D. C. Cabra,1 N. E. Grandi,1,2 G. A. Silva,1,2 and M. B. Sturla3 1Insituto de Fı́sica de La Plata (IFLP), CONICET & Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, C.C. 67, (1900) La Plata, Argentina 2Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Associate Scheme, Strada Costiera 11, 34151, Trieste, Italy 3Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Cantobla...

In this paper, we investigate the electron self-energy and effective mass in a single heterostructure using Green-function method. Numerical calculations of the electron self-energy and effective mass for GaAs/AlAs heterostructure are performed. The results show that the self energy (effective mass) of electron, which incorporate the energy of electron coupling to interface-optical phonons and ...

Effective nuclear charges of the main group elements from the second up to the fifth row have been developed for the one-electron part of the spin-orbit (SO) coupling Hamiltonian. These parameters, suitable to be used for SO calculations of large molecular systems, provide a useful and remarkably good approximation to the full SO Hamiltonian. We have derived atomic effective nuclear charges by ...

In this Letter we investigate factors that influence the effective critical electric field for runaway-electron generation in plasmas. We present numerical solutions of the kinetic equation and discuss the implications for the threshold electric field. We show that the effective electric field necessary for significant runaway-electron formation often is higher than previously calculated due to...

Band structure basically tells us the exact quantum mechanical description of the electrons, and in principle all properties of solids can be calculated from it. The quantum mechanical solution is nothing but the wave functions of the ‘allowed’ electronic eiganstates. So, an electron in an eiganstate will ideally extend throughout the sample. In another words, the electron is everywhere in spac...

We calculate elastic electron–deuteron scattering in a chiral effective field theory approach for few–nucleon systems based on a modified Weinberg power counting. We construct the current operators and the deuteron wave function at next-to-leading order (NLO) simultaneously within a projection formalism. The leading order comprises the impulse approximation of photons coupling to point-like nuc...

We develop an effectivemedium approach to characterize the propagation of matterwaves in periodic structures, such as graphene or semiconductor superlattices. It is proven that the time evolution of the states that are not more localized in space than the characteristic period of the structure can be described exactly through an effective Hamiltonian, and that the electronic band structure of t...

The in-plane effective electron mass (m i) in narrow Ga0.47In0.53As/InP quantum wells is strongly dependent on the quantization energy. Cyclotron resonance in a series of quantum wells with well widths down to 15 Å reveals a mass enhancement of up to 50% (m i50.065m0) over the bulk value of Ga0.47In0.53As. This effect is caused by the nonparabolicity of the conduction band and wave function pen...

We present a method to treat spurious intensities in electron diffraction experiments. Coherent electron diffraction imaging requires proper data reduction before the application of phase retrieval algorithms. The presence of spurious intensities in the electron diffraction patterns makes the data reduction complicated and time consuming and jeopardizes the application of mathematical constrain...