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Anomalous exchange interaction between intrinsic spins in conducting graphene systems
We address the nature and possible observable consequences of singular
one-electron states that appear when strong defects are introduced in the
metallic family of graphene, namely, metallic carbon nanotubes and nanotori. In
its simplest form, after creating two defects on the same sublattice, a state
may emerge at the Fermi energy presenting very unusual properties: It is
unique, normalizable, and features a wave function equally distributed around
both defects. As a result, the exchange coupling between the magnetic moments
generated by the two defects is anomalous. The intrinsic spins couple
ferromagnetically, as expected, but do not present an antiferromagnetic excited
state at any distance. We propose the use of metallic carbon nanotubes as a
novel electronic device based on this anomalous coupling between spins which
can be useful for the robust transmission of magnetic information at large
distances.Comment: 5 pages 5 fugure
Blow-up analysis of conformal metrics of the disk with prescribed Gaussian and geodesic curvatures
This paper is concerned with the compactness of metrics of the disk with
prescribed Gaussian and geodesic curvatures. We consider a blowing-up sequence
of metrics and give a precise description of its asymptotic behavior. In
particular, the metrics blow-up at a unique point on the boundary and we are
able to give necessary conditions on its location. It turns out that such
conditions depend locally on the Gaussian curvatures but they depend on the
geodesic curvatures in a nonlocal way. This is a novelty with respect to the
classical Nirenberg problem where the blow-up conditions are local, and this
new aspect is driven by the boundary condition.Comment: 31 pages, 1 figur
A framework for epidemic spreading in multiplex networks of metapopulations
We propose a theoretical framework for the study of epidemics in structured
metapopulations, with heterogeneous agents, subjected to recurrent mobility
patterns. We propose to represent the heterogeneity in the composition of the
metapopulations as layers in a multiplex network, where nodes would correspond
to geographical areas and layers account for the mobility patterns of agents of
the same class. We analyze both the classical Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible
and the Susceptible-Infected-Removed epidemic models within this framework, and
compare macroscopic and microscopic indicators of the spreading process with
extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Our results are in excellent agreement with
the simulations. We also derive an exact expression of the epidemic threshold
on this general framework revealing a non-trivial dependence on the mobility
parameter. Finally, we use this new formalism to address the spread of diseases
in real cities, specifically in the city of Medellin, Colombia, whose
population is divided into six socio-economic classes, each one identified with
a layer in this multiplex formalism.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figure
Multiple Quantum Phases in Graphene with Enhanced Spin-Orbit Coupling: From the Quantum Spin Hall Regime to the Spin Hall Effect and a Robust Metallic State
We report an intriguing transition from the quantum spin Hall phase to the
spin Hall effect upon segregation of thallium adatoms adsorbed onto a graphene
surface. Landauer-B\"uttiker and Kubo-Greenwood simulations are used to access
both edge and bulk transport physics in disordered thallium-functionalized
graphene systems of realistic sizes. Our findings not only quantify the
detrimental effects of adatom clustering in the formation of the topological
state, but also provide evidence for the emergence of spin accumulation at
opposite sample edges driven by spin-dependent scattering induced by thallium
islands, which eventually results in a minimum bulk conductivity , insensitive to localization effects
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