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Composition, atomic structure, and electronic properties of TM$_x$Mg$_y$O$_z$ clusters (TM = Cr, Ni, Fe, Co, $x+y \leq 3$) at realistic temperature $T$ and partial oxygen pressure $p_{\textrm{O}_2}$ conditions are explored using the {\em ab…
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of atomic collisions on the phase transition form the normal to the superradiant phase in a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside an optical cavity. Specifically, we show that…
A model for studying atomtronic devices and circuits based on finite temperature Bose-condensed gases is presented. The approach involves numerically solving equations of motion for atomic populations and coherences, derived using the…
An ab initio structure optimization technique is newly developed to determine the valley line on a total-energy surface for zone-center distortions of ferroelectric perovskite oxides and is applied to barium titanate BaTiO3 and lead…
Assuming a vacancy-mediated diffusion, a continuum model for electromigration-driven transport of an embedded atom cluster across a surface terrace of a phase-separating A$_x$B$_{1-x}$ surface alloy, such as fcc AgPt(111), is presented.…
We present models of surfaces of crystals in an environment where molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and related methods of crystal growth like atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) can be performed. Besides detailed models of reconstructed (001) surfaces…
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Predicting nanoscale thermal transport in dielectrics requires models, such as the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), that account for phonon boundary scattering in structures with complex geometries. Although the BTE has been validated…
We perform nanoindentation simulations for both the prototypical face-centered cubic metal copper and the body-centered cubic metal tungsten with a new adaptive-precision description of interaction potentials including different accuracy…
Cluster expansions are commonly employed as surrogate models to link the electronic structure of an alloy to its finite-temperature properties. Using cluster expansions to model materials with several alloying elements is challenging due to…
An ab initio LMTO approach and semi-empirical quantum chemical INDO method have been used for supercell calculations of basic point defects - F-type centers and hole polarons bound to cation vacancy - in partly covalent perovskite KNbO3. We…
When calcium titanate crystals are grown from stoichiometric melts, they crystallize in the cubic perovskite structure. Upon cooling to room temperature they undergo subsequent phase transitions to tetragonal and orthorhombic modifications.…
Relativistic study of xenotime, YPO$_4$, containing atoms thorium and uranium as point defects is performed in the framework of cluster model with using the compound-tunable embedding potential (CTEP) method proposed by us recently. The…
High-pressure torsion (HPT) can facilitate phase transformations in titanium dioxide (TiO2) and stabilize its high-pressure columbite phase, as an active photocatalyst, by shear straining under high pressure. This study aims to understand…
A crossover between the Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) and BCS superconducting state is described topologically in the chiral symmetric fermion system with attractive interaction. Using a local Z_2 Berry phase, we found a quantum phase…
Extensions of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory are worked out which are tailored for, (i) the consistent evaluation of fluctuations and correlations and (ii) the restoration through projection of broken symmetries. For both purposes we…