کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1544516 1512890 2014 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Metastable and spin-polarized states in electron systems with localized electron–electron interaction
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
حالت های متاستاز و اسپین پلاریزه شده در سیستم های الکترون با الکترون های متقاطع الکترون
کلمات کلیدی
شکستن تقارن اسپین، همبستگی الکترونی، تماس نقطه کوانتومی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی مواد مواد الکترونیکی، نوری و مغناطیسی
چکیده انگلیسی


• A metastable state arises in the electron system when pair interaction is localized.
• In the metastable state, the system can be both spin polarized and unpolarized.
• Critical conditions for the metastable state to appear are studied.
• Electron cloud around the interaction region affects the metastable state energy.

We study the formation of spontaneous spin polarization in inhomogeneous electron systems with pair interaction localized in a small region that is not separated by a barrier from surrounding gas of non-interacting electrons. Such a system is interesting as a minimal model of a quantum point contact in which the electron–electron interaction is strong in a small constriction coupled to electron reservoirs without barriers. Based on the analysis of the grand potential within the self-consistent field approximation, we find that the formation of the polarized state strongly differs from the Bloch or Stoner transition in homogeneous interacting systems. The main difference is that a metastable state appears in the critical point in addition to the globally stable state, so that when the interaction parameter exceeds a critical value, two states coexist. One state has spin polarization and the other is unpolarized. Another feature is that the spin polarization increases continuously with the interaction parameter and has a square-root singularity in the critical point. We study the critical conditions and the grand potentials of the polarized and unpolarized states for one-dimensional and two-dimensional models in the case of extremely small size of the interaction region.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures - Volume 59, May 2014, Pages 75–82
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