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Observation of a charge delocalization from Se vacancies inBi2Se3: A positron annihilation study of native defects
2016
By means of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy, we have investigated the native defects present in ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Se}}_{3}$, which belongs to the family of topological insulators. We experimentally demonstrate that selenium vacancy defects $({\text{V}}_{\text{Se1}})$ are present in ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Se}}_{3}$ as-grown samples, and that their charge is delocalized as temperature increases. At least from 100 K up to room temperature both ${\text{V}}_{\text{Se1}}^{0}$ and ${\text{V}}_{\text{Se1}}^{+}$ charge states coexist. The observed charge delocalization determines the contribution of ${\text{V}}_{\text{Se1}}$ defects to the $n$-type conductivity of ${\mathrm{…
Location- and observation time-dependent quantum-tunneling
2009
We investigate quantum tunneling in a translation invariant chain of particles. The particles interact harmonically with their nearest neighbors, except for one bond, which is anharmonic. It is described by a symmetric double well potential. In the first step, we show how the anharmonic coordinate can be separated from the normal modes. This yields a Lagrangian which has been used to study quantum dissipation. Elimination of the normal modes leads to a nonlocal action of Caldeira-Leggett type. If the anharmonic bond defect is in the bulk, one arrives at Ohmic damping, i.e. there is a transition of a delocalized bond state to a localized one if the elastic constant exceeds a critical value $…
Can the Double Exchange Cause Antiferromagnetic Spin Alignment?
2020
The effect of the double exchange in a square-planar mixed-valence dn+1&minus
Mie plasmon in polyhedral metal clusters
1995
We study the dependence of the classical plasmon frequency on the symmetry of the metal cluster and show that all clusters with at least two three-fold axes have the same plasmon frequency as the spherical cluster, ωp/√3. In these cases the effect of the geometry will only appear in the spill-out correction and in other quantum mechanical corrections.
Unraveling exciton dynamics in amorphous silicon dioxide: Interpretation of the optical features from 8 to 11 eV.
2011
Physical review / B 83, 174201 (2011). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.174201
Postpulse molecular alignment measured by a weak field polarization technique
2003
We report a direct nonintrusive observation of alignment and planar delocalization of ${\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ after an intense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulse excitation. The effects are measured by a polarization technique involving a perturbative probe that itself does not induce appreciable alignment. We show that this technique allows one to measure a signal proportional to $⟨{cos}^{2}\ensuremath{\theta}⟩\ensuremath{-}1/3$, with $\ensuremath{\theta}$ the angle between the molecular axis and the laser polarization. Simulations that support this analysis allow one to characterize the experimentally observed alignment and planar delocalization quantitatively.
Exchange Interactions I: Mechanisms
1996
A most important phenomenon in molecular magnetism is the exchange interaction between magnetic centers. Its relevance as well as the terms and concepts required to its rationalization were stated long ago by physicists working in the quantum-mechanical theory of magnetism (Heisenberg, Dirac, van Vleck, Anderson, Zener, and many others). Depending on the extent of delocalization of the magnetic moments and on the metallic/non-metallic properties of the solid four kinds of exchange coupling were usually distinguished in the physical literature namely direct exchange, superexchange, indirect exchange and itinerant exchange [1]. The relations of these types of couplings are depicted in Figure …
Study of the dynamical approach to the interface localization–delocalization transition of the confined Ising model
2004
Confined magnetic Ising films in a L ? D geometry (), with short-range competing magnetic fields?(h) acting at opposite walls along the D-direction, exhibit a slightly rounded localization?delocalization transition of the interface between domains of different orientations that runs parallel to the walls. This transition is the precursor of a wetting transition that occurs in the limit of infinite film thickness () at the critical curve Tw(h). For T Tw(h)) such an interface is bounded (unbounded) to the walls, while right at Tw(h) the interface is freely fluctuating around the centre of the film. Starting from disordered configurations, corresponding to , we quench to the wetting critical t…
Localization vs. Delocalization in Molecules and Clusters: Electronic and Vibronic Interactions in Mixed Valence Systems
1996
The interplay between electron delocalization and magnetic interactions play a key role in areas as diverse as solid state chemistry (bulk magnetic materials, superconductors,...) [1] and biology (iron-sulfur proteins, manganese-oxo clusters ...) [2]. In molecular inorganic chemistry these two electronic processes have been traditionally studied independently. Thus, the electron dynamics has been extensively investigated in mixedvalence dimers [3] as exemplified by the Creutz-Taube complex [(NH3)5RuII(pyrazine)RuIII(NH3)5]. In this kind of molecular complexes one extra electron is delocalized over two diamagnetic metal sites. Therefore, they constitute model systems for the study of the ele…
Control of Localization and Suppression of Tunneling by Adiabatic Passage
2004
We show that a field of frequency $\ensuremath{\omega}$ combined with its second harmonic $2\ensuremath{\omega}$ driving a double-well potential allows us to localize the wave packet by adiabatic passage, starting from the delocalized ground state. The relative phase of the fields allows us to choose the well of localization. We can suppress (and restore) the tunneling subsequently by switching on (and off) abruptly the fields at well-defined times. The mechanism relies on the fact that the dynamics is driven to an eigenstate of the Floquet Hamiltonian which is a localized state.