Structural properties of electrons in quantum dots in high magnetic fields: Crystalline character of cusp states and excitation spectra

Details Structural properties of electrons in quantum dots in high magnetic fields: Crystalline character of cusp states and excitation spectra Structural properties of electrons in quantum dots in high magnetic fields: Crystalline character of cusp states and excitation spectra

2004-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412200v2

Phys. Rev. B 70, 235319 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.235319

The crystalline or liquid character of the downward cusp states in N-electron parabolic quantum dots (QD's) at high magnetic fields is investigated using conditional probability distributions obtained from exact diagonalization. These states are of crystalline character for fractional fillings covering both low and high values, unlike the liquid Jastrow-Laughlin wave functions, but in remarkable agreement with the rotating-Wigner-molecule ones [Phys. Rev. B 66, 115315 (2002)]. The crystalline arrangement consists of concentric polygonal rings that rotate independently of each other, with the electrons on each ring rotating coherently. We show that the rotation stabilizes the Wigner molecule relative to the static one defined by the broken-symmetry unrestricted-Hartree-Fock solution. We discuss the non-rigid behavior of the rotating Wigner molecule and pertinent features of the excitation spectrum, including the occurrence of a gap between the ground and first excited states that underlies the incompressibility of the system. This leads us to conjecture that the rotating crystal (and not the static one) remains the relevant ground state for low fractional fillings even at the thermodynamic limit.

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