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Fermions become polarized in a vorticular fluid due to spin-vorticity coupling. Such a polarization can be calculated from the Wigner function in a quantum kinetic approach. Extending previous results for chiral fermions, we derive the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Ren-hong Fang , Long-gang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-nian Wang

Density functional theory (DFT) is an exact alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, in which it is possible to calculate the total energy, the spin and the charge density of many-electron systems in the ground state. In practice, it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Uri Argaman , Guy Makov , Eli Kraisler

We calculate the dynamical spin-spin correlation functions of a Kondo dot coupled to two noninteracting leads held at different chemical potentials. To this end we generalize a recently developed real-time renormalization group method in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-11 Dirk Schuricht , Herbert Schoeller

We calculate the ground-state energy, pair correlation function, static structure factor, and momentum density of the one-dimensional electron fluid at high density using variational quantum Monte Carlo simulation. For an infinitely thin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Vinod Ashokan , N. D. Drummond , K. N. Pathak

Two basic correlation functions are calculated for a model of $N$ harmonically interacting identical particles in a parabolic potential well. The density and the pair correlation function of the model are investigated for the boson case.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

The description of particles with spin can be attained by using a spin density matrix in high energy reaction. In this paper we present a parametrization of the spin density matrix for spin -3/2 particles in the Cartesian form. Comparing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-05 Jiao Jiao Song , Wan Ling Chang

We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We employ density functional theory to study in detail the crystallization of super-paramagnetic particles in two dimensions under the influence of an external magnetic field that lies perpendicular to the confining plane. The field induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen , Christos N. Likos

Using density functional theory in a time dependent approach we determine the frequencies of the compressional modes of the normal phase of a Fermi gas at unitarity as a function of its polarization. Our energy functional accounts for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Alessio Recati , Sandro Stringari

We systematically develop a density functional description for the equilibrium properties of a two-dimensional, harmonically trapped, spin-polarized dipolar Fermi gas based on the Thomas-Fermi von Weizs\"acker approximation. We pay…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-11 Brandon P. van Zyl , E. Zaremba , P. Pisarski

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

A BCS-like variational wave-function, which is exact in the infinite field limit, is used to study the interplay among Zeeman energies, lateral confinement and particle correlations induced by the Coulomb interactions in strongly pumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris A. Rodriguez , Augusto Gonzalez

We consider random transverse-field Ising spin chains and study the magnetization and the energy-density profiles by numerically exact calculations in rather large finite systems ($L\le 128$). Using different boundary conditions (free,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Igloi , H. Rieger

A functional $E_{xc}[\rho(\r,\epsilon)]$ is presented, in which the exchange and correlation energy of an electron gas depends on the local density of occupied states. A simple local parametrization scheme is proposed, entirely from first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose M. Soler

We show that spin polarization of electron density in nonmagnetic degenerate semiconductors can achieve 100%. This effect is realized in ferromagnet-semiconductor $FM-n^{+}$-$n$ junctions even at moderate spin selectivity of the $FM-n^{+}$…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Petukhov , V. N. Smelyanskiy , V. V. Osipov

The spin polarization of electrons trapped in InAs self-assembled quantum dot ensembles is investigated. A statistical approach for the population of the spin levels allows one to infer the spin polarization from the measure values of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-04 F. G. G. Hernandez , T. P. Mayer Alegre , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro

We have developed and implemented a self-consistent density functional method using standard norm-conserving pseudopotentials and a flexible, numerical LCAO basis set, which includes multiple-zeta and polarization orbitals. Exchange and…

A semi-relativistic density-functional theory that includes spin-orbit couplings and Zeeman fields on equal footing with the electromagnetic potentials, is an appealing framework to develop a unified first-principles computational approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Pittalis , G. Vignale , F. G. Eich

We show that it is possible to define a Lorentz-covariant reduced spin density matrix for massive particles. Such a matrix allows one to calculate the mean values of observables connected with spin measurements (average polarizations).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Caban , J. Rembielinski

We develop a theory to calculate exciton binding energies of both two- and three-dimensional spin polarized exciton gases within a mean field approach. Our method allows the analysis of recent experiments showing the importance of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 J. Fernández-Rossier , C. Tejedor , L. Muñoz , L. Viña