Title :
Quantum well electron dynamics in a parallel magnetic field
Author :
Horing, Norman J Morgenstern ; Glasser, M. Lawrence ; Dong, Bing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Eng. Phys., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A fully quantum mechanical analysis of the role of a parallel magnetic field of arbitrary strength in the electron dynamics of a narrow quantum well is carried out here. We present an explicit analytical closed-form solution for Landau-quantized electrons in skipping states of motion between the narrow well walls effectively involving in-plane translational motion and hybridized with the zero-field lowest subband energy eigenstate. There are many such undamped energy eigenstates corresponding to the many Landau levels, but they are not equally spaced in the quantum well.
Keywords :
Landau levels; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; magnetic field effects; quantum wells; Landau levels; Landau-quantized electrons; in-plane translational motion; parallel magnetic field; quantum mechanical analysis; quantum well electron dynamics; skipping states of motion; subband energy eigenstate; undamped energy eigenstates; Dispersion; Electrons; Frequency; Green´s function methods; Integral equations; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic fields; Motion analysis; Physics; Quantum mechanics;
Conference_Titel :
Nanotechnology, 2004. 4th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8536-5
DOI :
10.1109/NANO.2004.1392352