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We consider circular and elliptic quantum dots with parabolic external confinement, containing 0 - 22 electrons and with values of r_s in the range 0 < r_s < 3. We perform restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations, and further…

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Frustrated spin models may lead to the formation of both classical non-collinear spin structures and unique quantum phases including highly entangled quantum spin liquids. Here, we study the entanglement and spatial quantum correlations in…

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Energy spectra, spin configurations, and entanglement characteristics of a system of four electrons in lateral double quantum dots are investigated using exact diagonalization (EXD), as a function of interdot separation, applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 Ying Li , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Energy spectra of quasi-one-dimensional quantum rings with a few electrons are studied using several different theoretical methods. Discrete Hubbard models and continuum models are shown to give similar results governed by the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Manninen , P. Koskinen , M. Koskinen , P. Singha Deo , S. M. Reimann , S. Viefers

We study electronic configurations in a single pair of vertically coupled self-assembled InAs quantum dots, holding just a few electrons. By comparing the experimental data of non-linear single-electron transport spectra in a magnetic field…

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The structure of the low-energy electronic states in layered cobaltates is considered starting from the Mott insulating limit. We argue that the coherent part of the wave-functions and the Fermi-surface topology at low doping are strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Khaliullin , W. Koshibae , S. Maekawa

We investigate the use of external time-dependent magnetic field for the control of the quantum states in a two-electron quantum ring. The hyperfine interaction of the confined electrons with surrounding nuclei couples the singlet state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Jani Särkkä , Ari Harju

We investigate the spin of the ground state of a geometrically confined many-electron system. For atoms, shell structure simplifies this problem-- the spin is prescribed by the well-known Hund's rule. In contrast, quantum dots provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. U. Baranger , D. Ullmo , L. I. Glazman

Energy spectrum fine structure of triplet two-electron states is investigated theoretically. Spin-orbit interaction induced terms in the effective Hamiltonian of electron-electron interaction are derived for zinc-blende lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 M. M. Glazov

We consider the one-dimensional spinless Falicov-Kimball model of itinerant fermionic particles (``spinless electrons''), which can hop between nearest-neighbour sites only, and of immobile particles (``classical ions''), with an on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Jedrzejewski , T. Krokhmalskii , O. Derzhko

A few-electron double quantum dot was fabricated using metal-oxide-semiconductor(MOS)-compatible technology and low-temperature transport measurements were performed to study the energy spectrum of the device. The double dot structure is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 W. H. Lim , H. Huebl , L. H. Willems van Beveren , S. Rubanov , P. G. Spizzirri , S. J. Angus , R. G. Clark , A. S. Dzurak

We investigate the spin structure of many-fermion systems with a spin-conserving two-body random interaction. We find a strong dominance of spin-0 ground states and considerable correlations between energies and wave functions of low-lying…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-14 Lev Kaplan , Thomas Papenbrock , Calvin W. Johnson

The influence of disorder and interaction on the ground state polarization of the two-dimensional (2D) correlated electron gas is studied by numerical investigations of unrestricted Hartree-Fock equations. The ferromagnetic ground state is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Nita , V. Dinu , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

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

We numerically investigate quantum rings in graphene and find that their electronic properties may be strongly influenced by the geometry, the edge symmetries and the structure of the corners. Energy spectra are calculated for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

We study possible quantum states of two correlated electrons in a two-dimensional crystal and find a metastable energy band of the electron pair between the two lowest single-electron bands. These metastable states result from the interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-10 G. -Q. Hai , L. K. Castelano

The electronic states in incommensurate (IC) helical magnets are studied theoretically from the viewpoint of the localization/delocalization. It is found that in the multi-band system with relativistic spin-orbit interaction, the electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Shu Tanaka , Hosho Katsura , Naoto Nagaosa

Low-lying energy levels of two interacting electrons confined in a two-dimensional parabolic quantum dot in the presence of an external magnetic field have been revised within the frame of a novel model. The present formalism, which gives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-11 Bulent Gonul , Ebru Bakir , Koray Koksal

Some of the most intriguing problems in solid state physics arise when the motion of one electron dramatically affects the motion of surrounding electrons. Traditionally, such highly-correlated electron systems have been studied mainly in…

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