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Periodic nanostructures can display the dynamics of arrays of atoms while enabling the tuning of interactions in ways not normally possible in Nature. We examine one dimensional arrays of a ``synthetic atom,'' a one dimensional ring with a…

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In Landau levels N > 1, the ground state of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field evolves from a Wigner crystal for small filling of the partially filled Landau level, into a succession of bubble states…

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We report a theoretical study of the many-body effects of electron-electron interaction on the ground-state and spectral properties of double-layer graphene. Using a projector-based renormalization method we show that if a finite voltage…

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We investigate the classical and quantum dynamics of an electron confined to a circular quantum dot in the presence of homogeneous $B_{dc}+B_{ac}$ magnetic fields. The classical motion shows a transition to chaotic behavior depending on the…

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We study the few-body physics of trapped atoms or molecules with electric or magnetic dipole moments aligned by an external field. Using exact numerical diagonalization appropriate for the strongly correlated regime, as well as a classical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-16 J. C. Cremon , G. M. Bruun , S. M. Reimann

The optical spectra of CdSe nanocrystals up to 55 A in diameter are analyzed in a wide range of energies from the fine structure of the low-energy excitations to the so-called high-energy transitions. We apply a symmetry-based method in two…

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Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHS) with the filling factor nu = p/q of q < 21 are examined and their energies are calculated. The classical Coulomb energy is evaluated among many electrons; that energy is linearly dependent on 1/nu. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shosuke Sasaki

We propose a mechanism to explain the fluctuations of the ground state energy in quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. Employing the random matrix theory we show that shape deformations may change the adjacent peak spacing…

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The triple differential cross section of $^{208}\rm{Pb}(^6\rm{Li};\alpha,\rm{d})^{208}\rm{Pb}$ elastic Coulomb breakup is calculated using the semiclassical method. We fit the parameters of the Woods-Saxon potential using the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 B. F. Irgaziev , Jameel-Un Nabi , Darwish Khan

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Topological quantum phase transitions intrinsically intertwine self-similarity and topology of many-electron wave-functions, and divining them is one of the most significant ways to advance understanding in condensed matter physics. Our…

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In a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer, an electronic state in Landau level $% N=0$ is described by its guiding-center index $X$ (in the Landau gauge) and by its valley, spin, and orbital indices $\xi =\pm K,\sigma =\pm 1,$ and $% n=0,1.$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Lambert , R. Côté

Exact electronic properties of a system of four Coulomb-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a parabolic confinement are reported. We show that degenerate ground states of this system are characterized by qualitatively different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov

We demonstrate the generation of Coulomb-correlated pair, triple and quadruple states of free electrons by femtosecond photoemission from a nanoscale field emitter inside a transmission electron microscope. Event-based electron spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Rudolf Haindl , Armin Feist , Till Domröse , Marcel Möller , John H. Gaida , Sergey V. Yalunin , Claus Ropers

We analyse theoretically the possibilities of contactless control of in-gap states formed by a pair of electrons confined in a triangular quantum ring. The in-gap states are corner-localized states associated with two electrons occupying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Anna Sitek , Miguel Urbaneja Torres , Kristinn Torfason , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Effects of Coulomb correlation on LaOFeAs electronic structure have been investigated by LDA+DMFT(QMC) method. The calculation results show that LaOFeAs is in the regime of intermediate correlation strength with significant part of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. O. Shorikov , M. A. Korotin , S. V. Streltsov , S. L. Skornyakov , D. M. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

We describe the mechanism of charge-spin transformation in a double quantum dot (DQD) with even occupation, where a time dependent gate voltage v(t) is applied to one of its two valleys, whereas the other one is coupled to the source and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Kiselev , K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai , J. Richert

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) represent an unconventional class of quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson-Fisher paradigm. Nevertheless, both their theoretical identification and experimental realization remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Guangyu Yu , Tao Xiang , Zheng Zhu

We study the critical spin-polarization energy ($\alpha_{\rm C}$) above which fractional quantum Hall states in two-dimensional electron systems confined to symmetric GaAs quantum wells become fully spin-polarized. We find a significant…

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