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The charge density and pair correlation function of three interacting electrons confined within a two-dimensional disc-like hard wall quantum dot are calculated by full numerical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. The formation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Akman , M. Tomak

The path integral formalism is applied to derive the full partition function of a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian describing a particle motion in a bath of oscillators. The electronic correlations are computed versus…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Zoli

We study the relation between quantum entanglement and electron correlation in quantum chemistry calculations. We prove that the Hartree-Fock (HF) wave function does not violate Bell's inequality, thus is not entangled while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-25 Hefeng Wang , Sabre Kais

A new theoretical method is introduced to study coherent electron transport in an interacting multilevel quantum dot. The method yields the correct behavior both in the limit of weak and strong coupling to the leads, giving a unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Levy Yeyati , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We use Monte Carlo approach to study the energetics of electrons accelerated in a pulsar polar gap. As energy-loss mechanisms we consider magnetic Compton scattering of thermal X-ray photons and curvature radiation. The results are compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dyks , B. Rudak

We develop generalization of the fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo method for Hamiltonians which explicitly depend on particle spins such as for spin-orbit interactions. The method is formulated in zero variance manner and is similar to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-13 Cody A. Melton , Minyi Zhu , Shi Guo , Alberto Ambrosetti , Francesco Pederiva , Lubos Mitas

Electron scattering Coulomb form factors for the single-particle quadrupole transitions in $p$-shell $^{10}$B nucleus have been studied. Core polarization effects are included through a microscopic theory that includes excitations from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 Fouad A. Majeed

We report variational and diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo ground-state energies of the three-dimensional electron gas using a model periodic Coulomb interaction and backflow corrections for N=54, 102, 178, and 226 electrons. We remove…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-28 I. G. Gurtubay , R. Gaudoin , J. M. Pitarke

We discuss a model for the integer quantum Hall effect which is based on a Schroedinger-Chern-Simons-action functional for a non-interacting system of electrons in an electromagnetic field on a mutiply connected manifold. In this model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ghaboussi

A survey of atomic binding energies used by general purpose Monte Carlo systems is reported. Various compilations of these parameters have been evaluated; their accuracy is estimated with respect to experimental data. Their effects on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Maria Grazia Pia , Hee Seo , Matej Batic , Marcia Begalli , Chan Hyeong Kim , Lina Quintieri , Paolo Saracco

An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We consider a \textit{mass-asymmetric} electron and hole bilayer. Electron and hole Coulomb correlations and electron and hole quantum effects are treated on first princles by path integral Monte Carlo methods. For a fixed layer separation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Ludwig , A. Filinov , Yu. E. Lozovik , H. Stolz , M. Bonitz

We introduce a variant to the Diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm that can be employed to study the effects of the Rashba interaction in a many electron systems. Because of the spin--orbit nature of Rashba interaction a standard algorithm…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Ambrosetti , F. Pederiva , E. Lipparini , S. Gandolfi

We study the problem of injecting single electrons into interacting one-dimensional quantum systems, a fundamental building block for electron quantum optics. It is well known that such injection leads to charge and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Matteo Acciai , Alessio Calzona , Giacomo Dolcetto , Thomas L. Schmidt , Maura Sassetti

We discuss a theoretical model of an on-demand single-particle emitter that employs a quantum dot, attached to an integer or fractional quantum Hall edge state. Via an exact mapping of the model onto the spin-boson problem we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin , Steven H. Simon

We present the complete phase diagram for one-dimensional binary mixtures of bosonic ultracold atomic gases in a harmonic trap. We obtain exact results with direct numerical diagonalization for small number of atoms, which permits us to…

The time dependent full counting statistics of charge transport through an interacting quantum junction is evaluated from its generating function, controllably computed with the inchworm Monte Carlo method. Exact noninteracting results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Michael Ridley , Viveka Nand Singh , Emanuel Gull , Guy Cohen

Recently, a diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm was applied to the study of spin dependent interactions in condensed matter. Following some of the ideas presented therein, and applied to a Hamiltonian containing a Rashba-like interaction, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Flavio Toigo , Lubos Mitas , Francesco Pederiva

The Roothaan and Pople-Nesbet approaches for real atoms are adapted to quantum dots in the presence of a magnetic field. Single-particle Gaussian basis sets are constructed, for each dot radius, under the condition of maximum overlap with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Destefani , J. D. M. Vianna , G. E. Marques