Many-body effects in two-dimensional optical spectra of semiconductor quantum dot pairs; Time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation and beyond

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Oszwaldowski R ^a,b   Abramavicius, D ^a   Mukamel, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; HOLE MOBILITY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ELECTRON-HOLE PAIRS; HARTREE-FOCK APPROXIMATION; NONLINEAR EXCITON EQUATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 43049083384     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/04/045206     Document Type: Article

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