Volume 84, Issue 18

1 November 2011

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Muon spin rotation investigation of the pressure effect on the magnetic penetration depth in YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{x}$

A. Maisuradze, A. Shengelaya, A. Amato, E. Pomjakushina, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184523 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

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First-principles theory of frozen-ion flexoelectricity

Jiawang Hong and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180101(R) (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Lattice dynamics of anharmonic solids from first principles

O. Hellman, I. A. Abrikosov, and S. I. Simak

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180301(R) (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Single-ion anisotropy in Haldane chains and the form factor of the $O (3)$ nonlinear sigma model

Shunsuke C. Furuya, Takafumi Suzuki, Shintaro Takayoshi, Yoshitaka Maeda, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180410(R) (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

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Anisotropy of the coherence length from critical currents in the stoichiometric superconductor LiFeAs

M. Kończykowski, C. J. van der Beek, M. A. Tanatar, V. Mosser, Yoo Jang Song, Yong Seung Kwon, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180514(R) (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Pressure-induced metallization of BaMn $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

A. T. Satya, Awadhesh Mani, A. Arulraj, N. V. Chandra Shekar, K. Vinod, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180515(R) (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Low-temperature structure of $ξ^{'}$ -Al-Pd-Mn optimized by ab initio methods

Benjamin Frigan, Alejandro Santana, Michael Engel, Daniel Schopf, Hans-Rainer Trebin, and Marek Mihalkovič

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184203 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Lattice dynamics and anomalous softening in the YbFe $_{4}$ Sb $_{12}$ skutterudite

A. Möchel, I. Sergueev, H.-C. Wille, J. Voigt, M. Prager, M. B. Stone, B. C. Sales, Z. Guguchia, A. Shengelaya, V. Keppens, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184306 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Time-resolved imaging of magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic MnWO $_{4}$

T. Hoffmann, P. Thielen, P. Becker, L. Bohatý, and M. Fiebig

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184404 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Rotational motion of magnons and the thermal Hall effect

Ryo Matsumoto and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184406 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Angle-resolved NMR: Quantitative theory of $^{75}$ As $T_{1}$ relaxation rate in BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

Andrew Smerald and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184437 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Proximity effects and nonequilibrium superconductivity in transition-edge sensors

John E. Sadleir, Stephen J. Smith, Ian K. Robinson, Fred M. Finkbeiner, James A. Chervenak, Simon R. Bandler, Megan E. Eckart, and Caroline A. Kilbourne

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184502 (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

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Coherent control of a superconducting qubit with dynamically tunable qubit-cavity coupling

A. J. Hoffman, S. J. Srinivasan, J. M. Gambetta, and A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184515 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Volovik effect in a highly anisotropic multiband superconductor: Experiment and theory

Y. Wang, J. S. Kim, G. R. Stewart, P. J. Hirschfeld, S. Graser, S. Kasahara, T. Terashima, Y. Matsuda, T. Shibauchi, and I. Vekhter

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184524 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

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Josephson current in a four-terminal superconductor/exciton-condensate/superconductor system

Sebastiano Peotta, Marco Gibertini, Fabrizio Dolcini, Fabio Taddei, Marco Polini, L. B. Ioffe, Rosario Fazio, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184528 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

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Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

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First-principles theory of frozen-ion flexoelectricity

Jiawang Hong and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180101(R) (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

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Structural phase transformation through defect cluster growth in Gd-doped ceria

Zhi-Peng Li, Toshiyuki Mori, Fei Ye, Ding Rong Ou, Jin Zou, and John Drennan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180201(R) (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Ordering trends in transition metal alloys from tight-binding electronic structure calculations

J. H. Los, C. Mottet, G. Tréglia, and C. Goyhenex

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180202(R) (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

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Lattice dynamics of anharmonic solids from first principles

O. Hellman, I. A. Abrikosov, and S. I. Simak

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180301(R) (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Polaron transport in organic crystals: Temperature tuning of disorder effects

Frank Ortmann and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180302(R) (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Magnetism

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Ground state and intrinsic susceptibility of the kagome antiferromagnet vesignieite as seen by $^{51}$ V NMR

J. A. Quilliam, F. Bert, R. H. Colman, D. Boldrin, A. S. Wills, and P. Mendels

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180401(R) (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

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Analytical expression for the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic junction with a ferromagnetic insulator

Jun-ichiro Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180402(R) (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

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Exotic $S = 1$ spin-liquid state with fermionic excitations on the triangular lattice

Maksym Serbyn, T. Senthil, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180403(R) (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

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Complex magnetism and magnetic-field-driven electrical polarization of Co $_{3}$ Te $O_{6}$

M. Hudl, R. Mathieu, S. A. Ivanov, M. Weil, V. Carolus, Th. Lottermoser, M. Fiebig, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, and P. Nordblad

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180404(R) (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

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Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and Gilbert damping in iron-rich Fe $_{1 - x}$ Si $_{x}$ thin films

I. Barsukov, S. Mankovsky, A. Rubacheva, R. Meckenstock, D. Spoddig, J. Lindner, N. Melnichak, B. Krumme, S. I. Makarov, H. Wende, H. Ebert, and M. Farle

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180405(R) (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

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Double- $k$ phase of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya helimagnet Ba $_{2}$ CuGe $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

S. Mühlbauer, S. N. Gvasaliya, E. Pomjakushina, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180406(R) (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Kitaev-Heisenberg- $J_{2}$ - $J_{3}$ model for the iridates $A_{2}$ IrO $_{3}$

Itamar Kimchi and Yi-Zhuang You

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180407(R) (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Ligand-based transport resonances of single-molecule-magnet spin filters: Suppression of Coulomb blockade and determination of easy-axis orientation

Fatemeh Rostamzadeh Renani and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180408(R) (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Iron displacements and magnetoelastic coupling in the antiferromagnetic spin-ladder compound BaFe $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$

J. M. Caron, J. R. Neilson, D. C. Miller, A. Llobet, and T. M. McQueen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180409(R) (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

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Single-ion anisotropy in Haldane chains and the form factor of the $O (3)$ nonlinear sigma model

Shunsuke C. Furuya, Takafumi Suzuki, Shintaro Takayoshi, Yoshitaka Maeda, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180410(R) (2011) - Published 21 November, 2011

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Electronic and magnetic structures of bilayer La $_{3}$ Ni $_{2}$ O $_{6}$ and trilayer La $_{4}$ Ni $_{3}$ O $_{8}$ nickelates from first principles

Soumyajit Sarkar, I. Dasgupta, Martha Greenblatt, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180411(R) (2011) - Published 22 November, 2011

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Magneto-optical Kerr effect studies of square artificial spin ice

K. K. Kohli, Andrew L. Balk, Jie Li, Sheng Zhang, Ian Gilbert, Paul E. Lammert, Vincent H. Crespi, Peter Schiffer, and Nitin Samarth

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180412(R) (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

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Anisotropic magneto-Coulomb effect versus spin accumulation in a ferromagnetic single-electron device

A. Bernand-Mantel, P. Seneor, K. Bouzehouane, S. Fusil, C. Deranlot, F. Petroff, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180413(R) (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

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Nucleation of spontaneous vortices in trapped Fermi gases undergoing a BCS-BEC crossover

A. Glatz, H. L. L. Roberts, I. S. Aranson, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180501(R) (2011) - Published 1 November, 2011

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Coulomb stability of the 4 $π$ -periodic Josephson effect of Majorana fermions

B. van Heck, F. Hassler, A. R. Akhmerov, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180502(R) (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

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Quantum criticality in a dissipative (2+1)-dimensional $X Y$ model of circulating currents in high- $T_{c}$ cuprates

Iver Bakken Sperstad, Einar B. Stiansen, and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180503(R) (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

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Instability of vortex-antivortex interface in optimally doped Ba(Fe $_{1 − x}$ Co $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

Shyam Mohan, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Nakajima, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180504(R) (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

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High-energy pseudogap induced by Hund coupling in a degenerate Hubbard model

Ansgar Liebsch

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180505(R) (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

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Evidence for Dirac nodes from quantum oscillations in SrFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

Mike Sutherland, D. J. Hills, B. S. Tan, M. M. Altarawneh, N. Harrison, J. Gillett, E. C. T. O’Farrell, T. M. Benseman, I. Kokanovic, P. Syers, J. R. Cooper, and Suchitra E. Sebastian

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180506(R) (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Mechanisms of nonthermal destruction of the superconducting state and melting of the charge-density-wave state by femtosecond laser pulses

L. Stojchevska, P. Kusar, T. Mertelj, V. V. Kabanov, Y. Toda, X. Yao, and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180507(R) (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Phase separation in superconducting and antiferromagnetic ${Rb}_{0.8} {Fe}_{1.6} {Se}_{2}$ probed by Mössbauer spectroscopy

Vadim Ksenofontov, Gerhard Wortmann, Sergey A. Medvedev, Vladimir Tsurkan, Joachim Deisenhofer, Alois Loidl, and Claudia Felser

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180508(R) (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

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Majorana fermions in spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnetic Josephson junctions

Annica M. Black-Schaffer and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180509(R) (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

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Magnetic resonance from the interplay of frustration and superconductivity

J. Knolle, I. Eremin, J. Schmalian, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180510(R) (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

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Universal scaling of length, time, and energy for cuprate superconductors based on photoemission measurements of Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ CaCu $_{2}$ O $_{8 + δ}$

J. D. Rameau, Z.-H. Pan, H.-B. Yang, G. D. Gu, and P. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180511(R) (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

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Disorder-induced transition between $s_{\pm}$ and $s_{+ +}$ states in two-band superconductors

D. V. Efremov, M. M. Korshunov, O. V. Dolgov, A. A. Golubov, and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180512(R) (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

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Pair structure and the pairing interaction in a bilayer Hubbard model for unconventional superconductivity

T. A. Maier and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180513(R) (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

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Anisotropy of the coherence length from critical currents in the stoichiometric superconductor LiFeAs

M. Kończykowski, C. J. van der Beek, M. A. Tanatar, V. Mosser, Yoo Jang Song, Yong Seung Kwon, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180514(R) (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Pressure-induced metallization of BaMn $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

A. T. Satya, Awadhesh Mani, A. Arulraj, N. V. Chandra Shekar, K. Vinod, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180515(R) (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

First-principles study of dislocations in hcp metals through the investigation of the ( $11 \bar{2} 1$ ) twin boundary

Nina J. Lane, Sergei I. Simak, Arkady S. Mikhaylushkin, Igor A. Abrikosov, Lars Hultman, and Michel W. Barsoum

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184101 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Effects of spin transition on diffusion of Fe $^{2 +}$ in ferropericlase in Earth's lower mantle

Saumitra Saha, Amelia Bengtson, Katherine L. Crispin, James A. Van Orman, and Dane Morgan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184102 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Equations of state and thermodynamics of solids using empirical corrections in the quasiharmonic approximation

A. Otero-de-la-Roza and Víctor Luaña

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184103 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Nanostructures in metastable GeBi $_{2}$ Te $_{4}$ obtained by high-pressure synthesis and rapid quenching and their influence on physical properties

Thorsten Schröder, Matthias N. Schneider, Tobias Rosenthal, Andreas Eisele, Christian Gold, Ernst-Wilhelm Scheidt, Wolfgang Scherer, Rico Berthold, and Oliver Oeckler

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184104 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Pressure-induced electron topological transitions in Ba-doped Si clathrate

J. S. Tse, L. Yang, S. J. Zhang, C. Q. Jin, Ch. J. Sahle, C. Sternemann, A. Nyrow, V. Giordano, J. Z. Jiang, S. Yamanaka, S. Desgreniers, and C. A. Tulk

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184105 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Superlattice pseudouniform orderings as modulated structures: Stripe and checkerboard arrangements

Santiago González, J. M. Perez-Mato, Luis Elcoro, and Alberto García

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184106 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Pressure tuning of the thermal conductance of weak interfaces

Wen-Pin Hsieh, Austin S. Lyons, Eric Pop, Pawel Keblinski, and David G. Cahill

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184107 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Phase stability and the arsenic vacancy defect in In $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As

S. T. Murphy, A. Chroneos, R. W. Grimes, C. Jiang, and U. Schwingenschlögl

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184108 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Tight-binding study of hcp Zn and Cd

X. W. Sha, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, M. J. Mehl, and N. Bernstein

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184109 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Structural and vibrational study of Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ under high pressure

Rosario Vilaplana, D. Santamaría-Pérez, O. Gomis, F. J. Manjón, J. González, A. Segura, A. Muñoz, P. Rodríguez-Hernández, E. Pérez-González, V. Marín-Borrás, V. Muñoz-Sanjose, C. Drasar, and V. Kucek

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184110 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Dealloying of platinum-aluminum thin films: Electrode performance

Thomas Ryll, Henning Galinski, Lukas Schlagenhauf, Felix Rechberger, Sun Ying, Ludwig J. Gauckler, Flavio C. F. Mornaghini, Yasmina Ries, Ralph Spolenak, and Max Döbeli

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184111 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Mechanism for amorphization of boron carbide B $_{4}$ C under uniaxial compression

Sitaram Aryal, Paul Rulis, and W. Y. Ching

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184112 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

CuO-doped NaNbO $_{3}$ antiferroelectrics: Impact of aliovalent doping and nonstoichiometry on the defect structure and formation of secondary phases

Ebru Erünal, Peter Jakes, Sabine Körbel, Jérôme Acker, Hans Kungl, Christian Elsässer, Michael J. Hoffmann, and Rüdiger-A. Eichel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184113 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Lattice dynamical analogies and differences between SrTiO $_{3}$ and EuTiO $_{3}$ revealed by phonon-dispersion relations and double-well potentials

Jerry L. Bettis, Myung-Hwan Whangbo, Jürgen Köhler, Annette Bussmann-Holder, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184114 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Effect of configurational order on the magnetic characteristics of Co-Ni-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

Navdeep Singh, Ebubekir Dogan, Ibrahim Karaman, and Raymundo Arróyave

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184201 (2011) - Published 1 November, 2011

Infinite-randomness criticality in a randomly layered Heisenberg magnet

Fawaz Hrahsheh, Hatem Barghathi, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184202 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Low-temperature structure of $ξ^{'}$ -Al-Pd-Mn optimized by ab initio methods

Benjamin Frigan, Alejandro Santana, Michael Engel, Daniel Schopf, Hans-Rainer Trebin, and Marek Mihalkovič

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184203 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Quantum molecular dynamics simulations for the nonmetal-metal transition in shocked methane

Dafang Li, Ping Zhang, and Jun Yan

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184204 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Simple concentration-dependent pair interaction model for large-scale simulations of Fe-Cr alloys

Maximilien Levesque, Enrique Martínez, Chu-Chun Fu, Maylise Nastar, and Frédéric Soisson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184205 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Configurational thermodynamics of the Fe-Cr $σ$ phase

Evgeniya Kabliman, Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz, Oleg E. Peil, Andrei V. Ruban, and Börje Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184206 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

First-principles thermodynamics of La $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ -P $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ pseudobinary system

Kazuaki Toyoura, Naoyuki Hatada, Yoshitaro Nose, Tetsuya Uda, and Isao Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184301 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Polar lattice vibrations and phase transition dynamics in Pb(Zr $_{1 - x}$ Ti $_{x}$ )O $_{3}$

E. Buixaderas, D. Nuzhnyy, J. Petzelt, Li Jin (靳立), and D. Damjanovic

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184302 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Lattice dynamics in the thermoelectric Zintl compound Yb $_{14}$ MnSb $_{11}$

A. Möchel, I. Sergueev, H.-C. Wille, F. Juranyi, H. Schober, W. Schweika, S. R. Brown, S. M. Kauzlarich, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184303 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Orthorhombic fluctuations in tetragonal $A$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ( $A = Sr$ and Eu)

Hisao Kobayashi, Shugo Ikeda, Yoshitaka Yoda, Hiroki Nakamura, and Masahiko Machida

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184304 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Mechanical lattice instability and thermodynamical properties in classical solids

G. Rastelli and E. Cappelluti

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184305 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Lattice dynamics and anomalous softening in the YbFe $_{4}$ Sb $_{12}$ skutterudite

A. Möchel, I. Sergueev, H.-C. Wille, J. Voigt, M. Prager, M. B. Stone, B. C. Sales, Z. Guguchia, A. Shengelaya, V. Keppens, and R. P. Hermann

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184306 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

Magnetism

Magnons and electromagnons in a spin-lattice-coupled frustrated magnet CuFeO $_{2}$ as seen via inelastic neutron scattering

Taro Nakajima, Azusa Suno, Setsuo Mitsuda, Noriki Terada, Shojiro Kimura, Koji Kaneko, and Hiroki Yamauchi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184401 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

Field-induced $X Y$ and Ising ground states in a quasi-two-dimensional $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Yoshimitsu Kohama, Marcelo Jaime, Oscar E. Ayala-Valenzuela, Ross D. McDonald, Eun Deok Mun, Jordan F. Corbey, and Jamie L. Manson

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184402 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

Exotic transition in the three-dimensional spin-liquid candidate Tb $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, Y. Chapuis, C. Marin, S. Vanishri, D. Aoki, B. Fåk, L.-P. Regnault, C. Buisson, A. Amato, C. Baines, and A. D. Hillier

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184403 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

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Time-resolved imaging of magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic MnWO $_{4}$

T. Hoffmann, P. Thielen, P. Becker, L. Bohatý, and M. Fiebig

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184404 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Muon spin relaxation and neutron diffraction investigations of quadrupolar and magnetically ordered states of YbRu $_{2}$ Ge $_{2}$

H. S. Jeevan, D. T. Adroja, A. D. Hillier, Z. Hossain, C. Ritter, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184405 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Rotational motion of magnons and the thermal Hall effect

Ryo Matsumoto and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184406 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Effect of pinning-field distribution on the process of magnetization reversal in Ga $_{1 - x}$ Mn $_{x}$ As films

Jungtaek Kim, Hakjoon Lee, Taehee Yoo, Sanghoon Lee, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184407 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Spin and charge transport induced by gauge fields in a ferromagnet

Junya Shibata and Hiroshi Kohno

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184408 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Tetragonal distortion yielding a two-singlet spin liquid in pyrochlore Tb $_{2}$ Ti $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

Pierre Bonville, Isabelle Mirebeau, Arsène Gukasov, Sylvain Petit, and Julien Robert

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184409 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Determination of layer-resolved composition, magnetization, and electronic structure of an Fe/MgO tunnel junction by standing-wave core and valence photoemission

See-Hun Yang, Benjamin Balke, Christian Papp, Sven Döring, Ulf Berges, L. Plucinski, Carsten Westphal, Claus M. Schneider, Stuart S. P. Parkin, and Charles S. Fadley

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184410 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Tunable metamaterial response of a Ni $_{80}$ Fe $_{20}$ antidot lattice for spin waves

S. Neusser, H. G. Bauer, G. Duerr, R. Huber, S. Mamica, G. Woltersdorf, M. Krawczyk, C. H. Back, and D. Grundler

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184411 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Magnetoelastic coupling in La $_{2 / 3}$ Sr $_{1 / 3}$ MnO $_{3}$ thin films on SrTiO $_{3}$

D. Pesquera, V. Skumryev, F. Sánchez, G. Herranz, and J. Fontcuberta

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184412 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Magneto-optical observation of four-wave scattering in a 15-nm Ni $_{81}$ Fe $_{19}$ film during large-angle magnetization precession

H. T. Nembach, K. L. Livesey, M. P. Kostylev, P. Martin-Pimentel, S. J. Hermsdoerfer, B. Leven, J. Fassbender, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184413 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Investigation of weak itinerant ferromagnetism and critical behavior of Y $_{2}$ Ni $_{7}$

A. Bhattacharyya, Deepti Jain, V. Ganesan, S. Giri, and S. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184414 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

$4 f$ hybridization effect on the magnetism of Nd $_{2}$ PdSi $_{3}$

K. Mukherjee, Tathamay Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184415 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Magnetotransport properties of Cu $_{2}$ MnAl, Co $_{2}$ MnGe, and Co $_{2}$ MnSi Heusler alloy thin films: From nanocrystalline disordered state to long-range-ordered crystalline state

M. Obaida, K. Westerholt, and H. Zabel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184416 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Quantum criticality of dipolar spin chains

Aldo Isidori, Annika Ruppel, Andreas Kreisel, Peter Kopietz, Alexander Mai, and Reinhard M. Noack

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184417 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Dynamics of azurite Cu $_{3}$ (CO $_{3}$ ) $_{2}$ (OH) $_{2}$ in a magnetic field as determined by neutron scattering

K. C. Rule, D. A. Tennant, J.-S. Caux, M. C. R. Gibson, M. T. F. Telling, S. Gerischer, S. Süllow, and M. Lang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184419 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Hybridization gap and anisotropic far-infrared optical conductivity of URu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$

J. Levallois, F. Lévy-Bertrand, M. K. Tran, D. Stricker, J. A. Mydosh, Y.-K. Huang, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184420 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Successive magnetic transitions and static magnetic order in $R$ CoAsO ( $R = La$ , Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd) confirmed by muon-spin rotation and relaxation

Jun Sugiyama, Martin Månsson, Oren Ofer, Kazuya Kamazawa, Masashi Harada, Daniel Andreica, Alex Amato, Jess H. Brewer, Eduardo J. Ansaldo, Hiroto Ohta, Chishiro Michioka, and Kazuyoshi Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184421 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Ferromagnetic transition and specific heat of Pr $_{0.6}$ Sr $_{0.4}$ MnO $_{3}$

S. Rößler, Harikrishnan S. Nair, U. K. Rößler, C. M. N. Kumar, Suja Elizabeth, and S. Wirth

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184422 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Structural and magnetic properties of amorphous Co-W alloyed nanoparticles

A. I. Figueroa, J. Bartolomé, L. M. García, F. Bartolomé, C. Magén, A. Ibarra, L. Ruiz, J. M. González-Calbet, F. Petroff, C. Deranlot, S. Pascarelli, P. Bencok, N. B. Brookes, F. Wilhelm, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184423 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Theory of inelastic light scattering in spin-1 systems: Resonant regimes and detection of quadrupolar order

F. Michaud, F. Vernay, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184424 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

$μ$ SR study of short-range magnetic order in the paramagnetic regime of ErCo $_{2}$

C. M. Bonilla, N. Marcano, J. Herrero-Albillos, A. Maisuradze, L. M. García, and F. Bartolomé

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184425 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Manipulation of the spin in single molecule magnets via Landau-Zener transitions

Andrew Palii, Boris Tsukerblat, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, and Eugenio Coronado

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184426 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Supersolid phase and magnetization plateaus observed in the anisotropic spin- $\frac{3}{2}$ Heisenberg model on bipartite lattices

Judit Romhányi, Frank Pollmann, and Karlo Penc

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184427 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Magnetic phase diagram of Eu $_{1 - x}$ Gd $_{x}$ S

Roman Rausch and Wolfgang Nolting

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184428 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Complex magnetoelastic properties in the frustrated kagome-staircase compounds (Co $_{1 - x}$ Ni $_{x}$ ) $_{3}$ V $_{2}$ O $_{8}$

Q. Zhang, W. Knafo, P. Adelmann, P. Schweiss, K. Grube, N. Qureshi, Th. Wolf, H. v. Löhneysen, and C. Meingast

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184429 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Magnetic properties of URu $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$ under uniaxial stress by neutron scattering

Frederic Bourdarot, Nicolas Martin, Stephane Raymond, Louis-Pierre Regnault, Dai Aoki, Valentin Taufour, and Jacques Flouquet

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184430 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Modification of the secondary-electron spin polarization in Co/Cu(110) films via gaseous adsorbates

Robert M. Reeve, Shin-Liang Chin, Adrian Ionescu, and Crispin H. W. Barnes

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184431 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Spin-density-wave transition of Fe1 zigzag chains and metamagnetic transition of Fe2 in TaFe $_{1 + y}$ Te $_{3}$

R. H. Liu, M. Zhang, P. Cheng, Y. J. Yan, Z. J. Xiang, J. J. Ying, X. F. Wang, A. F. Wang, G. J. Ye, X. G. Luo, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184432 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Influence of Ni buffer layer on spin-related electronic properties of Co film on W(110) studied by spin-polarized single- and two-electron spectroscopy

S. Samarin, O. M. Artamonov, V. N. Petrov, M. Kostylev, L. Pravica, A. Baraban, and J. F. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184433 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Phase diagram of the Cairo pentagonal $X X Z$ spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ magnet under a magnetic field

Arnaud Ralko

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184434 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Spiral magnetic structure in spin- $\frac{5}{2}$ frustrated trimerized chains in SrMn $_{3}$ P $_{4}$ O $_{14}$

Masashi Hase, Vladimir Yu. Pomjakushin, Lukas Keller, Andreas Dönni, Osamu Sakai, Tao Yang, Rihong Cong, Jianhua Lin, Kiyoshi Ozawa, and Hideaki Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184435 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

Symmetric and antisymmetric exchange anisotropies in quasi-one-dimensional CuSe $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ as revealed by ESR

M. Herak, A. Zorko, D. Arčon, A. Potočnik, M. Klanjšek, J. van Tol, A. Ozarowski, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184436 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

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Angle-resolved NMR: Quantitative theory of $^{75}$ As $T_{1}$ relaxation rate in BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

Andrew Smerald and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184437 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

Angular dependence of ferromagnetic resonance linewidth in thin films

J. Dubowik, K. Załęski, H. Głowiński, and I. Gościańska

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184438 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

Magnetic properties and spin dynamics of $3 d - 4 f$ molecular complexes

P. Khuntia, M. Mariani, A. V. Mahajan, A. Lascialfari, F. Borsa, T. D. Pasatoiu, and M. Andruh

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184439 (2011) - Published 29 November, 2011

High-magnetic-field study of magnetic and transport properties of hole-doped NdBaCo $_{2}$ O $_{5 + δ}$

E. S. Vlakhov, N. Kozlova, L. S. Lobanovskii, R. Wawryk, and K. A. Nenkov

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184440 (2011) - Published 30 November, 2011

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Fermionic Hopf solitons and Berry phase in topological surface superconductors

Ying Ran, Pavan Hosur, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184501 (2011) - Published 1 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proximity effects and nonequilibrium superconductivity in transition-edge sensors

John E. Sadleir, Stephen J. Smith, Ian K. Robinson, Fred M. Finkbeiner, James A. Chervenak, Simon R. Bandler, Megan E. Eckart, and Caroline A. Kilbourne

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184502 (2011) - Published 3 November, 2011

Superconductivity in layered binary silicides: A density functional theory study

José A. Flores-Livas, Régis Debord, Silvana Botti, Alfonso San Miguel, Stéphane Pailhès, and Miguel A. L. Marques

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184503 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

Thermal hopping and retrapping of a Brownian particle in the tilted periodic potential of a NbN/MgO/NbN Josephson junction

Luigi Longobardi, Davide Massarotti, Giacomo Rotoli, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Gianpaolo Papari, Akira Kawakami, Giovanni Piero Pepe, Antonio Barone, and Francesco Tafuri

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184504 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

Shell model of superfluid turbulence

D. H. Wacks and C. F. Barenghi

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184505 (2011) - Published 4 November, 2011

Atomic momentum distribution and Bose-Einstein condensation in liquid $^{4}$ He under pressure

H. R. Glyde, S. O. Diallo, R. T. Azuah, O. Kirichek, and J. W. Taylor

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184506 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Current-induced vortex trapping in asymmetric toothed channels

J. Cuppens, G. W. Ataklti, V. V. Moshchalkov, A. V. Silhanek, J. Van de Vondel, C. C. de Souza Silva, R. M. da Silva, and J. Albino Aguiar

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184507 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Retrapping current, self-heating, and hysteretic current-voltage characteristics in ultranarrow superconducting aluminum nanowires

Peng Li, Phillip M. Wu, Yuriy Bomze, Ivan V. Borzenets, Gleb Finkelstein, and A. M. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184508 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Fermi surface, structural and electronic properties of ThCr $_{2}$ Si $_{2}$ -type charge-balanced KFe $_{2}$ AsSe: A parent system for the group of mixed pnictide-chalcogenide superconductors

Igor R. Shein and Alexander L. Ivanovskii

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184509 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Stationary entanglement in strongly coupled qubits

Keyu Xia (夏可宇), Mihai Macovei, and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184510 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Two routes to magnetic order by disorder in underdoped cuprates

R. B. Christensen, P. J. Hirschfeld, and B. M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184511 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Transport properties and asymmetric scattering in Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ single crystals

Bing Shen, Huan Yang, Zhao-Sheng Wang, Fei Han, Bin Zeng, Lei Shan, Cong Ren, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184512 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Josephson effect through an anisotropic magnetic molecule

I. A. Sadovskyy, D. Chevallier, T. Jonckheere, M. Lee, S. Kawabata, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184513 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Manifestations of multiple-carrier charge transport in the magnetostructurally ordered phase of BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$

S. Ishida, T. Liang, M. Nakajima, K. Kihou, C. H. Lee, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, T. Kakeshita, T. Kida, M. Hagiwara, Y. Tomioka, T. Ito, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184514 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent control of a superconducting qubit with dynamically tunable qubit-cavity coupling

A. J. Hoffman, S. J. Srinivasan, J. M. Gambetta, and A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184515 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Fluctuations and order of antiferromagnetism induced by paramagnetic pair breaking in superconducting vortex lattices

Kazushi Aoyama and Ryusuke Ikeda

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184516 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

High-pressure study of superconducting and nonsuperconducting single crystals of the same nominal composition Rb $_{0.8}$ Fe $_{2}$ Se $_{2}$

M. Gooch, B. Lv, L. Z. Deng, T. Muramatsu, J. Meen, Y. Y. Xue, B. Lorenz, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184517 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Resonant tunneling in superfluid $^{3}$ He

S.-H. Henry Tye and Daniel Wohns

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184518 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Normal persistent currents in proximity-effect bilayers

O. Entin-Wohlman, H. Bary-Soroker, A. Aharony, Y. Imry, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184519 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Bitter decoration of vortex patterns in superconducting Nb films with random, triangular, and Penrose arrays of antidots

S. Rablen, M. Kemmler, T. Quaglio, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle, and I. V. Grigorieva

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184520 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Effective tight-binding model for the iron-vacancy-ordered $A_{y}$ Fe $_{1.6}$ Se $_{2}$

Shin-Ming Huang and Chung-Yu Mou

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184521 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Significant enhancement of upper critical fields by doping and strain in iron-based superconductors

C. Tarantini, A. Gurevich, J. Jaroszynski, F. Balakirev, E. Bellingeri, I. Pallecchi, C. Ferdeghini, B. Shen, H. H. Wen, and D. C. Larbalestier

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184522 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Muon spin rotation investigation of the pressure effect on the magnetic penetration depth in YBa $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{x}$

A. Maisuradze, A. Shengelaya, A. Amato, E. Pomjakushina, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184523 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

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In-plane optical spectra of Y $_{1 - x}$ Ca $_{x}$ Ba $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{7 - δ}$ : Overdoping and disorder effects on residual conductivity

E. Uykur, K. Tanaka, T. Masui, S. Miyasaka, and S. Tajima

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184527 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

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Josephson current in a four-terminal superconductor/exciton-condensate/superconductor system

Sebastiano Peotta, Marco Gibertini, Fabrizio Dolcini, Fabio Taddei, Marco Polini, L. B. Ioffe, Rosario Fazio, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184528 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Structure and superconductivity of two different phases of Re $_{3}$ W

P. K. Biswas, M. R. Lees, A. D. Hillier, R. I. Smith, W. G. Marshall, and D. McK. Paul

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184529 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

Criterion for the nature of the superconducting transition in strongly interacting field theories: A holographic approach

Ki-Seok Kim, Kyung Kiu Kim, Youngman Kim, and Yumi Ko

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184530 (2011) - Published 28 November, 2011

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Publisher’s Note: Phase stability and the arsenic vacancy defect in In $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As [Phys. Rev. B 84, 184108 (2011)]

S. T. Murphy, A. Chroneos, R. W. Grimes, C. Jiang, and U. Schwingenschlogl

Phys. Rev. B 84, 189901 (2011) - Published 22 November, 2011