Condensed Matter

Authors and titles for March 2015

[1] arXiv:1503.00012 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of Kerr and Faraday rotations and linear dichroism in Topological Weyl Semimetals

Mehdi Kargarian, Mohit Randeria, Nandini Trivedi

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports, 5, 12683 (2015)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[2] arXiv:1503.00014 [pdf, other]

Title: Phonon mediated spin relaxation in a moving quantum dot: Doppler shift, Cherenkov radiation, and spin relaxation boom

Xinyu Zhao, Peihao Huang, Xuedong Hu

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6, 23169 (2016)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[3] arXiv:1503.00020 [pdf, other]

Title: Local Structure Analysis in $Ab$ $Initio$ Liquid Water

Biswajit Santra, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Fausto Martelli, Roberto Car

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Molecular Physics 113, 829 (2015)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[4] arXiv:1503.00025 [pdf, other]

Title: Metal-Insulator-Transition in a Weakly interacting Disordered Electron System

C. E. Ekuma, S.-X. Yang, H. Terletska, K.-M. Tam, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, J. Moreno, M. Jarrell

Comments: 10 Pages, 8 Figures with Supplementary materials included

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 201114 (2015)

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)

[5] arXiv:1503.00027 [pdf, other]

Title: Martensitic Transformation Precursors: Phonon Theory and Critical Experiments

Yu U. Wang, Yongmei M. Jin

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, to be presented as Invited Talk on Displacive Transformations at International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials (PTM2015)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[6] arXiv:1503.00029 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of chemical pressure on the magnetic ground states of the osmate double perovskites SrCaCoOsO6 and Ca2CoOsO6

Ryan Morrow, Jiaqiang Yan, Michael A. McGuire, John W. Freeland, Daniel Haskel, Patrick M. Woodward

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 094435 (2015)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[7] arXiv:1503.00047 [pdf, other]

Title: Distinct magnetic signatures of fractional vortex configurations in multiband superconductors

R. M. da Silva, M. V. Milošević, D. Domínguez, F. M. Peeters, J. Albino Aguiar

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 232601 (2014)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[8] arXiv:1503.00048 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-affine fluctuations and the Statistics of Defect Precursors in the Planar Honeycomb Lattice

Amartya Mitra (TIFR, Hyderabad), Saswati Ganguly (IACS, Kolkata), Surajit Sengupta (TIFR, Hyderabad), Peter Sollich (King's College London)

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, IOP format

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[9] arXiv:1503.00052 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissipative dynamics of entangled finite-spin systems with non-competitive external fields

Koichi Nakagawa

Comments: LaTeX, 10 pages, 12 figures, Eqs. (19) and (20) have been modified

Journal-ref: Hoshi Journal of General Education, No. 33, 2015, p.1-14

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[10] arXiv:1503.00058 [pdf, other]

Title: Synchronization and extinction in cyclic games with mixed strategies

Ben Intoy, Michel Pleimling

Comments: 26 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in the Physical Review E

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 91, 052135 (2015)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[11] arXiv:1503.00063 [pdf, other]

Title: Band-filling effect on magnetic anisotropy using a Green's function method

Liqin Ke, Mark van Schilfgaarde

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 014423 (2015)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[12] arXiv:1503.00066 [pdf, other]

Title: Hierarchical spin glasses in a magnetic field: A renormalization-group study

Michele Castellana, Carlo Barbieri

Journal-ref: Physical Review B 91(2), 024202 (2015)

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)

[13] arXiv:1503.00076 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultrafast Switching of Antiferromagnets via Spin-transfer Torque

Ran Cheng, Matthew W. Daniels, Jian-Gang Zhu, Di Xiao

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 91, 064423 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[14] arXiv:1503.00078 [pdf, other]

Title: On the quantitative determination of hole-concentration in high-temperature cuprate superconductors

T. Honma, P. H. Hor

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, for the proceedings of the NEW3-SC10

Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics B 29, 1542029 (2015)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[15] arXiv:1503.00086 [pdf, other]

Title: A finite variant of the Toom Model

Arvind Ayyer

Comments: Journal of Physics: Conference Series stylefile, 8 pages, 1 figure; minor changes and clarifications

Journal-ref: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol. 638 (2015) 012005, 9pp

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Combinatorics (math.CO); Probability (math.PR)

[16] arXiv:1503.00089 [pdf, other]

Title: Large amplitude vortex gyration in Permalloy/Bi$_2$Se$_3$-like heterostructures

P.N. Skirdkov, K.A. Zvezdin, A.D. Belanovsky, J.M. George, J.C. Wu, V. Cros, A.K. Zvezdin

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 094432 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[17] arXiv:1503.00092 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron-spin to Phonon Coupling in Graphene Decorated with Heavy Adatoms

Jhih-Shih You, Daw-Wei Wang, Miguel A. Cazalilla

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 035421 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[18] arXiv:1503.00097 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale ab initio simulations based on systematically improvable atomic basis

Pengfei Li, Xiaohui Liu, Mohan Chen, Peize Lin, Xinguo Ren, Lin Lin, Chao Yang, Lixin He

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[19] arXiv:1503.00103 [pdf, other]

Title: Weakening of the spin density wave gap at low temperatures in SrFe$_2$As$_2$ single crystals

Anirban Dutta, Neeraj Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, Anjan K. Gupta

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[20] arXiv:1503.00119 [pdf, other]

Title: Anderson localization and the topology of classifying spaces

Takahiro Morimoto, Akira Furusaki, Christopher Mudry

Comments: 45 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 91, 235111 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)

[21] arXiv:1503.00128 [pdf, other]

Title: Symmetry protected skyrmions in 3D spin-orbit coupled Bose gases

Guanjun Chen, Tiantian Li, Yunbo Zhang

Comments: 7.1 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 91, 053624 (2015)

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[22] arXiv:1503.00137 [pdf, other]

Title: Universality in the spectral and eigenfunction properties of random networks

J. A. Mendez-Bermudez, A. Alcazar-Lopez, A. J. Martinez-Mendoza, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Thomas K. DM. Peron

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 91, 032122 (2015)

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)

[23] arXiv:1503.00142 [pdf, other]

Title: Loop braiding statistics in exactly soluble 3D lattice models

Chien-Hung Lin, Michael Levin

Comments: 24 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 035115 (2015)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[24] arXiv:1503.00147 [pdf, other]

Title: Composite structure of vortices in two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Anatoly P. Ivashin, Yuri M. Poluektov

Comments: LaTeX, 13 pages, 4 figures, UJP style

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[25] arXiv:1503.00159 [pdf, other]

Title: A Maxwell Construction for Phase Separation in Vibrated Granular Matter?

James P.D. Clewett, Jack Wade, R. M. Bowley, Stephan Herminghaus, Michael R. Swift, Marco G. Mazza

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[26] arXiv:1503.00170 [pdf, other]

Title: Time scales of supercooled water and implications for reversible polyamorphism

David T. Limmer, David Chandler

Comments: Prepared for Special Issue of Molecular Physics honoring Jean-Pierre Hansen. V2 includes slight revisions in response to review

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[27] arXiv:1503.00178 [pdf, other]

Title: Environment Assisted Quantum Transport in Organic Molecules

Gabor Vattay, Istvan Csabai

Comments: 6 pages 3 figures

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[28] arXiv:1503.00181 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron counting and a large family of two-dimensional semiconductors

Mao-sheng Miao, Jorge Botana, Jingyao Liu, Wen Yan

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[29] arXiv:1503.00200 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic Young's Modulus for Single-Layer Black Phosphorus: The Third Principle Direction Besides Armchair and Zigzag

Jin-Wu Jiang

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.3545

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[30] arXiv:1503.00204 [pdf, other]

Title: Anomalous Hall effect and current spin polarization in Co$_2$FeX (X = Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and Sn) Heusler compounds: A systematic {\it ab initio} study

Hung-Lung Huang, Jen-Chuan Tung, Guang-Yu Guo

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1303.0509

Journal-ref: Physical Review B 91 (2015) 134409

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[31] arXiv:1503.00206 [pdf, other]

Title: Graphdiyne as a Promising Substrate for Stabilizing Pt Nanoparticle Catalyst

Zheng-Zhe Lin

Journal-ref: Carbon 86, 301 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[32] arXiv:1503.00212 [pdf, other]

Title: Stacking dependence of carrier-interactions in multilayer graphene systems

Yunsu Jang, E. H. Hwang, A. H. MacDonald, Hongki Min

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 041411 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[33] arXiv:1503.00217 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomistic $k.p$ theory

Craig Pryor, Mats-Erik Pistol

Comments: 20 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[34] arXiv:1503.00221 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized spectral method for near-field optical microscopy

B.-Y. Jiang, L. M. Zhang, A. H. Castro Neto, D. N. Basov, M. M. Fogler

Comments: 25 pages, 15 figures. Minor changes to improve presentation

Journal-ref: J. Appl. Phys. 119, 054305 (2016)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[35] arXiv:1503.00222 [pdf, other]

Title: Local density of states on a vibrational quantum dot out of equilibrium

Klaus Ferdinand Albrecht, Alvaro Martin-Rodero, Johannes Schachenmayer, Lothar Mühlbacher

Comments: 9 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 91, 064305 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[36] arXiv:1503.00223 [pdf, other]

Title: Equilibrium stochastic dynamics of a Brownian particle in inhomogeneous space: derivation of an alternative model

A. Bhattacharyay

Comments: This revised version more clearly describes the cases of vertical and horizontal diffusivity as could be seen in an experiment as has been previously done by Faucheux and Libchaber. This version also includes proposal of a new experiment involving complex molecules

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[37] arXiv:1503.00230 [pdf, other]

Title: Electronegativity and chemical hardness of the elements under pressure

Xiao Dong, Artem R. Oganov, Haixu Cui, Xiang-Feng Zhou, Hui-Tian Wang

Journal-ref: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119; 2117416119 (2022)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[38] arXiv:1503.00232 [pdf, other]

Title: High Temperature Superconductivity from Strong Correlation

Takashi Yanagisawa

Comments: in Proceedings of International Symposium on Superconductivity 2014

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[39] arXiv:1503.00242 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological Spin Hall Effect due to Magnetic Skyrmions

Gen Yin, Yizhou Liu, Yafis Barlas, Jiadong Zang, Roger K. Lake

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 024411 (2015)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[40] arXiv:1503.00254 [pdf, other]

Title: Many-body critical Casimir interactions in colloidal suspensions

Hendrik Hobrecht, Alfred Hucht

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 92, 042315 (2015)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)

[41] arXiv:1503.00287 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating the principal components of correlation matrices from all their empirical eigenvectors

Rémi Monasson, Dario Villamaina

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Europhysics Letters

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)

[42] arXiv:1503.00291 [pdf, other]

Title: First Passage processes in cellular biology

Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Anton Zilman

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[43] arXiv:1503.00292 [pdf, other]

Title: A combined first-principles and thermodynamic approach to M-Nitronyl Nitroxide (M=Co, Mn) spin helices

Marco Scarrozza, Alessandro Vindigni, Paolo Barone, Roberta Sessoli, Silvia Picozzi

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[44] arXiv:1503.00300 [pdf, other]

Title: Spinor Condensates on a Cylindrical Surface in Synthetic Gauge Fields

Tin-Lun Ho, Biao Huang

Comments: 4+εpages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155304 (2015)

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[45] arXiv:1503.00316 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the high-pressure behavior of the three known polymorphs of BiPO4: Discovery of a new polymorph

D. Errandonea, O. Gomis, D. Santamaria-Perez, B. Garcia-Domene, A. Munoz, P. Rodriguez-Hernandez, S.N. Achary, A.K. Tyagi, C. Popescu

Comments: 30 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, to appear in J. Appl. Phys

Journal-ref: Journal of Applied Physics 117, 105902 (2015)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[46] arXiv:1503.00331 [pdf, other]

Title: Guided design of copper oxysulfide superconductors

Chuck-Hou Yee, Turan Birol, Gabriel Kotliar

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: EPL 111 17002 (2015)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[47] arXiv:1503.00333 [pdf, other]

Title: Fully parameter-free calculation of optical spectra for insulators, semiconductors and metals from a simple polarization functional

J.A. Berger

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[48] arXiv:1503.00335 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature and field dependence of the intrinsic tunnelling structure in overdoped Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta}$

T.M. Benseman, J.R. Cooper, G. Balakrishnan

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures plus supplemental material, 1 table and 47 ASCII files with raw data. Corrected files for Fig. 12a

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 98, 014507 (2018)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[49] arXiv:1503.00358 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological nematic phase in Dirac semi-metals

Rui-Xing Zhang, Jimmy A. Hutasoit, Yan Sun, Binghai Yan, Cenke Xu, Chao-Xing Liu

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[50] arXiv:1503.00372 [pdf, other]

Title: Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in perpendicularly-magnetized Pt/Co/AlO$_x$ ultrathin films measured by Brillouin light spectroscopy

Mohamed Belmeguenai, Jean-Paul Adam, Yves Roussigné, Sylvain Eimer, Thibaut Devolder, Joo-Von Kim, Salim Mourad Cherif, Andrey Stashkevich, André Thiaville

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)