Energy Spectra of a Magnetic Quantum Ring with an Off-Center Impurity

In this paper, we calculate the low-lying spectra of a single-electron magnetic quantum ring with an offcenter Coulomb impurity, where the magnetic field is zero within the ring and constant elsewhere. The impurity, either an acceptor or a donor, is located at a distance d as measured from the plane of the ring along the vertical z direction.The magnetic moments are found in order to get visible discontinuities at the points of the ground-state orbital angular momentum L transitions induced by magnetic fields.     

在磁场作用下含有杂质的半导体量子环中电子的能级

由于量子环特殊的结构,我们尝试过不少方法,发现一般传统方法很难求解薛定谔方程,故很难求出它的波函数和能级。国内外很多学者从事这方面的研究,但发表的文献非常少。有必要寻找一些新的方法从事这方面的研究工作,本文中采用了B样条函数近似拟合波函数的方法,计算了一个在谐振子束缚势和磁场作用下含有杂质的二维量子环中的电子能级。研究了电子能级随磁场强度、束缚势的变化关系以及电子能级与量子环半径的关系。我们发现电子能级随磁场强度、束缚势强度的增强而增强;每一个能级都有一个最小值在特定的量子环半径上,并且随着能级的增加,最小值的位置向半径大的方向偏移。     

无限深势阱下杂质量子点的能级计算

在有效质量近似下,垂直方向采用无限深势阱限制势,在x-y平面上,量子点内采用抛物势近似,在量子点边界处采用与实际情况更接近的无限深势阱.在中心杂质电荷为ηe时,利用波函数近似,得到基态和低激发态的能级,与x-y平面均采用抛物势时得到的能级进行了比较.计算发现在量子点真实半径比较小时,电子的基态和低激发态受其影响很大,而相应的能级随量子点的半径逐步增大.在量子点半径大于5倍有效玻尔半径时,能级受其影响已经变得很弱.并且,随着磁场的变化,量子点半径对基态和第一激发态的能级差的影响也很大.最后我们计算了杂质电子的基态束缚能并讨论了声子对其影响.     

Impurity-related electronic properties in quantum dots under electric and magnetic fields

This paper presents a systematic study of the ground-state binding energies of a hydrogenic impurity in quantum dots subjected to external electric and magnetic fields.The quantum dot is modeled by superposing a lateral parabolic potential,a Gaussian potential and the energies are calculated via the finite-difference method within the effectivemass approximation.The variation of the binding energy with the lateral confinement,external field,position of the impurity,and quantum-size is studied in detail.All these factors lead to complicated binding energies of the donor,and the following results are found:(1) the binding energies of the donor increase with the increasing magnetic strength and lateral confinement,and reduce with the increasing electric strength and the dot size;(2) there is a maximum value of the binding energies as the impurity placed in different positions along the z direction;(3) the electric field destroys the symmetric behaviour of the donor binding energies as the position of the impurity.     

Donor impurity states in elliptical quantum rings subjected to a magnetic field

Within the effective-mass approximation we calculate the energies of a donor impurity in an elliptical quantum ring subjected to a magnetic field. The energies are found to exhibit Aharonov-Bohm oscillations depending on the magnetic field and the eccentricity. As the eccentricity increases, the energies decrease and the period increases.     

On the Ordering of Energy Levels in Homogeneous Magnetic Fields

We study the energy levels of a single particle in a homogeneous magnetic field and in an axially symmetric external potential. For potentials that are superharmonic off the central axis, we find a general pseudoconcave ordering of the ground state energies of the Hamiltonian restricted to the sectors with fixed angular momentum. The physical applications include atoms and ions in strong magnetic fields. There the energies are monotone increasing and concave in angular momentum. In the case of a periodic chain of atoms, the pseudoconcavity extends to the entire lowest band of Bloch functions.     

Off—Center D—Centers in a Quantum Dot in the Presence of a Perpendicular Magnetic Fields

We investigate the effect of the position of the donor in quantum dots on the energy spectrum in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field by using the method of few-body physics,As a function of the magnetic field,we find,when D^- centers are placed sufficiently off-center,discontinuous ground-state transitions which are similar to those found in many-electron parabolic quantum dots.Series of magic numbers of angular momentum which minimize the ground-state electron-electron interaction energy have been discovered.The dependence of the binding energy of the gound-state of the D^- center on the dot radius for a few values of the magnetic field strength is obtained and compared with other results.     

应变纤锌矿GaN/AlxGa1-xN柱形量子点中类氢施主杂质态结合能的压力效应

考虑应变,在有效质量、有限高势垒近似下,变分研究了纤锌矿GaN/AlxGa1-xN柱形量子点中类氢施主杂质态结合能随流体静压力、杂质位置及量子点结构参数(量子点高度、半径、Al含量)的变化关系．结果表明,类氢施主杂质态结合能随流体静压力增大而增大,且在量子点尺寸较小时,流体静压力对杂质态结合能的影响更为显著．受流体静压力的影响,杂质态结合能随量子点高度、半径的增加而单调减少,且变化趋势加剧;随Al含量增加而增大的趋势变缓．无论是否施加流体静压力,随着类氢施主杂质从量子点左界面沿材料生长方向移至右界面,杂质态结合能在量子点的右半部分存在一极大值．流体静压力使得极大值点向量子点中心偏移．     

Quantum entanglement transition in vertically coupled two single-electron quantum dots with charged impurity

Effects of a charged impurity on the ground state of two vertically coupled identical single-electron quantum dots with and without applied magnetic field are investigated. In the absence of the magnetic field, the investigations of the charged impurity effect on the quantum entanglement (QE) in some low-lying states are carried out. It is found that, both the positive charged impurity (PCI) and the negative charged impurity (NCI)reduce the QE in the low-lying states under consideration except that the QE in the ground state is enhanced by the NCI. Additionally, in the domain of B from 0 Tesla to 15 Tesla, the ground state energy E, the ground state angular momentum L and the ground state QE entropy S are worked out. As far as the ground state are concerned, the PCI (NCI) blocks (induces) the angular momentum phase transition and the QE phase transition besides the known fact (i. e., the PCI/NCI decreases/increases the energy) in the magnetic field.     

Effects of Impurity on the Ground—State Transitions of a Quantum Dot in Strong Magnetic Field

The low-lying spectra of parabolic quantum dots with or without an impurity at the center are investigated.While it has been known that the electron-electron interaction leads to ground-state transitions on magic values of angular momentum in a magnetic field.We show,in this paper,that the implantation of an impurity ion at the center can either enhance or suppress such transitions,depending on whether it is an acceptor or a donor ion.     

压力下GaN/Ga1-xAlxN量子点中杂质态的界面效应

考虑界面处导带弯曲,流体静压力以及有效质量随量子点位置的依赖性,采用变分法以及简化相干势近似,研究了无限高势垒GaN/Ga_1-xAl_xN球形量子点中杂质态的界面效应,计算了杂质态结合能随量子点尺寸、电子面密度以及压力的变化关系。结果表明,结合能随压力的增大呈线性增加的趋势,有效质量位置的依赖性以及导带弯曲对结合能有不容忽视的影响。     

A Two-Electron Quantum Ring Under Magnetic Fields

We calculate the energy levels of low-lying states of a two-electron quantum ring under the influence of perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field. Calculations are made by using the method of exact diagonalization within the effective-mass approximation. The ground-state electronic structures and angular momentum transitions as a function of the strength of a magnetic field have been revealed.     

声子和磁场对量子环中极化子性质的影响

采用求解能量本征方程、幺正变换和变分相结合的方法,研究声子和磁场对量子环中极化子性质的影响. 对KBr量子环的数值计算表明,电子或极化子的基态能量随量子环频率(或平均半径)的增大而增大,极化子基态能移随量子环频率的增大(或平均半径的减小)而减小,极化子中的平均声子数随量子环频率的增大(或平均半径的减小)而增大. 当有垂直磁场时,极化子基态能量和基态能移与外磁场及电子转动状态有关. 随着磁场强度的增大,基态能量出现简并且呈现非周期性振荡;能移随磁场强度的增大(或转动量子数绝对值的减小)而减小.     

Neutral and positively charged excitons in quantum ring

We study theoretically quantized states of the neutral and positively charged exciton complexes confined within a circular narrow ring in the presence of the magnetic field applied along the symmetry axis. We show that in the structural adiabatic limit, when the width of the pattern of the particles pathways within the ring is much smaller than its radius, the wave equations for both complexes are separable and their exact solutions can be found in a form of the Fourier series of one and two variables, respectively. We present results of calculation of the lower energies of complexes as functions of the ring's radius and the magnetic field strength for different values of the electron-to-hole mass ratio. We found that in the molecular adiabatic limit, when this ratio tends to zero and the model describes the corresponding donor complexes, the physical interpretation of the quantum-size effect and the oscillations of energy levels in threading magnetic field revealed for the excitons spectra becomes more transparent.     

Comparison of external electric and magnetic fields effect on binding energy of hydrogenic donor impurity in different shaped quantum wells

The effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the ground state binding energy of hydrogenic donor impurity are compared in square, V-shaped, and parabolic quantum wells. With the effective-mass envelope-function approximation theory, the ground state binding energies of hydrogenic donor impurity in InGaAsP/InP QWs are calculated through the plane wave basis method. The results indicate that as the quantum well width increases, the binding energy changes most fast in SQW. When the well width is fixed, the binding energy is the largest in VQW for the donor impurity located near the center of QWs. For the smaller and larger well width, the electric field effect on binding energy is the most significant in VQW and SQW, respectively. The magnetic field effect on binding energy is the most significant in VQW. The combined effects of electric and magnetic fields on the binding energy of hydrogenic donor impurity are qualitative consistent in different shaped QWs.     

Shallow Donor Impurity Ground State in a GaAs/AlAs Spherical Quantum Dot within an Electric Field

Using the configuration-integration methods {(CI)} [Phys. Rev.B 45 (1992) 19], we report the results of the Hydrogenic-impurity ground state in a GaAs/AlAs spherical quantum dot under an electric field. We discuss the variations of the binding energies of the Hydrogenic-impurity groundstate as a function of the position of impurity D, the radius R of the quantum dot, and also as a function of electric field F. We find that the ground energy and binding energy of impurity placed anywhere depend strongly on the position of impurity. Also, electric field can largely change theHydrogenic-impurity ground state only limiting to the big radius of quantum dot. And the differences in energy level and binding energyare observed from the center donor and off-center donor.     

Aharonov–Bohm oscillation of photoionization cross section in a quantum ring with a repulsive scattering center

The photoionization cross section (PCS) associated with intersubband transitions in quantum rings which include a repulsive scattering centre is investigated for the case with the presence of an external magnetic field. Calculations are carried out by using the matrix diagonalization method of the Hamiltonian matrix within the effective-mass approximation. Our results show that both the magnetic field, the ring radius and the impurity can affect the PCS of quantum rings. In addition, we found that the resonant peak of the PCS shows the Aharonov–Bohm oscillation with changing the magnetic field and the ring radius. Moreover, the width of the ring can influence the Aharonov–Bohm oscillation in peak while the resonant peak value of the PCS decreases as the ring width increases in the same ring geometry.     

Binding energy and photoionization cross section of hydrogen-like donor impurity in quantum well-wire in electric and magnetic fields

The effect of uniform electric and magnetic fields on binding energy and photoionization cross-section of an off-axis hydrogen-like donor impurity in a QWW, approximated by a cylindrical well of finite depth, is investigated within the framework of variational approach. The dependencies of the binding energy and photoionization cross-section on electric field strength, magnetic field induction, wire radius and impurity position are obtained. The cases when the polarization vector of incident radiation is parallel and perpendicular to the wire axis are both discussed.     

Hydrostatic pressure and electric and magnetic field effects on the binding energy of a hydrogenic donor impurity in InAs Pöschl-Teller quantum ring

We consider the effects of electric and magnetic fields as well as of hydrostatic pressure on the donor binding energy in InAs Pöschl-Teller quantum rings. The ground state energy and the electron wave function are calculated within the effective mass and parabolic band approximations, using the variational method. The binding energy dependencies on the electric field strength and the hydrostatic pressure are reported for different values of quantum ring size and shape, the parameters of the Pöschl-Teller confining potential, and the magnetic field induction. The results show that the binding energy is an increasing or decreasing function of the electric field, depending on the chosen parameters of the confining potential. Also, we have observed that the binding energy is an increasing/decreasing function of hydrostatic pressure/magnetic field induction. Likewise, the impurity binding energy behaves as an increasing/decreasing function of the inner/outer radii of the quantum ring nanostructure.     

Impurity related optical properties in tuned quantum dot/ring systems

In this paper, we explore the linear, third-order nonlinear, and total optical absorption coefficient (OAC) and refractive index change coefficient (RICC) of a GaAs doped quantum dot/quantum ring (QD/QR) with parabolic-inverse squared potential in conjunction with modified Gaussian confinement and taking into account the presence of on-centre shallow donor and or acceptor impurity. Calculations are done via the compact density matrix formalism and the iterative method. The two-dimensional parabolic QD/QR is subjected to uniform magnetic field oriented perpendicularly to the plane of the structure. The energy levels and wave function are derived within the framework of effective-mass and parabolic band approximation. The results exhibit that the OACs and RICC are clearly affected by different parameters of the applied confinement, strength of magnetic field, and the presence of impurity. The variation of confinement potential, nature of impurity, dot radius, cyclotron frequency of the parabolic confinement potential, and geometric parameter of the on-centre repulsive potential lead to either a red-shift or a blue-shift of the resonant peaks of the OACs and of the maximum and minimum of the RICC together with significant variations of the magnitudes of these resonant structures.