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The two-dimensional (2D) homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is a fundamental model in quantum many-body physics. It is important to theoretical and computational studies, where exchange-correlation energies computed in it serve as the…
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The epitaxial growth of germanium on silicon leads to the self-assembly of SiGe nanocrystals via a process that allows the size, composition and position of the nanocrystals to be controlled. This level of control, combined with an inherent…
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Among very low disorder systems of condensed matter, the high mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in gallium arsenide/aluminum gallium arsenide heterostructures holds a privileged position as platform for the discovery of new…
Controlled doping and understanding its underlying microscopic mechanisms is crucial for advancement of nanoscale electronic technologies, especially in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (s-SWNTs), where adsorbed counterions are…
Recent advancements in the generation of mid-infrared and terahertz laser pulses have enabled us to observe strong-field driven non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors, dielectrics, and semimetals. HHG has added…
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We consider the most general CP-conserving renormalizable effective scalar potential involving two doublets plus one singlet Higgs and satisfying the electroweak gauge symmetry. After deriving the electroweak-symmetry breaking conditions,…