Title: Multiband Electronic Structure of Magnetic Quantum Dots: Numerical Studies,
Abstract: Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) doped with magnetic impurities have been a
focus of continuous research for a couple of decades. A significant effort has
been devoted to studies of magnetic polarons (MP) in these nanostructures.
These collective states arise through exchange interaction between a carrier
confined in a QD and localized spins of the magnetic impurities (typically:
Mn). We discuss our theoretical description of various MP properties in
self-assembled QDs. We present a self-consistent, temperature-dependent
approach to MPs formed by a valence band hole. We use the Luttinger-Kohn k.p
Hamiltonian to account for the important effects of spin-orbit interaction.