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Dielectric screening of surface states in a topological insulator
Hexagonal warping provides an anisotropy to the dispersion curves of the
helical Dirac fermions that exist at the surface of a topological insulator. A
sub-dominant quadratic in momentum term leads to an asymmetry between
conduction and valence band. A gap can also be opened through magnetic doping.
We show how these various modifications to the Dirac spectrum change the
polarization function of the surface states and employ our results to discuss
their effect on the plasmons. In the long wavelength limit, the plasmon
dispersion retains its square root dependence on its momentum,
, but its slope is modified and it can acquire a weak
dependence on the direction of . Further, we find the existence
of several plasmon branches, one which is damped for all values of
, and extract the plasmon scattering rate for a representative
case.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Equation of State of the Fermionic 2D Hubbard Model
We present results for the equation of state of the two-dimensional Hubbard
model on an isotropic square lattice as obtained from a controlled and
numerically exact large-cluster dynamical mean field simulation. Our results
are obtained for large but finite systems and are extrapolated to infinite
system size using a known finite size scaling relation. We present the energy,
entropy, double occupancy and nearest-neighbour spin correlations extrapolated
to the thermodynamic limit and discuss the implications of these calculations
on pseudogap physics of the 2D-Hubbard model away from half filling. We find a
strong behavioural shift in energy below a temperature which becomes more
pronounced for larger clusters. Finally, we provide reference calculations and
tables for the equation of state for values of doping away from half filling
which are of interest to cold atom experiments.Comment: 8 pages 6 figures - See Source for Supplementary Material File
Studies of the nucler equation of state using numerical calculations of nuclear drop collisions
A numerical calculation for the full thermal dynamics of colliding nuclei was developed. Preliminary results are reported for the thermal fluid dynamics in such processes as Coulomb scattering, fusion, fusion-fission, bulk oscillations, compression with heating, and collisions of heated nuclei
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