In this paper, we consider the nonlinear Kirchhoff type equation with a steep potential well
−(a+b∫R3|∇u|2dx)Δu+λV(x)u=f(u)in R3,
where
a,b>0 are constants,
λ is a positive parameter,
V∈C(R3,R) is a steep potential well and the nonlinearity
f∈C(R,R) satisfies certain assumptions. By applying a sign-changing Nehari manifold combined with the method of constructing a sign-changing
(PS)C sequence, we obtain the existence of ground state sign-changing solutions with precisely two nodal domains when
λ is large enough, and find that its energy is strictly larger than twice that of the ground state solutions. In addition, we also prove the concentration of ground state sign-changing solutions.