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The classical integral cross sections of large superfluid 4He_N droplets and the number of atoms in the droplets (N=10^3-10^4) have been measured in molecular beam scattering experiments. These measurements are found to be in good agreement…

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A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) miniaturized into nanoscale is promising in the inductive detection of a single electron spin. A nano-SQUID with a strong spin coupling coefficient, a low flux noise, and a wide working…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Lei Chen , Hao Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Long Wu , Zhen Wang

Nodal-line semimetals are topologically non-trivial states of matter featuring band crossings along a closed curve, i.e. nodal-line, in momentum space. Through a detailed analysis of the electronic structure, we show for the first time that…

We show that there can exist two liquid states in distinguishable helium-4 ($^4$He) obeying Boltzmann statistics by path integral centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations. This is an indication of quantum liquid polyamorphism induced…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Momoko Tsujimoto , Kenichi Kinugawa

Diagnostics of the beam transverse profile with ever more demanding spatial resolution is required by the progress on novel particle accelerators - such as laser and plasma driven accelerators - and by the stringent beam specifications of…

In a family of experiments carried on all-metallic supercurrent nano-transistors a surprising gating effect has been recently shown. These include the full suppression of the critical supercurrent, the increase of quasiparticle population,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 M. Rocci , G. De Simoni , C. Puglia , D. Degli Esposti , E. Strambini , V. Zannier , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

We present a simulation experiment of a pipeline based on machine learning algorithms for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) surveys with different telescopes. The simulation is conducted on HI signals, foreground emission,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Lin-Cheng Li , Yuan-Gen Wang

We address the fabrication of nano-architectures by impacting thin layers of amorphous Ge deposited on SiO$_{2}$ with a Ga$^{+}$ ion beam and investigate the structural and optical properties of the resulting patterns. By adjusting beam…

Normal nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes cannot be used to make high frequency resolution measurements in a cryogenic environment because they lose their frequency resolution when the liquid sample in the probe freezes. A gaseous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 X. Fan , S. E. Fayer , G. Gabrielse

When sheets of layered material like C, WS$_2$ or BN are restricted to finite sizes, they generally form single- and multi-walled hollow nanoparticles in order to avoid dangling bonds. Using continuum approaches to model elastic deformation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 U. S. Schwarz , S. A. Safran , S. Komura

Free-standing nanoribbons of InAs quantum membranes (QMs) transferred onto a (Si/Mo) multilayer mirror substrate are characterized by hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HXPS), and by standing-wave HXPS (SW-HXPS). Information on the…

The band structure of fully hydrogenated Si nanosheets and nanotubes are elucidated by the use of an empirical tight-binding model. The hydrogenated Si sheet is a semiconductor with indirect band gap of about 2.2 eV. The symmetries of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-04 G. G. Guzmán-Verri , L. C. Lew Yan Voon

The properties of helium-filled nanopores in amorphous silicon are elucidated by combining theoretical knowledge of helium electronic structure with the results of Scanning Transmission electron microscopy/electron energy loss spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Bertrand Lacroix , Asunción Fernández , N. C. Pyper , Alex J. W. Thom , Colm T. Whelan

We report on nanomechanical resonators with very high-quality factors operated as mechanical probes in liquid helium \(^4\mathrm{He}\), with special attention to the superfluid regime down to millikelvin temperatures. Such resonators have…

The resonant frequencies of three-dimensional microwave cavities are explicitly dependent on the dielectric constant of the material filling the cavity, making them an ideal system for probing material properties. In particular, dielectric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-21 R. T. Learn , E. Varga , V. Vadakkumbatt , J. P. Davis

The irreversible behavior of a highly confined non-Brownian suspension of spherical particles at low Reynolds number in a Newtonian fluid is studied experimentally and numerically. In experiment, the suspension is confined in a thin…

Helium atoms and hydrogen molecules can be strongly bound inside interstitial channels within bundles of carbon nanotubes. An exploration of the low energy and low temperature properties of He-3 atoms is presented here. Recent study of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Gatica , F. Ancilotto , M. W. Cole

The recent discovery of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds has garnered significant experimental and theoretical interest because of the record-setting critical temperatures. As the direct observation of the superconducting (SC)…

We investigate the solvation of methane and methane decorated with charges in spherically confined water droplets. Free energy profiles for a single methane molecule in droplets, ranging in diameter D, from 1 to 4 nm, show that the droplet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 S. Vaitheeswaran , D. Thirumalai

We present neutron scattering measurements of the atomic momentum distribution, n(k), in solid helium under a pressure p = 41 bars and at temperatures between 80 mK and 500 mK. The aim is to determine whether there is Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. O. Diallo , J. V. Pearce , R. T. Azuah , O. Kirichek , J. W. Taylor , H. R. Glyde