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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…

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The possibility of coherent population trapping in two electron states with aligned spins (ortho-system) is evidenced. From the analysis of a three-level atomic system containing two electrons, and driven by the two laser fields needed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Mompart , R. Corbalan , L. Roso

Quantum engineering requires controllable artificial systems with quantum coherence exceeding the device size and operation time. This can be achieved with geometrically confined low-dimensional electronic structures embedded within…

A coupled spin-electron diamond chain with localized Ising spins placed on its nodal sites and mobile electrons delocalized over interstitial sites is explored in a magnetic field taking into account the difference between Land\'e g-factors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-12 J. Torrico , M. S. S. Pereira , Jozef Strecka , M. L. Lyra

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed to characterize a few electron quantum dot electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate geometry allows observations on one and the same electron droplet within a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. K. Huettel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig

We present a new model for the study of spin-orbit coupling in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems and solve it exactly to find the spectral properties of such systems. We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Moroz , K. V. Samokhin , C. H. W. Barnes

First principles calculations are used to establish that the electronic structure of graphene ribbons with zig-zag edges is unstable with respect to magnetic polarisation of the edge states. The magnetic interaction between edge states is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Pisani , J. A. Chan , B. Montanari , N. M. Harrison

The electron spin is a natural two level system that allows a qubit to be encoded. When localized in a gate defined quantum dot, the electron spin provides a promising platform for a future functional quantum computer. The essential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Luka Trifunovic , Oliver Dial , Mircea Trif , James R. Wootton , Rediet Abebe , Amir Yacoby , Daniel Loss

Bound and resonance states of helium atom have been investigated inside a quantum dot by using explicitly correlated Hylleraas type basis set within the framework of stabilization method. To be specific, precise energy eigenvalues of bound…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jayanta K. Saha , S. Bhattacharyya , T. K. Mukherjee

A structural model of hydrogenated amorphous silicon containing an isolated dangling bond is used to investigate the effects of electron interactions on the electronic level splittings, localization of charge and spin, and fluctuations in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. G. Hennig , P. A. Fedders , A. E. Carlsson

Exact ground states of interacting electrons on the diamond Hubbard chain in a magnetic field are constructed which exhibit a wide range of properties such as flat-band ferromagnetism and correlation induced metallic, half-metallic or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-07-17 Zsolt Gulacsi , Arno Kampf , Dieter Vollhardt

We have composed the ideas of quantum renormalization group and quantum information by exploring the low energy states dynamic of entanglement resources of a system close to its quantum critical point. We demonstrate the low energy states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 R. Jafari

We investigate the stability of few-electron quantum phases in vertically coupled quantum dots under a magnetic field of arbitrary strength and direction. The orbital and spin stability diagrams of realistic devices containing up to five…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Devis Bellucci , Massimo Rontani , Guido Goldoni , Elisa Molinari

The subbands of weakly coupled double-layer two dimensional electron gas systems consist of narrowly spaced pairs whose corresponding wavefunctions are symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of isolated layer subband wavefunctions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Swierkowski , A. H. MacDonald

Due to their focalizing properties, elliptic quantum corrals present very interesting physical behaviors. In this work, we analyze static and dynamical properties of these systems. Results are presented for realistic values of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Nizama , K. Hallberg , J. d'Albuquerque e Castro

The electronic structure of UPd_2Al_3 is described using the self-interaction corrected local-spin-density approximation to density functional theory. The groundstate is found to be characterized by the coexistence of localized (f^2) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Petit , A. Svane , W. M. Temmerman , Z. Szotek , R. Tyer

An electron within a mesoscopic (quantum-coherent) spintronic structure is described by a single wave function which, in the presence of both charge scattering and spin-orbit coupling, encodes an information about {\em entanglement} of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic

For many-electron systems, the second-order reduced density matrix (2-RDM) provides sufficient information for characterizing their properties of interests in physics and chemistry, ranging from total energy, magnetism, quantum correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yimin Li

Artificial molecular states of double quantum dots defined in bilayer graphene are studied with the atomistic tight-binding and its low-energy continuum approximation. We indicate that the extended electron wave functions have opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran