TY - JOUR A1 - Wensauer, Andreas A1 - Steffens, Oliver A1 - Suhrke, Michael A1 - Rössler, Ulrich T1 - Laterally coupled few-electron quantum dots JF - Physical Review B N2 - We present ground-state calculations for laterally coupled quantum dots containing 2, 4, and 8 electrons. As our emphasis is on spin effects our results are obtained by applying spin-density functional theory (SDFT). By varying the distance between the centers of the coupled quantum dots, the transition from weak to strong coupling situation is realized. For the 2-electron system we also apply the Heitler-London approximation and analytical concepts to check the reliability of SDFT calculations in this case. In addition we discuss the features of the Coulomb staircase of laterally coupled quantum dots in the weak and strong coupling regimes in comparison to that of a circular parabolic quantum dot. Y1 - 2000 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.2605 VL - 62 IS - 4 SP - 2605 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Oliver A1 - Wensauer, Andreas A1 - Suhrke, Michael T1 - Collective excitations in quantum dots: Calculated Raman spectra JF - physica status solidi (b) N2 - Electronic Raman scattering provides information on excited states, whose collective character as being related to the charge or spin density can be distinguished by using different polarization configurations. We employ time-dependent spin-density functional theory to calculate Raman spectra for circular semiconductor quantum dots with up to 10 electrons for the polarized and depolarized configuration and in dependence on an external magnetic field and the momentum transfer. Our results demonstrate an increase of the collective (or many-particle) character of the excitations with increasing momentum transfer and a mixing of spin- and charge-density modes for excitations from ground states with finite spin density. These results have predictive character, because corresponding experiments on few-electron dots have not yet been performed. Y1 - 1999 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-3951(199909)215:1<365::AID-PSSB365>3.0.CO;2-C VL - 215 SP - 365 EP - 371 PB - Wiley ER -