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The electron-positron annihilation into two photons is a standard technology in medicine to observe e.g. metabolic processes in human bodies. A new tomograph will provide the possibility to observe not only direct $e^+ e^-$ annihilations…
Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) and positron-electron momentum density (PEMD) studies on multilayers of PbSe nanocrystals (NCs), supported by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), show that positrons are strongly…
Palladium hydride is a model system for studying metal-hydrogen interactions. Yet, its bulk electronic structure has proven difficult to directly probe, with most studies to date limited to surface-sensitive photoelectron spectroscopy…
The quantum entanglement for the two electrons in three-body atomic systems such as the helium atom, the hydrogen negative ion and the positronium negative ion are investigated by employing highly correlated Hylleraas functions to represent…
The positron-hydrogen atom scattering system is considered within the S-wave model. Convergence in the elastic scattering, excitation, ionization, and positronium formation channels is studied as a function of the number and type of states…
We theoretically study the positron elastic scattering by an atom with a multielectron semifilled subshell in its structure. The positron scattering by the Mn($...3d^{5}4s^{2}$,$^{6}S)$ atom with a $3d^{5}$ semifilled subshell ($e^{+}+Mn$…
We present the positron coupled cluster singles and doubles (POS-CCSD) method to calculate positron binding energies in molecules. This framework treats electrons and positrons on an equal footing and includes up to simultaneous…
In previous papers we have proposed a method for the ab initio calculation of fully differential cross-sections for electron scattering in liquids and applied it to liquid argon, xenon and krypton. In this paper, we extend the procedure to…
The structure of the unnatural parity states of PsH, LiPs, NaPs and KPs are investigated with the configuration interaction and stochastic variational methods. The binding energies (in hartree) are found to be 8.17x10-4, 4.42x10-4,…
We present two methods of calculating the spatial entanglement of an interacting electron system within the framework of density-functional theory. These methods are tested on the model system of Hooke's atom for which the spatial…
Target ionization processes of alkali atoms by Positronium impact are investigated. Calculations are performed in the frame work of model potential formalism using the Coulomb distorted eikonal approximation. Interesting qualitative…
We employ the Boltzmann transport model to study the sequential suppression pattern of $\Upsilon(1S,2S,3S)$ states in both small (p-Pb) and the large (Pb-Pb) collision systems at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV. The cold nuclear matter effects…
A hypercritical value for the magnetic field is determined, which provides the full compensation of the positronium rest mass by the binding energy in the maximum symmetry state and disappearance of the energy gap separating the…
We calculate the lifetime of both the o-Ps and the p-Ps positronium annihilation decay $ Ps\to\gamma\gamma$ in the strong circular polarized laser field. We take a strategy of the factorization to separate the effects caused by the Coulomb…
In this note, we present a new method to investigate the positronium states in ${\rm{QED_3}}$. According to the $\rm{K\ddot{a}ll\acute{e}n-Lehmann}$ spectral representation, the energy eigenvalues of bound states are poles of the…
The collision between a positronium (Ps) and a muonium (Mu) is studied for the first time using the static-exchange model and considering the system as a four-center Coulomb problem in the center of mass frame. An exact analysis is made to…
Topological insulators are attracting considerable interest due to their potential for technological applications and as platforms for exploring wide-ranging fundamental science questions. In order to exploit, fine-tune, control and…
A method is proposed for detecting positron-atom bound states by observing enhanced positron annihilation due to electronic Feshbach resonances at electron-volt energies. The method is applicable to a range of open-shell transition metal…
Traditional close-coupling methods suppose an expansion of the total wave function in terms of inner stationary states of colliding subsystems. In the case of hadronic atoms, a similar expansion has to involve, \emph{inter alia}, low…
We develop a rigorous quantum mechanical theory for collisions of polyatomic molecular radicals with S-state atoms in the presence of an external magnetic field. The theory is based on a fully uncoupled space-fixed basis set representation…