Condensed Matter

Authors and titles for December 2015

[701] arXiv:1512.05372 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiferroic materials and magnetoelectric physics: symmetry, entanglement, excitation, and topology

Shuai Dong, Jun-Ming Liu, Sang-Wook Cheong, Zhifeng Ren

Comments: 120 pages, 46 pages, 2 tables, more than 500 references

Journal-ref: Advances in Physics 64, 519-626 (2015)

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

[702] arXiv:1512.05373 [pdf, other]

Title: Emergent eigenstate solution to quantum dynamics far from equilibrium

L. Vidmar, D. Iyer, M. Rigol

Comments: 14+6 pages, 6+1 figures, as published

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. X 7, 021012 (2017)

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

[703] arXiv:1512.05380 [pdf, other]

Title: A statistical physics viewpoint on the dynamics of the bouncing ball

Jean-Yonnel Chastaing, Jean-Christophe Géminard, Eric Bertin

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, submitted to J. Stat. Mech

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. (2016) 063202

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

[704] arXiv:1512.05381 [pdf, other]

Title: Kagome spin liquid: a deconfined critical phase driven by $U(1)$ gauge fluctuation

Yin-Chen He, Yohei Fuji, Subhro Bhattacharjee

Comments: 5+8 pages, 2 figures

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

[705] arXiv:1512.05392 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of shear strain on band structure and electronic properties of phosphorene

Yashasvi Singh Ranawat (1), Rishabh Jain (1) ((1) Department of Ceramic Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University))

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, work presented as poster at PSI-k conference 2015, San Sebastian

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

[706] arXiv:1512.05404 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraint percolation on hyperbolic lattices

Jorge H. Lopez, J. M. Schwarz

Comments: 10 pages, 15 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 96, 052108 (2017)

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

[707] arXiv:1512.05408 [pdf, other]

Title: Parity-time symmetry breaking in magnetic systems

Alexey Galda, Valerii M. Vinokur

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 020408(R) (2016)

Subjects: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[708] arXiv:1512.05418 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially resolved detection of complex ferromagnetic dynamics using optically detected NV spins

Chris. S. Wolfe, Sergei. A. Manuilov, Carola. M. Purser, Richelle Teeling-Smith, Carsten. Dubs, P. Chris Hammel, Vidya Praveen Bhallamudi

Comments: 6 pages and 1 page supplmentary information

Journal-ref: Applied Physics Letters 108, 232409 (2016

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

[709] arXiv:1512.05428 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-Orbit Logic with Magnetoelectric Nodes: A Scalable Charge Mediated Nonvolatile Spintronic Logic

Sasikanth Manipatruni, Dmitri E. Nikonov, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Huichu Li, Ian A. Young

Comments: (60 pages, including supplementary) Updated Figure 3B. Contains expanded energy calculations, effect of SOC resistivity, supported with device simulations in supplementary Sections F,G

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

[710] arXiv:1512.05436 [pdf, other]

Title: Graphene-based spin switch device via modulated Rashba field and strain

G. S. Diniz, E. Vernek, F. M. Souza

Comments: Title changed. More references and discussions added along the manuscript

Journal-ref: Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Vol.85, pp. 264-270 (2017)

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

[711] arXiv:1512.05456 [pdf, other]

Title: Electrostriction coefficient of ferroelectric materials from ab initio computation

Z. Jiang, R. Zhang, F. Li, L. Jin, N. Zhang, D. Wang, C.-L. Jia

Journal-ref: AIP Advances 6, 065122, 2016

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

[712] arXiv:1512.05458 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal conductivity of armchair black phosphorus nanotubes: a molecular dynamics study

Feng Hao, Xiangbiao Liao, Hang Xiao, Xi Chen

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

[713] arXiv:1512.05461 [pdf, other]

Title: A Novel Material for In Situ Construction on Mars: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Lin Wan, Roman Wendner, Gianluca Cusatis

Comments: 29 pages, 16 figures

Journal-ref: Con.Build.Mat 120 (2016) 222-231

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

[714] arXiv:1512.05478 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Hermitian Localization in Biological Networks

Ariel Amir, Naomichi Hatano, David R. Nelson

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 042310 (2016)

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[715] arXiv:1512.05492 [pdf, other]

Title: Point defect absorption by grain boundaries in $\alpha$-iron by atomic density function modeling

O. Kapikranian, H. Zapolsky, R. Patte, C. Pareige, B. Radiguet, P. Pareige

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92 (2015) 224106

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

[716] arXiv:1512.05494 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Perovskite and Inverse-Perovskite Sandwich Structure

Long-Hua Wu, Qi-Feng Liang, Xiao Hu

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 85, 014706 (2016)

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

[717] arXiv:1512.05508 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin one $p$-spin glass: the Gardner transition

T.I. Schelkacheva, E.E. Tareyeva

Comments: 9 pages

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

[718] arXiv:1512.05510 [pdf, other]

Title: Superfluid Phase Transition with Activated Velocity Fluctuations: Renormalization Group Approach

M. Dančo, M. Hnatič, M. V. Komarova, T. Lučivjanský, M. Yu. Nalimov

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 012109 (2016)

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

[719] arXiv:1512.05517 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of the vortex-clustering transition in a confined two-dimensional quantum fluid

Xiaoquan Yu, Thomas P. Billam, Jun Nian, Matthew T. Reeves, Ashton S. Bradley

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 023602 (2016)

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

[720] arXiv:1512.05518 [pdf, other]

Title: Defect-induced photoluminescence of strontium titanate and its modulation by electrostatic gating

Dushyant Kumar, R. C. Budhani

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 92, 235115 (2015)

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

[721] arXiv:1512.05530 [pdf, other]

Title: Colloidal particles driven across periodic optical potential energy landscapes

Michael P. N. Juniper, Arthur V. Straube, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Roel P. A. Dullens

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 012608 (2016)

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

[722] arXiv:1512.05561 [pdf, other]

Title: Coherence and multimode correlations from vacuum fluctuations in a microwave superconducting cavity

Pasi Lähteenmäki, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu, Juha Hassel, Pertti J. Hakonen

Journal-ref: Nature Communications 7, 12548 (2016)

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

[723] arXiv:1512.05575 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing unconventional superconductors from the spin structure of impurity-induced bound states

Vardan Kaladzhyan, Cristina Bena, Pascal Simon

Comments: 11 pages + 9 pages of supplementary information, 9 figures + 8 figures (SI)

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 214514 (2016)

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

[724] arXiv:1512.05576 [pdf, other]

Title: Pattern orientation in finite domains without boundaries

Lisa Rapp, Fabian Bergmann, Walter Zimmermann

Journal-ref: Europhys. Lett. (EPL) 113, 28006 (2016)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[725] arXiv:1512.05577 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum breaking of ergodicity in semi-classical charge transfer dynamics

Igor Goychuk

Journal-ref: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 3056 (2017)

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

[726] arXiv:1512.05590 [pdf, other]

Title: Interaction of 3D mesostructures composed of Pd-Ni alloy nanowires with low-temperature oxygen plasma

Galina Strukova, Gennady Strukov, Igor Khodos, Sergey Vitkalov

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

[727] arXiv:1512.05593 [pdf, other]

Title: Role of Polar Phonons in the Photo Excited State of Metal Halide Perovskites

Menno Bokdam, Tobias Sander, Alessandro Stroppa, Silvia Picozzi, D.D. Sarma, Cesare Franchini, Georg Kresse

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6, 28618, 2016

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

[728] arXiv:1512.05600 [pdf, other]

Title: Photonic heat conduction in Josephson-coupled Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors

R. Bosisio, P. Solinas, A. Braggio, F. Giazotto

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 144512 (2016)

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

[729] arXiv:1512.05609 [pdf, other]

Title: A simple phenomenological model for describing the normal state single particle spectral function of high temperature superconductors

Kazue Matsuyama, Rohit Dilip, G.-H. Gweon

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

[730] arXiv:1512.05626 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-homodyne enabled generation of indistinguishable photons

Kai Müller, Kevin A. Fischer, Constantin Dory, Tomas Sarmiento, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, Armand Rundquist, Yousif A. Kelaita, Jelena Vučković

Journal-ref: Optica Vol. 3, Issue 9, pp. 931-936 (2016)

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

[731] arXiv:1512.05627 [pdf, other]

Title: Statics and field-driven dynamics of transverse domain walls in biaxial nanowires under uniform transverse magnetic fields

Jie Lu

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 224406 (2016)

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

[732] arXiv:1512.05636 [pdf, other]

Title: Bogoliubov approach to superfluid-Bose glass phase transition of a disordered Bose-Hubbard Model in weakly interacting regime

Botao Wang, Ying Jiang

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. D 70, 257 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[733] arXiv:1512.05645 [pdf, other]

Title: Parametric Excitation and Squeezing in a Many-Body Spin System

T.M. Hoang, M. Anquez, B.A. Robbins, X.Y. Yang, B.J. Land, C.D. Hamley, M.S. Chapman

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

[734] arXiv:1512.05646 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal conductivity of the diamond-chain compound Cu_3(CO_3)_2(OH)_2

J. C. Wu, J. D. Song, Z. Y. Zhao, J. Shi, H. S. Xu, J. Y. Zhao, X. G. Liu, X. Zhao, X. F. Sun

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens. Matt

Journal-ref: J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. 28, 056002 (2015)

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

[735] arXiv:1512.05673 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-$Q$ hexagonal spin density waves and dynamically generated spin-orbit coupling: time-reversal invariant analog of the chiral spin density wave

J. W. F. Venderbos

Comments: 14 + 4 pages, 5 + 0 figures; published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 115108 (2016)

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

[736] arXiv:1512.05680 [pdf, other]

Title: Conduction band population in graphene in ultrashort strong laser field: case of massive Dirac particles

Z. Ahmadi, H. Goudarzi, A. Jafari

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

[737] arXiv:1512.05683 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized virial theorem for massless electrons in graphene and other Dirac materials

A. A. Sokolik, A. D. Zabolotskiy, Yu. E. Lozovik

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 195406 (2016)

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

[738] arXiv:1512.05690 [pdf, other]

Title: Role of vibrations on decoherence in molecular spin qubits: The case of [Cu(mnt)$_2$]$^{2-}$

Luis Escalera-Moreno, Nicolas Suaud, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Eugenio Coronado

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

[739] arXiv:1512.05697 [pdf, other]

Title: Active particles with soft and curved walls: Equation of state, ratchets, and instabilities

Nikolai Nikola, Alexandre P. Solon, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar, Julien Tailleur, Raphaël Voituriez

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures and 8 pages of supplementary information

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 098001 (2016)

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

[740] arXiv:1512.05708 [pdf, other]

Title: Extrapolating from a homologous series of oligomers to the infinite-mer: it's a long long way to infinity

K. Razi Naqvi

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, 12 Tables

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

[741] arXiv:1512.05714 [pdf, other]

Title: Selective scattering between Floquet-Bloch and Volkov states in a topological insulator

Fahad Mahmood, Ching-Kit Chan, Zhanybek Alpichshev, Dillon Gardner, Young Lee, Patrick A. Lee, Nuh Gedik

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures, final version to appear in Nature Physics

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

[742] arXiv:1512.05720 [pdf, other]

Title: Dielectric Constant and Charging Energy in Array of Touching Nanocrystals

K. V. Reich, B. I. Shklovskii

Journal-ref: Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 113104 (2016)

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

[743] arXiv:1512.05721 [pdf, other]

Title: Marangoni flow at droplet interfaces: Three-dimensional solution and applications

Maximilian Schmitt, Holger Stark

Comments: 20 pages, 15 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Fluids 28, 012106 (2016)

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

[744] arXiv:1512.05747 [pdf, other]

Title: Disorder-promoted $C_4$-symmetric magnetic order in iron-based superconductors

Mareike Hoyer, Rafael M. Fernandes, Alex Levchenko, Jörg Schmalian

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 144414 (2016)

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

[745] arXiv:1512.05755 [pdf, other]

Title: Exotic s-wave superconductivity in alkali-doped fullerides

Yusuke Nomura, Shiro Sakai, Massimo Capone, Ryotaro Arita

Comments: Review article on the superconductivity in alkali-doped fullerides. 19 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables

Journal-ref: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (Topical Reviews) 28, 153001 (2016)

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

[746] arXiv:1512.05756 [pdf, other]

Title: Bose gas in disordered, finite-layered systems

V.E. Barragán, M. Fortes, M.A. Solís, P. Salas

Comments: Six pages and 8 eps figures

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

[747] arXiv:1512.05762 [pdf, other]

Title: Robophysical study of jumping dynamics on granular media

Jeffrey Aguilar, Daniel I. Goldman

Comments: 36 pages, 6 figures, 3 extended data figures, supplementary info include, captions to supplementary movies included

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

[748] arXiv:1512.05763 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-induced topological transitions and edge states supported by nonlinear staggered potentials

Yakir Hadad, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Andrea Alu

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 155112 (2016)

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

[749] arXiv:1512.05765 [pdf, other]

Title: First-principles study of crystal and electronic structure of rare-earth cobaltites

M. Topsakal, C. Leighton, R. M. Wentzcovitch

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

[750] arXiv:1512.05766 [pdf, other]

Title: Symmetry analysis of translational symmetry broken density waves: application to hexagonal lattices in two dimensions

J. W. F. Venderbos

Comments: 16 + 6 pages; 10 + 1 figures; published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 115107 (2016)

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