Variational reduced-density-matrix theory applied to the electronic structure of few-electron quantum dots

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Rothman, Adam E ^a   Mazziotti, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUANTUM DOTS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 51649093326     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.032510     Document Type: Article

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