Related papers: Lithium in strong magnetic fields
A system of two charged particles in a harmonic trap with additional magnetic field is considered. The problem is reduced to a single-particle one in relative coordinates. The ground- and lowest excited-state energies and wave functions are…
We describe the creation and evolution of electron-positron pairs in a strong electric field as well as the pairs annihilation into photons. The formalism is based on generalized Vlasov equations, which are numerically integrated. We…
I review the origin and properties of electromagnetic fields produced in heavy ion collisions. The field strength immediately after a collision is proportional to the collision energy and reaches eB\sim(m_\pi)^2 at RHIC and eB\sim10…
Analytical expression for the Coulomb potential in the presence of superstrong magnetic field is derived. Structure of hydrogen levels originating from LLL is analyzed.
The electronic structure, bonding and magnetism in graphene containing vacancies are studied using density-functional methods. The single-vacancy graphene ground state is spin polarized and structurally flat. The unpolarized state is non…
A first detailed study of the ground state of the H$_3^+$ molecular ion in linear configuration, parallel to a magnetic field direction, and its low-lying $\Si,\Pi,\De$ states is carried out for magnetic fields $B=0-4.414 \times 10^{13} $G…
Understanding the phase stability of elemental lithium (Li) is crucial for optimizing its performance in lithium-metal battery anodes, yet this seemingly simple metal exhibits complex polymorphism that requires proper accounting for quantum…
The application of high pressure can fundamentally modify the crystalline and electronic structures of elements as well as their chemical reactivity, which could lead to the formation of novel materials. Here, we explore the reactivity of…
The charmonium system has several excited states below the energy threshold for decay into $D$ and $\bar{D}$ mesons, which can in principle be studied accurately in lattice QCD. Studies that include many states in the spectrum have…
We investigate few-photon ionization of lithium atoms prepared in the polarized 2$p$($m_\ell=\!+1$) state when subjected to femtosecond light pulses with left- or right-handed circular polarization at wavelengths between 665 nm and 920 nm.…
The nonrelativistic energies of the homonuclear ion T$_2^+$ are calculated for the ground state using the Lagrange-mesh method as was done for the isotopomers H$_2^+$ and D$_2^+$ ({\it J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.} {\bf 45} 065101 and…
We use a tight-binding total energy method, with parameters determined from a fit to first-principles calculations, to examine the newly discovered gamma phase of titanium. Our parameters were adjusted to accurately describe the alpha…
We describe a method to create effective gauge potentials for stationary-light polaritons in two or three spatial dimensions. When stationary light is created in the interaction with a uniformly rotating ensemble of coherently driven double…
We perform an analysis of the combined effects of geometry and a magnetic field for the case of a charged particle on a helicoid. The effective quantum potentials for a charged spinless particle confined on a helicoid for two simple…
In this study, we develop and implement a specialized coupled-cluster (CC) approach tailored for accurately describing atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields. Using the open-source Ghent Quantum Chemistry Package (\texttt{GQCP}) in…
For large values of the Higgs mass the low energy structure of the gauged linear sigma model in the spontaneously broken phase can adequately be described by an effective field theory. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant functional…
In two recent papers (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 116} (2016) 033201; Phys. Rev. A {\bf 94} (2016) 032331), the possibility of continuously varying the degree of entanglement between an elastically scattered electron and the valence electron of…
We investigate a lattice scalar field theory in the presence of a bias favouring the establishment of an energy current, as a model for stationary nonequilibrium processes at low temperature in a non-integrable system. There is a transition…
$R$-matrix calculations of the electron collisions with lithium atom at energies below the $3s$ excitation threshold are presented. The $^1S^e$, $^3S^e$ and $^1P^o$ phase shifts calculated in the near-threshold energy range are in excellent…
Due to underlying symmetries the ground states of magnetic adatoms may be highly stable, which opens perspectives for application as single-atom memory. A specific example is a single holmium atom (with $J=8$) on a platinum (111) surface…