Using a variational procedure within the effective-mass approximation, we have made a theoretical study of the effects of hydrostatic pressure and applied electric fields on the binding energy of a shallow-donor impurity in square-transversal section GaAs-Ga0.7Al0.3As quantum-well wires. The electric field is applied in a plane of the transversal section of the wire and many angular directions are considered. The hydrostatic pressure has been considered both in the direct and indirect gap regime for the Ga0.7Al0.3As material. For the potential barrier that defines the wire region, we consider an x-dependent finite and y-dependent infinite model. The results we present are for the impurity binding energy and considering different values of the wire dimensions, hydrostatic pressure, applied electric field, and the impurity position in the transversal section of the wire.

The Ogg-McCombe effective Hamiltonian for the electron in the conduction band together with the non-parabolic and effective-mass approximations were used in a theoretical study of the cyclotron effective mass and electron effective Landé g||-factor in semiconductor GaAs-Ga1-xAl xAs quantum wells under an applied magnetic field parallel to the growth direction of the quantum well. Calculations are performed as a function of the applied magnetic field, and for different widths of the GaAs-Ga1-xAl xAs quantum wells. Results for the electron cyclotron effective mass and g||-factor are found in quite good agreement with experimental data.

In the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory in the limit of a GL parameter much larger than unity, we study theoretically the critical behavior of a mesoscopic superconducting ring with negligible width in the presence of a magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the ring plane. It is assumed that the inner ring edge is in contact with a material whose properties are accounted in the de Gennes boundary condition with a parameter b (de Gennes extrapolation length), while the outer edge is in contact with vacuum. Special attention is devoted to the influence of the different materials contacting the inner ring edge of the superconductor on the features of the phase diagram, as well as the effect of the confinement on such thermodynamic property.

Using a variational procedure for a hydrogenic donor-impurity we have investigated the influence of an axial magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure in the binding energy and the impurity-related photoionization cross-section in 1D and 0D GaAs low dimensional systems. Our results are given as a function of the radius, the impurity position, the polarization of the photon, the applied magnetic field, the normalized photon energy, and the hydrostatic pressure. In order to describe the gamma-X mixing in the Ga1-xAl xAs layer, we use a phenomenological procedure to describe the variation of the potential barrier that confines the carriers in the GaAs layer. Our results agree with previous theoretical investigations in the limit of atmospheric pressure. We found that the binding energy and the photoionization cross-section depend on the size of the structures, the potential well height, the hydrostatic pressure, and the magnetic field.