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The Mott scattering of high-energetic twisted electrons by atoms is investigated within the framework of the first Born approximation and Dirac's relativistic equation. Special emphasis is placed on the angular distribution and longitudinal…

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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…

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In a two-dimensional approximation, the probability density and current for a photoelectron near the localization of a quantum vortex are theoretically investigated. The wave function in the momentum representation, which we found earlier,…

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Quantum vorticity in polariton systems has been traditionally investigated within the frame of many-body phenomena under the mean-field or coherent approaches. In the present work, we show that the fully quantized picture describes richer…

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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…

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Single-electron capacitance spectroscopy precisely measures the energies required to add individual electrons to a quantum dot. The spatial extent of electronic wavefunctions is probed by investigating the dependence of these energies on…

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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

In this letter, we have considered an electron in a coupled quantum dot system interacting with a detector represented by a point contact. We present a dynamical model for wave function collapse in the strong coupling to the detector limit.…

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A molecular description for magic-number configurations of interacting electrons in a quantum dot in high magnetic fields developed by one of the authors has been elaborated for four, five and six electron dots. For four electrons, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiroshi Imamura , Peter A. Maksym , Hideo Aoki

Confined geometries such as semiconductor quantum dots are promising candidates for fabricating quantum computing devices. When several quantum dots are in proximity, spatial correlation between electrons in the system becomes significant.…

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We observe the low-lying excitations of a molecular dimer formed by two electrons in a GaAs semiconductor quantum dot in which the number of confined electrons is tuned by optical illumination. By employing inelastic light scattering we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-16 Achintya Singha , Vittorio Pellegrini , Aron Pinczuk , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Massimo Rontani

We demonstrate that in semiconductor quantum dots wave functions probed by imaging techniques based on local tunneling spectroscopies like STM show characteristic signatures of electron-electron Coulomb correlation. We predict that such…

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Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

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The rotation of a quantum liquid induces vortices to carry angular momentum. When the system is composed of multiple components that are distinguishable from each other, vortex cores in one component may be filled by particles of the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Saarikoski , A. Harju , J. Christensson , S. Bargi , M. Manninen , S. M. Reimann

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

The yrast spectra (i.e. the lowest states for a given total angular momentum) of quantum dots in strong magnetic fields, are studied in terms of exact numerical diagonalization and analytic trial wave functions. We argue that certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Manninen , S. Viefers , M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann

The low-lying eigenstates of a system of two electrons confined within a two-dimensional quantum dot with a hard polygonal boundary are obtained by means of exact diagonalization. The transition from a weakly correlated charge distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C E Creffield , Wolfgang Haeusler , J H Jefferson , Sarben Sarkar

Using the method of breaking of circular symmetry and of subsequent symmetry restoration via projection techiques, we present calculations for the ground-state energies and excitation spectra of N-electron parabolic quantum dots in strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuesong Li , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman