Absorption Spectra of Artificial Atoms in Presence of THz Fields

Authors: B. Dahiya, K.Batra, V.Prasad

Abstract:

Artificial atoms are growing fields of interest due to their physical and optoelectronicapplications. The absorption spectra of the proposed artificial atom inpresence of Tera-Hertz field is investigated theoretically. We use the non-perturbativeFloquet theory and finite difference method to study the electronic structure of ArtificialAtom. The effect of static electric field on the energy levels of artificial atom is studied.The effect of orientation of static electric field on energy levels and diploe matrix elementsis also highlighted.

Keywords: Absorption spectra, Artificial atom, Floquet Theory, THz fields

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1334323

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