Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-03-14
Phys. Rev. B 62 (2000) 13482-13489
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
10 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.62.13482
Systems containing few Fermions (e.g., electrons) are of great current interest. Fluorescence occurs when electrons drop from one level to another without changing spin. Only electron gases in a state of equilibrium are considered. When the system may exchange electrons with a large reservoir, the electron-gas fluorescence is easily obtained from the well-known Fermi-Dirac distribution. But this is not so when the number of electrons in the system is prevented from varying, as is the case for isolated systems and for systems that are in thermal contact with electrical insulators such as diamond. Our accurate expressions rest on the assumption that single-electron energy levels are evenly spaced, and that energy coupling and spin coupling between electrons are small. These assumptions are shown to be realistic for many systems. Fluorescence from short, nearly isolated, quantum wires is predicted to drop abruptly in the visible, a result not predicted by the Fermi-Dirac distribution. Our exact formulas are based on restricted and unrestricted partitions of integers. The method is considerably simpler than the ones proposed earlier, which are based on second quantization and contour integration.
Arnaud Jacques
Chusseau Laurent
Philippe Fabrice
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