Publications related to Elementary charge

Unconventional Flat Chern Bands and 2e Charges in Skyrmionic Moire Superlattices

The interplay of topological characteristics in real space and reciprocal space can lead to the emergence of unconventional topological phases. In this Letter, we implement a novel mechanism for generating higher-Chern flat bands on the basis of twisted bi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Semiclassical methods in conformal field theories scrutinized by the epsilon-expansion

Gil Badel

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are crucial for our understanding of Quantum Field Theory (QFT). Because of their powerful symmetry properties, they play the role of signposts in the space of QFTs. Any method that gives us information about their structure ...

EPFL2022

Energy Efficient Sensing using Steep Slope Devices

Teodor Rosca

Today, we are witnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, which facilitates and improves our lives in many aspects, but comes with several challenges related to the technology deployment at large scales. Handling ever growing amounts of information ...

EPFL2022

Search for relativistic fractionally charged particles in space

Jennifer Maria Frieden, Chiara Perrina, Jian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Songmei Wu, Junqiu Liu, Johan Juul Chang, Jie Chen, Cheng Zhao, Wei Li, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Xiao Wang, Shuai Liu, Wenyu Zhang, Xuan Li, Yao Zhang, Ming Gao, Arshia Ruina, Andrii Kotenko

More than a century after the performance of the oil drop experiment, the possible existence of fractionally charged particles (FCPs) still remains unsettled. The search for FCPs is crucial for some extensions of the Standard Model in particle physics. Mos ...

American Physical Society2022

Anomalous interfacial dynamics of single proton charges in binary aqueous solutions

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Ahmet Avsar, Miao Zhang

Our understanding of the dynamics of charge transfer between solid surfaces and liquid electrolytes has been hampered by the difficulties in obtaining interface, charge, and solvent-specific information at both high spatial and temporal resolution. Here, w ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

A note on the large charge expansion in 4d CFT

Gabriel Francisco Cuomo

In this letter, we discuss certain universal predictions of the large charge expansion in conformal field theories with U (1) symmetry, mainly focusing on four-dimensional theories. We show that, while in three dimensions quantum fluctuations are responsib ...

2021

Description of beam instabilities in synchrotrons with wakefields and space charge forces using the circulant matrix model

Xavier Buffat, Tatiana Pieloni, Adrian Oeftiger

A new model for the description of beam instabilities in synchrotrons featuring wakefields and space charge forces is proposed, using the circulant matrix approach. The predictions of this model are discussed in light of past ones, with a particular emphas ...

2021

Charging and ion ejection dynamics of large helium nanodroplets exposed to intense femtosecond soft X-ray pulses

Christoph Bostedt, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Daniela Rupp

Ion ejection from charged helium nanodroplets exposed to intense femtosecond soft X-ray pulses is studied by single-pulse ion time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy in coincidence with small-angle X-ray scattering. Scattering images encode the droplet size and ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Oxidation States, Thouless' Pumps, and Nontrivial Ionic Transport in Nonstoichiometric Electrolytes

Federico Grasselli

Thouless' quantization of adiabatic particle transport permits one to associate an integer topological charge with each atom of an electronically gapped material. If these charges are additive and independent of atomic positions, they provide a rigorous de ...

American Physical Society2020

Direct Observation of the Statics and Dynamics of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles in a Chiral Magnet

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jonathan White

In the three-dimensional (3D) Heisenberg model, topological point defects known as spin hedgehogs behave as emergent magnetic monopoles, i.e., quantized sources and sinks of gauge fields that couple strongly to conduction electrons, and cause unconventiona ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Direct observation of water-mediated single-proton transport between hBN surface defects

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov, Ahmet Avsar, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Benoît Grosjean

Super-resolution microscopy of defects in a two-dimensional material unveils the transport of single proton charges at solid/water interfaces. Aqueous proton transport at interfaces is ubiquitous and crucial for a number of fields, ranging from cellular tr ...

2020

Polarization dependence of angle-resolved photoemission with submicron spatial resolution reveals emerging one-dimensionality of electrons in NbSe3

Marco Grioni, Helmuth Berger, Emmanouil Frantzeskakis, Miguel Angel Valbuena

In materials with nearly commensurate band filling the electron liquid may spontaneously separate into components with distinct properties, yielding complex intra- and interunit cell ordering patterns and a reduced dimensionality. Polarization-dependent an ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

DORI Reveals the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on Covalent Bonding Patterns in Molecular Crystals Under Pressure

Berend Smit, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Benjamin André René Meyer, Senja Dominique Barthel, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Amber Kashan Mace

The study of organic molecular crystals under high pressure provides fundamental insight into crystal packing distortions and reveals mechanisms of phase transitions and the crystallization of polymorphs. These solid-state transformations can be monitored ...

2019

Lorentz Force from a Current-Carrying Wire on a Charge in Motion under the Assumption of Neutrality in the Symmetrical Frame of Reference

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

It is commonly assumed that a wire conducting an electric current is neutral in the laboratory frame of reference (the rest frame of the lattice of positive ions). Some authors consider that the wire is neutral only in a symmetrical frame of reference, in ...

2018

Bimodal exciton-plasmon light sources controlled by local charge carrier injection

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Christoph Grosse

Electrical charges can generate photon emission in nanoscale quantum systems by two independent mechanisms. First, radiative recombination of pairs of oppositely charged carriers generates sharp excitonic lines. Second, coupling between currents and collec ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2018

Neutron Larmor diffraction investigation of the rare-earth pyrochlores R2Ti2O7 (R = Tb, Dy, Ho)

Thomas Keller, Felix Groitl

In this work, we present a neutron Larmor diffraction study of the rare-earth pyrochlores R2Ti2O7 with R = Tb, Dy, Ho. We measured the temperature dependence of the lattice parameter with precision 10(-5), between 0.5 and 300 K in each of the three compoun ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Valence and conduction band tuning in halide perovskites for solar cell applications

Ursula Röthlisberger, Simone Meloni, Giulia Palermo, Negar Ashari Astani

We performed density functional calculations aimed at identifying the atomistic and electronic structure origin of the valence and conduction band, and band gap tunability of halide perovskites ABX(3) upon variations of the monovalent and bivalent cations ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Molecular mechanism of NDMA formation from N,N-dimethylsulfamide during ozonation: Quantum chemical insights into a bromide-catalyzed pathway

Urs von Gunten, Jeremy Samuel Arey, Daniela Trogolo, Michèle Bernadette Heeb, Brijesh Kumar Mishra

During ozonation of drinking water, the fungicide metabolite NN-dimethyIsulfamide (DMS) can be transformed into a highly toxic product, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). We used quantum chemical computations and stopped-flow experiments to evaluate a chemical ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Linear response to a heat-driven spin torque

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Francesco Antonio Vetrò, Christian Caspers, Lucas Fitoussi

The existence of a heat-driven spin torque is demonstrated using Co/Cu/Co spin valves embedded in metallic nanowires. Heat currents flowing in one direction or its opposite were obtained by heating optically one end or the other of the nanowires. The spin ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Electron quantization in arbitrarily shaped gold islands on MgO thin films

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy has been employed to analyze the formation of quantum well states (QWS) in two-dimensional gold islands, containing between 50 and 200 atoms, on MgO thin films. The energy position and symmetry of the eigenstat ...

Amer Physical Soc2013