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The adsorption of carbon-conjugated molecules represents an established route to tune the electronic and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. Here, we demonstrate from first principles that such a…
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Strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials provides unprecedented opportunities for studying many key issues of condensed matter physics, such as co-existence and mutual conversions of excitonic complexes, fundamental optical processes…
Models with dark energy decaying into dark matter have been proposed to solve the coincidence problem in cosmology. We study the effect of such coupling in the matter power spectrum. Due to the interaction, the growth of matter density…
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