Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems

Details Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems

2007-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702246v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, p. 010402 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.010402

Many-body effects in confined quantum systems pose a challenging problem due to the simultaneous presence of particle-particle interactions and spatial inhomogeneity. Here we investigate universal properties of strongly confined particles that turn out to be dramatically different from what is observed for electrons in atoms and molecules. We show that for a large class of harmonically confined systems, including small quantum dots and optically trapped atoms, many-body particle addition and removal energies, and energy gaps, can accurately be obtained from single-particle eigenvalues. Transport blockade phenomena are related to the derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation functional. This implies that they occur very generally, with Coulomb blockade being a particular realization of a more general phenomenon. In particular, we predict van-der-Waals blockade in cold atom gases in traps.

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