Volume 78, Issue 14

1 October 2008

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin and lattice structures of single-crystalline ${SrFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Jun Zhao, W. Ratcliff, II, J. W. Lynn, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, Jiangping Hu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140504(R) (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Calorimetric determination of the upper critical fields and anisotropy of ${NdFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ single crystals

U. Welp, R. Xie, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, P. Cheng, L. Fang, and H.-H. Wen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140510(R) (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-resolved optical spectroscopy measurements of shocked liquid deuterium

J. E. Bailey, M. D. Knudson, A. L. Carlson, G. S. Dunham, M. P. Desjarlais, D. L. Hanson, and J. R. Asay

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144107 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Significant softening of $c_{66}$ and hidden order parameter in the magnetic ordered state of ${La}_{2 - x} {Ca}_{x} {CoO}_{4}$ $(0.4 \leq x \leq 0.7)$

K. Horigane, T. Kobayashi, M. Suzuki, K. Abe, K. Asai, and J. Akimitsu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144108 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferromagnetic resonance force spectroscopy of individual submicron-size samples

O. Klein, G. de Loubens, V. V. Naletov, F. Boust, T. Guillet, H. Hurdequint, A. Leksikov, A. N. Slavin, V. S. Tiberkevich, and N. Vukadinovic

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144410 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Partial order from disorder in a classical pyrochlore antiferromagnet

Gia-Wei Chern, R. Moessner, and O. Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144418 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental consequences of the $s$ -wave $cos (k_{x}) cos (k_{y})$ superconductivity in the iron pnictides

Meera M. Parish, Jiangping Hu, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144514 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

High-pressure phases of calcium and their finite-temperature phase boundaries

A. M. Teweldeberhan and S. A. Bonev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140101(R) (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

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Synchrotron x-ray scattering evidence for interlayer structural coupling in ${({PbMg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3} O_{3})}_{(1 - x) Λ} / {({PbTiO}_{3})}_{x Λ}$ superlattices

N. Lemée, E. Dooryhée, H. Bouyanfif, F. Le Marrec, M. Nemoz, J. L. Hodeau, and M. G. Karkut

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140102(R) (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Magnetism

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnetoelectric control of spin-chiral ferroelectric domains in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet

Kenta Kimura, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kenya Ohgushi, and Tsuyoshi Kimura

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140401(R) (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

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Current-induced noise and damping in nonuniform ferromagnets

Jørn Foros, Arne Brataas, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140402(R) (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction accounting for the orientation of magnetic domains in ultrathin films: Fe/W(110)

M. Heide, G. Bihlmayer, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140403(R) (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

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Predicting $d^{0}$ magnetism: Self-interaction correction scheme

A. Droghetti, C. D. Pemmaraju, and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140404(R) (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum phase transition induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the kagome antiferromagnet

O. Cépas, C. M. Fong, P. W. Leung, and C. Lhuillier

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140405(R) (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

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Intrinsic spin-disordered ground state of the Ising garnet ${Ho}_{3} {Ga}_{5} O_{12}$

H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, L. Balicas, Y. J. Yo, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, and J. S. Gardner

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140406(R) (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

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Importance of stacking to the collinear magnetic phases of the geometrically frustrated antiferromagnet ${CuFeO}_{2}$

R. S. Fishman, F. Ye, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, J. T. Haraldsen, and T. Kimura

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140407(R) (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Superfluidity and superconductivity

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Upper critical field, anisotropy, and superconducting properties of ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ single crystals

Zhao-Sheng Wang, Hui-Qian Luo, Cong Ren, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140501(R) (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

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Multiple gaps and superfluid density from interband pairing in a four-band model of the iron oxypnictides

L. Benfatto, M. Capone, S. Caprara, C. Castellani, and C. Di Castro

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140502(R) (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

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Magnetic ordering and negative thermal expansion in PrFeAsO

S. A. J. Kimber, D. N. Argyriou, F. Yokaichiya, K. Habicht, S. Gerischer, T. Hansen, T. Chatterji, R. Klingeler, C. Hess, G. Behr, A. Kondrat, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140503(R) (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin and lattice structures of single-crystalline ${SrFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Jun Zhao, W. Ratcliff, II, J. W. Lynn, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, Jiangping Hu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140504(R) (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phonon density of states in ${NdFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$

M. Le Tacon, M. Krisch, A. Bosak, J.-W. G. Bos, and S. Margadonna

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140505(R) (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

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Pseudogap ground state in high-temperature superconductors

J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon, and G. V. M. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140506(R) (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

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Mapping the superconducting condensate surrounding a vortex in superconducting $V_{3} Si$ using a superconducting ${MgB}_{2}$ tip in a scanning tunneling microscope

N. Bergeal, Y. Noat, T. Cren, Th. Proslier, V. Dubost, F. Debontridder, A. Zimmers, D. Roditchev, W. Sacks, and J. Marcus

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140507(R) (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

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Universal doping dependence of the ground-state staggered magnetization of cuprate superconductors

Rinat Ofer, Amit Keren, Omar Chmaissem, and Alex Amato

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140508(R) (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

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Theory of magnetic excitations in iron-based layered superconductors

M. M. Korshunov and I. Eremin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140509(R) (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Calorimetric determination of the upper critical fields and anisotropy of ${NdFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ single crystals

U. Welp, R. Xie, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, P. Cheng, L. Fang, and H.-H. Wen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140510(R) (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Sharp optical-phonon softening near optimal doping in ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ observed via inelastic x-ray scattering

Matteo d’Astuto, Guy Dhalenne, Jeff Graf, Moritz Hoesch, Paola Giura, Michael Krisch, Patrick Berthet, Alessandra Lanzara, and Abhay Shukla

Phys. Rev. B 78, 140511(R) (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Cell size distribution in a random tessellation of space governed by the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami model: Grain size distribution in crystallization

Jordi Farjas and Pere Roura

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144101 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Opening space for $H_{2}$ storage: Cointercalation of graphite with lithium and small organic molecules

Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Lin J. Simpson, Anne C. Dillon, Su-Huai Wei, and Michael J. Heben

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144102 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Strain pseudospins with power-law interactions: Glassy textures of a cooled coupled-map lattice

S. R. Shenoy and T. Lookman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144103 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Dislocation depinning transition in a dispersion-strengthened steel

B. Bakó, D. Weygand, M. Samaras, W. Hoffelner, and M. Zaiser

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144104 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Measurement of x-ray multielectron photoexcitations at the $I^{-} K$ edge

Paola D’Angelo, Andrea Zitolo, Valentina Migliorati, and Nicolae Viorel Pavel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144105 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Broadband light scattering of two relaxation processes in relaxor ferroelectric $0.93 Pb ({Zn}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3} − 0.07 {PbTiO}_{3}$ single crystals

Shinya Tsukada and Seiji Kojima

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144106 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-resolved optical spectroscopy measurements of shocked liquid deuterium

J. E. Bailey, M. D. Knudson, A. L. Carlson, G. S. Dunham, M. P. Desjarlais, D. L. Hanson, and J. R. Asay

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144107 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Significant softening of $c_{66}$ and hidden order parameter in the magnetic ordered state of ${La}_{2 - x} {Ca}_{x} {CoO}_{4}$ $(0.4 \leq x \leq 0.7)$

K. Horigane, T. Kobayashi, M. Suzuki, K. Abe, K. Asai, and J. Akimitsu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144108 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Modeling microstructural evolution using atomic density function and effective pair potentials

Ji Hee Kim and Stephen H. Garofalini

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144109 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Structure prediction based on ab initio simulated annealing for boron nitride

K. Doll, J. C. Schön, and M. Jansen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144110 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Reconstruction algorithm for atomic-resolution holography using translational symmetry

Tomohiro Matsushita, Fang Zhun Guo, Motohiro Suzuki, Fumihiko Matsui, Hiroshi Daimon, and Kouichi Hayashi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144111 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Crystal-melt interfacial free energy of binary hard spheres from capillary fluctuations

Majeed Amini and Brian B. Laird

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144112 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Atomistic simulations of grain coalescence

Andrew J. Detor

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144113 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Influence of fabrication disorder on the optical properties of coupled-cavity photonic crystal waveguides

D. P. Fussell, S. Hughes, and M. M. Dignam

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144201 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Effect of local dipole moments on the structure and lattice dynamics of $K_{0.98} {Li}_{0.02} {TaO}_{3}$

Jinsheng Wen, Guangyong Xu, C. Stock, P. M. Gehring, Z. Zhong, L. A. Boatner, E. L. Venturini, and G. A. Samara

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144202 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Vibrational and configurational specific heats during isothermal structural relaxation of a glass to equilibrium liquid

E. Tombari, C. Ferrari, G. Salvetti, and G. P. Johari

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144203 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Intermediate range order in vitreous silica from a partial structure factor analysis

Q. Mei, C. J. Benmore, S. Sen, R. Sharma, and J. L. Yarger

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144204 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Crystallization process and glass stability of an ${Fe}_{48} {Cr}_{15} {Mo}_{14} C_{15} B_{6} {Tm}_{2}$ bulk metallic glass

Akihiko Hirata, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, Kenji Amiya, and Akihisa Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144205 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids

Quenching along a gapless line: A different exponent for defect density

Uma Divakaran, Amit Dutta, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144301 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Quasiharmonic elastic constants corrected for deviatoric thermal stresses

Pierre Carrier, João F. Justo, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144302 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Stability of a Bose-Einstein condensate revisited for composite bosons

M. Combescot and D. W. Snoke

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144303 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Magnetism

Diffuse x-ray scattering from inclusions in ferromagnetic ${Ge}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x}$ layers

V. Holý, R. T. Lechner, S. Ahlers, L. Horák, T. H. Metzger, A. Navarro-Quezada, A. Trampert, D. Bougeard, and G. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144401 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Building blocks of an artificial kagome spin ice: Photoemission electron microscopy of arrays of ferromagnetic islands

E. Mengotti, L. J. Heyderman, A. Fraile Rodríguez, A. Bisig, L. Le Guyader, F. Nolting, and H. B. Braun

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144402 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Influence of composition, many-body effects, spin-orbit coupling, and disorder on magnetism of Co-Pt solid-state systems

O. Šipr, J. Minár, S. Mankovsky, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144403 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Vector chiral and multipolar orders in the spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ frustrated ferromagnetic chain in magnetic field

Toshiya Hikihara, Lars Kecke, Tsutomu Momoi, and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144404 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Effect of oxygen content on properties of the ${HoBaCo}_{2} O_{5 + δ}$ layered cobaltite

Yuri Diaz-Fernandez, Lorenzo Malavasi, and Maria Cristina Mozzati

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144405 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

One-dimensional Kondo lattice model at quarter filling

J. C. Xavier and E. Miranda

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144406 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in ${Tm}^{3 +} : YAG$

A. L. Alexander, R. Lauro, A. Louchet, T. Chanelière, and J. L. Le Gouët

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144407 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic crossover in ${La}_{0.5} {Pr}_{0.5} {Mn}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ and its consequences on magnetoelastic and magnetocaloric properties

B. Emre, S. Aksoy, O. Posth, M. Acet, E. Duman, J. Lindner, and Y. Elerman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144408 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Critical behavior and transport properties of single crystal ${Pr}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ ( $x = 0.27$ , and 0.29)

Wanjun Jiang, X. Z. Zhou, Gwyn Williams, Y. Mukovskii, and K. Glazyrin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144409 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferromagnetic resonance force spectroscopy of individual submicron-size samples

O. Klein, G. de Loubens, V. V. Naletov, F. Boust, T. Guillet, H. Hurdequint, A. Leksikov, A. N. Slavin, V. S. Tiberkevich, and N. Vukadinovic

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144410 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Energy barrier of magnetization reversal in a magnetic wire with defects

Yuejin Zhu, Xian Yu, and Shufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144411 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Static magnetic order in the triangular lattice of ${Li}_{x} {NiO}_{2}$ $(x \leq 1)$ : Muon-spin spectroscopy measurements

Jun Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Mukai, Yutaka Ikedo, Peter L. Russo, Hiroshi Nozaki, Daniel Andreica, Alex Amato, Kingo Ariyoshi, and Tsutomu Ohzuku

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144412 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Relaxation of superparamagnetic spins: Classical vs large-spin description

D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144413 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Ab initio theoretical study of magnetization and phase stability of the ${(Fe, Co, Ni)}_{23} B_{6}$ and ${(Fe, Co, Ni)}_{23} {Zr}_{6}$ structures of ${Cr}_{23} C_{6}$ and ${Mn}_{23} {Th}_{6}$ prototypes

P. R. Ohodnicki, Jr., N. C. Cates, D. E. Laughlin, M. E. McHenry, and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144414 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Antiferromagnetic exchange coupling measurements on single Co clusters

Céline Portemont, Robert Morel, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Dominique Mailly, Ariel Brenac, and Lucien Notin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144415 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Ballistic magnetothermal transport in a Heisenberg spin chain at low temperatures

Lifa Zhang, Jian-Sheng Wang, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144416 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Theory of the ordered phase in $A$ -site antiferromagnetic spinels

SungBin Lee and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144417 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Partial order from disorder in a classical pyrochlore antiferromagnet

Gia-Wei Chern, R. Moessner, and O. Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144418 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Dynamics of diluted magnetic semiconductors from atomistic spin-dynamics simulations: Mn-doped GaAs

J. Hellsvik, B. Skubic, L. Nordström, B. Sanyal, O. Eriksson, P. Nordblad, and P. Svedlindh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144419 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Optically induced magnetization and ultrafast spin relaxation in manganese oxide

T. Kohmoto, H. Sakaguchi, M. Takahashi, K. Kakita, Y. Koyama, and T. Moriyasu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144420 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Spin waves of a current-injected thin ferromagnetic stripe

R. P. Erickson and D. P. Pappas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144421 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Crystalline electric field effects in ${PrNi}_{2} B_{2} C$ : Inelastic neutron scattering

Chandan Mazumdar, M. Rotter, M. Frontzek, H. Michor, M. Doerr, A. Kreyssig, M. Koza, A. Hiess, J. Voigt, G. Behr, L. C. Gupta, M. Prager, and M. Loewenhaupt

Phys. Rev. B 78, 144422 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008