Other Condensed Matter
The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem, a cornerstone of electronic density functional theory, concerns uniqueness of external potentials yielding given ground densities of an ${\mathcal N}$-body system. The problem is rigorously explored in a universe…
Ferromagnetism is an exciting phase of matter exhibiting strongly correlated electron behavior and a standard example of spontaneously broken rotational symmetry: below the Curie temperature, atomic magnets in an isotropic single-domain…
We analyse the Lifshitz pressure between silica and tin separated by a liquid mixture of bromobenzene and chlorobenzene. We show that the phase transition from semimetallic $\alpha$-Sn to metallic $\beta$-Sn can switch Lifshitz forces from…
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is an out-of-equilibrium method for generating non-thermal spin polarization which provides large signal enhancements in modern diagnostic methods based on nuclear magnetic resonance. A particular instance…
We present a model to study effects from an external magnetic field, chemical potential, and finite size, on the phase structure of a massive four- and six-fermion interacting system. These effects are introduced by a method of…
An analytical solution to the problem of decreasing the energy losses $\Omega$ in diode current interrupters during recovery of the blocking ability by optimizing dopant distribution $N(x)$ over structure thickness has been obtained. It was…
The joint magnetic and mechanical motion of a ferromagnetic nanoparticle in a viscous fluid is considered within the dynamical approach. The equation based on the total momentum conservation law is used for the description of the mechanical…
An interface between two media is topologically stable two-dimensional object where 3D-symmetry breaks which allows for existence of many exotic excitations. A direct way to explore surface excitations is to investigate their interaction…
The Carr-Purcell Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) experiment has been used for decades to measure nuclear-spin transverse ($T_2$) relaxation times. In the presence of magnetic-field inhomogeneities, the limit of short interpulse spacings yields the…
The main candidate for the superfluid pathways in solid Helium-4 are dislocations with Burgers vector along the hcp symmetry axis. Here we focus on quantum behavior of a generic edge dislocation which can perform superclimb -- climb…
Spin-orbit interaction lifts accidental band degeneracy. The geometric phase gamma(C)=pi for circuits surrounding a line of such degeneracy cannot survive completely unchanged. The change depends on how the spin is fixed during adiabatic…
We study the motion of an electron bubble in the zero temperature limit where neither phonons nor rotons provide a significant contribution to the drag exerted on an ion moving within the superfluid. By using the Gross-Clark model, in which…
A general relation is derived between the linear and second-order nonlinear ac conductivities of an electron system in the hydrodynamic regime of frequencies below the interparticle scattering rate. The magnitude and tensorial structure of…
Metastability effects in the formation of Condon non-spin magnetic domains are considered. A possibility for the first-order phase transition occurrence in a three-dimensional electron gas is described in the case of two-frequency…
To study channeling radiation produced by an ultra-relativistic electron beam channeling through a single crystal, a lattice potential of the crystal is required for solving the transverse motion of beam electrons under the influence of the…
We calculate the lateral Lifshitz force between corrugated dielectric slabs of finite thickness. Taking the thickness of the plates to infinity leads us to the lateral Lifshitz force between corrugated dielectric surfaces of infinite…
A thesis providing a pedagogical introduction to the problem of achieving self-consistency in density functional theory. Contained is an introduction to the framework of Kohn-Sham density functional theory, leading then to the…
In this paper, we present a detailed numerical implementation of the multicomponent potential theory of adsorption which is among the most accurate gas mixtures adsorption models. The implementation uses the NIST Refprop database to…
The large scale turbulent statistics of mechanically driven superfluid $^4$He was shown experimentally to follow the classical counterpart. In this paper we use direct numerical simulations to study the whole range of scales in a range of…
We report measurements of elastic moduli of hcp solid $^4$He down to 15 mK when the samples are rotated unidirectionally. Recent investigations have revealed that the elastic behavior of solid $^4$He is dominated by gliding of dislocations…