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We study the ground state of a clean two-dimensional electron liquid in a weak magnetic field where $N \gg 1$ lower Landau levels are completely filled and the upper level is partially filled. It is shown that the electrons at the upper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. A. Koulakov , M. M. Fogler , B. I. Shklovskii

The analysis of the terminating bands has been performed in the relativistic mean field framework. It was shown that nuclear magnetism provides an additional binding to the energies of the specific configuration and this additional binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 A. V. Afanasjev

We apply reduced density-matrix functional theory to the parabolically confined quantum Hall droplet in the spin-frozen strong magnetic field regime. One-body reduced density matrix functional method performs remarkably well in obtaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Tölö , A. Harju

We present numerical calculations of the equation of state for dense matter in high magnetic fields, using a temperature dependent Thomas-Fermi theory with a magnetic field that takes all Landau levels into account. Free energies for atoms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Thorolfsson , O. E. Rognvaldsson , J. Yngvason , E. H. Gudmundsson

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

Charge density waves are thought to be common in two-dimensional electron systems in quantizing magnetic fields. Such phases are formed by the quasiparticles of the topmost occupied Landau level when it is partially filled. One class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael M. Fogler

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Density-functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of quantum dots in a magnetic field. New series of magic numbers are found for the total angular momentum of electrons. The empirical formula for the plateau width is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 A. A. Vasilchenko

We present a study of ground state energies and densities of quantum dots in a magnetic field, which takes into account correlation effects through the Current-density functional theory (CDFT). The method is first tested against exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Ferconi , G. Vignale

One of the central problems in quantum mechanics is to determine the ground state properties of a system of electrons interacting via the Coulomb potential. Since its introduction by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham, Density Functional Theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density-functional theory (DFT) is broadly considered the conceptual basis for a full characterization of an electronic system in its ground state by just the one-body particle density. In this Part~II of a…

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

Low-dimensional electron systems often show a delicate interplay between electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions, giving rise to interesting quantum phases such as the charge density wave (CDW) and magnetism. Using the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-20 Yoon-Gu Kang , Sun-Woo Kim , Jun-Hyung Cho

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

In contrast to the original Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism, we propose a density functional theory (DFT) with fractional orbital occupations for the study of ground states of many-electron systems, wherein strong static correlation is shown to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeng-Da Chai

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) has become an appealing alternative to density-functional theory to describe electronic properties of highly-correlated systems. Here we derive exact conditions for the suitability of RDMFT…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-19 A. Putaja , E. Rasanen

Quantum dots induced by a strong magnetic field applied to a single layer of graphene in the perpendicular direction are investigated. The dot is defined by a model potential which consists of a well of depth $\Delta V$ relative to a flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. A. Maksym , M. Roy , M. F. Craciun , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , H. Aoki

We construct a density-functional formalism adapted to uniform external magnetic fields that is intermediate between conventional Density Functional Theory and Current-Density Functional Theory (CDFT). In the intermediate theory, which we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Erik I. Tellgren , Andre Laestadius , Trygve Helgaker , Simen Kvaal , Andrew M. Teale

The two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a unique laboratory for the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels. Within a Landau level the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 O. E. Dial , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We consider the Ginzburg-Landau functional with a variable applied magnetic field in a bounded and smooth two dimensional domain. The applied magnetic field varies smoothly and is allowed to vanish non-degenerately along a curve. Assuming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Kamel Attar