Using variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods, we have calculated the ground state energy of spinless charged particles (for N ≤ 10) interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential, moving in two-dimensions and kept together by an external parabolic potential. Using a very simple trial wave function, we obtain results comparable to those of a sophisticated model of a quantum dot.
Using variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods, we have calculated the lowand high-spin state energies for a hardwall quantum dot model containing N 10 electrons. Our results are slightly lower than those obtained by Hartree-Fock and are in agreement with full configuration interaction calculations available for N = 3, 4, 5. We have observed that due to a very small difference between low-and high-spin state energies at sufficiently low electronic densities, the system might present spin-blockade effects.
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