Lamb shift of interactive electron-hole pairs in spherical semiconductor quantum dots

Baptiste Billaud (1) , T.T. Truong (1)

1 LPTM - UMR 8089 - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation

The ground state Lamb shift of a semiconductor spherical Quantum Dot is computed in the effective mass approximation. It appears to be significant enough to be detectable for a wide range of small Quantum Dots synthesized in semiconductors. A possible way to bserve it, via the Casimir effect, is suggested.

Domaines: Physique Générale [physics.gen-ph]

Baptiste Billaud, T.T. Truong. Lamb shift of interactive electron-hole pairs in spherical semiconductor quantum dots. Computational Materials Science, 2011, 50 (3), pp.998. ⟨10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.10.039⟩. ⟨hal-00459215v2⟩