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Physical Review B – 1 December 2009
Volume 80, Issue 21

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Diffusion-driven superplasticity in ceramics: Modeling and comparison with available data
Diego Gómez-García, Eugenio Zapata-Solvas, Arturo Domínguez-Rodríguez, and Ladislas P. Kubin
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
214107 [View PDF (281 kB)]
Magnetic properties of the garnet and glass forms of Mn3Al2Si3O12
G. C. Lau, T. Klimczuk, F. Ronning, T. M. McQueen, and R. J. Cava
Published 16 December 2009 (5 pages)
214414 [View PDF (442 kB)]
Paramagnetic acoustic Faraday rotation in Tb3Ga5O12
Peter Thalmeier
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
214421 [View PDF (277 kB)]
Single-crystal 31P NMR studies of the frustrated square-lattice compound Pb2(VO)(PO4)2
R. Nath, Y. Furukawa, F. Borsa, E. E. Kaul, M. Baenitz, C. Geibel, and D. C. Johnston
Published 31 December 2009 (10 pages)
214430 [View PDF (667 kB)]
Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model
V. Gurarie, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer
Published 17 December 2009 (8 pages)
214519 [View PDF (196 kB)]
Spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties in a four-band model for pnictides
L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, and C. Castellani
Published 18 December 2009 (12 pages)
214522 [View PDF (610 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Direct verification of Ga–Ga bond avoidance in the type-I clathrate Ba8Ga16Sn30 from its x-ray absorption fine structure
M. Kozina, F. Bridges, Y. Jiang, M. A. Avila, K. Suekuni, and T. Takabatake
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
212101 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Ab initio investigation of phase stability of Y2Ti2O7 and Y2Zr2O7 under high pressure
H. Y. Xiao, Fei Gao, and W. J. Weber
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
212102 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Detecting oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 by 3d transition-metal tracer ions
B. P. Andreasson, M. Janousch, U. Staub, T. Todorova, B. Delley, G. I. Meijer, and E. Pomjakushina
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
212103 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Crossover from diffusive to strongly localized regime in two-dimensional systems
A. M. Somoza, J. Prior, M. Ortuño, and I. V. Lerner
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
212201 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Crystal nucleation in undercooled liquid zirconium
Stefan Klein, Dirk Holland-Moritz, and Dieter M. Herlach
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
212202 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Improvement of computer simulation models for metallic melts via quasielastic neutron scattering: A case study of liquid titanium
J. Horbach, R. E. Rozas, T. Unruh, and A. Meyer
Published 18 December 2009 (4 pages)
212203 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Theory of damped Bloch waves in elastic media
Mahmoud I. Hussein
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
212301 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Raman spectroscopy of MnWO4
M. N. Iliev, M. M. Gospodinov, and A. P. Litvinchuk
Published 17 December 2009 (4 pages)
212302 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Stochastic quantum molecular dynamics
Heiko Appel and Massimiliano Di Ventra
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
212303 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Magnetism

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Magnetic-field-induced chiral particle-hole condensates
P. Kotetes and G. Varelogiannis
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
212401 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Crossover of the dimensionality of 3d spin fluctuations in LaCoPO
M. Majumder, K. Ghoshray, A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, B. Pahari, and S. Banerjee
Published 7 December 2009 (4 pages)
212402 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Probing the Kondo screening cloud via tunneling-current conductance fluctuations
Kelly R. Patton, Hartmut Hafermann, Sergej Brener, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson
Published 8 December 2009 (4 pages)
212403 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Possible definition of atom- and bond-resolved contributions to the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy
S. Subkow and M. Fähnle
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
212404 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Robust room-temperature magnetism of (110) CrO2 thin films
Manjit Pathak, Hunter Sims, Krishna B. Chetry, Dipanjan Mazumdar, Patrick R. LeClair, Gary J. Mankey, William H. Butler, and Arunava Gupta
Published 14 December 2009 (4 pages)
212405 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Z4 to U(1) crossover of the order-parameter symmetry in a two-dimensional valence-bond solid
Jie Lou and Anders W. Sandvik
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
212406 [View PDF (218 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Enhancement of oxygen isotope effect due to out-of-plane disorder in Bi2Sr2Ln0.4CuO6+δ superconductors
K. Sato, H. Iwasawa, N. C. Plumb, T. Masui, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, H. Bando, A. Ino, M. Arita, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, S. Tajima, Y. Nishihara, D. S. Dessau, and Y. Aiura
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
212501 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Specific-heat jump at the superconducting transition and the quantum critical nature of the normal state of pnictide superconductors
J. Zaanen
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
212502 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Noise-induced quantum coherence and persistent Rabi oscillations in a Josephson flux qubit
A. N. Omelyanchouk, S. Savel’ev, A. M. Zagoskin, E. Il’ichev, and Franco Nori
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
212503 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Transport properties of clean and disordered Josephson-junction arrays
Aleksandra Petković, Valerii M. Vinokur, and Thomas Nattermann
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
212504 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Adiabatic Cooper-pair pumping in a linear array of Cooper-pair boxes
Sujit Sarkar
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
212505 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory with floating nucleation kernel: Far-infrared conductivity in the Abrikosov vortex lattice state of a type-II superconductor
Pei-Jen Lin and P. Lipavský
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
212506 [View PDF (165 kB)]

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Characteristic length scale for strain fields around impurity cations in perovskites
Michael A. Carpenter, Ruth E. A. McKnight, Christopher J. Howard, Qingdi Zhou, Brendan J. Kennedy, and Kevin S. Knight
Published 2 December 2009 (8 pages)
214101 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Structure and stability of the Si(331)-(12×1) surface reconstruction investigated with first-principles density functional theory
Corsin Battaglia, Giovanni Onida, Katalin Gaál-Nagy, and Philipp Aebi
Published 3 December 2009 (8 pages)
214102 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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High-pressure phase transitions in BiMO3 (M=Al, Ga, and In): In situ x-ray diffraction and Raman scattering experiments
Hitoshi Yusa, Alexei A. Belik, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, Naohisa Hirao, and Yasuo Ohishi
Published 4 December 2009 (10 pages)
214103 [View PDF (1,298 kB)]
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High-pressure ferroelastic phase transition in aluminosilicate hollandite
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Jun Liu, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Razvan Caracas, and Wilson Crichton
Published 4 December 2009 (7 pages)
214104 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of solid and liquid aluminum optical absorption spectra near the melting curve: Ambient and high-pressure results
Tadashi Ogitsu, Lorin X. Benedict, Eric Schwegler, Erik W. Draeger, and David Prendergast
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
214105 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Neutron powder diffraction investigation of the structural and magnetic properties of (La1−yYy)FeAsO (y=0.10, 0.20, and 0.30)
A. Martinelli, A. Palenzona, M. Tropeano, C. Ferdeghini, M. R. Cimberle, and C. Ritter
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
214106 [View PDF (1,006 kB)]
Diffusion-driven superplasticity in ceramics: Modeling and comparison with available data
Diego Gómez-García, Eugenio Zapata-Solvas, Arturo Domínguez-Rodríguez, and Ladislas P. Kubin
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
214107 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Solid-solid phase transitions and phonon softening in an embedded-atom method model for iron
Luis Sandoval, Herbert M. Urbassek, and Peter Entel
Published 10 December 2009 (6 pages)
214108 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Hydrogen-related defects and the role of metal additives in the kinetics of complex hydrides: A first-principles study
Khang Hoang and Chris G. Van de Walle
Published 11 December 2009 (10 pages)
214109 [View PDF (1,136 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of nanodomain formation and breakdown in scanning probe microscopy: Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Yulan Li, Sergei V. Svechnikov, Peter Maksymovych, V. Y. Shur, Venkatraman Gopalan, Long-Qing Chen, and Sergei V. Kalinin
Published 14 December 2009 (12 pages)
214110 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Nanoscale domain evolution in thin films of multiferroic TbMnO3
Sriram Venkatesan, Christophe Daumont, Bart J. Kooi, Beatriz Noheda, and Jeff. Th. M. De Hosson
Published 14 December 2009 (7 pages)
214111 [View PDF (792 kB)]
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Elastic behavior associated with phase transitions in incommensurate Ba2NaNb5O15
J. Herrero-Albillos, P. Marchment, E. K. H. Salje, M. A. Carpenter, and J. F. Scott
Published 17 December 2009 (7 pages)
214112 [View PDF (686 kB)]
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Prediction of the stability of the Mn+1AXn phases from first principles
V. J. Keast, S. Harris, and D. K. Smith
Published 18 December 2009 (7 pages)
214113 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Bimodal phase percolation model for the structure of Ge-Se glasses and the existence of the intermediate phase
Pierre Lucas, Ellyn A. King, Ozgur Gulbiten, Jeffery L. Yarger, Emmanuel Soignard, and Bruno Bureau
Published 18 December 2009 (8 pages)
214114 [View PDF (840 kB)]
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First-principles characterization of the structure and electronic structure of α-S and Rh-S chalcogenides
Oswaldo Diéguez and Nicola Marzari
Published 22 December 2009 (6 pages)
214115 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Pressure-induced diamond to β-tin transition in bulk silicon: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Wirawan Purwanto, Henry Krakauer, and Shiwei Zhang
Published 23 December 2009 (9 pages)
214116 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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First-principles simulation of the elastic properties of multicomponent amorphous steels
V. Yu. Kazimirov
Published 23 December 2009 (7 pages)
214117 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of atomic and electronic structures of Ga2O3(ZnO)6
Juarez L. F. Da Silva, Aron Walsh, and Su-Huai Wei
Published 29 December 2009 (9 pages)
214118 [View PDF (1,821 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Numerical evidence of spectrum rearrangement in impure graphene
S. S. Pershoguba, Yu. V. Skrypnyk, and V. M. Loktev
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
214201 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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First-principles evaluation of carbon diffusion in Pd and Pd-based alloys
Chen Ling and David S. Sholl
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
214202 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Wave packet dynamics, ergodicity, and localization in quasiperiodic chains
Stefanie Thiem, Michael Schreiber, and Uwe Grimm
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
214203 [View PDF (2,491 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Analytical approach to dynamical behavior and phase diagrams in dissipative two-state systems
Qin Wang, Ai-Yuan Hu, and Hang Zheng
Published 9 December 2009 (15 pages)
214301 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Non-Markovian incoherent quantum dynamics of a two-state system
M. H. S. Amin and Frederico Brito
Published 18 December 2009 (9 pages)
214302 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Effects of vacancies on phonon entropy of B2 FeAl
M. S. Lucas, O. Delaire, M. L. Winterrose, T. Swan-Wood, M. Kresch, I. Halevy, B. Fultz, Jingzhu Hu, M. Lerche, M. Y. Hu, and M. Somayazulu
Published 21 December 2009 (10 pages)
214303 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Magnetism

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Interlayer exchange coupling of Fe/Cr/Fe thin films on rippled substrates
M. Körner, K. Lenz, M. O. Liedke, T. Strache, A. Mücklich, A. Keller, S. Facsko, and J. Fassbender
Published 1 December 2009 (6 pages)
214401 [View PDF (753 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of quaternary Heusler alloys Ni2−xCoxMnGa
T. Kanomata, Y. Kitsunai, K. Sano, Y. Furutani, H. Nishihara, R. Y. Umetsu, R. Kainuma, Y. Miura, and M. Shirai
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
214402 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the current-induced domain wall motion from a modified Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation
C. Schieback, D. Hinzke, M. Kläui, U. Nowak, and P. Nielaba
Published 3 December 2009 (8 pages)
214403 [View PDF (1,844 kB)]
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Specific heat investigation in high magnetic field of the magnetic ordering of the rare-earth lattice in RFeAsO: The case of Sm
S. Riggs, C. Tarantini, J. Jaroszynski, A. Gurevich, A. Palenzona, M. Putti, T. Duc Nguyen, and M. Affronte
Published 3 December 2009 (6 pages)
214404 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Quantum spin effects and magnetic short-range order above the Curie temperature
R. Y. Gu and V. P. Antropov
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
214405 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Formation of local electric dipoles with no unique polar axis in Tb3Fe5O12
Despina Louca, K. Kamazawa, and T. Proffen
Published 8 December 2009 (6 pages)
214406 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Random walks and magnetic oscillations in compensated metals
Jean-Yves Fortin and Alain Audouard
Published 8 December 2009 (10 pages)
214407 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Interacting spin waves in the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model
A. Schwabe and W. Nolting
Published 9 December 2009 (9 pages)
214408 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Critical behavior from the anomalous Hall effect in (GaMn)As
Wanjun Jiang, André Wirthmann, Y. S. Gui, X. Z. Zhou, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, C.-M. Hu, and Gwyn Williams
Published 10 December 2009 (5 pages)
214409 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Theory of the undulating magnetic ground state of cylindrical cobalt nanowires
R. P. Erickson and D. L. Mills
Published 11 December 2009 (8 pages)
214410 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Heat capacity study of magnetoelectronic phase separation in La1−xSrxCoO3 single crystals
C. He, S. Eisenberg, C. Jan, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, and C. Leighton
Published 11 December 2009 (9 pages)
214411 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of RMgSi2 (R=La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) compounds
Devang A. Joshi, F. Wrubl, P. Manfrinetti, and S. K. Dhar
Published 14 December 2009 (9 pages)
214412 [View PDF (1,004 kB)]
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Excitations from a chiral magnetized state of a frustrated quantum spin liquid
A. Zheludev, V. O. Garlea, A. Tsvelik, L.-P. Regnault, K. Habicht, K. Kiefer, and B. Roessli
Published 15 December 2009 (6 pages)
214413 [View PDF (339 kB)]
Magnetic properties of the garnet and glass forms of Mn3Al2Si3O12
G. C. Lau, T. Klimczuk, F. Ronning, T. M. McQueen, and R. J. Cava
Published 16 December 2009 (5 pages)
214414 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Energy- and crystal momentum-resolved study of laser-induced femtosecond magnetism
G. P. Zhang, Yihua Bai, and Thomas F. George
Published 16 December 2009 (8 pages)
214415 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Critical behavior and entanglement of the random transverse-field Ising model between one and two dimensions
István A. Kovács and Ferenc Iglói
Published 17 December 2009 (9 pages)
214416 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Optical phonons, spin correlations, and spin-phonon coupling in the frustrated pyrochlore magnets CdCr2O4 and ZnCr2O4
Ch. Kant, J. Deisenhofer, T. Rudolf, F. Mayr, F. Schrettle, A. Loidl, V. Gnezdilov, D. Wulferding, P. Lemmens, and V. Tsurkan
Published 17 December 2009 (10 pages)
214417 [View PDF (812 kB)]
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Spin dynamics of the Ising-like fully anisotropic spin-1/2 antiferromagnet in presence of a staggered magnetic field
Asim Kumar Ghosh
Published 21 December 2009 (7 pages)
214418 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Magnetism at surfaces and defects in icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals
M. Krajčí and J. Hafner
Published 21 December 2009 (14 pages)
214419 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Core-shell model of the vacancy concentration and magnetic behavior for antiferromagnetic nanoparticle
Suman Mandal, S. Banerjee, and Krishnakumar S. R. Menon
Published 22 December 2009 (7 pages)
214420 [View PDF (588 kB)]
Paramagnetic acoustic Faraday rotation in Tb3Ga5O12
Peter Thalmeier
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
214421 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Rare-earth impurities in Co2MnSi: Improving half-metallicity at finite temperatures
E. Burzo, I. Balazs, L. Chioncel, E. Arrigoni, and F. Beiuseanu
Published 22 December 2009 (7 pages)
214422 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Cooling a magnetic resonance force microscope via the dynamical back action of nuclear spins
Ya. S. Greenberg, E. Il’ichev, and Franco Nori
Published 23 December 2009 (13 pages)
214423 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Influence of magnetic viscosity on domain wall dynamics under spin-polarized currents
Joo-Von Kim and C. Burrowes
Published 23 December 2009 (8 pages)
214424 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Influence of pressure on the magnetic behavior and the anomalous magnetoresistance in Tb5Si3
Niharika Mohapatra, Sitikantha D. Das, K. Mukherjee, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran
Published 29 December 2009 (7 pages)
214425 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Domain wall propagation due to the synchronization with circularly polarized microwaves
P. Yan and X. R. Wang
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
214426 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Electronic spin transport in graphene field-effect transistors
M. Popinciuc, C. Józsa, P. J. Zomer, N. Tombros, A. Veligura, H. T. Jonkman, and B. J. van Wees
Published 30 December 2009 (13 pages)
214427 [View PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Honeycomb antiferromagnet with a triply degenerate dimer ground state
Rakesh Kumar, Dushyant Kumar, and Brijesh Kumar
Published 30 December 2009 (8 pages)
214428 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Weak-coupling study of decoherence of a qubit in disordered magnetic environments
E. A. Winograd, M. J. Rozenberg, and R. Chitra
Published 31 December 2009 (11 pages)
214429 [View PDF (1,099 kB)]
Single-crystal 31P NMR studies of the frustrated square-lattice compound Pb2(VO)(PO4)2
R. Nath, Y. Furukawa, F. Borsa, E. E. Kaul, M. Baenitz, C. Geibel, and D. C. Johnston
Published 31 December 2009 (10 pages)
214430 [View PDF (667 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Considerations on the symmetry of loop order in cuprates
A. Shekhter and C. M. Varma
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
214501 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Self-consistent perturbation expansion for Bose-Einstein condensates satisfying Goldstone’s theorem and conservation laws
Takafumi Kita
Published 3 December 2009 (15 pages)
214502 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Bose-Hubbard model on a star lattice
Sergei V. Isakov, K. Sengupta, and Yong Baek Kim
Published 4 December 2009 (9 pages)
214503 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Dynamic correlated Cu(2) magnetic moments in superconducting YBa2(Cu0.96Ni0.04)3Oy (y∼7)
J. A. Hodges, P. Bonville, A. Forget, A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, and S. P. Cottrell
Published 4 December 2009 (6 pages)
214504 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Dynamic correlated Cu(2) magnetic moments in superconducting YBa2(Cu0.96Co0.04)3Oy (y∼7)
J. A. Hodges, P. Bonville, A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, X. Chaud, and S. P. Cottrell
Published 4 December 2009 (5 pages)
214505 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Broadening of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless superconducting transition by inhomogeneity and finite-size effects
L. Benfatto, C. Castellani, and T. Giamarchi
Published 7 December 2009 (11 pages)
214506 [View PDF (777 kB)]
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Estimation of the critical dynamics and thickness of superconducting films and interfaces
T. Schneider
Published 8 December 2009 (7 pages)
214507 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Electronic structure and lattice dynamics of NaFeAs
Shuiquan Deng, Jürgen Köhler, and Arndt Simon
Published 8 December 2009 (7 pages)
214508 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Tunable kinematics of phase-slip lines in a superconducting stripe with magnetic dots
G. R. Berdiyorov, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters
Published 9 December 2009 (7 pages)
214509 [View PDF (659 kB)]
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Maintaining the local critical temperature of thermally out-of-equilibrium superconducting wires below the critical value
Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra
Published 9 December 2009 (5 pages)
214510 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Seebeck effect in Fe1+xTe1−ySey single crystals
I. Pallecchi, G. Lamura, M. Tropeano, M. Putti, R. Viennois, E. Giannini, and D. Van der Marel
Published 9 December 2009 (7 pages)
214511 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Transition from the vortex state to the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in quasi-two-dimensional superconductors
Hiroshi Shimahara
Published 9 December 2009 (8 pages)
214512 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Phase transitions of S=1 spinor condensates in an optical lattice
Daniel Podolsky, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Ashvin Vishwanath
Published 9 December 2009 (8 pages)
214513 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Superconductivity, magnetism, and stoichiometry of single crystals of Fe1+y(Te1−xSx)z
Rongwei Hu, Emil S. Bozin, J. B. Warren, and C. Petrovic
Published 11 December 2009 (8 pages)
214514 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Dissipation-driven phase transitions in superconducting wires
Alejandro M. Lobos, Aníbal Iucci, Markus Müller, and Thierry Giamarchi
Published 16 December 2009 (10 pages)
214515 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Quantum kinetic approach to the calculation of the Nernst effect
Karen Michaeli and Alexander M. Finkel’stein
Published 16 December 2009 (23 pages)
214516 [View PDF (656 kB)]
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Pressure-induced lattice instabilities and superconductivity in YBa2Cu4O8 and optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7−δ
M. Calamiotou, A. Gantis, E. Siranidi, D. Lampakis, J. Karpinski, and E. Liarokapis
Published 17 December 2009 (7 pages)
214517 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Probing microscopic variations of superconductivity on the surface of Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 single crystals
T.-H. Kim, R. Jin, L. R. Walker, J. Y. Howe, M. H. Pan, J. F. Wendelken, J. R. Thompson, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, and A. P. Li
Published 17 December 2009 (5 pages)
214518 [View PDF (292 kB)]
Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model
V. Gurarie, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer
Published 17 December 2009 (8 pages)
214519 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Origin of the high-energy kink in the photoemission spectrum of the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
Susmita Basak, Tanmoy Das, Hsin Lin, J. Nieminen, M. Lindroos, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
214520 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Quasiparticle-diffusion-based heating in superconductor tunneling microcoolers
Sukumar Rajauria, Hervé Courtois, and Bernard Pannetier
Published 18 December 2009 (4 pages)
214521 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties in a four-band model for pnictides
L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, and C. Castellani
Published 18 December 2009 (12 pages)
214522 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Spin screening effect in superconductor/ferromagnet thin film heterostructures studied using nuclear magnetic resonance
R. I. Salikhov, N. N. Garif’yanov, I. A. Garifullin, L. R. Tagirov, K. Westerholt, and H. Zabel
Published 21 December 2009 (8 pages)
214523 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Checkerboard superconducting order and antinodal Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference
V. I. Belyavsky, V. V. Kapaev, and Yu. V. Kopaev
Published 21 December 2009 (9 pages)
214524 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of phase-slip trains and superconductive-resistive switching in current-biased nanowires
David Pekker, Nayana Shah, Mitrabhanu Sahu, Alexey Bezryadin, and Paul M. Goldbart
Published 21 December 2009 (17 pages)
214525 [View PDF (725 kB)]
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Guiding of vortices and ratchet effect in superconducting films with asymmetric pinning potential
Valerij A. Shklovskij and Vladimir V. Sosedkin
Published 21 December 2009 (13 pages)
214526 [View PDF (948 kB)]
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Structural and Tc inhomogeneities inherent to doping in La2−xSrxCuO4 superconductors and their effects on the precursor diamagnetism
Jesús Mosqueira, Lucía Cabo, and Félix Vidal
Published 21 December 2009 (8 pages)
214527 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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Interlayer transverse magnetoresistance in the presence of an anisotropic pseudogap
M. F. Smith and Ross H. McKenzie
Published 23 December 2009 (8 pages)
214528 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Frustrated further-neighbor antiferromagnetic and electron-hopping interactions in the d=3 t−J model: Finite-temperature global phase diagrams from renormalization group theory
C. Nadir Kaplan, A. Nihat Berker, and Michael Hinczewski
Published 23 December 2009 (11 pages)
214529 [View PDF (842 kB)]
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Density functional study of the electronic structure and magnetism of LaFeAsO alloyed with Zn
Lijun Zhang and D. J. Singh
Published 23 December 2009 (5 pages)
214530 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Correlation between linear resistivity and Tc in the Bechgaard salts and the pnictide superconductor Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2
Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Samuel René de Cotret, Claude Bourbonnais, Denis Jérome, Klaus Bechgaard, and Louis Taillefer
Published 28 December 2009 (5 pages)
214531 [View PDF (1,406 kB)]
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Pair breaking in iron pnictides
V. G. Kogan
Published 28 December 2009 (7 pages)
214532 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Vortex configurations in thin superconducting equilateral triangles
L. R. E. Cabral and J. Albino Aguiar
Published 28 December 2009 (13 pages)
214533 [View PDF (1,828 kB)]
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Phonons in doped and undoped BaFe2As2 investigated by inelastic x-ray scattering
D. Reznik, K. Lokshin, D. C. Mitchell, D. Parshall, W. Dmowski, D. Lamago, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. G. Mandrus, A. Subedi, D. J. Singh, A. Alatas, M. H. Upton, A. H. Said, A. Cunsolo, Yu. Shvyd’ko, and T. Egami
Published 29 December 2009 (5 pages)
214534 [View PDF (655 kB)]
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Superconducting phase qubit based on the Josephson oscillator with strong anharmonicity
A. B. Zorin and F. Chiarello
Published 30 December 2009 (5 pages)
214535 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Current fluctuations in rough superconducting tunnel junctions
Georg Heinrich and F. K. Wilhelm
Published 30 December 2009 (11 pages)
214536 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Enhanced triplet Andreev reflection off a domain wall in a lateral geometry
Joern N. Kupferschmidt and Piet W. Brouwer
Published 31 December 2009 (5 pages)
214537 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Entangling two superconducting LC coherent modes via a superconducting flux qubit
Mei-Yu Chen, Matisse W. Y. Tu, and Wei-Min Zhang
Published 31 December 2009 (5 pages)
214538 [View PDF (197 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Interband superconductivity: Contrasts between Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer and Eliashberg theories [Phys. Rev. B 79, 060502(R) (2009)]
Oleg V. Dolgov, Igor I. Mazin, David Parker, and Alexander A. Golubov
Published 10 December 2009 (1 page)
219901(E) [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Magnetic properties of quaternary Heusler alloys Ni2−xCoxMnGa [Phys. Rev. B 80, 214402 (2009)]
T. Kanomata, Y. Kitsunai, K. Sano, Y. Furutani, H. Nishihara, R. Y. Umetsu, R. Kainuma, Y. Miura, and M. Shirai
Published 18 December 2009 (1 page)
219902(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Synthetic ferromagnetic nitrides: First-principles calculations of CaN and SrN [Phys. Rev. B 76, 054433 (2007)]
Masaaki Geshi, Koichi Kusakabe, Hitose Nagara, and Naoshi Suzuki
Published 30 December 2009 (1 page)
219903(E) [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Specific heat investigation in high magnetic field of the magnetic ordering of the rare-earth lattice in RFeAsO: The case of Sm [Phys. Rev. B 80, 214404 (2009)]
S. Riggs, C. Tarantini, J. Jaroszynski, A. Gurevich, A. Palenzona, M. Putti, T. Duc Nguyen, and M. Affronte
Published 30 December 2009 (1 page)
219904(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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