EFFECTIVE BAND HAMILTONIAN IN SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM-WELLS

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ELCI, A
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[1] Phillips Laboratory-LIDA, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque
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10.1103/PhysRevB.49.7432
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T [工业技术];
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The Luttinger-Kohn canonical transformations are used to derive the effective band Hamiltonian for a quantum well. The transformations produce 8-function potentials in the effective-mass approximation. The boundary conditions on envelope functions, obtained from this effective Hamiltonian, differ from the BenDaniel-Duke ansatz. The effective Hamiltonian depends on the electronic coherence length. It also has a velocity-dependent term that is proportional to the sum of band lineup energies.
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页码:7432 / 7442
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