Electron transport through short, phase-coherent metal–graphene–metal devices occurs via resonant transmission through particle-in-a-box-like states defined by the atomically-sharp metal leads. We study the spectrum of particle-in-a-box states for singleand bi-layer graphene, corresponding to massless and massive two-dimensional (2-D) fermions. The density of states D as a function of particle ...

Experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have been interpreted in terms of a strongly interacting quark gluon plasma. The strongly interacting plasma is characterized by “perfect fluidity”, i.e. a ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density that saturates a proposed lower bound. In this contribution we explore the possibility that a similar phenomenon takes pl...

The electronic and structural properties for TiNi, TiPd, and TiPt are studied using first-principles total energy calculations. For each alloy, the structural parameters for a few structural phases are found from energy and force calculations. In each case, we found that the ground state martensitic phase (B19/B198) is indeed lower in energy than the high temperature B2 phase. In all three allo...

Landau-Fermi liquid theory is a powerful effective theory for strongly interacting Fermi systems at low temperatures. It has been successfully applied to liquid He, nuclear matter and nuclei. However, in contrast to the interaction between He atoms, nuclear forces are complicated due to the large non-central spin-orbit and tensor components. Here, we report on the in-medium modification of the ...

Using operator algebraic methods we show that the moment generating function of charge transport in a system with infinitely many non-interacting Fermions is given by a determinant of a certain operator in the one-particle Hilbert space. The formula is equivalent to a formula of Levitov and Lesovik in the finite dimensional case and may be viewed as its regularized form in general. Our result e...

The physics of cold atoms approaches nowadays the frontiers of modern condensed matter physics. In particular many important challenges of this disciplin can be addressed within the context of cold atoms [1]. In this talk, I shall present first a brief review of some of these challenges. I will focus then on those that could be addressed by using Bose-Fermi mixtures in the presence of disorder....

The pair distribution function and the static structure factor are computed for composite fermions. Clear and robust evidence for a 2kF structure is seen in a range of filling factors in the vicinity of the half-filled Landau level. Surprisingly, it is found that filled Landau levels of composite fermions, i.e. incompressible FQHE states, bear a stronger resemblance to a Fermi sea than do fille...

1550-7998=20 We have performed a global analysis of muon decay measurements to establish model-independent limits on the space-time structure of the muon decay matrix element. We find limits on the scalar, vector, and tensor coupling of rightand left-handed muons to rightand left-handed electrons. The limits on those terms that involve the decay of right-handed muons to left-handed electrons ar...

We relate bosonic density uctuations of a Fermi uid in one dimension to surface uctuations. Thereby we easily identify the parameters governing the low energy, Luttinger liquid behavior. In particular we recover the Haldane relation in case the surface is tilted only transversely to the Euclidean time direction. We develop a hydrodynamic uctuation theory for the world lines of particles. Since ...