Ground-state properties of bosons in three- and two-dimensional traps

We study trapped systems of bosons at zero temperature in three and two dimensions. Conditions are fulfilled for the application of Gross-Pitaevskii theory with a positive scattering length. Series expansions for ground-state properties are obtained in both the noninteracting and the strong-coupling (Thomas-Fermi) limits. From these expansions, analytic estimates are presented in the form of two-point Pad\'e approximants. We explicitly show the approximants for the total energy per particle and the chemical potential.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 3 ps figure

Renormalised perturbative series for the impurity levels in a quantum well

The energy levels of an impurity center in a deep quantum well of width L and depth g are studied analytically . Renormalised perturbative series are constructed in the regions g L^ > 1. Maximal binding energy and wave function deformation to a quasi-twodimensional function are found to occur at a certain L_c satisfying sqrt{g} L_c ~ 1. Similar results may be obtained for the impurity in a quantum wire, in a dot or in a multiwell structure.Comment: 11 pages. LaTeX. 3 figures not include

Discontinuities in the level density of small quantum dots under strong magnetic fields

Exact diagonalization studies of the level density in a six-electron quantum dot under magnetic fields around 7 T (``filling factor'' around 1/2) are reported. In any spin-polarization channel, two regimes are visible in the dot excitation spectrum: one corresponding to interacting quasiparticles (i.e. composite fermions) for excitation energies below 0.4 meV, and a second one for energies above 0.4 meV, in which the level density (exponentially) increases at the same rate as in the non-interacting composite-fermion model.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev.