der Laan, and T. Hesjedal

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214420 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Quantum criticality and inhomogeneous magnetic order in Fe-doped αYbAlB4

D. E. MacLaughlin, K. Kuga, Lei Shu, O. O. Bernal, P.-C. Ho, S. Nakatsuji, K. Huang, Z. F. Ding, C. Tan, and Jian Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214421 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films

V. N. Kats, T. L. Linnik, A. S. Salasyuk, A. W. Rushforth, M. Wang, P. Wadley, A. V. Akimov, S. A. Cavill, V. Holy, A. M. Kalashnikova, and A. V. Scherbakov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214422 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Enhanced Faraday rotation by crystals of core-shell magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles

P. Varytis, P. A. Pantazopoulos, and N. Stefanou

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214423 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Influence of the critical Fe atomic volume on the magnetism of Fe-rich metallic glasses evidenced by pressure-dependent measurements

L. F. Kiss, T. Kemény, J. Bednarčík, J. Gamcová, and H.-P. Liermann

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214424 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Energy dynamics in the Heisenberg-Kitaev spin chain

Robin Steinigeweg and Wolfram Brenig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214425 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Highly anisotropic exchange interactions of jeff=12 iridium moments on the fcc lattice in La2BIrO6 (B=Mg,Zn)

A. A. Aczel, A. M. Cook, T. J. Williams, S. Calder, A. D. Christianson, G.-X. Cao, D. Mandrus, Yong-Baek Kim, and A. Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214426 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

A special type of anisotropic spin exchange called the “Kitaev interaction” provides rare exactly-soluble models of gapless quantum spin liquids in 2d and 3d. The main goals of this work were to identify other lattice geometries that support the elusive Kitaev interactions and understand the magnetic properties of such materials. By performing inelastic neutron scattering on La2MgIrO6 and La2ZnIrO6, the authors find that these magnets, which possess long-range antiferromagnetic order, yield clear signatures of gapped and nearly-dispersionless magnon excitations. They also show that spin-wave models with a dominant Kitaev interaction can naturally account for the magnetic ordering pattern as well as the inelastic neutron scattering data.

Dynamic modulation of the transport properties of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface using uniaxial strain

Fan Zhang, Yue-Wen Fang, Ngai Yui Chan, Wing Chong Lo, Dan Feng Li, Chun-Gang Duan, Feng Ding, and Ji Yan Dai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214427 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Spin-wave and electromagnon dispersions in multiferroic MnWO4 as observed by neutron spectroscopy: Isotropic Heisenberg exchange versus anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Y. Xiao (肖荫果), C. M. N. Kumar, S. Nandi, Y. Su (苏夷希), W. T. Jin (金文涛), Z. Fu (付振东), E. Faulhaber, A. Schneidewind, and Th. Brückel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214428 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Phenomenology of chiral damping in noncentrosymmetric magnets

Collins Ashu Akosa, Ioan Mihai Miron, Gilles Gaudin, and Aurélien Manchon

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214429 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Magnetic ordering in the ultrapure site-diluted spin chain materials SrCu1xNixO2

G. Simutis, M. Thede, R. Saint-Martin, A. Mohan, C. Baines, Z. Guguchia, R. Khasanov, C. Hess, A. Revcolevschi, B. Büchner, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214430 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Challenges in design of Kitaev materials: Magnetic interactions from competing energy scales

Stephen M. Winter, Ying Li, Harald O. Jeschke, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214431 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Much interest has emerged in the realization of materials with quantum spin liquid ground states, which would provide fertile ground for realizing exotic excitations. Three “Kitaev” spin liquid candidate materials have been proposed – Na2IrO3, α-RuCl3, and α-Li2IrO3 – and there has been many diverging proposals for the most relevant interactions. Here, the authors re-evaluate carefully the magnetic interactions in these materials, using nonperturbative exact diagonalization methods. The results clarify misconceptions in the literature and help estimate the potential for realizing the spin liquid state in real materials.

Gapless quantum spin liquid ground state in the spin-1 antiferromagnet 6HB-Ba3NiSb2O9

J. A. Quilliam, F. Bert, A. Manseau, C. Darie, C. Guillot-Deudon, C. Payen, C. Baines, A. Amato, and P. Mendels

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214432 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Lieb-Mattis ferrimagnetism in magnetic semiconductors

R. O. Kuzian, J. Richter, M. D. Kuz'min, and R. Hayn

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214433 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Crossed responses of spin and orbital magnetism in topological insulators

Ryota Nakai and Kentaro Nomura

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214434 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Spin-rotational-invariant theory of transition-metal magnetism at finite temperatures: Systematic study of a single-site model

G. M. Pastor and J. Dorantes-Dávila

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214435 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Spin-wave localization in tangentially magnetized films

Elena V. Tartakovskaya, Martha Pardavi-Horvath, and Robert D. McMichael

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214436 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Spin-wave excitation modes in thick vortex-state circular ferromagnetic nanodots

R. V. Verba, A. Hierro-Rodriguez, D. Navas, J. Ding, X. M. Liu, A. O. Adeyeye, K. Y. Guslienko, and G. N. Kakazei

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214437 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Magnetic vortex is one of the simplest nontrivial topological structure that can exist in magnetic nanodots. Due to nonzero topological charge, vortices exhibit complex and interesting dynamic under external excitation, which includes excitation of translational (gyrotropic) and spin-wave modes. Here, the authors study the vortex dynamic in thick magnetic nanodots, when the vortex becomes essentially three dimensional. The third dimension is shown to lead to the appearance of additional spin-wave modes with characteristic curled structure (“curled” modes), which becomes the lowest ones in frequency among spin-wave modes for a sufficiently thick nanodot. Besides an uncommon profile, the curled modes also show uncommon hybridization with gyrotropic modes: modes propagating in opposite directions (clockwise and counterclockwise) that can be hybridized with different order gyrotropic modes.

Ground-state phases of the spin-1J1J2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice

P. H. Y. Li and R. F. Bishop

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214438 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

First-principles studies of the Gilbert damping and exchange interactions for half-metallic Heuslers alloys

Jonathan Chico, Samara Keshavarz, Yaroslav Kvashnin, Manuel Pereiro, Igor Di Marco, Corina Etz, Olle Eriksson, Anders Bergman, and Lars Bergqvist

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214439 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Static magnetic proximity effect in Pt/Ni1xFex bilayers investigated by x-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity

C. Klewe, T. Kuschel, J.-M. Schmalhorst, F. Bertram, O. Kuschel, J. Wollschläger, J. Strempfer, M. Meinert, and G. Reiss

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214440 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Theoretical formalism for collective spin-wave edge excitations in arrays of dipolarly interacting magnetic nanodots

Ivan Lisenkov, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Sergey Nikitov, and Andrei Slavin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214441 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Ultrastrong coupling in two-resonator circuit QED

A. Baust, E. Hoffmann, M. Haeberlein, M. J. Schwarz, P. Eder, J. Goetz, F. Wulschner, E. Xie, L. Zhong, F. Quijandría, D. Zueco, J.-J. García Ripoll, L. García-Álvarez, G. Romero, E. Solano, K. G. Fedorov, E. P. Menzel, F. Deppe, A. Marx, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214501 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Josephson junction through a disordered topological insulator with helical magnetization

Alexander Zyuzin, Mohammad Alidoust, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214502 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in hole-doped RbEuFe4As4

Yi Liu, Ya-Bin Liu, Zhang-Tu Tang, Hao Jiang, Zhi-Cheng Wang, Abduweli Ablimit, Wen-He Jiao, Qian Tao, Chun-Mu Feng, Zhu-An Xu, and Guang-Han Cao

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214503 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Superconductivity (SC) and local-moment ferromagnetism (FM) are mutually antagonistic collective phenomena, and their genuine coexistence is rarely seen in nature. Although recent years have witnessed the possible coexistence of SC and Eu-spin FM in some doped EuFe2As2 systems, evidence of simultaneous bulk SC and obvious FM is still absent. Here, the authors report a robust coexistence of SC and FM in the iron pnictide RbEuFe4As4. The newly synthesized material is virtually an intergrowth of RbFe2As2 and EuFe2As2, making it hole doped by itself. With decreasing temperature, SC emerges at 36.5 K, followed by a Eu-spin ferromagnetic ordering at 15 K. Bulk SC is unambiguously confirmed by a large specific heat jump ΔC=7.5 J mol-1 K-1 at 36 K, while the Eu-spin FM is demonstrated by a coersive field of 360 Oe as well as a saturation magnetization of 6.5 μB/Eu at 2 K. Additional interesting issues include a rarely observed third-order ferromagnetic transition and a possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state below 5 K. The findings not only provide an excellent playground to investigate the long-standing issue of how SC coexists with long-range local-moment FM, but also give hints for the mechanism of iron-based SC by answering why SC and FM are compatible in this particular system.

Topological superconductivity in quantum Hall–superconductor hybrid systems

Björn Zocher and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214504 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Flat-band superconductivity in strained Dirac materials

V. J. Kauppila, F. Aikebaier, and T. T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214505 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Electron doping evolution of the magnetic excitations in NaFe1xCoxAs

Scott V. Carr, Chenglin Zhang, Yu Song, Guotai Tan, Yu Li, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, G. E. Granroth, T. G. Perring, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214506 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Because of the unconventional nature of high-temperature superconductors, it has been proposed that magnons, rather than phonons, play an important role in Cooper pair formation. It is therefore of great importance to understand how magnetic excitations behave and evolve between superconducting and nonsuperconducting compounds. In this work, the authors present a comprehensive study of the magnetic excitations in electron-doped NaFe1-xCoxAs in several samples across the phase diagram, including both superconducting and nonsuperconducting compounds. They find a strong suppression of low-energy magnetic scattering connected with the onset of superconductivity but no effect on either high-energy scattering intensity or bandwidth. Additionally, through comparison with the related but structurally distinct compound BaFe2-xNixAs2, they find a comparable total moment despite a smaller ordered moment, narrower scattering bandwidth, and Tc. These features all point to magnetism as an agent in the formation of superconductivity.

Effects of order parameter self-consistency in a s±s junction

Rosa Rodríguez-Mota, Erez Berg, and T. Pereg-Barnea

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214507 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Superconducting electron and hole lenses

H. Cheraghchi, H. Esmailzadeh, and A. G. Moghaddam

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214508 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Magnetic behavior of dirty multiband superconductors near the upper critical field

Mikhail Silaev

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214509 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Effects of electron correlation, electron-phonon coupling, and spin-orbit coupling on the isovalent Pd-substituted superconductor SrPt3P

Kangkang Hu, Bo Gao, Qiucheng Ji, Yonghui Ma, Wei Li, Xuguang Xu, Hui Zhang, Gang Mu, Fuqiang Huang, Chuanbing Cai, Xiaoming Xie, and Mianheng Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214510 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Probing unconventional superconductivity in inversion-symmetric doped Weyl semimetal

Youngseok Kim, Moon Jip Park, and Matthew J. Gilbert

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214511 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Simultaneous investigation of shear modulus and torsional resonance of solid He4

Jaeho Shin, Jaewon Choi, Keiya Shirahama, and Eunseong Kim

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214512 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Extracting paramagnon excitations from resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments

Jagat Lamsal and Wouter Montfrooij

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214513 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Characterizing p-wave superconductivity using the spin structure of Shiba states

V. Kaladzhyan, C. Bena, and P. Simon

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214514 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Spin-orbit coupling and odd-parity superconductivity in the quasi-one-dimensional compound Li0.9Mo6O17

Christian Platt, Weejee Cho, Ross H. McKenzie, Ronny Thomale, and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214515 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

Rashba versus Kohn-Luttinger: Evolution of p-wave superconductivity in magnetized two-dimensional Fermi gases subject to spin-orbit interactions

Ethan Lake, Caleb Webb, D. A. Pesin, and O. A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214516 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Large quantum superpositions of a nanoparticle immersed in superfluid helium

O. Lychkovskiy

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214517 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Paramagnetic excited vortex states in superconductors

Rodolpho Ribeiro Gomes, Mauro M. Doria, and Antonio R. de C. Romaguera

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214518 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Doping evolution of the superconducting gap structure in the underdoped iron arsenide Ba1xKxFe2As2 revealed by thermal conductivity

J.-Ph. Reid, M. A. Tanatar, X. G. Luo, H. Shakeripour, S. René de Cotret, A. Juneau-Fecteau, J. Chang, B. Shen, H.-H. Wen, H. Kim, R. Prozorov, N. Doiron-Leyraud, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 93, 214519 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

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Publisher's Note: Crucial role of interlayer distance for antiferromagnet-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy [Phys. Rev. B 92, 214435 (2015)]

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 93, 219901 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

Publisher's Note: Evolution of damping in ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic thin film bilayers as a function of nonmagnetic layer thickness [Phys. Rev. B 93, 054402 (2016)]

S. Azzawi, A. Ganguly, M. Tokaç, R. M. Rowan-Robinson, J. Sinha, A. T. Hindmarch, A. Barman, and D. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. B 93, 219902 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Publisher's Note: Charge avalanches and depinning in the Coulomb glass: The role of long-range interactions [Phys. Rev. B 93, 094429 (2016)]

Juan Carlos Andresen, Yohanes Pramudya, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Creighton K. Thomas, Gergely T. Zimanyi, and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. B 93, 219903 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Erratum: High-pressure x-ray-diffraction study of αAlPO4 [Phys. Rev. B 62, 8824 (2000)]

Surinder M. Sharma, Nandini Garg, and S. K. Sikka

Phys. Rev. B 93, 219904 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Publisher's Note: Umbrella-coplanar transition in the triangular XXZ model with arbitrary spin [Phys. Rev. B 93, 224402 (2016)]

Giacomo Marmorini, Daisuke Yamamoto, and Ippei Danshita

Phys. Rev. B 93, 219905 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Erratum: Spin transfer torque in antiferromagnetic spin valves: From clean to disordered regimes [Phys. Rev. B 89, 174430 (2014)]

Hamed Ben Mohamed Saidaoui, Aurelien Manchon, and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. B 93, 219906 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

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