Volume 84, Issue 1

1 July 2011

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Redefining Length

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. B 84, 010001 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interaction effects in topological superconducting wires supporting Majorana fermions

E. M. Stoudenmire, Jason Alicea, Oleg A. Starykh, and Matthew P.A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014503 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Screening for high-performance piezoelectrics using high-throughput density functional theory

Rickard Armiento, Boris Kozinsky, Marco Fornari, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014103 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Developing grain boundary diagrams as a materials science tool: A case study of nickel-doped molybdenum

Xiaomeng Shi and Jian Luo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014105 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase separation and frustrated square lattice magnetism of Na $_{1.5}$ VOPO $_{4}$ F $_{0.5}$

A. A. Tsirlin, R. Nath, A. M. Abakumov, Y. Furukawa, D. C. Johnston, M. Hemmida, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, C. Geibel, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014429 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nernst effect in the cuprate superconductor YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{y}$ : Broken rotational and translational symmetries

J. Chang, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Francis Laliberté, R. Daou, David LeBoeuf, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Cyril Proust, I. Sheikin, K. Behnia, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014507 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-field studies of superconducting fluctuations in high- $T_{c}$ cuprates: Evidence for a small gap distinct from the large pseudogap

F. Rullier-Albenque, H. Alloul, and G. Rikken

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014522 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

BRIEF REPORTS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Pressure-induced transitions in solid nitrogen: Role of dispersive interactions

A. Erba, L. Maschio, C. Pisani, and S. Casassa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012101 (2011) - Published 8 July, 2011

Mechanism for direct conversion of graphite to diamond

Jian-Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012102 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Nonlocal dielectric relaxation in glycerol

A. A. Pronin, K. Trachenko, M. V. Kondrin, A. G. Lyapin, and V. V. Brazhkin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012201 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Magnetism

Magnetic structure of azurite above the magnetization plateau at $\frac{1}{3}$ of saturation

F. Aimo, S. Krämer, M. Klanjšek, M. Horvatić, and C. Berthier

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012401 (2011) - Published 1 July, 2011

Electrical current driven by a coherent spin wave in a bulk ferromagnetic semiconductor

A. A. Fraerman, K. R. Muhamatchin, and I. D. Tokman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012402 (2011) - Published 7 July, 2011

Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice: A candidate for deconfined quantum criticality

D. J. J. Farnell, R. F. Bishop, P. H. Y. Li, J. Richter, and C. E. Campbell

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012403 (2011) - Published 8 July, 2011

Magnetization reversal assisted by the inverse piezoelectric effect in Co-Fe-B $/$ ferroelectric multilayers

Na Lei, Sanghwan Park, Philippe Lecoeur, Dafiné Ravelosona, Claude Chappert, Olha Stelmakhovych, and Vaclav Holý

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012404 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Tuning the magnetic properties of Co nanoparticles by Pt capping

A. Ebbing, O. Hellwig, L. Agudo, G. Eggeler, and O. Petracic

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012405 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

Continuous spin reorientation transition in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films

J. Li, E. Arenholz, Y. Meng, A. Tan, J. Park, E. Jin, H. Son, J. Wu, C. A. Jenkins, A. Scholl, H. W. Zhao, Chanyong Hwang, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012406 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Contamination from magnetic starting materials in flux-grown single crystals of $R$ FeAsO superconductors

J.-Q. Yan, Q. Xing, B. Jensen, H. Xu, K. W. Dennis, R. W. McCallum, and T. A. Lograsso

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012501 (2011) - Published 6 July, 2011

Upper critical field anisotropy in BaFe $_{2 - x}$ Co $_{x}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals synthesized without flux

K. Vinod, A. T. Satya, Shilpam Sharma, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012502 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Form factor, standard deviation, and skewness of the field distribution in a hard type-II heavy-fermion superconductor from the Ginzburg-Landau model

P. Dalmas de Réotier and A. Yaouanc

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012503 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

Impact of spin-nematic order on the lattice domains in thin films of iron-based superconductors

A. Cano

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012504 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

Scaling of nascent nodes in extended- $s$ -wave superconductors

Rafael M. Fernandes and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012505 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Vortex motion in superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ : Reformulation in the extrinsic vortex-filament coordinate space

Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012506 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Fermi-surface reconstruction in a smectic phase of a high-temperature superconductor

Hong Yao, Dung-Hai Lee, and Steven Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012507 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Dynamics of superconducting vortices driven by oscillatory forces in the plastic-flow regime

D. Pérez Daroca, G. Pasquini, G. S. Lozano, and V. Bekeris

Phys. Rev. B 84, 012508 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Polar distortions in hydrogen-bonded organic ferroelectrics

Alessandro Stroppa, Domenico Di Sante, Sachio Horiuchi, Yoshinori Tokura, David Vanderbilt, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014101 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Transverse and longitudinal lattice modulations in the charge-orbital-ordered manganite Sr $_{2 - x}$ La $_{x}$ MnO $_{4}$ around $x = 0.5$

Masazumi Arao, Yasuhide Inoue, Kensei Toyoda, and Yasumasa Koyama

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014102 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Screening for high-performance piezoelectrics using high-throughput density functional theory

Rickard Armiento, Boris Kozinsky, Marco Fornari, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014103 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

Crystal defects and related stress in $Y_{2}$ O $_{3}$ thin films: Origin, modeling, and consequence on the stability of the $C$ -type structure

Bertrand Lacroix, Fabien Paumier, and Rolly J. Gaboriaud

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014104 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Developing grain boundary diagrams as a materials science tool: A case study of nickel-doped molybdenum

Xiaomeng Shi and Jian Luo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014105 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Positron annihilation in Cr, Cu, and Au layers embedded in Al and quantum confinement of positrons in Au clusters

Philip Pikart, Christoph Hugenschmidt, Michael Horisberger, Yoshitaka Matsukawa, Masahiko Hatakeyama, Takeshi Toyama, and Yasuyoshi Nagai

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014106 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Anisotropic size effect in strength in coherent nanowires with tilted twins

Yujie Wei

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014107 (2011) - Published 22 July, 2011

Neutron diffraction study of quasi-one-dimensional lithium purple bronze: Possible mechanism for dimensional crossover

M. S. da Luz, J. J. Neumeier, C. A. M. dos Santos, B. D. White, H. J. Izario Filho, J. B. Leão, and Q. Huang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014108 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Ab initio and atomistic study of ferroelectricity in copper-doped potassium niobate

Sabine Körbel and Christian Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014109 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Crystallization of amorphous silicon induced by mechanical shear deformations

Ali Kerrache, Normand Mousseau, and Laurent J. Lewis

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014110 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

High-pressure EXAFS measurements of crystalline Ge using nanocrystalline diamond anvils

M. Baldini, W. Yang, G. Aquilanti, L. Zhang, Y. Ding, S. Pascarelli, and W. L. Mao

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014111 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Mechanical properties of icosahedral boron carbide explained from first principles

Roman Raucoules, Nathalie Vast, Emmanuel Betranhandy, and Jelena Sjakste

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014112 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Equilibrium and metastable phase transitions in silicon nitride at high pressure: A first-principles and experimental study

Bin Xu, Jianjun Dong, Paul F. McMillan, Olga Shebanova, and Ashkan Salamat

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014113 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Thermally induced surface instability in ion-implanted Mg $_{x}$ Zn $_{1 - x}$ O films

A. Yu. Azarov, A. Hallén, X. L. Du, Z. L. Liu, B. G. Svensson, and A. Yu. Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014114 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Enhanced annealing of the dislocation network under irradiation

Dan Mordehai and Georges Martin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014115 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Elastic constants, phonon density of states, and thermal properties of UO $_{2}$

M. Sanati, R. C. Albers, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014116 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Na-Au intermetallic compounds formed under high pressure at room temperature

K. Takemura and H. Fujihisa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014117 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Anomalous x-ray scattering study of Ge $_{x}$ Se $_{1 - x}$ glassy alloys across the stiffness transition composition

Shinya Hosokawa, Isamu Oh, Masaki Sakurai, Wolf-Christian Pilgrim, Nathalie Boudet, Jean-François Bérar, and Shinji Kohara

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014201 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Negative $P - T$ slopes characterize phase change processes: Case of the Ge $_{1}$ Sb $_{2}$ Te $_{4}$ phase change alloy

B. Kalkan, S. Sen, B. G. Aitken, S. V. Raju, and S. M. Clark

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014202 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Cr interactions with He and vacancies in dilute Fe-Cr alloys from first principles

Enrique Martínez and Chu-Chun Fu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014203 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Magnetoelastic coupling in bulk and nanoscale MnO

Q.-C. Sun, S. N. Baker, A. D. Christianson, and J. L. Musfeldt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014301 (2011) - Published 5 July, 2011

Neutron scattering study of acoustic phonon softening in BiVO $_{4}$

Izumi Tomeno, Naomi Sato, Yoshinosuke Sato, Kunihiko Oka, and Yorihiko Tsunoda

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014302 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Effects of electron coupling to intramolecular and intermolecular vibrational modes on the transport properties of single-crystal organic semiconductors

C. A. Perroni, V. Marigliano Ramaglia, and V. Cataudella

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014303 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Quantum control of stability of a discrete electron state coupled with a continuum by external oscillating fields

Ken-ichi Noba and Keisuke Murayama

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014304 (2011) - Published 22 July, 2011

Carrier-mediated optomechanical coupling in GaAs cantilevers

Hajime Okamoto, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Watanabe, Koji Onomitsu, Haruki Sanada, Hideki Gotoh, Tetsuomi Sogawa, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014305 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Vibrational dynamics of the filled skutterudites $M_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{4}$ Sb $_{12}$ ( $M = Ca$ , Sr, Ba, and Yb): Temperature response, dispersion relation, and material properties

Michael Marek Koza, Andreas Leithe-Jasper, Helge Rosner, Walter Schnelle, Hannu Mutka, Mark Robert Johnson, Michael Krisch, Lucia Capogna, and Yuri Grin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014306 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Diffusion in liquid aluminium probed by quasielastic neutron scattering

F. Demmel, D. Szubrin, W.-C. Pilgrim, and C. Morkel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014307 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Magnetism

Nonlinear bias dependence of spin-transfer torque from atomic first principles

Xingtao Jia, Ke Xia, Youqi Ke, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014401 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Quantum phase transitions around the staggered valence-bond solid

Cenke Xu and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014402 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Synthesis, structure, and magnetic characterization of La $_{2 - x} R_{x}$ RuO $_{5}$ ( $R$ $=$ Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy)

S. Riegg, U. Sazama, M. Fröba, A. Reller, and S. G. Ebbinghaus

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014403 (2011) - Published 18 July, 2011

Inverse transition in a two-dimensional dipolar frustrated ferromagnet

Sergio A. Cannas, Marianela Carubelli, Orlando V. Billoni, and Daniel A. Stariolo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014404 (2011) - Published 18 July, 2011

Large miscibility gap in the Ba(Mn $_{x}$ Fe $_{1 - x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ system

Abhishek Pandey, V. K. Anand, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014405 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Magnetic phase transitions and bulk spin-valve effect tuned by in-plane field orientation in Ca $_{3}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

D. Fobes, J. Peng, Z. Qu, T. J. Liu, and Z. Q. Mao

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014406 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Orbital multicriticality in spin-gapped quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets

Eran Sela and R. G. Pereira

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014407 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Magnetoelastic coupling within a Landau model of phase transitions: Application to the frustrated triangular antiferromagnet CsNiCl $_{3}$

G. Quirion, X. Han, and M. L. Plumer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014408 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Origin of the anomalous low-temperature phase transition in BaVS $_{3}$

R. A. de Souza, U. Staub, V. Scagnoli, M. Garganourakis, Y. Bodenthin, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014409 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Insights into the role of magnetoelastic anisotropy in the magnetization reorientation of magnetic nanowires

D. C. Leitao, J. Ventura, C. T. Sousa, A. M. Pereira, J. B. Sousa, M. Vazquez, and J. P. Araujo

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014410 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

Stochastic domain-wall depinning under current in FePt spin valves and single layers

A. P. Mihai, F. Garcia-Sanchez, L. Vila, A. Marty, L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu, J. C. Pillet, C. Beigné, D. Ravelosona, C. Mannequin, J. C. Toussaint, and J. P. Attané

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014411 (2011) - Published 21 July, 2011

First-principles calculations of magnetization relaxation in pure Fe, Co, and Ni with frozen thermal lattice disorder

Yi Liu, Anton A. Starikov, Zhe Yuan, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014412 (2011) - Published 22 July, 2011

Quantum phase transitions, frustration, and the Fermi surface in the Kondo lattice model

Eitan Eidelstein, S. Moukouri, and Avraham Schiller

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014413 (2011) - Published 22 July, 2011

Spin motive forces due to magnetic vortices and domain walls

M. E. Lucassen, G. C. F. L. Kruis, R. Lavrijsen, H. J. M. Swagten, B. Koopmans, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014414 (2011) - Published 22 July, 2011

Superexchange mechanisms in an ideal $3 d^{1}$ cubic system of the perovskite type

J. Choukroun

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014415 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Magnetoelastic effects in SrTi $_{1 - x} M_{x}$ O $_{3}$ (M = Fe, Co, or Cr) epitaxial thin films

Dong Hun Kim, Lei Bi, Peng Jiang, Gerald F. Dionne, and C. A. Ross

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014416 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Magnetic order and paramagnetic phases in the quantum $J_{1}$ - $J_{2}$ - $J_{3}$ honeycomb model

Johannes Reuther, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014417 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Magnetically dead layers at $s p$ -impurity-decorated grain boundaries and surfaces in nickel

M. Všianská and M. Šob

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014418 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Magneto-optical properties of Co/Ir superstructures on Ir(111)

C. Etz, A. Vernes, and P. Weinberger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014419 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Eu $^{2 +}$ spin dynamics in the filled skutterudites Eu $M_{4}$ Sb $_{12}$ ( $M = Fe$ , Ru, Os)

F. A. Garcia, C. Adriano, G. G. Cabrera, L. M. Holanda, P. G. Pagliuso, M. A. Avila, S. B. Oseroff, and C. Rettori

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014420 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Electronic structure, magnetic properties, and magnetostructural transition in Tb $_{5}$ Si $_{2.2}$ Ge $_{1.8}$ from first principles

Durga Paudyal, Y. Mudryk, V. K. Pecharsky, and K. A. Gschneidner, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014421 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Spin-wave excitation in the antiferromagnetic bilayer ruthenate ${Ca}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

X. Ke, Tao Hong, J. Peng, S. E. Nagler, G. E. Granroth, M. D. Lumsden, and Z. Q. Mao

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014422 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Ferromagnetic resonance in epitaxial films: Effects of lattice strains and voltage control via ferroelectric substrate

N. A. Pertsev, H. Kohlstedt, and R. Knöchel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014423 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Control of vortex chirality and polarity in magnetic nanodots with broken rotational symmetry

V. Cambel and G. Karapetrov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014424 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Spin-memory loss at Co/Ru interfaces

Mazin A. Khasawneh, Carolin Klose, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014425 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnetism and multiferroicity in CuCrO $_{4}$

J. M. Law, P. Reuvekamp, R. Glaum, C. Lee, J. Kang, M.-H. Whangbo, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014426 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Anisotropic exchange interaction between nonmagnetic europium cations in Eu $_{2}$ O $_{3}$

G. Concas, J. K. Dewhurst, A. Sanna, S. Sharma, and S. Massidda

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014427 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

de Almeida–Thouless line studied using one-dimensional power-law diluted Heisenberg spin glasses

Auditya Sharma and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014428 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase separation and frustrated square lattice magnetism of Na $_{1.5}$ VOPO $_{4}$ F $_{0.5}$

A. A. Tsirlin, R. Nath, A. M. Abakumov, Y. Furukawa, D. C. Johnston, M. Hemmida, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, C. Geibel, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014429 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Kondo effect and spin-glass behavior of dilute iron clusters in silver films

W. T. Herrera, Y. T. Xing, S. M. Ramos, P. Munayco, M. B. Fontes, E. M. Baggio-Saitovitch, and F. J. Litterst

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014430 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Spin correlations and Kondo effect in a strong ferromagnet

P. Kharel, R. Skomski, P. Lukashev, R. Sabirianov, and D. J. Sellmyer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014431 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Magnetization-graded multiferroic composite and magnetoelectric effects at zero bias

S. K. Mandal, G. Sreenivasulu, V. M. Petrov, and G. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014432 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Electron spin diffusion at the interface of multiferroic oxides

P. Zhang and M. W. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014433 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Local distortions in multiferroic AgCrO $_{2}$ triangular spin lattice

A. M. L. Lopes, G. N. P. Oliveira, T. M. Mendonça, J. Agostinho Moreira, A. Almeida, J. P. Araújo, V. S. Amaral, and J. G. Correia

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014434 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Control of chirality of transition-metal monosilicides by the Czochralski method

V. A. Dyadkin, S. V. Grigoriev, D. Menzel, D. Chernyshov, V. Dmitriev, J. Schoenes, S. V. Maleyev, E. V. Moskvin, and H. Eckerlebe

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014435 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Spin and orbital states in single-layered La $_{2 - x}$ Ca $_{x}$ CoO $_{4}$ studied by doping- and temperature-dependent near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure

M. Merz, D. Fuchs, A. Assmann, S. Uebe, H. v. Löhneysen, P. Nagel, and S. Schuppler

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014436 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Crossover from paramagnetic compressed flux regime to diamagnetic pinned vortex lattice in a single crystal of cubic Ca $_{3}$ Rh $_{4}$ Sn $_{13}$

P. D. Kulkarni, S. S. Banerjee, C. V. Tomy, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK. Paul, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014501 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Different response of superconductivity to the transition-metal impurities in K $_{0.8}$ Fe $_{2 - y - x} M_{x}$ Se $_{2}$ ( $M$ $=$ Cr, Mn, Co, Zn)

Dian Tan, Changjin Zhang, Chuanying Xi, Langsheng Ling, Lei Zhang, Wei Tong, Yi Yu, Guolin Feng, Hongyan Yu, Li Pi, Zhaorong Yang, Shun Tan, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014502 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interaction effects in topological superconducting wires supporting Majorana fermions

E. M. Stoudenmire, Jason Alicea, Oleg A. Starykh, and Matthew P.A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014503 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of PrFeAsO $_{0.7}$ : Comparison with LaFePO

I. Nishi, M. Ishikado, S. Ideta, W. Malaeb, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, Y. Kotani, M. Kubota, K. Ono, M. Yi, D. H. Lu, R. Moore, Z.-X. Shen, A. Iyo, K. Kihou, H. Kito, H. Eisaki, S. Shamoto, and R. Arita

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014504 (2011) - Published 18 July, 2011

Robust accidental nodes and zeros and critical quasiparticle scaling in iron-based multiband superconductors

Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić, and Zlatko Tešanović

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014505 (2011) - Published 19 July, 2011

Structural evidence for an edge-contaminated vortex phase in a Nb crystal using neutron diffraction

H. A. Hanson, X. Wang, I. K. Dimitrov, J. Shi, X. S. Ling, B. B. Maranville, C. F. Majkrzak, M. Laver, U. Keiderling, and M. Russina

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014506 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nernst effect in the cuprate superconductor YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{y}$ : Broken rotational and translational symmetries

J. Chang, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Francis Laliberté, R. Daou, David LeBoeuf, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Cyril Proust, I. Sheikin, K. Behnia, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014507 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Multilayer cuprate superconductors as possible systems described by resonating-valence-bond and antiferromagnetic order

Hiroyuki Yamase, Masanao Yoneya, and Kazuhiro Kuboki

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014508 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Angle-resolved photoemission study of the role of nesting and orbital orderings in the antiferromagnetic phase of BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

M. Fuglsang Jensen, V. Brouet, E. Papalazarou, A. Nicolaou, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, P. Le Fèvre, F. Bertran, A. Forget, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014509 (2011) - Published 20 July, 2011

Flying microwave qubits with nearly perfect transfer efficiency

Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014510 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Comparative study of the phonons in nonsuperconducting BaC $_{6}$ and superconducting CaC $_{6}$ using inelastic x-ray scattering

A. C. Walters, C. A. Howard, M. H. Upton, M. P. M. Dean, A. Alatas, B. M. Leu, M. Ellerby, D. F. McMorrow, J. P. Hill, M. Calandra, and F. Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014511 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

BCS-BEC crossover induced by a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field

Jayantha P. Vyasanakere, Shizhong Zhang, and Vijay B. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014512 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Conventional and charge-six superfluids from melting hexagonal Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phases in two dimensions

D. F. Agterberg, M. Geracie, and H. Tsunetsugu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014513 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Effective medium theory for superconducting layers: A systematic analysis including space correlation effects

S. Caprara, M. Grilli, L. Benfatto, and C. Castellani

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014514 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Vortex dynamics for low- $κ$ type-II superconductors

X. B. Xu, H. Fangohr, Z. H. Wang, M. Gu, S. L. Liu, D. Q. Shi, and S. X. Dou

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014515 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Intrinsic lineshape of Josephson radiation from layered superconductors

L. N. Bulaevskii, I. Martin, and Gábor B. Halász

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014516 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Universal quenching of the superconducting state of two-dimensional nanosize Pb-island structures

Jungdae Kim, Gregory A. Fiete, Hyoungdo Nam, A. H. MacDonald, and Chih-Kang Shih

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014517 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Fermi surfaces and quantum oscillations in the underdoped high- $T_{c}$ superconductors YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{6.5}$ and YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{4}$ O $_{8}$

Hyungju Oh, Hyoung Joon Choi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014518 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Systematics of the temperature-dependent interplane resistivity in Ba(Fe $_{1 - x} M_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ( $M = Co$ , Rh, Ni, and Pd)

M. A. Tanatar, N. Ni, A. Thaler, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014519 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Critical fields, thermally activated transport, and critical current density of $β$ -FeSe single crystals

Hechang Lei (雷和畅), Rongwei Hu (胡荣伟), and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014520 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Stripes, spin resonance, and nodeless $d$ -wave pairing symmetry in Fe $_{2}$ Se $_{2}$ -based layered superconductors

Tanmoy Das and A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014521 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

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High-field studies of superconducting fluctuations in high- $T_{c}$ cuprates: Evidence for a small gap distinct from the large pseudogap

F. Rullier-Albenque, H. Alloul, and G. Rikken

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014522 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Penetration of nonintegral magnetic flux through a domain-wall bend in time-reversal symmetry broken superconductors

David G. Ferguson and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014523 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Transport properties of three-dimensional extended $s$ -wave states in Fe-based superconductors

V. Mishra, S. Graser, and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014524 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Noise correlations in a flux qubit with tunable tunnel coupling

Simon Gustavsson, Jonas Bylander, Fei Yan, William D. Oliver, Fumiki Yoshihara, and Yasunobu Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014525 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Pinning of charge and flux solitons in disordered Josephson junction arrays

Kirill G. Fedorov, Mikhail V. Fistul, and Alexey V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014526 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Topological field theory and thermal responses of interacting topological superconductors

Zhong Wang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014527 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Effect of orbital symmetry of the tip on scanning tunneling spectra of Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ CaCu $_{2}$ O $_{8 + δ}$

Ilpo Suominen, Jouko Nieminen, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014528 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Disorder-induced superconducting ratchet effect in nanowires

S. Poran, E. Shimshoni, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014529 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

$d_{3 z^{2} - r^{2}}$ orbital in high- $T_{c}$ cuprates: Excitonic spectrum, metal-insulator phase diagram, optical conductivity, and orbital character of doped holes

Xin Wang, Hung The Dang, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014530 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Dissimilarities between the electronic structure of chemically doped and chemically pressurized iron pnictides from an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study

S. Thirupathaiah, E. D. L. Rienks, H. S. Jeevan, R. Ovsyannikov, E. Slooten, J. Kaas, E. van Heumen, S. de Jong, H. A. Dürr, K. Siemensmeyer, R. Follath, P. Gegenwart, M. S. Golden, and J. Fink

Phys. Rev. B 84, 014531 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011