Searches for light dark matter using condensed matter systems

Y Kahn, T Lin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Identifying the nature of dark matter (DM) has long been a pressing question for particle
physics. In the face of ever-more-powerful exclusions and null results from large-exposure …

Density functional theory: Foundations reviewed

ES Kryachko, EV Ludena - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Guided by the above motto (quotation), we review a broad range of issues lying at the
foundations of Density Functional Theory, DFT, a theory which is currently omnipresent in …

LOBSTER: Local orbital projections, atomic charges, and chemical‐bonding analysis from projector‐augmented‐wave‐based density‐functional theory

R Nelson, C Ertural, J George… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present an update on recently developed methodology and functionality in the computer
program Local Orbital Basis Suite Toward Electronic‐Structure Reconstruction (LOBSTER) …

LOBSTER: A tool to extract chemical bonding from plane‐wave based DFT

S Maintz, VL Deringer, AL Tchougréeff, R Dronskowski - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The computer program LOBSTER (Local Orbital Basis Suite Towards Electronic‐Structure
Reconstruction) enables chemical‐bonding analysis based on periodic plane‐wave (PAW) …

New constraints and prospects for sub-GeV dark matter scattering off electrons in xenon

R Essig, T Volansky, TT Yu - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We study in detail sub-GeV dark matter scattering off electrons in xenon, including the
expected electron recoil spectra and annual modulation spectra. We derive improved …

Analytic projection from plane‐wave and PAW wavefunctions and application to chemical‐bonding analysis in solids

S Maintz, VL Deringer, AL Tchougréeff… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum‐chemical computations of solids benefit enormously from numerically efficient
plane‐wave (PW) basis sets, and together with the projector augmented‐wave (PAW) …

Constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter–electron scattering from the DarkSide-50 experiment

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present new constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter particles scattering off electrons based
on 6780.0 kg d of data collected with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase argon time projection …

Localized high concentration electrolytes for high voltage lithium–metal batteries: correlation between the electrolyte composition and its reductive/oxidative stability

S Perez Beltran, X Cao, JG Zhang… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a first-principles screening methodology as an effective tool to explore
electrolyte formulations for the new generation of high energy density rechargeable …

Direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter

R Essig, J Mardon, T Volansky - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2012 - APS
Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In
this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring new physics with O (keV) electron recoils in direct detection experiments

IM Bloch, A Caputo, R Essig, D Redigolo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by the recent XENON1T results, we explore various new physics models
that can be discovered through searches for electron recoils in\(\mathcal {O}\)(keV) …