http://prb.aps.org/ Rapid Communications published in Phys. Rev. B en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-06T22:15:05-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-06T22:15:05-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201402 Author(s): T. Vekua<br/>Low-temperature dependence of specific heat of one-dimensional multicomponent systems at the commensurate-incommensurate phase transition point is studied. It is found that for canonical systems, with a fixed total number of particles, low-temperature specific heat linearly depends on temperature wi...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201402] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 T. Vekua 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201402 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201402 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 201402 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180406 Author(s): C. D. Batista<br/>We derive the exact ground states for a one-dimensional family of S=1/2 XXZ Hamiltonians on the zigzag ladder. These states exhibit true long-range spiral order that spontaneously breaks the U(1) invariance of the Hamiltonian. Besides breaking a continuous symmetry in d=1 , this spiral ordering has ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180406] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 C. D. Batista 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180406 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180406 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 180406 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180503 Author(s): Yue Zou (邹悦), Gil Refael, and Jongsoo Yoon<br/>The magnetically driven superconductor-insulator transition in amorphous thin films (e.g., InO and Ta) exhibits several mysterious phenomena, such as a putative metallic phase and a huge magnetoresistance peak. Unfortunately, several conflicting categories of theories, particularly quantum-vortex co...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180503] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Yue Zou (邹悦), Gil Refael, and Jongsoo Yoon 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180503 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180503 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 180503 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180201 Author(s): Masanori Inui, Kenji Maruyama, Yukio Kajihara, and Masaru Nakada<br/>X-ray diffraction measurements were carried out for liquid iron near the melting temperature and atomic configurations were constructed from the structure factor S(Q) obtained, by reverse Monte Carlo modeling and Monte Carlo simulation with the effective pair potential deduced by the inverse method....<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180201] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Masanori Inui, Kenji Maruyama, Yukio Kajihara, and Masaru Nakada 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180201 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180201 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 180201 Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180405 Author(s): Takahumi Suzuki, Yusuke Tomita, and Naoki Kawashima<br/>We study magnetic properties of the spin- 1/2 Ising-like XXZ model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattices with long-range interactions, using the quantum Monte Carlo method. This model shows magnetization plateau phases at one-half and one-third of the saturation magnetization when additional couplings ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180405] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Takahumi Suzuki, Yusuke Tomita, and Naoki Kawashima 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180405 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180405 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 180405 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180404 Author(s): T. Okuda, J. Lobo-Checa, W. Auwärter, M. Morscher, M. Hoesch, V. N. Petrov, M. Hengsberger, A. Tamai, A. Dolocan, C. Cirelli, M. Corso, M. Muntwiler, M. Klöckner, M. Roos, J. Osterwalder, and T. Greber<br/>The valence-band electronic structure of a clean Ni(111) surface is investigated by spin-resolved photoemission. At room temperature the orientation of the photoelectron spins on the Bloch sphere and the exchange splitting of surface and bulk states along the surface normal (Γ [over ¯] ) are deter...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180404] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 T. Okuda, J. Lobo-Checa, W. Auwärter, M. Morscher, M. Hoesch, V. N. Petrov, M. Hengsberger, A. Tamai, A. Dolocan, C. Cirelli, M. Corso, M. Muntwiler, M. Klöckner, M. Roos, J. Osterwalder, and T. Greber 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180404 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180404 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 180404 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201401 Author(s): G. Vecchi, V. Giannini, and J. Gómez Rivas<br/>Lattice surface modes in two-dimensional plasmonic crystals of metallic nanoantennas are sustained by the diffractive coupling between localized plasmon resonances. We have investigated experimentally the dispersion of these modes by combining variable-angle transmittance and reflectance spectroscop...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201401] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 G. Vecchi, V. Giannini, and J. Gómez Rivas 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201401 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201401 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 201401 Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems 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.80.180401 Author(s): Christopher L. Henley<br/>Following Huse and Rutenberg [Phys. Rev. B 45, 7536 (1992)], I argue the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice has long-range spin order of the sqrt[3] × sqrt[3] type in the limit of zero temperature. I start from the effective quartic Hamiltonian for the soft (out of plane) sp...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180401] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Christopher L. Henley 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180401 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180401 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 180401 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180402 Author(s): Wei-Guo Yin and Wei Ku<br/>We present an approximative simulation method for quantum many-body systems based on coarse graining the space of the momentum transferred between interacting particles, which leads to effective Hamiltonians of reduced size with the flavor-twisted boundary condition. A rapid, accurate, and fast conv...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180402] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Wei-Guo Yin and Wei Ku 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180402 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180402 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 180402 Magnetism Magnetism 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.80.180403 Author(s): J.-S. Lee, E. Vescovo, C.-C. Kao, J.-M. Beaujour, A. D. Kent, H. Jang, J.-Y. Kim, J.-H. Park, and J. H. Shim<br/>The microscopic origin of the Landé g -factor in two ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic (FM/NM) bilayer systems-Co/Cu and Ni/Pd-has been investigated using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, resonant magnetic reflectivity, and band calculations. The FM/NM bilayer represents the building block of any complet...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 180403] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 J.-S. Lee, E. Vescovo, C.-C. Kao, J.-M. Beaujour, A. D. Kent, H. Jang, J.-Y. Kim, J.-H. Park, and J. H. Shim 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180403 Phys. Rev. B 80, 180403 text/html article Physical Review B 80 18 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 180403 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201301 Author(s): Fernando Domínguez and Gloria Platero<br/>We apply an elementary measurement scheme to calculate the electronic triplet-singlet transition mediated by hyperfine interaction in a double-quantum dot. We show how the local character of the hyperfine interaction and the nuclear back-action process (flip-flop) are crucial to cancel destructive i...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201301] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Fernando Domínguez and Gloria Platero 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201301 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201301 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 201301 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201304 Author(s): Giancarlo Cicero, Andrea Ferretti, and Alessandra Catellani<br/>In this work we use ab initio calculations to address the polar behavior of ZnO nanowires. Moving from a description based on Wannier functions, we employ a computational approach that allows one to express the polarization of a nanostructure in terms of local contributions. In particular, we discus...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201304] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Giancarlo Cicero, Andrea Ferretti, and Alessandra Catellani 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201304 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201304 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 201304 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201302 Author(s): A. D. Güçlü, C. J. Umrigar, Hong Jiang, and Harold U. Baranger<br/>We study interaction-induced localization of electrons in an inhomogeneous quasi-one-dimensional system—a wire with two regions, one at low density and the other high. Quantum Monte Carlo techniques are used to treat the strong Coulomb interactions in the low-density region, where localization of ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201302] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 A. D. Güçlü, C. J. Umrigar, Hong Jiang, and Harold U. Baranger 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201302 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201302 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 201302 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201303 Author(s): Z. Papić, N. Regnault, and S. Das Sarma<br/>We analyze transitions between quantum Hall ground states at prominent filling factors ν in the spherical geometry by tuning the width parameter of the Zhang-Das Sarma interaction potential. We find that incompressible ground states evolve adiabatically under this tuning, whereas the compressible o...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 201303] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Z. Papić, N. Regnault, and S. Das Sarma 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201303 Phys. Rev. B 80, 201303 text/html article Physical Review B 80 20 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 201303 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140516 Author(s): SeongHoon Jung, Jooyeon Kim, E. J. Choi, Y. Sekio, T. Kimura, and J. Lorenzana<br/>We have obtained mid-infrared optical absorption spectra of the S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional CuO using polarized transmission measurement and interpreted the spectra in terms of phonon-assisted magnetic excitations. When the electric field is parallel to the main antiferromagnetic direction a Δ shap...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140516] Published Fri Oct 30, 2009 SeongHoon Jung, Jooyeon Kim, E. J. Choi, Y. Sekio, T. Kimura, and J. Lorenzana 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140516 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140516 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 140516 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161106 Author(s): Lin Chen, Guo Ping Wang, Qiaoqiang Gan, and Filbert J. Bartoli<br/>We theoretically demonstrate that a metallic film covered by a dielectric grating of graded thickness can strongly slow light as the propagation velocities of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are reduced over a large frequency bandwidth at visible frequencies. Since the dispersive relation of SPPs ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161106] Published Fri Oct 30, 2009 Lin Chen, Guo Ping Wang, Qiaoqiang Gan, and Filbert J. Bartoli 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161106 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161106 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 161106 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.80.161207 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.80.140201 Author(s): Akihiko Hirata, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, Kenji Amiya, Nobuyuki Nishiyama, and Akihisa Inoue<br/>We have found nanoscale quasicrystal-like structural states exhibiting pseudotenfold nanobeam electron-diffraction patterns in the course of nanocrystallization process of an Fe_{23} B_{6} structure in an (Fe_{0.5} Co_{0.5} )_{72} B_{20} Si_{4} Nb_{4} metallic glass. An existence of the intermediate...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140201] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 Akihiko Hirata, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, Kenji Amiya, Nobuyuki Nishiyama, and Akihisa Inoue 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140201 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140201 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 140201 Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems 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.80.140415 Author(s): Tianyi Cai, Sheng Ju, Jaekwang Lee, Na Sai, Alexander A. Demkov, Qian Niu, Zhenya Li, Junren Shi, and Enge Wang<br/>Ferromagnet/ferroelectric/normal-metal superlattices are proposed to realize the large room-temperature magnetoelectric effect. Spin-dependent electron screening is the fundamental mechanism at the microscopic level. We also predict an electric control of magnetization in this structure. The natural...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140415] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 Tianyi Cai, Sheng Ju, Jaekwang Lee, Na Sai, Alexander A. Demkov, Qian Niu, Zhenya Li, Junren Shi, and Enge Wang 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140415 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140415 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 140415 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140416 Author(s): Randy S. Fishman, Satoshi Okamoto, and Joel S. Miller<br/>Several molecule-based magnets can be constructed from diruthenium tetracarboxylate building blocks. We study two such materials with antiferromagnetic interactions between Cr(III) ions and diruthenium paddle-wheel complexes. While collinear magnetic ordering in the three-dimensional compound is fru...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140416] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 Randy S. Fishman, Satoshi Okamoto, and Joel S. Miller 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140416 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140416 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 140416 Magnetism Magnetism http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140102 Author(s): S. Lisenkov and I. Ponomareva<br/>Electrocaloric effect (ECE) in (Ba_{0.5} Sr_{0.5} )TiO_{3} ferroelectric alloys is calculated from first principles using a computational scheme that combines canonical and microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations. Our results are in very good agreement with the available experimental data and reveal ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140102] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 S. Lisenkov and I. Ponomareva 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140102 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140102 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 140102 Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects 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.80.140514 Author(s): J. Gutierrez, A. V. Silhanek, J. Van de Vondel, W. Gillijns, and V. V. Moshchalkov<br/>We revisit the vortex dynamics in Al thin films containing an artificial periodic array of antidots by means of electrical transport measurements. We clearly identify a turbulent to laminarlike vortex flow transition which manifests itself as a negative differential resistivity. This transition is a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140514] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 J. Gutierrez, A. V. Silhanek, J. Van de Vondel, W. Gillijns, and V. V. Moshchalkov 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140514 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140514 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 140514 Superfluidity and superconductivity Superfluidity and superconductivity 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.80.161206 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.80.161311 Author(s): Thierry Champel and Serge Florens<br/>Motivated by high-accuracy scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on disordered two-dimensional electron gases in strong magnetic field, we present an expression for the local density of states (LDoS) of electrons moving in a smooth arbitrary potential landscape on the scale of the magnetic le...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 161311] Published Wed Oct 28, 2009 Thierry Champel and Serge Florens 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.161311 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161311 text/html article Physical Review B 80 16 2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 161311 Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140412 Author(s): Yuichi Yamasaki, Yuki Kohara, and Yoshinori Tokura<br/>The magnetoelectric response and its quantum relaxation phenomenon have been investigated for a single crystal of yttrium iron garnet. The electric-dipole moments, built in by excess localized electrons forming Fe^{2+} sites, never freeze even at the lowest temperature and relax through a quantum tu...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. B 80, 140412] Published Tue Oct 27, 2009 Yuichi Yamasaki, Yuki Kohara, and Yoshinori Tokura 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140412 Phys. Rev. B 80, 140412 text/html article Physical Review B 80 14 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 140412 Magnetism Magnetism