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We study a two-electron quantum dot molecule in a magnetic field by the direct diagonalization of the Hamiltonian matrix. The ground states of the molecule with the total spin S=0 and S=1 provide a possible realization for a qubit of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Harju , S. Siljamäki , R. M. Nieminen

We present an extensive comparative study of ground-state densities and pair distribution functions for electrons confined in two-dimensional parabolic quantum dots over a broad range of coupling strength and electron number. We first use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gattobigio , P. Capuzzi , M. Polini , R. Asgari , M. P. Tosi

We study the magnetic orbital response of a system of N interacting electrons confined in a two-dimensional geometry and subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field in the finite temperature Hartree-Fock approximation. The electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 L. G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Nelson Studart

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

Dynamics of an electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense focused ultrashort circularly-polarized laser pulse are investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. Generally, the ponderomotive force of the laser fields may…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yan-Fei Li , Yong-Tao Zhao , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Jian-Xing Li

The compressibility of a two-dimensional electron system with spin in a spatially correlated random potential and a quantizing magnetic field is investigated. Electron-electron interaction is treated with the Hartree-Fock method. Numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer

We predict the new type of phase transition in quasi one-dimensional system of interacting electrons at high magnetic fields, the stabilization of a density wave which transforms a two dimensional open Fermi surface into a periodic chain of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Kadigrobov , A. Bjeliš , D. Radić

Calculations for two electrons in an elliptic quantum dot, using symmetry breaking at the unrestricted Hartree-Fock level and subsequent restoration of the broken parity via projection techniques, show that the electrons can localize and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We study electronic structures of quasi-two-dimensional finite electron systems in high magnetic fields. The solutions in the fractional quantum Hall regime are interpreted as quantum liquids of electrons and off-electron vortices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri Saarikoski , Ari Harju

We have developed new methods to calculate dispersion curves (analytically in the simpler cases) from which we are able to derive the spatial distribution of electron and current densities. We investigate the case where the magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Hofstetter , J. M. C. Taylor , A. MacKinnon

Using the tight-binding approach, we investigate the energy spectrum of square, triangular and hexagonal MoS$_2$ quantum dots (QDs) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Novel edge states emerge in MoS$_2$ QDs, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Q. Chen , L. L. Li , F. M. Peeters

This paper provides a review of developments in the physics of two-dimensional electron systems in perpendicular magnetic fields.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Shayegan

We study theoretically the electron states in a system of two vertically stacked quantum dots. We investigate the influence of the geometrical symmetry breaking (caused by the displacement as well as the ellipticity of the dots) on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Krzysztof Gawarecki , Paweł Machnikowski , Tilmann Kuhn

Electrons in condensed matter may transition into a variety of broken-symmetry phase states due to electron-electron interactions. Applying diverse mean-field approximations to the interaction term is arguably the simplest way to identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Maxim Trushin , Liangtao Peng , Gargee Sharma , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We use density-functional methods to study the effects of an external magnetic field on two-dimensional quantum dots with a rectangular hard-wall confining potential. The increasing magnetic field leads to spin polarization and formation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Räsänen , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

We apply quantum electrodynamical density functional theory to obtain the electronic density, the spin polarization, as well as the orbital and the spin magnetization of square periodic arrays of quantum dots or antidots subjected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Vram Mughnetsyan , Vidar Gudmundsson , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

In the limit of low particle density, electrons confined to a quantum dot form strongly correlated states termed Wigner molecules, in which the Coulomb interaction causes the electrons to become highly localized in space. By using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

An algebraic approach is formulated in the harmonic approximation to describe a dynamics of two-fermion systems, confined in three-dimensional axially symmetric parabolic potential, in an external magnetic field. The fermion interaction is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 M. Cerkaski , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We consider photoemission from a two-electron quantum dot and find analytic expression for the cross-section. We show that the emission cross-section from the ground state as a function of magnetic field has sharp discontinuities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pallab Goswami , Subinoy Das , J. K. Bhattacharjee

A model for quantum dots is proposed, in which the motion of a few electrons in a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field of arbitrary direction is studied. The spectrum and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov