Optical properties of two-dimensional two-electron quantum dot in parabolic confinement

Abstract

Abstract The Hamiltonian and wavefunctions of two-dimensional two-electron quantum dots (2D2eQD) in parabolic confinement are determined. The ground and excited state energies are calculated solving the Schrödinger equation analytically and numerically. To determine the energy eigen-value of the system variational method is employed due to the large coupling constant λ ≈ 1.1 \lambda \approx 1.1 . The trial wavefunctions are developed for both ground and excited states. The ground state wave function is a para state and the excited state wavefunctions belong to both para and ortho states based on the symmetry and antisymmetry of spatial wavefunctions. Using the obtained energy eigen-values at the two states, the first- and third-order nonlinear absorption coefficient and refractive index are analytically obtained with the help of density matrix formalism and iterative procedure.