Biomedical subjects

Giovanni Vignale

Publications and source records attributed to Giovanni Vignale.

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PubMed2003

Nonlinear quasiparticle tunneling between fractional quantum hall edges.

Remarkable nonlinearities in the differential tunneling conductance between fractional quantum Hall edge states at a constriction are observed in the weak-backscattering regime. In the nu=1/3 state a peak develops as temperature is increased and its width is determined by the fractional charge. In the range 2/3</=nu</=1/3 this width displays a symmetric behavior around nu=1/2. We discuss the consistency of these results with available theoretical predictions for interedge quasiparticle tunneling in the weak-backscattering regime.

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PubMed2002

Spin dynamics from time-dependent spin-density-functional theory.

We derive the spin-wave dynamics of a magnetic material from the time-dependent spin-density-functional theory in the linear response regime. The equation of motion for the magnetization includes, besides the static spin stiffness, a "Berry curvature" correction and a damping term. A gradient expansion scheme based on the homogeneous spin-polarized electron gas is proposed for the latter two quantities, and the first few coefficients of the expansion are calculated to second order in the Coulomb interaction.

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