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A new method for investigating relaxation phenomena for charge carriers hopping between localized tail states has been developed. It allows us to consider both charge and energy {\it dispersive} transport. The method is based on the idea of…

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The influence of a magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the plane of a quasi two dimensional, low density classical Coulomb gas, with interparticle potential U of r as 1 over r, is studied using momentum conserving dissipative particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 J. D. Hernández Velázquez , Z. Nussinov , A. Gama Goicochea

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to determine the diffusion coefficients, electrophoretic mobilities and electrical conductivity of a charged colloidal suspension in the salt-free regime as a function of the colloid charge. The…

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Diffusion of Ga adatom at the As rich, low temperature c(4$\times$4) reconstructions of GaAs(001) surface is analyzed. We use known energy landscape for the motion of Ga adatom at two different $\alpha$ and $\beta$ surface phases to…

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Based on the formula for the number density of vacancies in a solid under the stress or tension, the model of grain boundary diffusion in crystalline solids is developed. We obtain the activation energy of grain boundary diffusion…

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Liquid-gas phase transition in statistical mechanics is a long-standing dilemma not yet well explained. In this paper we propose a novel approach to this dilemma, by: 1). Putting forth a new space homogeneity assumption. 2). Giving a new…

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The dominant charge state for the Ga vacancy in GaAs has been the subject of a long debate, with experiments proposing $-$1, $-$2 or $-$3 as the best answer. We revisit this problem using {\it ab initio} calculations to compute the effects…

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We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

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The ambipolar carrier diffusion in bulk GaAs is studied by using an ultrafast pump-probe technique with a high spatial resolution. Carriers with a point-like spatial profile are excited by a tightly focused pump laser pulse. The…

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Diffusion of native defects such as vacancies and their interactions with impurities are fundamental in semiconductor crystal growth, device processing, and long-term aging of equilibration and transient diffusion of vacancies are rarely…