A long one-dimensional wire with a finite density of strong random impurities is modeled as a chain of weakly coupled quantum dots. At low temperature T and applied voltage V its resistance is limited by breaks: randomly occurring clusters of quantum dots with a special length distribution pattern that inhibit the transport. Because of the interplay of interaction and disorder effects the resis...

Absorption imaging and spectroscopy can probe the dynamics of an ultracold neutral plasma during the first few microseconds after its creation. Quantitative analysis of the data, however, is complicated by the inhomogeneous density distribution, expansion of the plasma and possible lack of global thermal equilibrium for the ions. In this paper, we describe methods for addressing these issues. U...

We consider the electronic transport properties of phosphorus (P) doped silicon nanowires (SiNWs). By combining ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations with a recursive Green’s function method, we calculate the conductance distribution of up to 200 nm long SiNWs with different distributions of P dopant impurities. We find that the radial distribution of the dopants influences the...

We reexamine the tunneling data on A15 superconductors by performing a generalized McMillan-Rowell tunneling inversion that incorporates a nonconstant electronic density of states obtained from band-structure calculations. For Nb3Sn, we find that the fit to the experimental data can be slightly improved by taking into account the sharp structure in the density of states, but it is likely that s...

Interaction potentialsof rare gases withmetal surfaces are calculated and compared with experimental data. A local dielectric function formalism and the density functional method are used in the calculation of the attractive and repulsive energies respectively. Depth and curvature variations of the potentials suggest a classification into light (He, Ne) and heavy rare gases. Sensitivity of the ...

Molecular surfaces at atomic and subatomic scales are inherently ill-defined. In many computational chemistry problems, interfaces are better represented as volumetric regions than as discrete surfaces. The geometry of this interface is largely defined by electron density and electrostatic potential fields. While experimental measurements such as chemical bond and Van der Waals radii do not dir...

We have used the ionisation equilibrium equation to derive the electron density in in-terstellar clouds in the direction to 13 stars. A linear relation was found, that allows the determination of the electron density from the Mg I and Mg II column densities in interstel-lar medium. The comparison of normalised equivalent width of 12 DIBs with the electron density shows that the DIBs equivalent ...

Visible and near-infrared electron–ion bremsstrahlung measurements in fusion research devices, used to determine the effective ionic charge (Zeff), are often plagued by pollutant emission from the cool-edge region. The primary sources of visible and near-infrared non-bremsstrahlung continuum emission in the Madison Symmetric Torus arise from electron–neutral interactions, and the pollutant emis...

re = 2.818 × 10−15m is the classical electron radius, ρe is the electron density of the material, and μx is the absorption length. With δ > 0 we find that n < 1, which leads to the phenomenon of so-called total external reflection for incident angles αi below the critical angle αc = √ 2δ. Typical values for δ are 10−5 . . . 10−6, and thus αc is in the range of 0.1 ◦ . . . 0.5◦. For simplicity, ...