Open Access Editorial Editorial for the topical issue on the Continuous Time Random Walk 40 Ryszard Kutner and Jaume Masoliver Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80440-9 AbstractPDF (163.8 KB)
Open Access Regular Article A generalized entropy optimization and Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution 39 Arak M. Mathai and Hans J. Haubold Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80371-5 AbstractPDF (946.9 KB)
Open Access Regular Article Relative distance between tracers as a measure of diffusivity within moving aggregates 27 Wolfram Pönisch and Vasily Zaburdaev Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80347-5 AbstractPDF (1019 KB)
Regular Article A fractional reaction–diffusion description of supply and demand 23 Michael Benzaquen and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Published online: 05 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80246-9 AbstractPDF (598.0 KB)
Regular Article First- and second-order Raman scattering from MoTe2 single crystal 35 Simone Caramazza, Arianna Collina, Elena Stellino, Francesca Ripanti, Paolo Dore and Paolo Postorino Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80399-5 AbstractPDF (2.478 MB)
Open Access Regular Article Application of a parallel genetic algorithm to the global optimization of medium-sized Au–Pd sub-nanometre clusters 34 Heider A. Hussein, Ilker Demiroglu and Roy L. Johnston Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80314-2 AbstractPDF (1.382 MB)
Open Access Regular Article The effect of size and composition on structural transitions in monometallic nanoparticles 33 Kevin Rossi, Luca Pavan, YeeYeen Soon and Francesca Baletto Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80281-6 AbstractPDF (969.3 KB)
Open Access Regular Article Computational investigation of CO adsorbed on Aux, Agx and (AuAg)x nanoclusters (x = 1 − 5, 147) and monometallic Au and Ag low-energy surfaces 32 Anna L. Gould, C. Richard A. Catlow and Andrew J. Logsdail Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80280-7 AbstractPDF (1.316 MB)
Regular Article Crown oxygen-doping graphene with embedded main-group metal atoms 46 Liyuan Wu, Qian Wang, Chuanghua Yang, Ruge Quhe, Pengfei Guan and Pengfei Lu Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80396-2 AbstractPDF (1.091 MB)
Regular Article Systematic investigation of the reactive ion beam sputter deposition process of SiO2 45 Maria Mateev, Thomas Lautenschläger, Daniel Spemann, Annemarie Finzel, Jürgen W. Gerlach, Frank Frost and Carsten Bundesmann Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80453-x AbstractPDF (1.114 MB)
Regular Article Investigation of elastic moduli and constants of zinc-blende AlyGa1-yAs alloy by statistical moment method 44 Vu Van Hung, Tran Xuan Linh, Vu Thi Thanh Ha, Duong Dai Phuong and Ho Khac Hieu Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80540-0 AbstractPDF (580.5 KB)
Open Access Dynamical phase diagrams of a love capacity constrained prey–predator model 43 P. Toranj Simin, Gholam Reza Jafari, Marcel Ausloos, Cesar Federico Caiafa, Facundo Caram, Adeyemi Sonubi, Alberto Arcagni and Silvana Stefani Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80531-7 AbstractPDF (3.766 MB)
Regular Article Assessment of bilayer silicene to probe as quantum spin and valley Hall effect 42 Majeed Ur Rehman and Zhenhua Qiao Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80291-4 AbstractPDF (644.0 KB)
Regular Article Giant Faraday rotation in graphene/MnF2 photonic crystals 41 Sheng Zhou, Ying Gao and Shufang Fu Published online: 19 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80263-8 AbstractPDF (3.051 MB)
Open Access Regular Article An equilibrium-conserving taxation scheme for income from capital 38 Jacques Tempere Published online: 14 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80497-x AbstractPDF (369.7 KB)
Calculation method of spin accumulations and spin signals in nanostructures using spin resistors 37 Williams Savero Torres, Alain Marty, Piotr Laczkowski, Matthieu Jamet, Laurent Vila and Jean-Philippe Attané Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80499-8 AbstractPDF (834.6 KB)
Regular Article Strong electron–phonon interaction and colossal magnetoresistance in EuTiO3 36 Ruofan Chen, Ji-Chang Ren, Km Rubi, Ramanathan Mahendiran and Jian-Sheng Wang Published online: 12 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-80536-8 AbstractPDF (504.2 KB)
Regular Article Influence of pressure on electronic and optical properties of phosphorus-doped ZnO 31 Ling-Ping Xiao, Xiao-Bin Li, Li Zeng and Xue Yang Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80379-9 AbstractPDF (911.8 KB)
Regular Article Quasi-superradiant soliton state of matter in quantum metamaterials 30 Hidehiro Asai, Shiro Kawabata, Sergey E. Savel’ev and Alexandre M. Zagoskin Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80567-7 AbstractPDF (937.8 KB)
Open Access Regular Article Dependence of structure factor and correlation energy on the width of electron wires 29 Vinod Ashokan, Renu Bala, Klaus Morawetz and Kare Narain Pathak Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80530-8 AbstractPDF (556.5 KB)
Regular Article Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in EuX (X = O, S): pressure effects 28 Mostefa Djermouni, Ali Zaoui, Salima Kacimi, Nawel Benayad and Abdelkader Boukortt Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80604-7 AbstractPDF (797.6 KB)
Regular Article Stochastic resonance in a harmonic oscillator subject to random mass and periodically modulated noise 26 Wang-Hao Dai, Rui-Bin Ren, Mao-Kang Luo and Ke Deng Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80165-9 AbstractPDF (984.4 KB)
Regular Article Cut contribution to momentum autocorrelation function of an impurity in a classical diatomic chain 25 Ming B. Yu Published online: 07 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80402-3 AbstractPDF (680.5 KB)
Regular Article Synchronization of organ pipes 24 Jakub Sawicki, Markus Abel and Eckehard Schöll Published online: 05 February 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2017-80485-8 AbstractPDF (730.7 KB)