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I describe the foundation of a Density Functional Theory approach to include pairing correlations, which was applied to a variety of systems ranging from dilute fermions, to neutron stars and finite nuclei. Ground state properties as well…
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We use density-functional methods to study the effects of an external magnetic field on two-dimensional quantum dots with a rectangular hard-wall confining potential. The increasing magnetic field leads to spin polarization and formation of…
We explore correlated electron states in harmonically confined few-electron quantum dots in an external magnetic field by the path-integral Monte Carlo method for a wide range of the field and the Coulomb interaction strength. Using the…
We study the energetic properties of finite but internally homogeneous D-dimensional electron droplets in the strict-correlation limit. The indirect Coulomb interaction is found to increase as a function of the electron number, approaching…
The crystalline or liquid character of the downward cusp states in N-electron parabolic quantum dots (QD's) at high magnetic fields is investigated using conditional probability distributions obtained from exact diagonalization. These…
The exact interaction energy of a many-electron system is determined by the electron pair density, which is not well-approximated in standard Kohn-Sham density functional models. Here we study the (complicated but well-defined) exact…
With the eigenfunctional theory, we study a general interacting electron system, and give a rigorous expression of its ground state energy which is composed of two parts, one part is contributed by the non-interacting electrons, and another…
Homogeneous electron and nuclear gases are transformed to a localized trial density in absolute coordinates of the multi-component hamiltonian to determine the stability of forming bound states. Regions of stability were found both at the…
An analysis shows that the ground state of the inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons in the static external field, which satisfies the thermodynamic limit, can be consistently described only using the Green function theory based on…
We present the renormalized perturbation series for the energy spectrum of the parabolic quantum dot with 2 -- 5 electrons considering ground and the lowest excited states. The proper classification of asymptotic energy levels is performed…