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Shapes and energies of icosahedral fullerenes are studied on an atomically detailed level. The numerical results based on the effective binary carbon-carbon potential are related to the theory of elasticity of crystalline membranes with…

In the Quantum Hall regime, near integer filling factors, electrons should only be transmitted through spatially-separated edge states. However, in mesoscopic systems, electronic transmission turns out to be more complex, giving rise to a…

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It is experimentally observed that adsorbate atoms and vacancies on (111) surfaces of fcc metals cluster into islands which are approximately hexagonal, but which on closer inspection turn out to have equilibrium facets which alternate in…

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