Analysis of an exactly soluble model of phonons coupled to a carrier in a quantum dot provides a clear illustration of a phonon bottleneck to relaxation. The introduction of three-phonon interactions leads to a broad window for relaxation by the processes of LO phonon scattering and decay.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0010309,
title = {Carrier relaxation with LO phonon decay in semiconductor quantum dots},
author = {S. A. Levetas and M. J. Godfrey and P. Dawson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0010309},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures, for 25th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Osaka, 17-22 September 2000