Bound polaron in a spherical quantum dot under an electric field

A variational approach is used to study the ground state of a bound polaron in a spherical quantum dot under an external electric field. The binding energy of the hydrogenic impurity state is calculated by taking the interaction of an electron with both the confined longitudinal optical phonons and the surface optical phonons into account. The interaction between impurity and longitudinal optical phonons has also been considered to obtain the binding energy of a bound polaron. It shows that the polaron effects give significant corrections to the binding energy and its Stark energy shift. The external electric field increases the phonon contributions to the binding energy.     

A bound polaron in a spherical quantum dot

The binding energy of a bound polaron in a spherical quantum dot has been investigated by using the variational method. The influence of LO and SO phonons have taken into consideration. Result shows that the phonon contribution to the binding energy is dependent on the size of the quantum dot as well as the position of the impurity in the quantum dot. Numerical calculation on the ZnSe quantum dot shows that such contribution is about 5% to 20% of the total binding energy. Received: 13 October 1997 / Revised: 4 March 1998 / Accepted: 26 May 1998     

Effects of Shannon entropy and electric field on polaron in RbCl triangular quantum dot

In this paper, the time evolution of the quantum mechanical state of a polaron is examined using the Pekar type variational method on the condition of the electric-LO-phonon strong-coupling and polar angle in RbCl triangular quantum dot. We obtain the eigenenergies, and the eigenfunctions of the ground state, and the first excited state respectively. This system in a quantum dot can be treated as a two-level quantum system qubit and the numerical calculations are performed.The effects of Shannon entropy and electric field on the polaron in the RbCl triangular quantum dot are also studied.     

Magnetic field effect on state energies and transition frequency of a strong-coupling polaron in an anisotropic quantum dot

By employing a variational method of the Pekar-type, which has different variational parameters in the x–y plane and the z-direction, we study the ground and the first excited state energies and transition frequency between the ground and the first excited states of a strong-coupling polaron in an anisotropic quantum dot (AQD) under an applied magnetic field along the z-direction. The effects of the magnetic field and the electron–phonon coupling strength are taken into account. It is found that the ground and the first excited state energies and the transition frequency are increasing functions of the external applied magnetic field. The ground state and the first excited state energies are decreasing functions, whereas transition frequency is an increasing function of the electron–phonon coupling strength. We find two ways of tuning the state energies and the transition frequency: by adjusting (1) the magnetic field and (2) the electron–phonon coupling strength.     

Photoionization and binding energy of a donor impurity in a quantum dot under an electric field: Effects of the hydrostatic pressure and temperature

Using the perturbation approach, we have calculated the donor impurity related photoionization cross-section in a quantum dot under different temperature and hydrostatic pressure conditions. Our calculation have revealed the dependence of the photoionization cross-section on the confinement strength, temperature and hydrostatic pressure.     

The bound polaron in an electric field in polar semiconductor heterostructures

We have calculated the ionization energy of a bound polaron confined in general step quantum wells (QWs) in the presence of an electric field, in which the coupling of an electron with confined bulk-like LO phonons, half-space LO phonons and interface phonons is considered. In particular, the interaction of the impurity with the various phonon modes is also included in QWs. Results have been obtained as a function of the barrier height, the well width, the electric field intensities and the position coordinates of the impurity in the QWs. Our numerical calculations clearly show that the interaction between the impurity and the phonon field plays an important role in screening the Coulomb interaction. It is shown that the cumulative effect of the electron–phonon coupling and the impurity–phonon coupling can contribute appreciably to the donor ionization energy. Only for a certain range of well widths can we neglect all the polaronic effects.     

Influence of the image charge effect on the hydrogen-like impurity-bound polaron in a spherical quantum dot in the presence of an electric field

We have investigated the influence of an external electric field on the binding energies and polaronic shifts of the ground and some first few excited states of a hydrogenic impurity in a spherical quantum dot by taking into account the image charge effect. By using Landau–Pekar variational method the general analytical expression is obtained for the impurity bound-polaron energies. It has been numerically identified the conditions (electric field, nominal radius of quantum dot, etc.) in which the bound-polaron states can be existence in GaAs quantum dot. We have shown that the polaronic shifts in the binding energy of 1s-like state are the same in cases with and without image charge effect while they for 2s-like state are not coincide and have different monotonic behavior versus confinement potential. Electron–phonon interaction lifts the degeneracy of the 2px-, 2py-, and 2pz-like states of a donor impurity and reduces their binding energies.     

Effect of magnetic field on the impurity binding energy of the excited states in spherical quantum dot

The effect of external magnetic field on the excited state energies in a spherical quantum dot was studied. The impurity energy and binding energy were calculated using the variational method within the effective mass approximation and finite barrier potential. The results showed that by increasing the magnetic field, the energy would be increased. The results obtained by this method were compared with the previous investigations.     

Influence of temperature on ground state energy of bound polaron in asymmetric Gaussian potential quantum well in presence of electromagnetic field

By a combination method of Lee–Low–Pines unitary transformation method and Pekar-type variational method, the ground state energy (GSE) of the bound polaron is studied in the asymmetrical Gaussian potential quantum well considering the temperature and electromagnetic field. The impacts of the temperature and asymmetrical Gaussian potential, electromagnetic field and phonon–electron coupling upon the GSE are obtained. The results show that the GSE of the bound polaron not only oscillates as the temperature changes regardless of the electromagnetic field and asymmetrical Gaussian potential and Coulomb impurity potential (CIP) and electron–phonon coupling but also has different rules with the electromagnetic field and asymmetrical Gaussian potential and CIP and electron–phonon coupling at different temperature zones.     

The polaron effect on the binding energy of a shallow donor impurity in quantum-well wires in an electric field

Using a variational technique, the effect of electron-longitudinal optical (LO) phonon interaction on the ground and the first few excited states of a hydrogenic impurity in a semiconductor quantum wire of rectangular cross section under an external electric field is studied theoretically for the impurity atom doped at various positions. The results for the binding energy as well as polaronic correction are obtained as a function of the size of the wire, the applied uniform electric field and the position of the impurity. It is found that the presence of optical phonons changes significantly the values of the impurity binding energies of the system. Taking into account the electron–LO phonon interaction the 1s→2p_y and 1s→2p_z transition energies are calculated as a function of applied electric field for different impurity positions.     

量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的温度效应

采用线性组合算符与变分相结合的方法讨论了无限深量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的温度效应.给出了无限深量子阱中束缚极化子的基态能量和振动频率随温度和阱宽的变化关系.对RbCl晶体进行了数值计算,结果表明：当温度升高时,量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的振动频率增大,基态能量的绝对值增大;并且基态能量的绝对值随阱宽增大而增大.     

量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的温度效应

采用线性组合算符与变分相结合的方法讨论了无限深量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的温度效应.给出了无限深量子阱中束缚极化子的基态能量和振动频率随温度和阱宽的变化关系.对RbCl晶体进行了数值计算,结果表明:当温度升高时,量子阱中强耦合束缚极化子的振动频率增大,基态能量的绝对值增大;并且基态能量的绝对值随阱宽增大而增大.     

Rashba效应和Zeeman效应对各向异性量子点中束缚磁极化子性质的影响

采用Pekar变分法和幺正变换相结合的方法研究了各向异性量子点中束缚磁极化子的Rashba效应和Zeeman效应.通过理论推导,得到束缚磁极化子基态能量的表达式.讨论了极化子基态能量与横向有效受限长度、纵向有效受限长度、磁场回旋共振频率、库仑束缚势的关系.由于晶体结构反演非对称性和时间反演非对称性,极化子能量发生Rashba自旋轨道分裂和Zeeman分裂.在强、弱磁场下,分别讨论了Zeeman效应和Rashba效应在能量分裂中所占的主导地位.由于声子和杂质的存在,极化子比裸电子态更稳定.     

Effect of the dielectric-constant mismatch and magnetic field on the binding energy of hydrogenic impurities in a spherical quantum dot

Within the effective mass approximation and variational method the effect of dielectric constant mismatch between the size-quantized semiconductor sphere, coating and surrounding environment on impurity binding energy in both the absence and presence of a magnetic field is considered. The dependences of the binding energy of a hydrogenic on-center impurity on the sphere and coating radii, alloy concentration, dielectric-constant mismatch, and magnetic field intensity are found for the GaAs–Ga_1−xAl_xAs–AlAs (or vacuum) system.     

The influences of electric field and temperature on state energies of a strong-coupling polaron in an asymmetric Gaussian potential quantum well

We investigate the electric field effect on the ground state (GS), the first-excited state (FES) and the excitation energies of a strong-coupled polaron in an asymmetric Gaussian potential (AGP) quantum well (QW) by using a variational method of the Pekar type (VMPT). By employing the quantum statistics theory (QST), we also study the temperature effects on the state energies (SE). It is found that the SE of polaron are an increasing function of temperature. The polaron's SE are decreasing functions of electric field, but the excitation energy is an increasing one.     

Effects of electric field and hydrostatic pressure on donor binding energies in a spherical quantum dot

The binding energies of a hydrogenic donor in a GaAs spherical quantum dot in the Ga_1−xAl_xAs matrix are presented assuming parabolic confinement. Effects of hydrostatic pressure and electric field are discussed on the results obtained using a variational method. Effects of the spatial variation of the dielectric screening and the effective mass mismatch are also investigated. Our results show that (i) the ionization energy decreases with dot size, with the screening function giving uniformly larger values for dots which are less than about 25 nm, (ii) the hydrostatic pressure increases the donor ionization energy such that the variation is larger for a smaller dot, and (iii) the ionization energy decreases in an electric field. All the calculations have been carried out with finite barriers and good agreement is obtained with the results available in the literature in limiting cases.     

Hydrogenic impurity bound polaron in a parabolic quantum dot with arbitrary electron-phonon coupling strength

A variational approach is employed to obtain the ground and the first excited state binding energies of an electron bound to a hydrogenic impurity in a polar semiconductor quantum dot (QD) with symmetric parabolic confinement in both two and three-dimensions. We perform calculations for the entire range of the electron-phonon coupling constant and the Coulomb binding parameter and for arbitrary confinement length. It is found that the binding energy of ground and first excited state is larger in a two-dimension (2D) dot than in a three-dimension (3D) dot and this trend is more pronounced with the increase of the electron-phonon coupling constant for the same value of the Coulomb binding parameter and confinement length. Furthermore, the ground and the first excited state binding energy increases with increasing the Coulomb binding parameter in both 2D and 3D QDs for the same electron-phonon coupling constant.     

Effect of various factors on binding energy of pyramid quantum dot: pressure,temperature and impurity position

In the present work, we have studied the effects of hydrostatic pressure, temperature and impurity position on the donor binding energy of a pyramid quantum dot. For this goal, using variational method, we have calculated the binding energy as a function of dot size for various impurity locations, different pressures and temperatures. According to the results, we have found that the binding energy increases when the pressure increases and it enhances as the temperature decreases. Our results show that these effects play an important and considerable role on the donor binding energy of a pyramid quantum dot.