<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Simserides, C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantum wells under in-plane magnetic field: Density of states and novel phenomena in thermodynamic properties, magnetization and spin-polarization</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantum Wells: Theory, Fabrication and Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84895311090&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=e72c11a349b0035047611121a71e8931</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">481-516</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The elegant concept of Landau levels must be abandoned, whenever a quantum well (QW) is subjected to an in-plane or tilted magnetic field, because carriers move under the competing influence of the Lorentz force and the force due to the QW confining potential. The equal-energy surfaces [1, 2] or equivalently the density of states (DOS) [3, 4] are qualitatively and quantitatively modified because the spatial and the magnetic confinement compete. In the general case, handling of such problems involves self-consistent computations [2, 4, 5] of the energy dispersion, E&lt;sub&gt;i,σ&lt;/sub&gt;(k&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;), where i is the subband index, σ denotes the spin and k&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; is the in-plane wave vector perpendicular to the external in-plane magnetic field (applied along y), H. The envelope functions along the &quot;growth&quot; z-axis depend on k&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;, i.e., ψ&lt;sub&gt;i,σ&lt;/sub&gt;,k&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;,k&lt;sub&gt;y&lt;/sub&gt; (r) κ ζ&lt;sub&gt;i,σ&lt;/sub&gt;,k&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; (z)e&lt;sup&gt;ikxx&lt;/sup&gt;e&lt;sup&gt;ikyy&lt;/sup&gt;. The impact on the physical properties was initially realized in transport experiments [6, 7, 8, 9]. The character of plasmons in single [10] and double [11] QWs is also affected. The N-type kink was theoretically predicted [12] and recently verified in photoluminescence experiments [13]. In this chapter, employing a self-consistent envelope function approach: (a) I summarize fundamental quantum mechanical relations pertinent to QWs under in-plane magnetic field, and I stage a compact DOS formula which holds for any type of interplay between spatial and magnetic confinement [4, 5]. (b) I describe the influence of an in-plane magnetic field on fundamental thermodynamic properties of dilutemagnetic- semiconductor narrow to wide single QWs. I discuss the entropy, S, the internal energy, U, the free energy, F, and the magnetization, M. (c) I examine the spin-subband populations and the spin-polarization of dilute-magnetic-semiconductor narrow to wide single QWs [5, 14].</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 0</style></notes></record></records></xml>