We study scattering of waves by impurities in strongly precompressed granular chains. We explore the linear scattering of plane waves and identify a closed-form expression for the reflection and transmission coefficients for the scattering of the waves from both a single impurity and a double impurity. For single-impurity chains, we show that, within the transmission band of the host granular c...

During the past two decades, there have been tremendous developments in near-field imaging and local probing techniques. Examples are the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope (NSOM), Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope (PSTM), and Scanning Thermal Microscope (SThM).Results showed that the average reflectance for a dopant con...

The electron transport properties of atomically thin semiconductors such as MoS2 have attracted significant recent scrutiny and controversy. In this work, the scattering mechanisms responsible for limiting the mobility of single-layer semiconductors are evaluated. The roles of individual scattering rates are tracked as the two-dimensional electron gas density is varied over orders of magnitude ...

We investigate nonmagnetic impurity effects in two-band superconductors, focusing on the effects of interband scatterings. Within the Born approximation, it is known that interband scatterings mix order parameters in the two bands. In particular, only one averaged energy gap appears in the excitation spectrum in the dirty limit. [G. Gusman: J. Phys. Chem. Solids 28 (1967) 2327.] In this paper, ...

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 ...

Using the bosonization method, we study the low temperature behavior of the Kondo effect in the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and clearly show that the power law temperature dependence of the impurity susceptibility is completely determined by the repulsive electron-electron interaction existing in the total spin channel and is independent of the electron-electron interaction existing in the charge...

Effects of the superconducting pair potential on the impurity scattering processes in metallic carbon nanotubes are studied theoretically. The backward scattering of electrons vanishes in the normal state. In the presence of the superconducting pair correlations, the backward scatterings of electronand hole-like quasiparticles vanish, too. The impurity gives rise to backward scatterings of hole...

A method for directly measuring the inverse screening length in semiconductors in terms of ionized-impurity concentration and lattice temperature is demonstrated, based on a first-principle calculation of the effect of ionized-impurity scattering. No fitting parameters are involved in the derivation, which covers a wide range of doping concentrations and intrinsically complies with the Mathiess...