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Nanoparticles levitated in vacuum can be set to spin at ultimate frequencies, limited only by the tensile strength of the material. At such high frequencies, drastic changes to the dynamics of solid-state quantum excitations are to be…

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Magnetic materials are crucial for manipulating electron spin and magnetic fields, enabling applications in data storage, spintronics, charge transport, and energy conversion, while also providing insight into fundamental quantum phenomena.…

Solid-state elastic-wave phonons are a promising platform for a wide range of quantum information applications. An outstanding challenge and enabling capability in harnessing phonons for quantum information processing is achieving strong…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Eric Chatterjee , Alexander Wendt , Daniel Soh , Matt Eichenfield

In this work, we use neural quantum states (NQS) to describe the high-dimensional wave functions of electron-phonon coupled systems. We demonstrate that NQS can accurately and systematically learn the underlying physics of such problems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-30 Ankit Mahajan , Paul J. Robinson , Joonho Lee , David R. Reichman

We study electron-phonon interaction induced decoherence between two-electron singlet and triplet states in a semiconductor double quantum dot using a spin-boson model. We investigate the onset and time evolution of this dephasing, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xuedong Hu

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a molecule embedded in one arm of a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Due to the presence of phonons the molecule level position ($\epsilon_d$) and the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Gloria Platero , Pascal Simon

The interplay of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions is studied analytically in the Kondo regime. A Holstein electron-phonon coupling is shown to produce a weakening of the gate voltage dependence of the Kondo temperature and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Balseiro , P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel

Free standing beams containing a two-dimensional electron system are shaped from a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Quantum point contacts and (double) quantum dots are laterally defined using metal top gates. We investigate the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 C Rossler , M Bichler , D Schuh , W Wegscheider , S Ludwig

We wish to draw an attention to a non-gibbsian behavior of zero-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, which appears to be manifested in experiments by an effect of incomplete depopulation from electronic excited states or by an effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karel Kral , Petr Zdenek

We study the impact of phonon anharmonicity on the electronic dynamics of soft materials using a nonperturbative quantum-classical approach. The method is applied to a one-dimensional model of doped organic semiconductors with low-frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-24 Jonathan H. Fetherolf , Petra Shih , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Polaron binding energy and effective mass are calculated for semiconductors with wurtzite crystalline structure from the first order electron-phonon corrections to the self-energy. A recently introduced Frohlich-like electron-phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-17 M. E. Mora-Ramos , F. J. Rodriguez , L. Quiroga

Phonons, the quanta of lattice vibrations, are primary heat carriers for semiconductors and dielectrics. The demand of effective phonon manipulation urgently emerges, because the thermal management is crucial for the ongoing development of…

We performed ultrasonic measurements on (Ta$_{0.952}$V$_{0.048}$)$_2$NiSe$_5$ to investigate the contribution of acoustic phonons at the zone center to structural and possible excitonic transitions. The transverse elastic constant $C_{55}$…

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Here we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of inelastic electron scattering on spin-dependent transport characteristics (conductance, current-voltage dependence, magnetoresistance, shot noise spectrum, Fano factor) for magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

The aim of this study was to determine the strengths of the coupling of electrons with the polar long-wavelength transverse optical (TO) vibrations from infrared spectroscopy data. This determination is made by means of a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Aleksandr Pishtshev

We calculate low-frequency Raman scattering from the confined acoustic phonon modes of CdS1-xSex nanoparticles embedded in borosilicate glass. The calculation of the Raman scattering by acoustic phonons in nanoparticles has been performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Sanjeev K. Gupta , Prafulla K. Jha , Satyaprakash Sahoo , A. K. Arora , Y. M. Azhniuk

Radiation pressure within engineered structures has recently been used to couple the motion of nanomechanical objects with high sensitivity to optical and microwave electromagnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate a form of electromechanical…

The possible occurrence of either a charge-density-wave or a Kohn anomaly is governed by the presence of Fermi-surface nesting and the subtle interaction of electrons and phonons. Recent experimental and theoretical investigations suggest…

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 Bernd Kohler , Paolo Ruggerone , Matthias Scheffler , Erio Tosatti