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Native point defects and impurities in hexagonal boron nitride

L. Weston, D. Wickramaratne, M. Mackoit, A. Alkauskas, and C. G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214104 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a technologically important electronic and dielectric material. Recently, research into this material has intensified due to the discovery of bright single-photon-emitting color centers in the form of point defects, with potential applications in advanced quantum technologies. Despite this technological promise, the defect physics of this material is still largely unexplored. Here, the authors have performed detailed first-principles investigations of the defect properties of h-BN, finding that the defect physics of this material is dictated by impurities, in particular carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. They show how the defect properties of this material can be selectively engineered by growth or processing conditions. These insights will be fundamental to controlled generation of single-photon emitters and for general defect engineering of this material.

Helical magnetic structure and the anomalous and topological Hall effects in epitaxial B20 Fe1yCoyGe films

Charles S. Spencer, Jacob Gayles, Nicholas A. Porter, Satoshi Sugimoto, Zabeada Aslam, Christian J. Kinane, Timothy R. Charlton, Frank Freimuth, Stanislav Chadov, Sean Langridge, Jairo Sinova, Claudia Felser, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Christopher H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214406 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Magnetic materials with chiral lattices are known to support chiral spin textures such as skyrmions and chiral bobbers. These give rise to transport properties, intrinsically linked to their nontrivial topology. Here, the authors study epitaxial films of Fe1yCoyGe across the entire range from the well-known chiral magnet FeGe to the nonmagnetic CoGe. The measured magnetic and transport properties are compared with the results of ab initio electronic structure calculations. Theory and experiment agree on a change in sign of the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction at y0.45. Nevertheless, the observed topological Hall effect for neighboring values of y is far larger than theory predicts. This discrepancy points to the need for a deeper understanding of transport in disordered half-metallic chiral magnets.

Intrinsic hysteresis due to the surface barrier for chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral helimagnets

M. Shinozaki, Y. Masaki, R. Aoki, Y. Togawa, and Y. Kato

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214413 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral magnets undergo a surface barrier, which is analogous to the Bean-Livingston barrier in type-II superconductors. The authors argue here that the surface barrier is the main mechanism for large hysteresis observed in magnetoresistance (MR) measurements on micrometer-sized samples of CrNb3S6. In the MR hysteresis, a conspicuous jump is observed at the field Hb for decreasing fields. Experimental results for Hb0.4Hc (with thermodynamic critical field Hc) and the theoretical result Hb/Hc=4/π2 are in good agreement with each other. The surface barrier is regarded as a common property of systems (superconductors, chiral magnets, and chiral liquid crystals) that exhibit continuous transitions of the nucleation type.

Selection rules for cavity-enhanced Brillouin light scattering from magnetostatic modes

J. A. Haigh, N. J. Lambert, S. Sharma, Y. M. Blanter, G. E. W. Bauer, and A. J. Ramsay

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214423 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Brillouin light scattering (BLS) is a useful tool for studying magnons, the elementary excitations of magnetic order. However, this process is typically quite weak. In order to enhance BLS, optical cavity modes, such as the whispering gallery modes in a sphere of transparent magnetic material, can be exploited. Here, the authors study cavity-enhanced BLS from magnons in a range of different magnetostatic modes. The selection rules that govern the process are identified and understood based on recent theoretical predictions (Phys. Rev. B 96, 094412 (2017)). Additional enhancement of BLS can be achieved through the better spatial overlap of higher-order magnetic modes with the optical modes.

Absence of superconductivity in iron polyhydrides at high pressures

Christoph Heil, Giovanni B. Bachelet, and Lilia Boeri

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214510 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

The recently reported formation of the new iron polyhydride FeH5 at megabar pressures raised hopes about its potential high-Tc superconductivity because of an alleged layer of dense metallic hydrogen. Using electronic structure calculations, the present work shows that FeH5 displays no conventional superconductivity, since the electronic states at the Fermi level do not exhibit appreciable electron-phonon coupling. Superconductivity may be attained by partially filling empty Fe–H hybrid bands by adding more electrons, but critical temperatures would remain relatively low, because the d-metal bonding, and not the metallic hydrogen, dominates the electrons and phonons involved in the superconducting pairing.

Coexistence of superconductivity and short-range double-stripe spin correlations in Te-vapor annealed FeTe1xSex (x0.2)

Zhijun Xu, J. A. Schneeloch, Ming Yi, Yang Zhao, Masaaki Matsuda, D. M. Pajerowski, Songxue Chi, R. J. Birgeneau, Genda Gu, J. M. Tranquada, and Guangyong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214511 (2018) - Published 14 June, 2018

The single-stripe antiferromagnetic (SAF) spin correlations found in many iron-based superconductors are believed to be important to the development of superconductivity in these system. By contrast, the double-stripe antiferromagnetic (DSAF) spin correlations are always found to be present in the nonsuperconducting region of Fe1+yTe1xxSex systems with small x values. Here, the authors study bulk crystals of Fe1+yTe1xSex with x = 0.1 and 0.2, when superconductivity can be induced by annealing in Te vapor. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements reveal low-energy magnetic excitations consistent with short-range correlations with a mixed single-stripe/double-stripe character. The mixed magnetic character of these superconducting samples does not appear to be trivially explainable by inhomogeneity, and suggest that superconductivity in Fe1+yTe1xSex systems can indeed emerge in an environment where the spin correlation is not dominated by SAF.

Quantum confinement effects in Pb nanocrystals grown on InAs

Tianzhen Zhang, Sergio Vlaic, Stéphane Pons, Alexandre Assouline, Alexandre Zimmers, Dimitri Roditchev, Hervé Aubin, Guy Allan, Christophe Delerue, Christophe David, Guillemin Rodary, and Jean-Christophe Girard

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214514 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

In this article, the authors show that the two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of InAs provides a remarkable substrate for the growth of Pb nanocrystals. This is used to study the quantum confinement effects in such nanocrystals - since the Fermi wavelength of the two-dimensional electron gas is larger than the lateral size of the nanocrystal, the quantum constriction of the wavefunction at the interface leads to a weak coupling between the nanocrystal and the substrate and so preserves the quantum confinement effects within the nanocrystal. The researchers are able to observe the superconducting parity effect and the mapping of electronic wave functions via scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

Complete electrodynamics of a BCS superconductor with μeV energy scales: Microwave spectroscopy on titanium at mK temperatures

Markus Thiemann, Martin Dressel, and Marc Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214516 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Titanium is generally considered a conventional superconductor, but due to the experimental challenges that come with its low critical temperature Tc ≈ 0.5 K its superconducting properties have been only barely characterized so far. The authors apply a novel multimode microwave resonator technique to determine the complete optical response of superconducting titanium at extremely low energy scales (GHz frequencies and mK temperatures). The superconducting energy gap, superfluid density, and penetration depth are quantified, and it is demonstrated that titanium closely follows the electrodynamics predicted by BCS theory.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

High-pressure phase diagram of hydrogen and deuterium sulfides from first principles: Structural and vibrational properties including quantum and anharmonic effects

Raffaello Bianco, Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214101 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Field-induced polarization rotation and phase transitions in 0.70Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O30.30PbTiO3 piezoceramics observed by in situ high-energy x-ray scattering

Dong Hou, Tedi-Marie Usher, Lovro Fulanovic, Marko Vrabelj, Mojca Otonicar, Hana Ursic, Barbara Malic, Igor Levin, and Jacob L. Jones

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214102 (2018) - Published 12 June, 2018

Prolonged mixed phase induced by high pressure in MnRuP

Raimundas Sereika, Wei Wu, Changyong Park, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Dale L. Brewe, Steve M. Heald, Jianbo Zhang, Sorb Yesudhas, Hongshan Deng, Bijuan Chen, Jianlin Luo, Yang Ding, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214103 (2018) - Published 15 June, 2018

Native point defects and impurities in hexagonal boron nitride

L. Weston, D. Wickramaratne, M. Mackoit, A. Alkauskas, and C. G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214104 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a technologically important electronic and dielectric material. Recently, research into this material has intensified due to the discovery of bright single-photon-emitting color centers in the form of point defects, with potential applications in advanced quantum technologies. Despite this technological promise, the defect physics of this material is still largely unexplored. Here, the authors have performed detailed first-principles investigations of the defect properties of h-BN, finding that the defect physics of this material is dictated by impurities, in particular carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. They show how the defect properties of this material can be selectively engineered by growth or processing conditions. These insights will be fundamental to controlled generation of single-photon emitters and for general defect engineering of this material.

Thermodynamic properties of MgSiO3 at super-Earth mantle conditions

D. E. Fratanduono, M. Millot, R. G. Kraus, D. K. Spaulding, G. W. Collins, P. M. Celliers, and J. H. Eggert

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214105 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Temperature dependence of the Gibbs energy of vacancy formation of fcc Ni

Yilun Gong, Blazej Grabowski, Albert Glensk, Fritz Körmann, Jörg Neugebauer, and Roger C. Reed

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214106 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Transition to exponential relaxation in weakly disordered electron glasses

Z. Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214201 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Entanglement in a dephasing model and many-body localization

Marko Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214202 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Ab initio modeling of nonequilibrium electron-ion dynamics of iron in the warm dense matter regime

T. Ogitsu, A. Fernandez-Pañella, S. Hamel, A. A. Correa, D. Prendergast, C. D. Pemmaraju, and Y. Ping

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214203 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Bloch-Floquet waves in optical ring resonators

Kathleen McGarvey-Lechable and Pablo Bianucci

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214204 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Many-body localization transition with power-law interactions: Statistics of eigenstates

K. S. Tikhonov and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214205 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Boltzmann transport theory for many-body localization

Jae-Ho Han and Ki-Seok Kim

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214206 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Structural, vibrational, and dynamic properties of Ge-Ga-Te liquids with increasing connectivity: A combined neutron scattering and molecular dynamics study

H. Flores-Ruiz, M. Micoulaut, A. Piarristeguy, M.-V. Coulet, M. Johnson, G. J. Cuello, and A. Pradel

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214207 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Theory of nonlinear microwave absorption by interacting two-level systems

Alexander L. Burin and Andrii O. Maksymov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214208 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Spinful Aubry-André model in a magnetic field: Delocalization facilitated by a weak spin-orbit coupling

Rajesh K. Malla and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214209 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Analyzing the spectral density of a perturbed analog quantum simulator using the Keldysh formalism

Sebastian Zanker, Iris Schwenk, Jan-Michael Reiner, Juha Leppäkangas, and Michael Marthaler

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214301 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Electromechanical quantum simulators

F. Tacchino, A. Chiesa, M. D. LaHaye, S. Carretta, and D. Gerace

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214302 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Antiresonant quantum transport in ac-driven molecular nanojunctions

V. Leyton, S. Weiss, and M. Thorwart

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214303 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Coherent phonons in a Bi2Se3 film generated by an intense single-cycle THz pulse

A. A. Melnikov, K. N. Boldyrev, Yu. G. Selivanov, V. P. Martovitskii, S. V. Chekalin, and E. A. Ryabov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214304 (2018) - Published 14 June, 2018

Generation of multiband spoof surface acoustic waves via high-order modes

Li Ting Wu, Gang Yong Song, Wen Kang Cao, Qiang Cheng, Tie Jun Cui, and Yun Jing

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214305 (2018) - Published 15 June, 2018

Double-resonant Raman scattering with optical and acoustic phonons in carbon nanotubes

Christoph Tyborski, Asmus Vierck, Rohit Narula, Valentin N. Popov, and Janina Maultzsch

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214306 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Measurement of a phonon-polariton dispersion curve by varying the excitation wavelength

Brittany E. Knighton, Blake S. Dastrup, Courtney L. Johnson, and Jeremy A. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214307 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Magnetism

Magnetic structures and magnetocaloric effect in RVO4(R=Gd, Nd)

E. Palacios, M. Evangelisti, R. Sáez-Puche, A. J. Dos Santos-García, F. Fernández-Martínez, C. Cascales, M. Castro, R. Burriel, O. Fabelo, and J. A. Rodríguez-Velamazán

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214401 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Gradual pressure-induced change in the magnetic structure of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ge

A. S. Sukhanov, Sanjay Singh, L. Caron, Th. Hansen, A. Hoser, V. Kumar, H. Borrmann, A. Fitch, P. Devi, K. Manna, C. Felser, and D. S. Inosov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214402 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Spin-orbit torque in a completely compensated synthetic antiferromagnet

P. X. Zhang, L. Y. Liao, G. Y. Shi, R. Q. Zhang, H. Q. Wu, Y. Y. Wang, F. Pan, and C. Song

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214403 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Electronic and transport properties of a new quaternary Heusler alloy CoMnFeSi

J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, S. K. Bose, and I. Turek

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214404 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Temperature-dependent relaxation of dipole-exchange magnons in yttrium iron garnet films

Laura Mihalceanu, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Dmytro A. Bozhko, Thomas Langner, Alexey Yu. Nechiporuk, Vladyslav F. Romanyuk, Burkard Hillebrands, and Alexander A. Serga

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214405 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Helical magnetic structure and the anomalous and topological Hall effects in epitaxial B20 Fe1yCoyGe films

Charles S. Spencer, Jacob Gayles, Nicholas A. Porter, Satoshi Sugimoto, Zabeada Aslam, Christian J. Kinane, Timothy R. Charlton, Frank Freimuth, Stanislav Chadov, Sean Langridge, Jairo Sinova, Claudia Felser, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Christopher H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214406 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Magnetic materials with chiral lattices are known to support chiral spin textures such as skyrmions and chiral bobbers. These give rise to transport properties, intrinsically linked to their nontrivial topology. Here, the authors study epitaxial films of Fe1yCoyGe across the entire range from the well-known chiral magnet FeGe to the nonmagnetic CoGe. The measured magnetic and transport properties are compared with the results of ab initio electronic structure calculations. Theory and experiment agree on a change in sign of the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction at y0.45. Nevertheless, the observed topological Hall effect for neighboring values of y is far larger than theory predicts. This discrepancy points to the need for a deeper understanding of transport in disordered half-metallic chiral magnets.

Magnetic field tunable dielectric dispersion in successive field-induced magnetic phases of the geometrically frustrated magnet CuFeO2 up to 28 T

H. Tamatsukuri, S. Mitsuda, K. Hiroura, T. Nakajima, M. Fujihala, M. Yamano, Y. Toshioka, C. Kaneko, K. Takehana, Y. Imanaka, N. Terada, and H. Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214407 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Magnetism of metallacrown single-molecule magnets: From a simplest model to realistic systems

Y. Pavlyukh, E. Rentschler, H. J. Elmers, W. Hübner, and G. Lefkidis

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214408 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Electromagnetic effects induced by a time-dependent axion field

Katsuhisa Taguchi, Tatsushi Imaeda, Tetsuya Hajiri, Takuya Shiraishi, Yukio Tanaka, Naoya Kitajima, and Tatsuhiro Naka

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214409 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Magnetic-field control of electric polarization in coupled spin chains with three-site interactions

Jozef Sznajd

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214410 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Evolution of magnetic and orbital properties in the magnetically diluted A-site spinel Cu1xZnxRh2O4

A. V. Zakrzewski, S. Gangopadhyay, G. J. MacDougall, A. A. Aczel, S. Calder, and T. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214411 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Intrinsic hysteresis due to the surface barrier for chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral helimagnets

M. Shinozaki, Y. Masaki, R. Aoki, Y. Togawa, and Y. Kato

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214413 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral magnets undergo a surface barrier, which is analogous to the Bean-Livingston barrier in type-II superconductors. The authors argue here that the surface barrier is the main mechanism for large hysteresis observed in magnetoresistance (MR) measurements on micrometer-sized samples of CrNb3S6. In the MR hysteresis, a conspicuous jump is observed at the field Hb for decreasing fields. Experimental results for Hb0.4Hc (with thermodynamic critical field Hc) and the theoretical result Hb/Hc=4/π2 are in good agreement with each other. The surface barrier is regarded as a common property of systems (superconductors, chiral magnets, and chiral liquid crystals) that exhibit continuous transitions of the nucleation type.

Electrical transport properties of micrometer-sized samples of the rare-earth chiral magnet YbNi3Al9

Ryuya Aoki, Yoshihiko Togawa, and Shigeo Ohara

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214414 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Calculating the transport properties of magnetic materials from first principles including thermal and alloy disorder, noncollinearity, and spin-orbit coupling

Anton A. Starikov, Yi Liu, Zhe Yuan, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214415 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Resurrecting the partially isotropic Haldane-Shastry model

Jules Lamers

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214416 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

Competition of lattice and spin excitations in the temperature dependence of spin-wave properties

Marco Di Gennaro, Alonso L. Miranda, Thomas A. Ostler, Aldo H. Romero, and Matthieu J. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214417 (2018) - Published 14 June, 2018

High-field phase diagram and phase transitions in hexagonal manganite ErMnO3

Y. J. Liu, J. F. Wang, X. F. Sun, J.-S. Zhou, Z. C. Xia, Z. W. Ouyang, M. Yang, C. B. Liu, R. Chen, J.-G. Cheng, Y. Kohama, M. Tokunaga, and K. Kindo

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214419 (2018) - Published 15 June, 2018

Scaling of nonlinear susceptibilities in an artificial permalloy honeycomb lattice

A. Dahal, Y. Chen, B. Summers, and D. K. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214420 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Spontaneous distortion via the appearance of ferromagnetism in Pd ultrathin films: Observation of an inverse mechanism for the Stoner criterion

Shunsuke Sakuragi, Hiroo Tajiri, Hiroyuki Kageshima, and Tetsuya Sato

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214421 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Coupling of magnetic order and charge transport in the candidate Dirac semimetal EuCd2As2

M. C. Rahn, J.-R. Soh, S. Francoual, L. S. I. Veiga, J. Strempfer, J. Mardegan, D. Y. Yan, Y. F. Guo, Y. G. Shi, and A. T. Boothroyd

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214422 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Selection rules for cavity-enhanced Brillouin light scattering from magnetostatic modes

J. A. Haigh, N. J. Lambert, S. Sharma, Y. M. Blanter, G. E. W. Bauer, and A. J. Ramsay

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214423 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Brillouin light scattering (BLS) is a useful tool for studying magnons, the elementary excitations of magnetic order. However, this process is typically quite weak. In order to enhance BLS, optical cavity modes, such as the whispering gallery modes in a sphere of transparent magnetic material, can be exploited. Here, the authors study cavity-enhanced BLS from magnons in a range of different magnetostatic modes. The selection rules that govern the process are identified and understood based on recent theoretical predictions (Phys. Rev. B 96, 094412 (2017)). Additional enhancement of BLS can be achieved through the better spatial overlap of higher-order magnetic modes with the optical modes.

Weak magnetic anisotropy in GdRh2Si2 studied by magnetic resonance

J. Sichelschmidt, K. Kliemt, M. Hofmann-Kliemt, and C. Krellner

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214424 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Staggered field induced dynamical effects in a quantum spin chain

A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214425 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Brownian motion of magnetic domain walls and skyrmions, and their diffusion constants

Jacques Miltat, Stanislas Rohart, and André Thiaville

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214426 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Spin-valve-like magnetoresistance in a Ni-Mn-In thin film

Sandeep Agarwal, Baomin Wang, Huali Yang, Pravarthana Dhanapal, Yuan Shen, Junling Wang, Hailong Wang, Jianhua Zhao, and Run-Wei Li

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214427 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Static and dynamic signatures of anisotropic electronic phase separation in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 thin films under anisotropic strain

L. Hu, L. Q. Yu, P. Xiong, X. L. Wang, J. H. Zhao, L. F. Wang, Z. Huang, and W. B. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214428 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Phase transition in SU(N)×U(1) gauge theory with many fundamental bosons

Ankur Das

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214429 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Thermodynamics of a quantum Ising system coupled to a spin bath

R. D. McKenzie and P. C. E. Stamp

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214430 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Calculating magnetic interactions in organic electrides

Taek Jung Kim, Hongkee Yoon, and Myung Joon Han

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214431 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Magnetic inhomogeneity in the copper pseudochalcogenide CuNCN

A. Zorko, P. Jeglič, M. Pregelj, D. Arčon, H. Luetkens, A. L. Tchougréeff, and R. Dronskowski

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214432 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Ground-state phase diagram of the frustrated spin-12 two-leg honeycomb ladder

Qiang Luo, Shijie Hu, Jize Zhao, Alexandros Metavitsiadis, Sebastian Eggert, and Xiaoqun Wang

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214433 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Classification of magnetic forces acting on an antiferromagnetic domain wall

H. Y. Yuan, Weiwei Wang, Man-Hong Yung, and X. R. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214434 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Magnetoreflection and magnetophotoluminescence in the dilute magnetic semiconductor Zn1xMnxTe

Le Van Khoi, R. R. Gałązka, and W. Zawadzki

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214435 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Probing the Jeff=0 ground state and the Van Vleck paramagnetism of the Ir5+ ions in layered Sr2Co0.5Ir0.5O4

S. Agrestini, C.-Y. Kuo, K. Chen, Y. Utsumi, D. Mikhailova, A. Rogalev, F. Wilhelm, T. Förster, A. Matsumoto, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214436 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Polarization analysis of magnetic excitation in multiferroic Ba2CoGe2O7

Minoru Soda, Lieh-Jeng Chang, Masashige Matsumoto, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Bertrand Roessli, Jonathan S. White, Hazuki Kawano-Furukawa, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214437 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Magnetic field dependence of nonlinear magnetic response and tricritical point in the monoaxial chiral helimagnet Cr1/3NbS2

E. M. Clements, Raja Das, Manh-Huong Phan, Ling Li, Veerle Keppens, David Mandrus, Michael Osofsky, and Hariharan Srikanth

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214438 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Phase diagram of the underdoped cuprates at high magnetic field

Debmalya Chakraborty, Corentin Morice, and Catherine Pépin

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214501 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Spin-imbalanced pairing and Fermi surface deformation in flat bands

Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen, Marek Tylutki, Pramod Kumar, Tuomas I. Vanhala, Sebastiano Peotta, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214503 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Zero energy states at a normal-metal/cuprate-superconductor interface probed by shot noise

O. Negri, M. Zaberchik, G. Drachuck, A. Keren, and M. Reznikov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214504 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Topological footprints of the Kitaev chain with long-range superconducting pairings at a finite temperature

Utso Bhattacharya and Amit Dutta

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214505 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects for local and nonlocal Cooper pairs

Damian Tomaszewski, Piotr Busz, Rosa López, Rok Žitko, Minchul Lee, and Jan Martinek

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214506 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Supercurrent as a probe for topological superconductivity in magnetic adatom chains

Narayan Mohanta, Arno P. Kampf, and Thilo Kopp

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214507 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

Green's-function theory of dirty two-band superconductivity

Yasuhiro Asano and Alexander A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214508 (2018) - Published 12 June, 2018

Supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions with heavy metal interlayers

Nathan Satchell and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214509 (2018) - Published 12 June, 2018

Absence of superconductivity in iron polyhydrides at high pressures

Christoph Heil, Giovanni B. Bachelet, and Lilia Boeri

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214510 (2018) - Published 13 June, 2018

The recently reported formation of the new iron polyhydride FeH5 at megabar pressures raised hopes about its potential high-Tc superconductivity because of an alleged layer of dense metallic hydrogen. Using electronic structure calculations, the present work shows that FeH5 displays no conventional superconductivity, since the electronic states at the Fermi level do not exhibit appreciable electron-phonon coupling. Superconductivity may be attained by partially filling empty Fe–H hybrid bands by adding more electrons, but critical temperatures would remain relatively low, because the d-metal bonding, and not the metallic hydrogen, dominates the electrons and phonons involved in the superconducting pairing.

Coexistence of superconductivity and short-range double-stripe spin correlations in Te-vapor annealed FeTe1xSex (x0.2)

Zhijun Xu, J. A. Schneeloch, Ming Yi, Yang Zhao, Masaaki Matsuda, D. M. Pajerowski, Songxue Chi, R. J. Birgeneau, Genda Gu, J. M. Tranquada, and Guangyong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214511 (2018) - Published 14 June, 2018

The single-stripe antiferromagnetic (SAF) spin correlations found in many iron-based superconductors are believed to be important to the development of superconductivity in these system. By contrast, the double-stripe antiferromagnetic (DSAF) spin correlations are always found to be present in the nonsuperconducting region of Fe1+yTe1xxSex systems with small x values. Here, the authors study bulk crystals of Fe1+yTe1xSex with x = 0.1 and 0.2, when superconductivity can be induced by annealing in Te vapor. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements reveal low-energy magnetic excitations consistent with short-range correlations with a mixed single-stripe/double-stripe character. The mixed magnetic character of these superconducting samples does not appear to be trivially explainable by inhomogeneity, and suggest that superconductivity in Fe1+yTe1xSex systems can indeed emerge in an environment where the spin correlation is not dominated by SAF.

Formation of single-phase disordered CsxFe2ySe2 at high pressure

V. Svitlyk, E. Pomjakushina, A. Krzton-Maziopa, K. Conder, and M. Mezouar

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214512 (2018) - Published 15 June, 2018

Theory of energy spectra in superfluid He4 counterflow turbulence

Victor S. L'vov and Anna Pomyalov

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214513 (2018) - Published 15 June, 2018

Quantum confinement effects in Pb nanocrystals grown on InAs

Tianzhen Zhang, Sergio Vlaic, Stéphane Pons, Alexandre Assouline, Alexandre Zimmers, Dimitri Roditchev, Hervé Aubin, Guy Allan, Christophe Delerue, Christophe David, Guillemin Rodary, and Jean-Christophe Girard

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214514 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

In this article, the authors show that the two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of InAs provides a remarkable substrate for the growth of Pb nanocrystals. This is used to study the quantum confinement effects in such nanocrystals - since the Fermi wavelength of the two-dimensional electron gas is larger than the lateral size of the nanocrystal, the quantum constriction of the wavefunction at the interface leads to a weak coupling between the nanocrystal and the substrate and so preserves the quantum confinement effects within the nanocrystal. The researchers are able to observe the superconducting parity effect and the mapping of electronic wave functions via scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

Probing unconventional superconductivity in proximitized graphene by impurity scattering

Oladunjoye A. Awoga and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214515 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Complete electrodynamics of a BCS superconductor with μeV energy scales: Microwave spectroscopy on titanium at mK temperatures

Markus Thiemann, Martin Dressel, and Marc Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214516 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Titanium is generally considered a conventional superconductor, but due to the experimental challenges that come with its low critical temperature Tc ≈ 0.5 K its superconducting properties have been only barely characterized so far. The authors apply a novel multimode microwave resonator technique to determine the complete optical response of superconducting titanium at extremely low energy scales (GHz frequencies and mK temperatures). The superconducting energy gap, superfluid density, and penetration depth are quantified, and it is demonstrated that titanium closely follows the electrodynamics predicted by BCS theory.

Weak metal-metal transition in the vanadium oxytelluride Rb1δV2Te2O

Abduweli Ablimit, Yun-Lei Sun, Hao Jiang, Si-Qi Wu, Ya-Bin Liu, and Guang-Han Cao

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214517 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Crystal growth, characterization, and point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Mo3Al2C

N. D. Zhigadlo, D. Logvinovich, V. A. Stepanov, R. S. Gonnelli, and D. Daghero

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214518 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Nontrivial metallic state of MoS2

Zi-Yu Cao, Jia-Wei Hu, Alexander F. Goncharov, and Xiao-Jia Chen

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214519 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Role of canting and depleted-triplet minima in superconducting spin valve structures

Thomas E. Baker and Andreas Bill

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214520 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Manipulation of individual superconducting vortices and stick-slip motion in periodic pinning arrays

Xiaoyu Ma, C. J. O. Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214521 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Hall effect for interacting bosons in a lattice

K. Patucha, B. Grygiel, and T. A. Zaleski

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214522 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Nonthermodynamic nature of the orbital angular momentum in neutral fermionic superfluids

Yasuhiro Tada

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214523 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Sequential superconductor–Bose insulator–Fermi insulator phase transitions in quasi-two-dimensional α-WSi

Xiaofu Zhang and Andreas Schilling

Phys. Rev. B 97, 214524 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

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V. S. Zapf, M. Kenzelmann, F. Wolff-Fabris, F. Balakirev, and Y. Chen

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Phys. Rev. B 97, 219902 (2018) - Published 11 June, 2018

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