Signature of electron-plasmon quantum kinetics in GaAs

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3508-3511

  Vu, Q T ^a   Haug, H ^a   Hugel W A ^b   Chatterjee, S ^b   Wegener, M ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER DENSITY DEPENDENT OSCILLATIONS; COULOMB QUANTUM KINETICS; ELECTRON PLASMON QUANTUM KINETICS; RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 16744369117     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3508     Document Type: Article

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