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Metallic nanoclusters displaying electronic shell structure exhibit the special feature of a correlation between their geometry and the number of delocalized electrons . Their shape evolution can be described as a quantum oscillation…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2008-04-04 Vladimir Kresin

We present a spectrum-splitting approach to conduct all-electron Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations by employing Fermi-operator expansion of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. The proposed approach splits the subspace containing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Phani Motamarri , Vikram Gavini , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Michael Ortiz

Nanoparticles have become increasingly interesting for a wide range of applications, because in principle it is possible to tailor their properties by controlling size, shape and composition. One of these applications is heterogeneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Jan Weinreich , Martín Leandro Paleico , Jörg Behler

Medium-scale ensembles of coupled qubits offer a platform for near-term quantum technologies including computing, sensing, and the study of mesoscopic quantum systems. Atom-like emitters in solids have emerged as promising quantum memories,…

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a potent technique for the determination of three-dimensional atomic scale structure of samples in structural biology and materials science. In structural biology, three-dimensional structures of…

We present here the quantum model of a Ni solid-state electron spin qubit on a silicon surface with the use of a density functional scheme for calculation of the exchange integrals in the non-collinear spin configurations in the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Oleg V. Farberovich , Victoria L. Mazalova , Alexander V. Soldatov

Electronic structure calculations of molecular systems are among the most promising applications for fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) in quantum chemistry and drug design. However, while recent algorithmic advancements such as…

A novel reduced-scaling, general-order coupled-cluster approach is formulated by exploiting hierarchical representations of many-body tensors, combined with the recently suggested formalism of scale-adaptive tensor algebra. Inspired by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Dmitry I. Lyakh

We push the boundaries of electronic structure-based \textit{ab-initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) beyond 100 million atoms. This scale is otherwise barely reachable with classical force-field methods or novel neural network and machine…

Individual impurity atoms in silicon can make superb individual qubits, but it remains an immense challenge to build a multi-qubit processor: There is a basic conflict between nanometre separation desired for qubit-qubit interactions, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Joe O'Gorman , Naomi H. Nickerson , Philipp Ross , John J. L. Morton , Simon C. Benjamin

We demonstrate the realization of large, fully loaded, arbitrarily-shaped three-dimensional arrays of single atoms. Using holographic methods and real-time, atom-by-atom, plane-by-plane assembly, we engineer atomic structures with up to 72…

Quantum computing has recently exhibited great potentials in predicting chemical properties for various applications in drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Progress has been made in simulating small molecules, such…

We propose a new variety of silicon quantum dots containing fullerene-derived hollows of nearly arbitrary symmetry. Conglomerate structures are designed by connecting the quantum dots through two kinds of junctions. The quantum confinement…

Second harmonic generation by spherical nanoparticles is a non-local optical process that can also be viewed as the result of the non-linear response of the thin interface layer. The classical electrodynamic description, based e.g. on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Pavlyukh , J. Berakdar , W. Hübner

We present a detailed investigation of the near-field optical response of core-shell nanoparticles using Fourier-demodulated full-wave simulations, revealing significant modifications to established contrast mechanisms in scattering-type…

One viable solution for continuous reduction in energy-per-operation is to rethink functionality to cope with uncertainty by adopting computational approaches that are inherently robust to uncertainty. It requires a novel look at data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Abbas Rahimi , Tony F. Wu , Haitong Li , Jan M. Rabaey , H. -S. Philip Wong , Max M. Shulaker , Subhasish Mitra

It has been recently shown that a nanostructure composed of a quantum dot surrounded by a quantum ring possesses a set of very unique characteristics that make it a good candidate for future nanoelectronic devices. Its main advantage is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Iwona Janus-Zygmunt , Barbara Kedzierska , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Elzbieta Zipper , Maciej M. Maska

The gas of the interacted electrons is usually described within Kohn-Sham approximation by the set of Poisson and Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an effective potential for the single-particle wave functions. The solution of these equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Shul'man , D. V. Posvyanskii

Using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method, we derive a modified form of the Thomas-Fermi approximation to electron density. This new result enables us to calculate the details of the self-consistent ion cores, as well as the ionization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-23 Gregory C. Dente , Michael L. Tilton

We present a method which enables solid-state density functional theory calculations to be applied to systems of almost unlimited size. Computations of physical effects up to the micron length scale but which nevertheless depend on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Tristan Müller , Sangeeta Sharma , E. K. U. Gross , J. K. Dewhurst