Volume 85, Issue 10

1 March 2012

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Superconducting properties of single-crystalline $A_{x}$ Fe $_{2 - y}$ Se $_{2}$ ( $A$ $=$ Rb, K) studied using muon spin spectroscopy

Z. Shermadini, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, A. Krzton-Maziopa, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, H-H. Klauss, and A. Amato

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100501(R) (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-optical magnetization reversal by circularly polarized laser pulses: Experiment and multiscale modeling

K. Vahaplar, A. M. Kalashnikova, A. V. Kimel, S. Gerlach, D. Hinzke, U. Nowak, R. Chantrell, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104402 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum magnetism on the Cairo pentagonal lattice

I. Rousochatzakis, A. M. Läuchli, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104415 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Pressure effects on Jahn-Teller distortion in perovskites: The roles of local and bulk compressibilities

Fernando Aguado, Fernando Rodríguez, Rafael Valiente, Jean-Paul Itiè, and Michael Hanfland

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100101(R) (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

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$4 f$ electron delocalization and volume collapse in praseodymium metal

Joseph A. Bradley, Kevin T. Moore, Magnus J. Lipp, Brian A. Mattern, Joseph I. Pacold, Gerald T. Seidler, Paul Chow, Eric Rod, Yuming Xiao, and William J. Evans

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100102(R) (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Magnetism

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$^{59}$ Co NMR experiment as a probe of electron doping in Co $_{2}$ FeAl $_{1 - x}$ Si $_{x}$ Heusler alloys

M. Wójcik, E. Jedryka, H. Sukegawa, T. Nakatani, and K. Inomata

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100401(R) (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

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Spontaneous dimerization in the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on a honeycomb lattice

Yu-Wen Lee and Min-Fong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100402(R) (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

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Symmetry analysis of multiferroic Co $_{3}$ TeO $_{6}$

A. B. Harris

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100403(R) (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

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Estimation of the spin polarization for Heusler-compound thin films by means of nonlocal spin-valve measurements: Comparison of Co $_{2}$ FeSi and Fe $_{3}$ Si

K. Hamaya, N. Hashimoto, S. Oki, S. Yamada, M. Miyao, and T. Kimura

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100404(R) (2012) - Published 13 March, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Renormalization group analysis of the $M$ - $p$ -spin glass model with $p = 3$ and $M = 3$

Joonhyun Yeo and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100405(R) (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

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Antiferromagnetic transitions in tetragonal-like BiFeO $_{3}$

G. J. MacDougall, H. M. Christen, W. Siemons, M. D. Biegalski, J. L. Zarestky, S. Liang, E. Dagotto, and S. E. Nagler

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100406(R) (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

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Block antiferromagnetism and checkerboard charge ordering in the alkali-doped iron selenides $R$ $_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{2 - y}$ Se $_{2}$

Wei Li, Shuai Dong, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100407(R) (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

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Variational matrix product ansatz for dispersion relations

Jutho Haegeman, Bogdan Pirvu, David J. Weir, J. Ignacio Cirac, Tobias J. Osborne, Henri Verschelde, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100408(R) (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

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Phase locking dynamics of dipolarly coupled vortex-based spin transfer oscillators

A. D. Belanovsky, N. Locatelli, P. N. Skirdkov, F. Abreu Araujo, J. Grollier, K. A. Zvezdin, V. Cros, and A. K. Zvezdin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100409(R) (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

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Field-induced criticality in a gapped quantum magnet with bond disorder

D. Hüvonen, S. Zhao, M. Månsson, T. Yankova, E. Ressouche, C. Niedermayer, M. Laver, S. N. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100410(R) (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Superconducting properties of single-crystalline $A_{x}$ Fe $_{2 - y}$ Se $_{2}$ ( $A$ $=$ Rb, K) studied using muon spin spectroscopy

Z. Shermadini, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, A. Krzton-Maziopa, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, H-H. Klauss, and A. Amato

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100501(R) (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anisotropic $H_{c 2}$ up to 92 T and the signature of multiband superconductivity in Ca $_{10}$ (Pt $_{4}$ As $_{8}$ )((Fe $_{1 - x}$ Pt $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ ) $_{5}$

Eundeok Mun, Ni Ni, Jared M. Allred, Robert J. Cava, Oscar Ayala, Ross D. McDonald, Neil Harrison, and Vivien S. Zapf

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100502(R) (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

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Anharmonic Josephson current in junctions with an interface pair breaking

Yu. S. Barash

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100503(R) (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

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Optical conductivity of superconducting ${Rb}_{2} {Fe}_{4} {Se}_{5}$ single crystals

A. Charnukha, J. Deisenhofer, D. Pröpper, M. Schmidt, Z. Wang, Y. Goncharov, A. N. Yaresko, V. Tsurkan, B. Keimer, A. Loidl, and A. V. Boris

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100504(R) (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

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Nonequilibrium dynamics of bosonic Mott insulators in an electric field

M. Kolodrubetz, D. Pekker, B. K. Clark, and K. Sengupta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100505(R) (2012) - Published 16 March, 2012

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Edge mass current and the role of Majorana fermions in $A$ -phase superfluid $^{3}$ He

Yasumasa Tsutsumi and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100506(R) (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

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Pressure effects on magnetically driven electronic nematic states in iron pnictide superconductors

Jiangping Hu, Chandan Setty, and Steve Kivelson

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100507(R) (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

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Unified one-band Hubbard model for magnetic and electronic spectra of the parent compounds of cuprate superconductors

B. Dalla Piazza, M. Mourigal, M. Guarise, H. Berger, T. Schmitt, K. J. Zhou, M. Grioni, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. B 85, 100508(R) (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Finite-temperature flexoelectricity in ferroelectric thin films from first principles

I. Ponomareva, A. K. Tagantsev, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104101 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

In situ observation of the indentation-induced phase transformation of silicon thin films

Y. B. Gerbig, C. A. Michaels, A. M. Forster, and R. F. Cook

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104102 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Nonlinear theoretical formulation of elastic stability criterion of crystal solids

Hao Wang and Mo Li

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104103 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Data mining for materials: Computational experiments with $A B$ compounds

Yousef Saad, Da Gao, Thanh Ngo, Scotty Bobbitt, James R. Chelikowsky, and Wanda Andreoni

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104104 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Systematic calculation of threshold displacement energies: Case study in rutile

M. Robinson, N. A. Marks, K. R. Whittle, and G. R. Lumpkin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104105 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

First-principles study of the SiN $_{x}$ /TiN(001) interface

Tobias Marten, Björn Alling, Eyvaz I. Isaev, Hans Lind, Ferenc Tasnádi, Lars Hultman, and Igor A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104106 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Impact of Jahn-Teller active Mn $^{3 +}$ on strain effects and phase transitions in Sr $_{0.65}$ Pr $_{0.35}$ MnO $_{3}$

Teck-Yee Tan, Brendan J. Kennedy, Qingdi Zhou, Christopher D. Ling, Wojciech Miiller, Christopher J. Howard, Michael A. Carpenter, and Kevin S. Knight

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104107 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Ferroelectricity and superparamagnetism in Sr/Ti nonstoichiometric SrTiO $_{3}$

Y. Y. Guo, H. M. Liu, D. P. Yu, and J.-M. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104108 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

First-principles prediction of oxygen octahedral rotations in perovskite-structure EuTiO $_{3}$

Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Marjana Ležaić

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104109 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

Application of an axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model to the description of $M_{n + 1} A X_{n}$ phases

T. Ouisse and D. Chaussende

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104110 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Localization behavior of Dirac particles in disordered graphene superlattices

Qifang Zhao, Jiangbin Gong, and Cord A. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104201 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Nonperturbative functional renormalization group for random field models and related disordered systems. III. Superfield formalism and ground-state dominance

Matthieu Tissier and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104202 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Nonperturbative functional renormalization group for random field models and related disordered systems. IV. Supersymmetry and its spontaneous breaking

Matthieu Tissier and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104203 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Electron dephasing in homogeneous and inhomogeneous indium tin oxide thin films

Chih-Yuan Wu, Bo-Tsung Lin, Yu-Jie Zhang, Zhi-Qing Li, and Juhn-Jong Lin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104204 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Mean field theory of superglasses

Xiaoquan Yu and Markus Müller

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104205 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Low-temperature thermal and elastoacoustic properties of butanol glasses: Study of position isomerism effects around the boson peak

Merzak Hassaine, Miguel A. Ramos, A. I. Krivchikov, I. V. Sharapova, O. A. Korolyuk, and Rafael J. Jiménez-Riobóo

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104206 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Nuclear inelastic scattering studies of lattice dynamics in magnetite with a first- and second-order Verwey transition

Tomasz Kołodziej, Andrzej Kozłowski, Przemysław Piekarz, Wojciech Tabiś, Zbigniew Kąkol, Marcin Zając, Zbigniew Tarnawski, Jürgen M. Honig, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Krzysztof Parlinski

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104301 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

Magnetism

Element-specific and bulk magnetism, electronic, and crystal structures of La $_{0.70}$ Ca $_{0.30}$ Mn $_{1 - x}$ Cr $_{x}$ O $_{3}$

H. Terashita, J. C. Cezar, F. M. Ardito, L. F. Bufaiçal, and E. Granado

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104401 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-optical magnetization reversal by circularly polarized laser pulses: Experiment and multiscale modeling

K. Vahaplar, A. M. Kalashnikova, A. V. Kimel, S. Gerlach, D. Hinzke, U. Nowak, R. Chantrell, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104402 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

MgFeGe as an isoelectronic and isostructural analog of the superconductor LiFeAs

Xiaofeng Liu, Satoru Matsuishi, Satoru Fujitsu, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104403 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Hysteresis and remanence in magnetoelectric effects in functionally graded magnetostrictive-piezoelectric layered composites

U. Laletin, G. Sreenivasulu, V. M. Petrov, T. Garg, A. R. Kulkarni, N. Venkataramani, and G. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104404 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Resonator-induced dissipation of transverse nuclear-spin signals in cold nanoscale samples

Mark C. Butler and Daniel P. Weitekamp

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104405 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

High-temperature series expansion study of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the hyperkagome lattice: Comparison with Na $_{4}$ Ir $_{3}$ O $_{8}$

R. R. P. Singh and J. Oitmaa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104406 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Formation and coarsening of the concertina magnetization pattern in elongated thin-film elements

Jutta Steiner, Rudolf Schäfer, Holm Wieczoreck, Jeffrey McCord, and Felix Otto

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104407 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Spectral signatures of magnetic Bloch oscillations in one-dimensional easy-axis ferromagnets

Sergey Shinkevich and Olav F. Syljuåsen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104408 (2012) - Published 13 March, 2012

Intrinsic defects in multiferroic BiFeO $_{3}$ and their effect on magnetism

Tula R. Paudel, Sitaram S. Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104409 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Effects of spin density wave quantization on the electrical transport in epitaxial Cr thin films

E. Osquiguil, E. E. Kaul, L. Tosi, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104410 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Ferromagnetic resonance shifts from electric fields: Field-enhanced screening charge in ferromagnet/ferroelectric multilayers

V. Gunawan and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104411 (2012) - Published 15 March, 2012

Sinusoidal electromagnon in $R$ MnO $_{3}$ : Indication of anomalous magnetoelectric coupling

Markku P. V. Stenberg and Rogério de Sousa

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104412 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012

Crucial role of interfacial alloying on spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions

Y.-H. Tang and Nicholas Kioussis

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104413 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

High-symmetry magnonic modes in antidot lattices magnetized perpendicular to the lattice plane

R. Bali, M. Kostylev, D. Tripathy, A. O. Adeyeye, and S. Samarin

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104414 (2012) - Published 22 March, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum magnetism on the Cairo pentagonal lattice

I. Rousochatzakis, A. M. Läuchli, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104415 (2012) - Published 23 March, 2012

Triangular-lattice anisotropic dimerized Heisenberg antiferromagnet: Stability and excitations of the quantum paramagnetic phase

R. L. Doretto and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104416 (2012) - Published 26 March, 2012

Spatially anisotropic kagome antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104417 (2012) - Published 27 March, 2012

Three-dimensional spin orientation in antiferromagnetic domain walls of NiO studied by x-ray magnetic linear dichroism photoemission electron microscopy

Kuniaki Arai, Taichi Okuda, Arata Tanaka, Masato Kotsugi, Keiki Fukumoto, Takuo Ohkochi, Tetsuya Nakamura, Tomohiro Matsushita, Takayuki Muro, Masaki Oura, Yasunori Senba, Haruhiko Ohashi, Akito Kakizaki, Chiharu Mitsumata, and Toyohiko Kinoshita

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104418 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Critical behavior in the antiperovskite ferromagnet AlCMn $_{3}$

Lei Zhang, Bosen Wang, Yuping Sun, Peng Tong, Jiyu Fan, Changjin Zhang, Li Pi, and Yuheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104419 (2012) - Published 29 March, 2012

Orthogonal spin arrangement as possible ground state of three-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland network in Ba $_{3}$ Cu $_{3}$ In $_{4}$ O $_{12}$

O. S. Volkova, I. S. Maslova, R. Klingeler, M. Abdel-Hafiez, Y. C. Arango, A. U. B. Wolter, V. Kataev, B. Büchner, and A. N. Vasiliev

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104420 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Semiclassical approach to ground-state properties of hard-core bosons in two dimensions

Tommaso Coletta, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104421 (2012) - Published 30 March, 2012

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Classical statistical model for distributions of escape events in swept-bias Josephson junctions

James A. Blackburn, Matteo Cirillo, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104501 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Energy spectra of superfluid turbulence in $^{3}$ He

Laurent Boué, Victor L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104502 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Unpinning triggers for superfluid vortex avalanches

L. Warszawski, A. Melatos, and N. G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104503 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Evidence for anisotropic triplet superconductor order parameter in half-metallic ferromagnetic La $_{0.7}$ Ca $_{0.3}$ Mn $_{3}$ O proximity coupled to superconducting Pr $_{1.85}$ Ce $_{0.15}$ CuO $_{4}$

Y. Kalcheim, O. Millo, M. Egilmez, J. W. A. Robinson, and M. G. Blamire

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104504 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Anisotropic frustrated Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice

Ansgar Kalz, Marcelo Arlego, Daniel Cabra, Andreas Honecker, and Gerardo Rossini

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104505 (2012) - Published 12 March, 2012

Superconducting proximity effect on the block antiferromagnetism in K $_{y}$ Fe $_{2 - x}$ Se $_{2}$

Hong-Min Jiang, Wei-Qiang Chen, Zi-Jian Yao, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104506 (2012) - Published 13 March, 2012

Squeezed noise due to two-level system defects in superconducting resonator circuits

So Takei, Victor M. Galitski, and Kevin D. Osborn

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104507 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Proximity effect at superconducting Sn-Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ interface

Fan Yang, Yue Ding, Fanming Qu, Jie Shen, Jun Chen, Zhongchao Wei, Zhongqing Ji, Guangtong Liu, Jie Fan, Changli Yang, Tao Xiang, and Li Lu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104508 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Electronic excitations around the substituted atom in La $_{2}$ Cu $_{1 - y}$ Ni $_{y}$ O $_{4}$ as seen via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

K. Ishii, K. Tsutsui, K. Ikeuchi, I. Jarrige, J. Mizuki, H. Hiraka, K. Yamada, T. Tohyama, S. Maekawa, Y. Endoh, H. Ishii, and Y. Q. Cai

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104509 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Anisotropic vortex lattice structures in the FeSe superconductor

Hsiang-Hsuan Hung, Can-Li Song, Xi Chen, Xucun Ma, Qi-kun Xue, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104510 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Inhomogeneous state of the extended $t$ - $J$ model on a square lattice: A variational Monte Carlo and Gutzwiller approximation study

Chung-Pin Chou and Ting-Kuo Lee

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104511 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Magnetic and transport properties of iron-platinum arsenide Ca $_{10}$ (Pt $_{4 - δ}$ As $_{8}$ )(Fe $_{2 - x}$ Pt $_{x}$ As $_{2}$ ) $_{5}$ single crystal

Qing-Ping Ding, Yuji Tsuchiya, Shyam Mohan, Toshihiro Taen, Yasuyuki Nakajima, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104512 (2012) - Published 14 March, 2012

Two-particle self-consistent approach to unconventional superconductivity

Junya Otsuki

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104513 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Supercurrent blockade in Josephson junctions with a Majorana wire

Alex Zazunov and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104514 (2012) - Published 19 March, 2012

Energy scale directly related to superconductivity in high- $T_{c}$ cuprates: Universality from the temperature-dependent angle-resolved photoemission of Bi $_{2}$ Sr $_{2}$ Ca $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{10 + δ}$

Shin-ichiro Ideta, Teppei Yoshida, Atsushi Fujimori, Hiroaki Anzai, Taisuke Fujita, Akihiro Ino, Masashi Arita, Hirohumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, Zhi-Xun Shen, Kenichi Takashima, Kenji Kojima, and Shin-ichi Uchida

Phys. Rev. B 85, 104515 (2012) - Published 20 March, 2012