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Electronic Properties of Mn-Compounds Under Strain
We study the physical properties of MnAs under strain by using accurate
first-principles pseudopotential calculations. Our results provide new insight
on the physics of strained multilayer that are grown epitaxially on different
lattice mismatched substrates and which are presently of interest for
spintronic applications. We compute the strain dependence of the structural
parameters, electronic bands, density of states and magnetization. In the
region of strain/stress that is easily directly accessible to measurements, the
effects on these physical quantities are linear. We also address the case of
uniaxial stress inducing sizeable and strongly non linear effects on electronic
and magnetic properties.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Maximal values for the simultaneous number of null components of a vector and its Fourier transform
The author acknowledges the support of prof. J. Soria de Diego (Universitat de Barcelona), who advised the Master thesis in which this research was carried out. The research was partially supported by an AGAUR master's grant (course 2013-14) and the grant MTM2014-59174-
Anharmonic Self-Energy of Phonons: Ab Initio Calculations and Neutron Spin Echo Measurements
We have calculated (ab initio) and measured (by spin-echo techniques) the
anharmonic self-energy of phonons at the X-point of the Brillouin zone for
isotopically pure germanium. The real part agrees with former, less accurate,
high temperature data obtained by inelastic neutron scattering on natural
germanium. For the imaginary part our results provide evidence that transverse
acoustic phonons at the X-point are very long lived at low temperatures, i.e.
their probability of decay approaches zero, as a consequence of an unusual
decay mechanism allowed by energy conservation.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, pdf fil
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