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Normal contact behaviour between non adhesive fractal rough particles is studied using a finite element method (FEM). A series of spherical grain surfaces with distinguished roughness features are generated by means of Spherical Harmonics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-14 Deheng Wei , Chongpu Zhai , Dorian A. H. Hanaor , Yixiang Gan

A direct orbital optimization method is presented for density functional calculations of excited electronic states using either a real space grid or a plane wave basis set. The method is variational, provides atomic forces in the excited…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Gianluca Levi , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Hannes Jónsson

Recent advances in X-ray free-electron laser diagnostics have enabled direct probing of the electronic structure under extreme pressures and temperatures, such as those encountered in stellar interiors and inertial confinement fusion…

We report the implementation of equation-of-motion coupled-cluster (EOMCC) method in the four-component relativistic framework with the spherical atomic potential to generate the excited states from a closed-shell atomic configuration. This…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. K. Nandy , Yashpal Singh , B. K. Sahoo

We study the quantum dynamics of cold atoms initially confined in a Helical Optical Tube (HOT) and subsequently released into free space. This helicoidal potential, engineered via structured light fields with orbital angular momentum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Amine Jaouadi , Andreas Lyras , Vasileios E. Lembessis

The topological confinement is a new mechanism that allows the transmission of cutoff orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes with negligible loss in ring-core fibers (RCFs) and provides a natural immunity against mode coupling. We investigate…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yifan He , Xuchen Hua , Lei Shen , Kai Zhang , Ping Wang , Chenhao Wan , Ming Tang

We show that quantum confinement in the valence and conduction bands of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes can be engineered by means of artificial defects. This ability holds potential for designing future nanotube-based quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Gilles Buchs , Dario Bercioux , Leonhard Mayrhofer , Oliver Gröning

Large scale atomistic simulations with suitable interatomic potentials are widely employed by scientists or engineers of different areas. Quick generation of high-quality interatomic potentials is of urgent need under present circumstances,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Kun Wang , Wenjun Zhu , Shifang Xiao , Jun Chen , Wangyu Hu

Finite size effects alter not only the energy levels of small systems, but can also lead to new effective interactions within these systems. Here the problem of low energy quantum scattering by a spherically symmetric short range potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. I. Kim , J. Schmiedmayer , P. Schmelcher

We describe recent progress in developing practical ab initio methods for which the computer effort is proportional to the number of atoms: linear scaling or O(N) methods. It is shown that the locality property of the density matrix gives a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Bowler , I. J. Bush , M. J. Gillan

The purpose of the current work is the development of an approach to account for quasi-static mechanical equilibrium in empirical (i.e., data-based) models for the stress field employing neural approximations (NAs), which include neural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Mohammad S. Khorrami , Pawan Goyal , Soroush Motahari , David Oexle , Jaber R. Mianroodi , Bob Svendsen , Peter Benner , Dierk Raabe

We investigate the scattering and two-body bound states of two ultracold atoms in a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) confinement, with the confinement potential being an infinite square well (box potential) in the transverse ($z$-)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-06 Fan Yang , Ruijie Du , Ran Qi , Peng Zhang

The effects of quantum confinement on the momentum distribution of electrons confined within a cylindrical potential well have been analyzed. The motivation is to understand specific features of the momentum distribution of electrons when…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. S. Baltenkov , A. Z. Msezane

We investigate the particle and kinetic-energy densities for $N$ non-interacting fermions confined in a local potential. Using Gutzwiller's semi-classical Green function, we describe the oscillating parts of the densities in terms of closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jérôme Roccia , Matthias Brack

Magnon confinement and trapping refer to the localization of magnons-quasiparticles that represent collective spin-wave excitations in magnetic materials-within specific regions or structures. This concept is essential in magnonics, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Chen , H. Yu , R. Gallardo , P. Landeros , G. Gubbiotti

The idea of confinement states that in certain systems constituent particles can be discerned only indirectly being bound by an interaction whose strength increases with increasing particle separation. Though the most famous example is the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-06 B. Lake , A. M. Tsvelik , S. Notbohm , D. A. Tennant , T. G. Perring , M. Reehuis , C. Sekar , G. Krabbes , B. Büchner

We present an open-shell frozen natural orbital (FNO) approach, which utilizes the second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory (ZAPT2), to reduce the restricted opten-shell Hartree-Fock virtual space size with controllable accuracy. Our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Angela F. Harper , Xiaobing Liu , Scott N. Genin , Ilya G. Ryabinkin

Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations. However, despite advances in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Yongshuo Chen , Cheng Ma , Boning Cui , Tian Cui , Wenhui Mi , Qiang Xu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Gold-Silver (Au-Ag) core-shell nanostructures are gaining importance in stretchable electronics where high tensile and fatigue resistance is of paramount importance. This work proposes the parameterization of a modified embedded atomic…

The constraints imposed by nano- and microscale confinement on the conformational degrees of freedom of thermally fluctuating biopolymers are utilized in contemporary nano-devices to specifically elongate and manipulate single chains. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-14 F. Thüroff , F. Wagner , E. Frey