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Because of high surface area and combination of various functional groups, graphene oxide (GO) is currently one of the most actively studying materials for electroanalytical applications. Self-supported GO is not practical enough to be…

In the emergent field of quantum technology, the ability to manage heat at the nanoscale and in cryogenic conditions is crucial for enhancing device performance in terms of noise, coherence, and sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate the active…

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Gateable semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provide a versatile platform for analog quantum simulations of electronic many-body systems. In particular, QD arrays offer a natural representation of the interacting $\pi$-electron system of small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Cecilie Hermansen , Mara Caltapanides , Volker Meden , Jens Paaske

Whether or not specific ion effects determine the charge storage properties of aqueous graphene and graphite-based supercapacitors remains a highly debated topic. In this work we present a multiscale quantum mechanics classical molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-10 Joshua D. Elliott , Mara Chiricotto , Alessandro Troisi , Paola Carbone

The superconductor-to-insulator quantum phase transition in resistively shunted Josephson junctions is investigated by means of path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. This numerical technique allows us to directly access the (previously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos P. Herrero , Andrei D. Zaikin

To provide an understanding of the universal properties emerging from the empirical correlations and phase diagrams of cuprate superconductors, we invoke the scaling theory of finite temperature and quantum critical phenomena. The universal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Schneider

We study an electronic model of a 2D superconductor with onsite randomness using Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The superfluid density is used to track the destruction of superconductivity in the ground state with increasing disorder. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Nandini Trivedi , Richard T. Scalettar , Mohit Randeria

Thermodynamic properties of quasiparticles in a graphene-based structures are investigated. Two graphene superconducting layers (one superconducting component is placed on the top layeredgraphene structure and the other component in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Dima Bolmatov

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are more promising than other kinds of semiconductor QDs because of their photostability and biocompatibility in different applications such as bioimaging, biosensing and light emitting diodes (LEDs). In…

In this review we discuss several fundamental processes taking place in semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, QDs) when their electron subsystem interacts with electromagnetic (EM) radiation. The physical phenomena of light emission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Vladimir A. Burdov , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

We present evidence, from Lattice Monte Carlo simulations of the phase diagram of graphene as a function of the Coulomb coupling between quasiparticles, that graphene in vacuum is likely to be an insulator. We find a semimetal-insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-15 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

Graphene, in addition to its unique electronic and optical properties, revealed unusually high thermal conductivity. The fact that thermal conductivity of large enough graphene sheets should be higher than that of basal planes of bulk…

Using Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, we investigate the insulator-metal transition observed in liquid hydrogen at high pressure. Below the critical temperature of the transition from the molecular to the atomic liquid, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-25 Vitaly Gorelov , David M. Ceperley , Markus Holzmann , Carlo Pierleoni

We study the dissipation physics of one dimensional mesoscopic superconducting quantum interference device array by using the field-theoretical renormalization group method. We observe length scale dependent superconductor-insulator quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sujit Sarkar

The synthesis of self-organized quantum dots (QD's) can be achieved through bottom up layer by layer deposition processes as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or physical vapor deposition (PVD). However, QD's may also be synthesized via…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-24 F. Lallet , A. Dauger , N. Olivi-Tran

Steady-state access to intraband transitions in colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), via heavy doping, allows exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum at energies below the band gap. CQD intraband optoelectronics opens up a new path to cheap mid-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Iñigo Ramiro , Biswajit Kundu , Mariona Dalmases , Onur Özdemir , María Pedrosa , Gerasimos Konstantatos

Nanoelectronic quantum dot devices exploiting the charge-Kondo paradigm have been established as versatile and accurate analog quantum simulators of fundamental quantum impurity models. In particular, hybrid metal-semiconductor dots…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Emma L. Minarelli , Jonas B. Rigo , Andrew K. Mitchell

We investigate electronic transport through parallel double quantum dot(DQD) system with strong on-site Coulomb interaction and capacitive interdot coupling. By applying numerical renormalization group(NRG) method, the ground state of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guo-Hui Ding , Fei Ye , Bing Dong

Various electronic phases emerge when applying high magnetic fields in graphite. However, the origin of a semimetal-insulator transition at $B \simeq 30\; \textrm{T}$ is still not clear, while an exotic density-wave state is theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Toshihiro Taen , Kazuhito Uchida , Toshihito Osada