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A scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) image of a hydrogen-adsorbed Si(001) surface is studied using first-principles electron-conduction calculation. The resultant STM image and scanning tunneling spectroscopy spectra are in agreement with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomoya Ono , Shinya Horie , Katsuyoshi Endo , Kikuji Hirose

We study the local density of states at and around a substituting impurity and use these results to compute current versus bias characteristic curves of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) experiments done on the surface of graphene. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 N. M. R. Peres , Shan-Wen Tsai , J. E. Santos , R. M. Ribeiro

We present an extension of the tunneling theory for scanning tunneling microcopy (STM) to include different types of vibrational-electronic couplings responsible for inelastic contributions to the tunnel current in the strong-coupling…

We examine theoretically the signatures of magnetic adatoms in graphene probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). When the adatom hybridizes equally with the two graphene sublattices, the broadening of the local adatom level is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Bruno Uchoa , Ling Yang , S. -W. Tsai , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

We revisit the derivation of the orbital magnetization formula for periodic crystals in current density functional theory (CDFT)[1]. Our new derivation computes the linear response of the energy density to a periodic magnetic field in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Giovanni Vignale , Junren Shi , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

We extend the orbital-dependent electron tunneling model implemented within the three-dimensional (3D) Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) atom-superposition approach for simulating scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) by including arbitrary tip…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-15 Gábor Mándi , Norbert Nagy , Krisztián Palotás

We present a fast and efficient tight-binding (TB) method for simulating scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging of adsorbate molecules on ultrathin insulating films. Due to the electronic decoupling of the molecule from the metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Antti Korventausta , Sami Paavilainen , Eeva Niemi , Jouko Nieminen

Improving the detailed understanding of the underlying properties and functions of biomolecules has recently attracted growing interest, enabled by the possibility of real-space imaging of single, intact macromolecules using Scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Tim J. Seifert , Dhaneesh Kumar , Markus Etzkorn , Stephan Rauschenbach , Klaus Kern , Kelvin Anggara , Uta Schlickum

Simulations in the warm dense matter regime using finite temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (FT-KS-DFT), while frequently used, are computationally expensive due to the partial occupation of a very large number of high-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yael Cytter , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

The spin current density functional theory (SCDFT) is the generalization of the standard DFT to treat a fermionic system embedded in the effective external field produced by the spin-orbit coupling interaction. Even in the absence of a spin…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Over this past decade, we combined the idea of stochastic resolution of identity with a variety of electronic structure methods. In our stochastic Kohn-Sham DFT method, the density is an average over multiple stochastic samples, with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wenfei Li , Ming Chen , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

A new method for calculating optical absorption spectra within linear-scaling density-functional theory (LS-DFT) is presented, incorporating a scheme for optimizing a set of localized orbitals to accurately represent unoccupied Kohn-Sham…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura E. Ratcliff , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Peter D. Haynes

Using realistic multi-orbital tight-binding Hamiltonians and the T-matrix formalism, we explore the effects of a non-magnetic impurity on the local density of states in Fe-based compounds. We show that scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-03 N. Plonka , A. F. Kemper , S. Graser , A. P. Kampf , T. P. Devereaux

A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Qian , Ju Li , Xi Lin , Sidney Yip

For tracing the spatiotemporal evolution of electronic systems, we suggest and analyze theoretically a setup that exploits the excellent spatial resolution based on scanning tunneling microscopy techniques combined with the temporal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 M. Schueler , Y. Pavlyukh , J. Berakdar

We consider to detect the electron spin of a doped atom, i.e., a nitrogen or a phosphorus, caged in a fullerene by currently available technique of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which actually corresponds to the readout of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Feng , G. J. Dong , B. Hu

Localized basis sets in the projector augmented wave formalism allow for computationally efficient calculations within density functional theory (DFT). However, achieving high numerical accuracy requires an extensive basis set, which also…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 G. Gandus , A. Valli , D. Passerone , R. Stadler

We provide a theory for scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy using a spin-polarized tip. It it shown that the tunneling conductance can be partitioned into three separate contributions, a background conductance which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-01 J. Fransson , O. Eriksson , A. V. Balatsky

The light emission rate from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) scanning a noble metal surface is calculated taking retardation effects into account. As in our previous, non-retarded theory [Johansson, Monreal, and Apell, Phys. Rev. B…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Johansson