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A soft ellipsoid contact potential model for a pair of biaxial ellipsoidal molecules is proposed which considers the configuration dependent energy anisotropy explicitly along with their geometrical aspects. We performed Molecular Dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Jayashree Saha

A plasma transport theory that spans weak to strong coupling is developed from a binary collision picture, but where the interaction potential is taken to be an effective potential that includes correlation effects and screening…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

We report on our theoretical investigation of the effects of the confining potential profile and sample size on the electron velocity distribution in (narrow) quantum-Hall systems. The electrostatic properties of the electron system are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Eksi , E. Cicek , A. I. Mese , S. Aktas , A. Siddiki , T. Hakioglu

The thesis explores calculating tunneling current densities between planar conducting electrodes in an STM. It considers factors like bias voltages and the separation between electrodes, using Fermi energy and work functions. Pauli blocking…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-02 Malati Dessai

We describe two different modes for electronically detecting an adsorbed molecule using a nanoscale transistor. The attachment of an ionic molecular target shifts the threshold voltage through modulation of the depletion layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 S. Vasudevan , K. Walczak , N. Kapur , M. Neurock , A. W. Ghosh

Extensive studies on thin films indicated a generic cubic current-voltage $I-V$ dependence as a salient feature of charge transport by tunneling. A quick glance at $I-V$ data for molecular junctions suggests a qualitatively similar…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 Ioan Baldea

A microscopic description is given for the behavior of the fluid system in an immediate vicinity of its critical point, where theoretical and experimental researches are difficult to carry out. For the temperatures $T<T_c$, the regions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 I. V. Pylyuk , M. P. Kozlovskii

Quantum-mechanical analysis based on an exact sum rule is used to extract an semiclassical angle-dependent energy function for transition metal ions in biomolecules. The angular dependence is simple but different from existing classical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Carlsson

Theoretical predictions for the BCS-BEC crossover of trapped Fermi atoms are compared with recent experimental results for the density profiles of $^6$Li. The calculations rest on a single theoretical approach that includes pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Perali , P. Pieri , G. C. Strinati

Quantum point contacts (QPC) are fundamental building blocks of nanoelectronic circuits. For their emission dynamics as well as for interaction effects such as the 0.7-anomaly the details of the electrostatic potential are important, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Max Geier , Jaan Freudenfeld , Jorge T. Silva , Vladimir Umansky , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck , Piet W. Brouwer , Stefan Ludwig

The electrostatic model proposed by Poulos [Phys. Plasmas (2019), $\mathbf{26}$, 022104] to describe the electric potential distribution across and along a magnetized plasma column is used to shed light onto the ability to control…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Renaud Gueroult , Jean-Marcel Rax , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Understanding electron transport processes in molecular wires connected between contacts is a central focus in the field of molecular electronics. Especially, the dephasing effect causing tunneling-to-hopping transition has great importance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Daijiro Nozaki , Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Horacio M. Pastawski , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Differential cross sections for electromagnetic dissociation in nucleus-nucleus collisions are calculated. The kinetic energy distribution is parameterized with a Boltzmann distribution and the angular distribution is assumed isotropic in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John W. Norbury , Anne Adamczyk

We propose to use a time-dependent imaginary potential to describe quantum mechanical tunneling through time-varying potential barriers. We use Gamow solutions for stationary tunneling problems to justify our choice of potential, and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Klaus Mølmer

We study the macroscopic quantum tunneling of two weakly-linked superfluids made of interacting fermionic atoms. We derive atomic Josephson junction equations and find that zero-mode and pi-mode frequencies of coherent atomic oscillations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-09 L. Salasnich , N. Manini , F. Toigo

We analyze and clarify the transport properties of a one-dimensional metallic nanoparticle array with interaction between charges restricted to charges placed in the same conductor. We study the threshold voltage, the I-V curves and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Bascones , V. Estevez , J. A. Trinidad , A. H. MacDonald

Three analytic results are proposed for a linear form of the modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the theory of bulk electrolytes. Comparison is also made with the mean spherical approximation results. The linear theories predict a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-28 C. W. Outhwaite , L. B. Bhuiyan

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

The variation with energy of the total cross section for elastic electron scattering from atoms of several elements is caused primarily by shape resonances corresponding to the formation of temporary negative ions. It is shown that such…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Nicoletopoulos

This paper is a continuation of a previous work about the study of the survival probability modelizing the molecular predissociation in the Born-Oppenheimer framework. Here we consider the critical case where the reference energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Philippe Briet , André Martinez