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Collective electronic excitations, including plasmons, excitons, and intra- and interband transitions, play a central role in determining the dynamic screening, optical response, and energy transport properties of materials. Recent advances…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Dario A. Leon , Kristian Berland

We investigate theoretically the momentum-dependent frequency and damping of low-lying collective excitations of superconductors and charged superfluids in the BCS-BEC crossover regime. The study is based on the Gaussian pair-and-density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-26 S. N. Klimin , J. Tempere , H. Kurkjian

The dynamical and nonlocal dielectric function of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with finite energy bandwidth is computed within random-phase approximation. For large bandwidth, the plasmon dispersion has two separate branches at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Kaveh Khaliji , Tobias Stauber , Tony Low

We report the boron isotope effect on the E2g phonon mode by micro-Raman spectroscopy on the ternary Mg1-xAlxB2 system, synthesized with pure isotopes 10B and 11B. The isotope coefficient on the phonon frequency is near 0.5 in the full…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-09 L. Simonelli , V. Palmisano , M. Fratini , M. Filippi , P. Parisiades , D. Lampakis , E. Liarokapis , A Bianconi

We introduce a method for calculating the dielectric function of nanostructures with an arbitrary band dispersion and Bloch wave functions. The linear response of a dissipative electronic system to an external electromagnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 F. Karimi , A. H. Davoody , I. Knezevic

Results of FLMTO-GGA (full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital -- generalized gradient approximation) calculations of the band structure and boron electric field gradients (EFG) for the new medium-T$_c$ superconductor (MTSC), MgB$_2$, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. I. Medvedeva , A. L. Ivanovskii , J. E. Medvedeva , A. J. Freeman , D. L. Novikov

The plasmon is a well established collective excitation of metals in the visible and near UV but at much lower frequencies dissipation destroys all trace of the plasmon and typical Drude behaviour sets in. We propose a mechanism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 JB Pendry , AJ Holden , WJ Stewart , I Youngs

The spectral properties, momentum dispersion, and broadening of bulk plasmonic excitations of 26 elemental metals are studied from first principles calculations in the random-phase approximation. Spectral band structures are constructed…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-18 Dario A. Leon , Claudia Cardoso , Kristian Berland

A theoretical investigation has been made of the magnetoplasmon excitations in a quantum wire characterized by a confining harmonic potential and subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. We study the (nonlocal, dynamic) inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Manvir S. Kushwaha

We have calculated the plasmon modes in graphene double layer structures at finite temperatures, taking into account the inhomogeneity of the dielectric background of the system. The effective dielectric function is obtained from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

In this work the multistream quasiparticle model of collective electron excitations is used to study the energy-density distribution of collective quantum excitations in an interacting electron gas with arbitrary degree of degeneracy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

We present the valence electron energy-loss spectrum and the dielectric function of monoclinic hafnia (m-HfO$_2$) obtained from time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) predictions and compared to energy-filtered spectroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-01 Linda Hung , Cyril Guedj , Nicolas Bernier , Philippe Blaise , Valerio Olevano , Francesco Sottile

Collective modes of doped two-dimensional crystalline materials, namely graphene, MoS$_2$ and phosphorene, both monolayer and bilayer structures, are explored using the density functional theory simulations together with the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Zahra Torbatian , Reza Asgari

Electronic Coulomb excitations in monolayer silicene are investigated by using the Lindhard dielectric function and a newly developed generalized tight-binding model (G-TBM). G-TBM simultaneously contains the atomic interactions, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Jhao-Ying Wu , Szu-Chao Chen , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

We compare the two-dimensional (2D) plasmon dispersion relations for monolayer graphene when the sample is doped with carriers in the conduction band and the temperature $T$ is zero with the case when the temperature is finite and there is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , V. M. Silkin

The existence and nature of a new mode of electronic collective excitations (quadrupole plasmons) in confined one-dimensional electronic systems have been predicted by an eigen-equation method. The eigen-equation based on the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Reng-lai Wu , Yabin Yu , Hong-jie Xue

The one dimensional (1D) driven quantum coupled pseudoforce system governing the dynamics of collective Langmuir electron oscillations is used in order to investigate the effects of variety of space charge distributions on plasmon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

We consider collective excitations in the superfluid state of Fermi condensed charged gases. The dispersion and damping of collective excitations at nonzero temperatures are examined, and the coexistence and interaction of different…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-26 S. N. Klimin , J. Tempere , T. Repplinger , H. Kurkjian

We present here the MsSpec Dielectric Function module (MsSpec-DFM), which generates dielectric functions in an electron gas or a liquid, either isolated or embedded into an environment. In addition to standard models such as the plasmon…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-21 Aditi Mandal , Sylvain Tricot , Rakesh Choubisa , Didier Sebilleau

The effect of high pressure on structural and electronic properties of the novel superconductor \MB has been calculated using the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave method. Despite the layered crystal structure of \MB nearly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Loa , K. Syassen