Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2001-01-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
26 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.045325
We calculate the electron-electron interaction induced energy-dependent inelastic carrier relaxation rate in doped semiconductor coupled double quantum well nanostructures within the two subband approximation at zero temperature. In particular, we calculate, using many-body theory, the imaginary part of the full self-energy matrix by expanding in the dynamically RPA screened Coulomb interaction, obtaining the intrasubband and intersubband electron relaxation rates in the ground and excited subbands as a function of electron energy. We separate out the single particle and the collective excitation contributions, and comment on the effects of structural asymmetry in the quantum well on the relaxation rate. Effects of dynamical screening and Fermi statistics are automatically included in our many body formalism rather than being incorporated in an ad-hoc manner as one must do in the Boltzman theory.
Hai Guo-Qiang
Sarma Sankar Das
Tavares Marcos R. S.
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