The Optical Polaron in Spherical Quantum Dot Confinement
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2009
Authors
Bassam Saqqa
Zher Samak
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Abstract
The problem of a polaron in quantum dot is retrieved using a modified LLP approach. The modification is intended to interpolate between the strong- and the weak-coupling limits of the problem. The polaronic effect is found to be more important for small dot sizes.