Volume 94, Issue 4

15 July 2016

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$T / B$ scaling without quasiparticle mass divergence: ${YbCo}_{2} {Ge}_{4}$

Akito Sakai, Kentaro Kitagawa, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Makoto Iwatani, and Philipp Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041106(R) (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

“Strange metal phases”, displaying strong deviations from Fermi liquid theory, are discussed in the context of cuprates, itinerant magnets, or heavy-fermion metals. Several Yb-based materials, e.g., $β$ -YbAlB $_{4}$ or the Au-Al-Yb quasicrystal, display $T$ / $B$ scaling of magnetic and thermodynamic properties. This has been taken as evidence for zero-field quantum criticality without requirement to fine-tune composition and pressure. However, it appears unlikely that materials are accidentally located at such a special point in multidimensional phase space. In this paper, the authors demonstrate by a thermodynamic study on the new Kondo lattice compound YbCo $_{2}$ Ge $_{4}$ that $T$ / $B$ scaling and a divergence of the magnetic Grüneisen parameter can arise without a quasiparticle mass divergence and in the absence of zero-field quantum criticality. They discuss alternative scenarios for such strange metal behavior.

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First-order density-wave-like transitions in surface-doped ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Kavita Mehlawat and Yogesh Singh

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041109(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

The Kitaev model is a toy model for $S$ = $\frac{1}{2}$ moments on a honeycomb lattice, which interact via strongly bond-dependent Ising-like interactions. In real material candidates like Na $_{2}$ IrO $_{3}$ , small Heisenberg interactions are also present in addition to dominant Kitaev interactions. The doped Kitaev-Heisenberg model has been predicted to show unconventional superconductivity and spin or charge density wave, and bond-order instabilities. In this paper, the authors have succeeded in surface-doping Na $_{2}$ IrO $_{3}$ crystals by argon plasma etching and in changing the conductivity by several orders of magnitude. The doped samples show several unusual transport behaviors, including first order spin or charge density wave-like transitions.

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Efficient variational diagonalization of fully many-body localized Hamiltonians

Frank Pollmann, Vedika Khemani, J. Ignacio Cirac, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041116(R) (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

The phenomenon of many-body localization generalizes Anderson localization to interacting systems. Understanding this conceptually novel phenomenon requires a study of many-body eigenstates at finite energy densities. This is a very challenging task since the most efficient numerical methods such as, e.g., the density matrix renormalization group method, can only access the ground state and low lying excitations. In this work, the authors introduce a unitary tensor network based variational method that approximately finds all many-body eigenstates of fully localized Hamiltonians and scales polynomially with system size. The usefulness of their approach is demonstrated by considering the Heisenberg chain in a strongly disordered magnetic field.

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Giant permanent dipole moment of two-dimensional excitons bound to a single stacking fault

Todd Karin, Xiayu Linpeng, M. M. Glazov, M. V. Durnev, E. L. Ivchenko, Sarah Harvey, Ashish K. Rai, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Kai-Mei C. Fu

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041201(R) (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Two-dimensional potentials are excellent test beds for the physics of interacting excitonic gases, but engineering highly homogeneous potentials can be challenging. In this work, the authors investigate excitons bound to a single 10-μm scale stacking fault, finding excitonic luminescence with unprecedented homogeneity. The authors further show that stacking-fault-bound excitons are mobile and have a giant permanent dipole moment by means of the magneto-Stark effect. These results indicate that stacking faults may be a promising platform to probe the many-body physics of interacting dipoles in an atomically smooth potential.

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Electron diffraction by plasmon waves

F. J. García de Abajo, B. Barwick, and F. Carbone

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041404(R) (2016) - Published 11 July, 2016

The properties of an electron beam can be manipulated by electromagnetic fields in vacuum via the ponderomotive force. Such an interaction is also at the core of the Kapitza-Dirac effect, which describes the diffraction of electrons by an optical standing wave. Here, the authors predict a new type of interaction between electrons and the electromagnetic field, opening up new possibilities for the manipulation of electron beams. If surface plasmon polaritons are tailored to interfere forming a periodic field pattern, it becomes possible to diffract electrons from such near field. With the proper manipulation of the plasmonic fields, orbital angular momentum can be imparted to the electrons, and even the phase of their wave functions can be manipulated. An additional degree of freedom is provided by the possibility to tailor the spatial properties of the light and the materials supporting the surface plasmons. This arbitrary control can be extended to different substrates such as graphene or layered systems and may open up a viable route to create tunable phase plates for electron microscopes.

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Trion formation in a two-dimensional hole-doped electron gas

G. G. Spink, P. López Ríos, N. D. Drummond, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041410(R) (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

The creation of electron-hole pairs by photoexcitation in quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures has long provided one motivation for the study of a positive impurity immersed in an electron gas. Improved understanding of such systems is vital to realize the full potential of solar cells and optoelectronic transistors and memory devices. Collective, many-body phenomena dominate the behavior of the hole-in-electron-gas system at high carrier density, while excitonic species such as the exciton (a bound state of an electron and the hole) and the trion (a bound state formed from two electrons and the hole) emerge at low density. Confinement enhances the binding energy in quantum wells compared to bulk samples but, despite much experimental and theoretical work, the properties of excitons and trions are still uncertain. The authors perform diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of a single positive impurity immersed in a two-dimensional, paramagnetic electron gas at zero temperature using the Coulomb ( $1 / r$ ) potential. A gradual crossover from the collective, many-body behavior to the trion state is studied over a range of carrier densities and electron-hole mass ratios consistent with recent experiments in GaAs and CdTe quantum wells. Relaxation energies, electron-hole pair correlation functions, and electron-hole center-of-mass momentum densities are reported for these systems and may be used, for example, in density functional theory studies of optoelectronic devices.

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Many-body localization and transition by density matrix renormalization group and exact diagonalization studies

S. P. Lim and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045111 (2016) - Published 13 July, 2016

This paper focuses on developing a new algorithm (En-DMRG) for obtaining highly excited states of disordered and strongly interacting spin systems. This line of research is stimulated by the growing interest in understanding the many-body localized (MBL) state, which emerges in disordered interacting systems at high energy densities through a disorder-driven dynamic phase transition. By studying the one-dimensional Heisenberg spin chain (with up to 72 spins) in a random field, the authors demonstrate the accuracy of the method in obtaining energy eigenstates and the corresponding statistical results of the quantum system in the MBL phase. The method presented in this work has the potential to be applicable in a variety of quantum statistical physics problems, possibly including the MBL phase in higher dimensions.

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Probing $5 f$ -state configurations in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ with U $L_{III}$ -edge resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy

C. H. Booth, S. A. Medling, J. G. Tobin, R. E. Baumbach, E. D. Bauer, D. Sokaras, D. Nordlund, and T.-C. Weng

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045121 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

URu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$ undergoes a second-order phase transition at 17.5 K that has defied attempts to identify its order parameter despite a vast literature extending over the last 30 years. A wide variety of theories have been posed to explain this so-called “hidden order”, some with exotic ground states. An important dividing line between these theories is the character of the 5 $f$ orbital: on one side sit theories that require a localized $f^{2}$ configuration ( $f$ -manifold crystalline electric field effects, hastatic order, etc.), while on the other sit those that start from an itinerant, partially occupied $f^{3}$ orbital (band structure + hybridization). Unfortunately, the experimental measures remain muddy on this issue, with indications of both localized $f^{2}$ and itinerant $f^{3}$ behavior depending on the experiment. Here, the authors report U $L_{I I I}$ -edge absorption/ $L_{α 1}$ emission resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy measurements comparing data from URu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$ to UCd $_{11}$ , UF $_{4}$ , and UO $_{2}$ data to unravel the various roles of $f$ -orbital occupation, delocalization, and ligand-field splitting of the $d$ manifold. The data indicate a dominant delocalized $f^{3}$ configuration that is likely partially occupied, with no measurable change in occupancy to temperatures as low as 10 K. While these measurements do not rule out a minority localized $f^{2}$ configuration, any theory relying on such a configuration must account for its relatively small contribution to the Fermi surface.

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Continuous and discontinuous topological quantum phase transitions

Bitan Roy, Pallab Goswami, and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041101(R) (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

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Bulk-edge correspondence in topological pumping

Y. Hatsugai and T. Fukui

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041102(R) (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

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Resistivity plateau and extremely large magnetoresistance in ${NbAs}_{2}$ and ${TaAs}_{2}$

Yi-Yan Wang, Qiao-He Yu, Peng-Jie Guo, Kai Liu, and Tian-Long Xia

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041103(R) (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

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Parity-time symmetry-breaking mechanism of dynamic Mott transitions in dissipative systems

Vikram Tripathi, Alexey Galda, Himadri Barman, and Valerii M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041104(R) (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

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Five-dimensional generalization of the topological Weyl semimetal

Biao Lian and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041105(R) (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

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$T / B$ scaling without quasiparticle mass divergence: ${YbCo}_{2} {Ge}_{4}$

Akito Sakai, Kentaro Kitagawa, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Makoto Iwatani, and Philipp Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041106(R) (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

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Effects of quantum confinement on excited state properties of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ from ab initio many-body perturbation theory

Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo, Tonatiuh Rangel, Fabien Bruneval, and Jeffrey B. Neaton

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041107(R) (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

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Electronic stopping power in liquid water for protons and α particles from first principles

Kyle G. Reeves, Yi Yao, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041108(R) (2016) - Published 14 July, 2016

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First-order density-wave-like transitions in surface-doped ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Kavita Mehlawat and Yogesh Singh

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041109(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Finite-temperature phase transitions in the $SU (N)$ Hubbard model

Hiromasa Yanatori and Akihisa Koga

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041110(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Spin waves and magnetic exchange interactions in the spin-ladder compound ${RbFe}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Meng Wang, Ming Yi, Shangjian Jin, Hongchen Jiang, Yu Song, Huiqian Luo, A. D. Christianson, C. de la Cruz, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Dao-Xin Yao, D. H. Lee, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041111(R) (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

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Offset-corrected $Δ$ -Kohn-Sham scheme for semiempirical prediction of absolute x-ray photoelectron energies in molecules and solids

Michael Walter, Michael Moseler, and Lars Pastewka

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041112(R) (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

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Intrinsic carrier scattering mechanism in anatase $Ti O_{2}$ investigated by ultraviolet-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy

Y. Matsui, T. Terashige, R. Uchida, T. Miyamoto, H. Yada, H. Matsuzaki, B.-S. Li, A. Sawa, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041113(R) (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

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Multiple Fermi surfaces in superconducting Nb-doped ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

B. J. Lawson, Paul Corbae, Gang Li, Fan Yu, Tomoya Asaba, Colin Tinsman, Y. Qiu, J. E. Medvedeva, Y. S. Hor, and Lu Li

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041114(R) (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

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Pressure-induced electronic and magnetic phase transitions in a Mott insulator: Ti-doped $C a_{3} R u_{2} O_{7}$ bilayer ruthenate

T. Zou, H. B. Cao, G. Q. Liu, J. Peng, M. Gottschalk, M. Zhu, Y. Zhao, J. B. Leão, W. Tian, Z. Q. Mao, and X. Ke

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041115(R) (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

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Efficient variational diagonalization of fully many-body localized Hamiltonians

Frank Pollmann, Vedika Khemani, J. Ignacio Cirac, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041116(R) (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Giant permanent dipole moment of two-dimensional excitons bound to a single stacking fault

Todd Karin, Xiayu Linpeng, M. M. Glazov, M. V. Durnev, E. L. Ivchenko, Sarah Harvey, Ashish K. Rai, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Kai-Mei C. Fu

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041201(R) (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

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

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Optical absorption by Dirac excitons in single-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides

Maxim Trushin, Mark Oliver Goerbig, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041301(R) (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

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Unconventional spin texture in a noncentrosymmetric quantum spin Hall insulator

C. Mera Acosta, O. Babilonia, L. Abdalla, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041302(R) (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Stark shift and electric-field-induced dissociation of excitons in monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$ and $h BN / {MoS}_{2}$ heterostructures

Sten Haastrup, Simone Latini, Kirill Bolotin, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041401(R) (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

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Anomalous Hall effect on the surface of topological Kondo insulators

E. J. König, P. M. Ostrovsky, M. Dzero, and A. Levchenko

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041403(R) (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

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Electron diffraction by plasmon waves

F. J. García de Abajo, B. Barwick, and F. Carbone

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041404(R) (2016) - Published 11 July, 2016

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Spin dynamics in bilayer graphene: Role of electron-hole puddles and Dyakonov-Perel mechanism

Dinh Van Tuan, Shaffique Adam, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041405(R) (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

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Electrical control of the sign of the $g$ factor in a GaAs hole quantum point contact

A. Srinivasan, K. L. Hudson, D. Miserev, L. A. Yeoh, O. Klochan, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, O. P. Sushkov, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041406(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Decoherence of high-energy electrons in weakly disordered quantum Hall edge states

Simon E. Nigg and Anders Mathias Lunde

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041407(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Direct evidence of metallic bands in a monolayer boron sheet

Baojie Feng, Jin Zhang, Ro-Ya Liu, Takushi Iimori, Chao Lian, Hui Li, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu, Sheng Meng, Fumio Komori, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041408(R) (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Tunable point nodes from line-node semimetals via application of light

Awadhesh Narayan

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041409(R) (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

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Trion formation in a two-dimensional hole-doped electron gas

G. G. Spink, P. López Ríos, N. D. Drummond, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041410(R) (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

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Anisotropic Pauli spin blockade in hole quantum dots

Matthias Brauns, Joost Ridderbos, Ang Li, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Wilfred G. van der Wiel, and Floris A. Zwanenburg

Phys. Rev. B 94, 041411(R) (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Unusual Kondo-hole effect and crystal-field frustration in Nd-doped ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

P. F. S. Rosa, A. Oostra, J. D. Thompson, P. G. Pagliuso, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045101 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Interaction-energy functional of the Hubbard model: Local formulation and application to low-dimensional lattices

Matthieu Saubanère, Marie Bernadette Lepetit, and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045102 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Phase transitions in the Hubbard model for the bismuth nickelate

Shoya Kojima, Joji Nasu, and Akihisa Koga

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045103 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Universal transport dynamics in a quenched tunnel-coupled Luttinger liquid

F. M. Gambetta, F. Cavaliere, R. Citro, and M. Sassetti

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045104 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Computational and experimental investigation for new transition metal selenides and sulfides: The importance of experimental verification for stability

Awadhesh Narayan, Ankita Bhutani, Samantha Rubeck, James N. Eckstein, Daniel P. Shoemaker, and Lucas K. Wagner

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045105 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Local moment approach as a quantum impurity solver for the Hubbard model

Himadri Barman

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045106 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Microscopic theory on charge transports of a correlated multiorbital system

Naoya Arakawa

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045107 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Buildup of the Kondo effect from real-time effective action for the Anderson impurity model

Sebastian Bock, Alexander Liluashvili, and Thomas Gasenzer

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045108 (2016) - Published 11 July, 2016

Spectroscopy and electronic structure of ${Sr}_{2} {YRuO}_{6}$ and ${Sr}_{2} {YRu}_{0.75} {Ir}_{0.25} O_{6}$

E. B. Guedes, M. Abbate, F. Abud, R. F. Jardim, F. C. Vicentin, and R. J. O. Mossanek

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045109 (2016) - Published 11 July, 2016

Pulse propagation in the interacting one-dimensional Bose liquid

A. D. Sarishvili, I. V. Protopopov, and D. B. Gutman

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045110 (2016) - Published 12 July, 2016

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Many-body localization and transition by density matrix renormalization group and exact diagonalization studies

S. P. Lim and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045111 (2016) - Published 13 July, 2016

Anisotropic transport and optical spectroscopy study on antiferromagnetic triangular lattice ${EuCd}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : An interplay between magnetism and charge transport properties

H. P. Wang, D. S. Wu, Y. G. Shi, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045112 (2016) - Published 13 July, 2016

Bulk-boundary correspondence in (3+1)-dimensional topological phases

Xiao Chen, Apoorv Tiwari, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045113 (2016) - Published 13 July, 2016

Density functional calculations of a staggered FeSe monolayer on a ${SrTiO}_{3}$ (110) surface

Xianxin Wu, Xia Dai, Yi Liang, Congcong Le, Heng Fan, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045114 (2016) - Published 14 July, 2016

Electronic correlations and pressure-induced metallicity in ${LaMnPO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ revealed via infrared spectroscopy

K. W. Post, Alexander F. Goncharov, Z. P. Yin, J. W. Simonson, Jing Guo, Liling Sun, S. Zellman, M. D. Goldflam, H. T. Stinson, B. C. Chapler, D. E. McNally, Zhongxian Zhao, G. Kotliar, M. C. Aronson, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045115 (2016) - Published 14 July, 2016

Unique magnetic structure of ${YbCo}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

N. Mufti, K. Kaneko, A. Hoser, M. Gutmann, C. Geibel, C. Krellner, and O. Stockert

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045116 (2016) - Published 14 July, 2016

Anti-optic-null medium: Achieving the optic-null medium effect by enclosing an air region with relatively low-anisotropy media

Fei Sun, Yichao Liu, and Sailing He

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045117 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

Manipulating superconductivity in ruthenates through Fermi surface engineering

Yi-Ting Hsu, Weejee Cho, Alejandro Federico Rebola, Bulat Burganov, Carolina Adamo, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Craig J. Fennie, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045118 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

Photoinduced dynamics in doped Mott insulators with polaronic conduction: ${Ba}_{2} {Ti}_{13} O_{22}$ and ${Ba}_{x} {Ti}_{8} O_{16}$

N. Yamaguchi, A. Furuhashi, H. Nishihara, R. Murata, K. Takayama, and T. Katsufuji

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045119 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

Tunneling into a quantum confinement created by a single-step nanolithography of conducting oxide interfaces

E. Maniv, A. Ron, M. Goldstein, A. Palevski, and Y. Dagan

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045120 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

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Probing $5 f$ -state configurations in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ with U $L_{III}$ -edge resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy

C. H. Booth, S. A. Medling, J. G. Tobin, R. E. Baumbach, E. D. Bauer, D. Sokaras, D. Nordlund, and T.-C. Weng

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045121 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

First-principles search for $n$ -type oxide, nitride, and sulfide thermoelectrics

Kevin F. Garrity

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045122 (2016) - Published 15 July, 2016

Towards spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas at a surface of an antiferromagnetic insulating oxide

Rohan Mishra, Young-Min Kim, Qian He, Xing Huang, Seong Keun Kim, Michael A. Susner, Anand Bhattacharya, Dillon D. Fong, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Albina Y. Borisevich

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045123 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Cohesive properties of noble metals by van der Waals–corrected density functional theory: Au, Ag, and Cu as case studies

Alberto Ambrosetti and Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045124 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Spin correlations and topological entanglement entropy in a non-Abelian spin-one spin liquid

Julia Wildeboer and N. E. Bonesteel

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045125 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Dynamical conductivity and its fluctuations along the crossover to many-body localization

Osor S. Barišić, Jure Kokalj, Ivan Balog, and Peter Prelovšek

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045126 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Parafermion chain with $2 π / k$ Floquet edge modes

G. J. Sreejith, Achilleas Lazarides, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045127 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Stern-Gerlach splitters for lattice quasispin

A. S. Rosado, J. A. Franco-Villafañe, C. Pineda, and E. Sadurní

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045129 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Importance of effective dimensionality in manganese pnictides

Manuel Zingl, Elias Assmann, Priyanka Seth, Igor Krivenko, and Markus Aichhorn

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045130 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Nature of charge density waves and superconductivity in $1 T - {TaSe}_{2 - x} {Te}_{x}$

Y. Liu (刘育), D. F. Shao (邵定夫), L. J. Li, W. J. Lu, X. D. Zhu, P. Tong, R. C. Xiao, L. S. Ling, C. Y. Xi, L. Pi, H. F. Tian, H. X. Yang, J. Q. Li, W. H. Song, X. B. Zhu, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045131 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Origin of in-plane anisotropic resistivity in the antiferromagnetic phase of ${Fe}_{1 + x} Te$

Eiji Kaneshita and Takami Tohyama

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045132 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Hyperscaling violation at the Ising-nematic quantum critical point in two-dimensional metals

Andreas Eberlein, Ipsita Mandal, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045133 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Optical spectroscopy and decoherence studies of $Y b^{3 +}$ :YAG at 968 nm

Thomas Böttger, C. W. Thiel, R. L. Cone, Y. Sun, and A. Faraon

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045134 (2016) - Published 26 July, 2016

Gutzwiller variational wave function for multiorbital Hubbard models in finite dimensions

Kevin zu Münster and Jörg Bünemann

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045135 (2016) - Published 26 July, 2016

Detection of gapped phases of a one-dimensional spin chain with on-site and spatial symmetries

Abhishodh Prakash, Colin G. West, and Tzu-Chieh Wei

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045136 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Low-energy physics of the $t − J$ model in $d = \infty$ using extremely correlated Fermi liquid theory: Cutoff second-order equations

B. Sriram Shastry and Edward Perepelitsky

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045138 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Structural order and melting of a quasi-one-dimensional electron system

David G. Rees, Niyaz R. Beysengulov, Yoshiaki Teranishi, Chun-Shuo Tsao, Sheng-Shiuan Yeh, Shao-Pin Chiu, Yong-Han Lin, Dmitrii A. Tayurskii, Juhn-Jong Lin, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045139 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Semiconductors I: bulk

Atomic structure of metal-halide perovskites from first principles: The chicken-and-egg paradox of the organic-inorganic interaction

Jingrui Li and Patrick Rinke

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045201 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Effects of molecular dipole orientation on the exciton binding energy of ${CH}_{3} {NH}_{3} {PbI}_{3}$

Carlo Motta, Pankaj Mandal, and Stefano Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045202 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Photoluminescence excitation and spectral hole burning spectroscopy of silicon vacancy centers in diamond

Carsten Arend, Jonas Nils Becker, Hadwig Sternschulte, Doris Steinmüller-Nethl, and Christoph Becher

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045203 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Spin signatures of exchange-coupled triplet pairs formed by singlet fission

Sam L. Bayliss, Leah R. Weiss, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Alexei D. Chepelianskii, and Neil C. Greenham

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045204 (2016) - Published 11 July, 2016

Electro-optical properties of Rydberg excitons

Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska, David Ziemkiewicz, and Gerard Czajkowski

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045205 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Deep level study of Mg-doped GaN using deep level transient spectroscopy and minority carrier transient spectroscopy

Tran Thien Duc, Galia Pozina, Hiroshi Amano, Bo Monemar, Erik Janzén, and Carl Hemmingsson

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045206 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Ab initio study of the effect of vacancies on the thermal conductivity of boron arsenide

Nakib Haider Protik, Jesús Carrete, Nebil A. Katcho, Natalio Mingo, and David Broido

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045207 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

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

Monte Carlo simulation of near-field terahertz emission from semiconductors

S. C. Corzo-Garcia, A. I. Hernandez-Serrano, E. Castro-Camus, and O. Mitrofanov

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045301 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Triplet excitons as sensitive spin probes for structure analysis of extended defects in microcrystalline silicon

Christoph Meier, Christian Teutloff, Jan Behrends, Robert Bittl, Oleksandr Astakhov, and Klaus Lips

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045302 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Neutral and charged biexciton-exciton cascade in near-telecom-wavelength quantum dots

Jan Kettler, Matthias Paul, Fabian Olbrich, Katharina Zeuner, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler, Matthias Florian, Christian Carmesin, and Frank Jahnke

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045303 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Gating versus doping: Quality parameters of two-dimensional electron systems in undoped and doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures

S. Peters, L. Tiemann, C. Reichl, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045304 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Macroscopic transverse drift of long current-induced spin coherence in two-dimensional electron gases

F. G. G. Hernandez, S. Ullah, G. J. Ferreira, N. M. Kawahala, G. M. Gusev, and A. K. Bakarov

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045305 (2016) - Published 14 July, 2016

Fast and selective phonon-assisted state preparation of a quantum dot by adiabatic undressing

A. M. Barth, S. Lüker, A. Vagov, D. E. Reiter, T. Kuhn, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045306 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Electronic structure of hydrogenated diamond: Microscopical insight into surface conductivity

S. Iacobucci, Paola Alippi, P. Calvani, M. Girolami, F. Offi, L. Petaccia, and D. M. Trucchi

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045307 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Polarization dependence of nonlinear wave mixing of spinor polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

Przemyslaw Lewandowski, Ombline Lafont, Emmanuel Baudin, Chris K. P. Chan, P. T. Leung, Samuel M. H. Luk, Elisabeth Galopin, Aristide Lemaître, Jacqueline Bloch, Jerome Tignon, Philippe Roussignol, N. H. Kwong, Rolf Binder, and Stefan Schumacher

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045308 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Limitation of electron mobility from hyperfine interaction in ultraclean quantum wells and topological insulators

S. A. Tarasenko and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045309 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Anomalous conductivity, Hall factor, magnetoresistance, and thermopower of accumulation layer in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Han Fu, K. V. Reich, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045310 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Transferable tight-binding model for strained group IV and III-V materials and heterostructures

Yaohua Tan, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045311 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Rayleigh waves, surface disorder, and phonon localization in nanostructures

L. N. Maurer, S. Mei, and I. Knezevic

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045312 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Magnetocapacitance oscillations and thermoelectric effect in a two-dimensional electron gas irradiated by microwaves

A. D. Levin, G. M. Gusev, O. E. Raichev, Z. S. Momtaz, and A. K. Bakarov

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045313 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Transport of spin qubits with donor chains under realistic experimental conditions

Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Rachpon Kalra, Arne Laucht, Rajib Rahman, Gerhard Klimeck, and Andrea Morello

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045314 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Half-skyrmion spin textures in polariton microcavities

P. Cilibrizzi, H. Sigurdsson, T. C. H. Liew, H. Ohadi, A. Askitopoulos, S. Brodbeck, C. Schneider, I. A. Shelykh, S. Höfling, J. Ruostekoski, and P. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045315 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Universal quantum computation with hybrid spin-Majorana qubits

Silas Hoffman, Constantin Schrade, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045316 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Electric control of inverted gap and hybridization gap in type-II InAs/GaSb quantum wells

Lun-Hui Hu, Chao-Xing Liu, Dong-Hui Xu, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Yi Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045317 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Microscopic dielectric permittivities of graphene nanoribbons and graphene

Jingtian Fang, William G. Vandenberghe, and Massimo V. Fischetti

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045318 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Interband characterization and electronic transport control of nanoscaled ${GeTe / Sb}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ superlattices

Antonio Caretta, Barbara Casarin, Paola Di Pietro, Andrea Perucchi, Stefano Lupi, Valeria Bragaglia, Raffaella Calarco, Felix Rolf Lutz Lange, Matthias Wuttig, Fulvio Parmigiani, and Marco Malvestuto

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045319 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Dynamics of exciton recombination in strong magnetic fields in ultrathin GaAs/AlAs quantum wells with indirect band gap and type-II band alignment

T. S. Shamirzaev, J. Debus, D. R. Yakovlev, M. M. Glazov, E. L. Ivchenko, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045411 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Generalized nonequilibrium vertex correction method in coherent medium theory for quantum transport simulation of disordered nanoelectronics

Jiawei Yan and Youqi Ke

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045424 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Zero-energy modes and valley asymmetry in the Hofstadter spectrum of bilayer graphene van der Waals heterostructures with hBN

Xi Chen, J. R. Wallbank, M. Mucha-Kruczyński, E. McCann, and V. I. Fal'ko

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045442 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Topological phase and edge states dependence of the RKKY interaction in zigzag silicene nanoribbon

Moslem Zare, Fariborz Parhizgar, and Reza Asgari

Phys. Rev. B 94, 045443 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016