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We report here the growth and characterization of functional oxide nanowire of hole doped manganite of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 (LSMO). We also report four probe electrical resistance measurement of single nanowire of LSMO (diameter ~ 45nm) using FIB…
Magnetic refrigeration (MR) based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is a promising alternative to conventional vapor compression refrigeration techniques. The cooling efficiency of a magnetic refrigerator depends on its refrigeration…
Spin-related effects in thermoelectricity can be used to design more efficient refrigerators and offer novel promising applications for the harvesting of thermal energy. The key challenge is to design structural and compositional magnetic…
We study heat current autocorrelation function and thermal conductivity in core-shell nanowires by using molecular dynamics simulations. Interestingly, a remarkable oscillation effect in heat current autocorrelation function is observed in…
Electromagnetic waves impinging on three-dimensional helical metallic metamaterials have been shown to exhibit chiral effects of large magnitude both theoretically and in experimental realizations. Chirality here describes different…
Bandstructure effects in PMOS transport of strongly quantized silicon nanowire field-effect-transistors (FET) in various transport orientations are examined. A 20-band sp3d5s* spin-orbit-coupled (SO) atomistic tight-binding model coupled to…
Although ferromagnetism is in general a long-range collective phenomenon, it is possible to induce local spatial variations of magnetic properties in ferromagnetic materials. For example, systematic variation of the exchange coupling…
The systematics of the size dependence of the resonant response of small metal particles and nuclei to incident electromagnetic radiation is studied. The known radius$^{-1}$ variation of the full width at half maximum (FWHM) in…
A Hydrogen atom immersed in a finite jellium sphere is solved using variational quantum Monte Carlo (VQMC). The same system is also solved using density functional theory (DFT), in both the local spin density (LSDA) and self-interaction…
We derive an automatic procedure for generating a set of highly localized, non-orthogonal orbitals for linear scaling quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We demonstrate the advantage of these orbitals in calculations of the total energy of…
We consider an interacting nanowire/superconductor heterostructure attached to metallic leads. The device is described by an unusual low-energy model involving spin-1 conduction electrons coupled to a nonlocal spin-1/2 Kondo impurity built…
Although free electron models have been established in order to capture the essential physics of interfacial and bulk properties in metals, some issues still remain regarding the application of free electron models to thin metal films. One…
Based on the recent free electron model for cohesion in narrow metallic constrictions by Stafford et al., we calculate the quantum fluctuations in the cohesive force versus elongation. The fluctuations are dominated by states near the Fermi…
We have studied the electrical conductance of two-dimensional (2D) random percolating networks of zero-width metallic nanowires (a mixture of rings and sticks). We toke into account the nanowire resistance per unit length and the junction…
Nanowires have been considered for a number of applications in nanometrology. In such a context, we have explored the possibility of using ultrathin twisted nanowires as torsion nanobalances to probe forces and torques at molecular level…
An arrangement of mesoscopic experiments is considered when the conductance of a mesoscopic normal metal sample is governed not only by the magnetic flux threading the sample but by the supercurrent inside the superconductor coupled to the…
Quantum wires occupy a unique status among the semiconducting nanostructures with reduced dimensionality -- no other system seems to have engaged researchers with as many appealing features to pursue. This paper aims at a core issue related…
Compact and accurate wave functions can be constructed by quantum Monte Carlo methods. Typically, these wave functions consist of a sum of a small number of Slater determinants multiplied by a Jastrow factor. In this paper we study the…
Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor materials are fueling research in mesoscopic physics and quantum technology. Recently demonstrated smooth $\beta$-Sn superconductor shells, due to the increased induced gap, are expanding the available…
Magnetic properties of metals are investigated through electronic structure calculations based on the recently-proposed magnetic-field-containing relativistic tight-binding approximation (MFRTB) method [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{91}, 075122…