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Effect of long-range structural corrugations on magnetotransport properties of phosphorene in tilted magnetic field
Rippling is an inherent quality of two-dimensional materials playing an
important role in determining their properties. Here, we study the effect of
structural corrugations on the electronic and transport properties of monolayer
black phosphorus (phosphorene) in the presence of tilted magnetic field. We
follow a perturbative approach to obtain analytical corrections to the spectrum
of Landau levels induced by a long-wavelength corrugation potential. We show
that surface corrugations have a non-negligible effect on the electronic
spectrum of phosphorene in tilted magnetic field. Particularly, the Landau
levels are shown to exhibit deviations from the linear field dependence. The
observed effect become especially pronounced at large tilt angles and
corrugation amplitudes. Magnetotransport properties are further examined in the
low temperature regime taking into account impurity scattering. We calculate
magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal and Hall resistivities and find
that the nonlinear effects reflecting the corrugation might be observed even in
moderate fields (\mbox{ T})
An ab-initio study of the electron-phonon coupling within a Cr(001)-surface
It is experimentally well established that the Cr(001)-surface exhibits a
sharp resonance around the Fermi level. However, there is no consensus about
its physical origin. It is proposed to be either due to a single particle dz2
surface state renormalised by electron-phonon coupling or the orbital Kondo
effect involving the degenerate dxz/dyz states. In this work we examine the
electron-phonon coupling of the Cr(001)-surface by means of ab-initio
calculations in the form of density functional perturbation theory. More
precisely, the electron-phonon mass-enhancement factor of the surface layer is
investigated for the 3d states. For the majority and minority spin dz2 surface
states we find values of 0.19 and 0.16. We show that these calculated
electron-phonon mass-enhancement factors are not in agreement with the
experimental data even if we use realistic values for the temperature range and
surface Debye frequency for the fit of the experimental data. More precisely,
then experimentally an electron-phonon mass-enhancement factor of 0.70~0.10 is
obtained, which is not in agreement with our calculated values of 0.19 and
0.16. Therefore, we conclude that the experimentally observed resonance at the
Cr(001)-surface is not due to polaronic effects, but due to electron-electron
correlation effects
Nonlinear acoustic waves in channels with variable cross sections
The point symmetry group is studied for the generalized Webster-type equation
describing non-linear acoustic waves in lossy channels with variable cross
sections. It is shown that, for certain types of cross section profiles, the
admitted symmetry group is extended and the invariant solutions corresponding
to these profiles are obtained. Approximate analytic solutions to the
generalized Webster equation are derived for channels with smoothly varying
cross sections and arbitrary initial conditions.Comment: Revtex4, 10 pages, 2 figure. This is an enlarged contribution to
Acoustical Physics, 2012, v.58, No.3, p.269-276 with modest stylistic
corrections introduced mainly in the Introduction and References. Several
typos were also correcte
Polaronic effects in monolayer black phosphorus on polar substrates
We investigate the effect of charge carrier interaction with surface optical
phonons on the band properties of monolayer black phosphorus induced by polar
substrates. We develop an analytical method based on the Lee-Low-Pines theory
to calculate the spectrum of Fr\"ohlich type continuum Hamiltonian in the
long-wavelength limit. We examine the modification of a band gap and
renormalization of effective masses due to the substrate-related polaronic
effect. Our results show that an energy gap in supported monolayer black
phosphorus is enlarged depending on a particular substrate and the interlayer
distance, . Among the substrate considered, the largest gap broadening at \AA{} is observed for the AlO substrate, which is found to
be meV. Carrier-phonon coupling also renormalizes the effective
masses which is more pronounced along the zigzag direction. Anisotropy of the
effective masses becomes stronger by the influence of the polaronic effect
corresponding to direction-dependent carrier-phonon coupling. We conclude that
substrate phonons have a non-negligible effect on the static band properties of
monolayer black phosphorus, which may be further exploited in its experimental
and theoretical studies
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