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Multi-excitons in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots: A pseudopotential, many-body approach

Materials Science 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We use a many-body, atomistic empirical pseudopotential approach to predict the multi-exciton emission spectrum of a lens shaped InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dot. We discuss the effects of (i) The direct Coulomb energies, including the differences of electron and hole wavefunctions, (ii) the exchange Coulomb energies and (iii) correlation energies given by a configuration interaction calculation. Emission from the groundstate of the NN exciton system to the N1N-1 exciton system involving e0h0e_0\to h_0 and e1h1e_1\to h_1 recombinations are discussed. A comparison with a simpler single-band, effective mass approach is presented.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003188,
  title  = {Multi-excitons in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots: A pseudopotential, many-body approach},
  author = {A. J. Williamson and A. Franceschetti and A. Zunger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003188},
  year   = {2009}
}