The Crossover between Liquid and Solid Electron Phases in Quantum Dots: A Large-Scale Configuration-Interaction Study

Abstract

We study the crossover between liquid and solid electron phases in a two-dimensional harmonic trap as the density is progressively diluted. We infer the formation of geometrically ordered phases from charge distributions and pair correlation functions obtained via a large scale configuration interaction calculation.

LaTeX 2e, Elsevier style. Four pages, two b/w postscript figures. Submitted to Computer Physics Communications as a proceeding of Conference on Computational Physics, Genova 2004

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