Bound polaron in a two- and three-dimensional quantum dot for arbitrary electron–phonon coupling strength

Abstract

A variational approach is presented for calculating the ground-state (GS) binding energies of an electron bound to a Coulomb impurity in a polar semiconductor quantum dot (QD) with parabolic confinement in both two and three dimensions. We perform calculations for the entire range of the electron-phonon coupling constant and the Coulomb binding parameter and for arbitrary confinement length. It is found that the polaronic effect is stronger in a two dimensions (2D) dot than in a three dimensions (3D) dot and this trend is more pronounced with the increase of the coupling constant. Furthermore, the GS binding energy increases with increasing the Coulomb binding parameter in both 2D and 3D QDs for the same electron–phonon coupling constant. The results also indicate that this effect becomes much more pronounced with decreasing dimensionality.