EXCHANGE AND CORRELATION IN THE NONHOMOGENEOUS ELECTRON-GAS IN SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROJUNCTIONS

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作者
GAMMON, D [1 ]
SHANABROOK, BV [1 ]
RYAN, JC [1 ]
KATZER, DS [1 ]
YANG, MJ [1 ]
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[1] SFA INC, LANDOVER, MD 20785 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1884
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We present a detailed comparison between experiment and theory of the magnitude of the exchange-correlation Coulomb interaction in the collective intersubband spin-density excitation of the electron gas confined to GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. A widely used self-consistent-field theory in which exchange and correlation is incorporated through the local-density approximation is found to underestimate slightly the magnitude of the interaction, while a nonlocal theory involving a variational solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the density-density correlation function compares well with experiment.
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页码:1884 / 1887
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