MANY-BODY COUPLING BETWEEN QUASI-PARTICLE AND COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM-WELLS

被引:23
作者
DASSARMA, S
MARMORKOS, IK
机构
[1] Joint Program for Advanced Electronic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 47卷 / 24期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.47.16343
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We predict that, due to a many-body coupling between collective and single-particle excitations, there is an experimentally observable resonant line splitting in the intersubband collective charge-density excitation spectra in wide semiconductor quantum wells at low electron densities. This many-body coupling causes even the long-wavelength intersubband plasmon mode to be Landau damped at a critical density. Above the critical density, the intersubband plasmon mode lies lower in energy than the single-particle excitation.
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页码:16343 / 16347
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