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Triangular growth spirals on a Bi 2Se 3 film imaged via scanning tunneling microscopy. [Y. Liu, Y. Y. Li, D. Gilks, V. K. Lazarov, M. Weinert, and L. Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186804 (2013) ]
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May 3, 2013
Simulations show that breaking ocean waves contribute most of their energy to the air, rather than the water, which could affect cloud formation and climate evolution. [Focus on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184504 (2013)] Read Article | More Focus |
May 2, 2013
Cosmic-ray-induced discharges from tiny bits of water or ice in thunderclouds may explain how a lightning strike is initiated. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185005 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
May 2, 2013
Thousands of coupled lasers offer a new way to study how frustrated systems behave. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184102 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
May 2, 2013
Researchers unveil the first chemically sensitive transmission electron microscope with single-atom resolution. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185507 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
March 12, 2013 Readers can now conveniently access APS journals from home, on mobile devices, or while traveling by linking their institution’s subscriptions to their personal APS Journal Account. To link the subscriptions, simply click on the new Go Mobile! button that appears on article pages when accessing the journals from your institution.
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March 11, 2013  Headed to the 2013 APS March meeting in Baltimore? Join us Wednesday March 20th for beer, pizza, and what is certain to be an excellent talk by Nobel laureate Bill Phillips.
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February 13, 2013 The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for the leading Editor of Physical Review Letters (PRL).
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February 6, 2013 The editors of the APS journals have selected 142 new Outstanding Referees for 2013, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2013 honorees come from 27 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.
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October 16, 2012 Today ORCID opened its registry allowing researchers in all fields and from around the world to distinguish themselves by registering for their own unique identifier. APS has been a long-time supporter of ORCID and, as one of the official Launch Partners, we have updated our author profile application so that authors may register their ORCID within our database of authors and referees. Widespread adoption of ORCID identifiers will improve the scholarly record and help researchers receive proper credit for all of their contributions. To get started, simply visit the APS Author Profile application.
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October 9, 2012  The APS congratulates Serge Haroche and David WIneland for their 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. They and their collaborators have made significant advances in the realization of quantum phenomena with many beautiful experiments. Their ability to manipulate atoms and photons to demonstrate fundamental aspects of quantum physics has been documented in many journal articles. We are very pleased that much of this seminal work has been published in the APS journals Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, and Reviews of Modern Physics. To honor these laureates and their collaborators, we have made freely available five of their many APS publications that demonstrate some of the key insights of their pioneering work.
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September 25, 2012 Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes in Physics and Fluid Dynamics. Raymond E. Goldstein, Patrick B. Warren, and Robin C. Ball received a share of the Physics prize for their work on the shape and motion of human hair when bundled in a ponytail, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 078101 (2012). For additional information, see Ponytail Physics for a brief synopsis published in Physics. Rebecca Thompson, APS's Head of Public Outreach, wrote on the Physics Central blog about her attempt to duplicate the ponytail research. H.C. Mayer and R. Krechetnikov took home the Fluid Dynamics prize for their study on the dynamics of sloshing coffee, Phys. Rev. E 85, 046117 (2012), which was highlighted in Physics, Science of Slosh, back in April 2012. We also note that our very own prognosticator, Brian Jacobsmeyer, predicted both winners back in July (http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2012/07/who-will-win-ig-nobel-prize.html).
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July 12, 2012 The American Physical Society is pleased to announce the availability of a new "Saved Search" feature on our journal platform. With Saved Searches, you can receive daily updates based on any search criteria available in our search engine. Use them to track specific keywords, the publications of your colleagues at your institution, new publications that cite your work (if your name is unique enough), and much more. You may choose to receive your updates via email or RSS feeds. To save a search, first log in using your APS Journal account, do a search, and then simply save it on the search results page.
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To promote reading across fields, the editors of Physical Review Letters offer "Suggestions" each week of papers that they hope will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Please see our Announcement PRL 98, 010001 (2007).
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A. Iafrati, A. Babanin, and M. Onorato
We use direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a two-phase flow (water and air) to study the dynamics of the modulational instability of free surface waves and its contribution to the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere. If the steepness of the initial wave exceeds a ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184504 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, and Nir Davidson
Geometric frustration, the inability of an ordered system to find a unique ground state plays a key role in a wide range of systems. We present a new experimental approach to observe large-scale geometric frustration with 1500 negatively coupled lasers arranged in a kagome lattice. We show how dissi...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184102 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
W. Cassing, O. Linnyk, T. Steinert, and V. Ozvenchuk
We study the electric conductivity of hot QCD matter at various temperatures T within the off-shell parton-hadron-string dynamics transport approach for interacting partonic, hadronic or mixed systems in a finite box with periodic boundary conditions. The response of the strongly interacting system ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 182301 (2013)] Published Wed May 1, 2013
P. Cristofolini, A. Dreismann, G. Christmann, G. Franchetti, N. G. Berloff, P. Tsotsis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, and J. J. Baumberg
Semiconductor microcavities are used to support freely flowing polariton quantum liquids allowing the direct observation and optical manipulation of macroscopic quantum states. Incoherent optical excitation at a point produces radially expanding condensate clouds within the planar geometry. By using...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186403 (2013)] Published Wed May 1, 2013
Julian S. Evans, Yaoran Sun, Bohdan Senyuk, Patrick Keller, Victor M. Pergamenshchik, Taewoo Lee, and Ivan I. Smalyukh
Active elastomeric liquid crystal particles with initial cylindrical shapes are obtained by means of soft lithography and polymerization in a strong magnetic field. Gold nanocrystals infiltrated into these particles mediate energy transfer from laser light to heat, so that the inherent coupling betw...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 187802 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Carlos E. Colosqui, Jeffrey F. Morris, and Howard A. Stone
We study the hydrodynamics of dip coating from a suspension and report a mechanism for colloidal assembly and pattern formation on smooth substrates. Below a critical withdrawal speed where the coating film is thinner than the particle diameter, capillary forces induced by deformation of the free su...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 188302 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 30, 2013
Nigel R. Cooper and Jean Dalibard
We present a robust scheme by which fractional quantum Hall states of bosons can be achieved for ultracold atomic gases. We describe a new form of optical flux lattice, suitable for commonly used atomic species with ground state angular momentum Jg=1, for which the lowest energy band is topological ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185301 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Ashivni Shekhawat, Stefano Zapperi, and James P. Sethna
We present a unified theory of fracture in disordered brittle media that reconciles apparently conflicting results reported in the literature. Our renormalization group based approach yields a phase diagram in which the percolation fixed point, expected for infinite disorder, is unstable for finite ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185505 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
N. Y. Yao, A. V. Gorshkov, C. R. Laumann, A. M. Läuchli, J. Ye, and M. D. Lukin
Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behavior controlled by topology. We predict that the ν=1/2 fractional Chern insulator arises naturally in a two-dimensional array of driven, dipolar-interacting spins. As a specific implementation, we analyze how to prepare and detect synthetic ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185302 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Sinisa Coh, Will Gannett, A. Zettl, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie
Under the application of electrical currents, metal nanocrystals inside carbon nanotubes can be bodily transported. We examine experimentally and theoretically how an iron nanocrystal can pass through a constriction in the carbon nanotube with a smaller cross-sectional area than the nanocrystal itse...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185901 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 29, 2013
Nicolas Vandenberghe, Romain Vermorel, and Emmanuel Villermaux
Broken thin brittle plates like windows and windshields are ubiquitous in our environment. When impacted locally, they typically present a pattern of cracks extending radially outward from the impact point. We study the variation of the pattern of cracks by performing controlled transverse impacts o...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 174302 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 26, 2013
Jae-yoon Choi, Sang Won Seo, and Yong-il Shin
We measure the in-plane distribution of thermally activated vortices in a trapped quasi-2D Bose gas, where we enhance the visibility of density-depleted vortex cores by radially compressing the sample before releasing the trap. The pairing of vortices is revealed by the two-vortex spatial correlatio...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 175302 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 25, 2013
Tim J. Bartley, Gaia Donati, Xian-Min Jin, Animesh Datta, Marco Barbieri, and Ian A. Walmsley
Nonclassical states of light are necessary resources for quantum technologies such as cryptography, computation and the definition of metrological standards. Observing signatures of nonclassicality generally requires inferring either the photon number distribution or a quasiprobability distribution ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 173602 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 25, 2013
S. Heitkam, Y. Yoshitake, F. Toquet, D. Langevin, and A. Salonen
We show an increase of the sedimentation velocity as small particles are confined in circular capillaries. In general, confinement slows down sedimentation. But, we show that at low Reynolds numbers and in 1D confinement this is not the case. Particle sedimentation velocity is not homogeneous, which...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 178302 (2013)] Published Wed Apr 24, 2013
V. S. Zapasskii, A. Greilich, S. A. Crooker, Yan Li, G. G. Kozlov, D. R. Yakovlev, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and M. Bayer
Spontaneous fluctuations of the magnetization of a spin system in thermodynamic equilibrium (spin noise) manifest themselves as noise in the Faraday rotation of probe light. We show that the correlation properties of this noise over the optical spectrum can provide clear information about the compos...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 176601 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 23, 2013
Giuseppe Castaldi, Silvio Savoia, Vincenzo Galdi, Andrea Alù, and Nader Engheta
We extend the transformation-optics paradigm to a complex spatial coordinate domain, in order to deal with electromagnetic metamaterials characterized by balanced loss and gain, giving special emphasis to parity-time (PT) symmetric metamaterials. We apply this general theory to complex-source-point ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 173901 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 23, 2013
Kuang Chen, Scott T. Sullivan, Wade G. Rellergert, and Eric R. Hudson
Samples of ultracold 174Yb+ ions, confined in a linear radio-frequency Paul trap, are heated via micromotion interruption, while their temperature, density, and therefore structural phase are monitored and simulated. The observed time evolution of the ion temperature is compared to a theoretical mod...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 173003 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 23, 2013
Ariel Haimovici, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Pablo Balenzuela, and Dante R. Chialvo
The relation between large-scale brain structure and function is an outstanding open problem in neuroscience. We approach this problem by studying the dynamical regime under which realistic spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity emerge from the empirically derived network of human brain neuroanat...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 178101 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 22, 2013
Chad R. Galley
Hamilton’s principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton’s principle has a subtle pitfall that often goes unnoticed in physics: it is formulated as a boundary val...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 174301 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 22, 2013
Huan Yang, Haixing Miao, Da-Shin Lee, Bassam Helou, and Yanbei Chen
We apply the many-particle Schrödinger-Newton equation, which describes the coevolution of a many-particle quantum wave function and a classical space-time geometry, to macroscopic mechanical objects. By averaging over motions of the objects’ internal degrees of freedom, we obtain an effective Schrö...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 170401 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 22, 2013
Andrew Forrester, Han-Ching Chu, and Gary A. Williams
An exact analytic solution for the dynamics of vortex pairs is obtained for rapid temperature quenches of a superfluid film starting from the line of critical points below the critical temperature TKT. An approximate solution for quenches at and above above TKT provides insights into the origin of l...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 165303 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 19, 2013
Jiasen Jin, Davide Rossini, Rosario Fazio, Martin Leib, and Michael J. Hartmann
We introduce and study the properties of an array of QED cavities coupled by nonlinear elements, in the presence of photon leakage and driven by a coherent source. The nonlinear couplings lead to photon hopping and to nearest-neighbor Kerr terms. By tuning the system parameters, the steady state of ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 163605 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 18, 2013
Stefan Nimmrichter and Klaus Hornberger
We propose an experimentally accessible, objective measure for the macroscopicity of superposition states in mechanical quantum systems. Based on the observable consequences of a minimal, macrorealist extension of quantum mechanics, it allows one to quantify the degree of macroscopicity achieved in ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 160403 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 18, 2013
Michele Starnini, Andrea Baronchelli, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Face-to-face interaction networks describe social interactions in human gatherings, and are the substrate for processes such as epidemic spreading and gossip propagation. The bursty nature of human behavior characterizes many aspects of empirical data, such as the distribution of conversation length...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 168701 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 15, 2013
Ryotaro Inoue, Shin-Ichi-Ro Tanaka, Ryo Namiki, Takahiro Sagawa, and Yoshiro Takahashi
We demonstrate unconditional quantum-noise suppression in a collective spin system via feedback control based on quantum nondemolition measurement. We perform shot-noise limited collective spin measurements on an ensemble of 3.7×105 laser-cooled 171Yb atoms in their spin-1/2 ground states. Correlati...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 163602 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 15, 2013
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
Kurt Gibble
Frequency shifts from background-gas collisions currently contribute significantly to the inaccuracy of atomic clocks. Because nearly all collisions with room-temperature background gases that transfer momentum eject the cold atoms from the clock, the interference between the scattered and unscatter...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 180802 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Yaniv Edery, Alexander B. Kostinski, Satya N. Majumdar, and Brian Berkowitz
We examine distance record setting by a random walker in the presence of a measurement error δ and additive noise γ and show that the mean number of (upper) records up to n steps still grows universally as ⟨Rn⟩∼n1/2 for large n for all jump densities, including Lévy distributions, and for all δ and ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 180602 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Elementary Particles and Fields
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
Bottom baryons decaying to a J/ψ meson and a hyperon are reconstructed using 1.0 fb-1 of data collected in 2011 with the LHCb detector. Significant Λb0→J/ψΛ, Ξb-→J/ψΞ- and Ωb-→J/ψΩ- signals are observed and the corresponding masses are measured to be M(Λb0)=5619.53±0.13(stat.)±0.45(syst.) MeV/c2, ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 182001 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
S. Cohen, M. M. Harb, A. Ollagnier, F. Robicheaux, M. J. J. Vrakking, T. Barillot, F. Lépine, and C. Bordas
In the 1980s Demkov, Kondratovich, and Ostrovsky and Kondratovich and Ostrovsky proposed an experiment based on the projection of slow electrons emitted by a photoionized atom onto a position-sensitive detector. In the case of resonant excitation, they predicted that the spatial electron distributio...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 183001 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
A. Iafrati, A. Babanin, and M. Onorato
We use direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a two-phase flow (water and air) to study the dynamics of the modulational instability of free surface waves and its contribution to the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere. If the steepness of the initial wave exceeds a ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184504 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Suman Chakraborty, Dipankar Chatterjee, and Chirodeep Bakli
We discover a nonlinear coupling between the hydrophobicity of a charged substrate and electrokinetic pumping in narrow fluidic confinements. Our analyses demonstrate that the effective electrokinetic transport in nanochannels may get massively amplified over a regime of bare surface potentials and ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184503 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
A. Szorkovszky, G. A. Brawley, A. C. Doherty, and W. P. Bowen
We experimentally surpass the 3 dB limit to steady-state parametric squeezing of a mechanical oscillator. The localization of an atomic force microscope cantilever, achieved by optimal estimation, is enhanced by up to 6.2 dB in one position quadrature when a detuned parametric drive is used. This sq...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184301 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, and Nir Davidson
Geometric frustration, the inability of an ordered system to find a unique ground state plays a key role in a wide range of systems. We present a new experimental approach to observe large-scale geometric frustration with 1500 negatively coupled lasers arranged in a kagome lattice. We show how dissi...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184102 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
P. A. Zhokhov and A. M. Zheltikov
Shock-wave formation is a generic scenario of wave dynamics known in nonlinear acoustics, fluid dynamics, astrophysics, seismology, and detonation physics. Here, we show that, in nonlinear optics, remarkably short, attosecond shock transients can be generated through a strongly coupled spatial and t...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 183903 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
J. Szasz, M. Kiss, I. Santa, S. Szatmari, and S. V. Kukhlevsky
Magnetoelectric confinement and stabilization of the plasma column in a soft-x-ray Ar+8 laser, which is excited by a capillary Z pinch, via the combined magnetic and electric fields of the gliding surface discharge is experimentally demonstrated. Unlike soft-x-ray lasers excited by the conventional ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 183902 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Plasma and Beam Physics
A. Buck, J. Wenz, J. Xu, K. Khrennikov, K. Schmid, M. Heigoldt, J. M. Mikhailova, M. Geissler, B. Shen, F. Krausz, S. Karsch, and L. Veisz
We report the generation of stable and tunable electron bunches with very low absolute energy spread (ΔE≈5 MeV) accelerated in laser wakefields via injection and trapping at a sharp downward density jump produced by a shock front in a supersonic gas flow. The peak of the highly stable and reproduci...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185006 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
A. V. Gurevich and A. N. Karashtin
The particular electric pulse discharges are observed in thunderclouds during the initiation stage of negative cloud-to-ground lightning. The discharges are quite different from conventional streamers or leaders. A detailed analysis reveals that the shape of the pulses is determined by the runaway b...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185005 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Kimin Kim, Jong-Kyu Park, and Allen H. Boozer
This Letter presents the first numerical verification for the bounce-harmonic (BH) resonance phenomena of the neoclassical transport in a tokamak perturbed by nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields. The BH resonances were predicted by analytic theories of neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV), as the paral...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185004 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
N. S. Ginzburg, A. M. Malkin, A. S. Sergeev, I. V. Zotova, V. Yu. Zaslavsky, and I. V. Zheleznov
We consider the superradiance of an extended relativistic electron bunch moving over a periodically corrugated surface for the generation of multimegawatt terahertz pulses. To study the above process we have developed a three-dimensional, self-consistent, quasioptical theory of Cherenkov stimulated ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 184801 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Kun Chen, Yuan Huang, Youjin Deng, A. B. Kuklov, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov
Quantum transition points in the J-Q model—the test bed of the deconfined critical point theory—and the SU(2)-symmetric discrete noncompact CP1 representation of the deconfined critical action are directly compared by the flowgram method. We find that the flows of two systems coincide in a broad reg...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185701 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
K. W. Urban, J. Mayer, J. R. Jinschek, M. J. Neish, N. R. Lugg, and L. J. Allen
Newly developed achromatic electron optics allows the use of wide energy windows and makes feasible energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) at atomic resolution. In this Letter we present EFTEM images formed using electrons that have undergone a silicon L2,3 core-shell energy loss, ...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185507 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
R. Banerjee, J. Novák, C. Frank, C. Lorch, A. Hinderhofer, A. Gerlach, and F. Schreiber
We present depth-resolved grazing incidence x-ray diffraction, grazing incidence small angle scattering and x-ray reflectivity studies on the structure of mixed C60 and diindinoperylene (DIP) films as a function of the mixing ratio. We observe enhanced out-of-plane order and smoothing of the mixed f...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185506 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Wei Ren, Yurong Yang, Oswaldo Diéguez, Jorge Íñiguez, Narayani Choudhury, and L. Bellaiche
First-principles calculations are performed to investigate energetic and atomistic characteristics of ferroelectric domains walls (DWs) of BiFeO3 (BFO) films subject to compressive strain. Significantly lower DW energies than those previously reported, and a different energetic hierarchy between the...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 187601 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Yasuyuki Hirata, Makoto Nakajima, Yusuke Nomura, Hiroyuki Tajima, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Keiko Asoh, Yoko Kiuchi, Adolfo G. Eguiluz, Ryotaro Arita, Tohru Suemoto, and Kenya Ohgushi
The structural, electronic, and optical properties of pyrochlore-type Pb2Ir2O6O0.55′, which is a metal without spatial inversion symmetry at room temperature, were investigated. Structural analysis revealed that the structural distortion relevant to the breakdown of the inversion symmetry is dominat...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 187402 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
P. S. Keatley, P. Gangmei, M. Dvornik, R. J. Hicken, J. Grollier, and C. Ulysse
Dynamic dipolar interactions between spin wave eigenmodes of closely spaced nanomagnets determine the collective behavior of magnonic and spintronic metamaterials and devices. However, dynamic dipolar interactions are difficult to quantify since their effects must be disentangled from those of stati...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 187202 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
F. Kretzschmar, B. Muschler, T. Böhm, A. Baum, R. Hackl, Hai-Hu Wen, V. Tsurkan, J. Deisenhofer, and A. Loidl
We show that electronic Raman scattering affords a window into the essential properties of the pairing potential Vk,k′ of iron-based superconductors. In Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 we observe band dependent energy gaps along with excitonic Bardasis-Schrieffer modes characterizing, respectively, the dominant and...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 187002 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
O. P. Sushkov and A. H. Castro Neto
We propose that ordinary semiconductors with large spin-orbit coupling, such as GaAs, can host stable, robust, and tunable topological states in the presence of quantum confinement and superimposed potentials with hexagonal symmetry. We show that the electronic gaps which support chiral spin edge st...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186601 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
Arjun K. Pathak, D. Paudyal, Y. Mudryk, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V. K. Pecharsky
Unique from other rare earth dialuminides, PrAl2 undergoes a cubic to tetragonal distortion below T=30 K in a zero magnetic field, but the system recovers its cubic symmetry upon the application of an external magnetic field of 10 kOe via a lifting of the 4f crystal field splitting. The nuclear Sch...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186405 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
S. Gardonio, M. Karolak, T. O. Wehling, L. Petaccia, S. Lizzit, A. Goldoni, A. I. Lichtenstein, and C. Carbone
We report photoemission experiments revealing the valence electron spectral function of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni atoms on the Ag (100) surface. The series of spectra shows splittings of higher energy features which decrease with the filling of the 3d shell and a highly nonmonotonic evolution of spectral w...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186404 (2013)] Published Fri May 3, 2013
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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 189901 (2013)] Published Thu May 2, 2013
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General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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Plasma and Beam Physics
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
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Gia-Wei Chern and R. Moessner
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I. Paul, C. Pépin, and M. R. Norman
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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
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