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Two dimensional electric potential maps based on voltage detection in conducting paper are common practice in many physics courses in college. Most frequently, students work on `capacitor-like' geometries with current flowing between two…

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Molecular electronics on silicon has distinct advantages over its metallic counterpart. We describe a theoretical formalism for transport through semiconductor-molecule heterostructures, combining a semi-empirical treatment of the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Rakshit , G-C. Liang , A. W. Ghosh , S. Datta

Many-body perturbation theory methods, such as the $G_0W_0$ approximation, are able to accurately predict quasiparticle (QP) properties of several classes of materials. However, the calculation of the QP band structure of two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-23 Alberto Guandalini , Pino D'Amico , Andrea Ferretti , Daniele Varsano

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-22 Rupali Jindal , Vaishali Roondhe , Alok Shukla

Encoding a dimension in the internal degree of freedom of an atom provides an interesting tool for quantum simulation, facilitating the realization of artificial gauge fields. We propose an extension of the synthetic dimension toolbox,…

Here we apply the optical nanocircuit concepts to design and analyze in detail a three-dimensional (3-D) plasmonic nanotransmission line network that may act as a negative-refraction broadband metamaterial at infrared and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

We discuss hidden symmetries of three-dimensional field configurations revealed at the one-particle level by the use of pseudoclassical particle models. We argue that at the quantum field theory level, these can be naturally explained in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Khazret S. Nirov

The concept of synthetic dimensions has emerged as a powerful framework in photonics and atomic physics, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional physics beyond conventional spatial constraints. Originally developed for quantum…

We consider theoretically a semiconductor nanostructure embedded in one-dimensional microcavity and study the modification of its electron energy spectrum by the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. To solve the problem, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 T. Espinosa-Ortega , O. Kyriienko , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

The study and modelling of planar capacitors remain highly relevant due to their broad applications. However, their accurate modelling presents significant challenges due to intrinsic high-frequency effects, which include not only parasitic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-18 Reinan Lima , Graziella Bedenik , Farshad Yazdani , Matthew Robertson , Elyson Ádan Nunes Carvalho

We study the band structure of semiconductor nanowires with quantum dots embedded in them. The band structure is calculated using the Rayleigh-Ritz variational method. We consider quantum dots of two different types, one type is defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Natalia Giovenale , Omar Osenda}

We investigate a two-component, cylindrical, quasi-one-dimensional quantum plasma subjected to a {\em radial} confining harmonic potential and an applied magnetic field in the symmetric gauge. It is demonstrated that such a system as can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Manvir S. Kushwaha

In this article we propose and numerically implement a mathematical model for the simulation of three-dimensional semiconductor devices characterized by an heterogeneous material structure. The model consists of a system of nonlinearly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-12 A. Mauri , R. Sacco , M. Verri

The Haldane pseudopotential construction has been an extremely powerful concept in quantum Hall physics --- it not only gives a minimal description of the space of Hamiltonians but also suggests special model Hamiltonians (those where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Simon C. Davenport , Steven H. Simon

In this paper, we present a new approach for the exact calculation of band structure in one-dimensional periodic media, such as photonic crystals and superlattices, based on the recently reported differential transfer matrix method (DTMM).…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sina Khorasani , Ali Adibi

Quantum computers hold promise to enable efficient simulations of the properties of molecules and materials; however, at present they only permit ab initio calculations of a few atoms, due to a limited number of qubits. In order to harness…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 He Ma , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

A general model for treating the effects of three dimensional interface roughness (IFR) in layered semiconductor structures has been derived and experimentally verified. Configurational averaging of the IFR potential produces an effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-10 Alex Y. Song , Rajaram Bhat , Pierre Bouzi , Chung-En Zah , Claire F. Gmachl

Complex band structure generalizes conventional band structure by also considering wavevectors with complex components. In this way, complex band structure describes both the bulk-propagating states from conventional band structure and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 Matthew G. Reuter

In solid-state materials science, substantial efforts have been devoted to the calculation and modeling of the electronic band gap. While a wide range of ab initio methods and machine learning algorithms have been created that can predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Andrew Ma , Owen Dugan , Marin Soljačić