{
  "id": "1205.3326",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2012-05-15T11:07:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-08-30T19:39:53.000Z",
  "title": "A Metamaterial-Inspired Model for Electron Waves in Bulk Semiconductors",
  "authors": [
    "Mario G. Silveirinha",
    "Nader Engheta"
  ],
  "comment": "43 pages, 4 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.86.245302",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "Based on an analogy with electromagnetic metamaterials, we develop an effective medium description for the propagation of electron matter waves in bulk semiconductors with a zincblende structure. It is formally demonstrated that even though departing from a different starting point, our theory gives results for the energy stationary states consistent with Bastard's envelope function approximation in the long-wavelength limit. Using the proposed approach, we discuss the time evolution of a wave packet in a bulk semiconductor with a zero-gap and linear energy-momentum dispersion.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2012-08-30T19:39:53.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.21.Cd",
      "42.70.Qs",
      "73.23.-b",
      "73.22.-f"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "bulk semiconductor",
      "electron waves",
      "metamaterial-inspired model",
      "bastards envelope function approximation",
      "energy stationary states consistent"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 86,
      "number": 24,
      "pages": 245302
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 43,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvB..86x5302S"
    }
  }
}