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Hopping Conductivity Of Electron Glass, Mingzhu Cui Aug 2017

Hopping Conductivity Of Electron Glass, Mingzhu Cui

Graduate Masters Theses

Hopping conductance between the sites in disordered systems is mapped to a random resistor network named Miller-Abrahams network. The conductance between two sites is in an exponential form depending on two parameters, the space separation and energy separation between sites. Our effort is focused on the visualization of the random resistor network. We find all the realizations for one electron hop and plot out the according random resistor networks. By comparing the random resistor network structures, we find that Coulomb interaction plays an important role in calculating the hopping conductance between sites. Furthermore, we rank the realizations by total energy …


Universal Far-From-Equilibrium Dynamics Of A Holographic Superconductor, Julian Sonner, Adolfo Del Campo, Wojciech H. Zurek Jun 2015

Universal Far-From-Equilibrium Dynamics Of A Holographic Superconductor, Julian Sonner, Adolfo Del Campo, Wojciech H. Zurek

Physics Faculty Publications

Symmetry-breaking phase transitions are an example of non-equilibrium processes that require real-time treatment, a major challenge in strongly coupled systems without long-lived quasiparticles. Holographic duality provides such an approach by mapping strongly coupled field theories in D dimensions into weakly coupled quantum gravity in Dþ1 anti-de Sitter spacetime. Here we use holographic duality to study the formation of topological defects—winding numbers—in the course of a superconducting transition in a strongly coupled theory in a 1D ring. When the system undergoes the transition on a given quench time, the condensate builds up with a delay that can be deduced using the …