Quantum recurrence times in nanostructures

Abstract

We compute the classical and revival times of electron currents in several bulk nanostructured, semiconductor materials. We have used a nonparabolic Schrödinger equation to model the conduction band of semiconductors. We have calculated the classical and revival periods for quantum dots of Si, Ge and InAs quantum dots. The obtained results are of the order of tenths of nanoseconds to picoseconds, which are within reach of current technologies.