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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 150 cited

Calculations on millions of atoms with DFT: Linear scaling shows its potential

D. R. Bowler, T. Miyazaki

An overview of the Conquest linear scaling density functional theory (DFT) code is given, focussing particularly on the scaling behaviour on modern high- performance computing (HPC…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 18 cited

Pressure dependence of phonon modes across the tetragonal to collapsed tetragonal phase transition in CaFe2As2

R. Mittal, R. Heid, A. Bosak +14

The pressure dependence of a large number of phonon modes in CaFe2As2 with energies covering the full range of the phonon spectrum has been studied using inelastic x-ray and neutro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 127 cited

Giant anomalous Hall resistivity of the room temperature ferromagnet Fe3Sn2 - a frustrated metal with the kagome-bilayer structure

T. Kida, L. Fenner, A. S. Wills +2

We have investigated magnetic and transport properties of the {\it kagomé-bilayer} ferromagnet FeSn. A soft ferromagnetism and a large anomalous Hall effect are observe…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 14 cited

Neutron scattering study of the high energy graphitic phonons in superconducting CaC

M. P. M. Dean, A. C. Walters, C. A. Howard +7

We present the results of a neutron scattering study of the high energy phonons in the superconducting graphite intercalation compound CaC. The study was designed to address hi…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 63 cited

Nature of the magnetic order and origin of induced ferroelectricity in TbMnO

S. B. Wilkins, T. R. Forrest, T. A. W. Beale +9

The magnetic structures which endow TbMnO with its multiferroic properties have been reassessed on the basis of a comprehensive soft x-ray resonant scattering (XRS) study. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 81 cited

Analysis of strain and stacking faults in single nanowires using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging

V. Favre-Nicolin, F. Mastropietro, J. Eymery +10

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) on Bragg reflections is a promising technique for the study of three-dimensional (3D) composition and strain fields in nanostructures, which can…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 26 cited

Spinon localization in the heat transport of the spin-1/2 ladder compound (CHN)CuBr

A. V. Sologubenko, T. Lorenz, J. A. Mydosh +4

We present experiments on the magnetic field-dependent thermal transport in the spin-1/2 ladder system (CHN)CuBr. The thermal conductivity is only weakly…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 47 cited

Imaging the essential role of spin-fluctuations in high-Tc superconductivity

N. Jenkins, Y. Fasano, C. Berthod +7

We have used scanning tunneling spectroscopy to investigate short-length electronic correlations in three-layer Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O(10+d) (Bi-2223). We show that the superconducting gap…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 32 cited

Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study of superconducting SmFeAs(OF) Single Crystals: Evidence for Strong Momentum-Dependent Doping-Induced Renormalizations of Optical Phonons

M. Le Tacon, T. R. Forrest, Ch. Rüegg +10

We report inelastic x-ray scattering experiments on the lattice dynamics in SmFeAsO and superconducting SmFeAsOF single crystals. Particular attention was paid to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 71 cited

Coupled cluster benchmarks of water monomers and dimers extracted from DFT liquid water: the importance of monomer deformations

Biswajit Santra, Angelos Michaelides, Matthias Scheffler

To understand the performance of popular density-functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation (xc) functionals in simulations of liquid water, water monomers and dimers were extrac…

cond-mat.dis-nn2009★ 22 cited

Zero-point entropy of the spinel spin glasses CuGa_2O_4 and CuAl_2O_4

L A Fenner, A S Wills, S T Bramwell +2

The zero-point entropy of a spin glass is a difficult property to experimentally determine and interpret. Spin glass theory provides various predictions, including unphysical ones,…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 13 cited

Inelastic neutron scattering studies of the quantum frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, -Cu2(OD)3Cl, a proposed valence bond solid (VBS)

A. S. Wills, T. G. Perring, S. Raymond +3

The frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, -Cu(OH)Cl, is attracting a lot of interest after suggestions that at low temperature it forms an exotic quantum state termed a Vale…

cond-mat.other2009★ 382 cited

Magnetic Charge Transport

S. T. Bramwell, S. R. Giblin, S. Calder +3

It has recently been predicted that certain magnetic materials contain mobile magnetic charges or `monopoles'. Here we address the question of whether these magnetic charges and th…

cond-mat.other2009★ 376 cited

Persistent currents and quantised vortices in a polariton superfluid

D. Sanvitto, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymanska +10

Semiconductor microcavity polaritons in the optical parametric scattering regime have been recently demonstrated to display a new variety of dissipationless superfluid behaviour. W…

quant-ph2009★ 27 cited

High Field Phenomena of Qubits

J. van Tol, G. W. Morley, S. Takahashi +3

Electron and nuclear spins are very promising candidates to serve as quantum bits (qubits) for proposed quantum computers, as the spin degrees of freedom are relatively isolated fr…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 55 cited

Non-adiabatic phonons within the doped graphene layers of XC compounds

Mark P. M. Dean, Christopher A. Howard, Siddharth S. Saxena +1

We report the first Raman scattering measurements of BaC, SrC, and YbC, which along with new data on CaC, permits a systematic study of the phonons and the electron…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 11 cited

Magnetic and electrical properties of dhcp NpPd3 and U(1-x)Np(x)Pd3

H. C. Walker, K. A. McEwen, P. Boulet +4

We have made an extensive study of the magnetic and electrical properties of double-hexagonal closepacked NpPd3 and a range of U(1-x)Np(x)Pd3 compounds with x=0.01, 0.02, 0.05, and…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 49 cited

Circularly polarised X-rays as a probe of non-collinear magnetic order in multiferroic TbMnO3

F. Fabrizi, H. C. Walker, L. Paolasini +4

Non-resonant X-ray magnetic scattering has been used to study the magnetic structure of multiferroic TbMnO3 in its ferroelectric phase. Circularly polarized X-rays were combined wi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 16 cited

Melting properties of a simple tight-binding model of transition metals: I.The region of half-filled d-band

C. Cazorla, D. Alfè, M. J. Gillan

We present calculations of the free energy, and hence the melting properties, of a simple tight-binding model for transition metals in the region of d-band filling near the middle…

quant-ph2009★ 28 cited

Could one make a diamond-based quantum computer?

A Marshall Stoneham, A H Harker, Gavin W Morley

We assess routes to a diamond-based quantum computer, where we specifically look towards scalable devices, with at least 10 linked quantum gates. Such a computer should satisfy the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 116 cited

Experimental and theoretical study of oxygen adsorption structures on Ag(111)

Joachim Schnadt, Jan Knudsen, Xiao Liang Hu +7

The oxidized Ag(111) surface has been studied by a combination of experimental and theoretical methods, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS),…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 170 cited

Temperature of the inner-core boundary of the Earth: Melting of iron at high pressure from first-principles coexistence simulations

Dario Alfè

The Earth's core consists of a solid ball with a radius of 1221 Km, surrounded by a liquid shell which extends up to 3480 Km from the centre of the planet, roughly half way towards…

cond-mat.supr-con2009★ 56 cited

Field-induced soft-mode quantum phase transition in LaSrCuO

J. Chang, N. B. Christensen, Ch. Niedermayer +13

Inelastic neutron-scattering experiments on the high-temperature superconductor LaSrCuO reveal a magnetic excitation gap that decreases continuously u…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 17 cited

Charge Density Refinement of the Si (111) 7x7 Surface

J. Ciston, A. Subramanian, I. K. Robinson +1

We report an experimental refinement of the local charge density at the Si (111) 7x7 surface utilizing a combination of x-ray and high energy electron diffraction. By perturbing ab…