Electronic structure calculation for N-electron quantum dots

The Hartree-Fock method for calculating the electronic structure of N-elect ron quantum dot systems was implemented in Mathematica using an easily unde rstood modular code. Calculations were performed. for quantum dot systems c ontaining up to N = 18 electrons. The energy spectra obtained are in good a greement with those previously calculated using density functional theory. Qualitative agreement with an experimental spectrum is also obtained. (C) 2 001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.