Quantum dots in magnetic fields: thermal response of broken symmetry phases
arXiv:cond-mat/0106206 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.125305
Abstract
We investigate the thermal properties of circular semiconductor quantum dots in high magnetic fields using finite temperature Hartree-Fock techniques. We demonstrate that for a given magnetic field strength quantum dots undergo various shape phase transitions as a function of temperature, and we outline possible observable consequences.
In Press, Phys. Rev. B (2001)