Collective and independent-particle motion in two-electron artificial atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1726-1729

  Yannouleas, Constantine ^a   Landman, Uzi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHONONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL ATOMS; ELECTRON EXCITATION; ROVIBRATIONAL SPECTRUMS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0034245868     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1726     Document Type: Article

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