TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of polaron-transformed explicitly correlated full configuration interaction method for investigation of quantum-confined Stark effect in GaAs quantum dots
AU - Blanton, Christopher J.
AU - Brenon, Christopher
AU - Chakraborty, Arindam
PY - 2013/2/7
Y1 - 2013/2/7
N2 - The effect of external electric field on electron-hole (eh) correlation in gallium arsenide quantum dots is investigated. The electron-hole Schrodinger equation in the presence of an external electric field is solved using explicitly correlated full configuration interaction method and accurate exciton binding energy and electron-hole recombination probability are obtained. The effect of the electric field was included in the 1-particle single component basis functions by performing variational polaron transformation. The quality of the wavefunction at small inter-particle distances was improved by using Gaussian-type geminal function that depended explicitly on the electron-hole separation distance. The parameters of the explicitly correlated function were determined variationally at each field strength. The scaling of total exciton energy, exciton binding energy, and electron-hole recombination probability with respect to the strength of the electric field was investigated. It was found that a 500 kV/cm change in field strength reduces the binding energy and recombination probability by a factor of 2.6 and 166, respectively. The results show that the eh-recombination probability is affected much more strongly by the electric field than the exciton binding energy. Analysis using the polaron-transformed basis indicates that the exciton binding should asymptotically vanish in the limit of large field strength.
AB - The effect of external electric field on electron-hole (eh) correlation in gallium arsenide quantum dots is investigated. The electron-hole Schrodinger equation in the presence of an external electric field is solved using explicitly correlated full configuration interaction method and accurate exciton binding energy and electron-hole recombination probability are obtained. The effect of the electric field was included in the 1-particle single component basis functions by performing variational polaron transformation. The quality of the wavefunction at small inter-particle distances was improved by using Gaussian-type geminal function that depended explicitly on the electron-hole separation distance. The parameters of the explicitly correlated function were determined variationally at each field strength. The scaling of total exciton energy, exciton binding energy, and electron-hole recombination probability with respect to the strength of the electric field was investigated. It was found that a 500 kV/cm change in field strength reduces the binding energy and recombination probability by a factor of 2.6 and 166, respectively. The results show that the eh-recombination probability is affected much more strongly by the electric field than the exciton binding energy. Analysis using the polaron-transformed basis indicates that the exciton binding should asymptotically vanish in the limit of large field strength.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.4789540
DO - 10.1063/1.4789540
M3 - Article
C2 - 23406105
AN - SCOPUS:84873626898
SN - 0021-9606
VL - 138
JO - Journal of Chemical Physics
JF - Journal of Chemical Physics
IS - 5
M1 - 054114
ER -