Nodal ground states and orbital textures in semiconductor quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Jeongsu ^a   Výborný, Karel ^a,b   Han, Jong E ^a   Žutić, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

73.21.La; 73.22.Dj; 75.75. c; 78.67.Hc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897628956     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045315     Document Type: Article

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