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Light-emitting current of electrically driven single-photon sources
The time-dependent tunnelling current arising from the electron-hole
recombination of exciton state is theoretically studied using the
nonequilibrium Green's function technique and the Anderson model with two
energy levels. The charge conservation and gauge invariance are satisfied in
the tunnelling current. Apart from the classical capacitive charging and
discharging behavior, interesting oscillations superimpose on the tunnelling
current for the applied rectangular pulse voltage.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Modulation of the dephasing time for a magnetoplasma in a quantum well
We investigate the femtosecond kinetics of optically excited 2D
magneto-plasma. We calculate the femtosecond dephasing and relaxation kinetics
of the laser pulse excited magneto-plasma due to bare Coulomb potential
scattering, because screening is under these conditions of minor importance. By
taking into account four Landau subbands in both the conduction band and the
valence band, we are now able to extend our earlier study [Phys. Rev. B {\bf
58}, 1998,in print (see also cond-mat/9808073] to lower magnetic fields. We can
also fix the magnetic field and change the detuning to further investigate the
carrier density-dependence of the dephasing time. For both cases, we predict
strong modulation in the dephasing time.Comment: RevTex, 3 figures, to be published in Solid. Stat. Commu
Spin noise spectroscopy in GaAs
We observe the noise spectrum of electron spins in bulk GaAs by Faraday
rotation noise spectroscopy. The experimental technique enables the undisturbed
measurement of the electron spin dynamics in semiconductors. We measure
exemplarily the electron spin relaxation time and the electron Lande g-factor
in n-doped GaAs at low temperatures and find good agreement of the measured
noise spectrum with an unpretentious theory based on Poisson distribution
probability.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
The Effective Bosonic Hamiltonian for Excitons Reconsidered
The effective bosonic hamiltonian for excitons, extensively quoted up to now,
cannot be correct because it is (surprisingly) non-hermitian. The oversight
physically originates from the intrinsic difficulty of properly defining
electron-hole interactions between excitons when dealing with exchange terms.
By using our commutation technique, we show that the fermionic character of the
excitons cannot be forced into a dressed Coulomb interaction only : The
effective bosonic hamiltonian must contain purely fermionic terms of the same
order as the Coulomb terms. They are necessary to ensure hermiticity, and they
do not reduce to a two-body interaction, Pauli exclusion being N-body by
essence
Infinite order excitonic Bloch equations for asymmetric nanostructures
We present a new exciton-based formalism for calculating the coherent
response of asymmetric semiconductor multiple quantum well structures to
ultra-short optical pulses valid to infinite order in the optical field and
including the self-generated intraband fields. We use these equations to
calculate and explain the oscillations with time delay of peaks in the
spectrally-resolved degenerate four wave mixing signals from biased
semiconductor superlattices, obtaining good agreement with experiment
XPS characterization of silver electrodes and catalyst for oxygen reduction
The combined analysis of the silver GDE using an ex-situ surface sensitive technique (XPS) and in-situ electrochemical measurements (EIS, CV) show that the performance of the silver GDE is significantly influenced by the degree of degradation of the electrodes, e. g., the reduction of the active surface due to the decomposition of the PTFE. These findings indicate a different degree of decomposition of the PTFE on the on the GDE
Estimating the COGARCH(1,1) model - a first go
We suggest moment estimators for the parameters of a continuous time GARCH(1,1) process based on equally spaced observations. Using the fact that the increments of the COGARCH(1,1) process are ergodic, the resulting estimators are consistent. We investigate the quality of our estimators in a simulation study based on the compound Poisson driven COGARCH model. The estimated volatility with corresponding residual analysis is also presented
Multiple transitions of the spin configuration in quantum dots
Single electron tunneling is studied in a many electron quantum dot in high
magnetic fields. For such a system multiple transitions of the spin
configuration are theoretically predicted. With a combination of spin blockade
and Kondo effect we are able to detect five regions with different spin
configurations. Transitions are induced with changing electron numbers.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Interaction-Induced Spin Polarization in Quantum Dots
The electronic states of lateral many electron quantum dots in high magnetic
fields are analyzed in terms of energy and spin. In a regime with two Landau
levels in the dot, several Coulomb blockade peaks are measured. A zig-zag
pattern is found as it is known from the Fock-Darwin spectrum. However, only
data from Landau level 0 show the typical spin-induced bimodality, whereas
features from Landau level 1 cannot be explained with the Fock-Darwin picture.
Instead, by including the interaction effects within spin-density-functional
theory a good agreement between experiment and theory is obtained. The absence
of bimodality on Landau level 1 is found to be due to strong spin polarization.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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