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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 127 cited

Electrically-driven vibronic spectroscopy with sub-molecular resolution

Benjamin Doppagne, Michael C. Chong, Etienne Lorchat +6

A scanning tunneling microscope is used to generate the electroluminescence of phthalocyanine molecules deposited on NaCl/Ag(111). Photon spectra reveal an intense emission line at…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 39 cited

Bismuth iron garnet Bi3Fe5O12: a room temperature magnetoelectric material

Elena Popova, Alexander Shengelaya, Dimitri Daraselia +7

The possibility to control the magnetic properties of a material with an electric field at room temperature is highly desirable for modern applications. Moreover, a coupling betwee…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 5 cited

Electron backscattering in a cavity: ballistic and coherent effects

A. A. Kozikov, D. Weinmann, C. Rossler +4

Numerous experimental and theoretical studies have focused on low-dimensional systems locally perturbed by the biased tip of a scanning force microscope. In all cases either open o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 14 cited

First-principles calculations that clarify energetics and reactions of oxygen adsorption and carbon desorption on 4H-SiC () surface

Han Li, Yu-ichiro Matsushita, Mauro Boero +1

We report static and dynamic first-principles calculations that provide atomistic pictures of the initial stage of the oxidation processes occurring at the () surface of…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 14 cited

Rydberg optical Feshbach resonances in cold gases

Nóra Sándor, Rosario González-Férez, Paul S. Julienne +1

We propose a novel scheme to efficiently tune the scattering length of two colliding ground-state atoms by off-resonantly coupling the scattering-state to an excited Rydberg-molecu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 113 cited

Topological collective plasmons in bipartite chains of metallic nanoparticles

Charles A. Downing, Guillaume Weick

We study a bipartite linear chain constituted by spherical metallic nanoparticles, where each nanoparticle supports a localized surface plasmon. The near-field dipolar interaction…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 118 cited

Spin-wave propagation in ultra-thin YIG based waveguides

M. Collet, O. Gladii, M. Evelt +9

Spin-wave propagation in an assembly of microfabricated 20 nm thick, 2.5 μm wide Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) waveguides is studied using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy (PSWS) and…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 12 cited

Two holes in a two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet: A variational study based on entangled-plaquette states

Fabio Mezzacapo, Adriano Angelone, Guido Pupillo

We show that the entangled-plaquette variational ansatz can be adapted to study the two-dimensional model in the presence of two mobile holes. Specifically, we focus on a squ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 15 cited

Nanohelices as superlattices: Bloch oscillations and electric dipole transitions

C. A. Downing, M. G. Robinson, M. E. Portnoi

Subjecting a nanohelix to a transverse electric field gives rise to superlattice behavior with tunable electronic properties. We theoretically investigate such a system and find Bl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Massless Dirac fermions in two dimensions: Confinement in nonuniform magnetic fields

C. A. Downing, M. E. Portnoi

We show how it is possible to trap two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as long as the formed magnetic quantum dot (or ring) is of a…

physics.atm-clus2016★ 10 cited

Ubiquitous diffraction resonances in positronium formation from fullerenes

Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Anzumaan R. Chakraborty, Himadri S. Chakraborty

Due to the dominant electron capture by positrons from the molecular wall and the spatial dephasing across the wall-width, a powerful diffraction effect universally underlies the p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 20 cited

Phase space methods for the spin dynamics in condensed matter systems

Jerome Hurst, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Giovanni Manfredi

Using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, we derive a four-component Wigner equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically, electrons) including the Z…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 29 cited

From tunneling to contact in a magnetic atom: the non-equilibrium Kondo effect

Deung-Jang Choi, Paula Abufager, Laurent Limot +1

A low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope was employed to study the differential conductance in an atomic junction formed by an adsorbed Co atom on a Cu(100) surface and a co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 40 cited

Kondo resonance of a Co atom exchange coupled to a ferromagnetic tip

D. -J. Choi, S. Guissart, M. Ormaza +4

The Kondo effect of a Co atom on Cu(100) was investigated with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope using a monoatomically sharp nickel tip. Upon a tip-Co contact, the d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 65 cited

Optical Writing of Magnetic Properties by Remanent Photostriction

V. Iurchuk, D. Schick, J. Bran +13

We present an optically induced remanent photostriction in BiFeO3, resulting from the photovoltaic effect, which is used to modify the ferromagnetism of Ni film in a hybrid BiFeO3/…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 17 cited

Monitoring Electrostatically-Induced Deflection, Strain and Doping in Suspended Graphene using Raman Spectroscopy

Dominik Metten, Guillaume Froehlicher, Stéphane Berciaud

Electrostatic gating offers elegant ways to simultaneously strain and dope atomically thin membranes. Here, we report on a detailed \textit{in situ} Raman scattering study on graph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 38 cited

Magnetic quantum dots and rings in two dimensions

C. A. Downing, M. E. Portnoi

We consider the motion of electrons confined to a two dimensional plane with an externally applied perpendicular inhomogeneous magnetic field, both with and without a Coulomb poten…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 53 cited

Simulating Quantum Spin Models using Rydberg-Excited Atomic Ensembles in Magnetic Microtrap Arrays

Shannon Whitlock, Alexander W. Glaetzle, Peter Hannaford

We propose a scheme to simulate lattice spin models based on strong and long-range interacting Rydberg atoms stored in a large-spacing array of magnetic microtraps. Each spin is en…

quant-ph2016★ 6 cited

Cavity polaritons with Rydberg blockade and long-range interactions

Marina Litinskaya, Edoardo Tignone, Guido Pupillo

We study interactions between polaritons, arising when photons strongly couple to collective excitations in an array of two-level atoms trapped in an optical lattice inside a cavit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 13 cited

Room temperature polarization in the ferrimagnetic Ga2-xFexO3 ceramics

B. Kundys, F. Roulland, C. Lefevre +3

The effect of the Fe-Ga ratio on the magnetic and electric properties of the multiferroic Ga2-xFexO3 compound has been studied in order to determine the composition range exhibitin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 37 cited

Nonradiative limitations to plasmon propagation in chains of metallic nanoparticles

Adam Brandstetter-Kunc, Guillaume Weick, Charles A. Downing +2

We investigate the collective plasmonic modes in a chain of metallic nanoparticles that are coupled by near-field interactions. The size- and momentum-dependent nonradiative Landau…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Quantum atomistic approach for interacting spins

O. Morandi

The phenomenological Landau theory of the spin precession has been used to reproduce the out-of-equilibrium properties of many magnetic systems. However, such an approach suffers f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 31 cited

Plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles

Simon Lamowski, Charlie-Ray Mann, Felicitas Hellbach +3

We theoretically investigate plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles, each supporting triply-degenerate localized surface plasmo…

cond-mat.dis-nn2016★ 5 cited

Charge and spin diffusion on the metallic side of the metal-insulator transition: a self-consistent approach

Thomas Wellens, Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We develop a self-consistent theory describing the spin and spatial electron diffusion in the impurity band of doped semiconductors under the effect of a weak spin-orbit coupling.…