Full configuration interaction approach to the few-electron problem in artificial atoms

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Rontani, Massimo ^a   Cavazzoni, Carlo ^a,b   Bellucci, Devis ^a,c   Goldoni, Guido ^a,c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b CINECA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ARTIFICIAL ATOMS; DIAGONALIZATION; FEW-ELECTRON PROBLEM; WIGNER REGIME;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 34547926149     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2179418     Document Type: Article

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