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We study numerically the ground state magnetization for clusters of interacting electrons in two dimensions in the regime where the single particle wavefunctions are localized by disorder. It is found that the Coulomb interaction leads to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuliano Benenti , Gaetan Caldara , Dima L. Shepelyansky

Systematic description of a spin one-half system endowed with magnetic moment or any other two-level system (qubit) interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field is developed. This description exploits a close analogy between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Tomasz Sowinski

We theoretically investigate the energy of the ground state exciton confined to two-dimensional (2D) monolayers with circular shape. Within an effective mass approach employing a nonlocal screening effect on the Coulomb potential energy, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Shota Ono , Tomohiro Ogura

We study a two-dimensional cylindrically-symmetric electron droplet separated from a surrounding electron ring by a tunable barrier using the exact diagonalization method. The magnetic field is assumed strong so that the electrons become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 E. Tölö , A. Harju

Analytic solutions of the quantum relativistic two-body problem are obtained for an interaction potential modeled as a one-dimensional smooth square well. Both stationary and moving pairs are considered and the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

We study the Dirac-Maxwell system coupled with an external potential of Coulomb type. We use the Foldy--Wouthuysen (unitary) transformation of the Dirac operator and its realization as an elliptic problem in the 4-dim half space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Vittorio Coti Zelati , Margherita Nolasco

Driven and non-equilibrium quantum states of matter have attracted growing interest in both theoretical and experimental studies in condensed matter physics. We review recent progress in realizing transient collective states in driven or…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-21 A. Pertsova , A. V. Balatsky

Many-body calculations of the total energy of interacting Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples exhibit joint occurrence of cusps at angular momenta corresponding to fractional fillings characteristic of formation of incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

An electrodynamical coupled cluster (CC) methodology starting from a covariant formalism and an equal time approximation, and finally based on the Dirac-Fock picture of the electron and positron fields and Coulomb gauge, is given here. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Sambhu N. Datta

Making and using polaritonic states (i.e., hybrid electron-photon states) for chemical applications have recently become one of the most prominent and active fields that connects the communities of chemistry and quantum optics. Modeling of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Braden M. Weight , Sergei Tretiak , Yu Zhang

We have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states for the Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of the electrons in the graphene significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The (3+1)-dimensional Dirac equation with position dependent mass in 4-vector electromagnetic fields is considered. Using two over-simplified examples (the Dirac-Coulomb and Dirac-oscillator fields), we report energy-levels crossing as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 Omar Mustafa

The region very close to an electron ($r << r_0 = e^2/mc^2 \approx 2.8\times 10^{-13}$ cm) is, according to quantum electrodynamics, a seething maelstrom of virtual electron-positron pairs flashing in and out of existence. To take account…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Blinder

One approximation is made to describe a M+1 electron many-body wavefunction by a M electron many-body wavefunction and a single electron wavefunction. Under this approximation, we have derived the Coulomb energy which relates the exciton…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Lin-Wang Wang

We consider an extended spinless Falicov--Kimball model at an arbitrary doping level, focusing on the range of parameter values where a uniform excitonic insulator is stabilised at half-filling. We compare the properties of possible uniform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 D. I. Golosov

A simple analytical solution is found to the Dirac equation for the combination of a Coulomb potential with a linear confining potential. An appropriate linear combination of Lorentz scalar and vector linear potentials, with the scalar part…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jerrold Franklin

We study the localization of dressed Dirac electrons in a cylindrical quantum dot (QD) formed on monolayer and bilayer graphene by spatially different potential profiles. Short lived excitonic states which are too broad to be resolved in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 O. Roslyak , G. Gumbs , S. Mukamel

We study the ground state and low-energy excitations of fractional quantum Hall systems on a disk at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, with Coulomb interaction and background confining potential. We find the Moore-Read ground state is stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin Wan , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi

We study the conditions to realize an excitonic condensed phase in an electron-hole bilayer system with local Hubbard-like interactions at half-filling, where we can address the interplay with Mott localization. Using Dynamical Mean-Field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Samuele Giuli , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone

According to Dirac's ideas, the vacuum consists of infinitely many virtual electrons which completely fill up the negative part of the spectrum of the free Dirac operator $D^0$. In the presence of an external field, these virtual particles…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Hainzl , Mathieu Lewin , Eric Sere