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We report here the structural and electronic properties of graphene and silicene (silicon analogue of graphene) investigated using first-principles calculations of their ground state energies employing full-potential (linearized) augmented…
The conventional theory of solids is well suited to describing band structures locally near isolated points in momentum space, but struggles to capture the full, global picture necessary for understanding topological phenomena. In part of a…
Heteroepitaxial strain can be a controlling factor in the lateral dimensions of 1-D nanostructures. Bi nanolines on Si(001) have an atomic structure which involves a large sub-surface reconstruction, resulting in a strong elastic coupling…
We perform an {\it ab initio} modeling of amorphous copper-doped alumina (a-Al$_2$O$_3$:Cu), a prospective memory material based on resistance switching, and study the structural origin of electronic conduction in this material. We generate…
Finite graphene nanoribbon (GNR) heterostructures host intriguing topological in-gap states (Rizzo, D. J. et al.~\textit{Nature} \textbf{2018}, \textit{560}, 204]). These states may be localized either at the bulk edges, or at the ends of…
We present a tight-binding calculation that, for the first time, accurately describes the structural, vibrational and elastic properties of amorphous silicon. We compute the interatomic force constants and find an unphysical feature of the…
The magneto-optical properties of titanium dioxide systems are related to the presence of impurity states in the band gap due to oxygen vacancies. To understand about the interplay between localized electrons and structural distortions at…
With the reported synthesis of a fully planar 2D silicon carbide (SiC) allotrope, the possibilities of its technological applications are enormous. Recently, several authors have computationally studied the structures and electronic…
Analysis of the electronic state of the CuO2 planes of high-Tc materials has been performed with special regard to the influence of the Coulomb interactions separated after moments. Different symmetry breaking effects were revealed. A…
Scanning tunneling images of carbon nanotubes frequently show electron distributions which break the local sixfold symmetry of the graphene sheet. We present a theory of these images which relates these anisotropies to the off diagonal…
We highlight recent advances in the theory, materials fabrication, and experimental characterization of strongly correlated and topological states in [111] oriented transition metal oxide thin films and heterostructures, which are…
Magnetic textures such as skyrmions in thin films grown on substrates possess significant technological potential. Inhomogeneous magnetic structures can be described as homogeneous ferromagnetic order in the presence of anisotropic…
The structural and electronic properties of amorphous silicon ($a$-Si) are investigated by first-principles calculations based on the density-functional theory (DFT), focusing on the intrinsic structural defects. By simulated melting and…
The possibility of realizing topological insulators by spontaneous formation of electronic superstructure is theoretically investigated in a minimal two-orbital model including both the spin-orbit coupling and electron correlations on a…
The localization of electrons caused by atomic disorder is a well-known phenomenon. However, what circumstances allow electrons to remain delocalized and retain band-like characteristics even when the crystal structure is completely absent,…
Owing to the natural compatibility with current semiconductor industry, silicon allotropes with diverse structural and electronic properties provide promising platforms for the next-generation Si-based devices. After screening 230…
The quantum size effect has a significant impact on electrons, such that it can even change their topologically protected properties. An example of this phenomenon is the gap opening in the topologically protected gapless surface state in…
The electronic structure of nanocrystalline (nc-) TiC/amorphous C nanocomposites has been investigated by soft x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. The measured spectra at the Ti 2p and C 1s thresholds of the nanocomposites are…
We use first-principles simulations to investigate the topological properties of Bi$_2$Se$_3$ thin films deposited on amorphous SiO2, Bi$_2$Se$_3$/a-SiO$_2$, which is a promising substrate for topological insulator (TI) based device…
The symmetry and topology of the coincidence structure, i.e. the locus of points in configuration space corresponding to particles in the same position, plays a critical role in extracting universal properties for few-body models with…