Electronic structure similarities in Pb(x)Sb(y)(-) and Sn(x)Bi(y)(-) clusters

The geometric and electronic structure of Pb(x)Sb(y)(-) and Sn(x)Bi(y)(-) clusters are investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical methods. It is found that PbSb(2)(-) and SnBi(2)(-) have similar spectroscopic patterns, reflecting correlations in electronic nature that are a result of their isoelectronic character and common geometries. Analogous findings are presented for Pb(2)Sb(2)(-) and Sn(2)Bi(2)(-). Further, we investigate the effect of altering the total valence count, and separately the geometry, on spectroscopic patterns. We conclude that these heavy p-block elements are interchangeable and that the electronic structure correspondence can be preserved regardless of elemental composition. This represents an extension of the traditional concepts of periodicity, where elements of similar valence configuration are grouped into columns. Instead, elements from different columns may be combined to yield similarities in chemistry, given the overall valence count is preserved.     

Finite-temperature critical behavior of mutual information

We study mutual information for Renyi entropy of arbitrary index n, in interacting quantum systems at finite-temperature critical points, using high-temperature expansion, quantum Monte Carlo simulations and scaling theory. We find that, for n>1, the critical behavior is manifest at two temperatures T(c) and nT(c). For the XXZ model with Ising anisotropy, the coefficient of the area law has a t lnt singularity, whereas the subleading correction from corners has a logarithmic divergence, with a coefficient related to the exact results of Cardy and Peschel. For T相似文献   

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Long-range order at low temperatures in dipolar spin ice

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Supersolid order from disorder: hard-core bosons on the triangular lattice

We study the interplay of Mott localization, geometric frustration, and superfluidity for hard-core bosons with nearest-neighbor repulsion on the triangular lattice. For this model at half filling, we demonstrate that superfluidity survives for arbitrarily large repulsion, and that diagonal solid order emerges in the strongly correlated regime from an order-by-disorder mechanism. This is thus an unusual example of a stable supersolid phase of hard-core lattice bosons at a commensurate filling.