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The tunneling spectra of small metallic grains shows an unusual structure of the differential conductance peaks. Namely, resonance peaks appear in clusters, or develop substructure as the the gate voltage is changed. These features are…
Atomic nanowires formed by Au on Ge(001) are scrutinized for the band topology of the conduction electron system by k-resolved photoemission. Two metallic electron pockets are observed. Their Fermi surface sheets form straight lines without…
We consider the effect of Au nanospheres of subwavelength sizes on the decay and energy transfer rates of quantum systems placed in the proximity of these nanospheres. We find that, for the sphere sizes considered in this contribution, the…
We presented the multiplicity and the spectra of many particles in Au+Au at sqrt(s_{_{NN}})=130 GeV measured by STAR detector. Their connections to initial condition, baryon creation, freeze-out condition and strangeness enhancement were…
Unlike in ordinary metals, in graphene, phonon structure can be seen in the quasiparticle electronic density of states, because the latter varies on the scale of the phonon energy. In a magnetic field, quantization into Landau levels…
It has been shown that electron transitions, as measured in a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), are related to chemical interactions in a tunnelling barrier. Here, we show that the shape and apparent height of subatomic features in an…
The tunneling between two parallel two-dimensional electron gases has been investigated as a function of temperature $T$, carrier density $n$, and the applied perpendicular magnetic field $B$. In zero magnetic field the equilibrium resonant…
The potential barrier model considering an additional current that can lead to the high-gradient breakdowns in accelerating structures is proposed. An oscillatory resonance feature of the field emission current from a double-layer metal…
Two exponents, $\delta$, for size distribution of $n$-atom clusters, $Y(n)\sim n^{-\delta}$, have been found in Au clusters sputtered from embedded Au nanoparticles under swift heavy ion irradiation. For small clusters, below 12.5 nm in…
We evaluate the impact of acoustic Mie resonance in nanoparticles on the thermal conductivity of semiconductor and polymer composites. By appropriately choosing the bulk modulus and density, and selecting the size of the nanoparticle to…
This letter presents studies of spin-transfer efficiency in electron transport via discrete electron-in- a-box levels in individual nanometer-scale Ni particles at 0.06K temperature. In a strong magnetic field, the spin-transfer rates are…
Plasmonic near-field transducers (NFTs) play a key role in administering nanoscale heating for a number of applications ranging from medical devices to next generation data processing technology. We present a novel multi-scale approach,…
Recent scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments [V. W. Brar et. al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 122102 (2007), Y. Zhang et. al., arXiv:0802.4315 (2008)] on graphene reported an unexpected gap of about $\pm 60$meV around the Fermi level. Here,…
The oscillation of tunnel splitting are obtained by geometrical analysis of the topological Wess-Zumino phase on the basis of tunneling paths in biaxial nanomagnetic particles with magnetic field along the hard anisotropy axis. This theory…
The orbital, spin and valley degrees of freedom in silicon quantum dots support many modes of spin qubit operation. However, it is generally challenging to obtain information about the energy level spectrum over large ranges of parameter…
We image the field enhancement at Ag nanostructures using femtosecond laser pulses with a center wavelength of 1.55 micrometer. Imaging is based on non-linear photoemission observed in a photoemission electron microscope (PEEM). The images…
We present an experimental and theoretical study of a scalar atomic magnetometer using an oscillating field-driven Zeeman resonance in a high-density optically-pumped potassium vapor. We describe an experimental implementation of an atomic…
We report optical absorption and photoluminescence spectra of Au, Fe, Co and Ni polycrystalline nanofilms in the UV-Vis-NIR range, featuring discrete bands resulting from transverse quantum confinement. The film thickness ranged from 1.1 to…
Atomic structures of nanomaterials are inherently dynamic, continuously reshaped through interactions with chemical species and external stimuli. Such dynamics are further amplified as the size and dimensionality of nanomaterials are…
High resolution low frequency Raman scattering measurements from embedded AgAu nanoparticles unveil efficient scattering by harmonics of both the quadrupolar and the spherical modes. Comparing the experimental data with theoretical…