154 research outputs found
Stimulated Emission from Rhodamine 6G Aggregates Self-Assembled on Amyloid Protein Fibrils
Amyloid fibrils are excellent bioderived nanotemplates for controlling molecular and optical properties of small molecules such as organic dyes. Here we demonstrate that two representative fibril-forming proteins, lysozyme and insulin, from the amyloids family can determine the optical signature of rhodamine 6G. Their structural variety leads to a unique molecular arrangement of dye aggregates on the biotemplate surface. This significantly influences the light amplification threshold as well as the stimulated emission profiles, which show remarkable broadband wavelength tunability. We show in addition that amyloid fibrils can be potentially used in constructing broadband emission biolasers
Topological Mechanism of Superconductivity
We outline the basic ideas of the topological mechanisms of
superconductivity. A gauged model of correlated electronic system where a
topological fluid is formed as a result of a strong interaction is discussed.Comment: 38 pages, latex, no figure
Dynamical study on polaron formation in a metal/polymer/metal structure
By considering a metal/polymer/metal structure within a tight-binding
one-dimensional model, we have investigated the polaron formation in the
presence of an electric field. When a sufficient voltage bias is applied to one
of the metal electrodes, an electron is injected into the polymer chain, then a
self-trapped polaron is formed at a few hundreds of femtoseconds while it moves
slowly under a weak electric field (not larger than V/cm).
At an electric field between V/cm and V/cm,
the polaron is still formed, since the injected electron is bounded between the
interface barriers for quite a long time. It is shown that the electric field
applied at the polymer chain reduces effectively the potential barrier in the
metal/polymer interface
Ground state properties of ferromagnetic metal/conjugated polymer interfaces
We theoretically investigate the ground state properties of ferromagnetic
metal/conjugated polymer interfaces. The work is partially motivated by recent
experiments in which injection of spin polarized electrons from ferromagnetic
contacts into thin films of conjugated polymers was reported. We use a
one-dimensional nondegenerate Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hamiltonian to
describe the conjugated polymer and one-dimensional tight-binding models to
describe the ferromagnetic metal. We consider both a model for a conventional
ferromagnetic metal, in which there are no explicit structural degrees of
freedom, and a model for a half-metallic ferromagnetic colossal
magnetoresistance (CMR) oxide which has explicit structural degrees of freedom.
The Fermi energy of the magnetic metallic contact is adjusted to control the
degree of electron transfer into the polymer. We investigate electron charge
and spin transfer from the ferromagnetic metal to the organic polymer, and
structural relaxation near the interface. Bipolarons are the lowest energy
charge state in the bulk polymer for the nondegenerate SSH model Hamiltonian.
As a result electrons (or holes) transferred into the bulk of the polymer form
spinless bipolarons. However, there can be spin density in the polymer
localized near the interface.Comment: 7 figure
Distribution of spectral weight in a system with disordered stripes
The ``band-structure'' of a disordered stripe array is computed and compared,
at a qualitative level, to angle resolved photoemission experiments on the
cuprate high temperature superconductors. The low-energy states are found to be
strongly localized transverse to the stripe direction, so the electron dynamics
is strictly one-dimensional (along the stripe). Despite this, aspects of the
two dimensional band-structure Fermi surface are still vividly apparent.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure
Path Integral Description of a Semiclassical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Model
The electron motion along a chain is described by a continuum version of the
Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian in which phonon fields and electronic
coordinates are mapped onto the time scale. The path integral formalism allows
us to derive the non local source action for the particle interacting with the
oscillators bath. The method can be applied for any value of the {\it e-ph}
coupling. The path integral dependence on the model parameters has been
analysed by computing the partition function and some thermodynamical
properties from up to room temperature. A peculiar upturn in the low
temperature {\it heat capacity over temperature} ratio (pointing to a glassy
like behavior) has been ascribed to the time dependent electronic hopping along
the chain
Jahn-Teller polarons and their superconductivity in a molecular conductor
We present a theoretical study of a possibility of superconductivity in a
three dimensional molecular conductor in which the interaction between
electrons in doubly degenerate molecular orbitals and an {\em intra}molecular
vibration mode is large enough to lead to the formation of
Jahn-Teller small polarons. We argue that the effective polaron-polaron
interaction can be attractive for material parameters realizable in molecular
conductors. This interaction is the source of superconductivity in our model.
On analyzing superconducting instability in the weak and strong coupling
regimes of this attractive interaction, we find that superconducting transition
temperatures up to 100 K are achievable in molecular conductors within this
mechanism. We also find, for two particles per molecular site, a novel Mott
insulating state in which a polaron singlet occupies one of the doubly
degenerate orbitals on each site. Relevance of this study in the search for new
molecular superconductors is pointed out.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Correlation functions for 1d interacting fermions with spin-orbit coupling
We compute correlation functions for one-dimensional electron systems which
spin and charge degrees of freedom are coupled through spin-orbit coupling.
Charge density waves, spin density waves, singlet- triplet- superconducting
fluctuations are studied. We show that the spin-orbit interaction modify the
exponents and the phase diagram of the system, changing the dominant
fluctuations and making new susceptibilities diverge for low temperature.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
A microscopic model for d-wave charge carrier pairing and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a purely repulsive 2D electron system
We investigate a microscopic model for strongly correlated electrons with
both on-site and nearest neighbor Coulomb repulsion on a 2D square lattice.
This exhibits a state in which electrons undergo a ``somersault'' in their
internal spin-space (spin-flux) as they traverse a closed loop in external
coordinate space. When this spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator is
doped, the ground state is a liquid of charged, bosonic meron-vortices, which
for topological reasons are created in vortex-antivortex pairs. The magnetic
exchange energy of the distorted AFM background leads to a logarithmic
vortex-antivortex attraction which overcomes the direct Coulomb repulsion
between holes localized on the vortex cores. This leads to the appearance of
pre-formed charged pairs. We use the Configuration Interaction (CI) Method to
study the quantum translational and rotational motion of various charged
magnetic solitons and soliton pairs. The CI method systematically describes
fluctuation and quantum tunneling corrections to the Hartree-Fock Approximation
(HFA). We find that the lowest energy charged meron-antimeron pairs exhibit
d-wave rotational symmetry, consistent with the symmetry of the cuprate
superconducting order parameter. For a single hole in the 2D AFM plane, we find
a precursor to spin-charge separation in which a conventional charged
spin-polaron dissociates into a singly charged meron-antimeron pair. This model
provides a unified microscopic basis for (i) non-Fermi-liquid transport
properties, (ii) d-wave preformed charged carrier pairs, (iii) mid-infrared
optical absorption, (iv) destruction of AFM long range order with doping and
other magnetic properties, and (v) certain aspects of angled resolved
photo-emission spectroscopy (ARPES).Comment: 14 pages, 17 figure
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