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Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems

Capelle, Klaus ; Borgh, Magnus LU ; Kärkkäinen, Kimmo LU and Reimann, Stephanie LU (2007) In Physical Review Letters 99(1). p.010402-010406
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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  pages        = {{010402--010406}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Energy gaps and interaction blockade in confined quantum systems}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.010402}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.010402}},
  volume       = {{99}},
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