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Initial Conditions Effects in the Population Dynamics of a Driven Semiconductor Quantum Well Structure

Evangelos Voutsinas, John Boviatsis, Theodore E. Simos, George Maroulis

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study Rabi oscillations between two subbands of a symmetric double quantum well that is coupled by a strong electromagnetic field. We use the effective nonlinear Bloch equations for the description of the system dynamics and present numerical results for different initial conditions of the system.
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10.1063/1.2836222

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