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Crossover between the Dense Electron-Hole Phase and the BCS Excitonic Phase in Quantum Dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

Second order perturbation theory and a Lipkin-Nogami scheme combined with an exact Monte Carlo projection after variation are applied to compute the ground-state energy of 6N2106\le N\le 210 electron-hole pairs confined in a parabolic two-dimensional quantum dot. The energy shows nice scaling properties as N or the confinement strength is varied. A crossover from the high-density electron-hole phase to the BCS excitonic phase is found at a density which is roughly four times the close-packing density of excitons.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808333,
  title  = {Crossover between the Dense Electron-Hole Phase and the BCS Excitonic Phase in Quantum Dots},
  author = {Boris A. Rodriguez and Augusto Gonzalez and Luis Quiroga and Roberto Capote and Ferney Rodriguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808333},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Improved variational and projection calculations. 17 pages, 3 ps figures. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B