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Electromagnetically induced transparency in an atom-molecule Bose-Einstein condensate: We propose a new measurement scheme for the atom-molecule dark state by using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) technique. Based on a density-matrix formalism, we calculate the absorption coefficient numerically. The a...
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A Complex Chemical Potential: Signature of Decay in a Bose-Einstein Condensate: We explore the zero-temperature statics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in which a Feshbach resonance creates a coupling to a second condensate component of quasi-bound molecules. Using a variational procedure to find the equation o...
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Analysis of patterns formed by two-component diffusion limited aggregation: We consider diffusion limited aggregation of particles of two different kinds. It is assumed that a particle of one kind may adhere only to another particle of the same kind. The particles aggregate on a linear substrate which consists of per...
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Quantization scheme of surface plasma polariton in helical liquid and the exchanging interaction between quasi particles and emitters: The collective modes of helical electron gases interacting with light have been studied in an extended random phase approximation. By separating two kinds of electron density oscillat...
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Evidence that rotons in helium II are interstitial atoms: Superfluid helium II contains excitations known as rotons. Their properties have been studied experimentally for more than 70 years but their structure is not fully understood. Feynman's 1954 description, involving rotating flow patterns, does not fully explain ...
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Combining high pressure and coherent diffraction: a first feasibility test: We present a first experiment combining high pression and coherent X-ray diffraction. By using a dedicated diamond anvil cell, we show that the degree of coherence of the X-ray beam is preserved when the X-ray beam passes through the diamond ...
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Crossover in Broad Feshbach Resonance with Energy-Dependent Coupling: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors as the recent measurement of the closed channel population for Li6 [Partridge et al., cond-mat/0505353] indicates that the cutoff energy is still much larger than any other relevant energy scales for this ...
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Bipartite Yule Processes in Collections of Journal Papers: Collections of journal papers, often referred to as 'citation networks', can be modeled as a collection of coupled bipartite networks which tend to exhibit linear growth and preferential attachment as papers are added to the collection. Assuming primary nodes i...
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Structural Study of Adsorbed Helium Films: New Approach with Synchrotron Radiation X-rays: A few atomic layers of helium adsorbed on graphite have been attracting much attention as one of the ideal quantum systems in two dimension. Although previous reports on neutron diffraction have shown fundamental structural inf...
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Kolmogorov spectrum of superfluid turbulence: numerical analysis of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the small scale dissipation: The energy spectrum of superfluid turbulence is studied numerically by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We introduce the dissipation term which works only in the scale smaller than...
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Spectroscopy, upconversion dynamics, and applications of Er3+-doped low-phonon materials: In this work I summarize some of the recent work carried out by our group on the upconversion dynamics of Er3+-doped potassium lead halide crystals, which possess very small phonons and present very efficient blue and green upco...
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Digital Processing in Tunneling Spectroscopy: An alternative approach to detect very weak singularities on the characteristics of a tunnel diode is proposed in which the numerical differential filtering is applied directly to measured current versus voltage dependence instead of the modulation technique commonly used w...
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Phonon-Induced Quantum Magnetic Deflagration in Mn12: A comprehensive set of experiments on the effect of high-frequency surface acoustic waves, SAWs, in the spin relaxation in Mn12-acetate is presented. We have studied the quantum magnetic deflagration induced by SAWs under various experimental conditions extending th...
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A strongly interacting Bose gas: Nozières and Schmitt-Rink theory and beyond: We calculate the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of bosonic atoms across a Feshbach resonance, and show how medium effects at negative scattering lengths give rise to pairs reminiscent of the ones responsible fo...
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Distortion of the Stoner-Wohlfarth astroid by a spin-polarized current: The Stoner-Wohlfarth astroid is a fundamental object in magnetism. It separates regions of the magnetic field space with two stable magnetization equilibria from those with only one stable equilibrium and it characterizes the magnetization reversal...
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Phase Space Wannier Functions in Electronic Structure Calculations: We consider the applicability of phase space Wannier functions" to electronic structure calculations. These generalized Wannier functions are analogous to localized plane waves and constitute a complete, orthonormal set which is exponentially localized...
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Adiabatic quenches through an extended quantum critical region: By gradually changing the degree of the anisotropy in a XXZ chain we study the defect formation in a quantum system that crosses an extended critical region. We discuss two qualitatively different cases of quenches, from the antiferromagnetic to the ferrom...
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Barrier crossing to the small Holstein polaron regime: We investigate the dimensionality effects of the Holstein polaron from the fully quantum regime, where the crossover between large and small polaron solutions is known to be continuous in all dimensions, into the limit described by the semiclassical Discrete Nonlin...
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Simulating hyperbolic space on a circuit board: The Laplace operator encodes the behavior of physical systems at vastly different scales, describing heat flow, fluids, as well as electric, gravitational, and quantum fields. A key input for the Laplace equation is the curvature of space. Here we discuss and experimental...
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Quantum Monte-Carlo study of a two-species boson Hubbard model: We consider a two-species hard-core boson Hubbard model for a supersolid, where the two types of bosons represent vacancies and interstitials doped into a commensurate crystal. The on-site inter-species interaction may create bound states of vacancies and ...
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From a nonlinear string to a weakly interacting Bose gas: We investigate a real scalar field whose dynamics is governed by a nonlinear wave equation. We show that classical description can be applied to a quantum system of many interacting bosons provided that some quantum ingredients are included. An universal action ...
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Magnetic levitation induced by negative permeability: In this paper we study the interaction between a point magnetic dipole and a semi-infinite metamaterial using the method of images. We obtain analytical expressions for the levitation force for an arbitrarily oriented dipole. Surprisingly the maximal levitation forc...
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Ground state of two electrons on concentric spheres: We extend our analysis of two electrons on a sphere [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 79}, 062517 (2009); Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 103}, 123008 (2009)] to electrons on concentric spheres with different radii. The strengths and weaknesses of several electronic structure models are anal...
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Magnetization and specific heat of TbFe3(BO3)4: Experiment and crystal field calculations: We have studied the thermodynamic properties of single-crystalline TbFe3(BO3)4. Magnetization measurements have been carried out as a function of magnetic field (up to 50 T) and temperature up to 350K with the magnetic field bo...
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Correlation effects on the static structure factor of a Bose gas: A theoretical treatment of the static structure factor $S(k)$ of a Bose gas is attempted. The low order expansion theory is implemented for the construction of the two body density distribution, while various trial functions for the radial distribution f...
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Study of the Magnetic Film Materials by Horizontal Scanning Mode for the Magnetic Force Microscopy in Magnetostatic and ac Regimes: The magnetic force microscopy inverse problem for the case of horizontal scanning of a tip on a linear magnetic film is introduced. We show the possibility to recover the magnetic permea...
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Exciton BCS or BEC state in a semiconductor bilayer system?: We calculate the off-diagonal long range order (ODLRO) terms of the exciton--exciton correlation function of a semiconductor bilayer system with Coulomb interaction and a transverse magnetic field. We show that the formation of a BEC state is very sensitive t...
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Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of the Molecular Biexciton in Vertically Stacked Quantum Dot Pairs: We present photoluminescence studies of the molecular neutral biexciton-exciton spectra of individual vertically stacked InAs/GaAs quantum dot pairs. We tune either the hole or the electron levels of the two dots into t...
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Conversion Efficiencies of Heteronuclear Feshbach Molecules: We study the conversion efficiency of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules in population imbalanced atomic gases formed by ramping the magnetic field adiabatically. We extend the recent work [J. E. Williams et al., New J. Phys., 8, 150 (2006)] on the theory of Fe...
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Frustration of Decoherence in Open Quantum Systems: We study a model of frustration of decoherence in an open quantum system. Contrary to other dissipative ohmic impurity models, such as the Kondo model or the dissipative two-level system, the impurity model discussed here never presents overdamped dynamics even for st...
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Floquet system, Bloch oscillation, and Stark ladder: We prove the multi-band Bloch oscillation and Stark ladder in the $nk$ and site representation from the Floquet theorem. The proof is also possible from the equivalence between the Floquet system, Bloch oscillation, and the rotator with spin. We also exactly solve th...
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Precise determination of $^6$Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound molecules: We employ radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound $^6$Li$_2$ molecules to precisely determine the molecular binding energies and the energy splittings between molecular states for different magnet...
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Spin dynamics triggered by sub-terahertz magnetic field pulses: Current pulses of up to 20 A and as short as 3 ps are generated by a low temperature grown GaAs (lt-GaAs) photoconductive switch and guided through a coplanar waveguide, resulting in a 0.6 Tesla terahertz (THz) magnetic field pulse. The pulse length is dir...
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The Dynamic Structure Factor of the 1D Bose Gas near the Tonks-Girardeau Limit: While the 1D Bose gas appears to exhibit superfluid response under certain conditions, it fails the Landau criterion according to the elementary excitation spectrum calculated by Lieb. The apparent riddle is solved by calculating the dyna...
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The Ginzburg-Landau model of Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons: We introduce a system of phenomenological equations for Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons in the one-dimensional setting. The nonlinearly coupled equations, written for amplitudes of the right-and left-traveling waves, combine basic features of the ...
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Fermions at unitarity and Haldane Exclusion Statistics: We consider a gas of neutral fermionic atoms at ultra-low temperatures, with the attractive interaction tuned to Feshbach resonance. We calculate, the variation of the chemical potential and the energy per particle as a function of temperature by assuming the syst...
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A Simple Experimental Setup for Simultaneous Superfluid-response and Heat-capacity Measurements for Helium in Confined Geometries: Torsional oscillator (TO) is an experimental technique which is widely used to investigate superfluid responses in helium systems confined in porous materials or adsorbed on substrates. I...
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Examining electron-boson coupling using time-resolved spectroscopy: Nonequilibrium pump-probe time domain spectroscopies can become an important tool to disentangle degrees of freedom whose coupling leads to broad structures in the frequency domain. Here, using the time-resolved solution of a model photoexcited electro...
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Scaling law for seismic hazard after a main shock: After a large earthquake, the likelihood of successive strong aftershocks needs to be estimated. Exploiting similarities with critical phenomena, we introduce a scaling law for the decay in time following a main shock of the expected number of aftershocks greater than ...
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Artificial electromagnetism for neutral atoms: Escher staircase and Laughlin liquids: We show how lasers may create fields which couple to neutral atoms in the same way that the electromagnetic fields couple to charged particles. These fields are needed for using neutral atoms as an analog quantum computer for simula...
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Potential and charge-carrier concentration distributions in solid electrolyte between flat electrodes: Statistically studied are the equilibrium characteristics of a subsystem of mobile charges of one sort, taking into account the subsystem of fixed charges of the opposite sign creating a compensating electric backgr...
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Reptation quantum Monte Carlo for lattice Hamiltonians with a directed-update scheme: We provide an extension to lattice systems of the reptation quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, originally devised for continuous Hamiltonians. For systems affected by the sign problem, a method to systematically improve upon the so-call...
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Proximity Effects in Radiative Transfer: Though the dependence of near-field radiative transfer on the gap between two planar objects is well understood, that between curved objects is still unclear. We show, based on the analysis of the surface polariton mediated radiative transfer between two spheres of equal radii $...
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Manifestations of the Efimov Effect for Three Identical Bosons: In this paper we present results from numerical calculations for three identical boson systems for both very large and infinite two-body s-wave scattering length $a$. We have considered scattering lengths up to $2\times 10^5$ a.u. and solved the hyperangul...
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Breeding and Solitary Wave Behavior of Dunes: Beautiful dune patterns can be found in deserts and along coasts due to the instability of a plain sheet of sand under the action of the wind. Barchan dunes are highly mobile aeolian dunes found in areas of low sand availability and unidirectional wind fields. Up to now mod...
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Slit-array transmission loss feasibility in airborne sound: Recent experiments conducted in water at ultrasonic frequencies showed the possibility of overcoming the transmission loss provided by homogeneous plates at certain frequencies by drilling periodically distributed holes on it. In this letter, the feasibility o...
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Spin-correlation functions in ultracold paired atomic-fermion systems: sum rules, self-consistent approximations, and mean fields: The spin response functions measured in multi-component fermion gases by means of rf transitions between hyperfine states are strongly constrained by the symmetry of the interatomic inter...
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Quasimodes of a chaotic elastic cavity with increasing local losses: We report non-invasive measurements of the complex field of elastic quasimodes of a silicon wafer with chaotic shape. The amplitude and phase spatial distribution of the flexural modes are directly obtained by Fourier transform of time measurements. W...
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Ultrafast optical Faraday effect in transparent solids: We predict a strong-field ultrafast optical Faraday effect, where a circularly polarized ultrashort optical pulse induces transient chirality in an achiral transparent dielectric. This effect is attractive for time-resolved measurements because it gives access to ...
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Finite-Temperature Behavior of an Inter-species Fermionic Superfluid with Population Imbalance: We determine the superfluid transition temperature $T_c$ and related finite temperature phase diagrams for the entire BCS-Bose Einstein condensation crossover in a homogeneous mixture of $^{6}$Li and $^{40}$K atoms with po...
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Effective single-particle order-N scheme for the dynamics of open non-interacting many-body systems: Quantum master equations are common tools to describe the dynamics of many-body systems open to an environment. Due to the interaction with the latter, even for the case of non-interacting electrons, the computational...
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Theory of vortex-lattice melting in a one-dimensional optical lattice: We investigate quantum and temperature fluctuations of a vortex lattice in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We discuss in particular the Bloch bands of the Tkachenko modes and calculate the correlation function of the vortex positions along the di...
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A generalised Landau-Lifshitz equation for isotropic SU(3) magnet: In the paper we obtain equations for large-scale fluctuations of the mean field (the field of magnetization and quadrupole moments) in a magnetic system realized by a square (cubic) lattice of atoms with spin s >= 1 at each site. We use the generalized ...
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Magneto and ferroelectric phase transitions in HoMn2O5 monocrystals: From the physical point of view multiferroics present an extremely interesting class of systems and problems. These are essentially of two kinds. One is what are the microscopic conditions, and sometimes constrains, which determine the possibility to ...
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Density-density functionals and effective potentials in many-body electronic structure calculations: We demonstrate the existence of different density-density functionals designed to retain selected properties of the many-body ground state in a non-interacting solution starting from the standard density functional th...
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Coherent Destruction of Photon Emission from a Single Molecule Source: A Renormalization Group Approach: The photon emission from a single molecule driven simultaneously by a laser and a slow electric radio frequency (rf) field is studied. We use a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach which accounts for the radiative d...
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Coherent Control of Rydberg States in Silicon: We demonstrate coherent control of donor wavefunctions in phosphorous-doped silicon. Our experiments take advantage of a free electron laser to stimulate and observe photon echoes from, and Rabi oscillations between the ground and first excited state of P donors in Si.
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Comparison study of DFA and DMA methods in analysis of autocorrelations in time series: Statistics of the Hurst scaling exponents calculated with the use of two methods: recently introduced Detrended Moving Average Analysis(DMA) and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA)are compared. Analysis is done for artificial sto...
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Photoacoustic ultrasound sources from diffusion-limited aggregates: Metallic diffusion-limited aggregate (DLA) films are well-known to exhibit near-perfect broadband optical absorption. We demonstrate that such films also manifest a substantial and relatively material-independent photoacoustic response, as a consequenc...
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Anomalous quantum mass flow of atoms in p-wave resonance: I analyze an atomic Fermi gas with a planar p-wave interaction, motivated by the experimentally observed anisotropy in p-wave Feshbach resonances. An axial superfluid state is verified. A domain wall object is discovered to be a new topological defect of this su...
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Yukawa bosons in two-dimensional Harmonic confinement: The ground state property of Yukawa Bose fluid confined in a radial harmonic trap is studied. The calculation was carried out using the density functional theory formalism within the Kohn-Sham scheme. The excess-correlation energy for this inhomogeneous fluid is ap...
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Inverse Borrmann effect in photonic crystals: The Borrmann effect, which is related to the microscopic distribution of the electromagnetic field inside the primitive cell, is studied in photonic and magnetophotonic crystals. This effect, well-known in x-ray spectroscopy, is responsible for the enhancement or suppressio...
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Theory of Magnetodynamics Induced by Spin Torque in Perpendicularly Magnetized Thin Films: A nonlinear model of spin wave excitation using a point contact in a thin ferromagnetic film is introduced. Large-amplitude magnetic solitary waves are computed, which help explain recent spin-torque experiments. Numerical simu...
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Magnetic vortices induced by a moving tip: A two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnetic substrate, interacting with a dipolar tip which is magnetised perpendicular with respect to the easy plane is studied numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz Gilbert equation. Due to the symmetry of the dipolar field of the tip, in...
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Harmonic oscillator model for current- and field-driven magnetic vortices: In experiments the distinction between spin-torque and Oersted-field driven magnetization dynamics is still an open problem. Here, the gyroscopic motion of current- and field-driven magnetic vortices in small thin-film elements is investigated...
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Simulating hyperbolic space on a circuit board: The Laplace operator encodes the behavior of physical systems at vastly different scales, describing heat flow, fluids, as well as electric, gravitational, and quantum fields. A key input for the Laplace equation is the curvature of space. Here we discuss and experimental...
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Fluctuation spectroscopy of surface melting of ice without, and with impurities: Water, in its three phases, is ubiquitous, and the surface properties of ice is important to clarifying the process of melting, as well as to various other fields, including geophysics. As such, the subject has been studied both theoreti...
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Intense slow beams of bosonic potassium isotopes: We report on an experimental realization of a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D-MOT) that allows the generation of cold atomic beams of 39K and 41K bosonic potassium isotopes. The high measured fluxes up to 1.0x10^11 atoms/s and low atomic velocities around 33 m/...
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Collective excitations of trapped Fermi or Bose gases: A new method is developed to calculate all excitations of trapped gases using hydrodynamics at zero temperature for any equation of state $\mu=\mu(n)$ and for any trapping potential. It is shown that a natural scalar product can be defined for the mode functions, b...
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Detecting the tunneling rates for strongly interacting fermions on optical lattices: Strongly interacting fermionic atoms on optical lattices are studied through a Hubbard-like model Hamiltonian, in which tunneling rates of atoms and molecules between neighboring sites are assumed to be different. In the limit of lar...
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Disordered Supersolids in the Extended Bose-Hubbard Model: The extended Bose-Hubbard model captures the essential properties of a wide variety of physical systems including ultracold atoms and molecules in optical lattices, Josephson junction arrays, and certain narrow band superconductors. It exhibits a rich phase dia...
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Vortex shedding from a microsphere oscillating in superfluid ^4He at mK temperatures and from a laser beam moving in a Bose-Einstein condensate: Turbulent drag of an oscillating microsphere, that is levitating in superfluid $^4$He at mK temperatures, is unstable slightly above a critical velocity amplitude $v_c$. The...
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Ultrafast amplification and non-linear magneto-elastic coupling of coherent magnon modes in an antiferromagnet: We investigate the role of domain walls in the ultrafast magnon dynamics of an antiferromagnetic NiO single crystal in a pump-probe experiment with variable pump photon energy. Analysing the amplitude of th...
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Quasiclassical frustration: We study the dissipative properties of a harmonic oscillator subject to two independent heat baths, one of which couples to its position and the other one to its momentum. This model describes a large spin impurity in a ferromagnet. We find that some effects of the two heat baths partially c...
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Fermion mediated long-range interactions of bosons in the 1D Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model: The ground-state phase diagram of mixtures of spin polarized fermions and bosons in a 1D periodic lattice is discussed in the limit of large fermion hopping and half filling of the fermions. Numerical simulations performed with the...
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Old wine in new bottles: Onsager's reciprocity relations for the coefficients of transport equations are now 87 years old. Sometimes these relations are called the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics. Among others they provide an effective criterion for the existence of local equilibrium and of microscopic reversibility. Sinc...
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Infinite average lifetime of an unstable bright state in the green fluorescent protein: The time evolution of the fluorescence intensity emitted by well-defined ensembles of Green Fluorescent Proteins has been studied by using a standard confocal microscope. In contrast with previous results obtained in single molecu...
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Su(3) Algebraic Structure of the Cuprate Superconductors Model based on the Analogy with Atomic Nuclei: A cuprate superconductor model based on the analogy with atomic nuclei was shown by Iachello to have an $su(3)$ structure. The mean-field approximation Hamiltonian can be written as a linear function of the generat...
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Study of superfluid $^3$He under nanoscale confinement. A new approach to the investigation of superfluid $^3$He films: We review recent experiments in which superfluid $^3$He has been studied under highly controlled confinement in nanofluidic sample chambers. We discuss the experimental challenges and their resoluti...
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A Computational Study of Rotating Spiral Waves and Spatio-Temporal Transient Chaos in a Deterministic Three-Level Active System: Spatio-temporal dynamics of a deterministic three-level cellular automaton (TLCA) of Zykov-Mikhailov type (Sov. Phys. - Dokl., 1986, Vol.31, No.1, P.51) is studied numerically. Evolution of...
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Dynamical Exchange Interaction From Time-Dependent Spin Density Functional Theory: We report on {\it ab initio} time-dependent spin dynamics simulations for a two-center magnetic molecular complex based on time-dependent non-collinear spin density functional theory. In particular, we discuss how the dynamical behavio...
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Probing pairing gap in Fermi atoms by light scattering: We study stimulated scattering of polarized light in a two-component Fermi gas of atoms at zero temperature. Within the framework of Nambu-Gorkov formalism, we calculate the response function of superfluid gas taking into account the final state interactions. The ...
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Absorbing photonic crystals for thin film photovoltaics: The absorption of thin hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers can be efficiently enhanced through a controlled periodic patterning. Light is trapped through coupling with photonic Bloch modes of the periodic structures, which act as an absorbing planar photonic cr...
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Nonlinear Landau-Zener Processes in a Periodic Driving Field: Effects of a periodic driving field on Landau-Zener processes are studied using a nonlinear two-mode model that describes the mean-field dynamics of a many-body system. A variety of different dynamical phenomena in different parameter regimes of the driving ...
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Collisional and molecular spectroscopy in an ultracold Bose-Bose mixture: The route toward a Bose-Einstein condensate of dipolar molecules requires the ability to efficiently associate dimers of different chemical species and transfer them to the stable rovibrational ground state. Here, we report on recent spectroscopi...
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Parametrically excited "Scars" in Bose-Einstein condensates: Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can be realized by periodically changing the interaction strength between the atoms. Above some threshold strength, this excitation modulates the condensate density. We show that when the condensate is...
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Condensation of phonons in an ultracold Bose gas: We consider the generation of longitudinal phonons in an elongated Bose-condensed gas at zero temperature due to parametric resonance as a result of the modulation of the transverse trap frequency. The nonlinear temporal evolution with account of the phonon-phonon inter...
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Diagnostics for the ground state phase of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate: We propose a method to determine the singlet-pair energy of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By preparing the initial populations in the magnetic sublevels 0, 2, -2 with appropriate relative phases, we can obtain the coefficient of t...
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The strong form of the Levinson theorem for a distorted KP potential: We present a heuristic derivation of the strong form of the Levinson theorem for one-dimensional quasi-periodic potentials. The particular potential chosen is a distorted Kronig-Penney model. This theorem relates the phase shifts of the states at eac...
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Comment on pressure driven flow of superfluid $^4$He through a nanopipe (Botimer and Taborek 2016): Botimer and Taborek (2016) measured the mass flux of superfluid $^4$He through a capillary into an evacuated chamber for various temperatures and pressures of the reservoir chamber. They found a sharp transition from l...
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CHEERS: A tool for Correlated Hole-Electron Evolution from Real-time Simulations: We put forward a practical nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) scheme to perform real-time evolutions of many-body interacting systems driven out of equilibrium by external fields. CHEERS is a computational tool to solve the NEGF equ...
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Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice: In this paper we develop an analytic expression for the critical temperature for a gas of ideal bosons in a combined harmonic lattice potential, relevant to current experiments using optical lattices. We give corrections to the critical temperature arising from effectiv...
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Dynamical equations for time-ordered Green's functions: from the Keldysh time-loop contour to equilibrium at finite and zero temperature: We study the dynamical equation of the time-ordered Green's function at finite temperature. We show that the time-ordered Green's function obeys a conventional Dyson equation only ...
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Highly sensitive and broadband carbon nanotube radio-frequency single-electron transistor: We have investigated radio-frequency single-electron transistor (RF-SET) operation of single-walled carbon nanotube quantum dots in the strong tunneling regime. At 4.2 K and carrier frequency 754.2 MHz, we reach a charge sensit...
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Intrinsic leakage and adsorption currents associated with the electrocaloric effect in multilayer capacitors: During the last few years, the increasing demand of energy for refrigeration applications has relived the interest of the scientific community in the study of alternative methods to the traditional gas-based ...
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Quantum effects in the H-bond symmetrization and in the thermodynamic properties of high pressure ice: We investigate the structural and thermodynamic properties of high-pressure ice by incorporating quantum anharmonicity at a non-perturbative level. Quantum fluctuations reduce the critical pressure of the phase tran...
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Simplified feedback control system for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is one of the most important scanning probe tools available to study and manipulate matter at the nanoscale. In a STM, a tip is scanned on top of a surface with a separation of a few \AA. Often, the tunneling cur...
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Observation of an Efimov-like resonance in ultracold atom-dimer scattering: The field of few-body physics has originally been motivated by understanding nuclear matter. New model systems to experimentally explore few-body quantum systems can now be realized in ultracold gases with tunable interactions. Albeit the vas...
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Atoms in boxes: from confined atoms to electron-atom scattering: We show that both confined atoms and electron-atom scattering can be described by a unified basis set method. The central idea behind this method is to place the atom inside a hard potential sphere, enforced by a standard Slater type basis set multiplied ...
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Localization by entanglement: We study the localization of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice, which interact in a spatially confined region. The classical theory predicts that there is no localization below a threshold value for the strength of interaction that is inversely proportional to the number of participating...
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