Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1815299 | Physica B: Condensed Matter | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We examine states of electrons confined to the conduction band of an intrinsic semiconductor that is cut up into various geometric shapes. In the case of a repetitive pattern such as an antidot lattice, mini-Bloch sub-bands condense out of the conduction band. We find a fit of the lowest mini-band to a tight-binding approximation; this enables comparison with Hubbard and Hubbard-like models. With the Coulomb interaction being taken into account, it is easily seen that the ground state favors an antiferromagnetic phase, a ferromagnetic phase and ultimately, a superconductive phase, depending on electron concentrations. The critical temperatures increase with inverse effective mass, 1/m*.
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Authors
D.C. Mattis,