Abstract
We study the effects of the shape of the cross section of a three-dimensional quantum wire on electron scattering from a single point defect in the wire. The confinement of electrons is modeled by both hard- and soft-wall potentials. We find that as the degree of anisotropy of the cross section of the wire is increased intersubband electron scattering is enhanced and intrasubband transmission is suppressed making it appear as though the defect has stronger impact on electron scattering for asymmetric cross sections. Also, increasing the anisotropy of the cross section results in a decrease of the values of the conductance. Furthermore, for the soft-wall confinement the conductance as a function of Fermi energy rises faster than the conductance for the hard-wall confinement. We use the Lippmann–Schwinger equation of scattering theory in order to calculate analytically the transmission coefficients.
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