Volume 4, Issue 3

March 2020

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Collection on Two-dimensional Materials and Devices

David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 030001 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Guest Editor David Tománek introduces a collection of papers in Physical Review Applied and Physical Review Materials on two-dimensional materials and devices, in a snapshot of the leading edge of this hot field.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent dynamics and mapping of excitons in single-layer ${MoSe}_{2}$ and ${WSe}_{2}$ at the homogeneous limit

Caroline Boule, Diana Vaclavkova, Miroslav Bartos, Karol Nogajewski, Lukas Zdražil, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Marek Potemski, and Jacek Kasprzak

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034001 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Embedding 2D materials, namely single-layers of MoSe $_{2}$ or WSe $_{2}$ , between thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride of supreme quality suppresses the structural disorder and avoids surface contamination. As a result, the optical properties of such heterostructures improve drastically with respect to unprotected samples, approaching characteristics expected for ideal 2D crystals. Yet, how can one tell if the spectral line-shape of optical transitions is measured free from the disturbing and mostly irrelevant features introduced by the disorder? Do I really observe the intrinsic (the so-called, homogeneous) linewidth in linear absorption or emission? If yes, what are the spatial extensions on which such optimal conditions can be maintained? The authors here employ methods of nonlinear spectroscopy to accurately address these questions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological superconductivity from transverse optical phonons in oxide heterostructures

Minseong Lee, Hyun-Jae Lee, Jun Hee Lee, and Suk Bum Chung

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034202 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

The authors propose a new candidate material for time-reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductor (TSC): a heterostructure consisting of a transition-metal-oxide two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) sandwiched by insulators near the paraelectric/ferroelectric (PE/FE) phase transition. The fluctuating Rashba effect from the transition-metal spin-orbit coupling and the soft FE fluctuation can provide the pairing interaction for TRI TSC. In this sense, this heterostructure can be regarded as being designed to possess the TRI TSC pairing interaction, which is furthermore tunable, since the PE/FE phase transition can be driven by applying strain. For BaTiO $_{3}$ and the monolayer BaOsO $_{3}$ as the insulator and 2DEG, respectively, first-principles calculations find strong pairing interaction over an appreciable range of applied strain.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Antiferromagnetic metallic state as proved by magnetotransport in epitaxially stabilized perovskite ${PbRuO}_{3}$

T. C. Fujita, L. F. Zhang, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 031401(R) (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

ARTICLES

Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics

Early stages of iron anodic oxidation: Defective growth and density increase of oxide layer

Hiromasa Fujii, Yusuke Wakabayashi, and Takashi Doi

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033401 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Nucleation control and interface structure of rocksalt PbSe on (001) zincblende III-V surfaces

Brian B. Haidet, Eamonn T. Hughes, and Kunal Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033402 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Fragile-to-strong crossover in optimized In-Sb-Te phase-change supercooled liquids

Yimin Chen, Jierong Gu, Qian Zhang, Yuanen Mao, Guoxiang Wang, Rongping Wang, Xiang Shen, Jun-Qiang Wang, and Tiefeng Xu

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033403 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Nanostructural formation kinetics in an ${Fe}_{86} B_{14}$ soft magnetic alloy investigated by in situ transport measurements under isothermal conditions

B. Zang, R. Parsons, K. Onodera, H. Kishimoto, T. Shoji, A. Kato, J. S. Garitaonandia, A. C. Y. Liu, and K. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033404 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Thermal conductivity and its relation to atomic structure for symmetrical tilt grain boundaries in silicon

J. Hickman and Y. Mishin

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033405 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Structural and mechanical properties

Role of magnetic ordering for the design of quinary TWIP-TRIP high entropy alloys

Xiaoxiang Wu, Zhiming Li, Ziyuan Rao, Yuji Ikeda, Biswanath Dutta, Fritz Körmann, Jörg Neugebauer, and Dierk Raabe

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033601 (2020) - Published 3 March, 2020

Atomistic mechanism for vacancy-enhanced grain boundary migration

Dengke Chen, Shuozhi Xu, and Yashashree Kulkarni

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033602 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Plowing-induced nanoexfoliation of mono- and multilayer ${MoS}_{2}$ surfaces

Alper Özoğul, Felix Trillitzsch, Christof Neumann, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin, and Enrico Gnecco

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033603 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Thermally activated diffusion and lattice relaxation in (Si)GeSn materials

Nils von den Driesch, Stephan Wirths, Rene Troitsch, Gregor Mussler, Uwe Breuer, Oussama Moutanabbir, Detlev Grützmacher, and Dan Buca

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033604 (2020) - Published 20 March, 2020

Strength, transformation toughening, and fracture dynamics of rocksalt-structure $T i_{1 - x} A l_{x} N (0 \leq x \leq 0.75)$ alloys

D. G. Sangiovanni, F. Tasnádi, L. J. S. Johnson, M. Odén, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033605 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Understanding the lattice thermal conductivity of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ from an ab initio perspective

Adolfo O. Fumega, Yuhao Fu, Victor Pardo, and David J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033606 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Influence of hydrogen core force shielding on dislocation junctions in iron

Haiyang Yu, Ivaylo H. Katzarov, Anthony T. Paxton, Alan C. F. Cocks, and Edmund Tarleton

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033607 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Development of new methods for materials

Adjusting the descriptor for a crystal structure search using Bayesian optimization

Nobuya Sato, Tomoki Yamashita, Tamio Oguchi, Koji Hukushima, and Takashi Miyake

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033801 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Modeling of dendritic growth using a quantitative nondiagonal phase field model

Kai Wang, Guillaume Boussinot, Claas Hüter, Efim A. Brener, and Robert Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 033802 (2020) - Published 19 March, 2020

Two-dimensional materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent dynamics and mapping of excitons in single-layer ${MoSe}_{2}$ and ${WSe}_{2}$ at the homogeneous limit

Caroline Boule, Diana Vaclavkova, Miroslav Bartos, Karol Nogajewski, Lukas Zdražil, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Marek Potemski, and Jacek Kasprzak

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034001 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Growth mechanism for vertically oriented layered $I n_{2} S e_{3}$ nanoplates

Yuan-Fei Gao, Si-Ming Pang, Hai-Hong Bao, Xian-Yun Peng, Yu-Jia Sun, Shu-Liang Ren, Da Meng, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034002 (2020) - Published 17 March, 2020

Topological and Dirac materials

Orbital effect and weak localization in the longitudinal magnetoresistance of Weyl semimetals NbP, NbAs, TaP, and TaAs

M. Naumann, F. Arnold, M. D. Bachmann, K. A. Modic, P. J. W. Moll, V. Süß, M. Schmidt, and E. Hassinger

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034201 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological superconductivity from transverse optical phonons in oxide heterostructures

Minseong Lee, Hyun-Jae Lee, Jun Hee Lee, and Suk Bum Chung

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034202 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Topological properties of SnSe/EuS and SnTe/CaTe interfaces

Shuyang Yang, Chunzhi Wu, and Noa Marom

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034203 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Artificial intelligence for high-throughput discovery of topological insulators: The example of alloyed tetradymites

Guohua Cao, Runhai Ouyang, Luca M. Ghiringhelli, Matthias Scheffler, Huijun Liu, Christian Carbogno, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034204 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials

Probing ferroelectricity by x-ray absorption spectroscopy in molecular crystals

Fujie Tang, Xuanyuan Jiang, Hsin-Yu Ko, Jianhang Xu, Mehmet Topsakal, Guanhua Hao, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Peter A. Dowben, Deyu Lu, Xiaoshan Xu, and Xifan Wu

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034401 (2020) - Published 2 March, 2020

Polarization-dependent magnetism of the $Ni / BaTi O_{3}$ interface

A. E. Bocirnea, D. G. Popescu, C. Chirila, R. M. Costescu, V. Kuncser, V. Stancu, L. Trupina, I. Pasuk, A. M. Vlaicu, and M. A. Husanu

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034402 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Strain-induced majority carrier inversion in ferromagnetic epitaxial $LaCo O_{3 - δ}$ thin films

Vipul Chaturvedi, Jeff Walter, Arpita Paul, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Jong Seok Jeong, Hua Zhou, Zhan Zhang, Biqiong Yu, Martin Greven, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Turan Birol, and Chris Leighton

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034403 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Theoretical study on stabilization and destabilization of magnetic skyrmions by uniaxial-strain-induced anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

Kohei Tanaka, Ryosuke Sugawara, and Masahito Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034404 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Origin of itinerant carriers in antiferromagnetic $LaF e_{1 - x} M o_{x} O_{3}$ studied by x-ray spectroscopies

Dibya Phuyal, Soham Mukherjee, S. K. Panda, Somnath Jana, Carlo U. Segre, Laura Simonelli, Sergei M. Butorin, Håkan Rensmo, and Olof Karis

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034405 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Ferroelectric domain architecture and poling of ${BaTiO}_{3}$ on Si

J. Nordlander, F. Eltes, M. Reynaud, J. Nürnberg, G. De Luca, D. Caimi, A. A. Demkov, S. Abel, M. Fiebig, J. Fompeyrine, and M. Trassin

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034406 (2020) - Published 18 March, 2020

Long-range and local crystal structures of the $S r_{1 - x} C a_{x} Ru O_{3}$ perovskites

Loi T. Nguyen, Milinda Abeykoon, Jing Tao, Saul Lapidus, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034407 (2020) - Published 20 March, 2020

Investigating spin coupling across a three-dimensional interface in core/shell magnetic nanoparticles

C. Kons, Manh-Huong Phan, Hariharan Srikanth, D. A. Arena, Zohreh Nemati, J. A. Borchers, and K. L. Krycka

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034408 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Spin-mediated charge-to-heat current conversion phenomena in ferromagnetic binary alloys

Asuka Miura, Ryo Iguchi, Takeshi Seki, Koki Takanashi, and Ken-ichi Uchida

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034409 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Direct visualization of the magnetostructural phase transition in nanoscale FeRh thin films using differential phase contrast imaging

Trevor P. Almeida, Damien McGrouther, Rowan Temple, Jamie Massey, Yue Li, Thomas Moore, Christopher H. Marrows, and Stephen McVitie

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034410 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Strong anisotropy in the mixed antiferromagnetic system ${Mn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} {PSe}_{3}$

Ankita Bhutani, Julia L. Zuo, Rebecca D. McAuliffe, Clarina R. dela Cruz, and Daniel P. Shoemaker

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034411 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Magnetic field induced antiferromagnetic cone structure in multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

M. Matsuda, S. E. Dissanayake, T. Hong, Y. Ozaki, T. Ito, M. Tokunaga, X. Z. Liu, M. Bartkowiak, and O. Prokhnenko

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034412 (2020) - Published 31 March, 2020

Semiconducting materials

Nickel vacancy acceptor in nickel oxide: Doping beyond thermodynamic equilibrium

Robert Karsthof, Arthur Markus Anton, Friedrich Kremer, and Marius Grundmann

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034601 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Superconducting materials

Low work function in the 122-family of iron-based superconductors

H. Pfau, H. Soifer, J. A. Sobota, A. Gauthier, C. R. Rotundu, J. C. Palmstrom, I. R. Fisher, G.-Y. Chen, H.-H. Wen, Z.-X. Shen, and P. S. Kirchmann

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034801 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Observation of a $C$ -type short-range antiferromagnetic order in layer spacing expanded FeS

Meng Wang, Ming Yi, Benjamin A. Frandsen, Junjie Yin, Hualei Sun, Zhijun Xu, Huibo Cao, Edith Bourret-Courchesne, Jeffrey W. Lynn, and Robert J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034802 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Long-range magnetic order in hydroxide-layer-doped $({Li}_{1 - x - y} {Fe}_{x} {Mn}_{y} OD) FeSe$

Brandon Wilfong, Xiuquan Zhou, Huafei Zheng, Navneeth Babra, Craig M. Brown, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Keith M. Taddei, Johnpierre Paglione, and Efrain E. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 034803 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Other electronic materials

Artificial quantum confinement in $LaAl O_{3} / SrTi O_{3}$ heterostructures

M. Caputo, M. Boselli, A. Filippetti, S. Lemal, D. Li, A. Chikina, C. Cancellieri, T. Schmitt, J.-M. Triscone, P. Ghosez, S. Gariglio, and V. N. Strocov

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035001 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Exact nonadiabatic part of the Kohn-Sham potential and its fluidic approximation

M. T. Entwistle and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035002 (2020) - Published 16 March, 2020

Metamaterials, optical, photonic, and plasmonic materials

Quantum transport in three-dimensional metalattices of platinum featuring an unprecedentedly large surface area to volume ratio

Yixuan Chen, Yunzhi Liu, Parivash Moradifar, Andrew J. Glaid, V, Jennifer L. Russell, Pratibha Mahale, Shih-Ying Yu, Tyler E. Culp, Manish Kumar, Enrique D. Gomez, Suzanne E. Mohney, Thomas E. Mallouk, Nasim Alem, John V. Badding, and Ying Liu

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035201 (2020) - Published 30 March, 2020

Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation

Impact of synthetic conditions on the anisotropic thermal conductivity of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT): A molecular dynamics investigation

Antonio Cappai, Aleandro Antidormi, Andrea Bosin, Dario Narducci, Luciano Colombo, and Claudio Melis

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035401 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020

Very high oscillator strength in the band-edge light absorption of zincblende, chalcopyrite, kesterite, and hybrid perovskite solar cell materials

Masato Kato, Mitsutoshi Nishiwaki, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035402 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials

Relaxation time of a polymer glass stretched at very large strains

R. Sahli, J. Hem, C. Crauste-Thibierge, F. Clément, D. R. Long, and S. Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035601 (2020) - Published 4 March, 2020

Microscopic dynamics of stress relaxation in a nanocolloidal soft glass

Yihao Chen, Simon A. Rogers, Suresh Narayanan, James L. Harden, and Robert L. Leheny

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 035602 (2020) - Published 6 March, 2020

Nanomaterials

Does equilibrium or nonequilibrium molecular dynamics correctly simulate thermal transport properties of carbon nanotubes?

I-Ling Chang, Chia-Shing Li, Guan-Shiung Wang, Chi-Lin Wu, and Chih-Wei Chang

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 036001 (2020) - Published 5 March, 2020