Theory of phonon-mediated relaxation in doped quantum dot molecules

Details Theory of phonon-mediated relaxation in doped quantum dot molecules Theory of phonon-mediated relaxation in doped quantum dot molecules

2009-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/0912.1181v2

Phys. Rev. B 81, 115395 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Final extended version, 5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.115305

A quantum dot molecule doped with a single electron in the presence of diagonal and off-diagonal carrier-phonon couplings is studied by means of a non-perturbative quantum kinetic theory. The interaction with acoustic phonons by deformation potential and piezoelectric coupling is taken into account. We show that the phonon-mediated relaxation is fast on a picosecond timescale and is dominated by the usually neglected off-diagonal coupling to the lattice degrees of freedom leading to phonon-assisted electron tunneling. We show that in the parameter regime of current electrical and optical experiments, the microscopic non-Markovian theory has to be employed.

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