ABSTRACT
Recent works indicate that coupled quantum dots (QD) are promising nanostructures for realizing quantum gates that are the basic elements of a quantum computer. In QDs, fundamental quantum logic operations can be achieved in a quantum gate by controlling the entanglement between two electron spins by means of external electric and magnetic fields. This chapter describes the computational approach used to solve the many-body Schrodinger equation. It provides results of the simulations for both the strongly coupled and weakly coupled QDs and analyzes the important differences between the two cases. The utilization of simple trial wavefunctions in VMC have lead to good agreement with the ED method, when electrons are decoupled, which validates two-level approaches such as the Heitler-London approximation in weakly coupled QDs.
