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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Coherent and incoherent phonon processes in artificial atoms

Peter ZollerLucjan JacakJ. KrasnyjPaweł Machnikowski

subject

PhysicsQuantum decoherenceCondensed matter physicsPhononExcitonRelaxation (NMR)Optical physicsCondensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall EffectPolaronAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsCondensed Matter::Materials ScienceNonlinear Sciences::Exactly Solvable and Integrable SystemsQuantum dotCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsExcitation

description

Carrier-phonon interaction in semiconductor quantum dots leads to three classes of phenomena: coherent effects (spectrum reconstruction) due to the nearly-dispersionless LO phonons, incoherent effects (transitions) induced by acoustical phonons and dressing phenomena, related to non-adiabatic, sub-picosecond excitation. Polaron spectra, relaxation times and dressing-related decoherence rates are calculated, in accordance with experiment.

https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00020-2