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The Wannier equation describes a quantum mechanical eigenvalue problem in solids where an electron in a conduction band and an electronic vacancy (i.e. hole) within a valence band attract each other via the Coulomb interaction. For one electron and one hole, this problem is analogous to the Schrödinger equation of the hydrogen atom; and the bound-state solutions are called excitons. When an exciton's radius extends over several unit cells, it is referred to as a Wannier exciton in contrast to Frenkel excitons whose size is comparable with the unit cell. An excited solid typically contains many electrons and holes; this modifies the Wannier equation considerably. The resulting generalized Wannier equation can be determined from the homogeneous part of the semiconductor Bloch equations or the semiconductor luminescence equations. ==Background== Since an electron and a hole have opposite charges their mutual Coulomb interaction is attractive. The corresponding Schrödinger equation, in relative coordinate , has the same form as the hydrogen atom: with the potential given by Here, is the reduced Planck constant, is the nabla operator, is the reduced mass, () is the elementary charge related to an electron (hole), is the relative permittivity, and is the vacuum permittivity. The solutions of the Hydrogen atom are described by eigenfunction and eigenenergy where is a quantum number labeling the different states. In a solid, the scaling of and the wavefunction size are orders of magnitude different from the hydrogen problem because the relative permittivity is roughly ten and the reduced mass in a solid is much smaller than the electron rest mass , i.e., . As a result, the exciton radius can be large while the exciton binding energy is small, typically few to hundreds of meV, depending on material, compared to eV for the Hydrogen problem.〔Haug, H.; Koch, S. W. (2009). ''Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors'' (5th ed.). World Scientific. p. 216. ISBN 9812838848.〕〔Klingshirn, C. F. (2006). ''Semiconductor Optics''. Springer. ISBN 978-3540383451.〕 The Fourier transformed version of the presented Hamiltonian can be written as where is the electronic wave vector, , are the Fourier transforms of , , respectively. The Coulomb sums follows from the convolution theorem and the -representation is useful when introducing the generalized Wannier equation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wannier equation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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