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    Attractions between charged colloids at water interfaces

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    The effective potential between charged colloids trapped at water interfaces is analyzed. It consists of a repulsive electrostatic and an attractive capillary part which asymptotically both show dipole--like behavior. For sufficiently large colloid charges, the capillary attraction dominates at large separations. The total effective potential exhibits a minimum at intermediate separations if the Debye screening length of water and the colloid radius are of comparable size.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, revised version (one paragraph added) accepted in JPC

    Typical length scales in conducting disorderless networks

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    We take advantage of a recently established equivalence, between the intermittent dynamics of a deterministic nonlinear map and the scattering matrix properties of a disorderless double Cayley tree lattice of connectivity KK, to obtain general electronic transport expressions and expand our knowledge of the scattering properties at the mobility edge. From this we provide a physical interpretation of the generalized localization length.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure

    Numerical study of the localization length critical index in a network model of plateau-plateau transitions in the quantum Hall effect

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    We calculate numerically the localization length critical index within the Chalker-Coddington (CC) model for plateau-plateau transitions in the quantum Hall effect. Lyapunov exponents have been calculated with relative errors on the order 10−310^{-3}. Such high precision was obtained by considering the distribution of Lyapunov exponents for large ensembles of relatively short chains and calculating the ensemble average values. We analyze thoroughly finite size effects and find the localization length critical index ν=2.517±0.018\nu= 2.517\pm 0.018.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

    Enhancing thermoelectric properties of graphene quantum rings

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    We study the thermoelectric properties of rectangular graphene rings connected symmetrically or asymmetrically to the leads. A side-gate voltage applied across the ring allows for the precise control of the electric current flowing through the system. The transmission coefficient of the rings manifests Breit-Wigner line-shapes and/or Fano line-shapes, depending on the connection configuration, the width of nanoribbons forming the ring and the side-gate voltage. We find that the thermopower and the figure of merit are greatly enhanced when the chemical potential is tuned close to resonances. Such enhancement is even more pronounced in the vicinity of Fano like anti-resonances which can be induced by a side-gate voltage independently of the geometry. This opens a possibility to use the proposed device as a tunable thermoelectric generator.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
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