Optical intersubband properties of a core-shell semiconductor-topological insulator quantum dot described by $\theta$-Electrodynamics

Abstract

The optical properties of a spherical topological insulator embedded concentrically in a single-electron system consisting of a core-shell GaAs quantum dot are analyzed, when the system is under a uniform external magnetic field. The topological insulator's magnetoelectric response is computed in the effective framework of $\theta$-electrodynamics, which allows analytical calculations for the induced electric and magnetic potentials by Green's Function method. The GaAs Hamiltonian is constructed in the effective-mass approximation, and its corresponding Schrödinger equation is numerically solved through the Lagrange-mesh method. We compute the total absorption coefficients and refractive index changes given by the non-linear iterative density matrix formalism up to third order. Our results show that the presence of the magnetoelectric material causes new dipolar transitions otherwise not allowed. Also, an enhancement of the photon absorption is found when the incident light polarization is oriented parallel to the external magnetic field, in comparison with perpendicular polarization. Moreover, we report an appreciable blue shift in the optical functions when the values of the $\theta$-parameter are increased. These results can be useful for indirect experimental measures of the magnetoelectric polarizability which is proportional to the QED fine-structure constant $\alpha$.

arXiv comment17 pages, 9 figures

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