Related papers: The diabatic valence-hole concept
Building upon the recent progress on the intriguing underlying physics for the newly discovered infinite-layer nickelates, in this article we review an examination of valence charge and spin excitations via multi-orbital Hubbard models as…
Cross sections for elastic and inelastic scattering of the weakly-bound $^9$Be nucleus on a $^{120}$Sn target have been measured at seven bombarding energies around and above the Coulomb barrier. The elastic angular distributions are…
We propose a novel extension of the standard coupled-channels framework for heavy-ion reactions in order to analyze fusion reactions at deep subbarrier incident energies. This extension simulates a smooth transition between the diabatic…
We explore the evolution of the structure of the ground state of a nucleus with two valence nucleons as the system approaches the two particle threshold. We use a three-body model of $core+n+n$ where the core is deformed and allowed to…
A single-hole ground state Ansatz for the two-dimensional t-J model has been recently studied by the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method. Such a doped hole behaves like a "twisted" non-Landau quasiparticle characterized by an emergent…
We investigate the electronic structure of ternary palladates $A$Pd$_3$O$_4$ ($A$ = Sr, Ca) using valence band photoemission spectroscopy and band structure calculations. Overall width of the valence band and energy positions of various…
An equation of motion phonon method, developed for even nuclei and recently extended to odd systems with a valence particle, is formulated in the hole-phonon coupling scheme and applied to A=15 and A=21 isobars with a valence hole. The…
We discuss a hopping model of electrons between idealized molecular sites with local orbital degeneracy and dynamical Jahn-Teller effect, for crystal field environments of sufficiently high symmetry. For the Mott-insulating case (one…
Previous studies have shown that dipole-bound excited states exist for certain small anions. However, valence excited states have been reported for some closed-shell anions, but those with singlet valence excited states have, thus far,…
We show that electron-hole correlation can be used to tune interband and intraband optical transition rates in semiconductor nanostructures with at least one weakly confined direction. The valence-to-conduction band transition rate can be…
The paper discusses a model of Van der Waals crystals in which band-gap structures do not form. An effect of strong and chaotic electron-electron repulsion, which was excluded from consideration in the traditional approach, is taken into…
The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centre is a unique defect in diamond that possesses properties highly suited to many applications, including quantum information processing, quantum metrology, and biolabelling. Although the unique…
Due to strong zero-phonon line emission, narrow inhomogeneous broadening, and stable optical transition frequencies, the quantum system consisting of negatively charged silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond is highly expected to develop…
Fluorescent paramagnetic defects in solids have become attractive systems for quantum information processing in the recent years. One of the leading contenders is the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond with visible…
Microscopic models of electronic subsystems with orbital degeneracy of energy states and non-diagonal matrix elements of electron interactions (correlated hopping) are considered within the configuration-operator approach. Equations for…
Optical and microwave double resonance techniques are used to obtain the excited state structure of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. The excited state is an orbital doublet and it is shown that it can be split and associated…
We introduce a variational state for one-dimensional two-orbital Hubbard models that intuitively explains the recent computational discovery of pairing in these systems when hole doped. Our Ansatz is an optimized linear superposition of…
The spin-orbital model for triply degenerate t_2g electrons on a triangular lattice has been shown to be dominated by dimers: the phase diagram contains both strongly resonating, compound spin-orbital dimer states and quasi-static,…
Second order perturbation theory and a Lipkin-Nogami scheme combined with an exact Monte Carlo projection after variation are applied to compute the ground-state energy of $6\le N\le 210$ electron-hole pairs confined in a parabolic…
Many-particle many-hole states near the magic number 20 have been investigated in the relativistic mean field formalism using the fixed configuration method. Neutron particle-hole states in neutron-rich nuclei with $N\sim 20$, {\em i.e.}…