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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Rouven Dreyer , Niklas Liebing , Eric R. J. Edwards , Andreas Müller , Georg Woltersdorf

We report on phenomenon of Anderson-type localization of walking solitons in optical lattices with random frequency modulation, manifested as dramatic enhancement of soliton trapping probability on lattice inhomogeneities with growth of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov Victor A. Vysloukh

The paper includes novel results for the scattering and localisation of a time-harmonic flexural wave by a semi-infinite herringbone waveguide of rigid pins embedded within an elastic Kirchhoff plate. The analytical model takes into account…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Stewart G Haslinger , Ian S Jones , Natasha V Movchan , Alexander B Movchan

We relate the phase separation observed in many crystals with pronounced electron correlations to the regions of negative electron compressibility. They were found in several models describing strong electron correlations. At low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-25 Alexei Sherman

Manipulating elastic waves using a transformation approach is challenging due to the complex constitutive relationship. However, for flexural waves, approximated as scalar waves, two straightforward approaches emerge based on geometric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Pengfei Zhao , Liyou Luo , Yongquan Liu , Jensen Li

The propagation of electromagnetic waves along the surface of a nonlinear dielectric covered by a graphene layer is investigated. The main result is that such a surface can support and stabilize nonlinear transverse electric (TE) plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

The Anderson localization of thermal phonons has been shown only in few nano-structures with strong random disorder by the exponential decay of transmission to zero and a thermal conductivity maximum when increasing system length. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Yangyu Guo , Marc Bescond , Zhongwei Zhang , Shiyun Xiong , Kazuhiko Hirakawa , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz

We combine theories of scattering for linearized water waves and flexural waves in thin plates to characterize and achieve control of water wave scattering using floating plates. This requires manipulating a sixth-order partial differential…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Mohamed Farhat , Pai-Yen Chen , Hakan Bagci , Khaled Salama , Sebastien Guenneau

We introduce a technique to calculate thermal conductivity in disordered nanostructures: a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solution of the elastic wave equation combined with the Green-Kubo formula. The technique captures phonon wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 L. N. Maurer , S. Mei , I. Knezevic

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

In this paper we explored the scattering behavior of thin cylinders made of LHM and coated by a monoatomic graphene layer. A spectral tunability of the resonance peaks is evidenced by altering the chemical potential of the graphene coating,…

We study the propagation of electrons in a circular quantum dot of gapped graphene subject to the magnetic flux $\phi$. We present analytical expressions for the eigenstates, scattering coefficients, scattering efficiency and radial…

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The phonon dispersion was measured at room temperature along (0,0,L) in the tetragonal phase of LaFeAsO using inelastic x-ray scattering. Spin-polarized first-principles calculations imposing various types of antiferromagnetic order are in…

Collinear antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-split bands and no net magnetization, called altermagnets, show interesting transport properties due to their unique band structure. We here compute the linear response optical…

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We study inelastic energy relaxation in graphene for low energies to find out how electrons scatter with acoustic phonons and other electrons. By coupling the graphene to superconductors, we create a strong dependence of the measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Juha Voutilainen , Aurelien Fay , Pasi Häkkinen , Janne K. Viljas , Tero T. Heikkilä , Pertti J. Hakonen

We analyze the interaction of lattice vibrations (phonon wave-packets) with an asymmetric kink soliton initially at rest. We employ the $\phi^6$ model in one space and one time dimensions for various lattice spacings and consider two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-05 Danial Saadatmand , Aliakbar Moradi Marjaneh , Alidad Askari , Herbert Weigel

Magnetic materials are crucial for manipulating electron spin and magnetic fields, enabling applications in data storage, spintronics, charge transport, and energy conversion, while also providing insight into fundamental quantum phenomena.…

Stacking order plays a crucial role in determining the crystal symmetry and has significant impacts on electronic, optical, magnetic, and topological properties. Electron-phonon coupling, which is central to a wide range of intriguing…

We present a numerical approach for the solution of electromagnetic scattering from a dielectric cylinder partially covered with graphene. It is based on a classical Fourier-Bessel expansion of the fields inside and outside the cylinder to…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Youssef Jeyar , Mauro Antezza , Brahim Guizal

The spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in a monolayer graphene is investigated in the presence of a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Despite the small electron-phonon coupling, usual perturbation theory is inapplicable for…

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