A mechanism involving diffusion-controlled electron transfer processes in Debye and non-Debye dielectric media is proposed to elucidate the power-law distribution for the lifetime of a blinking quantum dot. This model leads to two complementary regimes of power law with a sum of the exponents equal to 2, and to a specific value for the exponent in terms of a distribution of the diffusion correl...

The specific heat of YbNi4Si has been analyzed considering the electronic contribution and the lattice contributions in frames of the Debye model. Based on the specific heat measurements, the electronic specific heat coefficient γ = 25 mJ mol−1 K−2 and the Debye temperature θD = 320 K were derived. This small value shows that YbNi4Si cannot be classified as a heavy fermion system. These studies...

We detail the spectrum of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation, and construct an original integro-differential operator which is related to the eigenstructure. It gives a new representation formula for the electric field, and yields new estimates for the linear Landau damping. Then we apply the technique to a problem with a dependence to the Debye length, and show weaker damping for small Deb...