Jianming Wen,1,2,* Yan-Hua Zhai,3 Shengwang Du,4 and Min Xiao1,2 1Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China 2Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA 3Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA 4Department of Physics, The Hong Ko...

gold nanoparticles Jianing Chen, Weisheng Yang, Kimberly Dick, Knut Deppert, H. Q. Xu, Lars Samuelson, and Hongxing Xu Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603-146, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China School of Physics and Optoelectronics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People’s Republic of ...

Vladimir I. Fal’ko1,3,4 and K. B. Efetov2,5 1School of Physics & Chemistry, Lancaster University, LA1 4YB Lancaster, United Kingdom 2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 3Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, OX1 3NP, Oxford, United Kingdom 4Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432 Russia...

Xi Li,1 W. Xu,2,3,* Shihai Cao,1 Qijia Cai,1 and Fang Lu1,† 1Department of Physics, Surface Physics Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences & Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia 3Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Acade...

Two kinds of difficulties have challenged the physics community for many years: (1) knowing nature’s building blocks (particle physics) and (2) understanding interacting many-body systems (many-body physics). Both of them exist in the research of quark matter and compact stars. This paper addresses the possibility that quark clustering, rather than a color super-conducting state, could occur in...

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is one of the most established methods for determining the elemental composition and the chemical state of solid surfaces and thin films. This experiment focuses on X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which exploits Xray photons to excite electrons from the core levels of the atoms of a solid into the vacuum, thus probing the electronic structure of matter w...

R. G. Hennig,1,2,* A. Wadehra,2 K. P. Driver,2 W. D. Parker,2 C. J. Umrigar,3 and J. W. Wilkins2 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1501, USA 2Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA 3Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Received 6 February 2010;...