Condensed Matter, Volume 1, Issue 1

This June, I was one of a group of young scientists sat in the whispering Theatre of Lindau [...]

A simple analytic model based on the equations of the propagation matrices theory has been developed in order to evaluate the effective skin depth of coated metallic surfaces. With particular attention to the R&D of highly-performing accelerating...

The evolution of the electron band structure upon the reduction of Sb film on a Si(111)-(6 × 6)Au substrate, relevant to topological insulator properties, is experimentally systematically investigated by the reflection high-energy electron diffractio...

A theory is derived for plasmons in two-dimensional (2D) materials by using three-dimensional (3D) plasmon theory, which was reported previously in the random phase approximation under high frequency conditions. When the 3D local electron density is...

The structure of a hydrogel consisting of diamond nanoparticles formed by the explosion method has been studied. Small angle neutron scattering has been used as a method for characterization of the gel. Joint approaches for data analysis in reciproca...

We report on the initial stage of growing of silicon nanostructures on Pb-induced $\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3}$ and $\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{7}$ reconstructed Si(111) surfaces. The deposition of 0.75 monolayer of Si at a temperature of around 200 K results in Si nanoribb...

Nano-carbon materials are promising canidates for applications in high performance devices, including highly sensitive biosensors. We have developed a self-alignment process for nano-carbon field effect transistors (FETs), using a carbon nanowall (CN...

The photon–ion merged-beams technique for photoabsorption studies of ionized nanoparticles with synchrotron radiation is introduced. As an example, recent results from photoionization and photofragmentation of the endohedral fullerene ions Lu₃ ${\mathrm{N}}_{}^{}$...

The band structures of ordered and thermally disordered Li ${}_2$ Mo ${}_{12}$ O ${}_{34}$ are calculated by use of ab initio density functional theory (DFT)–Linear Muffin-Tin Method (LMTO) with a focus on the behavior of the Mo 3d -core levels. I...

The growth mode of InAs/GaAs(111)A is systematically investigated using our macroscopic theory with the aid of empirical potential calculations that determine parameter values used in the macroscopic theory. Here, stacking-fault tetrahedron (SFT) fou...

Condensed matter physics is a broad and interesting topic [...]

We explore the effects of artificial $U\left(3\right)$ gauge potentials on ultracold atoms. We study background gauge fields with both non-constant and constant Wilson loops around plaquettes, obtaining the energy spectra in each case. The scenario of...

Recently, freestanding atomically thick Fe metal patches up to 10 atoms wide have been fabricated experimentally in tiny pores in graphene. This concept can be extended conceptually to extended freestanding monolayers. We have therefore performed ab ...