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Physical Review B – 1 December 2009
Volume 80, Issue 22

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.

Pseudodiffusive transmission of nodal Dirac fermions through a clean d-wave superconductor
J. K. Asbóth, A. R. Akhmerov, A. C. Berceanu, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 18 December 2009 (12 pages)
224517 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Anomalous pinning fields in itinerant helical magnets: Screening of the quasiparticle interaction
T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
220401(R) [View PDF (133 kB)]
Magnetic order in Tb2Sn2O7 under high pressure: From ordered spin ice to spin liquid and antiferromagnetic order
I. Mirebeau, I. Goncharenko, H. Cao, and A. Forget
Published 14 December 2009 (4 pages)
220407(R) [View PDF (193 kB)]
Observation of ultrafast photoinduced closing and recovery of the spin-density-wave gap in (TMTSF)2PF6
Shinichi Watanabe, Ryusuke Kondo, Seiichi Kagoshima, and Ryo Shimano
Published 17 December 2009 (4 pages)
220408(R) [View PDF (200 kB)]
Direct dynamical coupling of spin modes and singlet Josephson supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions
I. Petković, M. Aprili, S. E. Barnes, F. Beuneu, and S. Maekawa
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
220502(R) [View PDF (381 kB)]
Inelastic x-ray scattering study of superconducting SmFeAsO1−xFy single crystals: Evidence for strong momentum-dependent doping-induced renormalizations of optical phonons
M. Le Tacon, T. R. Forrest, Ch. Rüegg, A. Bosak, A. C. Walters, R. Mittal, H. M. Rønnow, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, J. Karpinski, J. P. Hill, M. Krisch, and D. F. McMorrow
Published 21 December 2009 (4 pages)
220504(R) [View PDF (474 kB)]
Superconducting weak link generated on a linear array of substrate steps in ultrathin films of YBa2Cu3O7−δ
A. Tsurumaki and Z. Hiroi
Published 22 December 2009 (4 pages)
220505(R) [View PDF (377 kB)]
Pulse imaging and nonadiabatic control of solid-state artificial atoms
Jonas Bylander, Mark S. Rudner, Andrey V. Shytov, Sergio O. Valenzuela, David M. Berns, Karl K. Berggren, Leonid S. Levitov, and William D. Oliver
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
220506(R) [View PDF (481 kB)]
Doppler shift in Andreev reflection from a moving superconducting condensate in Nb/InAs Josephson junctions
F. Rohlfing, G. Tkachov, F. Otto, K. Richter, D. Weiss, G. Borghs, and C. Strunk
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
220507(R) [View PDF (442 kB)]
Nernst-effect anisotropy as a sensitive probe of Fermi-surface distortions from electron-nematic order
Andreas Hackl and Matthias Vojta
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
220514(R) [View PDF (216 kB)]
Microstructural transformations and kinetics of high-temperature heterogeneous gasless reactions by high-speed x-ray phase-contrast imaging
Robert V. Reeves, Jeremiah D. E. White, Eric M. Dufresne, Kamel Fezzaa, Steven F. Son, Arvind Varma, and Alexander S. Mukasyan
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
224103 [View PDF (497 kB)]
First-principles modeling of ferroelectric capacitors via constrained displacement field calculations
Massimiliano Stengel, David Vanderbilt, and Nicola A. Spaldin
Published 28 December 2009 (23 pages)
224110 [View PDF (558 kB)]
Translation-symmetry-protected topological orders in quantum spin systems
Su-Peng Kou and Xiao-Gang Wen
Published 4 December 2009 (11 pages)
224406 [View PDF (164 kB)]
Kinetic magnetism and orbital order in iron telluride
Ari M. Turner, Fa Wang, and Ashvin Vishwanath
Published 10 December 2009 (9 pages)
224504 [View PDF (490 kB)]
Spontaneous spin current due to triplet superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces
P. M. R. Brydon
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
224520 [View PDF (387 kB)]
Nutation versus angular-dependent NQR spectroscopy and impact of underdoping on charge inhomogeneities in YBa2Cu3Oy
Rinat Ofer and Amit Keren
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
224521 [View PDF (823 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Atomic transport in metastable compounds: Case study of self-diffusion in Si-C-N films using neutron reflectometry
E. Hüger, H. Schmidt, J. Stahn, B. Braunschweig, U. Geckle, M. Bruns, and A. Markwitz
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
220101(R) [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Interstitials in tetrahedrally close-packed phases: C, N, O, and F in β-tungsten from first principles
Marcel H. F. Sluiter
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
220102(R) [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Three-dimensional random-field Ising model phase transition in virgin Sr0.4Ba0.6Nb2O6: Overcoming aging
S. Miga, W. Kleemann, J. Dec, and T. Łukasiewicz
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
220103(R) [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Atomistic simulation of the premelting of iron and aluminum: Implications for high-pressure melting-curve measurements
Sergey V. Starikov and Vladimir V. Stegailov
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
220104(R) [View PDF (370 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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First-principles determination of low-temperature order and ground states of Fe-Ni, Fe-Pd, and Fe-Pt
Sergey V. Barabash, Roman V. Chepulskii, Volker Blum, and Alex Zunger
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
220201(R) [View PDF (245 kB)]

Magnetism

Anomalous pinning fields in itinerant helical magnets: Screening of the quasiparticle interaction
T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
220401(R) [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Multiferroicity and spiral magnetism in FeVO4 with quenched Fe orbital moments
A. Daoud-Aladine, B. Kundys, C. Martin, P. G. Radaelli, P. J. Brown, C. Simon, and L. C. Chapon
Published 7 December 2009 (4 pages)
220402(R) [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Evidence for a charge Kondo effect in Pb1−xTlxTe from measurements of thermoelectric power
M. Matusiak, E. M. Tunnicliffe, J. R. Cooper, Y. Matsushita, and I. R. Fisher
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
220403(R) [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Dynamical effect in measurement of the exchange-bias field: A consequence of the slow-relaxer mechanism
M. Gloanec, S. Rioual, B. Lescop, R. Zuberek, R. Szymczak, P. Aleshkevych, and B. Rouvellou
Published 9 December 2009 (4 pages)
220404(R) [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Model for frustrated spin-orbital chains as applied to CaV2O4
Gia-Wei Chern and Natalia Perkins
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
220405(R) [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Electric-dipole-active magnetic resonance in the conical-spin magnet Ba2Mg2Fe12O22
N. Kida, D. Okuyama, S. Ishiwata, Y. Taguchi, R. Shimano, K. Iwasa, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
220406(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]
Magnetic order in Tb2Sn2O7 under high pressure: From ordered spin ice to spin liquid and antiferromagnetic order
I. Mirebeau, I. Goncharenko, H. Cao, and A. Forget
Published 14 December 2009 (4 pages)
220407(R) [View PDF (193 kB)]
Observation of ultrafast photoinduced closing and recovery of the spin-density-wave gap in (TMTSF)2PF6
Shinichi Watanabe, Ryusuke Kondo, Seiichi Kagoshima, and Ryo Shimano
Published 17 December 2009 (4 pages)
220408(R) [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Charge order, enhanced orbital moment, and absence of magnetic frustration in layered multiferroic LuFe2O4
K. Kuepper, M. Raekers, C. Taubitz, M. Prinz, C. Derks, M. Neumann, A. V. Postnikov, F. M. F. de Groot, C. Piamonteze, D. Prabhakaran, and S. J. Blundell
Published 18 December 2009 (4 pages)
220409(R) [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Spin density functional study of magnetism in potassium-loaded zeolite A
Yoshiro Nohara, Kazuma Nakamura, and Ryotaro Arita
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
220410(R) [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Evidence for spinon localization in the heat transport of the spin-1/2 ladder compound (C5H12N)2CuBr4
A. V. Sologubenko, T. Lorenz, J. A. Mydosh, B. Thielemann, H. M. Rønnow, Ch. Rüegg, and K. W. Krämer
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
220411(R) [View PDF (245 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Dynamic response and ordering of rotating vortices in superconducting Corbino disks
S. Okuma, Y. Yamazaki, and N. Kokubo
Published 2 December 2009 (4 pages)
220501(R) [View PDF (499 kB)]
Direct dynamical coupling of spin modes and singlet Josephson supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions
I. Petković, M. Aprili, S. E. Barnes, F. Beuneu, and S. Maekawa
Published 3 December 2009 (4 pages)
220502(R) [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Coexistence of long-ranged magnetic order and superconductivity in the pnictide superconductor SmFeAsO1−xFx (x=0, 0.15)
D. H. Ryan, J. M. Cadogan, C. Ritter, F. Canepa, A. Palenzona, and M. Putti
Published 10 December 2009 (4 pages)
220503(R) [View PDF (336 kB)]
Inelastic x-ray scattering study of superconducting SmFeAsO1−xFy single crystals: Evidence for strong momentum-dependent doping-induced renormalizations of optical phonons
M. Le Tacon, T. R. Forrest, Ch. Rüegg, A. Bosak, A. C. Walters, R. Mittal, H. M. Rønnow, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, J. Karpinski, J. P. Hill, M. Krisch, and D. F. McMorrow
Published 21 December 2009 (4 pages)
220504(R) [View PDF (474 kB)]
Superconducting weak link generated on a linear array of substrate steps in ultrathin films of YBa2Cu3O7−δ
A. Tsurumaki and Z. Hiroi
Published 22 December 2009 (4 pages)
220505(R) [View PDF (377 kB)]
Pulse imaging and nonadiabatic control of solid-state artificial atoms
Jonas Bylander, Mark S. Rudner, Andrey V. Shytov, Sergio O. Valenzuela, David M. Berns, Karl K. Berggren, Leonid S. Levitov, and William D. Oliver
Published 23 December 2009 (4 pages)
220506(R) [View PDF (481 kB)]
Doppler shift in Andreev reflection from a moving superconducting condensate in Nb/InAs Josephson junctions
F. Rohlfing, G. Tkachov, F. Otto, K. Richter, D. Weiss, G. Borghs, and C. Strunk
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
220507(R) [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Proposal to detect plane-parallel nodal lines in Sr2RuO4 via tunneling spectroscopy
David Parker
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
220508(R) [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity measurements of the energy-gap anisotropy of superconducting LaFePO at low temperatures
M. Yamashita, N. Nakata, Y. Senshu, S. Tonegawa, K. Ikada, K. Hashimoto, H. Sugawara, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda
Published 28 December 2009 (4 pages)
220509(R) [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Angular Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in cold fermion gases in a toroidal trap
Youichi Yanase
Published 29 December 2009 (4 pages)
220510(R) [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Mixed pairing symmetry in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2X organic superconductors from ultrasonic velocity measurements
Maxime Dion, David Fournier, Mario Poirier, Kim D. Truong, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
220511(R) [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Long-range odd triplet order parameter with equal spin pairing in diffusive Co/In contacts
B. Almog, S. Hacohen-Gourgy, A. Tsukernik, and G. Deutscher
Published 30 December 2009 (4 pages)
220512(R) [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Nature of spectral gaps due to pair formation in superconductors
T. Micklitz and M. R. Norman
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
220513(R) [View PDF (185 kB)]
Nernst-effect anisotropy as a sensitive probe of Fermi-surface distortions from electron-nematic order
Andreas Hackl and Matthias Vojta
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
220514(R) [View PDF (216 kB)]

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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Ab initio energetics of LaBO3(001) (B=Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni) for solid oxide fuel cell cathodes
Yueh-Lin Lee, Jesper Kleis, Jan Rossmeisl, and Dane Morgan
Published 1 December 2009 (20 pages)
224101 [View PDF (839 kB)]
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First-principles study of the formation and migration of native defects in NaAlH4
Gareth B. Wilson-Short, Anderson Janotti, Khang Hoang, Amra Peles, and Chris G. Van de Walle
Published 4 December 2009 (8 pages)
224102 [View PDF (568 kB)]
Microstructural transformations and kinetics of high-temperature heterogeneous gasless reactions by high-speed x-ray phase-contrast imaging
Robert V. Reeves, Jeremiah D. E. White, Eric M. Dufresne, Kamel Fezzaa, Steven F. Son, Arvind Varma, and Alexander S. Mukasyan
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
224103 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Quantifying the anomalous self-diffusion in molybdenum with first-principles simulations
T. R. Mattsson, N. Sandberg, R. Armiento, and A. E. Mattsson
Published 14 December 2009 (5 pages)
224104 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Identification of multiple oscillation states of carbon nanotube tipped cantilevers interacting with surfaces in dynamic atomic force microscopy
Mark C. Strus and Arvind Raman
Published 17 December 2009 (9 pages)
224105 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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Nuclear quadrupole resonance and x-ray investigation of the structure of Na2/3CoO2
T. A. Platova, I. R. Mukhamedshin, H. Alloul, A. V. Dooglav, and G. Collin
Published 18 December 2009 (11 pages)
224106 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Stochastic spatial energy deposition profiles for MeV protons and keV electrons
C. Udalagama, A. A. Bettiol, and F. Watt
Published 18 December 2009 (8 pages)
224107 [View PDF (1,190 kB)]
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Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of iron carbide Fe7C3 phases from first-principles theory
C. M. Fang, M. A. van Huis, and H. W. Zandbergen
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
224108 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Aging of poled ferroelectric ceramics due to relaxation of random depolarization fields by space-charge accumulation near grain boundaries
Yu. A. Genenko, J. Glaum, O. Hirsch, H. Kungl, M. J. Hoffmann, and T. Granzow
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
224109 [View PDF (234 kB)]
First-principles modeling of ferroelectric capacitors via constrained displacement field calculations
Massimiliano Stengel, David Vanderbilt, and Nicola A. Spaldin
Published 28 December 2009 (23 pages)
224110 [View PDF (558 kB)]

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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First-principles molecular dynamics study of the structure and dynamic behavior of liquid Li4BN3H10
David E. Farrell, Dongwon Shin, and C. Wolverton
Published 10 December 2009 (8 pages)
224201 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Optical properties of fractal aggregates of nanoparticles: Effects of particle size polydispersity
Zahra Naeimi and MirFaez Miri
Published 22 December 2009 (6 pages)
224202 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Correlation of mechanical stress and Doppler broadening of the positron annihilation line in Al and Al alloys
C. Hugenschmidt, N. Qi, M. Stadlbauer, and K. Schreckenbach
Published 23 December 2009 (6 pages)
224203 [View PDF (489 kB)]
Comparative study on internal friction in an Al-Pd-Mn icosahedral quasicrystal and its crystal approximants
Yeong-Gi So, Shun Sato, Keiichi Edagawa, Takahiro Mori, and Ryuji Tamura
Published 31 December 2009 (9 pages)
224204 [View PDF (809 kB)]

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

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Theory of elastic and piezoelectric effects in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride
K. H. Michel and B. Verberck
Published 17 December 2009 (10 pages)
224301 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics with quantum heat baths: Application to nanoribbons and nanotubes
Jian-Sheng Wang, Xiaoxi Ni, and Jin-Wu Jiang
Published 22 December 2009 (9 pages)
224302 [View PDF (262 kB)]

Magnetism

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Phase separation and charge carrier self-organization in semiconductor-multiferroic Eu0.8Ce0.2Mn2O5
V. A. Sanina, E. I. Golovenchits, V. G. Zalesskii, S. G. Lushnikov, M. P. Scheglov, S. N. Gvasaliya, A. Savvinov, R. S. Katiyar, H. Kawaji, and T. Atake
Published 1 December 2009 (14 pages)
224401 [View PDF (2,159 kB)]
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Effective permeability tensor and double resonance of interacting bistable ferromagnetic nanowires
Vincent Boucher, Louis-Philippe Carignan, Toshiro Kodera, Christophe Caloz, Arthur Yelon, and David Ménard
Published 1 December 2009 (11 pages)
224402 [View PDF (625 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic resonance investigation of magnetic anisotropy in Ga1−xMnxAs synthesized by ion implantation and pulsed laser melting
Y. Y. Zhou, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, M. A. Scarpulla, and O. D. Dubon
Published 2 December 2009 (10 pages)
224403 [View PDF (655 kB)]
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Magnetic behavior in RRh3X (R=rare earth; X=B,C)
Devang A. Joshi, Neeraj Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar
Published 3 December 2009 (9 pages)
224404 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Weak localization and 1/f noise in Nd1.83Ce0.17CuO4+δ thin films
C. Barone, A. Guarino, A. Nigro, A. Romano, and S. Pagano
Published 3 December 2009 (7 pages)
224405 [View PDF (385 kB)]
Translation-symmetry-protected topological orders in quantum spin systems
Su-Peng Kou and Xiao-Gang Wen
Published 4 December 2009 (11 pages)
224406 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Dependence of electronic polarization on octahedral rotations in TbMnO3 from first principles
Andrei Malashevich and David Vanderbilt
Published 4 December 2009 (7 pages)
224407 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Multiple magnetic ordering phenomena evaluated by heat capacity measurements in Er1−xTbxAl2 Laves-phase alloys
Mahmud Khan, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V. K. Pecharsky
Published 7 December 2009 (6 pages)
224408 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Excitation spectrum and magnetic field effects in a quantum critical spin-orbital system: The case of FeSc2S4
Gang Chen, Andreas P. Schnyder, and Leon Balents
Published 7 December 2009 (8 pages)
224409 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Observation of anomalous magnetism in the low-temperature monoclinic phase of single-crystalline PrAlO3 perovskite
M. Wencka, S. Vrtnik, M. Jagodič, Z. Jagličić, S. Turczynski, D. A. Pawlak, and J. Dolinšek
Published 8 December 2009 (8 pages)
224410 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Temperature and fluence dependence of ultrafast phase-separation dynamics in Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 thin films
T. Mertelj, R. Yusupov, A. Gradišek, M. Filippi, W. Prellier, and D. Mihailovic
Published 10 December 2009 (6 pages)
224411 [View PDF (725 kB)]
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Evidence of kinetic-energy-driven antiferromagnetism in double perovskites: A first-principles study of La-doped Sr2FeMoO6
Prabuddha Sanyal, Hena Das, and T. Saha-Dasgupta
Published 11 December 2009 (10 pages)
224412 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Spin polarization on Fermi surfaces of metals by the KKR method
Martin Gradhand, Michael Czerner, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, Lászlo Szunyogh, and Ingrid Mertig
Published 11 December 2009 (7 pages)
224413 [View PDF (1,546 kB)]
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Short-range correlations in quantum frustrated spin system
A. Sytcheva, O. Chiatti, J. Wosnitza, S. Zherlitsyn, A. A. Zvyagin, R. Coldea, and Z. Tylczynski
Published 14 December 2009 (5 pages)
224414 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Phase transitions in frustrated XY model on a square lattice
M. H. Qin, X. Chen, and J. M. Liu
Published 14 December 2009 (5 pages)
224415 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Electric-field-induced magnetic easy-axis reorientation in ferromagnetic/ferroelectric layered heterostructures
Jia-Mian Hu and C. W. Nan
Published 16 December 2009 (11 pages)
224416 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Structural stability and half-metallicity of the zinc-blende phase of Al1−xCrxAs: Density-functional study
Yong-Hong Zhao, Guo-Ping Zhao, Yong Liu, and Bang-Gui Liu
Published 17 December 2009 (8 pages)
224417 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Half-metallic antiferromagnetic nature of La2VTcO6 and La2VCuO6 from ab initio calculations
Y. K. Wang, P. H. Lee, and G. Y. Guo
Published 17 December 2009 (9 pages)
224418 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation and the magnetically ordered state of TlCuCl3
Jens Jensen and Henrik Smith
Published 17 December 2009 (11 pages)
224419 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Topology and manipulation of multiferroic hybrid domains in MnWO4
D. Meier, N. Leo, M. Maringer, Th. Lottermoser, M. Fiebig, P. Becker, and L. Bohatý
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
224420 [View PDF (819 kB)]
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Two-magnon damping in thin films in case of canted magnetization: Theory versus experiment
J. Lindner, I. Barsukov, C. Raeder, C. Hassel, O. Posth, R. Meckenstock, P. Landeros, and D. L. Mills
Published 18 December 2009 (7 pages)
224421 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Orbital hybridization in RVO3 perovskites: A high-pressure study
J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, J.-Q. Yan, J.-G. Cheng, K. Matsubayashi, Y. Uwatoko, and Y. Ren
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
224422 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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First-principles analysis of spin-disorder resistivity of Fe and Ni
A. L. Wysocki, R. F. Sabirianov, M. van Schilfgaarde, and K. D. Belashchenko
Published 23 December 2009 (10 pages)
224423 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Angle dependence of the interface magnetic configuration in a model antiferromagnetically coupled ferrimagnetic/ferrimagnetic bilayer GdFe/TbFe
S. Mangin, L. Thomas, F. Montaigne, W. Lin, T. Hauet, and Y. Henry
Published 28 December 2009 (8 pages)
224424 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Phase structure of Z2 gauge theories for frustrated antiferromagnets in two dimensions
Kazuya Nakane, Akihiro Shimizu, and Ikuo Ichinose
Published 30 December 2009 (11 pages)
224425 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Threshold photoemission magnetic circular dichroism at the spin-reorientation transition of ultrathin epitaxial Pt/Co/Pt(111)/W(110) films
K. Hild, J. Emmel, G. Schönhense, and H. J. Elmers
Published 30 December 2009 (8 pages)
224426 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Magnetoresistive telegraph noise in Langmuir-Blodgett films of colloidal magnetite nanocrystals as seen via scanning tunneling microscopy
Einat Tirosh, Boris Tsukerman, Nurit Taub, Sara A. Majetich, and Gil Markovich
Published 31 December 2009 (5 pages)
224427 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Alignment of magnetic anisotropy axes in crystals of Mn12 acetate and Mn12-tBuAc molecular nanomagnets: Angle-dependent ac susceptibility study
E. Burzurí, Ch. Carbonera, F. Luis, D. Ruiz-Molina, C. Lampropoulos, and G. Christou
Published 31 December 2009 (4 pages)
224428 [View PDF (269 kB)]

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Model for the coexistence of d-wave superconducting and charge-density-wave order parameters in high-temperature cuprate superconductors
Alexander M. Gabovich and Alexander I. Voitenko
Published 3 December 2009 (9 pages)
224501 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Magnetic phase diagram of a spin-1 condensate in two dimensions with dipole interaction
Jonas A. Kjäll, Andrew M. Essin, and Joel E. Moore
Published 8 December 2009 (10 pages)
224502 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Vortex lattice disorder in YBa2Cu3O7−δ probed using β-NMR
H. Saadaoui, W. A. MacFarlane, Z. Salman, G. D. Morris, Q. Song, K. H. Chow, M. D. Hossain, C. D. P. Levy, A. I. Mansour, T. J. Parolin, M. R. Pearson, M. Smadella, D. Wang, and R. F. Kiefl
Published 10 December 2009 (9 pages)
224503 [View PDF (292 kB)]
Kinetic magnetism and orbital order in iron telluride
Ari M. Turner, Fa Wang, and Ashvin Vishwanath
Published 10 December 2009 (9 pages)
224504 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Controlled switching between paramagnetic and diamagnetic Meissner effects in superconductor-ferromagnet Pb-Co nanocomposites
Y. T. Xing, H. Micklitz, E. Baggio-Saitovitch, and T. G. Rappoport
Published 11 December 2009 (5 pages)
224505 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Orbital ordering induces structural phase transition and the resistivity anomaly in iron pnictides
Weicheng Lv, Jiansheng Wu, and Philip Phillips
Published 11 December 2009 (5 pages)
224506 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Fast Josephson vortex ratchet made of intrinsic Josephson junctions in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
H. B. Wang, B. Y. Zhu, C. Gürlich, M. Ruoff, S. Kim, T. Hatano, B. R. Zhao, Z. X. Zhao, E. Goldobin, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner
Published 11 December 2009 (4 pages)
224507 [View PDF (1,087 kB)]
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Quantum phase transition and elementary excitations of a Bose-Fermi mixture in a one-dimensional optical lattice
Shi-Jian Gu, Junpeng Cao, Shu Chen, and Hai-Qing Lin
Published 14 December 2009 (15 pages)
224508 [View PDF (731 kB)]
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Experimentally realizable controlled NOT gate in a flux qubit/resonator system
Shiro Saito, Todd Tilma, Simon J. Devitt, Kae Nemoto, and Kouich Semba
Published 14 December 2009 (7 pages)
224509 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Rocking ratchet induced by pure magnetic potentials with broken reflection symmetry
D. Perez de Lara, F. J. Castaño, B. G. Ng, H. S. Korner, R. K. Dumas, E. M. Gonzalez, Kai Liu, C. A. Ross, Ivan K. Schuller, and J. L. Vicent
Published 15 December 2009 (7 pages)
224510 [View PDF (735 kB)]
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Evidence of magnetically driven structural phase transition in RFeAsO (R=La, Sm, Gd, and Tb): A low-temperature x-ray diffraction study
Yongkang Luo, Qian Tao, Yuke Li, Xiao Lin, Linjun Li, Guanghan Cao, Zhu-an Xu, Yun Xue, Hiroshi Kaneko, Andrey V. Savinkov, Haruhiko Suzuki, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu
Published 15 December 2009 (5 pages)
224511 [View PDF (700 kB)]
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Dirac nodal pockets in the antiferromagnetic parent phase of FeAs superconductors
N. Harrison and S. E. Sebastian
Published 16 December 2009 (4 pages)
224512 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Irreversible flow of vortex matter: Polycrystal and amorphous phases
Paolo Moretti and M.-Carmen Miguel
Published 17 December 2009 (12 pages)
224513 [View PDF (2,086 kB)]
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Enhancement of ferromagnetism by p-wave Cooper pairing in superconducting ferromagnets
Xiaoling Jian, Jingchuan Zhang, Qiang Gu, and Richard A. Klemm
Published 17 December 2009 (7 pages)
224514 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Phase diagram and local tunneling spectroscopy of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states of a two-dimensional square-lattice d-wave superconductor
Tao Zhou and C. S. Ting
Published 17 December 2009 (6 pages)
224515 [View PDF (1,491 kB)]
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Absence of pressure-driven supersolid flow at low frequency
Ann Sophie C. Rittner, Wonsuk Choi, Erich J. Mueller, and John D. Reppy
Published 17 December 2009 (7 pages)
224516 [View PDF (263 kB)]
Pseudodiffusive transmission of nodal Dirac fermions through a clean d-wave superconductor
J. K. Asbóth, A. R. Akhmerov, A. C. Berceanu, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 18 December 2009 (12 pages)
224517 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Intrinsic granularity in nanocrystalline boron-doped diamond films measured by scanning tunneling microscopy
B. L. Willems, V. H. Dao-, J. Vanacken, L. F. Chibotaru, V. V. Moshchalkov, I. Guillamón, H. Suderow, S. Vieira, S. D. Janssens, O. A. Williams, K. Haenen, and P. Wagner
Published 21 December 2009 (8 pages)
224518 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Exact diagonalization calculations of hole binding around Ni impurities in Ni-substituted cuprate superconductors
Kenji Tsutsui, Atsushi Toyama, Takami Tohyama, and Sadamichi Maekawa
Published 21 December 2009 (5 pages)
224519 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Spontaneous spin current due to triplet superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces
P. M. R. Brydon
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
224520 [View PDF (387 kB)]
Nutation versus angular-dependent NQR spectroscopy and impact of underdoping on charge inhomogeneities in YBa2Cu3Oy
Rinat Ofer and Amit Keren
Published 22 December 2009 (8 pages)
224521 [View PDF (823 kB)]
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Magnetic pair breaking in superconducting HoNi2B2C studied on a single crystal by thermal conductivity in magnetic fields
M. Schneider, G. Fuchs, K.-H. Müller, K. Nenkov, G. Behr, D. Souptel, and S.-L. Drechsler
Published 22 December 2009 (6 pages)
224522 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Interorbital pair scattering in two-band superconductors
Anna Ciechan and Karol Izydor Wysokiński
Published 23 December 2009 (9 pages)
224523 [View PDF (1,787 kB)]
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Superconductivity in the doped bilayer Hubbard model
Nicola Lanatà, Paolo Barone, and Michele Fabrizio
Published 29 December 2009 (8 pages)
224524 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Theory of thermal conductivity in extended-s state superconductors: Application to ferropnictides
V. Mishra, A. Vorontsov, P. J. Hirschfeld, and I. Vekhter
Published 30 December 2009 (12 pages)
224525 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Transport properties of vortex matter governed by the edge inductance in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 crystals
H. Beidenkopf, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, E. H. Brandt, G. P. Mikitik, T. Tamegai, T. Sasagawa, and C. J. van der Beek
Published 31 December 2009 (5 pages)
224526 [View PDF (552 kB)]

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Erratum: Neutron scattering study of the interplay between structure and magnetism in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 [Phys. Rev. B 79, 144523 (2009)]
C. Lester, Jiun-Haw Chu, J. G. Analytis, S. C. Capelli, A. S. Erickson, C. L. Condron, M. F. Toney, I. R. Fisher, and S. M. Hayden
Published 8 December 2009 (1 page)
229901(E) [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Erratum: High-temperature spin relaxation process in Dy2Ti2O7 probed by 47Ti-NQR [Phys. Rev. B 77, 214403 (2008)]
K. Kitagawa, R. Higashinaka, K. Ishida, Y. Maeno, and M. Takigawa
Published 11 December 2009 (1 page)
229902(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Cold versus hot shear banding in bulk metallic glass [Phys. Rev. B 80, 134115 (2009)]
Y. Q. Cheng, Z. Han, Y. Li, and E. Ma
Published 16 December 2009 (1 page)
229903(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Interacting spin waves in the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model [Phys. Rev. B 80, 214408 (2009)]
A. Schwabe and W. Nolting
Published 16 December 2009 (1 page)
229904(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Intermetallic charge transfer in FeTiO3 probed by resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering [Phys. Rev. B 79, 092402 (2009)]
Akane Agui, Takayuki Uozumi, Masaichiro Mizumaki, and Tanel Käämbre
Published 17 December 2009 (1 page)
229905(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Frustrated classical Heisenberg model in one dimension with nearest-neighbor biquadratic exchange: Exact solution for the ground-state phase diagram [Phys. Rev. B 80, 012407 (2009)]
T. A. Kaplan
Published 29 December 2009 (1 page)
229906(E) [View PDF (37 kB)]
 
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