Intermediate spin states that occur in electrostatic dots in the magnetic field regime just beyond the maximum density droplet are investigated. The 5-electron system is studied with exact diagonalization and group theory. The results indicate that the intermediate spin states are mixed symmetry states with a superposition of 5- and 4-fold electron-molecule configurations. A superposition of 5- and 4-fold correlation functions is found to reproduce the exact mixed symmetry pair correlation function to around 2%.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606759,
title = {Transitions between electron-molecule states in electrostatic quantum dots},
author = {P. A. Maksym and H. Aoki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606759},
year = {2015}
}