Metals: Bulk Properties and Nanostructures

Presentations

• Phonon self energy in transition metals

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 2:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Laurent Chaput

    • IJL, UMR CNRS 7198, Nancy Universite, France

  • Atsushi Togo

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

  • Isao Tanaka

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

  • Gilles Hug

    • LEM, UMR 104 ONERA-CNRS, ONERA, France

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• Observation of phonon softening in Cr near its Neel transition

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 2:42 PM – March 24, 2011, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ruqing Xu

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Tai Chaing

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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• First-principles study of phonon-phonon interaction in FCC metals at high temperatures

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 2:54 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaoli Tang

    • Department of Material Science and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Chen W. Li

    • Department of Material Science and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

  • Brent Fultz

    • Material Science and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

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• Dynamical behavior of coherent phonons in semimetals: Measuring fast electron decoherence rates with slow pulses

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Jian Chen

    • Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Jingjing Li

    • Department of Physics, University of Michigan

  • Stephen Fahy

    • Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland

  • Roberto Merlin

    • Department of Physics, University of Michigan

  • David Reis

    • Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• First-principles calculations of lattice stabilities in Mo

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:18 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Weston Nielson

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Vidvuds Ozolins

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • Professor

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• Competing orders in the Dirac-like electronic structure and the non-linear sigma model with the topological terms

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Pouyan Ghaemi

    • LBNL and Department of Physics UC Berkeley
    • University of California at Berkeley

  • Shinsei Ryu

    • Department of Physics UC Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley

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• Concentration dependence of the electron-phonon coupling from metals to semiconductors

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:42 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Andrei Sergeev

    • SUNY at Buffalo

  • Michael Reizer

    • SUNY at Buffalo

  • Vladimir Mitin

    • SUNY at Buffalo

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• Investigation of the electronic structure of TiTe$_{2}$ using ARPES

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:54 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jianqiao Meng

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Gey-Hong Gweon

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Andrew LaForge

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Sriram Shastry

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Arthur Penn Ramirez

    • Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

  • Zack Schlesinger

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Kai Rossnagel

    • Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel

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• Anomalous Ordering in Inhomogeneously Strained Materials: Surface Critical Behavior in the Bulk

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Kevin E. Bassler

    • University of Houston

  • Charo I. Del Genio

    • Max Plank Institute for Physics of Complex Systems

  • Bo Li

    • University of Houston

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• Finding saddle points using Gentlest ascent dynamics

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:18 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Amit Samanta

    • Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

  • Xiang Zhou

    • Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

  • Weinan E

    • Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

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• An efficient method to treat low barriers in kinetic ART simulations

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Brommer

    • D\'{e}partement de physique, Universit\'{e} de Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada

  • Normand Mousseau

    • Universite de Montreal
    • D\'{e}partement de physique, Universit\'{e} de Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 24, 2011, 4:42 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:54 PM

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• Is the Debye-temperature a useful concept at the nanometer scale? Insights from\textit{ ab initio} free energy calculations of Au$_{13 }$and Au$_{12}$Fe nanoclusters

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:54 PM – March 24, 2011, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ghazal S. Shafai

    • University of Central Florida

  • Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza

    • University of Central Florida

  • Talat S. Rahman

    • University of Central Florida

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• Insights on the anomalously soft and stiff modes of metal nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 5:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza

    • Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA

  • Talat S. Rahman

    • Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA

  • Rolf Heid

    • Institut f\"ur Festk\"orperphysik, Karlsruher Institut f\"ur Technologie, Germany

  • Klaus-Peter Bohnen

    • Institut f\"ur Festk\"orperphysik, Karlsruher Institut f\"ur Technologie, Germany

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