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On the textbook example of an isolated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg dimer, we demonstrate that the magnetic form factor and the magnetic electron density distribution can be extracted from the momentum-dependence of the inelastic neutron…

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Density-functional theory is utilized to investigate the zero-temperature transition from a Fermi liquid to an inhomogeneous stripe, or Wigner crystal phase, predicted to occur in a one-component, spin-polarized, two-dimensional dipolar…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-14 B. P. van Zyl , W. Kirkby , W. Ferguson

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

We study the magnetic phases of two coupled two-dimensional electron gases in order to determine under what circumstances these phases may occur in real semiconductor quantum wells and what the experimental properties of the broken-symmetry…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. I. Tamborenea , R. J. Radtke , S. Das Sarma

Spin is a fundamental property of any many-electron system. The ability of density functional theory to accurately predict the physical properties of a system, while varying its spin, is crucial for describing magnetic materials and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Alon Hayman , Eli Kraisler , Tamar Stein

A field-theoretical representation is suggested for the electron global density of states distribution function P(\nu) in extended disordered conductors. This opens a way to study the complete statistics of fluctuations. The approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. I. Yudson

We study spin polarization in a split-gate quantum wire focussing on the effect of a realistic smooth potential due to remote donors. Electron interaction and spin effects are included within the density functional theory in the local spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 M. Evaldsson , S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

We analyse the ground-state energy and correlation energy of the Heisenberg model as a function of spin, both in the ferromagnetic and in the antiferromagnetic case, and in one, two and three dimensions. First, we present a comparative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Valter L. Libero , K. Capelle

A previously proposed non-canonical coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) treatment for spin-orbit coupling is here generalized to infinite periodic systems. The scalar-relativistic periodic…

We discuss an efficient scheme for obtaining spin-polarized quasi-particle excitation energies within the general framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Our approach is to correct the DFT eigenvalues via the electrostatic energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

We show an application of the functional-renormalization-group aided density functional theory to the homogeneous electron gas with arbitrary spin polarization, which gives the energy density functional in the local spin density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-12 Takeru Yokota , Tomoya Naito

An explicit expression for the quadratic density-response function of a many-electron system is obtained in the framework of the time-dependent density-functional theory, in terms of the linear and quadratic density-response functions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. U. Nazarov , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim , Y. Takada

We study the effect of electronic interactions on the addition spectra and on the energy level distributions of two-dimensional quantum dots with weak disorder using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation for spinless electrons. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avraham Cohen , Klaus Richter , Richard Berkovits

Quantum dots with conduction electrons or holes originating from several bands are considered. We assume the particles are confined in a harmonic potential and assume the electrons (or holes) belonging to different bands to be different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Karkkainen M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann , M. Manninen

We use Kohn-Sham spin-density-functional theory to study the statistics of ground-state spin and the spacing between conductance peaks in the Coulomb blockade regime for both 2D isolated and realistic quantum dots. We make a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Jiang , Denis Ullmo , Weitao Yang , Harold U. Baranger

We have developed an ensemble density functional theory which includes spin degrees of freedom for nonuniform quantum Hall systems. We have applied this theory using a local-spin-density approximation to study the edge reconstruction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. I. Lubin , O. Heinonen , M. D. Johnson

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a theoretical framework for efficient and fairly accurate calculations of the electronic structure of molecules and crystals. The main features of density functional theory are described and DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Hauke Paulsen , Alfred Xaver Trautwein

In this paper we review the latest achievements of density functional theory in understanding the physics of diluted magnetic semiconductors. We focus on transition metal doped III-V semiconductors, which show spontaneous ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sanvito , G. Theurich , N. A. Hill

Coordinate scaling of each spin density separately is considered in spin density functional theory. A virial theorem relates the spin-scaled correlation energy to the spin-scaled correlation potentials. An adiabatic connection formula…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Magyar , T. K. Whittingham , K. Burke