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The two dimensional system of electrons in a high magnetic field offers an opportunity to investigate a phase transition from a quantum liquid into a Wigner solid. Recent experiments have revealed an incipient composite fermion liquid in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Michael R. Peterson , Jainendra K. Jain

Resonant inelastic light scattering experiments access the low lying excitations of electron liquids in the fractional quantum Hall regime in the range $2/5 \geq \nu \geq 1/3$. Modes associated with changes in the charge and spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Dujovne , C. F. Hirjibehedin , A. Pinczuk , Moonsoo Kang , B. S. Dennis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We demonstrate the formation of composite fermions in two-dimensional quantum dots under high magnetic fields. The composite fermion interpretation provides a simple way to understand several qualitative and quantitative features of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. K. Jain , T. Kawamura

In an effort to understand the low temperature behavior of recently synthesized molecular magnets we present numerical evidence for the existence of a rotational band in systems of quantum spins interacting with nearest-neighbor…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Schnack , Marshall Luban

We explore the correlations and entanglements of exact-diagonalized few-electron wave functions in a quantum dot in magnetic fields without the Zeeman splitting. With the increase of the field, the lowest states with different spins…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Yang , Jia-Lin Zhu , Zhengsheng Dai , Yuquan Wang

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

The electron motion in rather strong magnetic fields (when only the lowest Landau level is populated) is considered. In this case the electron kinetic energy is frozen out and the electrons are guided by slowly varied potential. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Matulis

Originally proposed by Read [1] and Jain [2], the so-called "composite-fermion" is a phenomenological attachment of two infinitely thin local flux quanta seen as nonlocal vortices to two-dimensional (2D) electrons embedded in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Gilbert Reinisch , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

This paper investigates origin of the extra stability associated with particular values (magic numbers) of the total angular momentum of electrons in a quantum dot under strong magnetic field. The ground-state energy, distribution functions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Taku Seki , Yoshio Kuramoto , Tomotoshi Nishino

We present new ab initio calculations of the electronic structure of various atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields ranging from B=10^12 G to 2x10^15 G, appropriate for radio pulsars and magnetars. For these field strengths, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zach Medin , Dong Lai

When two-dimensional electrons are subjected to a very strong magnetic field, they are believed to form a triangular Wigner crystal. We demonstrate that, in the entire crystal phase, this crystal is very well represented by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Chia-Chen Chang , Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain

We propose a new ground state trial wavefunction for a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. The wavefunction includes Laughlin-Jastrow correlations between electron pairs, and may be interpreted as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hangmo Yi , H. A. Fertig

Exact-diagonalization calculations for N=3 electrons in anisotropic quantum dots, covering a broad range of confinement anisotropies and strength of inter-electron repulsion, are presented for zero and low magnetic fields. The excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 Yuesong Li , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Interacting electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot at strong magnetic fields exhibit a rich set of states, including correlated quantum fluids and crystallites of various symmetries. We develop in this paper a perturbative scheme based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gun Sang Jeon , Chia-Chen Chang , Jainendra K. Jain

We perform unrestricted Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations for electrons in a parabolic quantum dot at zero magnetic field. The crossover from Fermi liquid to Wigner molecule behavior is studied for up to eight electrons and various spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Boris Reusch , Wolfgang Häusler , Hermann Grabert

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

We study the system consisted of two electrons in a quantum dot with a three-dimensional harmonic confinement potential under the effect of a magnetic field. Specifically, two different confinement conditions are considered, one isotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 A. M. Maniero , C. R. de Carvalho , F. V. Prudente , Ginette Jalbert

Quantum dots in magnetic fields are studied within the current spin density functional formalism avoiding any spatial symmetry restrictions of the solutions. We find that the maximum density droplet reconstructs into states with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Reimann , M. Koskinen , M. Manninen , B. R. Mottelson

Within Current Density Functional Theory, we have studied a quantum dot made of 210 electrons confined in a disk geometry. The ground state of this large dot exhibits some features as a function of the magnetic field (B) that can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Marti Pi , Manuel Barranco , Agusti Emperador , Enrico Lipparini , Llorens Serra

We demonstrate that electrons in quantum dots defined by electrostatic gates in semiconductor nanotubes freeze orderly in space realizing a `Wigner molecule'. Our exact diagonalisation calculations uncover the features of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Andrea Secchi , Massimo Rontani