Journal
PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2022.115312
Keywords
Quantum dot; Confinement; Resonance; Wigner time delay; Atomic collapse
Funding
- MCIN
- European Union Next Generation EU [PRTR-C17.I1]
- Consejeria de Educacion from JCyL through QCAYLE project
- MCIN of Spain [PRTR-C17.I1]
- Ankara University
- warm hospitality of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Valladolid
- CONICET
- [PID2020-113406GB-I0]
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This work investigates the confinement properties of charged particles in a Dirac material in an electric quantum dot. The study focuses on the influence of mass and angular momenta on the confinement properties. The results show that the resonances for massive particles are not significantly influenced by angular momenta, while for massless particles such as graphene, the resonances are quite sensitive to angular momenta.
In this work we investigate the confining properties of charged particles of a Dirac material in the plane subject to an electrostatic potential well, that is, in an electric quantum dot. Our study focuses on the effect of mass and angular momenta on such confining properties. To have a global picture of confinement, both bound and resonance states are considered. The resonances will be examined by means of the Wigner time delay of the scattering states, as well as through the complex eigenvalues of outgoing states in order to show that they are physically meaningful. By tuning the potential intensity of the well, electron captures and atomic collapses are observed for critical values. In these processes, the bound states of the discrete spectrum become resonances of the continuous spectrum or vice versa. For massive charges, the atomic collapse phenomenon keeps the number of bound levels in the quantum dot below a maximum value. In the massless case, the bound states have zero energy and occur only for some discrete values of the potential depth, as is known. We also show that although the intensity of the resonances for massive particles is not significantly influenced by angular momenta, on the contrary, for massless particles they are quite sensitive to angular momenta, as it is the case of graphene.
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