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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Theoretical study of density-dependent intraexcitonic transitions in optically excited quantum wells
Dawei Wang1, Xiaoli Lei, Zhaoxin Wu
1Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We present a theoretical study of the terahertz-pulse-induced intraexcitonic dynamics of optically created excitons in quantum wells, providing an explanation of the density dependence of the 1s-2p intraexcitonic transitions observed experimentally. We find that two types of many-body interactions, the phase space filling and the exchange interaction, are responsible for the observed red-shift of the resonance frequency. In addition to calculating the density renormalized exciton energy levels, which offer indirect information regarding the density-dependent 1s-2p transitions, we developed a mean-field approach to examine the intraexcitonic transition process directly. The resulting dynamic equation provides a useful tool to gain insight into the intraexcitonic transitions in semiconductor nanostructures.
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