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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Microscopic theory for the influence of Coulomb correlations in the light-emission properties of semiconductor quantum wells

Mauro Fernandes Pereira, K. Henneberger

Published Jul 15, 1998• 79 citations
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Abstract

A nonequilibrium Green's-function $T$-matrix approach is presented for the consistent computation of semiconductor quantum-well optical spectra including strong Coulomb correlations in the coupled photon and carrier system. Numerical solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter-type equations yield good agreement with recent absorption and/or gain and emission experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.58.2064

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