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Conductance of a quantum wire at low electron density. Most books thus drop b by assuming electrons to carry spin and state that a is then broken. Quantum magnetism approaches to strongly correlated electrons. A molecular description for magicnumber configurations of interacting electrons in a quantum dot in high magnetic fields developed by one of the authors has been elaborated for four, five and six electron dots. Let us consider a magnetic ion, having spin j, and hence magnetic moment j b in an e.
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