Generalized Monte Carlo approach for the study of the coherent ultrafast carrier dynamics in photoexcited semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 12855-12868

  Haas, Stefan ^a   Rossi, Fausto ^a   Kuhn, Tilmann ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0001664110     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.12855     Document Type: Article

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