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The collective plasmonic modes of a metal comprise a pattern of charge density and tightly-bound electric fields that oscillate in lock-step to yield enhanced light-matter interaction. Here we show that metals with non-zero Hall…

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The integer quantum Hall effect can be observed in a two-dimensional conductor penetrated by a perpendicular magnetic field and with edges connecting the current carrying contacts. Its signature is a state of quantized Hall and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Serkan Sirt , Vladimir Y. Umansky , Afif Siddiki , Stefan Ludwig

Spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron gas with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and smooth edge confinement is studied. We predict that the interplay of semiclassical electron motion and quantum dynamics of spins leads to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 P. G. Silvestrov , V. A. Zyuzin , E. G. Mishchenko

We construct a mean-field model that describes the nonlinear dynamics of a spin-polarized electron gas interacting with fixed, positively-charged ions possessing a magnetic moment that evolves in time. The mobile electrons are modeled by a…

We have recently proposed an efficient computation method for the frictionless linear elastic axisymmetric contact of coated bodies [A. Perriot and E. Barthel, J. Mat. Res. 19 (2004) 600]. Here we give a brief description of the approach.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Etienne Barthel , Antoine Perriot , Antoine Chateauminois , Christian Frétigny

Using a first-principles classical many-body simulation of a Hall bar, we study the necessary conditions for the formation of the Hall potential: (i) Ohmic contacts with metallic reservoirs, (ii) electron-electron interactions, and (iii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 Tobias Kramer , Viktor Krueckl , Eric J. Heller , Robert E. Parrott

We outline transient quasi-magnetostatic phenomena associated with Weibel-type instabilities, mainly, the formation and decay of the current sheets and filaments. We consider a collisionless anisotropic plasma cloud with hot electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vladimir Kocharovsky , Anton Nechaev , Mikhail Garasev

The Vlasov-Poisson system for ions is a kinetic equation for dilute, unmagnetised plasma. It describes the evolution of the ions in a plasma under the assumption that the electrons are thermalized. Consequently, the Poisson coupling for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Megan Griffin-Pickering

We investigate the effect of excluded volume interactions on the electrolyte distribution around a charged macroion. First, we introduce a criterion for determining when hard-core effects should be taken into account beyond standard mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Antypov , M. Barbosa , C. Holm

We present quasi-exact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the partial static density responses and local field factors of hydrogen in the warm dense matter regime, from solid density conditions to the strongly compressed…

The alignment of the frontier orbital energies of an adsorbed molecule with the substrate Fermi level at metal-organic interfaces is a fundamental observable of significant practical importance in nanoscience and beyond. Typical density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Zhenfei Liu , David A. Egger , Sivan Refaely-Abramson , Leeor Kronik , Jeffrey B. Neaton

We experimentally study electron transport between edge states in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. We find an anomalous increase of the transport across the 2/3 incompressible fractional stripe in comparison with theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Deviatov , V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Lorke , W. Wegscheider , A. D. Wieck

We consider a system of a incompressible quantum Hall liquid in close proximity to a parabolic quantum dot containing a few electrons. We observe a significant influence of the interacting electrons in the dot on the excitation spectrum of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

In the well-known Kohn-Sham theory in Density Functional Theory, a fictitious non-interacting system is introduced that has the same particle density as a system of $N$ electrons subjected to mutual Coulomb repulsion and an external…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Andre Laestadius

I construct a minimal formalism to describe transport of non separable correlations arising when a superconductor is in contact with several electrodes (being ferromagnetic or normal metal). Transport theory is expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin

We describe the application of the locally-self-consistent-multiple-scattering (LSMS)[1] method to amorphous alloys. The LSMS algorithm is optimized for the Intel XP/S-150, a multiple-instruction-multiple-data parallel computer with 1024…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. C. Swihart , D. M. C. Nicholson , G. M. Stocks , Y. Wang , W. A. Shelton , H. Yang

Neutron and proton densities in the nuclear periphery are investigated within (p,n) charge-exchange isobar transitions. For this purpose we have developed parameter-free optical potentials with a detailed treatment of the in-medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. F. Arellano , W. G. Love

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

Using the strong coupling diagram technique, we study the one-band repulsive Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice in a wide range of chemical potentials $\mu$. Infinite sequences of diagrams describing interactions of electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Sherman

We calculate the electronic compressibility arising from electron-electron interactions for a graphene bilayer within the Hartree-Fock approximation. We show that, due to the chiral nature of the particles in this system, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-01 S. Viola Kusminskiy , Johan Nilsson , D. K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto