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Various electronic phases emerge when applying high magnetic fields in graphite. However, the origin of a semimetal-insulator transition at $B \simeq 30\; \textrm{T}$ is still not clear, while an exotic density-wave state is theoretically…
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Power storage devices such as batteries are a crucial part of modern technology. The development and use of batteries has accelerated in the past decades, yet there are only a few techniques that allow gathering vital information from…
Experimental diffraction patterns produced by grazing scattering of fast helium atoms from a Ag(110) surface are used as a sensitive tool to test both the scattering and the potential models. To describe the elastic collision process we…
High-density lithium plasmas are expected to be generated in the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) reactor chamber due to energy deposition of the prompt X-rays and ion debris in the first wall. These dense plasmas are encountered in many…
We present a machine learning algorithm for the prediction of molecule properties inspired by ideas from density functional theory. Using Gaussian-type orbital functions, we create surrogate electronic densities of the molecule from which…
We present an calculation of the electronic and optical excitations of an isolated polythiophene chain as well as of bulk polythiophene. We use the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy and include excitonic effects by solving the…
In high power RF devices for space, secondary electron emission appears as the main parameter governing the multipactor effect and as well as the e-cloud in large accelerators. Critical experimental activities included development of…
Surface integral equations (SIEs)-based boundary element methods are widely used for analyzing electromagnetic scattering scenarii. However, after discretization of SIEs, the spectrum and eigenvectors of the boundary element matrices are…