Electronic structure of a spherical quantum dot: Effects of the Kratzer potential, hydrogenic impurity, external electric and magnetic fields

Abstract

In the present work, we have investigated the simultaneous effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the energy spectrum of an electron bound to an impurity confined in a spherical quantum dot with Kratzer potential. To this end, energy eigenvalues are obtained using the asymptotic iteration method. The energy dependencies upon the confinement potential and external fields are reported. Our results indicate that the confinement potential, external electric and magnetic fields have a great influence on the energy eigenvalues of the system. We found that, an increase in the magnetic field increases the energy eigenvalues of the states with positive magnetic quantum number, m≽0. While, the states with negative m decrease, reaching to their minimum values and increase again, with increasing the magnetic field. Moreover, an increase in electric field strength leads to decrease the confinement effects and energy eigenvalues of the system.