Motivated by a recent experiment [Catani J. et al., arXiv:1106.0828v1 preprint, 2011], we study breathing oscillations in the width of a harmonically trapped impurity interacting with a separately trapped Bose gas. We provide an intuitive physical picture of such dynamics at zero temperature, using a time-dependent variational approach. In the Gross-Pitaevskii regime we obtain breathing oscilla...

The impurity spectral function is studied in coupled double quantum wires at finite temperatures. Simple anisotropy in the confinement direction of the wires leads to finite non-diagonal elements of the impurity spectral function matrix. These non-diagonal elements are responsible for tunneling effects and result in pronounced extra peak in the impurity spectral function up to temperatures as h...

The effect of the bulk Longitudinal-Optical (LO) phonon on the binding energy is investigated for a shallow donor impurity in a superlattice in the effective mass approximation by using the variational approach. The results are obtained as a function of parameters which characterize the superlattice and the position of the impurity center. The results show that the bulk Longitudinal-Optical (LO...

We present numerically exact predictions of the periodic and single impurity Anderson models to address photoemission experiments on heavy fermion systems. Unlike the single impurity model the lattice model is able to account for the enhanced intensity, dispersion, and apparent weak temperature dependence of the Kondo resonant peak seen in recent controversial photoemission experiments. We pres...

We study the multichannel Kondo impurity dynamics realized in a mesoscopic superconducting island connected to metallic leads. The effective "impurity spin" is nonlocally realized by Majorana bound states and strongly coupled to lead electrons by non-Fermi liquid correlations. We explore the spin dynamics and its observable ramifications near the low-temperature fixed point. The topological pro...

Localized impurity or defect states in the insulating barrier layer separating two ferromagnetic films affect dramatically the interlayer exchange coupling (IEC), making it significantly stronger compared to perfect barriers. We demonstrate that the impurity-assisted IEC becomes antiferromagnetic if the energy of the impurity states matches the Fermi energy and that the coupling strength decrea...

We perform the numerically exact diagonalization study of the t-J model with nonmagnetic impurities to clarify the relation between Zn impurities and the stripes. By examining the hole-hole correlation function for a two-hole √ 18× √ 18 cluster with a single impurity, we find that the impurity has a tendency to stabilize vertical charge stripes. This tendency is caused by the gain of the kineti...

Contents Introduction 1 1 Dynamical mean field theory and impurity models 9 A Fermi liquid theory for the Anderson model 127 B Matrix elements for the three-orbital model 133 Bibliography 137 Acknowledgments 143 Introduction Soon after the discovery of high T c in cuprates, it was observed that some of their peculiar non-Fermi liquid properties could be explained phenomenologically by assuming ...

A simple isocratic reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography was used to separate three impurities present in the sample of 8-chlorotheophylline. LC-MS was used for the characterization of impurities. Based on mass spectral data, the structures of these impurities were characterized as 3,7-dihydro-1,3-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione (impurity I), 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2...

Using the Bosvieux-Friedel polarization model, the charge carrier induced force on an impurity in a normal metal submitted to a temperature gradient or an electric field is calculated, and a connection is made between the two phenomena. The results are interpreted in terms of the specific resistivity and thermoelectric power of the impurity in the matrix. A crude estimation of the force due to ...