Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems
Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems
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. For a large class of harmonically confined systems, such as small quantum dots and optically trapped atoms, many-body particle addition and removal energies, and energy gaps, are accurately 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 a van der Waals blockade in cold atom gases in traps.
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Capelle, K.
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Borgh, M.
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Kärkkäinen, K.
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Reimann, S.M.
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2 July 2007
Capelle, K.
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Borgh, M.
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Kärkkäinen, K.
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Reimann, S.M.
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Capelle, K., Borgh, M., Kärkkäinen, K. and Reimann, S.M.
(2007)
Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems.
Physical Review Letters, 99 (1), .
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.010402).
Abstract
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. For a large class of harmonically confined systems, such as small quantum dots and optically trapped atoms, many-body particle addition and removal energies, and energy gaps, are accurately 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 a van der Waals blockade in cold atom gases in traps.
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