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We have theoretically investigated the time-evolution of electron transport from a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) to a quantum dot (QD). We clearly showed that the coherent electron transport is remarkably modified depending on the…
The study of electronic transitions within a molecule connected to the absorption or emission of light is a common task in the process of the design of new materials. The transitions are complex quantum mechanical processes and a detailed…
Swift electrons passing near or through metallic structures have proven to be an excellent tool for studying plasmons and other types of confined optical modes involving collective charge oscillations in the materials hybridized with…
In order to shed light on the electronic structure of Na_xCoO_2, and motivated by recent Co L-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) experiments with polarized light, we calculate the electronic spectrum of a CoO_6 cluster including all…
Time-resolved and ultrafast electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) is an emerging technique for measuring photoexcited carriers, lattice dynamics, and near-fields across femtosecond to microsecond timescales. When performed in either a…
Exact and general results on the electronic states in one dimensional crystals bounded at tau and tau+L - where L=Na, N is a positive integer and a is the potential period - are presented. Corresponding to each energy band of Bloch wave,…
Electronic stopping of slow protons in ZnO, VO2 (metal and semiconductor phases), HfO2, and Ta2O5 was investigated experimentally. As a comparison of the resulting stopping cross sections (SCS) to data for Al2O3 and SiO2 reveals, electronic…
Imaging the quantum motion of electrons not only in real-time, but also in real-space is essential to understand for example bond breaking and formation in molecules, and charge migration in peptides and biological systems. Time-resolved…
Probing optical excitations with high resolution is important for understanding their dynamics and controlling their interaction with other photonic elements. This can be done using state-of-the-art electron microscopes, which provide the…
We report spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements of the anisotropy of the interband transitions parallel and perpendicular to the planes of (LaTiO3)n(LaAlO3)5 multilayers with n = 1-3. These provide direct information about the electronic…
The electronic states of isostructural single-component molecular conductors [M(tmdt)2] (M= Ni, Au, and Cu) are theoretically studied. By considering fragments of molecular orbitals as basis functions, we construct a multiorbital model…
Using density functional theory we investigate the lattice instability and electronic structure of recently discovered ferroelectric metal LiOsO$_3$. We show that the ferroelectric-like lattice instability is related to the Li-O distortion…
In the last decade atomically thin 2D materials have emerged as a perfect platform for studying and tuning light-matter interaction and electronic properties in nanostructures. The optoelectronic properties in layered materials such as…
We have calculated the electronic structure of V2O3 associated with the V3+ ions taking into account strong on-site electron correlations and the spin-orbit coupling. Closely lying 9 states of the subterm 3T1g are a physical reason for…
Recent demonstrations of controlled switching between different ordered macroscopic states by impulsive electromagnetic perturbations in complex materials have opened some fundamental questions on the mechanisms responsible for such…
High-resolution mapping of electronic properties at oxide heterointerfaces remains challenging due to probe delocalization and overlapping signals. In this work, we employ monochromated, probe-corrected scanning transmission electron…
Femto-second techniques addressing phase transitions induced by optical pumps have allowed recently to put an ambitious goal to attend hidden states which are inaccessible and even unknown under equilibrium conditions. Recently (*), the…
The work presents the electronic structure, spin state and optical properties of TM-dinuclear molecules (TM = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni) which was modelled according to the recently reported Pt$^{II}$-dinuclear complex…
Here we present a study of the entanglement in the electronic structure of the late transition metal monoxides - MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO - obtained by means of density-functional theory in the local density approximation combined with…
Electron correlation strength is predicted to be weak in 5d transition metal oxides and hence, various anomalous electronic properties observed in these systems are often attributed to the large spin-orbit interaction strength. Employing…