Exciton formation in semiconductors and the influence of a photonic environment

M Kira, W Hoyer, T Stroucken, SW Koch - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
A fully microscopic theory is presented for interacting electrons, holes, photons, and
phonons in semiconductor heterostructures. The formation dynamics and statistics of …

Statistics of resonances and delay times in random media: beyond random matrix theory

T Kottos - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent developments in quantum scattering from mesoscopic systems. Various
spatial geometries whose closed analogues show diffusive, localized or critical behaviour …

Epitaxial growth and optical properties of semiconductor quantum wires

XL Wang, V Voliotis - Journal of applied physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper we present a review on major advances achieved over the past ten years in the
field of fabrication of semiconductor quantum wires (QWRs) using epitaxial growth …

Dynamics of exciton formation for near band-gap excitations

K Siantidis, VM Axt, T Kuhn - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We present a microscopic density matrix description of the formation of excitons after optical
excitation of a semiconductor. Three types of dynamical processes taking place after the …

Excitons in semiconductor nanostructures

E Runge - Solid State Physics, 2003 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes the comprehensive understanding of linear
excitonic spectra from quantum nanostructures with disorder. The description of the relevant …

Nanosecond-scale hot-carrier cooling dynamics in one-dimensional quantum dot superlattices

Y Harada, N Kasamatsu, D Watanabe, T Kita - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We report the time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy of nanoseconds-scale hot-
carrier (HC) cooling dynamics in InAs/GaAs quantum dot superlattices (QDSLs). We …

Avalanches of Bose–Einstein condensates in leaking optical lattices

GS Ng, H Hennig, R Fleischmann, T Kottos… - New journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the decay of an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) population N (τ) from the
leaking boundaries of an optical lattice (OL). For a rescaled interatomic interaction strength …

Experimental evidence for exciton scaling effects in self-assembled molecular wires

PG Lagoudakis, MM De Souza, F Schindler… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
Resonant Rayleigh scattering from self-assembled one-dimensional molecular J-aggregate
wires reveals a distinct dependence of the exciton energy on the width of lateral extension …

Ultrafast dynamics of exciton formation in semiconductor nanowires

CK Yong, HJ Joyce, J Lloyd‐Hughes, Q Gao, HH Tan… - Small, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamics of free electron–hole pairs and excitons in GaAs–AlGaAs–GaAs core–shell–
skin nanowires is investigated using femtosecond transient photoluminescence …

Role of bound pairs in the optical properties of highly excited semiconductors: A self-consistent ladder approximation approach

C Piermarocchi, F Tassone - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The presence of bound pairs (excitons) in a low-temperature electron-hole plasma is
accounted for by including correlation between fermions at the ladder level. Using a …