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Morphologies of adsorbed molecular films are of interest in a wide range of applications. To study the epitaxial growth of these systems in computer simulations requires access to long time and length scales and one typically resorts to…
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By performing spectroscopic single-particle measurements at cryogenic temperatures over the course of hours we study %By performing spectroscopic longtime single-particle measurements at cryogenic temperatures we study both the spectral…
We study the transport properties of ultrathin disordered nanowires in the neighborhood of the superconductor-metal quantum phase transition. To this end we combine numerical calculations with analytical strong-disorder renormalization…