Reduced electron relaxation rate in multi-electron quantum dots
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We use a configuration-interaction approach and Fermi golden rule to investigate electron-phonon interaction in realistic multi-electron quantum dots. Lifetimes are computed in the low-density, highly correlated regime. We report numerical evidence that electron-electron interaction generally leads to reduced decay rates of excited electronic states in weakly confined quantum dots, where carrier relaxation is dominated by the interaction with longitudinal acoustic phonons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0506743,
title = {Reduced electron relaxation rate in multi-electron quantum dots},
author = {A. Bertoni and M. Rontani and G. Goldoni and E. Molinari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0506743},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett