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Surender Pratap

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Optical Response of a screw dislocated GaAs Quantum Wire: Temperature and Pressure Effects

We investigate the influence of a screw dislocation, characterized by the dislocation parameter, on the optical response of a parabolic GaAs cylindrical quantum wire under the combined effects of temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and the axial magnetic field. Using a torsion-modified metric together with pressure- and temperature-dependent material properties, namely the effective mass and dielectric permittivity, we obtain exact solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation in terms of Whittaker functions. The screw dislocation introduces a \(k_z\)-dependent coupling that breaks the symmetry between the angular momentum states \(m\) and \(-m\) and modifies the centrifugal term in the effective potential. Based on the resulting eigenstates, we evaluate the linear and third-order nonlinear optical absorption coefficients, as well as the corresponding refractive index changes, for the dipole-allowed transitions \(m = 0 \to +1\) and \(m = 0 \to -1\). Our results show that increasing the dislocation parameter produces a pronounced redshift and suppresses the resonance amplitude for the \(m = 0 \to +1\) transition, whereas the \(m = 0 \to -1\) transition exhibits a blueshift accompanied by peak enhancement. We further find that increasing temperature shifts the resonances toward higher photon energies and enhances their amplitudes, while hydrostatic pressure causes a redshift and reduces the peak intensity for both transitions. In addition, the magnetic field strengthens the optical response and induces a blueshift for the \(m = 0 \to +1\) transition, whereas the opposite behavior is obtained for the \(m = 0 \to -1\) transition. We have also examined the behavior of the refractive index changes, which exhibit analogous asymmetric dependence on the dislocation parameter.

cond-mat.mes-hall

Aspects of electron transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons

We investigate the aspects of the electron transport in the zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. The latter is an esoteric tool in mesoscopic physics and using this tool the analysis is performed by considering the potential well within the system. Within this potential well, the dependence of the transmission coefficient, local density of states (LDOS) and the electron transport properties on the number of atoms per unit cell is discussed. We observe that the electron and thermal conductance increases with the increase of the number of atoms. In addition to these, the figure of merit which depends on these transport properties has also been studied and we find that the electrons' contribution to enhance the figure of merit is important above the crossover temperature.

cond-mat.str-el