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The electronic quasiparticle structure of a ferromagnetic local moment film is investigated within the framework of the s-f model. For the special case of a single electron in an otherwise empty energy band being exchange coupled to a fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Schiller , W. Mueller , W. Nolting

A scattering method is used to calculate the surface band structure of Al(111) from 8.6 eV below the Fermi level to 9 eV above it. This method has rarely been implemented previously. The complete complex bulk and surface band structure is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-07 M. N. Read

We analyze a model problem representing a multi-electronic molecule sitting on a metal surface. Working with a reduced configuration interaction Hamiltonian, we show that one can extract very accurate ground state wavefunctions as compared…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Junhan Chen , Zuxin Jin , Wenjie Dou , Joseph Subotnik

Using \emph{ab initio} band structure and DFT+dynamical mean-field theory methods we examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on the normal state electronic structure, Fermi surface, and magnetic correlations of the recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-07 D. A. Shilenko , I. V. Leonov

Most spectroscopic methods for studying the electronic structure of metal surfaces have the disadvantage that either only occupied or only unoccupied states can be probed, and the signal is cut at the Fermi edge. This leads to significant…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Wegner , A. Bauer , Yu. M. Koroteev , G. Bihlmayer , E. V. Chulkov , P. M. Echenique , G. Kaindl

Recently, superconductivity was discovered in the infinite layer of hole-doped nickelates NdNiO$_{2}$. Contrary to this, superconductivity in LaNiO$_{2}$ is still under debate. This indicates the crucial role played by the $f$ electrons on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Surajit Basak , Przemysław Piekarz , Andrzej M. Oleś

Recently developed model allows for simulations of electric field influence on the surface states. The results of slab simulations show considerable change of the energy of quantum states in the electric field, i.e. Stark Effect associated…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Paweł Kempisty , Stanisław Krukowski

Understanding the Fermi surface and low-energy excitations of iron or cobalt pnictides is crucial for assessing electronic instabilities such as magnetic or superconducting states. Here, we propose and implement a new approach to compute…

We consider a multiband metal with deep primary bands and a shallow secondary one. In the normal state the system undergoes Lifshitz transition when the bottom of the shallow band crosses the Fermi level. In the superconducting state Cooper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 A. E. Koshelev , K. A. Matveev

Interacting electrons with a square Fermi surface is investigated from a bosonic point of view taking into account electron scattering between all faces of the square. Fermion operators are classified according to their dimensions and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Olav F. Syljuasen , A. Luther

The role that occupied $d$ bands play in the inelastic lifetime of bulk and surface states in Ag is investigated from the knowledge of the quasiparticle self-energy. In the case of bulk electrons, $sp$ bands are taken to be free-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Garcia-Lekue , J. M. Pitarke , E. V. Chulkov , A. Liebsch , P. M. Echenique

We study the effect of Coulomb correlations on the ultrafast optical dynamics of small metal particles. We demonstrate that a surface-induced dynamical screening of the electron-electron interactions leads to quasiparticle scattering with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. V. Shahbazyan , I. E. Perakis , J. -Y. Bigot

Experimental results on the metal-insulator transitions and the anomalous properties of strongly interacting two-dimensional electron systems are reviewed and critically analyzed. Special attention is given to recent results for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 A. A. Shashkin

Electrons most often organize into Fermi-liquid states in which electron-electron interactions play an inessential role. A well known exception is the case of one-dimensional (1D) electron systems (1DES). In 1D the electron Fermi-surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-09 Fan Zhang , Hongki Min , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

One-dimensional model for study of sub--femtosecond experiment with metal surface is put forward. The important features of the system, such as the pseudopotential for electron motion in the metal bulk, abrupt decrease of the normal to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-20 A. K. Kazansky , P. M. Echenique

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the one-particle density of states (\emph{DOS}) $\rho^{(d)}(\epsilon,T)$ of low-dimensional disordered metals near Fermi energy within the framework of the finite temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Sasioglu , S. Caliskan , M. Kumru

We have investigated the electronic structure and the Fermi surface of SnO using density functional theory (DFT) calculations within recently proposed exchange-correlation potential (PBE+mBJ) at ambient conditions and high pressures up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 J. A. McLeod , A. V. Lukoyanov , E. Z. Kurmaev , L. D. Finkelstein , A. Moewes

The electron-electron interactions affect the low-energy excitations of an electronic system and induce deformations of the Fermi surface. These effects are especially important in anisotropic materials with strong correlations, such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-30 R. Roldan , M. P. Lopez-Sancho , F. Guinea , S. -W. Tsai

A strong electron-phonon interaction in a metal increases the electron density of states in the vicinity of the Fermi energy dramatically. This phenomenon is called electron-phonon mass enhancement. In this paper the question is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerd Bergmann

Surface electronic properties of undoped hydrogen terminated diamond covered with adsorbates or in electrolyte solutions are summarized. The formation of a conductive layer at the surface of diamond is discussed based on Hall effect,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Christoph E. Nebel