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We study the effects of electron-electron correlations and confinement potential on the far-infrared spectrum of a lateral two-electron quantum dot molecule by exact diagonalization. The calculated spectra directly reflect the lowered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marlo , A. Harju , R. M. Nieminen

We study a new system in which electrons in two dimensions are confined by a non homogeneous magnetic field. The system consists of a heterostructure with on top of it a superconducting disk. We show that in this system electrons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Reijniers , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

The properties of a two-dimensional electron are investigated in the presence of a circular step magnetic field profile. Both electrons with parabolic dispersion as well as Dirac electrons with linear dispersion are studied. We found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. Ramezani Masir , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We demonstrate here that the dipole-allowed optical absorption spectrum of a parabolic quantum dot subjected to an external magnetic field reflects the inter-electron interaction effects when the spin-orbit interaction is also taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietiläinen

We use the entanglement measure to study the evolution of quantum correlations in two-electron axially-symmetric parabolic quantum dots under a perpendicular magnetic field. We found that the entanglement indicates on the shape transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-09 R. G. Nazmitdinov , N. S. Simonovic , A. R. Plastino , A. V. Chizhov

We present an analytically solvable model of $P$ colinear, two-dimensional quantum dots, each containing two electrons. Inter-dot coupling via the electron-electron interaction gives rise to sets of entangled ground states. These ground…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Simon C. Benjamin , Neil F. Johnson

We report calculations for electronic ground states of parabolically confined quantum dots for up to 30 electrons based on the quantum Monte Carlo method. Effects of the electron-electron interaction and the response to a magnetic field are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Popsueva , T. Matthey , J. P. Hansen , L. Kocbach , M. Hjorth-Jensen

We report on the electronic properties of few interacting electrons confined in a parabolic quantum dot based on a theoretical approach developed to investigate the influence of Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction on such a system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pekka Pietilainen , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider free electrons in rectangular quantum dots, with either hard wall boundary conditions or anharmonic confinement. In both cases, due to finite size effects, a homogeneous electric field applied along one of the rectangular axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Pleutin

The magnetic character of the ground-state of two electrons on a double quantum dot, connected in series to left and right single-channel leads, is considered. By solving exactly for the spectrum of the two interacting electrons, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Levinson

We report on a theoretical approach developed to investigate the influence of Bychkov-Rashba interaction on a few interacting electrons confined in a quantum dot. We note that the spin-orbit coupling profoundly influences the energy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietilainen

We study a two-dimensional system of two Coulombically interacting electrons in an external harmonic confining potential. More precisely, we present calculations for the singlet ground-state of the system. We explain the nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Przemyslaw Koscik

We present a theoretical study of the energy levels in a parabolically confined quantum dot in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI). The features of some low-lying states in various strengths of the SOI are examined at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. Kuan , C. S. Tang , W. Xu

Spin-entanglement of two electrons occupying two spatial regions -- domains -- is expressed in a compact form in terms of spin-spin correlation functions. The power of the formalism is demonstrated on several examples ranging from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-10 A. Ramsak , J. Mravlje , T. Rejec

Quantum-state engineering, i.e., active manipulation over the coherent dynamics of suitable quantum-mechanical systems, has become a fascinating prospect of modern physics. Here we discuss the dynamics of two interacting electrons in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Xian-Geng Zhao

Magnetic fingerprints on the spectra of an interacting electron with a negatively charged ion in a parabolic quantum dot (QD), and of two interacting electrons in such a dot, are investigated via a pseudoperturbative methodical proposal.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Omar Mustafa , Maen Odeh

We study quantum states of electrons in magnetically doped quantum dots as a function of exchange coupling between electron and impurity spins, the strength of Coulomb interaction, confining potential, and the number of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramin M. Abolfath , Pawel Hawrylak , Igor Zutic

The description of interacting many-electron systems in external magnetic fields is considered in the framework of the optimized effective potential method extended to current-spin-density functional theory. As a case study, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-14 N. Helbig , S. Kurth , S. Pittalis , E. Räsänen , E. K. U. Gross

Quantum entanglement is analyzed thoroughly in the case of the ground and lowest states of two-electron axially symmetric quantum dots under a perpendicular magnetic field. The individual-particle and the center-of-mass representations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 N. S. Simonovic , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We show that two electrons confined in a square semiconductor quantum dot have two isolated low-lying energy eigenstates, which have the potential to form the basis of scalable computing elements (qubits). Initialisation, one-qubit and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Jefferson , M. Fearn , D. L. J. Tipton , T. P. Spiller