Spin-orbit interaction in quantum dots in the presence of exchange correlations

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2006-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602552v1

Phys. Rev. B 74, 165333 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

14 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.165333

We discuss the problem of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D chaotic or diffusive quantum dot in the presence of exchange correlations. Spin-orbit scattering breaks spin rotation invariance, and in the crossover regime between different symmetries of the spin-orbit coupling, the problem has no closed solution. A conventional choice of a many-particle basis in a numerical diagonalization is the set of Slater determinants built from the single-particle eigenstates of the one-body Hamiltonian (including the spin-orbit terms). We develop a different approach based on the use of a good-spin many-particle basis that is composed of the eigenstates of the universal Hamiltonian in the absence of spin-orbit scattering. We introduce a complete labelling of this good-spin basis and use angular momentum algebra to calculate in closed form the matrix elements of the spin-orbit interaction in this basis. Spin properties, such as the ground-state spin distribution and the spin excitation function, are easily calculated in this basis.

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