Single-particle spectra near a stripe instability

Capillary instability on a hydrophilic stripe

A recent experiment showed that cylindrical segments of water filling a hydrophilic stripe on an otherwise hydrophobic surface display a capillary instability when their volume is increased beyond the critical volume at which their apparent contact angle on the surface reaches 90 (Gau et al 1999 Science 283 46–9). Surprisingly, the fluid segments did not break up into droplets—as would be expec...

Andreev and single-particle tunneling spectra of underdoped cuprate superconductors.

We study tunneling spectroscopy between a normal metal and an underdoped cuprate superconductor modeled by a phenomenological theory in which the pseudogap is a precursor to the undoped Mott insulator. In the low barrier tunneling limit, the spectra are enhanced by Andreev reflection only within a voltage region of the small superconducting energy gap. In the high barrier tunneling limit, the s...

0 Calculations of single particle spectra in density functional theory

In the context of the density functional theory we consider the single particle ex-citation spectra of electron systems. As a result, we have related the single particle excitations with the eigenvalues of the corresponding Kohn-Sham equations. In a case when the exchange correlation functional is approximated by the exchange functional the coupling equations are very simple, while the single p...

Near-atomic resolution using electron cryomicroscopy and single-particle reconstruction.

Electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) yields images of macromolecular assemblies and their components, from which 3D structures can be determined, by using an image processing method commonly known as "single-particle reconstruction." During the past two decades, this technique has become an important tool for 3D structure determination, but it generally has not been possible to determine atomic mo...

Rovibrational spectra near dissociation