Fixed-point methods for a semiconductor quantum dot model

Abstract

This paper presents various fixed-point methods for computing the ground state energy and its associated wave function of a semiconductor quantum dot model. The discretization of the three-dimensional Schrodinger equation leads to a large-scale cubic matrix polynomial eigenvalue problem for which the desired eigenvalue is embedded in the interior of the spectrum. The cubic problem is reformulated in several forms so that the desired eigenpair becomes a fixed point of the new formulations. Several algorithms are then proposed for solving the fixed-point problem. Numerical results show that the simple fixed-point method with acceleration schemes can be very efficient and stable. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.