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In a recent Letter, Dornheim et al. [PRL 125, 085001 (2020)] have investigated the nonlinear density response of the uniform electron gas in the warm dense matter regime. More specifically, they have studied the cubic response function at…

An accurate non-gradient-expansion based correction to Thomas--Fermi is developed using solvable model. The used model is a system of $N$ non-interacting electrons moving independently in the Coulomb field of the nuclear charge. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexey Sergeev , Raka Jovanovic , Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

The Thomas-Fermi (TF) approximation for the static dielectric constant of a three-dimensional electron liquid can be derived from minimizing the TF local-density approximation for the kinetic-energy functional. Here we show that this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. P. Favaro , Joao Vitor Batista Ferreira , K. Capelle

We consider interacting Fermi systems close to the unitary regime and compute the corrections to the energy density that are due to a large scattering length and a small effective range. Our approach exploits the universality of the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Anirban Bhattacharyya , T. Papenbrock

We introduce effective field theories for the electronic properties of graphene in terms of relativistic fermions propagating in 2+1 dimensions, and outline how strong inter-electron interactions may be modelled by numerical simulation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Simon Hands , Wes Armour , Costas Strouthos

Charge carrier transport in single-layer graphene with one-dimensional charged defects is studied theoretically. Extended charged defects, considered an important factor for mobility degradation in chemically-vapor-deposited graphene, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , A. Ferreira

We propose a density functional theory of Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs\"acker type to describe the response of a single layer of graphene resting on a dielectric substrate to a point charge or a collection of charges some distance away from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Jianfeng Lu , Vitaly Moroz , Cyrill B. Muratov

The recent experimental observations of designer Dirac Fermions and topological phases in molecular graphene are addressed theoretically. Using scattering theory we calculate the electronic structure of finite lattices of scattering centers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 H. Hammar , P. Berggren , J. Fransson

Shell effects reflects irregularities of physical quantities caused by a discrete energy spectrum. The theory of the shell effects by Kirzhnits and Shpatakovskaya is valid only at relatively low densities providing for oscillations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sergey Dyachkov , Pavel Levashov

The van-der-Waals stacking technique enables the fabrication of heterostructures, where two conducting layers are atomically close. In this case, the finite layer thickness matters for the interlayer electrostatic coupling. Here we…

Linear response calculations based on the time-dependent density-functional theory are presented. Especially, we report results of the finite amplitude method which we have recently proposed as an alternative and feasible approach to the…

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust surface states and interesting electromagnetic responses. In this paper, we consider the electromagnetic response of gapless phases in $3+1$-dimensions with line nodes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

An electrodynamic response of graphene to a strong electromagnetic radiation is considered. A hot electron model (HEM) is introduced and a corresponding system of nonlinear equations is formulated. Solutions of this system are found and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 S. A. Mikhailov

The full three dimensional dispersion of the pi-bands, Fermi velocities and effective masses are measured with angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy and compared to first-principles calculations. The band structure by density-functional…

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

Sub-wavelength graphene structures support localized plasmonic resonances in the terahertz and mid-infrared spectral regimes. The strong field confinement at the resonant frequency is predicted to significantly enhance the light-graphene…

Nonperturbative approach based on exact solution of Boltzmann kinetic equation in the relaxation time approximation is developed for the study of nonlinear response of electron-doped few-layer graphene to a high-frequency electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 D. V. Fil

We compute the nonlinear optical response of doped mono- and bilayer graphene using the full dispersion based on tight-binding models. The response is derived with the density matrix formalism using the length gauge and is valid for any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 F. Hipolito , Alireza Taghizadeh , T. G. Pedersen

We study the charge induced in a Thomas-Fermi metal by an ion in vacuum, using an atomistic description employed in constant-potential molecular dynamics simulations, and compare the results with the predictions from continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Swetha Nair , Giovanni Pireddu , Benjamin Rotenberg

Using perturbation expansion of Maxwell equations, the amplitude equation is derived for nonlinear TM and TE surface plasmon waves supported by graphene. The equation describes interplay between in-plane beam diffraction and nonlinerity due…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-29 A. V. Gorbach