Semiconductor quantum wells with BenDaniel-Duke boundary conditions: approximate analytical results

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/38/1/015407zbMATH Open1358.82038arXiv1610.09479OpenAlexW3098746483MaRDI QIDQ2957412FDOQ2957412

Authors: Victor Barsan, Mihaela-Cristina Ciornei 

Publication date: 26 January 2017

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Schrodinger equation for a particle moving in a square well potential with BenDaniel - Duke boundary conditions is solved. Using algebraic approximations for trigonometric functions, the transcendental equations of the bound states energy are transformed into tractable, algebraic equations. For the ground state and the first excited state, they are cubic equations; we obtain simple formulas for their physically interesting roots. The case of higher excited states is also analyzed. Our results have direct applications in the physics of type I and type II semiconductor heterostructures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09479

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum wellsBenDaniel-Duke boundary conditionssemiconductor heterojunctionstype-I semiconductortype-II semiconductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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