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$\gamma$-ray spectra for positron annihilation with the core and valence electrons of the noble gas atoms Ar, Kr and Xe is calculated within the framework of diagrammatic many-body theory. The effect of positron-atom and short-range…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 D. G. Green , G. F. Gribakin

Open many-body quantum systems have attracted renewed interest in the context of quantum information science and quantum transport with biological clusters and ultracold atomic gases. The physical relevance in many-particle bosonic systems…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-02 G. Kordas , D. Witthaut , P. Buonsante , A. Vezzani , R. Burioni , A. I. Karanikas , S. Wimberger

We simulate head-on collisions from rest at large separation of binary white dwarf -- neutron stars (WDNSs) in full general relativity. Our study serves as a prelude to our analysis of the circular binary WDNS problem. We focus on compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-23 Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

The conventional explanation for the 1.022 MeV decay of positronium in terms of the annihilation of an electron and its antiparticle is questioned because of the impossibility of proving experimentally that matter actually disappears.…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Robert J. Buenker

In [arXiv:2207.03377] the first closed formula of a faithful entanglement measure applicable to realistic electron systems has been derived. In the present work, we build on this key achievement with the ultimate goal of guiding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Lexin Ding , Gesa Dünnweber , Christian Schilling

The quenching processes of the thermalized ortho-positronium(o-Ps) on an oxygen molecule have been studied by the positron annihilation age-momentum correlation techinique(AMOC). The Doppler broadening spectrum of the 511 keV gamma-rays…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. Shinohara , N. Suzuki , T. Chang , T. Hyodo

The strong short-range repulsion, characteristic to realistic interatomic potentials, complicates the description of weakly-bound few-body systems such as those of \He atoms. The present work proposes an approach for solving this problem…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 A. Deltuva

We use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and Auger electron spectroscopy to study the behavior of adsorbed phosphine (PH$_{3}$) on Si(001), as a function of annealing temperature, paying particular attention to the formation of the Si-P…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Curson , S. R. Schofield , M. Y. Simmons , L. Oberbeck , J. L. O'Brien , R. G. Clark

In this work, we highlight how trapped-ion quantum systems can be used to study generalized Holstein models, and benchmark expensive numerical calculations. We study a particular spin-Holstein model that can be implemented with arrays of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Johannes Knörzer , Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

We study the ground state and the low-lying excitations of a trapped Bose gas in an isotropic harmonic potential for very small ($\sim 3$) to very large ($\sim 10^7$) particle numbers. We use the correlated two-body basis functions and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 M. L. Lekala , B. Chakrabarti , T. K. Das , G. J. Rampho , S. A. Sofianos , R. M. Adam , S. K. Haldar

The interaction potential energy surface (PES) of He-H2 is of great importance for quantum chemistry, as the simplest test case for interactions between a molecule and a closed-shell atom. It is also required for a detailed understanding of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold I. Boothroyd , Peter G. Martin , Michael R. Peterson

We created 4 p-Si models and 4 p-Si:H models all with 50% porosity. The models contain 32, 108, 256 and 500 silicon atoms with a pore parallel to one of the simulational cell axes and a regular cross-section. We obtained the densities of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 E. R. L. Loustau , Ariel A. Valladares

We present a method for solving the positron diffusion equation in multi-layer systems. Our approach incorporates material-specific implantation profiles, diffusion parameters, and positron affinities. It utilizes a Markov chain approach to…

The reactions of the low-lying metastable states of atomic phosphorus, P($^2$D) and P($^2$P), with H$_{2}$O and H$_{2}$ were studied by the pulsed laser photolysis at 248 nm of PCl$_{3}$ , combined with laser induced fluorescence detection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Kevin M. Douglas , David Gobrecht , John M. C. Plane

Charmonium production and suppression in In+In and Pb+Pb reactions at SPS energies is investigated with the HSD transport approach within the 'hadronic comover model' as well as the 'QGP threshold scenario'. The results of the transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Linnyk , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing , H. Stoecker

We study a system of $A$ identical interacting bosons trapped by an external field by solving ab initio the many-body Schroedinger equation. A complete solution by using, for example, the traditional hyperspherical harmonics (HH) basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. K. Das , B. Chakrabarti

Renewed focus on the P-Si system due to its potential application in quantum computing and self-directed growth of molecular wires, has led us to study structural changes induced by P upon placement on Si(001)-$p(2\times 1)$. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Prasenjit Sen , Bikash C Gupta , Inder P. Batra

When recent experimental positronium (Ps) formation cross sections in noble gases have been compared with the most up-to date theoretical studies, the agreement is qualitative, but not quantitative. In this paper we re-examine this process…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. J. M. Dunlop , G. F. Gribakin

The decay of ortho-positronium into three photons produces a physical realization of a pure state with three-party entanglement. Its quantum correlations are analyzed using recent results on quantum information theory, looking for the final…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Acin , J. I. Latorre , P. Pascual

Strong dipole-dipole interactions between atoms in high-lying Rydberg states can suppress multiple Rydberg excitations within a micron-sized trapping volume and yield sizable Rydberg level shifts at larger distances. Ensembles of atoms in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Fabian Letscher , David Petrosyan , Michael Fleischhauer