We resolve the controversy regarding the ground state of the parallel double quantum dot system near half filling. The numerical renormalization group predicts an underscreened Kondo state with residual spin-1/2 magnetic moment, ln2 residual impurity entropy, and unitary conductance, while the Bethe ansatz solution predicts a fully screened impurity, regular Fermi-liquid ground state, and zero ...

Local magnetic properties around a nonmagnetic impurity are investigated in high-Tc cuprate superconductors. We consider a model two-dimensional dx2−y2-wave superconductor with strong antiferromagnetic (AF) spin fluctuations and calculate the spin susceptibility around the impurity. We show that the uniform susceptibility (χ(0)), which is usually suppressed in spin-singlet superconductivity, is...

We analyze the dynamics of Bose polarons in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance between the impurity and host atoms. We compute the radio-frequency absorption spectra for the case when the initial state of the impurity is noninteracting and the final state is strongly interacting with the host atoms. We compare results of different theoretical approaches including a single excitation expansion...

We describe the optical resonant manipulation of a single magnetic impurity in a self-assembled quantum dot. We show that using the resonant pumping one can address and manipulate selectively individual spin states of a magnetic impurity. The mechanisms of resonant optical polarization of a single impurity in a quantum dot involve anisotropic exchange interactions and are different than those i...

In the framework of a simple model of one-dimensional nonlinear lattices it is demonstrated that a nonlinear impurity mode may be treated as a bound state of an intrinsic localized mode developed by Sievers and Takeno with the impurity. Using an approach based on the soliton phenomenology the effective potential describing the interaction of the intrinsic localized mode with the impuritv is cal...

An impurity bond J ′ in a periodic 1D antiferromagnetic, spin 1 chain with exchange J is considered. Using the numerical density matrix renormalization group method, we find an impurity energy level in the Haldane gap, corresponding to a bound state near the impurity bond. When J ′ < J the level changes gradually from the edge of the Haldane gap to the ground state energy as the deviation dev =...

A system of polyvalent impurity centers in a semiconductor (i.e. Au-centers in Si) is considered. The ground state of the impurity pair Au~(a) + Au° (b), where an extra electron is localized on the site a, may be turned into an excited state due to a change of the charge state of a third nearby impurity site. This happens because of different shifts of the Au~-level at sites a and b due to thei...

We present a new formulation of the theory of an arbitrary quantum impurity in an antiferromagnet, using the O(3) non-linear sigma model. We obtain the low temperature expansion for the impurity spin susceptibilities of antiferromagnets with magnetic long-range order in the ground state. We also consider the bulk quantum phase transition in d = 2 to the gapped paramagnet (d is the spatial dimen...

The binding energy of ground state for hydrogenic impurity in multiple quantum dots is calculated in the framework of effective-mass approximation and using a variational method. It is shown that the binding energy is a function of the size of dots, impurity position and external fields strength. The binding energy has a maximum value when the impurity is located on the center of dots and decre...

Macroscopic description of the diffusion of interstitial impurity atoms considering the influence of elastic stress on the drift of interstitial species Abstract The diffusion equation for nonequilibrium interstitial impurity atoms taking into account their charge states and drift of all mobile interstitial species in the built-in electric field and in the field of elastic stress was obtained. ...