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Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of Density Functional Theory is modified to include the systems with strong non-dynamic electron correlation. Unlike in extended KS and broken symmetry unrestricted KS formalisms, cases of both singlet-triplet and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem Masunov

We study the ballistic edge-channel transport in quantum wires with a magnetic quantum dot, which is formed by two different magnetic fields B^* and B_0 inside and outside the dot, respectively. We find that the electron states located near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. -S. Sim , G. Ihm , N. Kim , K. J. Chang

The low-energy eigenstates of two interacting electrons in a square quantum dot in a magnetic field are determined by numerical diagonalization. In the strong correlation regime, the low-energy eigenstates show Aharonov-Bohm type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. E. Creffield , J. H. Jefferson , S. Sarkar , D. L. Tipton

Ensemble density functional theory extends the usual Kohn-Sham machinery to quantum state ensembles involving ground- and excited states. Recent work by the authors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 243001 (2017); 123, 016401 (2019)] has shown that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

We develop a theoretical model for the description of electron dynamics in coupled quantum wires when the local magnetic moment is formed in one of the wires. We employ a single-particle Hamiltonian that takes account of the specific…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 V. I. Puller , L. G. Mourokh , A. Shailos , J. P. Bird

We propose that a magnetic quantum wire composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be used as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

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

The magnetic field dependence of the electronic properties of \textit{real} single vertical quantum dots in circular and rectangular mesas is investigated within a full three-dimensional multiscale self-consistent approach without any {\it…

A model for quantum dots is proposed, in which the motion of a few electrons in a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field of arbitrary direction is studied. The spectrum and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Michael Seidl , G. Vignale

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

Electron transport through multi-terminal rectangular arrays of quantum rings is studied in the presence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the analytic expressions for the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Francois M. Peeters

One-electron tunneling through a quantum dot with a strong magnetic field in the direction of the current is studied. The linear magneto-conductance is computed for a model parabolic dot with seven electrons in the intermediate states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Augusto Gonzalez , Roberto Capote

Bulk magnetism in solids is fundamentally quantum mechanical in nature. Yet in many situations, including our everyday encounters with magnetic materials, quantum effects are masked, and it often suffices to think of magnetism in terms of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Christensen , H. M. Ronnow , D. F. McMorrow , A. Harrison , T. G. Perring , M. Enderle , R. Coldea , L. P. Regnault , G. Aeppli

We study the influence of many-body interactions on the transport characteristics of a novel device structure, consisting of a pair of quantum wires that are coupled to each other by means of a quantum dot. Under conditions where a local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 V. I. Puller , L. G. Mourokh , A. Shailos , J. P. Bird

Problems of strongly interacting electrons can be greatly simplified by reducing them to effective quantum spin models. The initial step is renormalization of the Hamiltonian into a lower energy subspace. The positive and negative U Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Auerbach

The synthesis of molecular magnets has undergone rapid progress in recent years. Each of the identical molecular units can contain as few as two and up to several dozens of paramagnetic ions (spins). Although these materials appear as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Schnack

We consider tunneling transport through a Mn$_{12}$ molecular magnet using spin density functional theory. A tractable methodology for constructing many-body wavefunctions from Kohn-Sham orbitals allows for the determination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-08 L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , M. R. Pederson , M. Paulsson , V. G. Benza

We investigate a two-component, cylindrical, quasi-one-dimensional quantum plasma subjected to a {\em radial} confining harmonic potential and an applied magnetic field in the symmetric gauge. It is demonstrated that such a system as can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Manvir S. Kushwaha

We study electronic structures of two-dimensional quantum dots in high magnetic fields using the density-functional theory (DFT) and the exact diagonalization (ED). With increasing magnetic field, beyond the formation of the totally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen