Spin and conductance-peak-spacing distributions in large quantum dots: A density-functional theory study

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Jiang, Hong ^a,b   Baranger, Harold U ^a   Yang, Weitao ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GROUND STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EVEN ODD EFFECT; HIGH SPIN GROUND STATE; SPIN DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037449898     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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