Abstract
It is found that various kinds of shell structure which occur at specific values of the magnetic field lead to the disappearance of the orbital magnetization for particular magic numbers in small quantum dots with electron number A<30.
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Pis'ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 12, 870–875 (25 December 1998)
Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.