Ultrafast quantum kinetics of time-dependent RPA-screened Coulomb scattering

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作者
Banyai, L [1 ]
Vu, QT [1 ]
Mieck, B [1 ]
Haug, H [1 ]
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[1] Univ Frankfurt, Inst Theoret Phys, D-60054 Frankfurt, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.882
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We study the Coulomb quantum kinetics of relaxation and dephasing of an electron-hole gas in a semiconductor excited by a coherent femtosecond laser pulse. Our theory employs the full two-time-dependent RPA-screened Coulomb potential. The self-consistently calculated potential evolves from a bare potential to the well-known dynamically screened RPA potential for long times. The time dependence of the particle distributions, the interband polarization, and the potential are calculated. As a first application we study Rabi flopping with resonant femtosecond pulses.
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