Volume 95, Issue 12

15 March 2017

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Viscous magnetoresistance of correlated electron liquids

Alex Levchenko, Hong-Yi Xie, and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121301(R) (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

Evidence for hydrodynamic flow of electrons was recently reported in a number of transport experiments in high-mobility semiconductor and graphene nanodevices. The electron liquid in these systems moves in the presence of a long-range disorder potential, which makes the entropy per electron position dependent. The resulting nonisentropic flow is markedly different from Stokesian flow: the resistivity is governed not only by the viscosity of the electron fluid but also by its thermal conductivity. Here, the authors show that the weak-field magnetoresistance (MR) in this hydrodynamic regime is caused by the modification of the flow pattern by the Lorentz force. The resulting MR is positive and is controlled by the shear viscosity alone. This may help separate the viscous and the thermal contributions to the resistivity.

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Anyon condensation and a generic tensor-network construction for symmetry-protected topological phases

Shenghan Jiang and Ying Ran

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125107 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are bosonic analogs of free-fermion topological insulators and superconductors, but require interactions to be realized. Previously, a wide range of bosonic SPT phases protected by on-site symmetries has been systematically investigated, which are found to be related to group cohomology theory. However, a systematic understanding of SPT phases protected by spatial symmetries is still lacking. Here, the authors present systematic constructions of tensor-network wave functions for bosonic SPT phases protected by a general symmetry group SG involving both on-site and spatial symmetries. They find, in spatial dimension $d = 1, 2, 3$ , that a wide range of bosonic SPT phases are classified by the group cohomology $H^{d + 1}$ SG,U(1), in which the time-reversal symmetry and mirror symmetries should be treated as anti-unitary operations. They also provide generic tensor-network wave functions for these SPT phases that are useful for numerical simulations. As a by-product, the authors demonstrate a generic connection between rather conventional symmetry-enriched topological phases and SPT phases via an anyon condensation mechanism.

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Particle-hole symmetry and electromagnetic response of a half-filled Landau level

Michael Levin and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125120 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

The problem of the half-filled Landau level has recently received renewed interest. The ground state of the half-filled lowest Landau level is believed to be a Fermi liquid of an emergent “composite fermion” quasiparticle. In the past, Halperin-Lee-Read (HLR) theory was employed to describe the low-energy physics of this Fermi-liquid state. Recently, an alternative theory based on the idea of the Dirac composite fermion has been proposed, in which particle-hole symmetry is manifestly realized. In this paper, a previously unknown exact relationship between response functions at finite frequency and wave number is derived. It is shown that this relationship can be accommodated by the Dirac composite fermion theory, but is violated by the HLR theory.

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Multiple Weyl points and the sign change of their topological charges in woodpile photonic crystals

Ming-Li Chang, Meng Xiao, Wen-Jie Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125136 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Weyl points in photonic systems have gained much attention for their novel properties, such as topologically protected robustness and gapless surface states. However, many Weyl photonic crystal structures designed previously are probably too complicated for nanofabrication. Here, the authors discover that Weyl points can be found in metallic chiral woodpile photonic crystals, which can be fabricated using current nanotechnology. Weyl points with topological charge not only 1 but also 2 can be found in these photonic crystals. When the constituent materials change from the air-in-metal to metal-in-air configuration, the sign of the topological charge will change, leading to a topological phase transition, and the bands change from topologically trivial to nontrivial. Gapless surface states exist in the latter case and robust transport properties have also been demonstrated numerically. When the metallic component is replaced by dielectric materials, such as silicon, the Weyl points still exist. These woodpile photonic crystals should become promising platforms for exploring Weyl point related physics at optical frequencies.

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Observation of spin-polarized bands and domain-dependent Fermi arcs in polar Weyl semimetal $MoT e_{2}$

M. Sakano, M. S. Bahramy, H. Tsuji, I. Araya, K. Ikeura, H. Sakai, S. Ishiwata, K. Yaji, K. Kuroda, A. Harasawa, S. Shin, and K. Ishizaka

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121101(R) (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

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Correlated Dirac semimetallic state with unusual positive magnetoresistance in strain-free perovskite ${SrIrO}_{3}$

J. Fujioka, T. Okawa, A. Yamamoto, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121102(R) (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

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Giant spin gap and magnon localization in the disordered Heisenberg antiferromagnet ${Sr}_{2} {Ir}_{1 - x} {Ru}_{x} O_{4}$

Yue Cao, X. Liu, Wenhu Xu, Wei-Guo Yin, D. Meyers, Jungho Kim, Diego Casa, M. H. Upton, Thomas Gog, Tom Berlijn, Gonzalo Alvarez, Shujuan Yuan, Jasminka Terzic, J. M. Tranquada, John P. Hill, Gang Cao, Robert M. Konik, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121103(R) (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

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Maximum entropy analytic continuation for frequency-dependent transport coefficients with nonpositive spectral weight

A. Reymbaut, A.-M. Gagnon, D. Bergeron, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121104(R) (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

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Nonequilibrium lattice-driven dynamics of stripes in nickelates using time-resolved x-ray scattering

W. S. Lee, Y. F. Kung, B. Moritz, G. Coslovich, R. A. Kaindl, Y. D. Chuang, R. G. Moore, D. H. Lu, P. S. Kirchmann, J. S. Robinson, M. P. Minitti, G. Dakovski, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, S. Gerber, T. Sasagawa, Z. Hussain, Z. X. Shen, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121105(R) (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

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Thermodynamic constraints on the amplitude of quantum oscillations

Arkady Shekhter, K. A. Modic, R. D. McDonald, and B. J. Ramshaw

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121106(R) (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

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Chiral topological insulating phases from three-dimensional nodal loop semimetals

Linhu Li, Chuanhao Yin, Shu Chen, and Miguel A. N. Araújo

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121107(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the energetics of the rutile, anatase, brookite, and columbite ${TiO}_{2}$ polymorphs

John Trail, Bartomeu Monserrat, Pablo López Ríos, Ryo Maezono, and Richard J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121108(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Unusual magnetotransport from Si-square nets in topological semimetal HfSiS

Nitesh Kumar, Kaustuv Manna, Yanpeng Qi, Shu-Chun Wu, Lei Wang, Binghai Yan, Claudia Felser, and Chandra Shekhar

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121109(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Inelastic Kondo-Andreev tunneling in a vibrating quantum dot

Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Qing-Feng Sun, and Hong-Gang Luo

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121110(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Magnetic order and spin dynamics across a ferromagnetic quantum critical point: $μ SR$ investigations of ${YbNi}_{4} {(P_{1 - x} {As}_{x})}_{2}$

R. Sarkar, J. Spehling, P. Materne, H. Luetkens, C. Baines, M. Brando, C. Krellner, and H.-H. Klauss

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121111(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Competing phases and orbital-selective behaviors in the two-orbital Hubbard-Holstein model

Shaozhi Li, Ehsan Khatami, and Steven Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121112(R) (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

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Quantum critical point revisited by dynamical mean-field theory

Wenhu Xu, Gabriel Kotliar, and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121113(R) (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

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Locality of the anomalous Hall conductivity

Antimo Marrazzo and Raffaele Resta

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121114(R) (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

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Open Wilson chains for quantum impurity models: Keeping track of all bath modes

B. Bruognolo, N.-O. Linden, F. Schwarz, S.-S. B. Lee, K. Stadler, A. Weichselbaum, M. Vojta, F. B. Anders, and J. von Delft

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121115(R) (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Kinetic path towards the passivation of threading dislocations in GaN by oxygen impurities

Sayre Christenson, Weiyu Xie, Yi-Yang Sun, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121201(R) (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Viscous magnetoresistance of correlated electron liquids

Alex Levchenko, Hong-Yi Xie, and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121301(R) (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

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In-plane electric fields and the $ν = \frac{5}{2}$ fractional quantum Hall effect in a disk geometry

Anthony Tylan-Tyler and Yuli Lyanda-Geller

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121302(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Path-dependent initialization of a single quantum dot exciton spin in a nanophotonic waveguide

R. J. Coles, D. M. Price, B. Royall, E. Clarke, M. S. Skolnick, A. M. Fox, and M. N. Makhonin

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121401(R) (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

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Near-field hyperspectral quantum probing of multimodal plasmonic resonators

A. Cuche, M. Berthel, U. Kumar, G. Colas des Francs, S. Huant, E. Dujardin, C. Girard, and A. Drezet

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121402(R) (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

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Aggregation of BiTe monolayer on ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ (111) induced by diffusion of intercalated atoms in the van der Waals gap

Zhi-Wen Wang, Wen-Kai Huang, Kai-Wen Zhang, Da-Jun Shu, Mu Wang, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121403(R) (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

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Effects of functional group mass variance on vibrational properties and thermal transport in graphene

L. Lindsay and Y. Kuang

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121404(R) (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

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Current switching of electronic structures in two-dimensional $1 T − Ta S_{2}$ crystals

Masaro Yoshida, Takashi Gokuden, Ryuji Suzuki, Masaki Nakano, and Yoshihiro Iwasa

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121405(R) (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

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Nanostructured graphene for spintronics

Søren Schou Gregersen, Stephen R. Power, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121406(R) (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

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All-electrical generation of spin-polarized currents in quantum spin Hall insulators

L. L. Tao, K. T. Cheung, L. Zhang, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121407(R) (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

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Encapsulated nanowires: Boosting electronic transport in carbon nanotubes

Andrij Vasylenko, Jamie Wynn, Paulo V. C. Medeiros, Andrew J. Morris, Jeremy Sloan, and David Quigley

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121408(R) (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Waveguide photonic limiters based on topologically protected resonant modes

U. Kuhl, F. Mortessagne, E. Makri, I. Vitebskiy, and T. Kottos

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121409(R) (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

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Realization of quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene from $n - p$ codoping-induced stable atomic adsorption

Xinzhou Deng, Shifei Qi, Yulei Han, Kunhua Zhang, Xiaohong Xu, and Zhenhua Qiao

Phys. Rev. B 95, 121410(R) (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Robust random telegraph conductivity noise in single crystals of the ferromagnetic insulating manganite ${La}_{0.86} {Ca}_{0.14} {MnO}_{3}$

J. Przybytek, J. Fink-Finowicki, R. Puźniak, A. Shames, V. Markovich, D. Mogilyansky, and G. Jung

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125101 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Multiple superconducting states induced by pressure in ${Mo}_{3} {Sb}_{7}$

Yejun Feng, Yishu Wang, A. Palmer, Ling Li, D. M. Silevitch, S. Calder, and T. F. Rosenbaum

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125102 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

$d_{x z / y z}$ orbital subband structures and chiral orbital angular momentum in the (001) surface states of ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Shoresh Soltani, Soohyun Cho, Hanyoung Ryu, Garam Han, Beomyoung Kim, Dongjoon Song, Timur K. Kim, Moritz Hoesch, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125103 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Driven topological systems in the classical limit

Callum W. Duncan, Patrik Öhberg, and Manuel Valiente

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125104 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Unified band-theoretic description of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of vanadium dioxide phases

Sheng Xu, Xiao Shen, Kent A. Hallman, Richard F. Haglund, Jr., and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125105 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Bound-state dynamics in one-dimensional multispecies fermionic systems

P. Azaria

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125106 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

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Anyon condensation and a generic tensor-network construction for symmetry-protected topological phases

Shenghan Jiang and Ying Ran

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125107 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Breaking of SU(4) symmetry and interplay between strongly correlated phases in the Hubbard model

A. Golubeva, A. Sotnikov, A. Cichy, J. Kuneš, and W. Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125108 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Impact of finite temperatures on the transport properties of Gd from first principles

K. Chadova, S. Mankovsky, J. Minár, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125109 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Unconventional normal-state spin dynamics in underdoped high- $T_{c}$ cuprates as a fingerprint of spiral correlations of localized spins and dual localized/itinerant nature of spin fluctuations

F. Onufrieva

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125110 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Samarium monoxide epitaxial thin film as a possible heavy-fermion compound

Yutaka Uchida, Kenichi Kaminaga, Tomoteru Fukumura, and Tetsuya Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125111 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Doping-driven metal-insulator transitions and charge orderings in the extended Hubbard model

K. J. Kapcia, S. Robaszkiewicz, M. Capone, and A. Amaricci

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125112 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

From a normal insulator to a topological insulator in plumbene

Xiang-Long Yu, Li Huang, and Jiansheng Wu

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125113 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Bond patterns and charge-order amplitude in quarter-filled charge-transfer solids

R. T. Clay, A. B. Ward, N. Gomes, and S. Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125114 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Semilocal exchange hole with an application to range-separated density functionals

Jianmin Tao, Ireneusz W. Bulik, and Gustavo E. Scuseria

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125115 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Real-space cluster dynamical mean-field approach to the Falicov-Kimball model: An alloy-analogy approach

P. Haldar, M. S. Laad, and S. R. Hassan

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125116 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Interlayer states arising from anionic electrons in the honeycomb-lattice-based compounds $A e AlSi$ ( $A e = Ca$ , Sr, Ba)

Yangfan Lu, Tomofumi Tada, Yoshitake Toda, Shigenori Ueda, Jiazhen Wu, Jiang Li, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Yaoqing Zhang, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125117 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Total correlations of the diagonal ensemble as a generic indicator for ergodicity breaking in quantum systems

F. Pietracaprina, C. Gogolin, and J. Goold

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125118 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Spin drift and diffusion in one- and two-subband helical systems

Gerson J. Ferreira, Felix G. G. Hernandez, Patrick Altmann, and Gian Salis

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125119 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

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Particle-hole symmetry and electromagnetic response of a half-filled Landau level

Michael Levin and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125120 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Anisotropic spin-flip-induced multiferroic behavior in kagome $C u_{3} Bi {(Se O_{3})}_{2} O_{2} Cl$

H. C. Wu, K. Devi Chandrasekhar, J. K. Yuan, J. R. Huang, J.-Y. Lin, H. Berger, and H. D. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125121 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Limits on dynamically generated spin-orbit coupling: Absence of $l = 1$ Pomeranchuk instabilities in metals

Egor I. Kiselev, Mathias S. Scheurer, Peter Wölfle, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125122 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Hole-doping-induced melting of spin-state ordering in ${PrBaCo}_{2} O_{5.5 + x}$

Ping Miao, Xiaohuan Lin, Sanghyun Lee, Yoshihisa Ishikawa, Shuki Torii, Masao Yonemura, Tetsuro Ueno, Nobuhito Inami, Kanta Ono, Yingxia Wang, and Takashi Kamiyama

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125123 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Partition-free approach to open quantum systems in harmonic environments: An exact stochastic Liouville equation

G. M. G. McCaul, C. D. Lorenz, and L. Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125124 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Hybrid-space density matrix renormalization group study of the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model

G. Ehlers, S. R. White, and R. M. Noack

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125125 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Dirac line nodes and effect of spin-orbit coupling in the nonsymmorphic critical semimetals $M SiS (M = Hf, Zr)$

C. Chen, X. Xu, J. Jiang, S.-C. Wu, Y. P. Qi, L. X. Yang, M. X. Wang, Y. Sun, N. B. M. Schröter, H. F. Yang, L. M. Schoop, Y. Y. Lv, J. Zhou, Y. B. Chen, S. H. Yao, M. H. Lu, Y. F. Chen, C. Felser, B. H. Yan, Z. K. Liu, and Y. L. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125126 (2017) - Published 22 March, 2017

Nematic fluctuations balancing the zoo of phases in half-filled quantum Hall systems

Andrej Mesaros, Michael J. Lawler, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125127 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Ultrathin magnetite in ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} / MgO$ superlattices: Investigating the enhanced thin film magnetic moment

Ozhet Mauit, Karsten Fleischer, Cormac Ó Coileáin, Brendan Bulfin, Daniel S. Fox, Christopher M. Smith, Daragh Mullarkey, Gulnar Sugurbekova, Hongzhou Zhang, and Igor V. Shvets

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125128 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Effective realization of random magnetic fields in compounds with large single-ion anisotropy

J. Herbrych and J. Kokalj

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125129 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Non-Abelian $S U (N - 1)$ -singlet fractional quantum Hall states from coupled wires

Y. Fuji and P. Lecheminant

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125130 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Spectroscopy of $f - f$ transitions, crystal-field calculations, and magnetic and quadrupole helix chirality in $DyF e_{3} {(B O_{3})}_{4}$

M. N. Popova, E. P. Chukalina, K. N. Boldyrev, T. N. Stanislavchuk, B. Z. Malkin, and I. A. Gudim

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125131 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Phase coexistence and dynamical behavior in ${NdNiO}_{3}$ ultrathin films

Ali M. Alsaqqa, Sujay Singh, S. Middey, M. Kareev, J. Chakhalian, and G. Sambandamurthy

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125132 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Resonant enhancement of thermoelectric properties by correlated hopping for the Falicov-Kimball model on Bethe lattice

D. A. Dobushovskyi, A. M. Shvaika, and V. Zlatić

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125133 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Two-component quantum Hall effects in topological flat bands

Tian-Sheng Zeng, W. Zhu, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125134 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Thickness-tuned transition of band topology in $ZrT e_{5}$ nanosheets

Jianwei Lu, Guolin Zheng, Xiangde Zhu, Wei Ning, Hongwei Zhang, Jiyong Yang, Haifeng Du, Kun Yang, Haizhou Lu, Yuheng Zhang, and Mingliang Tian

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125135 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

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Multiple Weyl points and the sign change of their topological charges in woodpile photonic crystals

Ming-Li Chang, Meng Xiao, Wen-Jie Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125136 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Kinetic derivation of generalized phase space Chern-Simons theory

Tomoya Hayata and Yoshimasa Hidaka

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125137 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Magnetic order of intermetallic ${FeGa}_{3 - y} {Ge}_{y}$ studied by $μ SR$ and ${}^{57}{Fe}$ Mössbauer spectroscopy

J. Munevar, M. Cabrera-Baez, M. Alzamora, J. Larrea, E. M. Bittar, E. Baggio-Saitovitch, F. J. Litterst, R. A. Ribeiro, M. A. Avila, and E. Morenzoni

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125138 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Semiconductors I: bulk

Beyond the effective mass approximation: A predictive theory of the nonlinear optical response of conduction electrons

Shukai Yu, Kate H. Heffernan, and Diyar Talbayev

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125201 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Electrodynamics of the conducting polymer polyaniline on the insulating side of the metal-insulator transition

Erik Helgren, Keith Penney, Matt Diefenbach, Maryna Longnickel, Mark Wainwright, Eldridge Walker, Sarah Al-Azzawi, Hendrix Erhahon, and Jason Singley

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125202 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

Pressure-induced topological phase transition in the polar semiconductor BiTeBr

Ayako Ohmura, Yuichiro Higuchi, Takayuki Ochiai, Manabu Kanou, Fumihiro Ishikawa, Satoshi Nakano, Atsuko Nakayama, Yuh Yamada, and Takao Sasagawa

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125203 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Band splitting and Weyl nodes in trigonal tellurium studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory

K. Nakayama, M. Kuno, K. Yamauchi, S. Souma, K. Sugawara, T. Oguchi, T. Sato, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125204 (2017) - Published 22 March, 2017

Numerical investigation of triexciton stabilization in diamond with multiple valleys and bands

Hiroki Katow, Junko Usukura, Ryosuke Akashi, Kálmán Varga, and Shinji Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125205 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

On the Lorenz number of multiband materials

Mischa Thesberg, Hans Kosina, and Neophytos Neophytou

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125206 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Design of $n$ - and $p$ -type oxide thermoelectrics in ${LaNiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3} (001)$ superlattices exploiting interface polarity

Benjamin Geisler, Ariadna Blanca-Romero, and Rossitza Pentcheva

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125301 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

The enigma of the $ν = 2 + 3 / 8$ fractional quantum Hall effect

Jimmy A. Hutasoit, Ajit C. Balram, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ying-Hai Wu, Sudhansu S. Mandal, A. Wójs, Vadim Cheianov, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125302 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Effective one-band approach for the spin splittings in quantum wells

P. S. Alekseev and M. O. Nestoklon

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125303 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Transport of indirect excitons in high magnetic fields

Y. Y. Kuznetsova, C. J. Dorow, E. V. Calman, L. V. Butov, J. Wilkes, E. A. Muljarov, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125304 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Magnetic description of the Fermi arc in type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals

Serguei Tchoumakov, Marcello Civelli, and Mark O. Goerbig

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125306 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Near-field thermal radiation transfer between semiconductors based on thickness control and introduction of photonic crystals

Takuya Inoue, Takashi Asano, and Susumu Noda

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125307 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Time-resolved pump-probe signals of a continuously driven quantum dot affected by phonons

D. E. Reiter

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125308 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Theory of ionization potentials of nonmetallic solids

Yu Kumagai, Keith T. Butler, Aron Walsh, and Fumiyasu Oba

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125309 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Electron paramagnetic resonance calculations for hydrogenated Si surfaces

M. Rohrmüller, W. G. Schmidt, and U. Gerstmann

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125310 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Quantum properties of the radiation emitted by a conductor in the Coulomb blockade regime

C. Mora, C. Altimiras, P. Joyez, and F. Portier

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125311 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Nuclear spin relaxation in $n$ -GaAs: From insulating to metallic regime

M. Vladimirova, S. Cronenberger, D. Scalbert, M. Kotur, R. I. Dzhioev, I. I. Ryzhov, G. G. Kozlov, V. S. Zapasskii, A. Lemaître, and K. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125312 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Quantification of scattering loss of III-nitride photonic crystal cavities in the blue spectral range

Ian Rousseau, Irene Sánchez-Arribas, Kanako Shojiki, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, and Nicolas Grandjean

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125313 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Enhancement of Auger recombination induced by carrier localization in InGaN/GaN quantum wells

M. Shahmohammadi, W. Liu, G. Rossbach, L. Lahourcade, A. Dussaigne, C. Bougerol, R. Butté, N. Grandjean, B. Deveaud, and G. Jacopin

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125314 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Observation of diffusive and dispersive profiles of the nonequilibrium polariton-condensate dispersion relation in a CuBr microcavity

Masaaki Nakayama and Masafumi Ueda

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125315 (2017) - Published 22 March, 2017

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

All-optical band engineering of gapped Dirac materials

O. V. Kibis, K. Dini, I. V. Iorsh, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125401 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Many-body effects of Coulomb interaction on Landau levels in graphene

A. A. Sokolik, A. D. Zabolotskiy, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125402 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Excitonic effects in third-harmonic generation: The case of carbon nanotubes and nanoribbons

C. Attaccalite, E. Cannuccia, and M. Grüning

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125403 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Radiative heat transfer between metallic gratings using Fourier modal method with adaptive spatial resolution

Riccardo Messina, Antonio Noto, Brahim Guizal, and Mauro Antezza

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125404 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Subpicosecond spin dynamics of excited states in the topological insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

J. Sánchez-Barriga, M. Battiato, M. Krivenkov, E. Golias, A. Varykhalov, A. Romualdi, L. V. Yashina, J. Minár, O. Kornilov, H. Ebert, K. Held, and J. Braun

Phys. Rev. B 95, 125405 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

The authors employ state-of-the-art time-, spin-, momentum-, and energy-resolved photoemission to study the dynamics of laser-excited carriers at the surface of the prototypical topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Te $3$ up to 1.2 eV above the Fermi energy. The authors discover that the previously unmeasured alternating spin texture of excited states above the Fermi level determines the time scale for ultrafast relaxation of carriers. By comparing with a microscopic Boltzmann model of ultrafast band cooling, they find for the first time that electron-electron scattering rather than electron-phonon scattering is the dominant relaxation channel. They also identify the amplitude of momentum transfer during such scattering, which is critical to predict the effective conductivity of ultrafast spin currents generated by laser excitation in future devices based on topological insulators.