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We evaluate the chemical potential of a one-dimensional quantum dot, coupled to an atomic force microscope tip. The dot is described within the Luttinger liquid framework and the conductance peaks positions as a function of the tip location…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 D. Mantelli , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti

The quantum dynamics of an ensemble of interacting electrons in an array of random scatterers is treated using a new numerical approach for the calculation of average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Filinov , P. Thomas , I. Varga , T. Meier , M. Bonitz , V. Fortov , S. W. Koch

We investigate the statistical mechanics of an inhomogeneous Coulomb fluid composed of charged particles with static polarizability. We derive the weak- and the strong-coupling approximations and evaluate the partition function in a planar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-22 Vincent Démery , David S. Dean , Rudolf Podgornik

We study the Wigner distributions for a physical electron, which reveal the multidimensional images of the electron. The physical electron is considered as a composite system of a bare electron and photon. The Wigner distributions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Narinder Kumar , Chandan Mondal

We study a model of two concentric onedimensional rings with incommensurate areas $A_1$ and $A_2$, in a constant magnetic field. The two rings are coupled by a nonhomogeneous inter-ring tunneling amplitude, which makes the one-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. M. Canali , W. Stephan , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We study a system of interacting electrons on a one-dimensional quantum ring using exact diagonalization and the variational quantum Monte Carlo method. We examine the accuracy of the Slater-Jastrow -type many-body wave function and compare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Gylfadottir , A. Harju , T. Jouttenus , C. Webb

We evaluate the spin density oscillations arising in quantum spin Hall quantum dots created via two localized magnetic barriers. The combined presence of magnetic barriers and spin-momentum locking, the hallmark of topological insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Giacomo Dolcetto , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Matteo Biggio , Fabio Cavaliere , Maura Sassetti

The calculation of the full counting statistics of the charge within a finite interval of an interacting one-dimensional system of electrons is a fundamental, yet as of now unresolved problem. Even in the non-interacting case, charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-11 Oleksiy Kashuba , Thomas L. Schmidt , Fabian Hassler , Andreas Haller , Roman P. Riwar

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 few-body problem (with $N \leq 6$ fermionic charge carriers) in isolated moir\'{e} quantum dots (MQDs) in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer materials with integer fillings, $\nu \geq 2$, is investigated by employing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

A quantum-mechanical calculation of conductance in an open quantum dot is performed in the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism using a tight binding Hamiltonian with direct Coulomb interaction. The charge distribution in the dot is calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Aldea , A. Manolescu , V. Moldoveanu

We investigate the edge reconstruction phenomenon believed to occur in quantum dots in the quantum Hall regime when the filling fraction is nu < 1. Our approach involves the examination of large dots (< 40 electrons) using a partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eyal Goldmann , Scot R. Renn

We propose a simple phenomenological model to estimate the spatial decoherence time in quantum dots. The dissipative phase space dynamics is described in terms of the density matrix and the corresponding Wigner function, which are derived…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-05 Michael Genkin , Erik Waltersson , Eva Lindroth

A weakly bound electron in a semiconductor quantum wire is shown to become entangled with an itinerant electron via the coulomb interaction. The degree of entanglement and its variation with energy of the injected electron, may be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

We discuss the quantum dot-ring nanostructure (DRN) as canonical example of a nanosystem, for which the~interelectronic interactions can be evaluated exactly. The system has been selected due to its tunability, i.e., its electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Andrzej Biborski , Andrzej P. Kądzielawa , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Elżbieta Zipper , Maciej M. Maśka , Józef Spałek

We derive an analytical expression of a Wigner function that approximately describes the time evolution of the one-dimensional motion of a particle in a nonharmonic potential. Our method involves two exact frame transformations, accounting…

We explore the role of electron correlation in quasi one dimensional quantum wires as the range of the interaction potential is changed and their thickness is varied by performing exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations at various electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Shulenburger , M. Casula , G. Senatore , R. M. Martin

Different bases for the spin-1 density matrix are discussed to clarify the connection between its components and observables measured in heavy-ion collisions. The theoretical advantage of using the adjoint representation for spin matrices…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

We have measured the collective excitation spectrum of interacting electrons in one-dimension. The experiment consists of controlling the energy and momentum of electrons tunneling between two clean and closely situated, parallel quantum…

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Räsänen , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen