Condensed Matter Seminar Series
Title: Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of Quantum Dots
A. Devrim Guclu
Cornell University
Thursday Nov. 10, 11:30 am, Room 234, Physics Building
Abstract: Quantum dots, also called artificial atoms,
are man-made nanostructures: they have many properties similar to an
atom, such as addition energy, shell structure and spin
configurations. Moreover, due to their experimental
accessibility, quantum dots offer very rich physics which cannot be
studied in real atoms. In this work, we investigate electronic and
transport properties of planar quantum dots in magnetic fields by using
and combining several quantum many-body techniques such as exact
diagonalization, variational and diffusion Monte Carlo, Keldysh Green's
function formalism, Hartree-Fock, and composite fermions.
Host: Harold Baranger