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most citedThe virtual crystal approximation revisited: Application to dielectric and piezoelectric properties of perovskites

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cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 28 cited

Origins of GaN(0 0 0 1) surface reconstructions

S. Vezian, F. Semond, J. Massies +3

The reconstructions of the Ga polarity GaN(0 0 0 1) surface with and without trace amounts of arsenic and prepared by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) have been studied with in situ re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 58 cited

Thermal mirror buckling in freestanding graphene locally controlled by scanning tunneling microscopy

M. Neek-Amal, P. Xu, J. K. Schoelz +5

Knowledge of and control over the curvature of ripples in freestanding graphene are desirable for fabricating and designing flexible electronic devices, and recent progress in thes…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 100 cited

Unusual ultralow frequency fluctuations in freestanding graphene

P. Xu, M. Neek-Amal, S. D. Barber +5

Intrinsic ripples in freestanding graphene have been exceedingly difficult to study. Individual ripple geometry was recently imaged using scanning tunneling microscopy, but these m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 1 cited

Self-Organized Platinum Nanoparticles on Freestanding Graphene

Peng Xu, Lifeng Dong, Mehdi Neek-Amal +8

Freestanding graphene membranes were successfully functionalized with platinum nanoparticles (Pt NPs). High-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed a homogeneous distr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 28 cited

Polarization-dependent exciton dynamics in tetracene single crystals

Bo Zhang, Chunfeng Zhang, Yanqing Xu +6

We conduct polarization-dependent ultrafast spectroscopy to study the dynamics of singlet fission in tetracene single crystals. The spectrotemporal species for singlet and triplet…

math.AG2014★ 20 cited

Test ideals in rings with finitely generated anti-canonical algebras

Alberto Chiecchio, Florian Enescu, Lance Edward Miller +1

Many results are known about test ideals and -singularities for -Gorenstein rings. In this paper we generalize many of these results to the case when the symbolic Rees…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 28 cited

Simulated scanning tunneling microscopy images of few-layer-phosphorus capped by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride monolayers

Pablo Rivero, Cedric M. Horvath, Zhen Zhu +3

Elemental phosphorous is believed to have several stable allotropes that are energetically nearly degenerate, but chemically reactive. To prevent chemical degradation under ambient…

math.GT2014★ 10 cited

Positive factorizations of mapping classes

R. Inanc Baykur, Naoyuki Monden, Jeremy Van Horn-Morris

In this article, we study the maximal length of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes. In connection to fundamental questions regarding the uniform topology…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 100 cited

Stability and properties of high-buckled two-dimensional tin and lead

Pablo Rivero, Jia-An Yan, Victor M. Garcia-Suarez +2

In realizing practical non-trivial topological electronic phases stable structures need to be determined first. Tin and lead do stabilize an optimal two-dimensional high-buckled ph…

physics.optics2014★ 79 cited

Photonic Floquet Topological Insulator in an Atomic Ensemble

Yiqi Zhang, Zhenkun Wu, Milivoj R. Belić +4

We demonstrate the photonic Floquet topological insulator (PFTI) in an atomic vapor with nonlinear susceptibilities. The interference of three coupling fields splits the energy lev…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 33 cited

The G+M eclipsing binary V530 Orionis: A stringent test of magnetic stellar evolution models for low-mass stars

G. Torres, C. H. Sandberg Lacy, K. Pavlovski +4

We report extensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of the 6.1-day period, G+M-type detached double-lined eclipsing binary V530 Ori, an important new benchmark system fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 31 cited

Prediction of a Stable Post-Post-Perovskite Structure from First Principles

Changsong Xu, Bin Xu, Yurong Yang +6

A novel stable crystallographic structure is discovered in a variety of ABO3, ABF3 and A2O3 compounds (including materials of geological relevance, prototypes of multiferroics, exh…

math.AG2014★ 1 cited

Theta-regularity of curves and Brill-Noether loci

Luigi Lombardi, Wenbo Niu

We provide a bound on the -regularity of an arbitrary reduced and irreducible curve embedded in a polarized abelian variety in terms of its degree and codimension. This is an "a…

math.AP2014★ 1 cited

Gradient estimates and the fundamental solution for higher-order elliptic systems with rough coefficients

Ariel Barton

We extend several well-known tools from the theory of second-order divergence-form elliptic equations to the case of higher-order equations. These tools are the Caccioppoli inequal…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 22 cited

Constraining dark matter halo profiles and galaxy formation models using spiral arm morphology. II. Dark and stellar mass concentrations for 13 nearby face-on galaxies

Marc S. Seigar, Benjamin L. Davis, Joel Berrier +1

We investigate the use of spiral arm pitch angles as a probe of disk galaxy mass profiles. We confirm our previous result that spiral arm pitch angles (P) are well correlated with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 81 cited

Predicting a Ferrimagnetic Phase of Zn2FeOsO6 with Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling

P. S. Wang, W. Ren, L. Bellaiche +1

Multiferroic materials, in which ferroelectric and magnetic ordering coexist, are of fundamental interest for the development of novel memory devices that allow for electrical writ…

physics.med-ph2014★ 158 cited

Correlation between amygdala BOLD activity and frontal EEG asymmetry during real-time fMRI neurofeedback training in patients with depression

Vadim Zotev, Han Yuan, Masaya Misaki +4

Real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) is an emerging approach for studies and novel treatments of major depressive disorder (MDD). EEG performed simultaneously with an rtfMRI-nf…

math.CV2014★ 3 cited

The Szegö kernel on a class of noncompact CR manifolds of high codimension

Andrew Raich, Michael Tinker

We generalize Nagel's formula for the Szegö kernel and use it to compute the Szegö kernel on a class of noncompact CR manifolds whose tangent space decomposes into one complex dire…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 278 cited

Emergent properties hidden in plane view: Strong electronic correlations at oxide interfaces

Jak Chakhalian, John W. Freeland, Andrew J. Millis +2

Finding new collective electronic states in materials is one of the fundamental goals of condensed matter physics. Atomic-scale superlattices formed from transition metal oxides ar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 13 cited

Electric dipole sheets in BaTiO/BaZrO superlattices

Zhijun Jiang, Bin Xu, Fei Li +2

We investigate two-dimensional electric dipole sheets in the superlattice made of BaTiO and BaZrO using first-principles-based Monte-Carlo simulations and density funct…

math.GT2014★ 11 cited

On the second homology group of the Torelli subgroup of Aut(F_n)

Matthew B. Day, Andrew Putman

Let IA_n be the Torelli subgroup of Aut(F_n). We give an explicit finite set of generators for H_2(IA_n) as a GL_n(Z)-module. Corollaries include a version of surjective representa…

quant-ph2014★ 61 cited

Quantum noise effects with Kerr nonlinearity enhancement in coupled gain-loss waveguides

Bing He, Shu-Bin Yan, Jing Wang +1

It is generally difficult to study the dynamical properties of a quantum system with both inherent quantum noises and non-perturbative nonlinearity. Due to the possibly drastic int…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 101 cited

First-principles study of the multi-mode anti-ferroelectric transition of PbZrO3

Jorge Iniguez, Massimiliano Stengel, Sergey Prosandeev +1

We have studied ab initio the phase transition in PbZrO3, a perovskite oxide usually presented as the prototypic anti-ferroelectric material. Our work reveals the crucial role that…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 15 cited

Membrane amplitude and triaxial stress in twisted bilayer graphene deciphered using first-principles directed elasticity theory and scanning tunneling microscopy

M. Neek-Amal, P. Xu, D. Qi +7

Twisted graphene layers produce a moiré pattern (MP) structure with a predetermined wavelength for given twist angle. However, predicting the membrane corrugation amplitude for any…