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A single monolayer of the layered semimetal WTe2 behaves as a two-dimensional topological insulator, with helical conducting edge modes surrounding a bulk state that becomes insulating at low temperatures. Here we present evidence that the…
This work presents a series of highly-accurate excited-state properties obtained using high-order coupled-cluster (CC) calculations performed with a series of diffuse containing basis sets, as well as extensive comparisons with experimental…
The excess entanglement resulting from exciting a finite number of quasiparticles above the ground state of a free integrable quantum field theory has been investigated quite extensively in the literature. It has been found that it takes a…
We consider the interaction between acceptor pairs in doped semiconductors in the limit of large inter-acceptor separation relevant for low doping densities. Modeling individual acceptors via the spherical model of Baldereschi and Lipari,…
The electric quadrupole moment of $^{49}$Sc was measured by collinear laser spectroscopy at CERN-ISOLDE to be $Q_{\rm s}=-0.159(8)$ $e$b, and a nearly tenfold improvement in precision was reached for the electromagnetic moments of…
We consider several topics concerning static magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments ($\mu$ and $Q$) as signatures of the onset of nuclear collectivity. Having previously noted that in $^{50}\mbox{Cr}$ there is an abrupt change of…
Topologically ordered phases are gapped states, defined by the properties of excitations when taken around one another. Here we demonstrate a method to extract the statistics and braiding of excitations, given just the set of ground-state…
The effects of ground-state correlations on the dipole and quadrupole excitations are studied for $^{40}$Ca and $^{48}$Ca using the extended random phase approximation (ERPA) derived from the time-dependent density-matrix theory. Large…
The level schemes and transition rates {\em B}({\em E}2;$\uparrow$) of eve-even $^{48-56}$Ti isotopes were studied by performing large-scale shell model calculations with FPD6 and GXPF1 effective interactions. Excellent agreement were…
Motivated by recent developments on the fabrication and control of semiconductor-based quantum dot qubits, we theoretically study a finite system of tunnel-coupled quantum dots with the electrons interacting through the long-range Coulomb…
The cubic compound PrTi$_2$Al$_{20}$ is a quadrupolar Kondo lattice system that exhibits quadrupolar ordering due to the non-Kramers $\Gamma_3$ ground doublet and has strong hybridization between $4f$ and conduction electrons. Our study…
We have carried out a unified microscopic study of electric monopole, quadrupole and magnetic dipole excitations in fast rotating nuclei undergoing backbending, with special attention at the magnetic excitations. We found, among other…
Basis set convergence of correlation effects on molecular atomization energies beyond the CCSD (coupled cluster with singles and doubles) approximation has been studied near the one-particle basis set limit. Quasiperturbative connected…
Much of modern condensed matter physics is understood in terms of elementary excitations, or quasiparticles - fundamental quanta of energy and momentum. Various strongly-interacting atomic systems are successfully treated as a collection of…
We report significant improvements in the retrieval efficiency of a single excitation stored in an atomic ensemble and in the subsequent generation of strongly correlated pairs of photons. A 50% probability to transform the stored…
A new state of matter, an excitonic insulator (EI) state, was predicted to emerge from Bose-Einstein condensation of electron-hole pairs. Some candidate materials were suggested but it has been elusive to confirm its existence. Recent works…
Excited states in the well-deformed rare earth isotopes $^{154}$Sm and $^{166}$Er were populated via ``safe'' Coulomb excitation at the Munich MLL Tandem accelerator. Conversion electrons were registered in a cooled Si(Li) detector in…
Information on the intrinsic deformation of the proton can be obtained by studying the electromagnetic p-->Delta+ quadrupole transition. Recent experiments have shown that the electric quadrupole (E2) strength in gamma p --> Delta+ is about…
Energy levels and electromagnetic properties of with $N=28\sim 30$ nuclides are studied in terms of a large-scale shell model calculation, which contains no newly adjusted parameters. The Kuo-Brown $G$-matrix interaction is shown to…
Within nuclear DFT, we calculated spectroscopic magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments for various quasiparticle configurations of odd-$N$, even-$Z$, $83\leq{}N\leq125$ nuclei ranging from gadolinium to osmium. By tagging the…