Magneto-optical response of CdSe nanostructures

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2003-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308317v1

Phys. Rev. B 70, 045311 (2004) (12 pages)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045311

We present theoretical calculations of the Land\'e g-factors of semiconductor nanostructures using a time-dependent empirical tight-binding method. The eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of the band edge states are calculated as a function of an external magnetic field with the electromagnetic field incorporated into the tight-binding Hamiltonian in a gauge-invariant form. The spin-orbit interaction and magnetic field are treated non-perturbatively. The g-factors are extracted from the energy splitting of the eigenstates induced by the applied magnetic field. Both electron and hole g-factors are investigated for CdSe nanostructures. The size and aspect ratio dependence of g-factors is studied. We observe that the electron g-factors are anisotropic and find that the calculated values agree quantitatively with experimental data. We conclude that the two distinct g-factor values extracted from time resolved Faraday rotation experiments should be assigned to the anisotropic in plane ($g_\parallel$) and out of plane ($g_z$) electron g-factors, rather than to isotropic electron and exciton g-factors. We find that the anisotropy in the electron g-factor depends on the aspect ratio of the nanocrystal. The g-factor anisotropy derived from the wurtzite structure and from the non-unity aspect ratio may cancel each other in some regime. We observe that hole g-factors oscillate as a function of size, due to size dependent mixing between the heavy hole-light hole components of the valence band edge states. Extension to the calculation of exciton g-factors is discussed.

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