LOCAL-FIELD CALCULATION OF THE OPTICAL PARAMAGNETIC RESPONSE INSIDE A 2-LEVEL QUANTUM-WELL

被引:7
作者
KELLER, O
LIU, AS
机构
[1] Institute of Physics, University of Aalborg
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PHYSICA SCRIPTA | 1995年 / 51卷 / 04期
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10.1088/0031-8949/51/4/016
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A local-field formalism recently developed to describe the optical response of mesoscopic media is used to calculate the linear optical paramagnetic response of a two-level quantum well. Analytical results are presented for the s- and p-polarized components of the local field inside the quantum well. The exact results are compared to those obtained on the basis of the self-field, the first Born, and the so-called self-field first Born approximations. To illustrate our main findings, detailed numerical results are presented for the semiconducting AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-well system.
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