Electron-phonon bound states and impurity band formation in quantum wells
Abstract
A generalized propagation matrix method is used to study how scattering off local Einstein phonons affects resonant electron transmission through quantum wells. In particular, the parity and the number of the phonon mediated satellite resonances are found to depend on the available scattering channels. For a large number of phonon channels, the formation of low-energy impurity bands is observed. Furthermore, an effective theory is developed which accurately describes the phonon generated sidebands for sufficiently small electron-phonon coupling. Finally, the current-voltage characteristics caused by phonon assisted transmission satellites are discussed for a specific double barrier geometry.
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@article{arxiv.0809.4056,
title = {Electron-phonon bound states and impurity band formation in quantum wells},
author = {Bruna P. W. de Oliveira and Stephan Haas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4056},
year = {2009}
}
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17 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; figure, content and references added