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Physical Review B
Physical Review B is the APS journal devoted to condensed matter and materials physics. Our goal is to publish the most important, stimulating, and useful papers for our international community of researchers spanning many subdisciplines. We welcome your comments and suggestions via feedback@aps.org. More...
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Electric field amplitude of the fundamental confined mode of an L3 photonic crystal cavity. [N. Le Thomas, D. T. L. Alexander, M. Cantoni, W. Sigle, R. Houdré, and C. Hébert, Phys. Rev. B 87, 155314 (2013) ] Read Article | More Kaleidoscope Images
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A newly discovered type of magnetoresistance, resulting from spin-dependent scattering at a metal-magnet interface, may potentially be used to study the magnetization in insulating magnets or to develop new spintronic devices. [Viewpoint on Phys. Rev. B 87, 174417 (2013)] [Viewpoint on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 206601 (2013)] Read Article | More viewpoints |
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Magnetism
M. K. Marcham, L. R. Shelford, S. A. Cavill, P. S. Keatley, W. Yu, P. Shafer, A. Neudert, J. R. Childress, J. A. Katine, E. Arenholz, N. D. Telling, G. van der Laan, and R. J. Hicken
Element-specific phase-resolved x-ray ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) was used to study spin pumping within Co50Fe50(3)/Cu(6)/Ni80Fe20(5) (thicknesses in nanometers) spin valve structures with large areas, so that edge effects typical of nanopillars used in standard magnetotransport experiments could ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180403 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Mamoru Matsuo, Jun'ichi Ieda, Kazuya Harii, Eiji Saitoh, and Sadamichi Maekawa
Spin-rotation coupling, which is responsible for angular momentum conversion between the electron spin and rotational deformations of elastic media, is exploited for generating spin current. This method requires neither magnetic moments nor spin-orbit interaction. The spin current generated in nonma... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180402 (2013)] Published Tue May 14, 2013
T. Förster, F. A. Garcia, T. Gruner, E. E. Kaul, B. Schmidt, C. Geibel, and J. Sichelschmidt
The spin dynamics of the layered square-lattice vanadate Pb2VO(PO4)2 is investigated by electron spin resonance (ESR) at various magnetic fields and at temperatures above magnetic ordering. The linewidth divergence towards low temperatures seems to agree with isotropic Heisenberg-type spin exchange ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180401 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Superfluidity and superconductivity
Tudor D. Stanescu and S. Das Sarma
We theoretically consider the proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid nanostructures, which are being extensively studied in the context of the ongoing search for non-Abelian Majorana fermions in solid state systems. Specifically, we consider the dependence on the thickness of the se... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180504 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
P. K. Biswas, H. Luetkens, T. Neupert, T. Stürzer, C. Baines, G. Pascua, A. P. Schnyder, M. H. Fischer, J. Goryo, M. R. Lees, H. Maeter, F. Brückner, H.-H. Klauss, M. Nicklas, P. J. Baker, A. D. Hillier, M. Sigrist, A. Amato, and D. Johrendt
We report the magnetic and superconducting properties of locally noncentrosymmetric SrPtAs obtained by muon-spin-rotation/relaxation (μSR) measurements. Zero-field μSR reveals the occurrence of small spontaneous static magnetic fields with the onset of superconductivity. This finding suggests that t... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180503 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
N. W. Salovich, Hyunsoo Kim, Ajay K. Ghosh, R. W. Giannetta, W. Kwok, U. Welp, B. Shen, S. Zhu, H.-H. Wen, M. A. Tanatar, and R. Prozorov
The London penetration depth was measured in optimally doped Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 crystals, with and without columnar defects produced by 1.4 GeV 208Pb irradiation. The low temperature behavior of unirradiated samples was consistent with a fully gapped superconducting state with a minimum energy gap Δ mi... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180502 (2013)] Published Wed May 8, 2013
M. Kamitani, M. S. Bahramy, R. Arita, S. Seki, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, and S. Ishiwata
The change in the electronic structure of layered CuxIrTe2 has been characterized by transport and spectroscopic measurements, combined with first-principles calculations. The Cu intercalation suppresses the monoclinic distortion, giving rise to the stabilization of the trigonal phase with supercond... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180501 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
M. Ramazanoglu, J. Lamsal, G. S. Tucker, J.-Q. Yan, S. Calder, T. Guidi, T. Perring, R. W. McCallum, T. A. Lograsso, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements demonstrate that the magnetic interactions in antiferromagnetic LaFeAsO are two dimensional. Spin-wave velocities within the Fe layer and the magnitude of the spin gap are similar to the AFe2As2 based materials. However, the ratio of interlayer and intralaye... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 140509 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems
Ilija Zeljkovic, Dennis Huang, Can-Li Song, Bing Lv, Ching-Wu Chu, and Jennifer E. Hoffman
We use scanning tunneling microscopy to determine the surface structure and dopant distribution in PrxCa1−xFe2As2, the highest-Tc member of the 122 family of iron-based superconductors. We identify the cleaved surface termination by mapping the local tunneling barrier height, related to the work fun... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201108 (2013)] Published Fri May 17, 2013
Simon Streib, Aldo Isidori, and Peter Kopietz
We show that the functional renormalization group is a numerically cheap method to obtain the low-energy behavior of the Anderson impurity model describing a localized impurity level coupled to a bath of conduction electrons. Our approach uses an external magnetic field as the flow parameter, partia... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201107 (2013)] Published Fri May 17, 2013
Romain Fleury and Andrea Alù
We introduce the concept of furtive quantum sensing, demonstrating the possibility of concealing quantum objects from matter waves while maintaining their ability to interact and to get excited by the impinging particles. This is obtained by cloaking, with tailored homogeneous metamaterial layers, q... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201106 (2013)] Published Wed May 15, 2013
N. H. Jo, K. J. Lee, C. M. Kim, K. Okamoto, A. Kimura, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, Y. K. Kim, Z. Lee, T. Onimaru, T. Takabatake, and M. H. Jung
We report the doping effect of a magnetic Fe ion in Bi2Te3, that is, Bi2−xFexTe3 (x = 0, 0.08, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, and 0.3). The paramagnetic magnetization data reveal that the Fe ions are doped in the divalent form. The Fe2+ state substituted for Bi3+ can create hole donors, which compensate for the e... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201105 (2013)] Published Wed May 15, 2013
O. Klochan, A. P. Micolich, A. R. Hamilton, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, F. Reininghaus, M. Pletyukhov, and H. Schoeller
We have measured the zero-bias peak in differential conductance in a hole quantum dot. We have scaled the experimental data with applied bias and compared to real-time renormalization group calculations of the differential conductance as a function of source-drain bias in the limit of zero temperatu... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201104 (2013)] Published Tue May 14, 2013
X. Liu, T. F. Seman, K. H. Ahn, Michel van Veenendaal, D. Casa, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, H. Ding, and J. P. Hill
We report strongly momentum-dependent short-ranged charge screening dynamics in CE-type charge, orbital, and spin ordered La0.5Sr1.5MnO4, based on Mn K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering data. Through a comparison with theoretical calculations, we show that the observed momentum dependence ref... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201103 (2013)] Published Tue May 14, 2013
A. Annadi, Z. Huang, K. Gopinadhan, X. Renshaw Wang, A. Srivastava, Z. Q. Liu, H. Harsan Ma, T. P. Sarkar, T. Venkatesan, and Ariando
The confinement of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), preferential occupancy of the Ti 3d orbital, and strong spin-orbit coupling at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface play a significant role in its emerging properties. Here we report a fourfold oscillation in the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201102 (2013)] Published Tue May 14, 2013
Romain Fleury and Andrea Alù
We describe the possibility of drastically boosting the spontaneous emission of a collection of two-level quantum emitters by embedding them in an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) environment, consisting of a plasmonic waveguide operated at cutoff. This phenomenon relies on the combination of Purcell enhance... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201101 (2013)] Published Fri May 10, 2013
Valentin Stanev and Peter B. Littlewood
In this Rapid Communication, we study an effective model for the normal state of iron-based superconductors. It has separate but interacting itinerant and localized degrees of freedom, originating from the dxz and dyz and from the dxy iron orbitals, respectively. At low temperatures, below a mean-fi... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161122 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Yongkang Luo, Chao Cao, Bingqi Si, Yuke Li, Jinke Bao, Hanjie Guo, Xiaojun Yang, Chenyi Shen, Chunmu Feng, Jianhui Dai, Guanghan Cao, and Zhu-an Xu
Motivated by the rich interplay among electronic correlation, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), crystal-field splitting, and geometric frustrations in the honeycomblike lattice, we systematically investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of Li2RhO3. The material is semiconducting with a narrow ba... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161121 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Semiconductors I: bulk
Y. Mukai, H. Hirori, and K. Tanaka
The electric field ionization of gallium acceptors in germanium was studied by using terahertz-pump–terahertz-probe spectroscopy. As the pump electric field increases, the distinct absorptions due to acceptor transitions centered at 2.0 and 2.2 THz decrease, and simultaneously, a free carrier respon... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201202 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
C. Martin, V. Craciun, K. H. Miller, B. Uzakbaiuly, S. Buvaev, H. Berger, A. F. Hebard, and D. B. Tanner
The electronic properties of Cu0.07Bi2Se3 have been investigated using Shubnikov–de Haas and optical reflectance measurements. Quantum oscillations reveal a bulk, three-dimensional Fermi surface with anisotropy kFc/kFab≈ 2 and a modest increase in free-carrier concentration and in scattering rate wi... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201201 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Ryota Ishii, Mitsuru Funato, and Yoichi Kawakami
Optical spectroscopy is performed for c-plane homoepitaxial aluminum nitride (AlN) films. The temperature dependence of the polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectra reveals the exciton fine structure. The experimental results demonstrate that the electron-hole exchange interaction energy (j) ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161204 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
G. Eguchi, D. C. Peets, M. Kriener, S. Yonezawa, G. Bao, S. Harada, Y. Inada, G.-q. Zheng, and Y. Maeno
We report the systematic investigation of the specific heat of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Li2(Pd1−xPtx)3B as a function of x. There is a large deviation of the phononic specific heat from the conventional Debye specific heat for Pt-rich samples. In contrast with the fully gapped conventio... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161203 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics
G. Haack, M. Moskalets, and M. Büttiker
Recently demonstrated solid-state single-electron sources generate different quantum states depending on their operation condition. For adiabatic and nonadiabatic sources, we determine the Glauber correlation function in terms of the Floquet scattering matrix of the source. The correlation function ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201302 (2013)] Published Fri May 17, 2013
Tim Byrnes, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Peter van Loock
Exciton-polariton condensates are considered as a deterministic source of bright, coherent non-Gaussian light. Exciton-polariton condensates emit coherent light via photoluminescence through the microcavity mirrors due to the spontaneous formation of coherence. Unlike conventional lasers which emit ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201301 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
Leandro M. Malard, Thonimar V. Alencar, Ana Paula M. Barboza, Kin Fai Mak, and Ana M. de Paula
The nonlinear optical properties of few-layer MoS2 two-dimensional crystals are studied using femtosecond laser pulses. We observed highly efficient second-harmonic generation from the odd-layer crystals, which shows a polarization intensity dependence that directly reveals the underlying symmetry a... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201401 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Recently published articles in Physical Review B. See the current issues for more.
Magnetism
M. K. Marcham, L. R. Shelford, S. A. Cavill, P. S. Keatley, W. Yu, P. Shafer, A. Neudert, J. R. Childress, J. A. Katine, E. Arenholz, N. D. Telling, G. van der Laan, and R. J. Hicken
Element-specific phase-resolved x-ray ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) was used to study spin pumping within Co50Fe50(3)/Cu(6)/Ni80Fe20(5) (thicknesses in nanometers) spin valve structures with large areas, so that edge effects typical of nanopillars used in standard magnetotransport experiments could ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180403 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Semiconductors I: bulk
Gul Rahman, Naseem Ud Din, Víctor M. García-Suárez, and Erjun Kan
The magnetism and electronic structure of Li-doped SnO2 are investigated using first-principles LDA/LDA+U calculations. We find that Li induces magnetism in SnO2 when doped at the Sn site but becomes nonmagnetic when doped at the O and interstitial sites. The calculated formation energies show that ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205205 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Y. Mukai, H. Hirori, and K. Tanaka
The electric field ionization of gallium acceptors in germanium was studied by using terahertz-pump–terahertz-probe spectroscopy. As the pump electric field increases, the distinct absorptions due to acceptor transitions centered at 2.0 and 2.2 THz decrease, and simultaneously, a free carrier respon... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201202 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
C. Martin, V. Craciun, K. H. Miller, B. Uzakbaiuly, S. Buvaev, H. Berger, A. F. Hebard, and D. B. Tanner
The electronic properties of Cu0.07Bi2Se3 have been investigated using Shubnikov–de Haas and optical reflectance measurements. Quantum oscillations reveal a bulk, three-dimensional Fermi surface with anisotropy kFc/kFab≈ 2 and a modest increase in free-carrier concentration and in scattering rate wi... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 201201 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects
H. Marquardt, N. Waeselmann, M. Wehber, R. J. Angel, M. Gospodinov, and B. Mihailova
The effect of pressure on the acoustic modes and adiabatic elastic constants of the perovskite-type (ABO3) relaxor compound PbSc1/2Ta1/2O3 have been studied by Brillouin spectroscopy at room temperature up to 9.2 GPa. It is shown that the elastic constants are very sensitive to the pressure-induced ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 184113 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Yonggang G. Yu, Ross J. Angel, Nancy L. Ross, and G. V. Gibbs
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations were used to reveal the mechanism of the fivefold to sixfold transition in Si coordination numbers of CaSi2O5. The longest first-neighbor Si-O distance drops from 2.8 to 1.8 Å upon the triclinic to monoclinic transition. We find significant bulk modulus softe... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 184112 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Andrew J. Morris, R. J. Needs, Elodie Salager, C. P. Grey, and Chris J. Pickard
An extensive search for low-energy lithium defects in crystalline silicon using density-functional-theory methods and the ab initio random structure searching (AIRSS) method shows that the four-lithium-atom substitutional point defect is exceptionally stable. This defect consists of four lithium ato... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174108 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Superfluidity and superconductivity
G. Prando, O. Vakaliuk, S. Sanna, G. Lamura, T. Shiroka, P. Bonfà, P. Carretta, R. De Renzi, H.-H. Klauss, C. G. F. Blum, S. Wurmehl, C. Hess, and B. Büchner
We provide direct experimental evidence for the identical effect of the in-plane Fe1−xCox and of the out-of-plane O1−xFx chemical dilution on the itinerant spin-density-wave (SDW) magnetic phase in CeFeAsO. Remarkably, the suppression of SDW is not sensitive at all to the different kinds of disorder... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174519 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems
M. Beruete, P. Rodriguez-Ulibarri, V. Pacheco-Peña, M. Navarro-Cía, and A. E. Serebryannikov
Frozen modes arising in stacked subwavelength hole arrays are studied in detail. Their origin is proved to be connected with the interaction between the extraordinary transmission resonance and the Fabry–Perot cavity mode. The analysis is done for various situations that differ in metal plate thickn... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205128 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Ansgar Liebsch and Wei Wu
The effect of Coulomb correlations in the half-filled Hubbard model of the honeycomb lattice is studied within the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) combined with exact diagonalization (ED) and continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), for unit cells consisting of six-site rings. The important ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205127 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Andrew J. Ferris and David Poulin
The Markov entropy decomposition (MED) is a recently proposed, cluster-based simulation method for finite temperature quantum systems with arbitrary geometry. In this paper, we detail numerical algorithms for performing the required steps of the MED, principally solving a minimization problem with a... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205126 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Katsunori Kubo
We study ferromagnetism in the periodic Anderson model with and without a magnetic field by the Gutzwiller theory. We find three ferromagnetic phases: a weak ferromagnetic phase (FM0), a half-metallic phase without Fermi surface for the majority spin (FM1), and a ferromagnetic phase with almost comp... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195127 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Hiroki Gomi, Masahiro Ikenaga, Yasuhiro Hiragi, Daiki Segawa, Akira Takahashi, Takeshi J. Inagaki, and Masaki Aihara
We theoretically investigate the dielectric properties of dimer Mott insulators. We adopt the two-dimensional quarter-filled extended Hubbard model for κ-(BEDT-TTF)2X that includes the coupling with the dimer lattice modes, and numerically calculate the ground state for the bond-length-alternated an... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195126 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics
M. H. Luk, Y. C. Tse, N. H. Kwong, P. T. Leung, Przemyslaw Lewandowski, R. Binder, and Stefan Schumacher
We present a detailed theoretical study of transverse exciton-polariton patterns in semiconductor quantum well microcavities. These patterns are initiated by directional instabilities (driven mainly by polariton-polariton scattering) in the uniform pump-generated polariton field and are measured as ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205307 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
P. Chureemart, R. Cuadrado, I. D’Amico, and R. W. Chantrell
We propose a model of the injection of spin-polarized current in systems with diffuse interfaces. The effect of the interfaces between a ferromagnet and a nonmagnet and between two ferromagnets on spin injection is investigated. We first generalize the formalism for calculating the spin accumulation... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195310 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
M. Ijäs, P. Havu, and A. Harju
We study the binding of chlorine atoms to carbon nanotubes and graphene at a Stone-Wales defect and to the sidewalls of pristine nanotubes. We show using ab initio thermodynamics that if the environment is chlorine-rich enough, the unzipping of carbon nanotubes into graphene nanoribbons with chlorin... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205430 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Tomas Löfwander, Pablo San-Jose, and Elsa Prada
We analyze the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene with bilayer stripe defects. Such defects are often encountered at steps in the substrate of graphene grown on silicon carbide. We show that AB or AA stacked bilayer stripes result in large Hall conductivity fluctuations that destroy the qu... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205429 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
S. Cahangirov, S. Ciraci, and V. Ongun Özçelik
A single graphene layer placed between two parallel Ni(111) surfaces screens the strong attractive force and results in a significant reduction of adhesion and sliding friction. When two graphene layers are inserted, each graphene is attached to one of the metal surfaces with a significant binding a... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205428 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
B. Van Duppen and F. M. Peeters
The conductance, the transmission, and the reflection probabilities through rectangular potential barriers and p-n junctions are obtained for bilayer graphene taking into account the four bands of the energy spectrum. We have evaluated the importance of the skew hopping parameters γ3 and γ4 to these... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205427 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Kuljit S. Virk, Mark S. Hybertsen, and David R. Reichman
We present a self-contained theoretical and computational framework for dynamics following photoexcitation in quantum dots near planar interfaces. A microscopic Hamiltonian parametrized by first-principles calculations is merged with a reduced density matrix formalism that allows for the prediction ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205426 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Rong-Chun Ge, C. Van Vlack, P. Yao, Jeff. F. Young, and S. Hughes
We present a theoretical study of the resonance fluorescence spectra of an optically driven quantum dot placed near a single metal nanoparticle. The metallic reservoir coupling is calculated for an 8-nm metal nanoparticle using a time-convolutionless master equation approach where the exact photon r... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205425 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Xiao Xiao, S. Li, K. T. Law, Bo Hou, C. T. Chan, and Weijia Wen
We first develop a general Green's-function method for the slab geometry, which can handle quite complex conversions between the different polarized radiation modes. Then by using the method, we study the near field thermal coherence properties of a slab of Z2 topological insulator (TI) with a finit... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205424 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Dvira Segal
We study qubit-mediated energy transfer between two electron reservoirs by adopting a numerically exact influence functional path-integral method. This nonperturbative technique allows us to study the system's dynamics beyond the weak coupling limit. Our simulations for the energy current indicate t... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195436 (2013)] Published Tue May 21, 2013
Antonio Briones-Leon, Paola Ayala, Xianjie Liu, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Eugen Weschke, Michael Eisterer, Hua Jiang, Hiromichi Kataura, Thomas Pichler, and Hidetsugu Shiozawa
The orbital and spin magnetic properties of iron inside metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes are studied by means of local x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and bulk superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The iron-nanotube hybrids are initially ferrocene filled single-wa... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195435 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
Takaaki Tominaga, Takaki Sakamoto, Howon Kim, Takahiro Nishio, Toyoaki Eguchi, and Yukio Hasegawa
Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we have studied quantized magnetic fluxes (vortices) that penetrated nanosized superconductors with void structures inside. The void structures act as a pinning center for the vortices, and the trapped vortices are confined and sq... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195434 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
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Magnetism
Michael Haag, Christian Illg, and Manfred Fähnle
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Ryo Tamura, Shu Tanaka, and Naoki Kawashima
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Emmanuelle Jal, Maciej Dąbrowski, Jean-Marc Tonnerre, Marek Przybylski, Stéphane Grenier, Nicolas Jaouen, and Jürgen Kirschner
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
S. K. Niesen, G. Kolland, M. Seher, O. Breunig, M. Valldor, M. Braden, B. Grenier, and T. Lorenz
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Ayato Iyama and Tsuyoshi Kimura
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
K. Yu. Povarov, A. I. Smirnov, and C. P. Landee
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects
S. Lisenkov, B. Mani, C.-M. Chang, J. Almand, and I. Ponomareva
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Superfluidity and superconductivity
Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Nao Takeshita, Parasharam Maruti Shirage, Hiroshi Eisaki, and Akira Iyo
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
X.-Q. Zhou, C. J. S. Truncik, W. A. Huttema, N. C. Murphy, P. J. Turner, A. J. Koenig, R.-X. Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and D. M. Broun
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems
Hiroki Isobe and Naoto Nagaosa
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
An Zhao, Rui-Lin Chu, and Shun-Qing Shen
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Sarah Y. Müller, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Dirk Schuricht, and Sabine Andergassen
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Ai Yamakage, Kentaro Nomura, Ken-Ichiro Imura, and Yoshio Kuramoto
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Zheng-Yuan Wang and Masaaki Nakamura
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
S. Ideta, T. Yoshida, M. Nakajima, W. Malaeb, T. Shimojima, K. Ishizaka, A. Fujimori, H. Kimigashira, K. Ono, K. Kihou, Y. Tomioka, C. H. Lee, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, T. Ito, and S. Uchida
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Maurizio Fagotti and Fabian H. L. Essler
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics
Michael P. Delmo, Eiji Shikoh, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
Quansheng Wu, Liang Du, and Vincent E. Sacksteder IV
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
L. S. Levitov, A. V. Shtyk, and M. V. Feigelman
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
C. M. Wang and X. L. Lei
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Cristian L. Cortes and Zubin Jacob
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
J. R. Wallbank, A. A. Patel, M. Mucha-Kruczyński, A. K. Geim, and V. I. Fal’ko
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
J. Fransson, J.-H. She, L. Pietronero, and A. V. Balatsky
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Guangyu Yi, Zhichao Li, Xiaohui Chen, Haina Wu, and Wei-Jiang Gong
Accepted Mon May 20, 2013
Hernán Santos, M. C. Muñoz, M. P. López-Sancho, and Leonor Chico
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Kuljit S. Virk, Mark S. Hybertsen, and David R. Reichman
We present a self-contained theoretical and computational framework for dynamics following photoexcitation in quantum dots near planar interfaces. A microscopic Hamiltonian parametrized by first-principles calculations is merged with a reduced density matrix formalism that allows for the prediction ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205426 (2013)] Published Mon May 20, 2013
J. M. Winey and Y. M. Gupta
Numerical simulations of previous plane shock wave measurements on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), shocked to four peak stresses ranging from 27 to 50 GPa, are presented to address a long-standing question: When is the diamond phase formed in the shock-compressed graphite to diamond trans... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174104 (2013)] Published Fri May 17, 2013
C. Bergenfeldt and P. Samuelsson
Recent experimental progress in coupling nanoscale conductors to superconducting microwave cavities has opened up for transport investigations of the deep quantum limit of light-matter interactions, with tunneling electrons strongly coupled to individual cavity photons. We have investigated theoreti... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 195427 (2013)] Published Tue May 14, 2013
J. P. S. Fitzgerald, R. C. Word, S. D. Saliba, and R. Könenkamp
We report the observation of optical near fields in a photonic waveguide of conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) using multiphoton photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). Nonlinear two-photon photoelectron emission is enhanced at field maxima created by interference between incident 410-nm and cohere... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205419 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Philipp Jurgenowski and Michael Potthoff
The real-time dynamics of local occupation numbers in a Hubbard model on a 6×6 square lattice is studied by means of the nonequilibrium generalization of the cluster-perturbation theory. The cluster approach is adapted to studies of two-dimensional lattice systems by using concepts of multiple-scatt... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205118 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Wouter Van den Broek and Christoph T. Koch
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 245502 (2012), a method for retrieving the object's three-dimensional potential distribution by inverting the dynamical scattering was presented and validated by a reconstruction from simulated atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images. In this paper, ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 184108 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
C. Hahn, G. de Loubens, O. Klein, M. Viret, V. V. Naletov, and J. Ben Youssef
We report on a comparative study of spin Hall related effects and magnetoresistance in YIG|Pt and YIG|Ta bilayers. These combined measurements allow to estimate the characteristic transport parameters of both Pt and Ta layers juxtaposed to yttrium iron garnet (YIG): the spin mixing conductance G↑↓ a... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174417 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Michael F. O’Keeffe, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, and Dmitry A. Garanin
We study the Landau-Zener dynamics of a tunneling spin coupled to a torsional resonator. For strong spin-phonon coupling, when the oscillator frequency is large compared to the tunnel splitting, the system exhibits multiple Landau-Zener transitions. Entanglement of spin and mechanical angular moment... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174418 (2013)] Published Mon May 13, 2013
Miguel A. Morales, Jeffrey M. McMahon, Carlo Pierleoni, and David M. Ceperley
We examine the influence of the main approximations employed in density functional theory descriptions of the solid phase of molecular hydrogen near dissociation. We consider the importance of nuclear quantum effects on equilibrium properties and find that they strongly influence intramolecular prop... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 184107 (2013)] Published Fri May 10, 2013
B. Yuma, S. Berciaud, J. Besbas, J. Shaver, S. Santos, S. Ghosh, R. B. Weisman, L. Cognet, M. Gallart, M. Ziegler, B. Hönerlage, B. Lounis, and P. Gilliot
We present a study of free carrier photogeneration and multicarrier bound states, such as biexcitons and trions (charged excitons), in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. Pump-and-probe measurements performed with fs pulses reveal the effects of strong Coulomb interactions between carrier... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205412 (2013)] Published Wed May 8, 2013
Wing-Ho Ko, Hong-Chen Jiang, Jeffrey G. Rau, and Leon Balents
Motivated by the nickel valence controversy in the perovskite nickelate RNiO3, we consider a one-dimensional underscreened Kondo chain consisting of alternating spin-1 (“nickel”) and electron (“oxygen”) sites, which in addition to the usual electron hopping and spin-spin interaction between the S=1 ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205107 (2013)] Published Wed May 8, 2013
S. T. Renosto, H. Consoline, C. A. M. dos Santos, J. Albino Aguiar, Soon-Gil Jung, J. Vanacken, V. V. Moshchalkov, Z. Fisk, and A. J. S. Machado
ZrB2 is a nonsuperconducting Pauli paramagnetic crystallizing in the AlB2 structure. V substitution for Zr in Zr1−xVxB2 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.1) at the few percentage level induces superconductivity with critical temperature reaching a maximum of 8.7 K for Zr0.96V0.04B2 near the solid solubility limit. Spec... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 174502 (2013)] Published Mon May 6, 2013
A. Caviezel, S. O. Mariager, S. L. Johnson, E. Möhr-Vorobeva, S. W. Huang, G. Ingold, U. Staub, C. J. Milne, S.-W. Cheong, and P. Beaud
We apply grazing-incidence femtosecond x-ray diffraction to investigate the details of the atomic motion connected with a displacively excited coherent optical phonon. We concentrate on the low frequency phonon associated with the charge and orbital order in the mixed valence manganite La0.25Pr0.375... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 205104 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
M. Kamitani, M. S. Bahramy, R. Arita, S. Seki, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, and S. Ishiwata
The change in the electronic structure of layered CuxIrTe2 has been characterized by transport and spectroscopic measurements, combined with first-principles calculations. The Cu intercalation suppresses the monoclinic distortion, giving rise to the stabilization of the trigonal phase with supercond... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 180501 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Ryota Ishii, Mitsuru Funato, and Yoichi Kawakami
Optical spectroscopy is performed for c-plane homoepitaxial aluminum nitride (AlN) films. The temperature dependence of the polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectra reveals the exciton fine structure. The experimental results demonstrate that the electron-hole exchange interaction energy (j) ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161204 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
M. Trassin, J. D. Clarkson, S. R. Bowden, Jian Liu, J. T. Heron, R. J. Paull, E. Arenholz, D. T. Pierce, and J. Unguris
We report local probe investigations of the magnetic interaction between BiFeO3 films and a ferromagnetic Co0.9Fe0.1 layer. Within the constraints of intralayer exchange coupling in the Co0.9Fe0.1, the multiferroic imprint in the ferromagnet results in a collinear arrangement of the local magnetizat... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 134426 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Yongfeng Li, Rui Deng, Weinan Lin, Yufeng Tian, Haiyang Peng, Jiabao Yi, Bin Yao, and Tom Wu
As a long-lived theme in solid-state physics, the Kondo effect reflects the many-body physics involving the short-range Coulomb interactions between itinerant electrons and localized spins in metallic materials. Here we show that the Kondo effect is present in ZnO, a prototypical wide-band-gap oxide... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 155151 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Hao Song (宋昊) and Michael Hermele
We study a class of SU(N) Heisenberg models, describing Mott insulators of fermionic ultracold alkaline earth atoms on the three-dimensional simple cubic lattice. Based on an earlier semiclassical analysis, magnetic order is unlikely, and we focus instead on a solvable large-N limit designed to addr... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 144423 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
William Witczak-Krempa and Subir Sachdev
We study the charge response of conformal field theories (CFTs) at nonzero temperature in 2+1 dimensions using the anti-de Sitter (AdS)/CFT correspondence. A central role is played by the quasinormal modes (QNMs), specifically, the poles and zeros of the current correlators. We generalize our recent... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 155149 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Xiao-Liang Qi, Edward Witten, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with gapless and topologically robust quasiparticles propagating on the boundary. In this paper, we present a topological field theory description of three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductors. In our theory the topolo... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 134519 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 25, 2013
Cenke Xu
It is well known that the Haldane phase of a one-dimensional spin-1 chain is a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase, which is described by a nonlinear sigma model (NLSM) with a Θ term at Θ=2π. In this work we study a three-dimensional (3d) SPT phase of a SU(2N) antiferromagnetic spin system wi... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 144421 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 25, 2013
Eduardo H. da Silva Neto, Pegor Aynajian, Ryan E. Baumbach, Eric D. Bauer, John Mydosh, Shimpei Ono, and Ali Yazdani
Electronic nematic phases have been proposed to occur in various correlated electron systems and were recently claimed to have been detected in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) conductance maps of the pseudogap states of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi-2212). We in... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161117 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 25, 2013
Laurent Proville, Lisa Ventelon, and David Rodney
The thermally activated glide of screw dislocations in bcc crystals proceeds through the formation of kinks by pairs, a mechanism named after Peierls for his early work on dislocation theory. A method is proposed to compute the dislocation kink-pair formation enthalpy from density functional theory ... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 144106 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 23, 2013
Saurabh Maiti and Andrey V. Chubukov
We analyze the evolution of the superconducting gap structure in strongly hole-doped Ba1−xKxFe2As2 between x=1 and x∼0.4 (optimal doping). In the latter case, the pairing state is most likely s±, with different gap signs on hole and electron pockets, but with the same signs of the gap on the two Γ-c... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 144511 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 22, 2013
Nardeep Kumar, Sina Najmaei, Qiannan Cui, Frank Ceballos, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Jun Lou, and Hui Zhao
We show that the lack of inversion symmetry in monolayer MoS2 allows strong optical second harmonic generation. The second harmonic of an 810-nm pulse is generated in a mechanically exfoliated monolayer, with a nonlinear susceptibility on the order of 10−7 m/V. The susceptibility reduces by a factor... [Phys. Rev. B 87, 161403 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 15, 2013
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