2019 New's Items

Electrocatalytic Rate Alignment Enhances Syngas Generation

M. Ross
Y. Li
P. De Luna
D. Kim
E. H. Sargent
P. Yang
2019

Electrocatalytically generating synthesis gas (syngas, CO + H2) from aqueous CO2 requires balancing the relative rates of CO and H2 generation such that the needed range of desired syngas compositions can be achieved. By purposely integrating two distinct catalytic materials, one for H2 generation and one for CO...

Absence of Coulomb Blockade in the Anderson Impurity Model at the Symmetric Point

A. Levy
L Kidon
D.T. Limmer
E. Rabani
2019

In this work, we investigate the characteristics of the electric current in the so-called symmetric Anderson impurity model. We study the nonequilibrium model using two complementary approximate methods, the perturbative quantum master equation approach to the reduced density matrix, and a self-consistent equation of motion approach to the nonequilibrium Green's function. We find that at a particular symmetry point, an interacting Anderson impurity model recovers the same steady-state current as an equivalent non-interacting model, akin a two-band resonant level model. We show this...

Generalized Unitary Coupled Cluster Wave functions for Quantum Computation

Lee, J.
Huggins, W.J.
Head-Gordon, M.
Whaley, K.B.
2019

We introduce a unitary coupled-cluster (UCC) ansatz termed k-UpCCGSD that is based on a family of sparse generalized doubles operators, which provides an affordable and systematically improvable unitary coupled-cluster wave function suitable for implementation on a near-term quantum computer. k-UpCCGSD employs k products of the exponential of pair coupled-cluster double excitation operators (pCCD), together with generalized single excitation operators. We compare its performance in both efficiency of implementation and accuracy with that of the...

Gate-Tunable Topological Flat Bands in Trilayer Graphene Boron-Nitride Moiré Superlattices

Bheema Lingam Chittari
Guorui Chen
Yuanbo Zhang
Feng Wang
Jeil Jung
2019

We investigate the electronic structure of the flat bands induced by moiré superlattices and electric fields in nearly aligned ABC trilayer graphene (TLG) boron-nitride (BN) interfaces where Coulomb effects can lead to correlated gapped phases. Our calculations indicate that valley-spin resolved isolated superlattice flat bands that carry a finite Chern number C=...

Graphene as an Electrochemical Transfer Layer

Sharifi
Xie
Zhang
Barzegar
et, al
2019

The capability of graphene to adopt a property from an adjacent material is investigated by measuring the electrochemical performance of a monolayergraphene placed on top of thin cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nanosheets. In this assembly, monolayer graphene works as an...