English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum Confinement Effects for Semiconductor Clus…

200 papers

When the density of a nuclear system is decreased, homogeneous states undergo the so-called Mott transition towards clusterised states, e.g. alpha clustering, both in nuclei and in nuclear matter. Here we investigate such a quantum phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 J. -P. Ebran , M. Girod , E. Khan , R. D. Lasseri , P. Schuck

We have previously found analytically a very unusual and unexpected form of confinement in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. This confinement occurs in the deconfined phase of the theory. The free energy of a single static test quark diverges, even…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Holland

We show that electronic-entropy effects in the size-evolutionary patterns of relatively small (as small as 20 atoms), simple-metal clusters become prominent already at moderate temperatures. Detailed agreement between our…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-10-31 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Comparisons of experimental data with numerical predictions of a classical model indicate that an excited hydrogen atom in a pulsed microwave electric field exhibits a nonclassical increase of stability over a relatively wide range of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-06-30 Luca C. Perotti

Coupling of cluster and deformed structures are important for dynamics of nuclear structure. Threshold energy has been discussed to explain cluster structures coupling to deformed states but relation between threshold energy and excitation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Yasutaka Taniguchi

Size-dependent quantization of energy spectrum of conducting electrons in solids leads to oscillating dependence of electronic properties on corresponding dimension(s). In conventional metals with typical energy Fermi EF~1 eV and the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Egor A. Sedov , Kari-Pekka Riikonen , Konstantin Yu. Arutyunov

We study the relationship between bipartite entanglement, subsystem particle number and topology in a half-filled free fermion system. It is proposed that the spin-projected particle numbers can distinguish the quantum spin Hall state from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Y. F. Zhang , L. Sheng , R. Shen , Rui Wang , D. Y. Xing

Electromagnetic transitions from deformed structures based on $\alpha$ configurations or on heavier clusters are discussed, drawing the link between multiparticle-multihole excited bands and cluster structures. Enhanced E2 and E1…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Courtin , A. Goasduff , F. Haas

We calculate the Overhauser frequency shifts in semiconductor nanostructures resulting from the hyperfine interaction between nonequilibrium electronic spins and nuclear spins. The frequency shifts depend on the electronic local density of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-08 I. Tifrea , M. Poggio , D. D. Awschalom , M. E. Flatté

Generation and control of quantum entanglement are studied in an equivalent-neighbor system of spatially-separated semiconductor quantum dots coupled by a single-mode cavity field. Generation of genuinely multipartite entanglement of qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 A. Miranowicz , S. K. Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , G. Chimczak , M. Koashi , N. Imoto

By path integral Monte Carlo simulations we study the phase diagram of two - dimensional mesoscopic clusters formed by electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot or by indirect magnetoexcitons in double quantum dots. At zero (or sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Belousov , Yu. E. Lozovik

We consider the quantum entanglement of the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules with a tendency towards double welled potentials using model coupled harmonic diabatic potential-energy surfaces. The von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Laura K. McKemmish , Ross H. McKenzie , Noel S. Hush , Jeffrey R. Reimers

Single-layer atom or vacancy clusters in the presence of electromigration are studied theoretically assuming an isotropic medium. A variety of distinctive behaviors distinguish the response in the three standard limiting cases of periphery…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Pierre-Louis , T. L. Einstein

We present a study of the spectral properties like the energy spectrum, the eigenmodes and density of states of a classical finite system of two-dimensional (2D) charged particles which are confined by a quadratic potential. Using the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Schweigert , F. M. Peeters

The idea of confinement states that in certain systems constituent particles can be discerned only indirectly being bound by an interaction whose strength increases with increasing particle separation. Though the most famous example is the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-06 B. Lake , A. M. Tsvelik , S. Notbohm , D. A. Tennant , T. G. Perring , M. Reehuis , C. Sekar , G. Krabbes , B. Büchner

The theory of confinement and deconfinement is discussed as based on the properties of the QCD vacuum. The latter are described by field correlators of colour-electric and colour-magnetic fields in the vacuum, which can be calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Nefediev , Yu. A. Simonov , M. A. Trusov

We study quantum percolation which is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian containing only off-diagonal hopping terms that are generally in quenched binary disorder (zero or one). In such a system, transmission of a quantum particle is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-20 Md Fhokrul Islam , Hisao Nakanishi

Quantum dots in GaAs/InGaAs structures have been proposed as a candidate system for realizing quantum computing. The short coherence time of the electronic quantum state that arises from coupling to the nuclei of the substrate is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Wouter Beugeling , Götz S. Uhrig , Frithjof B. Anders

Spherical shaped Si quantum dots (QDs) embedded into the SiO2 substrate are considered in the single sub-band effective mass approach. Nonparabolicity of the Si conduction band is described by the energy dependence of electron effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. Filikhin , S. G. Matinyan , B. K. Schmid , B. Vlahovic

Entanglement within qubits are studied for the subspace of definite particle states or definite number of up spins. A transition from an algebraic decay of entanglement within two qubits with the total number $N$ of qubits, to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 Vikram S Vijayaraghavan , Udaysinh T. Bhosale , Arul Lakshminarayan