摘要

Within the quasi-one-dimensional effective potential model and effective mass approximation, we calculate the ground and the first 9 excited-state binding energies of a hydrogenic donor impurity in a rectangular quantum dot (RQD) in the presence of electric field. The analytical form of the quasi-one-dimensional effective potential replacing the three-dimensional Coulomb potential in our model is derived by Fourier transforms. We discuss detailedly dependence of the binding energies on the impurity positions and electric fields. For the ground-state binding energy, our results qualitatively agree with that of Mendoza et al. (2005) in which they only calculated the ground-state binding energies in cubic quantum dots by variational method. However, for first 9 excited-state binding energies, such dependence has complex manner since there are two or three peaks in the electronic probability density distribution curves. The strengths and positions of these peaks in RQD affect the interaction potential between electron and impurity, which appears to be the critical control on the binding energies of impurity. The applied electric field pushes the positions of these peaks downwards, and the strengths of peaks located at the upper half of RQD increase while the strengths of lower peaks firstly decrease, then increase with increasing electric field. The high peak strength can lead to increase of the binding energy while the large distance between the position of peak and impurity center results in reduce of the energy, which is an interesting competition. This competition is more obvious for excited-state binding energies of off-central impurity.

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