A New Spin-Correlated Plasmon in Novel Highly Oriented Single-Crystalline Gold Quantum Dots.

A concept of spin plasmon, a collective mode of spin-density, in strongly correlated electron systems has been proposed since the 1930s. It is expected to bridge between spintronics and plasmonics by strongly confining the photon energy in the subwavelength scale within single magnetic-domain to enable further miniaturizing devices. However, spin plasmon in strongly correlated electron systems is yet to be realized.

Vibrational frequencies in Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics.

Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) are widely used to investigate the dynamical properties of molecular systems. An important issue in such applications is the dependence of dynamical quantities such as molecular vibrational frequencies upon the fictitious orbital mass μ. Although it is known that the correct Born-Oppenheimer dynamics are recovered at zero μ, it is not clear how these dynamical quantities are to be rigorously extracted from CPMD calculations.