Abstract
This paper presents a first step towards combining two well-established methods used in semiconductor physics - semiconductor Bloch equations and the Wigner approach to quantum transport. This combination provides the possibility of including spontaneous emission, i.e., the spontaneous recombination of excited electron-hole pairs in semiconductors, into the Wigner approach, which so far has been used only for systems with fixed particle number. The theory is presented and first numerical results for a three-dimensional system are shown.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | S299-S305 |
| Journal | Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2003 |
Keywords
- Monte Carlo
- Quantum dynamics
- Quantum statistical computation
- Semiconductor
- Spontaneous emission
- Wigner approach
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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Filinov, V. S., Hoyer, W., Bonitz, M., Kira, M., Fortov, V. E., & Koch, S. W. (2003). Spontaneous emission of semiconductors in the wigner approach. Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, 5(3), S299-S305. https://doi.org/10.1088/1464-4266/5/3/361