Various spin-polarization states beyond the maximum-density droplet: a quantum Monte Carlo study

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review B, Volume 65, issue 12, pp. 1-4

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Using a variational quantum Monte Carlo method, the effect of Landau-level mixing on the lowest-energy–state diagram of small quantum dots is studied in the magnetic-field range where the density of magnetic flux quanta just exceeds the density of electrons. An accurate analytical many-body wave function is constructed for various angular momentum and spin states in the lowest Landau level, and Landau-level mixing is then introduced using a Jastrow factor. The effect of higher Landau levels is shown to be significant; the transition lines are shifted considerably towards higher values of magnetic field and certain lowest-energy states vanish altogether.

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Siljamäki, S, Harju, A, Nieminen, R M, Sverdlov, V A & Hyvönen, P 2002, 'Various spin-polarization states beyond the maximum-density droplet: a quantum Monte Carlo study', Physical Review B, vol. 65, no. 12, 121306, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.121306