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We study Coulomb interacting electrons confined in polygonal quantum rings. We focus on the interplay of localization at the polygon corners and Coulomb repulsion. Remarkably, the Coulomb repulsion allows the formation of in-gap states,…

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We propose a simple three-body model of an atom in which one electron on a circular Rydberg orbit is treated as an independent particle and the remaining core electrons are collectively described as a single object. Within this model we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

The problem of correlation between quantum states of four-atomic molecules in different geometrical configurations is reviewed in detail. A general, still simple rule is obtained which allows one to correlate states of a linear four-atomic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Manini , S. Oss

The structures of the ground and excited states of Be-11 were studied with a microscopic method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. The theoretical results reproduce the abnormal parity of the ground state and predict various kinds of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Kanada-En'yo , H. Horiuchi

The quantum entanglement for the two electrons in the excited states of the helium-like atom/ions is investigated using the two-electron wave functions constructed by the B-spline basis. As a measure of the spatial (electron-electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Yen-Chang Lin , Yew Kam Ho

We study experimentally what is arguably the simplest yet non-trivial colloidal system: two-dimensional clusters of 6 spherical particles bound by depletion interactions. These clusters have multiple, degenerate ground states whose…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-04 Rebecca W. Perry , Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon , Michael P. Brenner , Vinothan N. Manoharan

A recent work [1] proposed a type of cluster entangled coherent states and its generation. Here we present an alternative experimental arrangement for its generation in bimodal QED cavities. The scheme employs a single two-level atom that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Becerra-Castro , W. B. Cardoso , A. T. Avelar , B. Baseia

Atomic negative ions are fragile quantum systems in which correlation among the valence electrons plays a very important role. For doubly excited states correlation becomes dominant. Photodetachment is the process where a negative ion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Andreas E. Klinkmueller

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

Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hugh G. A. Burton , Maria-Andreea Filip

Partial atomic charges are a useful and intuitive concept for understanding molecular properties and chemical reaction mechanisms, showing how changes in molecular geometry can affect the flow of electronic charge within a molecule.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Ryan J. MacDonell , Serguei Patchkovskii , Michael S. Schuurman

The spectral properties of up to four interacting electrons confined within a quasi one--dimensional system of finite length are determined by numerical diagonalization including the spin degree of freedom. The ground state energy is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfgang Haeusler , Bernhard Kramer , PTB Braunschweig

A molecular description for magic-number configurations of interacting electrons in a quantum dot in high magnetic fields developed by one of the authors has been elaborated for four, five and six electron dots. For four electrons, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiroshi Imamura , Peter A. Maksym , Hideo Aoki

A mixed spin-electron model on decorated planar lattices formed by corner-sharing trigonal bipyramids is exactly solved by imposing three mobile electrons per triangular cluster of each bipyramid by means of a generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-15 Lucia Gálisová

We consider the quantum entanglement of the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules with a tendency towards double welled potentials using model coupled harmonic diabatic potential-energy surfaces. The von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Laura K. McKemmish , Ross H. McKenzie , Noel S. Hush , Jeffrey R. Reimers

We consider tunneling of two interacting atoms with an even spatial symmetry. The atoms are prepared in two lowest excited states with respect to relative and center-of-mass motions. We observe monotonic and non-monotonic dependence of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 I. S. Ishmukhamedov , A. S. Ishmukhamedov

The Bell's basis is composed of four maximally entangled states of two qubits, named Bell states. They are usual tools in many theoretical studies and experiments. The aim of this paper is to find out the symmetries that determine a Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Alejandro Hnilo

We theoretically investigate the spin-orbit interaction of electrons confined in the outer regions of square core-shell nanowires. The polygonal cross section leads to the accumulation of low-energy electrons in the corners and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Anna Sitek , Tudor Gabriel Dumitru , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

We perform a calculation of quantum electrodynamics effects in excited states with $l>1$ of arbitrary two-body systems up to $\alpha^6\,\mu$ order. The obtained results are valid for hadronic atoms, as long as the strong interaction effects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jacek Zatorski , Vojtěch Patkóš , Krzysztof Pachucki

The scalar and tensor components of the electric quadrupole (E2) polarizabilities of the first two excited states of all the alkali-metal atoms are determined. To validate the calculations, we have evaluated the ground state E2…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Harpreet Kaur , Sukhjit Singh , Bindiya Arora , B. K. Sahoo