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Materials with ring-shaped electronic bands are promising thermoelectric candidates, since their unusual dispersion shape is predicted to give large power factors. While previous calculations of these materials have relied on the assumption…
The cause for first and second order electromagnetic equivalency of inertial systems is approached from a different point of view than that of special relativity. While special relativity applies dilatation to time and contraction to space…
Some experimental results of correlation functions in Bose-Einstein interferometry measurements exhibit a non smooth behaviour - oscillations. Possible origin of such a behaviour in non-trivial spatial distribution of the source is…
Recent theoretical work has predicted that dislocation patterning induces anisotropic flat bands in the electronic band diagram, which can lead to unusual effects such as unconventional superconductivity. This work develops a…
We investigate the conduction-band structure and electron mobility in rocksalt ScN based on density functional theory. The first-principles band structure allows us to obtain band velocities and effective masses as a function of energy.…
Novel categories of electronic devices and quantum materials are obtained by pipelining the unitary evolution of electron quantum states as described by Schroedinger's equation with non-unitary processes that interrupt the coherent…
As an extension of previous theoretical study on the coherent structure resonance due to space charge effects [Chao Li and R. A. Jameson, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 21, 024204, 2018], this paper aims to demonstrate how the beam, as a whole, is…
One of the challenges of excitonic materials is the accurate determination of the exciton binding energy and bandgap. The difficulty arises from the overlap of the discrete and continuous excitonic absorption at the band edge. Many…
We consider a single electron traveling along a strictly one-dimensional quantum wire interacting with another electron in a quantum ring capacitively coupled to the wire. We develop an exact numerical method for treating the scattering…
Excitonic effects due to the correlation of electrons and holes in excited states of matter dominate the optical spectra of many interesting materials. They are usually studied in the long-wavelength limit. Here we investigate excitons at…
The authors present a quantity termed charge-spin susceptibility, which measures the charge response to spin degrees of freedom in strongly correlated materials. This quantity is simple to evaluate using both standard density functional…
We report on the measurements of the kinetics of expanding and collapsing rings in the exciton emission pattern. The rings are found to preserve their integrity during expansion and collapse, indicating that the observed kinetics is…
The diffusion of electronic wave packets in one-dimensional systems with on-site, binary disorder is numerically investigated within the framework of a single-band tight-binding model. Fractal properties are incorporated by assuming that…
Optical and transport properties of materials depend heavily upon features of electronic band structures in proximity to energy extrema in the Brillouin zone (BZ). Such features are generally described in terms of multi-dimensional…
We measure and explain scintillator non-proportionality and gamma quenching of CaWO4 at low energies and low temperatures. Phonons that are created following an interaction in the scintillating crystal at temperatures of 15mK are used for a…
We investigate curvature effects on geometric parameters, energetics and electronic structure of zigzag nanotubes with fully optimized geometries from first-principle calculations. The calculated curvature energies, which are inversely…
One of the fundamental properties of semiconductors is their ability to support highly tunable electric currents in the presence of electric fields or carrier concentration gradients. These properties are described by transport coefficients…
The analogy between supersymmetric quantum mechanics and matter-enhanced neutrino oscillations is exploited to obtain exact solutions for a class of electron density profiles. This integrability condition is analogous to the…
Despite the recognition of two-dimensional (2D) systems as emerging and scalable host materials of single photon emitters or spin qubits, uncontrolled and undetermined chemical nature of these quantum defects has been a roadblock to further…
The deformation of the relativistic dispersion relation caused by noncommutative (NC) Quantum Mechanics (QM) is studied using the extended phase-space formalism. The introduction of the additional commutation relations induces Lorentz…