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    Plasmons and their interaction with electrons in trilayer graphene

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    The interaction between electrons and plasmons in trilayer graphene is investigated within the Overhauser approach resulting in the 'plasmaron' quasi-particle. This interaction is cast into a field theoretical problem, nd its effect on the energy spectrum is calculated using improved Wigner-Brillouin perturbation theory. The plasmaron spectrum is shifted with respect to the bare electron spectrum by ΔE(k)50÷200meV\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 50\div200\,{\rm meV} for ABC stacked trilayer graphene and for ABA trilayer graphene by ΔE(k)30÷150meV\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 30\div150\,{\rm meV} (ΔE(k)1÷5meV\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 1\div5\,{\rm meV}) for the hyperbolic linear) part of the spectrum. The shift in general increases with the electron concentration nen_{e} and electron momentum. The dispersion of plasmarons is more pronounced in \textit{ABC} stacked than in ABA tacked trilayer graphene, because of the different energy band structure and their different plasmon dispersion.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.623

    Empirical description of beta-delayed fission partial half-lives

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    Background: The process of beta-delayed fission (bDF) provides a versatile tool to study low-energy fission in nuclei far away from the beta-stability line, especially for nuclei which do not fission spontaneously. Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate systematic trends in bDF partial half-lives. Method: A semi-phenomenological framework was developed to systematically account for the behavior of bDF partial half-lives. Results: The bDF partial half-life appears to exponentially depend on the difference between the Q value for beta decay of the parent nucleus and the fission-barrier energy of the daughter (after beta decay) product. Such dependence was found to arise naturally from some simple theoretical considerations. Conclusions: This systematic trend was confirmed for experimental bDF partial half-lives spanning over 7 orders of magnitudes when using fission barriers calculated from either the Thomas-Fermi or the liquid-drop fission model. The same dependence was also observed, although less pronounced, when comparing to fission barriers from the finite-range liquid-drop model or the Thomas-Fermi plus Strutinsky Integral method.Comment: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

    Spin- and valley-dependent transport through arrays of ferromagnetic silicene junctions

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    We study ballistic transport of Dirac fermions in silicene through arrays of barriers, of width dd, in the presence of an exchange field MM and a tunable potential of height UU or depth U-U. The spin- and valley-resolved conductances as functions of UU or MM, exhibit resonances away from the Dirac point (DP) and close to it a pronounced dip that becomes a gap when a critical electric field EzE_z is applied. This gap widens by increasing the number of barriers and can be used to realize electric field-controlled switching of the current. The spin psp_s and valley pvp_v polarizations of the current near the DP increase with EzE_z or MM and can reach 100\% for certain of their values. These field ranges widen significantly by increasing the number of barriers. Also, psp_s and pvp_v oscillate nearly periodically with the separation between barriers or wells and can be inverted by reversing MM.Comment: 9 pages, 43 figures, to appear in PRB, figure resolutions reduced for siz

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    Alpha Decay Hindrance Factors: A Probe of Mean Field Wave Functions

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    A simple model to calculate alpha-decay Hindrance Factors is presented. Using deformation values obtained from PES calculations as the only input, Hindrance Factors for the alpha-decay of Rn- and Po-isotopes are calculated. It is found that the intrinsic structure around the Fermi surface determined by the deformed mean field plays an important role in determining the hindrance of alpha-decay. The fair agreement between experimental and theoretical Hindrance Factors suggest that the wave function obtained from the energy minima of the PES calculations contains an important part of the correlations that play a role for the alpha-decay. The calculated HF that emerges from these calculations render a different interpretation than the commonly assumed n-particle n-hole picture.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure

    Pairing-excitation versus intruder states in 68Ni and 90Zr

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    A discussion on the nature of the 0+ states in 68Ni (Z=28, N=40) is presented and a comparison is made with its valence counterpart 90Zr (Z=40, N=50). Evidence is given for a 0+ proton intruder state at only ~2.2 MeV excitation energy in 68Ni, while the analogous neutron intruder states in 90Zr reside at 4126 keV and 5441 keV. The application of a shell-model description of 0+ intruder states reveals that many pair-scattered neutrons across N=40 have to be involved to explain the low excitation energy of the proton-intruder configuration in 68Ni.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl

    Comment on ‘‘Prolate-oblate band mixing and new bands in 182’

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