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Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are likely to dominate next-generation electronics due to their advantages in compactness and low power consumption. However, challenges such as high contact resistance and inefficient doping hinder their…

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The electron dynamics and the mechanisms of power absorption in radio-frequency (RF) driven, magnetically enhanced capacitively coupled plasmas (MECCPs) at low pressure are investigated. The device in focus is a geometrically asymmetric…

We identify the key property that the exchange-correlation (XC) kernel of time-dependent density functional theory must have in order to describe long-range charge-transfer excitations. We show that the discontinuity of the XC potential as…

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Electrochemically mediated selective adsorption is an emerging electrosorption technique that utilizes Faradaically enhanced redox active electrodes, which can adsorb ions not only electrostatically, but also electrochemically. The superb…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Fan He , Martin Z. Bazant , T. Alan Hatton

By means of analytical calculations and numerical simulations we study the diffusion properties in quasi-two-dimensional structures with two exciton subsystems with an exchange between them. The experimental realisation is possible in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Oluwafemi P. Adejumobi , Vladimir N. Mantsevich , Vladimir V. Palyulin

A new look at the structure of the electron diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection is presented. The research is based on a particle-in-cell simulation of asymmetric magnetic reconnection, which include a temperature…

We simulate the dynamics of a single-electron source, modeled as a quantum dot with on-site Coulomb interaction and tunnel coupling to an adjacent lead, in time-dependent density functional theory. Based on this system, we develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser , Nicole Helbig

We report on an experimental and theoretical study of the ionization-fragmentation dynamics of argon dimers in intense few-cycle laser pulses with a tagged carrier-envelope phase. We find that a field-driven electron transfer process from…

We investigate the transport characteristics of a redox system weakly coupled to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime. The redox system comprises a donor and acceptor separated by an insulating bridge in a solution. It is modeled by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-08 Sabine Tornow , Gertrud Zwicknagl

We have studied the influence of both exciton effects and Coulomb repulsion on current in molecular nanojunctions. We show that dipolar energy-transfer interactions between the sites in the wire can at high voltage compensate Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-16 Guangqi Li , Manmohan S. Shishodia , Boris D. Fainberg , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

The dynamical, long-wavelength longitudinal and transverse exchange-correlation potentials for a homogeneous electron gas are evaluated in a microscopic model based on an approximate decoupling of the equation of motion for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Conti , R. Nifosi' , M P Tosi

We study the transition probability and coherence of a two-site system, interacting with an oscillator. Both properties depend on the initial preparation. The oscillator is prepared in a thermal state and, even though it cannot be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Paganelli , Sergio Ciuchi

The diffusion limit of the linear Boltzmann equation with a strong magnetic field is performed. The giration period of particles around the magnetic field is assumed to be much smaller than the collision relaxation time which is supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Naoufel Ben Abdallah , Raymond El Hajj

Bounds on the exchange-correlation energy of many-electron systems are derived and tested. By using universal scaling properties of the electron-electron interaction, we obtain the exponent of the bounds in three, two, one, and quasi-one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-21 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , K. Capelle , C. R. Proetto

The focus of this paper is on the co-design of control and communication protocol for the control of multiple applications with unknown parameters using a distributed embedded system. The co-design consists of an adaptive switching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-22 Harald Voit , Anuradha Annaswamy

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations are used to analyze the role of different solvent degrees of freedom in the non-radiative relaxation of the first excited state of the hydrated electron. The relaxation occurs through a…

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The present work investigates electron transport and heating mechanisms using an (r, z) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of a typical rf-driven axisymmetric magnetron discharge with a conducting target. It is shown that for the considered…

The effect of thermal structural fluctuations on the modulation of the transfer integrals between close molecules is studied using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical calculations of the transfer integral.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Troisi , Giorgio Orlandi

Based on the reduced density matrix method, we compare two different approaches to calculate the dynamics of the electron transfer in systems with donor, bridge, and acceptor. In the first approach a vibrational substructure is taken into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Schreiber , D. Kilin , U. Kleinekathoefer

We present a detailed derivation of Fourier's law in a class of stochastic energy exchange systems that naturally characterize two-dimensional mechanical systems of locally confined particles in interaction. The stochastic systems consist…

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