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A conceptually appealing and computationally economical course-grained molecular-orbital (MO) theory for extended quasi-linear molecular heterostructures is presented. The formalism, which is based on a straightforward adaptation, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-11 Julio C. Arce , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz , Martha L. Zambrano , Cesar A. Mujica-Martinez

The fabrication of novel soft materials is an important scientific and technological challenge. We investigate the response of magnetic ellipsoidal particles adsorbed at fluid-fluid interfaces to external magnetic fields. By exploiting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-29 Gary B. Davies , Timm Krueger , Peter V. Coveney , Jens Harting , Fernando Bresme

We introduce a simple approach how an electromagnetic environment can be efficiently embedded into state-of-the-art electronic structure methods, taking the form of radiation-reaction forces. We demonstrate that this self-consistently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Christian Schäfer , Göran Johansson

We develop several configuration interaction approaches for characterizing the electronic structure of an adsorbate on a metal surface (at least in model form). When one can separate adsorbate from substrate, these methods can achieve a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Zuxin Jin , Wenjie Dou , Joseph E. Subotnik

This paper delves into a nonparametric estimation approach for the interaction function within diffusion-type particle system models. We introduce two estimation methods based upon an empirical risk minimization. Our study encompasses an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Denis Belomestny , Mark Podolskij , Shi-Yuan Zhou

Controlling interfacial interactions in magnetic/topological insulator heterostructures is a major challenge for the emergence of novel spin-dependent electronic phenomena. As for any rational design of heterostructures that rely on…

We investigate the electrostatic interactions between two charged anisotropic conductors using a combination of asymptotic and numerical methods. For widely separated particles, we employ the method of reflections to analyze the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-13 Harshit Joshi , Anubhab Roy

The occurrence of superconducting and insulating phases is well-established in twisted graphene bilayers, and they have also been reported in other arrangements of graphene layers. We investigate three such arrangements: untwisted AB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Tommaso Cea , Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

The eigenfunctions of the Laplace Beltrami operator (Manifold Harmonics) define a function basis that can be used in spectral analysis on manifolds. In [21] the authors recast the problem as an orthogonality constrained optimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Martin Huska , Damiana Lazzaro , Serena Morigi

We construct a low-energy effective field theory that permits the complete treatment of isospin-breaking effects in nonleptonic weak interactions to next-to-leading order. To this end, we enlarge the chiral Lagrangian describing strong and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ecker , G. Isidori , G. Mueller , H. Neufeld , A. Pich

This paper is a continuation of our study of the dynamics of contact Hamiltonian systems in \cite{JY}, but without monotonicity assumption. Due to the complexity of general cases, we focus on the behavior of action minimizing orbits. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Liang Jin , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

Heterostructures made of transition metal oxides are new tailor-made materials which are attracting much attention. We have constructed a 6-band k.p Hamiltonian and used it within the envelope function method to calculate the subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 L. W. van Heeringen , G. A. de Wijs , A. McCollam , J. C. Maan , A. Fasolino

Generally, natural scientific problems are so complicated that one has to establish some effective perturbation or nonperturbation theories with respect to some associated ideal models. In this Letter, a new theory that combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuan Gao , S. Y. Lou

Measuring the mechanical response of liquid interfaces without direct contact remains a major experimental challenge, particularly in liquid-liquid systems where no solid reference exists. Here, we develop a frequency-modulation atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Lucie Corral , Christian Curtil , Medhi Lagaize , Marc Leonetti , Hubert R. Klein

We develop the multi-scale ab-initio scheme for correlated electrons (MACE) for transitionmetal-oxide heterostructures, and determine the parameters of the low-energy effective model. By separating Ti t2g bands near the Fermi level from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-18 Motoaki Hirayama , Takashi Miyake , Masatoshi Imada

I review recent work on magnetic dynamics of the high temperature superconductors using a model that combines two weakly interacting species of low-energy excitations: the antiferromagnetic spin waves which carry spin-1 and no charge, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Sokol

Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength meta-atoms that shape waves in a compact and planar form factor. Analysis and design of metasurfaces require methods for modeling their interactions with waves. Conventional modeling techniques…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-17 Mahsa Torfeh , Amir Arbabi

The antisymmetrized geminal power (AGP) wave function has a long history and considerable conceptual appeal, but in many situations its accuracy is wanting. Here, we consider a form of configuration interaction (CI) based upon the AGP wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Thomas M. Henderson , Gustavo E. Scuseria

In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion-symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable example is the interface between polar and non-polar…

We discuss different approximations for effective low-energy interactions in multi-band models for weakly correlated electrons. In the study of Fermi surface instabilities of the conduction band(s), the standard approximation consists only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-29 Stefan A. Maier , Carsten Honerkamp