Circular parabolic quantum dots with repulsive off-center impurities: An SDFT study

A. Wensauer, J. Kainz, M. Suhrke, U. Rössler

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Abstract

Quantum dots (QDs) realized by etching or gate structures in a two-dimensional electron system may, under realistic conditions, contain an impurity atom which causes deviations of the electron structure from the ideal case. We have performed ground-state calculations for circular disk-like QDs with a parabolic confinement potential and a repulsive off-center impurity. Besides the distance of the impurity from the dot center we can vary its strength using a Coulomb potential for its shape. The essential effect of the off-center impurity is the breaking of the axial symmetry with the consequence of removing degeneracies in the single-particle spectrum which is related to shell and spin phenomena. We quantify these effects in the ground-state energy and the spin densities by applying spin-density functional theory (SDFT) in the local spin density approximation (LSDA).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)675-679
Number of pages5
JournalPhysica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research
Volume224
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2001
Externally publishedYes

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