Quasi-bound states determination using a perturbed wavenumbers method in a large quantum box

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 742-752

  Anemogiannis, Emmanuel ^a,b,c,d,e   Glytsis, Elias N ^a,b,e,f,g   Gaylord, Thomas K ^{a,b,e,g,h,i,j}  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^h MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Department of Electrical Engineering ^*

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Author keywords

Quantum heterostructures; Quantum states; Quasi bound states

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

PERTURBED WAVENUMBERS METHOD (PWM); QUANTUM HETEROSTRUCTURES; QUASI BOUND STATE EIGENENERGIES; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031145344     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572148     Document Type: Article

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