Polarizability of a hydrogenic donor impurity in a ridge quantum wire

Abstract

We use in this paper the variational method to calculate the polarizability of a hydrogenic donor impurity, in the presence of electric field, in a V-groove GaAs/Al x Ga 1− x As quantum wire. The carrier ground states are analytically obtained by an effective potential scheme together with a suitable coordinate transformation that allows the decoupling of the two-dimensional Schrodinger equation. According to the results obtained from the present work for polarizability and binding energy reveals that the impurity position and field direction play important roles.