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Continuum Bound States as surface states

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss the relation between continuum bound states (CBS) localized on a defect, and surface states of a finite periodic system. We use the transfer matrix method to model an experiment of Capasso, and find all continuum bound and anti-bound states. We compute the rate for intra-subband transitions from the ground state to the CBS and derive a sum rule. Finally we show how to improve the confinement of a CBS while keeping the energy fixed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0110116,
  title  = {Continuum Bound States as surface states},
  author = {D. W. L. Sprung and P. Jagiello and J. Sigetich and J. Martorell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0110116},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 tables, 13 figures, 19 pages in all