Temperature effect and Rashba effect of polaron in a parabolic quantum well

Abstract

Using Tokuda’s improved linear combination operator method and variational technique, the expression of the polaron effective mass in an parabolic quantum well is derived. Due to the spin-orbit interaction, the effective mass of polaron splits into two branches. The dependence of effective mass on temperature and mean number phonons is discussed by numerical calculation. The effective mass of polaron is an increasing function of temperature and mean number phonons. The absolute value of total spin splitting effective mass increases with the increase in temperature and spin-orbit coupling parameter, and decreases with the increase in velocity. Due to the heavy hole characteristic, the spin splitting effective mass is negative.