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Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…
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We study graphene in an external magnetic field within a noncommutative (NC) framework. A gauge-invariant NC Hamiltonian is derived, and the system is analyzed using the ladder-operator formalism, yielding deformed Landau levels and…
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We present an accelerated algorithm that samples correctly the thermodynamic ensemble in complex systems where the dynamics is controlled by activation barriers. The efficiency of the thermodynamically-weighted activation-relaxation…
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