Condensed Matter

Authors and titles for April 2016

[1] arXiv:1604.00021 [pdf, other]

Title: Fabrication of all diamond scanning probes for nanoscale magnetometry

Patrick Appel, Elke Neu, Marc Ganzhorn, Arne Barfuss, Marietta Batzer, Micha Gratz, Andreas Tschöpe, Patrick Maletinsky

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

[2] arXiv:1604.00037 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of gapped phases of a 1D spin chain with onsite and spatial symmetries

Abhishodh Prakash, Colin G. West, Tzu-Chieh Wei

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 045136 (2016)

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

[3] arXiv:1604.00038 [pdf, other]

Title: Magneto-optical signature of massless Kane electrons in Cd3As2

A. Akrap, M. Hakl, S. Tchoumakov, I. Crassee, J. Kuba, M. O. Goerbig, C. C. Homes, O. Caha, J. Novak, F. Teppe, W. Desrat, S. Koohpayeh, Liang Wu, N. P. Armitage, A. Nateprov, E. Arushanov, Q. D. Gibson, R. J. Cava, D. van der Marel, B. A. Piot, C. Faugeras, G. Martinez, M. Potemski, M. Orlita

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures + supplementary materials (17 pages), to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136401 (2016)

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

[4] arXiv:1604.00041 [pdf, other]

Title: Structural and excited-state properties of oligoacene crystals from first principles

Tonatiuh Rangel, Kristian Berland, Sahar Sharifzadeh, Florian Brown-Altvater, Kyuho Lee, Per Hyldgaard, Leeor Kronik, Jeffrey B. Neaton

Journal-ref: Physical Review B 93 (11), 115206 (2016)

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

[5] arXiv:1604.00063 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-equilibrium piezo-thermal effect in spinning gas

V. I. Geyko, N. J. Fisch

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 042113 (2016)

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

[6] arXiv:1604.00064 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature-dependent optical properties of gold thin films

Harsha Reddy, Urcan Guler, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev

Comments: 39 pages and 16 figures

Journal-ref: Optical Materials Express Vol. 6, Issue 9, pp. 2776-2802 (2016)

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

[7] arXiv:1604.00065 [pdf, other]

Title: High-performance near- and mid-infrared crystalline coatings

Garrett D. Cole, Wei Zhang, Bryce J. Bjork, David Follman, Paula Heu, Christoph Deutsch, Lindsay Sonderhouse, John Robinson, Chris Franz, Alexei Alexandrovski, Mark Notcutt, Oliver H. Heckl, Jun Ye, Markus Aspelmeyer

Comments: 8 pages and 7 figures

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Optics (physics.optics)

[8] arXiv:1604.00068 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of intervalley Coulomb interactions in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides

Hanan Dery

Comments: Figure 1 includes two animations (activated by clicking on the figures). I will appreciate any feedback provided on the content or missing references

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 075421 (2016)

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

[9] arXiv:1604.00079 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of periodic potential on exciton states in semiconductor carbon nanotubes

Oleksiy Roslyak, Andrei Piryatinski

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures

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

[10] arXiv:1604.00085 [pdf, other]

Title: Ensemble Monte Carlo for III-V and Si n-channel FinFETs considering non-equilibrium degenerate statistics and quantum-confined scattering

Dax M. Crum, Amithraj Valsaraj, John K. David, Leonard F. Register, Sanjay K. Banerjee

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

[11] arXiv:1604.00086 [pdf, other]

Title: Graphene bubbles on a substrate : Universal shape and van der Waals pressure

E. Khestanova, F. Guinea, L. Fumagalli, A. K. Geim, I. V. Grigorieva

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, supplementary information

Journal-ref: Nature Communications 7, 12587 (2016)

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

[12] arXiv:1604.00088 [pdf, other]

Title: Plasticity-induced restructuring of a nanocrystalline grain boundary network

Jason F. Panzarino, Timothy J. Rupert

Comments: 13 figures

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

[13] arXiv:1604.00096 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of 2D fermionic Mott insulators of $^{40}$K with single-site resolution

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Katherine R. Lawrence, Melih Okan, Hao Zhang, Martin W. Zwierlein

Comments: Updated text and citations

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235301 (2016)

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

[14] arXiv:1604.00108 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of both surface and bulk Dirac bands in ZrSiS and the unconventional magnetoresistance

Xuefeng Wang, Xingchen Pan, Ming Gao, Jihai Yu, Juan Jiang, Junran Zhang, Huakun Zuo, Minhao Zhang, Zhongxia Wei, Wei Niu, Zhengcai Xia, Xiangang Wan, Yulin Chen, Fengqi Song, Yongbing Xu, Baigeng Wang, Guanghou Wang, Rong Zhang

Journal-ref: Adv. Electron. Mater. 2, 1600228 (2016)

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

[15] arXiv:1604.00120 [pdf, other]

Title: Coherent Microwave Control of Ultracold $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K Molecules

Sebastian A. Will, Jee Woo Park, Zoe Z. Yan, Huanqian Loh, Martin W. Zwierlein

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225306 (2016)

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

[16] arXiv:1604.00122 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological edge Mott insulating state in two dimensions at finite temperatures -bulk and edge analysis-

Tsuneya Yoshida, Norio Kawakami

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 085149 (2016)

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

[17] arXiv:1604.00132 [pdf, other]

Title: Electronic Band Structure Effects in the Stopping of Protons in Copper

Edwin E. Quashie, Bidhan C. Saha, Alfredo A. Correa

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 155403 (2016)

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

[18] arXiv:1604.00139 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of the Type-II Weyl Semimetal Phase in MoTe2

J. Jiang, Z. K. Liu, Y. Sun, H. F. Yang, R. Rajamathi, Y. P. Qi, L. X. Yang, C. Chen, H. Peng, C.-C. Hwang, S. Z. Sun, S.-K. Mo, I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, S. S. P. Parkin, C. Felser, B. H. Yan, Y. L. Chen

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures

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

[19] arXiv:1604.00157 [pdf, other]

Title: Dispersionless wave packets in Dirac materials

Vit Jakubsky, Matej Tusek

Comments: 15 pages, accepted in the Annals of Physics

Journal-ref: Annals of Physics 378, 171 (2017)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[20] arXiv:1604.00164 [pdf, other]

Title: Andreev reflection in s-type superconductor proximized 3D topological insulator

E.S. Tikhonov, D.V. Shovkun, V.S. Khrapai, M. Snelder, M.P. Stehno, A. Brinkman, Y. Huang, M.S. Golden, A.A. Golubov

Comments: final, accepted in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147001 (2016)

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

[21] arXiv:1604.00165 [pdf, other]

Title: Unconventional low-field magnetic response of a diffusive ring with spin-orbit coupling

Moumita Patra, Santanu K. Maiti

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures (Accepted for Publication in Physics Letters A)

Journal-ref: Physics Letters A, Volume 381, Issue 4, 30 January 2017, Pages 221-226

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

[22] arXiv:1604.00166 [pdf, other]

Title: Stress concentration in periodically rough hertzian contact: Hertz to soft-flat-punch transition

Rene Ledesma-Alonso, Elie Raphael, Liliane Leger, Frederic Restagno, Christophe Poulard

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[23] arXiv:1604.00168 [pdf, other]

Title: Axisymmetric Indentation of Curved Elastic Membranes by a Convex Rigid Indenter

Simon P Pearce, John R King, Michael J Holdsworth

Journal-ref: Int J Non-linear Mech (2011) 46(9) p1128-1138

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[24] arXiv:1604.00174 [pdf, other]

Title: Role of Rotations on Surface Diffusion of Water Trimers on Pd\{111\}

Victor A. Ranea, P.L. de Andres

Comments: water ; monomer ; trimer ; water clusters ; diffusion ; rotation assisted ; Pd\{111\} ; ab-initio ; density functional theory

Journal-ref: Surf. Sci. 648, 256-261 (2016)

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

[25] arXiv:1604.00176 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetocrystalline anisotropy of FePt: a detailed view

Saleem Ayaz Khan, Peter Blaha, Hubert Ebert, Jan Minár, Ondřej Šipr

Comments: 17 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 144436 (2016)

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

[26] arXiv:1604.00184 [pdf, other]

Title: Nematic quantum critical point without magnetism in FeSe1-xSx superconductors

S. Hosoi, K. Matsuura, K. Ishida, Hao Wang, Y. Mizukami, T. Watashige, S. Kasahara, Y. Matsuda, T. Shibauchi

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. Some discussions are added

Journal-ref: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 8139-8143 (2016)

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

[27] arXiv:1604.00207 [pdf, other]

Title: Intercalation of graphene on SiC(0001) via ion-implantation

A. Stöhr, S. Forti, S. Link, A.A. Zakharov, K. Kern, U.Starke, H.M. Benia

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 085431 (2016)

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

[28] arXiv:1604.00209 [pdf, other]

Title: Classical analog of St\"uckelberg interferometry with two coupled mechanical resonators

Hao Fu, Zhi-cheng Gong, Tian-hua Mao, Chang-pu Sun, Su Yi, Yong Li, Geng-yu Cao

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

[29] arXiv:1604.00218 [pdf, other]

Title: Variationally fitting the total electron-electron interaction

Brett I Dunlap, Mark C Palenik

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 195162 (2016)

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

[30] arXiv:1604.00226 [pdf, other]

Title: Discrete step sizes of molecular motors lead to bimodal non-Gaussian velocity distributions under force

Huong T. Vu, Shaon Chakrabarti, Michael Hinczewski, D. Thirumalai

Comments: 30 pages, 14 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 078101 (2016)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)

[31] arXiv:1604.00231 [pdf, other]

Title: Ge doping of GaN beyond the Mott transition

A. Ajay, J. Schörmann, M. Jimenez-Rodriguez, C. B. Lim, F. Walther, M. Rohnke, I. Mouton, L. Amichi, C. Bougerol, M. I. Den Hertog, M. Eickhoff, E. Monroy

Journal-ref: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 49, 445301 (2016)

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

[32] arXiv:1604.00234 [pdf, other]

Title: Feshbach resonances and weakly bound molecular states of boson-boson and boson-fermion NaK pairs

Alexandra Viel, Andrea Simoni

Comments: 39 pages, 15 figures. Phys. Rev. A in press

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

[33] arXiv:1604.00238 [pdf, other]

Title: Influence of the energy-band structure on ultracold reactive processes in lattices

Hugo Terrier, Jean-Michel Launay, Andrea Simoni

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 032703 (2016)

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

[34] arXiv:1604.00242 [pdf, other]

Title: Power-efficiency-dissipation relations in linear thermodynamics

Karel Proesmans, Bart Cleuren, Christian Van den Broeck

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 220601 (2016)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[35] arXiv:1604.00244 [pdf, other]

Title: Interband coupling and transport interband scattering in $s_{\pm}$ superconductors

V. G. Kogan, R. Prozorov

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 93, 224515 (2016)

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

[36] arXiv:1604.00245 [pdf, other]

Title: Static and dynamic properties of large polymer melts in equilibrium

Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Kurt Kremer

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, to be published in J. Chem. Phys. (2016)

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 144, 154907 (2016)

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

[37] arXiv:1604.00248 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonequilibrium dynamics of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin-glass model with Gaussian couplings: Strong heterogeneities and the backbone picture

F. Roma, S. Bustingorry, P. M. Gleiser

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. B (2016) 89: 259

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

[38] arXiv:1604.00249 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible nonplanar structure of phagraphene and its thermal stability

A.I. Podlivaev, L.A. Openov

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: JETP Lett. 103, 185 (2016)

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

[39] arXiv:1604.00250 [pdf, other]

Title: Interlayer exchange coupling -- a general scheme turning chiral magnets into magnetic multilayers carrying atomic-scale skyrmions

Ashis Kumar Nandy, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Stefan Blügel

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures; Supplement; Accepted for publication Physical Review Letters (2016)

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

[40] arXiv:1604.00278 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling non-harmonic behavior of materials from experimental inelastic neutron scattering and thermal expansion measurements

Dipanshu Bansal, Amjad Aref, Gary Dargush, Olivier Delaire

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

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

[41] arXiv:1604.00286 [pdf, other]

Title: Structural and magnetic field effects on spin fluctuations in Sr$_{3}$Ru$_2$O$_7$

Shantanu Mukherjee, Wei-Cheng Lee

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures

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

[42] arXiv:1604.00298 [pdf, other]

Title: Chirality-induced helical self-propulsion of cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

Takaki Yamamoto, Masaki Sano

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 97, 012607 (2018)

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

[43] arXiv:1604.00328 [pdf, other]

Title: Elastic and Piezoresistive Properties of Nickel Carbides from First-Principles

Jeffrey Kelling, Peter Zahn, Jörg Schuster, Sibylle Gemming

Comments: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev B

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 95, 024113 (2017)

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

[44] arXiv:1604.00331 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of phase transitions in the microwave response of YbRh2Si2

Katja Parkkinen, Martin Dressel, Kristin Kliemt, Cornelius Krellner, Christoph Geibel, Frank Steglich, Marc Scheffler

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Physics Procedia 75, 340 (2015)

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

[45] arXiv:1604.00336 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous rheo-electric measurements of strongly conductive complex fluids

Ahmed Helal, Thibaut Divoux, Gareth H. McKinley

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures + supplemental material

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Applied 6, 064004 (2016)

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[46] arXiv:1604.00337 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding and Controlling Water Stability of MOF-74

S. Zuluaga, E. M. A. Fuentes-Fernandez, K. Tan, F. Xu, J. Li, Y. J. Chabal, T. Thonhauser

Journal-ref: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4, 5176 - 5183

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

[47] arXiv:1604.00339 [pdf, other]

Title: First-principles study of organically modified muscovite mica with ammonium (NH$_4^+$) or methylammonium (CH$_3$NH$_3^+$) ion

Chol-Jun Yu, Song-Hyok Choe, Yong-Man Jang, Gwang-Hyok Jang, Yong-Hyon Pae

Journal-ref: Journal of Materials Science, Volume 51, Issue 24, pp 10806-10818 (2016)

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

[48] arXiv:1604.00340 [pdf, other]

Title: Simple model for Crystal Field Theory

Francisco M. Fernández

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[49] arXiv:1604.00345 [pdf, other]

Title: Auxiliary-field based trial wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations

Chia-Chen Chang, Brenda M. Rubenstein, Miguel A. Morales

Comments: Revised version with 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 235144 (2016)

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

[50] arXiv:1604.00352 [pdf, other]

Title: Conducting LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerfaces on atomically flat substrates prepared by deionized-water

J. G. Connell, J. Nichols, J. H. Gruenewald, D.-W. Kim, S. S. A. Seo

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6, 23621 (2016)

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