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The Kronig-Penney model describes what happens to electron states when a confining potential is repeated indefinitely. This model uses a square well potential; the energies and eigenstates can be obtained analytically for a the single well,…
In orbital-free density functional theory the kinetic potential (KP), the functional derivative of the kinetic energy density functional, appears in the Euler equation for the electron density and may be more amenable to simple…
We present a heuristic derivation of the strong form of the Levinson theorem for one-dimensional quasi-periodic potentials. The particular potential chosen is a distorted Kronig-Penney model. This theorem relates the phase shifts of the…
The celebrated Kronig-Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well…
The Kronig-Penney model, an exactly solvable one-dimensional model of crystal in solid physics, shows how the allowed and forbidden bands are formed in solids. In this paper, we study this model in the presence of both strong spin-orbit…
We modeled the electron and hole states in Si/SiO2 quantum wells within a basis of standing waves using the 30-band k.p theory. The hard-wall confinement potential is assumed, and the influence of the peculiar band structure of bulk silicon…
A key to understand how electrons behave in crystalline solids is the band structure that connects the energy of electron waves to their wavenumber (k). Even in the phase of matter with only short-range order (liquid or amorphous solid),…
We generalize the textbook Kronig-Penney model to realistic conditions for a quantum-particle moving in the quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) waveguide, where motion in the transverse direction is confined by a harmonic trapping potential.…
We present a detailed study of a generalised one-dimensional Kronig-Penney model using $\delta\text{-}\delta'$ potentials. We analyse the band structure and the density of states in two situations. In the first case we consider an infinite…
We extend previous work applying elementary matrix mechanics to one-dimensional periodic arrays (to generate energy bands) to two-dimensional arrays. We generate band structures for the square lattice "2D Kronig-Penney model" (square…
In this work, a one-dimensional model of crystalline solids based on the Dirac comb limit of the Kronig-Penney model is considered. From the wave functions of the valence electrons, we calculate a statistical measure of complexity and the…
The electronic energy band structure of strained and unstrained Si, Ge and SiGe alloys is examined in this work using thirty-level k.p analysis. The energy bands are at first obtained with ab initio calculations based on the…
This paper demonstrates that complex PT-symmetric periodic potentials possess real band spectra. However, there are significant qualitative differences in the band structure for these potentials when compared with conventional real periodic…
We study theoretically the effect of an electric field on the electron states and far-infrared optical properties in narrow-gap lead salt quantum wells. The electron states are described by a two-band Hamiltonian. An application of a strong…
We study the bound states of a Kronig Penney potential for a nonlinear one-dimensional Schroedinger equation. This potential consists of a large, but not necessarily infinite, number of equidistant delta-function wells. We show that the…
The phenomenon of wavepacket diffraction in space and time is investigated numerically and analytically, for a one-dimensional array of equally spaced finite-depth wells. Theoretical predictions for the lattice at long times and at low…
Transport properties of one-dimensional Kronig-Penney models with binary correlated disorder are analyzed using an approach based on classical Hamiltonian maps. In this method, extended states correspond to bound trajectories in the phase…
We consider a model for a one-dimensional photonic crystal formed by a succession of Kerr-type equidistant spaceless interfaces immersed in a linear medium. We calculate the band structure and reflectance of this structure as a function of…
It is shown that a non-periodic Kronig-Penney model exhibits mobility edges if the positions of the scatterers are correlated at long distances. An analytical expression for the energy-dependent localization length is derived for weak…
We introduce a double-stranded Kronig-Penney model and analyze its transport properties. The asymmetric fluxes between two strands with suddenly alternating localization patterns are found as the energy is varied. The zero-size limit of the…