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Solids with competing interactions often undergo complex phase transitions with a variety of long-periodic modulations. Among such transition, devil's staircase is the most complex phenomenon, and for it, CeSb is the most famous material, where a number of the distinct phases with long-periodic magnetostructures sequentially appear below the Neel temperature. An evolution of the low-energy electronic structure going through the devil's staircase is of special interest, which has, however, been elusive so far despite the 40-years of intense researches. Here we use bulk-sensitive angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and reveal the devil's staircase transition of the electronic structures. The magnetic reconstruction dramatically alters the band dispersions at each transition. We moreover find that the well-defined band picture largely collapses around the Fermi energy under the long-periodic modulation of the transitional phase, while it recovers at the transition into the lowest-temperature ground state. Our data provide the first direct evidence for a significant reorganization of the electronic structures and spectral functions occurring during the devil's staircase., Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures

The monolayer Gallium sulfide (GaS) was demonstrated as a promising two-dimensional semiconductor material with considerable band gaps. The present work investigates the band gap modulation of GaS monolayer under biaxial or uniaxial strain by using Density functional theory calculation. We found that GaS monolayer shows an indirect band gap that limits its optical applications. The results show that GaS monolayer has a sizable band gap. The uniaxial strain shifts band gap from indirect to direct in Gallium monochalcogenides (GaS). This behavior, allowing applications such as electroluminescent devices and laser. The detailed reasons for the band gap modulation are also discussed by analyzing the projected density of states (PDOS). It indicates that due to the role of p$_y$ orbital through uniaxial strain become more significant than others near the Fermi level. The indirect to direct band gap transition happen at $\varepsilon$=-10y$\%$. Moreover, by investigating the strain energy and transverse response of structures under uniaxial strain, we show that the GaS monolayer has the Poisson's ratio of 0.23 and 0.24 in the zigzag (x) and armchair (y) directions, respectively. Thus, we conclude that the isotropic nature of mechanical properties under strain., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is layered transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), which in its monolayer form, has the direct bandgap of 1.8 eV. We investigated the effect of width and strain on quantum transport for MoS2 armchair nanoribbons. That indicates MoS2 armchair nanoribbons are a good candidate for transistors even with strain., Comment: 5 pages, 11 figures

In this paper, dye sensitized solar cell based on nano dye molecule N3 are investigated by using density functional computations. The main focus is on the N3 dye molecule and corresponding complexes formed at the interface between electrolyte and dye, during the regeneration process. The optimizaed geometry and electronic structure of the molecule and complexs are calculated by using the pseudopotential as well as full-potential techniques. The absorption spectra of metalliferous dye molecule, N3, and its complexes are computed in the framework of time dependent density functional theory. We determine the reaction path of dye regeneration by Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) method. IR spectrum of the N3 dye molecule were also calculated. We found that complexes of N3 dye molecule and transition states formed in reactions, are magnetic., Comment: 8 pages, 19 figures

\noindent Using results drawn from the pages of PRL\cite{Zhu2014}, the authors comment on \textquotedblleft Semiconducting Layered Blue Phosphorus: A Computational Study\textquotedblright. In recent letter\cite{Zhu2014} unknown phase of phosphorus with high stability and a wide fundamental gap was proposed by Zhu, and Tom\'anek. The first half of the comment questioned elements of phosphorus blue structure, while the second half devoted to van der Waals forces between AB stacked blue phosphorus layers which missed by them., Comment: 1 pages, 1 figures

We study FeO, a Mott insulator in GGA and GGA+U approximations. In the GGA we find a multi-band metallic state with remarkable inter-band nesting between two $t_{2g}$ bands of Fermi surface, which signals possible instability towards an orbital ordered insulating phase. Such broken symmetry state, although has lower energy than the underlying homogeneous metallic state, but the gap magnitude is less than the experimentally observed optical gap. Therefore we incorporate the calculated value of on-site Coulomb repulsion U on orbital ordered state. We find that symmetry breaking and Coulomb correlations cooperate together to stabilize the system and give an insulating orbital ordered state, with the gap magnitude very close to the experimental value. We propose this method as a possible indication of orbital ordering in LDA and GGA calculations. We check our method with known examples of LiVO$_2$ and LaMnO$_3$., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

Nowadays the state of the art Density Functional Theory (DFT) codes are based on local (LDA) or semilocal (GGA) energy functionals. Recently the theory of a truly nonlocal energy functional has been developed. It has been used mostly as a post DFT calculation approach, i.e. by applying the functional on the charge density calculated using any standard DFT code, thus obtaining a new improved value for the total energy of the system. Nonlocal calculation is computationally quite expensive and scales as N^2 where N is the number of points in which charge density is defined, and a massively parallel calculation is essential for a wider applicability of the new approach. In this article we present a code which acomplishes this goal.

We study the chemisorption of CO molecule into sites of different coordination on (111) surfaces of late 4d and 5d transition metals. In an attempt to solve the well-known CO adsorption puzzle we have applied the relatively new vdW-DF theory of nonlocal correlation. The application of the vdW-DF functional in all considered cases improves or completely solves the discrepancies of the adsorption site preference and improves the value of the adsorption energy. By introducing a cutoff distance for nonlocal interaction we pinpoint the length scale at which the correlation plays a major role in the systems considered.

Using first principle electronic structure calculations we investigated the role of substitutional doping of B,N,P,Al and vacancies (${\cal V}$) in diamond (X$_{\alpha}$C$_{1-\alpha}$). In the heavy doping regime, at about $\sim 1-6%$ doping an impurity band appears in the mid gap. Increasing further the concentration of the impurity substitution fills in the gap of the diamond host. Our first principle calculation indicates that in the case of vacancies, a clear single-band picture can be employed to write down an effective {\em one band} microscopic Hamiltonian, which can be used to further study various many-body and disorder effects in impurity band (super)conductors.