Electric Field Effect on Excited State Binding Energy and Self-Polarization of a Hydrogenic Impurity in a Spherical Quantum Dot

Abstract

Effects of the electric field and impurity position on the 2p-excited state self-polarization and binding energy of the electron-impurity in a spherical quantum dot are investigated as a function of the dot radius using variational approach. According to results, turning point of 2p-excited state binding energy changes with the electric field strength and position of impurity in the spherical quantum dot. Self-polarization and binding energy between the 1s-ground state and 2p-excited state of a hydrogenic donor impurity in SQD are presented as a function of the dot radius for different electric field value and impurity positions. Obtained numerical results show a good agreement with the literature.

Keywords

• Self-polarization
• turning point
• spherical dot
• binding energy

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