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Mesoscale And Nanoscale Physics

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The surface plasmon resonances of silver nanoparticles (1906.06700v2)

Guozhong Wang

2019-06-16

Raza et al. recently observed the extraordinarily large energy blueshifts of localized surface plasmon resonances and additional surface plasmon resonances of silver nanoparticles encapsulated in silicon nitride, which are not fully understood yet. There exists a quantum model for metallic nanospheres, which consists of two subsystems respectively for describing center of mass and intrinsic motions of conduction electrons, and a coupling between center of mass and conduction electrons outside the nanosphere. By using this model, we firstly deduced the general energy and linewidth size-dependences of localized surface plasmon resonances. Secondly, we proposed that additional surface plasmon resonances originate from degenerate state pairs of the total Hamiltonian. Then, we implemented this generation mechanism of additional surface plasmon resonances in silver nanoparticles encapsulated in silicon nitride and the calculated results are well consistent with experimental measurements. Furthermore, we obtained a new energy expression of localized surface plasmon resonances, with which we successfully explained the extraordinarily large energy blueshifts of localized surface plasmon resonances of few-nanometer silver nanoparticles encapsulated in silicon nitride. Finally, we calculated the localized and additional surface plasmon resonance energies of silver nanoparticles resting on carbon films and the calculated results perfectly explain the experimental measurements of Scholl et al.. Within the framework of this quantum model, the optical properties of quantum-sized metallic nanoparticles are completely determined by degenerate or nearly degenerate state pairs of the total Hamiltonian.

Hubbard pair cluster with elastic interactions. Studies of thermal expansion, magnetostriction and electrostriction (1905.04379v2)

T. Balcerzak, K. Szałowski

2019-05-10

The pair cluster (dimer) is studied within the framework of the extended Hubbard model and the grand canonical ensemble. The elastic interatomic interactions and thermal vibrational energy of the atoms are taken into account. The total grand potential is constructed, from which the equation of state is derived. In equilibrium state, the deformation of cluster size, as well as its derivatives, are studied as a function of the temperature and the external magnetic and electric fields. In particular, the thermal expansion, magnetostriction and electrostriction effects are examined for arbitrary temperature, in a wide range of Hamiltonian parameters.

Purely magnetic logic based on polarized spin waves (1906.08702v1)

Weichao Yu, Jin Lan, Jiang Xiao

2019-06-20

Spin wave, the precession of magnetic order in magnetic materials, is a collective excitation that carries spin angular momentum. Similar to the acoustic or optical waves, the spin wave also possesses the polarization degree of freedom. Although such polarization degrees of freedom are frozen in ferromagnets, they are fully unlocked in antiferromagnets or ferrimagnets. Here we introduce the concept of magnetic gating and demonstrate a spin wave analog of the Datta-Das spin transistor in antiferromagnet. Utilizing the interplay between polarized spin wave and the antiferromagnetic domain walls, we propose a universal logic gate of pure magnetic nature, which realizes all Boolean operations in one single magnetic structure. We further construct a full functional 4-bit Arithmetic Logic Unit using only sixteen spin wave universal logic gates, operating in a weaving fashion as a Jacquard loom machine. The spin wave-based architecture proposed here also sets a model for the future energy efficient non-volatile computing, the distributed processing-in-memory computing, and the evolvable neuromorphic computing.

Microscopic polarization and magnetization fields in extended systems (1810.09978v3)

Perry T. Mahon, Rodrigo A. Muniz, J. E. Sipe

2018-10-23

We introduce microscopic polarization and magnetization fields at each site of an extended system, as well as free charge and current density fields associated with charge movement from site to site, by employing a lattice gauge approach based on a set of orthogonal orbitals associated with each site. These microscopic fields are defined using a single-particle electron Green function, and the equations governing its evolution under excitation by an electromagnetic field at arbitrary frequency involve the electric and magnetic fields rather than the scalar and vector potentials. If the sites are taken to be far from each other, we recover the limit of isolated atoms. For an infinite crystal we choose the orbitals to be maximally-localized Wannier functions, and in the long wavelength limit we recover the expected linear response of an insulator, including the zero frequency transverse conductivity of a topologically nontrivial insulator. For a topologically trivial insulator we recover the expected expressions for the macroscopic polarization and magnetization in the ground state, and find that the linear response to excitation at arbitrary frequency is described solely by the microscopic polarization and magnetization fields. For very general optical response calculations the microscopic fields necessarily satisfy charge conservation, even under basis truncation, and do not suffer from the false divergences at zero frequency that can plague response calculations using other approaches.

Classification of crystalline insulators without symmetry indicators: atomic and fragile topological phases in twofold rotation symmetric systems (1906.08695v1)

Sander H. Kooi, Guido van Miert, Carmine Ortix

2019-06-20

Topological crystalline phases in electronic structures can be generally classified using the spatial symmetry characters of the valence bands and mapping them onto appropriate symmetry indicators. These mappings have been recently applied to identify thousands of topological electronic materials. There can exist, however, topological crystalline non-trivial phases that go beyond this paradigm: they cannot be identified using spatial symmetry labels and consequently lack any classification. In this work, we achieve the first of such classifications showcasing the paradigmatic example of two-dimensional crystals with twofold rotation symmetry. We classify the gapped phases in time-reversal invariant systems with strong spin-orbit coupling identifying a set of three topological invariants, which correspond to nested quantized partial Berry phases. By further isolating the set of atomic insulators representable in terms of exponentially localized symmetric Wannier functions, we infer the existence of topological crystalline phases of the fragile type that would be diagnosed as topologically trivial using symmetry indicators, and construct a number of microscopic models exhibiting this phase. Our work is expected to have important consequences given the central role fragile topological phases are expected to play in novel two-dimensional materials such as twisted bilayer graphene.

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