DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF QUANTUM WIRES AND DOTS IN A STRONG MAGNETIC-FIELD

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STOOF, TH [1 ]
BAUER, GEW [1 ]
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[1] DELFT UNIV TECHNOL, DELFT INST MICROELECTR & SUBMICRON TECHNOL, 2628 CJ DELFT, NETHERLANDS
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10.1103/PhysRevB.52.12143
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We study the competition between the exchange and the direct Coulomb interaction near the edge of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field using density-functional theory in a local approximation for the exchange-energy functional. Exchange is shown to play a significant role in reducing the spatial extent of the compressible edge channel regions obtained from an electrostatic description. The transition from the incompressible edge channels of the Hartree-Fock picture to the broad, compressible strips predicted by electrostatics occurs within a narrow and experimentally accessible range of confinement strengths.
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