Band calculations on HgBa2CuO4 and La(2−x)SrxCuO4 with phonon and spin-waves within the CuO planes show that partial gaps are created at various energies depending on wavelengths. Spin and phonon gaps appear at different energies when the modulations are along [1,1,0], while they are at the same energy for modulations along [1,0,0]. It is shown that the ability to form gaps and antiferromagneti...

An efficient method for the prediction of fundamental band gaps in solids using density functional theory (DFT) is proposed. Generalizing the Delta self-consistent-field (ΔSCF) method to infinite solids, the Δ-sol method is based on total-energy differences and derived from dielectric screening properties of electrons. Using local and semilocal exchange-correlation functionals (local density an...

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) stands as a quintessential manifestation of an interacting two-dimensional electron system. One FQHE's most fundamental characteristics is the energy gap separating incompressible ground state from its excitations. Yet, despite nearly four decades investigations, quantitative agreement between theoretically calculated and experimentally measured gaps la...

GAPS (General Anti-Particle Spectrometer) is a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure low-energy (<0.25 GeV/n) cosmic antinuclei (i.e., antiprotons, antideuterons, and antihelium nuclei) as signature of dark matter annihilation or decay. According viable beyond-the-Standard Model theories, the predicted signal in antideuterons nuclei channels several orders magnitude higher than astrop...

We explore the stability of structure exhibiting hybridization gaps across a broad range of binary and ternary intermetallic compositions by means of band structure and total energy calculations. This search reveals previously unknown metal-based insulators, some with large gaps exceeding 1 eV, such as Al2Fe and Al4IrRe. We confirm large gaps using a hybrid density functional including exact ex...