Many-body wave function for a quantum dot in a weak magnetic field

Autor: V. Halonen, Ari Harju, Viktor Sverdlov, Risto M. Nieminen
Přispěvatelé: Perustieteiden korkeakoulu, School of Science, Teknillisen fysiikan laitos, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Physical Review B. 59:5622-5626
ISSN: 1095-3795
0163-1829
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.59.5622
Popis: The ground states of parabolically confined electrons in a quantum dot are studied by both direct numerical diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We present a simple but accurate variational many-body wave function for the dot in the limit of a weak magnetic field. The wave function has the center-of-mass motion restricted to the lowest-energy state and the electron-electron interaction is taken into account by a Jastrow two-body correlation factor. The optimized wave function has an accuracy very close to the state-of-the-art numerical diagonalization calculations. The results and the computational efficiency indicate that the presented wave function combined with the QMC method suits ideally for studies of large quantum dots.
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