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Влияние электрон-дырочной асимметрии на электронную структуру спиральных краевых состояний в квантовой яме HgTe/HgCdTe
Author(s) -
M. V. Durnev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
fizika tverdogo tela
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1726-7498
pISSN - 0367-3294
DOI - 10.21883/ftt.2020.03.49012.629
Subject(s) - electron , asymmetry , physics , dipole , inversion (geology) , quantum well , condensed matter physics , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , optics , quantum mechanics , paleontology , laser , telecommunications , structural basin , computer science , biology
We study the effects of electron-hole asymmetry on the electronic structure of helical edge statesin HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells. In the framework of the four-band kp-model, which takes intoaccount the absence of a spacial inversion centre, we obtain analytical expressions for the energyspectrum and wave functions of edge states, as well as the effective g-factor tensor and matrixelements of electro-dipole optical transitions between the spin branches of the edge electrons. Weshow that when two conditions - electron-hole asymmetry and theabsence of an inversion centre - are simultaneously satisfied, the spectrum of edge electrons deviates from the linear one, and we obtain the corresponding corrections.