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Phys. Rev. B 67, 115321 (2003) [7 pages]

Numerical method for N electrons bound to a polar quantum dot with a Coulomb impurity

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J. K. F. Yau* and C. M. Lee
Superconductor Fabrication Laboratory, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

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Received 23 September 2002; published 19 March 2003; publisher error corrected 31 March 2003

A numerical method is proposed to calculate the Frohlich Hamiltonian containing N electrons bound to polar quantum dot with a Coulomb impurity without transformation to the coordination frame of the center of mass and by direct diagonalization. As an example to demonstrate the formalism of this method, the low-lying spectra of three interacting electrons bound to an on-center Coulomb impurity, both for accepter and donor, are calculated and analyzed in a polar quantum dot under a perpendicular magnetic field. Taking polaron effect into account, the physical meaning of the phonon-induced terms, both self-square terms and cross terms of the Hamiltonian are discussed. The calculation can also be applied to systems containing particles with opposite charges, such as excitons.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.115321
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.115321
PACS:
73.21.-b

*FAX: 852-2788-8423; Email address: mejyau@cityu.edu.hk

Email address: mesimon@cityu.edu.hk

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Publisher's Note: J. K. Yau and C. M. Lee, Publisher’s Note: Numerical method for N electrons bound to a polar quantum dot with a Coulomb impurity [Phys. Rev. B 67, 115321 (2003)], Phys. Rev. B 67, 129905 (2003).