Exchange energy tuned by asymmetry in artificial molecules

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Szafran, B ^a,b   Peeters, F M ^a   Bednarek, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM DOT;

EID: 42749105262     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.205318     Document Type: Article

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