Volume 93, Issue 13

1 April 2016

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectricity in corundum derivatives

Meng Ye and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134303 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Perovskite and double perovskite oxides are perhaps the most studied ferroelectric and multiferroic materials. The authors present in this manuscript an extensive analysis of another promising family of ferroelectrics, the corundum derivatives $A B O_{3}$ and $A_{2} B B^{'} O_{6}$ . Despite a superficial similarity of the chemical formulas to single and double perovskites, the corundum derivatives have an entirely different structure and the mechanism for the polarization reversal. The authors perform a detailed first-principles study and arrive at empirical rules for evaluating the ferroelectric properties of materials in this class.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detailed magnetic and structural analysis mapping a robust magnetic $C_{4}$ dome in ${Sr}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

K. M. Taddei, J. M. Allred, D. E. Bugaris, S. Lapidus, M. J. Krogstad, R. Stadel, H. Claus, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, S. Rosenkranz, R. Osborn, and O. Chmaissem

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134510 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

The authors present a careful phase diagram determination of the hole-doped Sr $_{1 - x}$ Na $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ iron-based superconductors, with special attention paid to the region around $x$ =0.36, where they recently found the existence of a magnetic $C$ 4 phase. This phase has already proven instrumental in settling longstanding questions in these materials. In contrast to the two previous hole-doped Ba-based materials exhibiting this phase, here they find the $C$ 4 phase to be more robust, existing over a larger range of compositions. This should prove useful for future studies.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Influence of defects on ferroelectric and electrocaloric properties of ${BaTiO}_{3}$

Anna Grünebohm and Takeshi Nishimatsu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134101 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Effect of platinum substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of ${Ni}_{2} MnGa$ ferromagnetic shape memory alloy

Sanjay Singh, S. W. D'Souza, J. Nayak, L. Caron, E. Suard, S. Chadov, and C. Felser

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134102 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Revisiting pressure-induced phase transition in silicon clathrates using Ge substitution

J.-C. Blancon, D. Machon, V. Pischedda, R. Debord, P. Toulemonde, S. Le Floch, S. Pascarelli, P. Mélinon, and A. San-Miguel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134103 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Evidence against a universal electron-beam-induced virtual temperature in graphene

Pia Börner, Ute Kaiser, and Ossi Lehtinen

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134104 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Dynamic compression of copper to over 450 GPa: A high-pressure standard

R. G. Kraus, J.-P. Davis, C. T. Seagle, D. E. Fratanduono, D. C. Swift, J. L. Brown, and J. H. Eggert

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134105 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Long-period modulated structure and electric-field-induced structural transformation in $N a_{0.5} B i_{0.5} Ti O_{3}$ -based lead-free piezoelectrics

Dipak Kumar Khatua, Anatoliy Senyshyn, and Rajeev Ranjan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134106 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Hydrogen in vanadium: Site occupancy and isotope effects

Xiao Xin, Robert Johansson, Max Wolff, and Björgvin Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134107 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Two competing soft modes and an unusual phase transition in the stuffed tridymite-type oxide ${BaAl}_{2} O_{4}$

Y. Ishii, S. Mori, Y. Nakahira, C. Moriyoshi, J. Park, B. G. Kim, H. Moriwake, H. Taniguchi, and Y. Kuroiwa

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134108 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Pressure dependence of the local structure of iridium ditelluride across the structural phase transition

E. Paris, B. Joseph, A. Iadecola, C. Marini, H. Ishii, K. Kudo, S. Pascarelli, M. Nohara, T. Mizokawa, and N. L. Saini

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134109 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Structural investigation of the bilayer iridate ${Sr}_{3} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Tom Hogan, Lars Bjaalie, Liuyan Zhao, Carina Belvin, Xiaoping Wang, Chris G. Van de Walle, David Hsieh, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134110 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Stress-modulated relaxor-to-ferroelectric transition in lead-free $(N a_{1 / 2} B i_{1 / 2}) Ti O_{3} − BaTi O_{3}$ ferroelectrics

Florian H. Schader, Zhiyang Wang, Manuel Hinterstein, John E. Daniels, and Kyle G. Webber

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134111 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Ab initio study of the one-dimensional H-bonded ferroelectric ${CsH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$

J. Lasave, P. Abufager, and S. Koval

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134112 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Effect of grain boundary character on segregation-induced structural transitions

Zhiliang Pan and Timothy J. Rupert

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134113 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Spectroscopic properties of oxygen vacancies in ${LaAlO}_{3}$

Oliver A. Dicks, Alexander L. Shluger, Peter V. Sushko, and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134114 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Thermal vacancies in random alloys in the single-site mean-field approximation

A. V. Ruban

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134115 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Structure retrieval with fast electrons using segmented detectors

H. G. Brown, A. J. D'Alfonso, Z. Chen, A. J. Morgan, M. Weyland, C. Zheng, M. S. Fuhrer, S. D. Findlay, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134116 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Long tail distributions near the many-body localization transition

David J. Luitz

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134201 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Effects of low-lying excitations on ground-state energy and energy gap of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in a transverse field

Yang Wei Koh

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134202 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Anderson metal-insulator transitions with classical magnetic impurities

Daniel Jung, Stefan Kettemann, and Keith Slevin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134203 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Local entanglement structure across a many-body localization transition

Soumya Bera and Arul Lakshminarayan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134204 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Proximate transition temperatures amplify linear magnetoelectric coupling in strain-disordered multiferroic ${BiMnO}_{3}$

Patrick R. Mickel, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Pradeep Kumar, Amlan Biswas, and Arthur F. Hebard

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134205 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Griffiths effects and slow dynamics in nearly many-body localized systems

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Kartiek Agarwal, Eugene A. Demler, David A. Huse, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134206 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Particle-hole symmetry, many-body localization, and topological edge modes

Romain Vasseur, Aaron J. Friedman, S. A. Parameswaran, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134207 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Decoherence of a quantum two-level system by spectral diffusion

Shlomi Matityahu, Alexander Shnirman, Gerd Schön, and Moshe Schechter

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134208 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Theoretical study of negative optical mode splitting in $LaAl O_{3}$

Kurt D. Fredrickson, Chungwei Lin, Stefan Zollner, and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134301 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Two-dimensional fluid-filled closed-cell cellular solid as an acoustic metamaterial with negative index

V. Dorodnitsyn and B. Van Damme

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134302 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectricity in corundum derivatives

Meng Ye and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134303 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Of bulk and boundaries: Generalized transfer matrices for tight-binding models

Vatsal Dwivedi and Victor Chua

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134304 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Nonequilibrium dynamics of the Ising chain in a fluctuating transverse field

Gergő Roósz, Róbert Juhász, and Ferenc Iglói

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134305 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Lattice dynamics and a magnetic-structural phase transition in the nickel orthoborate $N i_{3} {(B O_{3})}_{2}$

R. V. Pisarev, M. A. Prosnikov, V. Yu. Davydov, A. N. Smirnov, E. M. Roginskii, K. N. Boldyrev, A. D. Molchanova, M. N. Popova, M. B. Smirnov, and V. Yu. Kazimirov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134306 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Lattice dynamics and thermal expansion behavior in the metal cyanides $M CN$ ( $M = Cu$ , Ag, Au): Neutron inelastic scattering and first-principles calculations

M. K. Gupta, Baltej Singh, R. Mittal, S. Rols, and S. L. Chaplot

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134307 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Resonant squeezing and the anharmonic decay of coherent phonons

Stephen Fahy, Éamonn D. Murray, and David A. Reis

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134308 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Temperature-driven transient charge and heat currents in nanoscale conductors

F. G. Eich, M. Di Ventra, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134309 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Magnetism

1/3 magnetization plateau and frustrated ferrimagnetism in a sodium iron phosphite

A. N. Vasiliev, O. S. Volkova, E. A. Zvereva, E. A. Ovchenkov, I. Munaò, L. Clark, P. Lightfoot, E. L. Vavilova, S. Kamusella, H.-H. Klauss, J. Werner, C. Koo, R. Klingeler, and A. A. Tsirlin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134401 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Deterministic character of all-optical magnetization switching in GdFe-based ferrimagnetic alloys

L. Le Guyader, S. El Moussaoui, M. Buzzi, M. Savoini, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, F. Nolting, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134402 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Enhanced half-metallicity of off-stoichiometric quaternary Heusler alloy $C o_{2} (Mn, Fe) Si$ investigated through saturation magnetization and tunneling magnetoresistance

Kidist Moges, Yusuke Honda, Hong-xi Liu, Tetsuya Uemura, Masafumi Yamamoto, Yoshio Miura, and Masafumi Shirai

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134403 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Anomalous thermal decoherence in a quantum magnet measured with neutron spin echo spectroscopy

F. Groitl, T. Keller, K. Rolfs, D. A. Tennant, and K. Habicht

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134404 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Study of fully epitaxial Fe/Pt bilayers for spin pumping by ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy

A. Conca, S. Keller, L. Mihalceanu, T. Kehagias, G. P. Dimitrakopulos, B. Hillebrands, and E. Th. Papaioannou

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134405 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Electromagnons, magnons, and phonons in $E u_{1 - x} H o_{x} Mn O_{3}$

Zhenyu Chen, M. Schmidt, Zhe Wang, F. Mayr, J. Deisenhofer, A. A. Mukhin, A. M. Balbashov, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134406 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Strong anisotropy and magnetostriction in the two-dimensional Stoner ferromagnet ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$

Houlong L. Zhuang, P. R. C. Kent, and Richard G. Hennig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134407 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Anomalous magnetotransport behavior in Fe-doped MnNiGe alloys

P. Dutta, S. Pramanick, Vijay Singh, Dan Thomas Major, D. Das, and S. Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134408 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Structural and magnetic properties of Ni/Fe nanostructures on Ir(111)

Davide Iaia, André Kubetzka, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134409 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Proton NMR study of spin dynamics in the magnetic organic chains $M (hfac)_{3}$ NITEt $(M = {Eu}^{3 +}, {Gd}^{3 +})$

M. Mariani, A. Lascialfari, A. Caneschi, L. Ammannato, D. Gatteschi, A. Rettori, M. G. Pini, C. Cucci, and F. Borsa

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134410 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Ultrafast demagnetization after femtosecond laser pulses: Transfer of angular momentum from the electronic system to magnetoelastic spin-phonon modes

T. Tsatsoulis, C. Illg, M. Haag, B. Y. Mueller, L. Zhang, and M. Fähnle

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134411 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Light-induced magnetization in a spin $S = 1$ easy-plane antiferromagnetic chain

J. Herbrych and X. Zotos

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134412 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Mutual synchronization of nanoconstriction-based spin Hall nano-oscillators through evanescent and propagating spin waves

T. Kendziorczyk and T. Kuhn

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134413 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Finite temperature magnetic properties of small Fe chains and clusters on Pt(111)

S. Riemer, J. Dorantes-Dávila, and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134414 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

One-dimensional two-orbital SU( $N$ ) ultracold fermionic quantum gases at incommensurate filling: A low-energy approach

V. Bois, P. Fromholz, and P. Lecheminant

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134415 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

Electron spin resonance in a strong-rung spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg ladder

A. N. Ponomaryov, M. Ozerov, L. Zviagina, J. Wosnitza, K. Yu. Povarov, F. Xiao, A. Zheludev, C. Landee, E. Čižmár, A. A. Zvyagin, and S. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134416 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Thermally activated helicity reversals of skyrmions

X. Z. Yu, K. Shibata, W. Koshibae, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Kaneko, T. Nagai, K. Kimoto, Y. Taguchi, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134417 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Counterpart of the Darrieus-Landau instability at a magnetic deflagration front

O. Jukimenko, M. Modestov, C. M. Dion, M. Marklund, and V. Bychkov

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134418 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Spin reorientation transition of magnetite (001)

Laura Martín-García, Arantzazu Mascaraque, Beatriz M. Pabón, Roland Bliem, Gareth S. Parkinson, Gong Chen (陈宫), Andreas K. Schmid, and Juan de la Figuera

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134419 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Reconfigurable wave band structure of an artificial square ice

Ezio Iacocca, Sebastian Gliga, Robert L. Stamps, and Olle Heinonen

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134420 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Possible half-metallic antiferromagnetism in an iridium double-perovskite material

Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Long-Hua Wu, and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134421 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Magnetism and deformation of epitaxial Pd and Rh thin films

Tomáš Káňa, Erwin Hüger, Dominik Legut, Miroslav Čák, and Mojmír Šob

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134422 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Low-temperature crystal and magnetic structure of $α - {RuCl}_{3}$

H. B. Cao, A. Banerjee, J.-Q. Yan, C. A. Bridges, M. D. Lumsden, D. G. Mandrus, D. A. Tennant, B. C. Chakoumakos, and S. E. Nagler

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134423 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Incommensurate-commensurate transitions in the monoaxial chiral helimagnet driven by the magnetic field

Victor Laliena, Javier Campo, Jun-Ichiro Kishine, Alexander S. Ovchinnikov, Yoshihiko Togawa, Yusuke Kousaka, and Katsuya Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134424 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Magnetically induced phonon splitting in $A {Cr}_{2} O_{4}$ spinels from first principles

Aleksander L. Wysocki and Turan Birol

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134425 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Fragile singlet ground-state magnetism in the pyrochlore osmates $R_{2} {Os}_{2} O_{7}$ ( $R = Y$ and Ho)

Z. Y. Zhao, S. Calder, A. A. Aczel, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. G. Mandrus, G. Chen, N. Trivedi, H. D. Zhou, and J.-Q. Yan

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134426 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Homodyne-detected ferromagnetic resonance of in-plane magnetized nanocontacts: Composite spin-wave resonances and their excitation mechanism

Masoumeh Fazlali, Mykola Dvornik, Ezio Iacocca, Philipp Dürrenfeld, Mohammad Haidar, Johan Åkerman, and Randy K. Dumas

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134427 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Direct imaging of coexisting ordered and frustrated sublattices in artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals

B. Farmer, V. S. Bhat, A. Balk, E. Teipel, N. Smith, J. Unguris, D. J. Keavney, J. T. Hastings, and L. E. De Long

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134428 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Solitonlike magnetization textures in noncollinear antiferromagnets

Camilo Ulloa and A. S. Nunez

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134429 (2016) - Published 29 April, 2016

Precessional magnetization switching by a surface acoustic wave

L. Thevenard, I. S. Camara, S. Majrab, M. Bernard, P. Rovillain, A. Lemaître, C. Gourdon, and J.-Y. Duquesne

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134430 (2016) - Published 29 April, 2016

Magnetization dynamics and frustration in the multiferroic double perovskite ${Lu}_{2} {MnCoO}_{6}$

Vivien S. Zapf, B. G. Ueland, Mark Laver, Martin Lonsky, Merlin Pohlit, Jens Müller, Tom Lancaster, Johannes S. Möller, Stephen J. Blundell, John Singleton, Jorge Mira, Susana Yañez-Vilar, and Maria Antonia Señarís-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134431 (2016) - Published 29 April, 2016

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Circuit design implementing longitudinal coupling: A scalable scheme for superconducting qubits

Susanne Richer and David DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134501 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Granular superconductor in a honeycomb lattice as a realization of bosonic Dirac material

S. Banerjee, J. Fransson, A. M. Black-Schaffer, H. Ågren, and A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134502 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Fluctuation diamagnetism in two-band superconductors

Kyosuke Adachi and Ryusuke Ikeda

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134503 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Mechanical momentum transfer in wall-bounded superfluid turbulence

D. Khomenko, V. S. L'vov, A. Pomyalov, and I. Procaccia

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134504 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Strong-coupling phonon-mediated scenario of superconductivity in $C a_{3} I r_{4} S n_{13}$ and $C a_{3} {(I r_{0.91} C o_{0.09})}_{4} S n_{13}$

Jianqiang Hou, Chi Ho Wong, Rolf Lortz, Romain Sibille, and Michel Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134505 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Linear-scaling source-sink algorithm for simulating time-resolved quantum transport and superconductivity

Joseph Weston and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134506 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Rattling-enhanced superconductivity in $M V_{2} A l_{20} (M = Sc, Lu, Y)$ intermetallic cage compounds

M. J. Winiarski, B. Wiendlocha, M. Sternik, P. Wiśniewski, J. R. O’Brien, D. Kaczorowski, and T. Klimczuk

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134507 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Negative differential thermal conductance and heat amplification in superconducting hybrid devices

Antonio Fornieri, Giuliano Timossi, Riccardo Bosisio, Paolo Solinas, and Francesco Giazotto

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134508 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Massless surface waves between two different superfluid phases of ${}^{3}{He}$

I. Todoshchenko

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134509 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detailed magnetic and structural analysis mapping a robust magnetic $C_{4}$ dome in ${Sr}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

K. M. Taddei, J. M. Allred, D. E. Bugaris, S. Lapidus, M. J. Krogstad, R. Stadel, H. Claus, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, S. Rosenkranz, R. Osborn, and O. Chmaissem

Phys. Rev. B 93, 134510 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Magnetic properties of ${({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} B$ alloys and the effect of doping by $5 d$ elements [Phys. Rev. B 92, 174413 (2015)]

A. Edström, M. Werwiński, D. Iuşan, J. Rusz, O. Eriksson, K. P. Skokov, I. A. Radulov, S. Ener, M. D. Kuz'min, J. Hong, M. Fries, D. Yu. Karpenkov, O. Gutfleisch, P. Toson, and J. Fidler

Phys. Rev. B 93, 139901 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Erratum: Spin dynamics of the anisotropic spin-1 antiferromagnetic chain at finite magnetic fields [Phys. Rev. B 91, 054405 (2015)]

Yousef Rahnavard and Wolfram Brenig

Phys. Rev. B 93, 139902 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016