Condensed Matter

Authors and titles for December 2015

[651] arXiv:1512.04914 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical emission spectroscopy study of competing phases of electrons in the second Landau level

A. L. Levy, U. Wurstbauer, Y. Y. Kuznetsova, A. Pinczuk, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, M. J. Manfra, G. C. Gardner, J. D. Watson

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016801 (2016)

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

[652] arXiv:1512.04918 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-local nuclear spin quieting in quantum dot molecules: Optically-induced extended two-electron spin coherence time

Colin M. Chow, Aaron M. Ross, Danny Kim, Daniel Gammon, Allan S. Bracker, L. J. Sham, Duncan G. Steel

Comments: Supplementary materials can be found on the publication page of our website. this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 077403 (2016)

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

[653] arXiv:1512.04919 [pdf, other]

Title: Axion field theory approach and the classification of interacting topological superconductors

Yingfei Gu, Xiao-Liang Qi

Comments: 16 pages (9 pages main text and 7 pages appendices), 15 figures

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[654] arXiv:1512.04934 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature dependence of lower critical field in stripe ordered La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 superconductors

L. Xie, Y. W. Yin, X. G. Li

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

[655] arXiv:1512.04938 [pdf, other]

Title: Loop optimization for tensor network renormalization

Shuo Yang, Zheng-Cheng Gu, Xiao-Gang Wen

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted version for Phys. Rev. Lett

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110504 (2017)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[656] arXiv:1512.04947 [pdf, other]

Title: Eigenstate thermalization in the two-dimensional transverse field Ising model

Rubem Mondaini, Keith R. Fratus, Mark Srednicki, Marcos Rigol

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, as published

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 032104 (2016)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[657] arXiv:1512.04967 [pdf, other]

Title: Mechanical Self-Assembly of a Strain-Engineered Flexible Layer: Wrinkling, Rolling, and Twisting

Zi Chen, Gaoshan Huang, Ian Trase, Xiaomin Han, Yongfeng Mei

Comments: 91 pages, 35 figures, review article

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

[658] arXiv:1512.05012 [pdf, other]

Title: Ginzburg-Landau theory for skyrmions in inversion-symmetric magnets with competing interactions

Shi-Zeng Lin, Satoru Hayami

Comments: 15 pages and 13 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 064430 (2016)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[659] arXiv:1512.05014 [pdf, other]

Title: The Bohr superconductor

J. E. Hirsch

Journal-ref: Europhys. Lett. 113, 37001 (2016)

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

[660] arXiv:1512.05016 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical assembly of atomically thin transistors and circuits in a large scale

Mervin Zhao, Yu Ye, Yimo Han, Yang Xia, Hanyu Zhu, Yuan Wang, David A. Muller, Xiang Zhang

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

[661] arXiv:1512.05021 [pdf, other]

Title: Few-layer Phosphorene: An Ideal 2D Material For Tunnel Transistors

Tarek A. Ameen, Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Gerhard Klimeck, Rajib Rahman

Journal-ref: Scientific reports 6 (2016): 28515

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

[662] arXiv:1512.05022 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin transport in molybdenum disulfide multilayer channel

S. H. Liang, Y. Lu, B. S. Tao, S. Mc-Murtry, G. Wang, X. Marie, P. Renucci, H. Jaffrès, F. Montaigne, D. Lacour, J.-M. George, S. Petit-Watelot, M. Hehn, A. Djeffal, S. Mangin

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

[663] arXiv:1512.05029 [pdf, other]

Title: Experimental Realization of Two-Dimensional Boron Sheets

Baojie Feng, Jin Zhang, Qing Zhong, Wenbin Li, Shuai Li, Hui Li, Peng Cheng, Sheng Meng, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu

Comments: 4 figures

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

[664] arXiv:1512.05035 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopy of metal "superatom" nanoclusters and high-$T_c$ superconducting pairing

Avik Halder, Vitaly V. Kresin

Journal-ref: Physical Review B 92, 214506 (2015)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)

[665] arXiv:1512.05070 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of spin-orbit insulator-like behavior in LaOBiS$_{2-x}$F$_x$ (0.05 $\leq$ $x$ $\leq$ 0.2)

G. C. Kim, M. Cheon, Y. C. Kim, R.-K. Ko

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[666] arXiv:1512.05071 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-orbit transitions in $\alpha$ and $\gamma$-CoV$_{2}$O$_{6}$

F. Wallington, A. M. Arevalo-Lopez, J. W. Taylor, J. R. Stewart, V. Garcia-Sakai, J. P. Attfield, C. Stock

Comments: (15 pages, 10 figures)

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B. 92, 125116 (2015)

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

[667] arXiv:1512.05078 [pdf, other]

Title: Rate and state friction law as derived from atomistic processes at asperities

Takahiro Hatano

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[668] arXiv:1512.05079 [pdf, other]

Title: Bose-Einstein condensation in large time-averaged optical ring potentials

Thomas A. Bell, Jake A. P. Glidden, Leif Humbert, Michael W. J. Bromley, Simon A. Haine, Matthew J. Davis, Tyler W. Neely, Mark A. Baker, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 18, 035003 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[669] arXiv:1512.05082 [pdf, other]

Title: First-order superfluid to valence bond solid phase transitions in easy-plane SU($N$) magnets for small-$N$

Jonathan D'Emidio, Ribhu K. Kaul

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 054406 (2016)

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

[670] arXiv:1512.05084 [pdf, other]

Title: First principle calculation of the effective Zeeman's couplings in topological materials

Zhi-Da Song, Song Sun, Yuan-Feng Xu, Si-Min Nie, Hong-Ming Weng, Zhong Fang, Xi Dai

Comments: Some typos are fixed

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

[671] arXiv:1512.05112 [pdf, other]

Title: The Schottky-type specific heat as an indicator of relative degeneracy between ground and first-excited states: the case study of regular Ising polyhedra

Katarina Karlova, Jozef Strecka, Tomas Madaras

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Physica B 488 (2016) 49-56

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

[672] arXiv:1512.05118 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum cluster approach to the topological invariants in correlated Chern insulators

Zhao-Long Gu, Kai Li, Jian-Xin Li

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 21, 073016 (2019)

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

[673] arXiv:1512.05124 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetism in Co$_{1-{\rm x}}$Fe$_{\rm x}$Sb$_{3}$ skutterudites from density functional theory

Mikael Råsander, Lars Bergqvist

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

[674] arXiv:1512.05140 [pdf, other]

Title: On the existence conditions of surface spin wave modes in (Ga,Mn)As thin films

H. Puszkarski, P. Tomczak

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

[675] arXiv:1512.05149 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin orbit coupling at the level of a single electron

V. F. Maisi, A. Hofmann, M. Röösli, J. Basset, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136803 (2016)

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

[676] arXiv:1512.05150 [pdf, other]

Title: Exactly solvable spin-1 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain with the second-neighbor interaction between nodal spins

Vahan Hovhannisyan, Jozef Strecka, Nerses Ananikian

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.0999

Journal-ref: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 (2016) 085401 (7pp)

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

[677] arXiv:1512.05156 [pdf, other]

Title: Hybrid cluster-expansion and density-functional-theory approach for optical absorption in TiO2

O. Vänskä, M. Ljungberg, P. Springer, D. Sánchez-Portal, M. Kira, S. W. Koch

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures

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

[678] arXiv:1512.05203 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomically Resolved FeSe/SrTiO3(001) Interface Structure by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Fangsen Li, Qinghua Zhang, Chenjia Tang, Chong Liu, Jinan Shi, CaiNa Nie, Guanyu Zhou, Zheng Li, Wenhao Zhang, Can-Li Song, Ke He, Shuaihua Ji, Shengbai Zhang, Lin Gu, Lili Wang, Xu-Cun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue

Journal-ref: 2D Materials 3, 024002 (2016)

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

[679] arXiv:1512.05210 [pdf, other]

Title: Volatilities analysis of first-passage time and first-return time on a small-world scale-free network

Junhao Peng

Comments: 2 figure, 18 pages, to be appear in JSTAT

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. (2016) 033103

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

[680] arXiv:1512.05211 [pdf, other]

Title: Finite wavelength surface-tension driven instabilities in soft solids, including instability in a cylindrical channel through an elastic solid

Chen Xuan, John Biggins

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 023107 (2016)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[681] arXiv:1512.05224 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Interaction in the Hofstadter regime of the honeycomb lattice

Archana Mishra, S. R. Hassan, R. Shankar

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 125134 (2016)

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

[682] arXiv:1512.05229 [pdf, other]

Title: Chiral Haldane phases of SU(N) quantum spin chains in the adjoint representation

Abhishek Roy, Thomas Quella

Comments: 19 pages, 3 tables, lots of figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 97, 155148 (2018)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[683] arXiv:1512.05231 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhancing superconducting critical current by randomness

Y. L. Wang, L. R. Thoutam, Z. L. Xiao, B. Shen, J. E. Pearson, R. Divan, L. E. Ocola, G. W. Crabtree, W. K. Kwok

Comments: To appear in Physical Review B

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 045111 (2016)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[684] arXiv:1512.05236 [pdf, other]

Title: Permeability and kinetic coefficients for mesoscale BCF surface step dynamics: discrete 2D deposition-diffusion equation analysis

R. Zhao, J. W. Evans, T. J. Oliveira

Comments: 27 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 165411 (2016)

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

[685] arXiv:1512.05242 [pdf, other]

Title: Coherent magneto-elastic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 films

N. Waterfield Price, R. D. Johnson, W. Saenrang, F. Maccherozzi, S. S. Dhesi, A. Bombardi, F. P. Chmiel, C.-B. Eom, P. G. Radaelli

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 177601 (2016)

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

[686] arXiv:1512.05254 [pdf, other]

Title: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on SrFe$\mathrm{_2}$(As$\mathrm{_{1-x}}$P$\mathrm{_x}$)$\mathrm{_2}$

Jasmin Jandke, Petra Wild, Michael Schackert, Shigemasa Suga, Tatsuya Kobayashi, Shigeki Miyasaka, Setsuko Tajima, Wulf Wulfhekel

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 104528 (2016)

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

[687] arXiv:1512.05255 [pdf, other]

Title: Brane parity orders in the insulating state of Hubbard ladders

Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi, Arianna Montorsi, Marco Roncaglia

Comments: Main article: 5 pages, 1 figure. Supplementary information: 4 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 085119 (2016)

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

[688] arXiv:1512.05262 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum turbulence in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

Marios C. Tsatsos, Pedro E. S. Tavares, Andre Cidrim, Amilson R. Fritsch, Monica A. Caracanhas, F. Ednilson A. dos Santos, Carlo F. Barenghi, Vanderlei S. Bagnato

Comments: Review paper, 57 pages, 33 figures

Journal-ref: Physics Reports 622 (2016) 1-52

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

[689] arXiv:1512.05266 [pdf, other]

Title: Vacancies in the Kitaev quantum spin liquids on the 3D hyper-honeycomb lattice

G. J. Sreejith, Subhro Bhattacharjee, R. Moessner

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 064433 (2016)

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

[690] arXiv:1512.05267 [pdf, other]

Title: Unconventional Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in hydrogenated graphene

J. L. Lado, J. Fernandez-Rossier

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: 2D Materials 3.2 025001 (2016)

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

[691] arXiv:1512.05270 [pdf, other]

Title: Direct Evidence of Metallic Bands in a Monolayer Boron Sheet

Baojie Feng, Jin Zhang, Ro-Ya Liu, Iimori Takushi, Chao Lian, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu, Hui Li, Sheng Meng, Fumio Komori, Iwao Matsuda

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 041408 (2016)

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

[692] arXiv:1512.05275 [pdf, other]

Title: Random Recursive Trees and the Elephant Random Walk

Rüdiger Kürsten

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures

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

[693] arXiv:1512.05276 [pdf, other]

Title: Photoferroelectric and Photopiezoelectric Properties of Organometal Halide Perovskites

Shi Liu, Fan Zheng, Ilya Grinberg, Andrew M. Rappe

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

[694] arXiv:1512.05280 [pdf, other]

Title: Width and extremal height distributions of fluctuating interfaces with window boundary conditions

I. S. S. Carrasco, T. J. Oliveira

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 012801 (2016)

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

[695] arXiv:1512.05304 [pdf, other]

Title: Charge Puddles in Graphene Near the Dirac Point

S. Samaddar, I. Yudhistira, S. Adam, H. Courtois, C.B. Winkelmann

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126804 (2016)

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

[696] arXiv:1512.05310 [pdf, other]

Title: Domain Wall in a Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator as a Magnetoelectric Piston

Pramey Upadhyaya, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, new version adding three more relevant references

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 020411 (2016)

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

[697] arXiv:1512.05311 [pdf, other]

Title: Antiferromagnetism with Ultracold Atoms

Randall G. Hulet, Pedro M. Duarte, Russell A. Hart, Tsung-Lin Yang

Comments: To be published in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (Singapore, 2015)

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[698] arXiv:1512.05312 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic field effects on edge and bulk states in topological insulators based on HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells with strong natural interface inversion asymmetry

M. V. Durnev, S. A. Tarasenko

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 075434 (2016)

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

[699] arXiv:1512.05339 [pdf, other]

Title: Back to Maupertuis' least action principle for dissipative systems: not all motions in Nature are most energy economical

Qiuping A. Wang

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

[700] arXiv:1512.05361 [pdf, other]

Title: Refrustration and competing orders in the prototypical Dy2Ti2O7 spin ice material

P. Henelius, T. Lin, M. Enjalran, Z. Hao, J. G. Rau, J. Altosaar, F. Flicker, T. Yavors'kii, M. J. P. Gingras

Comments: 24 pages, 18 figures. To appear in Physical Review B

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 024402 (2016)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)