@inproceedings{a1c45f93dc9c46539d669fcd9ffd7908,
title = "Ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge and spin currents in semiconductor nanostructures",
abstract = "Employing the quantum interference among one- and two-photon excitations induced by ultrashort two-color laser pulses it is possible to generate charge and spin currents in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures on femtosecond time scales. Here, it is reviewed how the excitation process and the dynamics of such photocurrents can be described on the basis of a microscopic many-body theory. Numerical solutions of the semiconductor Bloch equations (SEE) provide a detailed description of the time-dependent material excitations. Applied to the case of photocurrents, numerical solutions of the SEE for a two-band model including many-body correlations on the second-Born Markov level predict an enhanced damping of the spin current relative to that of the charge current. Interesting effects are obtained when the scattering processes are computed beyond the Markovian limit. Whereas the overall decay of the currents is basically correctly described already within the Markov approximation, quantum-kinetic calculations show that memory effects may lead to additional oscillatory signatures in the current transients. When transitions to coupled heavy- and light-hole valence bands are incorporated into the SEE, additional charge and spin currents, which are not described by the two-band model, appear.",
keywords = "Coherent control, Many-body correlations, Many-body theory, Nonlinear optics, Photocurrent, Scattering processes, Semiconductor Bloch equations, Spin current",
author = "Torsten Meier and Bernhard Pasenow and Duc, {Huynh Thanh} and Vu, {Quang Tuyen} and Hartmut Haug and Koch, {Stephan W.}",
year = "2007",
month = may,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1117/12.696338",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0819465844",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XI and Semiconductor Photodetectors IV",
note = "Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XI and Semiconductor Photodetectors IV ; Conference date: 22-01-2007 Through 24-01-2007",
}