{"title":"Recent Studies on Schottky Barrier Formation and Electrical Characterization in Metal/AlN Contacts","authors":"Hogyoung Kim","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02148-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02148-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As an ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor, aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained significant attention for deep-ultraviolet and high-power electronic applications. Although remarkable development has been made in bulk AlN substrate growth, the performance of AlN-based devices is strongly influenced by the properties of metal/AlN junctions. In this regard, this review provides an overview of Schottky barrier formation at metal/AlN interfaces, focusing on interface-related mechanisms. Barrier heights reported in the literature are summarized and compared, with considering differences arising from surface polarity, contact inhomogeneity, and electrical analysis methods including current–voltage and capacitance–voltage measurements. Representative device applications employing metal/AlN contacts are briefly discussed. The goal of this review is to consolidate the current understanding of metal/AlN interfaces and to outline key factors to improve contact properties in AlN-based devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Acoustic Interaction Force Between Two Identical Compressible Particles Trapped in an Acoustofluidic Nodal Plane","authors":"Glauber T. Silva","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02147-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02147-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13538-026-02147-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148926642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arthur C. R. Dutra, Roberto D. Baldijão, Marcelo Terra Cunha
{"title":"How Quantum Contextuality Disappears in the Classical Limit Induced by Depolarization","authors":"Arthur C. R. Dutra, Roberto D. Baldijão, Marcelo Terra Cunha","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02143-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02143-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The emergence of classicality is fundamentally driven by the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. Foundational open-system approaches, notably the Caldeira-Leggett model, successfully captured how these interactions lead to macroscopic effects like quantum dissipation and decoherence. However, these approaches often leave the precise definitions of classicality and quantumness ambiguous. In quantum information theory, this boundary is a heavily scrutinized question, and Kochen-Specker contextuality emerges as a hallmark of nonclassicality. It is therefore natural to investigate whether decoherence can actually suppress this property. Taking this path creates an apparent conundrum, once there exist two distinct manifestations of quantum contextuality: state-dependent and state-independent ones. While state-dependent contextuality naturally vanishes under state degradation, state-independent contextuality could persist for any quantum state, since it shows up even for the maximally mixed state! In this paper, we resolve this apparent paradox by analyzing sequential measurement implementations of the paradigmatic Klyachko, Can, Binicioğlu, and Shumovsky (KCBS) and Peres-Mermin prepare-and-measure scenarios under the influence of depolarizing channels. By introducing depolarizing noise both prior to and in between measurements, and by analyzing the resulting sequential correlators in both the Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures, we show how open-system dynamics suppress the correlations required to witness contextuality, leading to classicalization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13538-026-02143-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148928064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canonical Form of Born-Infeld Inspired Gravity Coupled to Scalar Fields","authors":"J. Klusoň","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02142-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02142-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this short note we find canonical form of Born-Infeld inspired gravity coupled to scalar fields using Faddeev-Jackiw approach. We show that canonical form of the action splits into two parts: First part has the same form as General Relativity canonical action while the matter part has complicated form as a consequence of the structure of Born-Infeld gravity action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148838203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accretion onto a Bardeen Black Hole","authors":"Laiba Mughal, Abdul Rehman Kashif, Waqar Ahmad","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02144-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02144-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the steady-state spherically symmetric accretion onto a Bardeen black hole. The basic equations governing the accretion flow are derived without taking into account the back-reaction of the fluid on the spacetime geometry. We obtain the general conditions for the critical points and determine the corresponding mass accretion rate. The physical constraints required for the existence of physically acceptable critical points are also analyzed. In addition, the accretion of a polytropic fluid is studied in detail, including the behavior of the gas compression and temperature profile near the outer horizon. Our analysis shows that the magnetic charge parameter modifies the critical conditions of the flow, affects the mass accretion rate, and changes the gas compression and temperature profiles near the outer horizon. These results demonstrate that regular black-hole geometry can significantly influence accretion dynamics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148837809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iqbal Hussain, Asghar Ali, Bakht Amin Bacha, Ali Akgül
{"title":"Coherent Manipulation of Optical Force Birefringence in Chiral Atomic Medium","authors":"Iqbal Hussain, Asghar Ali, Bakht Amin Bacha, Ali Akgül","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02047-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02047-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The birefringence of optical forces are controlled and manipulated by application of laser driving fields in the four level chiral atomic medium. Optical forces in the form of left and right circularly polarized (LCP/RCP) vectors field arrows and its reported magnitudes is significantly controlled and investigated with spatial, detuning and Rabi frequency coordinates. Optical force magnitude and vectorial form result through the use of azimuthally polarized Laguerre Gaussian (LG) vortex lasers beam and their dependence on orbital angular momentum. Optical force magnitude depends on the probe and control laser fields detuning and Rabi frequencies and phases. The optical forces LCP and RCP vector fields are also fluctuating functions of various orbital, magnetic and spin quantum numbers of controlled laser driving fields in chiral atomic medium. The minimum magnitude of optical force measured is 0.05 Pico Newton and maximum optical force magnitude is to be 4.0 Pico Newton both for LCP and RCP beams in chiral atomic medium. The modified results of this manuscript is useful for nano science and optical tweezers technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148836303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theory of High-Tc Superconductivity in Cuprates","authors":"E. C. Marino","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02134-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02134-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The essential physical processes underlying the phenomenon of high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates occur in the <span>(CuO_2)</span> planes, found in these materials. The dynamics of the active electrons belonging to such planes is well described by the Three Bands Hubbard Model (3BHM). The complexity of such model, however, led the researchers to look for simpler and yet relevant alternatives. In the attempts to circumvent the complexity of this model, two main simplified versions of the (3BHM) were considered. In the first alternative, one eliminates the doped holes and their respective sub-lattices by tying them to the <span>(Cu^{++})</span> electrons, thereby forming the so-called Zhang-Rice singlets. The remaining dynamics consists in doping a Mott-Hubbard insulator and is described by the t-J Model. The second alternative maintains that the <span>(Cu^{++})</span> electrons form a square lattice of localized spins, while the doped holes move along the oxygen sub-lattices and undergo a Kondo-like magnetic interaction with the localized spins, besides the Hubbard-like electric repulsion. This scenario is described by the Spin-Fermion-Hubbard Model. Most of the researchers in the field chose to follow the first road, while I chose the second one. In this article, I review in detail the reasons why that choice has led to a successful theory for high-Tc superconductivity in hole-doped cuprates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13538-026-02134-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148782594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Investigation of Fragmentation Potential by Incorporating Proximity and Skyrme Potentials","authors":"Chahat Jindal, Manoj K. Sharma","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02140-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02140-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ground state decay analysis is carried out for the radioactive <span>(^{252})</span>Cf nucleus, as it can decay through multiple disintegration pathways. An attempt is made to understand the same in the present work by employing a theoretical approach based on quantum mechanical fragmentation theory (QMFT). The binary decay is analyzed using the preformed cluster model (PCM), employing two different nuclear interaction potentials: the proximity potential and the Skyrme energy density formalism (SEDF). Our study reveals that the potential based on SEDF (SKT3 force) demonstrates a reasonable agreement with experimental half-lives. Furthermore, the SKT3 force is employed to investigate the ternary fission of the <span>(^{252})</span>Cf nucleus. For both cases (binary and ternary) the mass distribution of spherical configuration leads to nearly symmetric fragments, whereas the fragments with higher mass asymmetry start operating for the cold-elongated configuration. In addition to this, the relative yield for ternary fission of the <span>(^{252})</span>Cf nucleus is calculated and compared with experimental data.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148782082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possible Multiple Antimagnetic Rotational Bands in (^{102})Ru","authors":"Pooja Chauhan, Dalip Singh Verma, S. Sihotra","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02139-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02139-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The observation of multiple antimagnetic rotational (AMR) bands of different parity in a nucleus provides valuable insight into the underlying shears mechanism in weakly deformed or nearly spherical nuclei. Antimagnetic rotation is generally characterized by a varying dynamic moment of inertia <span>(Im ^{(2)})</span>, a decreasing trend of reduced quadrupole transition probabilities B(E2), with increasing spin, and a corresponding increase in the ratio <span>(Im ^{(2)})</span>/B(E2). Here, the semiclassical particle-rotor model is employed to investigate the rotational bands of <span>(^{102})</span>Ru nucleus, and AMR is obtained in the spin ranging from 15<span>(hbar )</span> - 23<span>(hbar )</span> for the negative parity Band-2 with configuration <span>(pi (g_{9/2})^{-2})</span> <span>(otimes )</span> <span>(nu ((h_{11/2}) ~(g_{7/2})^{3}))</span>, including a core contribution of 2<span>(hbar )</span>. The calculated B(E2) values for <span>(^{102})</span>Ru show a decreasing trend with spin and follow the systematics of the neighbouring nuclei <span>(^{104})</span>Pd, <span>(^{105})</span>Pd, <span>(^{106})</span>Cd, and <span>(^{107})</span>Cd, a support for AMR character in negative parity band. The present results, when considered together with the previously reported AMR in the positive-parity Band-1, theoretically establish the possibility of the presence of antimagnetic rotations in both positive and negative-parity bands, i.e., multiple AMR in <span>(^{102})</span>Ru. This extends the systematics of antimagnetic rotation in the A<span>(approx )</span>100 mass region and provides a theoretical basis for future lifetime measurements in <span>(^{102})</span>Ru.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148751987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcus V. S. Bonança, Sebastian Deffner, Gert-Ludwig Ingold
{"title":"Correction: Over Forty Years of Research Towards the Understanding of Quantum Brownian Motion – The Contributions of A. O. Caldeira","authors":"Marcus V. S. Bonança, Sebastian Deffner, Gert-Ludwig Ingold","doi":"10.1007/s13538-026-02141-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-026-02141-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13538-026-02141-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148751995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}