http://prb.aps.org/ PRB Editors' Suggestions (the editors and referees of PRB find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity) en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-03T21:00:10-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-03T21:00:10-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180502 Author(s): A. Akrap, J. J. Tu, L. J. Li, G. H. Cao, Z. A. Xu, and C. C. Homes<br/>The detailed optical properties of BaFe_{2} As_{2} have been determined over a wide frequency range above and below the structural and magnetic transition at T_{N} ≃138 K . A prominent in-plane infrared-active mode is observed at 253 cm^{−1} (31.4 meV) at 295 K. The frequency of this vibrati...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180502] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 A. Akrap, J. J. Tu, L. J. Li, G. H. Cao, Z. A. Xu, and C. C. Homes 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180502 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180502 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 180502 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180501 Author(s): R. Monaco, J. Mygind, R. J. Rivers, and V. P. Koshelets<br/>We report on the experimental verification of the Zurek-Kibble scenario in an isolated superconducting ring over a wide parameter range. The probability of creating a single flux quantum spontaneously during the fast normal-superconducting phase transition of a wide Nb loop clearly follows a scaling...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180501] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 R. Monaco, J. Mygind, R. J. Rivers, and V. P. Koshelets 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180501 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180501 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 180501 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161207 Author(s): Daniele Fausti, Oleg V. Misochko, and Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht<br/>Picosecond Raman scattering is used to study the photoinduced ultrafast dynamics in Peierls distorted antimony. We find evidence for an ultrafast nonthermal reversible structural phase transition. Most surprisingly, we find evidence that this transition evolves toward a lower symmetry in contrast to...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161207] Published Fri Oct 30, 2009 Daniele Fausti, Oleg V. Misochko, and Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161207 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161207 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 161207 Semiconductors I: bulk Semiconductors I: bulk http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155331 Author(s): A. T. Hammack, L. V. Butov, J. Wilkes, L. Mouchliadis, E. A. Muljarov, A. L. Ivanov, and A. C. Gossard<br/>We report on the kinetics of the inner ring in the exciton emission pattern. The formation time of the inner ring following the onset of the laser excitation is found to be about 30 ns. The inner ring is also found to disappear within 4 ns after the laser termination. The latter process is accompani...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155331] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 A. T. Hammack, L. V. Butov, J. Wilkes, L. Mouchliadis, E. A. Muljarov, A. L. Ivanov, and A. C. Gossard 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155331 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155331 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 155331 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140515 Author(s): A. V. Chubukov, M. G. Vavilov, and A. B. Vorontsov<br/>Using general symmetry arguments and model calculations we analyze the superconducting gap in materials with multiple Fermi-surface pockets, with applications to iron pnictides. We show that the gap in the pnictides has an extended s -wave symmetry but is either nodeless or has nodes, depending on t...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140515] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 A. V. Chubukov, M. G. Vavilov, and A. B. Vorontsov 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140515 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140515 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 140515 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161206 Author(s): M. K. Chan, Q. O. Hu, J. Zhang, T. Kondo, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell<br/>Measurements and modeling of electron-spin transport and dynamics are used to characterize hyperfine interactions in Fe/GaAs devices with n-GaAs channels. Ga and As nuclei are polarized by electrically injected electron spins, and the nuclear polarization is detected indirectly through the depolariz...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161206] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 M. K. Chan, Q. O. Hu, J. Zhang, T. Kondo, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161206 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161206 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 161206 Semiconductors I: bulk Semiconductors I: bulk http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161105 Author(s): Nan Lin, Emanuel Gull, and A. J. Millis<br/>The optical conductivity of the one-band Hubbard model is calculated using the “dynamical cluster approximation” implementation of dynamical mean-field theory for parameters appropriate to high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors. The calculation includes vertex corrections and the result d...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161105] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 Nan Lin, Emanuel Gull, and A. J. Millis 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161105 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161105 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 161105 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155135 Author(s): Wah Tung Lau (留華東), Jung-Tsung Shen (沈榮聰), and Shanhui Fan (范汕洄)<br/>We show that at the high-temperature limit, the coherent photonic thermal conductance of a multilayer photonic crystal can be significantly below the corresponding thermal conductance of vacuum. Moreover, the thermal conductance at this limit is independent of the thicknesses of the layers but depen...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155135] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 Wah Tung Lau (留華東), Jung-Tsung Shen (沈榮聰), and Shanhui Fan (范汕洄) 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155135 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155135 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 155135 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140414 Author(s): N. M. Souza-Neto, D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, O. Chmaissem, B. Dabrowski, and I. Felner<br/>Element-specific x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements at the Ru L_{3} absorption edge are used to search for the presence of a net Ru ferromagnetic moment in the superconducting state of RuSr_{2} Eu_{1.5} Ce_{0.5} Cu_{2} O_{10} . A net moment of 0.21μ_{B} /Ru is observed in zero applied...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140414] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 N. M. Souza-Neto, D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, O. Chmaissem, B. Dabrowski, and I. Felner 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140414 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140414 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 140414 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155328 Author(s): Vikas Baranwal, Giorgio Biasiol, Stefan Heun, Andrea Locatelli, Tevfik Onur Mentes, Miguel Niño Orti, and Lucia Sorba<br/>We present an experimental study of the evolution of InAs/GaAs quantum dots partially capped with GaAs, as an annealing process transforms them first into quantum rings and later into holes penetrating the whole cap layer. Shape, composition, and optical emission were monitored as a function of anne...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155328] Published Tue Oct 27, 2009 Vikas Baranwal, Giorgio Biasiol, Stefan Heun, Andrea Locatelli, Tevfik Onur Mentes, Miguel Niño Orti, and Lucia Sorba 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155328 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155328 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 155328 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155131 Author(s): Zheng-Cheng Gu and Xiao-Gang Wen<br/>We study the renormalization group flow of the Lagrangian for statistical and quantum systems by representing their path integral in terms of a tensor network. Using a tensor-entanglement-filtering renormalization approach that removes local entanglement and produces a coarse-grained lattice, we sho...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155131] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 Zheng-Cheng Gu and Xiao-Gang Wen 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155131 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155131 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 155131 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144422 Author(s): Daniel P. Shoemaker, Efrain E. Rodriguez, Ram Seshadri, Ivana Sabaj Abumohor, and Thomas Proffen<br/>Bulk specimens of the hetærolite solid solution Zn_{x} Mn_{3−x} O_{4} with x=0 , 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1 have been prepared as homogeneous, phase-pure polycrystalline samples as ascertained by neutron-diffraction measurements. Samples with x=0.25 , 0.5, and 0.75 exhibit shifted magnetic hysteresis...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 144422] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 Daniel P. Shoemaker, Efrain E. Rodriguez, Ram Seshadri, Ivana Sabaj Abumohor, and Thomas Proffen 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144422 Phys. Rev. B 80, 144422 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 144422 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140513 Author(s): E. Lengyel, M. Nicklas, H. S. Jeevan, G. Sparn, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, Y. Yoshioka, and K. Miyake<br/>Low-temperature (T) heat-capacity measurements under hydrostatic pressure of up to p≈2.1 GPa have been performed on single-crystalline CeCu_{2} Si_{2} . A broad superconducting (SC) region exists in the T-p phase diagram. In the low-pressure region antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and in the ...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140513] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 E. Lengyel, M. Nicklas, H. S. Jeevan, G. Sparn, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, Y. Yoshioka, and K. Miyake 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140513 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140513 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 140513 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140512 Author(s): D. J. Scalapino and T. P. Devereaux<br/>Calculations of the pairing interaction in multiband models of the Fe superconductors show that it is attractive in both the A_{1g} ( s -wave) and B_{1g} ( d -wave) channels. This raises the possibility that these materials may have collective excitonic modes. Here, assuming an s -wave ground state,...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140512] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 D. J. Scalapino and T. P. Devereaux 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140512 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140512 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 140512 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140511 Author(s): R. Khasanov, M. Bendele, A. Amato, P. Babkevich, A. T. Boothroyd, A. Cervellino, K. Conder, S. N. Gvasaliya, H. Keller, H.-H. Klauss, H. Luetkens, V. Pomjakushin, E. Pomjakushina, and B. Roessli<br/>We have studied the superconducting and magnetic properties of Fe_{1+y} Se_{x} Te_{1−x} single crystals (0≤x≤0.5) by magnetic susceptibility, muon-spin rotation, and neutron diffraction. We find three regimes of behavior: (i) commensurate magnetic order for x≲0.1 , (ii) bulk superconductivit...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140511] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 R. Khasanov, M. Bendele, A. Amato, P. Babkevich, A. T. Boothroyd, A. Cervellino, K. Conder, S. N. Gvasaliya, H. Keller, H.-H. Klauss, H. Luetkens, V. Pomjakushin, E. Pomjakushina, and B. Roessli 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140511 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140511 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 140511 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155322 Author(s): Christophe Mora, Pavel Vitushinsky, Xavier Leyronas, Aashish A. Clerk, and Karyn Le Hur<br/>Using a Fermi-liquid approach, we provide a comprehensive treatment of the current and current noise through a quantum dot whose low-energy behavior corresponds to an SU(N) Kondo model, focusing on the case N=4 relevant to carbon nanotube dots. We show that for general N , one needs to consider the ...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155322] Published Fri Oct 23, 2009 Christophe Mora, Pavel Vitushinsky, Xavier Leyronas, Aashish A. Clerk, and Karyn Le Hur 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155322 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155322 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 155322 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165421 Author(s): J. C. Keay, P. R. Larson, K. L. Hobbs, M. B. Johnson, J. R. Kirtley, O. M. Auslaender, and K. A. Moler<br/>We use low-temperature magnetic force microscopy (MFM) to study the hopping motion of vortices in an array of artificial pinning centers (APCs). The array consists of nanoscale holes etched in a niobium thin film by Ar-ion sputtering through an anodic aluminum-oxide template. Variable-temperature ma...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 165421] Published Thu Oct 22, 2009 J. C. Keay, P. R. Larson, K. L. Hobbs, M. B. Johnson, J. R. Kirtley, O. M. Auslaender, and K. A. Moler 2009-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165421 Phys. Rev. B 80, 165421 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 165421 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165124 Author(s): Siew-Ann Cheong and Christopher L. Henley<br/>By removing one empty site between two occupied sites, we map the ground states of chains of hardcore bosons and spinless fermions with infinite nearest-neighbor repulsion to ground states of chains of hardcore bosons and spinless fermions without nearest-neighbor repulsion, respectively, and ultima...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 165124] Published Wed Oct 21, 2009 Siew-Ann Cheong and Christopher L. Henley 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165124 Phys. Rev. B 80, 165124 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 165124 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161307 Author(s): Andrei Schliwa, Momme Winkelnkemper, Anatol Lochmann, Erik Stock, and Dieter Bimberg<br/>Self-organized In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on (111) substrate are proposed as ideal sources for the generation of entangled photon pairs. Due to the threefold rotational symmetry of the (111) surface, QDs with C_{3v} symmetry or higher are expected to develop during growth. In contrast to...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161307] Published Wed Oct 21, 2009 Andrei Schliwa, Momme Winkelnkemper, Anatol Lochmann, Erik Stock, and Dieter Bimberg 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161307 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161307 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 161307 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165122 Author(s): Atsuto Seko, Yukinori Koyama, and Isao Tanaka<br/>The cluster expansion (CE) method has been used to evaluate configurational properties in multicomponent systems based on the density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. Appropriate selections of not only clusters but also structures for DFT calculations (DFT structures) are crucial for the accura...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 165122] Published Tue Oct 20, 2009 Atsuto Seko, Yukinori Koyama, and Isao Tanaka 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165122 Phys. Rev. B 80, 165122 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 165122 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161408 Author(s): Yafis Barlas and Kun Yang<br/>We calculate the density-density response function and electron self-energy for undoped bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation. We show that the quasiparticle decay rate scales linearly with the quasiparticle energy, and quasiparticle weight vanishes logarithmically in the low-energy...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161408] Published Tue Oct 20, 2009 Yafis Barlas and Kun Yang 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161408 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161408 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 161408 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144417 Author(s): F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. P. McCulloch, and A. K. Kolezhuk<br/>We study the phase diagram of a frustrated spin- 1/2 ferromagnetic chain with anisotropic exchange interactions in an external magnetic field using the density matrix renormalization group method. We show that an easy-axis anisotropy enhances the tendency toward multimagnon bound states while an eas...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 144417] Published Tue Oct 20, 2009 F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. P. McCulloch, and A. K. Kolezhuk 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144417 Phys. Rev. B 80, 144417 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 144417 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161306 Author(s): D. L. Kovrizhin and J. T. Chalker<br/>We study nonequilibrium properties of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states at filling fraction ν=1 . For a model in which electrons interact only when they are inside the interferometer, we calculate exactly the visibility and phase of Aharonov-Bohm ...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> <img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161306] Published Mon Oct 19, 2009 D. L. Kovrizhin and J. T. Chalker 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161306 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161306 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 161306 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155435 Author(s): A. S. Rodin and M. M. Fogler<br/>Hopping transport in a one-dimensional system is studied numerically. A fast algorithm is devised to find the lowest-resistance path at arbitrary electric field. Probability distribution functions of individual resistances on the path and the net resistance are calculated and fitted to compact analy...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155435] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 A. S. Rodin and M. M. Fogler 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155435 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155435 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 155435 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155433 Author(s): K. Kummer, V. N. Sivkov, D. V. Vyalikh, V. V. Maslyuk, A. Blüher, S. V. Nekipelov, T. Bredow, I. Mertig, M. Mertig, and S. L. Molodtsov<br/>Absolute x-ray absorption cross sections of a regular bacterial surface-layer protein deposited on a naturally oxidized silicon substrate were determined experimentally. Upon separation of the partial cross sections of the three relevant 1s absorption edges, the oscillator strengths of the 1s→π^{...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155433] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 K. Kummer, V. N. Sivkov, D. V. Vyalikh, V. V. Maslyuk, A. Blüher, S. V. Nekipelov, T. Bredow, I. Mertig, M. Mertig, and S. L. Molodtsov 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155433 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155433 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 155433 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155123 Author(s): Hiroto Adachi and Manfred Sigrist<br/>Selection rules of ultrasound attenuation and sound-velocity renormalization are analyzed in view of their potential application to identify Pomeranchuk instabilities (electronic nematic phase). It is shown that the transverse sound attenuation along [110] direction is enhanced by the Fermi-surface ...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155123] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 Hiroto Adachi and Manfred Sigrist 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155123 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155123 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 155123 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144410 Author(s): G. Singh-Bhalla, A. Biswas, and A. F. Hebard<br/>The manganite (La,Pr,Ca)MnO_{3} is well known for its micrometer-scale phase separation into coexisting ferromagnetic metallic (FMM) and insulating regions. Fabrication of bridges with widths smaller than the phase-separation length scale has allowed us to probe the magnetic properties of individual...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 144410] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 G. Singh-Bhalla, A. Biswas, and A. F. Hebard 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.144410 Phys. Rev. B 80, 144410 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 144410 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.134511 Author(s): Matthias Eschrig<br/>I derive a general set of boundary conditions for quasiclassical transport theory of metals and superconductors that is valid for equilibrium and nonequilibrium situations and includes multiband systems, weakly and strongly spin-polarized systems, and disordered systems. The formulation is in terms ...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 134511] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 Matthias Eschrig 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.134511 Phys. Rev. B 80, 134511 text/html article Physical Review B 80 13 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 134511 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165116 Author(s): Mario Zacharias, Peter Wölfle, and Markus Garst<br/>As a paradigmatic example of multiscale quantum criticality, we consider the Pomeranchuk instability of an isotropic Fermi liquid in two spatial dimensions, d=2 . The corresponding Ginzburg-Landau theory for the quadrupolar fluctuations of the Fermi surface consists of two coupled modes, critical at...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 165116] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 Mario Zacharias, Peter Wölfle, and Markus Garst 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165116 Phys. Rev. B 80, 165116 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 165116 Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155425 Author(s): Nasim Alem, Rolf Erni, Christian Kisielowski, Marta D. Rossell, Will Gannett, and A. Zettl<br/>We present a method to prepare monolayer and multilayer suspended sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), using a combination of mechanical exfoliation and reactive ion etching. Ultrahigh-resolution transmission electron microscope imaging is employed to resolve the atoms, and intensity profiles f...<br/><img src="http://prb.aps.org/files/SuggestionPRB30x30.jpg" alt="PRB Editors' Suggestion"/><br/> [Phys. Rev. B 80, 155425] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 Nasim Alem, Rolf Erni, Christian Kisielowski, Marta D. Rossell, Will Gannett, and A. Zettl 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155425 Phys. Rev. B 80, 155425 text/html article Physical Review B 80 15 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 155425 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems