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We study the homogenization of a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation with a large periodic potential in solid state physics. Denoting by $\varepsilon$ the period, the potential is scaled as $\varepsilon^{-2}$. Under a generic assumption on…
The eigenvalues $E_{n\ell}^d(a,c)$ of the $d$-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with the Cornell potential $V(r)=-a/r+c\,r$, $a,c>0$ are analyzed by means of the envelope method and the asymptotic iteration method (AIM). Scaling arguments…
The semiclassical approximation for electron wave-packets in crystals leads to equations which can be derived from a Lagrangian or, under suitable regularity conditions, in a Hamiltonian framework. In the plane, these issues are studied %in…
We study the electronic energy spectra and wave functions on the square Fibonacci tiling, using an off-diagonal tight-binding model, in order to determine the exact nature of the transitions between different spectral behaviors, as well as…
A conceptually appealing and computationally economical course-grained molecular-orbital (MO) theory for extended quasi-linear molecular heterostructures is presented. The formalism, which is based on a straightforward adaptation, by…
We present the application of the inverse scattering method to the design of semiconductor heterostructures having a preset dependence of the (conduction) electrons' reflectance on the energy. The electron dynamics are described by either…
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The quantum behavior of charge carriers in semiconductor structures is often described in terms of the effective mass Schr\"{o}dinger equation, neglecting the rapid fluctuations of the wave function on the scale of the atomic lattice. For…
A theory for conduction electron scattering by inhomogeneous crystal lattice strains is developed, based on the differential geometric treatment of deformations in solids. The resulting fully covariant Schr\"odinger equation shows that the…
A method is proposed to find the wave function of an electron moving infinitely in the field of an arbitrary 1D layer structure with two different homogeneous semi-infinite boundaries. It is shown that in general the problem reduces to…
The electronic Schr\"odinger equation describes the motion of $N$ electrons under Coulomb interaction forces in a field of clamped nuclei. It is proved that its solutions for eigenvalues below the essential spectrum lie in the spectral…
A new method for calculation of band structure has been proposed based on the Green's function theory and local sampling. Potential energy in the Hamiltonian of Schrodinger's equation is approximated with a series of sampled Dirac delta…
We have developed the technique of a quantum wave impedance determination for the sequence of not only constant potentials but also for potentials of forms for which the solution of a Shr\"{o}dinger equation exists at least in terms of…
The envelope function method traditionally employs a single basis set which, in practice, relates to a single material because the $k\cdot p$ matrix elements are generally only known in a particular basis. In this work, we defined a basis…
In recent years, an increasing attention has been paid to quantum heterostructures with tailored functionalities, such as heterojunctions and quantum matematerials, in which quantum dynamics of electrons can be described by the…
High-energy electrons that are used as a probe of specimens in transmission electron microscopy exhibit a complex and rich behavior due to multiple scattering. Among other things, understanding the dynamical effects is needed for a…
The gas of the interacted electrons is usually described within Kohn-Sham approximation by the set of Poisson and Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an effective potential for the single-particle wave functions. The solution of these equations…
The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…
For a quantum state, or classical harmonic normal mode, of a system of spatial periodicity "R", Bloch character is encoded in a wavevector "K". One can ask whether this state has partial Bloch character "k" corresponding to a finer scale of…
In the study of model electronic device systems where electrons are typically under confinement, a key obstacle is the need to iteratively solve the coupled Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson (SP) equation. It is possible to bypass this obstacle by…