Quantum Kinetics in Transport and Optics of Semiconductors
Quantum Kinetics in Transport and Optics of Semiconductors
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-73564-9
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发表时间:
2004-02
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H. Haug;A. Jauho
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作者:
H. Haug;A. Jauho
During the 11 years since the first edition was published the field of quantum kinetics has experienced a great expansion, and the methods described in the first edition are now widely used in a large number of different subfields. Literally thousands of papers have been published in this area and an attempt to give an exhaustive review is clearly beyond the present scope. In this revised edition we have attempted to include some examples of modern topics, essentially from the research areas we have been active in. We are fully aware of the fact that this approach will leave many important topics untouched, and our hope is that the leading researchers in those areas write their own books! 1 More specifically, in our revision we have left the first nine chapters essentially unchanged, only supplying a few updated references, and correcting misprints. On the other hand, the last nine chapters have been substantially revised, reorganized, and expanded. In the sections describing transport phenomena we have included a number of new topics, such as transport in a superlattice, molecular electronics (and inelastic interactions), and noise calculations. We have added a new chapter, describing the dynamical Franz–Keldysh effect, which follows directly from the field-dependent Green functions, originally introduced to describe high-field transport in semiconductors. In the sections dealing with optical properties we emphasize that the concepts of quantum kinetics have proved to be extremely fruitful for the analysis of new experiments in ultrafast semiconductor spectroscopy. Some highlights included in the new edition are: The femtosecond build-up of screening and of polaron correlations, four-wave mixing studies of the plasma-density dependent dephasing, the femtosecond formation of phonon–plasmon mixed modes, detection of light-induced band gaps, and non-Markovian relaxation in the short femtosecond regime. None of these fascinating new observations can be understood in the framework of a semiclassical Markovian Boltzmann kinetics, but require for their description the theory of quantum kinetics as demonstrated