Development of polaron-transformed explicitly correlated full configuration interaction method for investigation of quantum-confined Stark effect in GaAs quantum dots

Abstract

The effect of external electric field on electron-hole correlation in GaAs quantum dots is investigated. The electron-hole Schrodinger equation in the presence of external electric field is solved using explicitly correlated full configuration interaction (XCFCI) method and accurate exciton binding energy and electron-hole recombination probability are obtained. The effect of the electric field was included in the 1-particle single component basis functions by performing variational polaron transformation. The quality of the wavefunction at small inter-particle distances was improved by using Gaussian-type geminal function that depended explicitly on the electron-hole separation distance. The parameters of the explicitly correlated function were determined variationally at each field strength. The scaling of total exciton energy, exciton binding energy, and electron-hole recombination probability with respect to the strength of the electric field was investigated. It was found that a 500 kV/cm change in electric field reduces the binding energy and recombination probability by a factor of 2.6 and 166, respectively. The results show that the eh-recombination probability is affected much more strongly by the electric field than the exciton binding energy. Analysis using the polaron-transformed basis indicates that the exciton binding should asymptotically vanish in the limit of large field strength.

7 pages, 2 figures, The following article has been submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at http://jcp.aip.org/

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