Investigation of excitation energies and Hund's rule in open shell quantum dots by diffusion Monte Carlo

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 385-392

  Colletti, L ^a   Pederiva, F ^b   Lipparini, E ^b   Umrigar, C J ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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73.21.La Electron states in quantum dots

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EID: 0012041080     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2002-00169-x     Document Type: Article

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