Volume 98, Issue 5

1 August 2018

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Macroscopic electric polarization and microscopic electron dynamics: Quantitative insight from femtosecond x-ray diffraction

Christoph Hauf, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054306 (2018) - Published 24 August, 2018

Phenomena in the macroscopic world are described by classical physics while processes at the microscopic atomic scale are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. The connection between microscopic and macroscopic physical quantities is far from being trivial and remains partly unexplained. This study presents a novel theoretical approach for calculating macroscopic polarizations from transient microscopic charge densities that are derived from ultrafast time-resolved x-ray diffraction experiments. This is important for understanding the properties of polar and ionic materials and, in particular, those of ferroelectrics with widespread technical applications.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin hydrodynamics in amorphous magnets

Héctor Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054424 (2018) - Published 23 August, 2018

The authors propose insulating amorphous magnets as platforms for superfluid spin transport. The key observation is that structural disorder in this class of materials can average out the effect of anisotropies, which usually inhibit the onset of spin superfluidity. A hydrodynamical description of the flow of angular momentum injected by spin accumulation in adjacent heavy metals is developed. The theory is valid for a broad class of magnets with frustrated interactions, where spin currents are defined in terms of coherent rotations of a noncollinear texture. Their stability, ascribed to the topology of the emergent SO(3) order parameter, resembles the phenomenology of chiral superfluids like $^{3}$ He- $A$ or spinor condensates with ferromagnetic order. Viewing SO(3) as the projective space RP $^{3}$ , one can see that the elementary relaxation processes for the spin superflow are provided by 4 $π$ phase slips.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Labyrinthine domains in ferroelectric nanoparticles: Manifestation of a gradient-induced morphological transition

Eugene A. Eliseev, Yevhen M. Fomichоv, Sergei V. Kalinin, Yulian M. Vysochanskii, Peter Maksymovich, and Anna N. Morozovska

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054101 (2018) - Published 2 August, 2018

Unraveling the structure and bonding evolution of the newly discovered iron oxide ${FeO}_{2}$

Cheng Lu, Maximilian Amsler, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054102 (2018) - Published 6 August, 2018

Revisited phase diagram on charge instability and lattice symmetry breaking in the organic ferroelectric ${TTF-QCl}_{4}$

Ryosuke Takehara, Keishi Sunami, Fumitatsu Iwase, Masayuki Hosoda, Kazuya Miyagawa, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto, and Kazushi Kanoda

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054103 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

Electronic and mechanical properties of few-layer borophene

Hongxia Zhong, Kaixiang Huang, Guodong Yu, and Shengjun Yuan

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054104 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

Pressure-mediated structural transitions in bulk ${EuTiO}_{3}$

D. Bessas, K. Glazyrin, D. S. Ellis, I. Kantor, D. G. Merkel, V. Cerantola, V. Potapkin, S. van Smaalen, A. Q. R. Baron, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054105 (2018) - Published 9 August, 2018

Effect of $B$ -site randomness on the antiferroelectric/relaxor nature of the ground state: Diffuse and inelastic x-ray scattering study of $Pb ({In}_{1 / 2} {Nb}_{1 / 2}) O_{3}$

Kenji Ohwada, Shinya Tsukada, Tatsuo Fukuda, Satoshi Tsutsui, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Jun'ichiro Mizuki, Hidehiro Ohwa, Naohiko Yasuda, and Hikaru Terauchi

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054106 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Intrinsic dynamics of the electric-field-induced phase switching in antiferroelectric ${PbZrO}_{3}$ ultrathin films

Z. G. Fthenakis and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054107 (2018) - Published 21 August, 2018

Spin-orbit coupling effects on predicting defect properties with hybrid functionals: A case study in CdTe

Jie Pan, Wyatt K. Metzger, and Stephan Lany

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054108 (2018) - Published 22 August, 2018

Reflection and transmission of waves incident on time-space modulated media

Kaijun Yi, Manuel Collet, and Sami Karkar

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054109 (2018) - Published 22 August, 2018

Instability of dislocation fluxes in a single slip: Deterministic and stochastic models of dislocation patterning

Ronghai Wu, Daniel Tüzes, Péter Dusán Ispánovity, István Groma, Thomas Hochrainer, and Michael Zaiser

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054110 (2018) - Published 24 August, 2018

Long-lived photoinduced response observed under extreme photoexcitation densities in a one-dimensional Peierls insulator

Johanna W. Wolfson, Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Taeho Shin, Ikufumi Katayama, Taro Kawano, Jun Takeda, and Keith A. Nelson

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054111 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Potential energy surface of monatomic liquids

Travis Sjostrom, Giulia De Lorenzi-Venneri, and Duane C. Wallace

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054201 (2018) - Published 9 August, 2018

Mesoscopic real-space structures in spin-glass aging: The Edwards-Anderson model

Paolo Sibani and Stefan Boettcher

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054202 (2018) - Published 10 August, 2018

Floquet topological transitions in extended Kane-Mele models with disorder

Liang Du, Paul D. Schnase, Aaron D. Barr, Ariel R. Barr, and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054203 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Tensor networks demonstrate the robustness of localization and symmetry-protected topological phases

Thorsten B. Wahl

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054204 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Gapless insulating edges of dirty interacting topological insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054205 (2018) - Published 21 August, 2018

Disorder perturbed flat bands: Level density and inverse participation ratio

Pragya Shukla

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054206 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Electric dipoles via $C r^{3 +} (d^{3})$ ion off-center displacement in perovskite $DyCr O_{3}$

L. H. Yin, T. F. Shi, R. R. Zhang, C. B. Park, Kee Hoon Kim, J. Yang, P. Tong, W. H. Song, J. M. Dai, X. B. Zhu, W. S. Yan, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054301 (2018) - Published 2 August, 2018

Remnants of Anderson localization in prethermalization induced by white noise

S. Lorenzo, T. Apollaro, G. M. Palma, R. Nandkishore, A. Silva, and J. Marino

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054302 (2018) - Published 3 August, 2018

Excitation of multiple phonon modes in copper metaborate ${CuB}_{2} O_{4}$ via nonresonant impulsive stimulated Raman scattering

Kotaro Imasaka, Roman V. Pisarev, Leonard N. Bezmaternykh, Tsutomu Shimura, Alexandra M. Kalashnikova, and Takuya Satoh

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054303 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

Dynamic process of the resonant phonon scattering in fully filled skutterudites

Yancheng Wang, Hongliang Yang, Wujie Qiu, Jiong Yang, Jihui Yang, and Wenqing Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054304 (2018) - Published 9 August, 2018

Ab initio determination of anharmonic phonon peaks

Krzysztof Parlinski

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054305 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Macroscopic electric polarization and microscopic electron dynamics: Quantitative insight from femtosecond x-ray diffraction

Christoph Hauf, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054306 (2018) - Published 24 August, 2018

Robustness of conventional and topologically protected edge states in phononic crystal plates

Yabin Jin, Daniel Torrent, and Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054307 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Modification of relaxation dynamics in ${Tb}^{3 +} : Y_{3} {Al}_{5} O_{12}$ nanopowders

Thomas Lutz, Lucile Veissier, Philip J. T. Woodburn, Rufus L. Cone, Paul E. Barclay, Wolfgang Tittel, and Charles W. Thiel

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054308 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Tracking the quantized information transfer at the edge of a chiral Floquet phase

Blake R. Duschatko, Philipp T. Dumitrescu, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054309 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Magnetism

Domain formation in rectangular magnetic nanoparticle assemblies

Alexander Fabian, Michael Czerner, Christian Heiliger, Matthias T. Elm, Detlev M. Hofmann, and Peter J. Klar

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054401 (2018) - Published 1 August, 2018

Tuning magnetic coercivity with external pressure in iron-rhenium based ferrimagnetic double perovskites

C. A. Escanhoela, Jr., G. Fabbris, F. Sun, C. Park, J. Gopalakrishnan, K. Ramesha, E. Granado, N. M. Souza-Neto, M. van Veenendaal, and D. Haskel

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054402 (2018) - Published 2 August, 2018

Tricritical phenomenon and $H − T$ phase diagram in a single crystal of the double-perovskite iridate $La_{2} ZnIrO_{6}$

Hui Han, Wei Liu, Yuhui Dai, Yuxia Gao, Zhaoming Tian, Jiyu Fan, Shiming Zhou, Li Pi, Changjin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054403 (2018) - Published 3 August, 2018

Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation of skyrmions in thin layers of cubic helimagnets

A. O. Leonov and K. Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054404 (2018) - Published 6 August, 2018

Spin-wave dynamics in artificial anti-spin-ice systems: Experimental and theoretical investigations

S. Mamica, X. Zhou, A. Adeyeye, M. Krawczyk, and G. Gubbiotti

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054405 (2018) - Published 6 August, 2018

Pinning of domain walls in thin ferromagnetic films

V. Jeudy, R. Díaz Pardo, W. Savero Torres, S. Bustingorry, and A. B. Kolton

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054406 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

Electronic phase separation and magnetic-field-induced phenomena in molecular multiferroic $({ND}_{4})_{2} {FeCl}_{5} \cdot D_{2} O$

W. Tian, H. B. Cao, Amanda J. Clune, Kendall D. Hughey, Tao Hong, J.-Q. Yan, Harish K. Agrawal, John Singleton, B. C. Sales, Randy S. Fishman, J. L. Musfeldt, and J. A. Fernandez-Baca

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054407 (2018) - Published 8 August, 2018

Frustration and anisotropic exchange in ytterbium magnets with edge-shared octahedra

Jeffrey G. Rau and Michel J. P. Gingras

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054408 (2018) - Published 8 August, 2018

Singlet state formation and its impact on the magnetic structure in the tetramer system ${SeCuO}_{3}$

Tonči Cvitanić, Vinko Šurija, Krunoslav Prša, Oksana Zaharko, Ivan Kupčić, Peter Babkevich, Matthias Frontzek, Miroslav Požek, Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Henrik M. Rønnow, Mihael S. Grbić, and Ivica Živković

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054409 (2018) - Published 9 August, 2018

Spin trimer formation in the metallic compound ${Gd}_{3} {Ru}_{4} {Al}_{12}$ with a distorted kagome lattice structure

S. Nakamura, N. Kabeya, M. Kobayashi, K. Araki, K. Katoh, and A. Ochiai

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054410 (2018) - Published 10 August, 2018

Ground state phase diagram of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model on a honeycomb-triangular lattice

Masanori Kishimoto, Katsuhiro Morita, Yukihiro Matsubayashi, Shigetoshi Sota, Seiji Yunoki, and Takami Tohyama

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054411 (2018) - Published 10 August, 2018

Probing tunneling spin injection into graphene via bias dependence

Tiancong Zhu, Simranjeet Singh, Jyoti Katoch, Hua Wen, Kirill Belashchenko, Igor Žutić, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054412 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Stabilization and modulation of the topological magnetic phase with a $Z_{2}$ -vortex lattice in the Kitaev-Heisenberg honeycomb model: The key role of the third-nearest-neighbor interaction

Xiaoyan Yao and Shuai Dong

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054413 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Dynamics of a many-body quantum spin system caused by a sequence of pulses

A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054414 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Anomalous and regular transport in spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ chains: ac conductivity

R. J. Sánchez, V. K. Varma, and V. Oganesyan

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054415 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Spin fluctuations in the light-induced high-spin state of cobalt valence tautomers

F. Caracciolo, M. Mannini, G. Poneti, M. Pregelj, N. Janša, D. Arčon, and P. Carretta

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054416 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Wire edge dependent magnetic domain wall creep

L. Herrera Diez, V. Jeudy, G. Durin, A. Casiraghi, Y. T. Liu, M. Voto, G. Agnus, D. Bouville, L. Vila, J. Langer, B. Ocker, L. Lopez-Diaz, and D. Ravelosona

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054417 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Anisotropy of exchange stiffness based on atomic-scale magnetic properties in the rare-earth permanent magnet ${Nd}_{2} {Fe}_{14} B$

Yuta Toga, Masamichi Nishino, Seiji Miyashita, Takashi Miyake, and Akimasa Sakuma

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054418 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Magnetic phase diagram of the strongly frustrated quantum spin chain system ${PbCuSO}_{4} {(OH)}_{2}$ in tilted magnetic fields

Y. Feng, K. Yu. Povarov, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054419 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Why rare-earth ferromagnets are so rare: Insights from the $p$ -wave Kondo model

Shadab Ahamed, Roderich Moessner, and Onur Erten

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054420 (2018) - Published 21 August, 2018

Averievite: A copper oxide kagome antiferromagnet

A. S. Botana, H. Zheng, S. H. Lapidus, J. F. Mitchell, and M. R. Norman

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054421 (2018) - Published 21 August, 2018

Valence-bond-glass state with a singlet gap in the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ square-lattice random $J_{1} − J_{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet ${Sr}_{2} {CuTe}_{1 - x} W_{x} O_{6}$

Masari Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka, Wataru Ueno, Kazuki Matsui, and Takayuki Goto

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054422 (2018) - Published 22 August, 2018

Giant magnetocapacitance in cerium sesquioxide

T. Kolodiazhnyi, H. Sakurai, M. Avdeev, T. Charoonsuk, K. V. Lamonova, Yu. G. Pashkevich, and B. J. Kennedy

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054423 (2018) - Published 22 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin hydrodynamics in amorphous magnets

Héctor Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054424 (2018) - Published 23 August, 2018

Search for alternative magnetic tunnel junctions based on all-Heusler stacks

Worasak Rotjanapittayakul, Jariyanee Prasongkit, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, Wanchai Pijitrojana, and Thomas Archer

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054425 (2018) - Published 23 August, 2018

Nonreciprocal flexural dynamics of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls

R. Soucaille, F. Garcia-Sanchez, J.-V. Kim, T. Devolder, and J.-P. Adam

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054426 (2018) - Published 24 August, 2018

Effective anisotropy due to the surface of magnetic nanoparticles

D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054427 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Magnetic phases of skyrmion-hosting ${GaV}_{4} S_{8 - y} {Se}_{y} (y = 0, 2, 4, 8)$ probed with muon spectroscopy

Kévin J. A. Franke, Benjamin M. Huddart, Thomas J. Hicken, Fan Xiao, Stephen J. Blundell, Francis L. Pratt, Marta Crisanti, Joel A. T. Barker, Stewart J. Clark, Aleš Štefančič, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Geetha Balakrishnan, and Tom Lancaster

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054428 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Micromagnetic view on ultrafast magnon generation by femtosecond spin current pulses

Henning Ulrichs and Ilya Razdolski

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054429 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Signatures of gapless fermionic spinons on a strip of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Amir M-Aghaei, Bela Bauer, Kirill Shtengel, and Ryan V. Mishmash

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054430 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

High-pressure investigations on the semi-Heusler compound CuMnSb

Pallavi Malavi, Jing Song, Wenli Bi, Alexander Regnat, Linghan Zhu, Andreas Bauer, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Li Yang, Christian Pfleiderer, and James S. Schilling

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054431 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Majorana corner modes in a second-order Kitaev spin liquid

Vatsal Dwivedi, Ciarán Hickey, Tim Eschmann, and Simon Trebst

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054432 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Intermediate gapless phase and topological phase transition of the Kitaev model in a uniform magnetic field

Shuang Liang, Ming-Hong Jiang, Wei Chen, Jian-Xin Li, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054433 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Dirac multipoles in diffraction by the layered room-temperature antiferromagnets $BaM n_{2} P_{2}$ and $BaM n_{2} A s_{2}$

S. W. Lovesey and D. D. Khalyavin

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054434 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Magnetic frustration in low-dimensional substructures of hulsite ${Ni}_{5.15} {Sn}_{0.85} {(O_{2} {BO}_{3})}_{2}$

C. P. C. Medrano, D. C. Freitas, E. C. Passamani, J. A. L. C. Resende, M. Alzamora, E. Granado, C. W. Galdino, E. Baggio-Saitovitch, M. A. Continentino, and D. R. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054435 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018