Abstract

Excitons in GaAs n-type δ-doped quantum wells are studied taking into account the effects of externally applied magnetic fields as well as of hydrostatic pressure. The one-dimensional potential profile in both the conduction and valence bands is described including Hartree effects via a Thomas–Fermi-based local density approximation. The allowed uncorrelated energy levels are calculated within the effective mass and envelope function approximations by means of an expansion over an orthogonal set of infinite well eigenfunctions and a variational method is used to obtain the exciton states. The results are presented as functions of the two-dimensional doping concentration and the magnetic field strength for zero and finite values of the hydrostatic pressure. In general, it is found that the exciton binding energy is a decreasing function of the doping-density and an increasing function of the magnetic field intensity. A comparison with recent experiments on exciton-related photoluminescence in n-type δ-doped GaAs is made.

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