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Abelian and non-Abelian topological phases exhibiting protected chiral edge modes are ubiquitous in the realm of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect. Here, we investigate a spin-1 Hamiltonian on the square lattice which could, potentially, host the sp ...

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Weyl sums and the Lyapunov exponent for the skew-shift Schrödinger cocycle

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We study the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator with the skew-shift potential

2\lambda\cos\left(2\pi \left(\binom{j}{2} \omega+jy+x\right)\right)

. This potential is long conjectured to behave like a random one, i.e., it is expected to produce ...

2018

Bloch Surface Waves Using Graphene Layers: An Approach toward In-Plane Photodetectors

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Richa Dubey, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

A dielectric multilayer platform was investigated as a foundation for two-dimensional optics. In this paper, we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first experimental demonstration of absorption of Bloch surface waves in the presence of graphene lay ...

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Kinetics of Ion-Exchange Reactions in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Thin Films Studied by In Situ Real-Time X-ray Scattering

Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora

The exchange of ions in hybrid organic inorganic perovskites with the general formula APbX(3) (A = MA, FA; X = I, Cl, Br) is studied in five different systems using in situ real-time grazing incident X-ray diffraction (GIXD). In systems where the organic c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Excitation spectrum and density matrix renormalization group iterations

Frédéric Mila, Natalia Chepiga

We show that, in certain circumstances, exact excitation energies appear as locally site-independent (or flat) modes if one records the excitation spectrum of the effective Hamiltonian while sweeping through the lattice in the variational matrix-product-st ...

2017

Experimental demonstration of critical coupling of whispering gallery mode cavities on Bloch surface wave platform

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Richa Dubey, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

We experimentally demonstrate critical coupling of whispering gallery mode (WGM) disk resonators implemented on a Bloch surface wave platform using scanning near-field optical microscopy. The studied structure is a 60 nm thick TiO 2 TiO2 WGM disk cavity (r ...

Optical Society of America2017

Horava Gravity is Asymptotically Free in 2+1 Dimensions

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino, Mario Herrero Valea

We compute the beta functions of marginal couplings in projectable Horava gravity in 2 + 1 spacetime dimensions. We show that the renormalization group flow has an asymptotically free fixed point in the ultraviolet (UV), establishing the theory as a UV-com ...

American Physical Society2017

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Alfredo Pasquarello, Francesco Ambrosio, Julia Anna Wiktor, Igor Reshetnyak

We present first-principles calculations of the electronic structure of BiVO4 at various levels of theory. In the calculations, we take into account a series of effects that affect the band gap, i.e., spin-orbit coupling, electron-hole interaction, nuclear ...

2017

On the Lagrangian structure of transport equations: The Vlasov–Poisson system

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The Vlasov-Poisson system is an important nonlinear transport equation, used to describe the evolution of particles under their self-consistent electric or gravitational field. The existence of classical solutions is limited to dimensions d

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Weyl sums and the Lyapunov exponent for the skew-shift Schrödinger cocycle

Marius Christopher Lemm, Rui Han

We study the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator with the skew-shift potential

2\lambda\cos\left(2\pi \left(\binom{j}{2} \omega+jy+x\right)\right)

. This potential is long conjectured to behave like a random one, i.e., it is expected to produce ...

2018