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We present a medium-dependent quantum optics approach to describe the influence of electron-acoustic phonon coupling on the emission spectra of a strongly coupled quantum-dot cavity system. Using a canonical Hamiltonian for light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 S. Hughes , P. Yao , F. Milde , A. Knorr , D. Dalacu , K. Mnaymneh , V. Sazonova , P. J. Poole , G. C. Aers , J. Lapointe , R. Cheriton , R. L. Williams

We report a theoretical study of the carrier relaxation in a quantum cascade laser (QCL) subjected to a strong magnetic field. Both the alloy (GaInAs) disorder effects and the Frohlich interaction are taken into account when the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Yu Chen , N. Regnault , R. Ferreira , Bang-Fen Zhu , G. Bastard

The paper reports on a study of electron-phonon interaction within a limited nanosized region. We invoked the modified Fr\"{o}hlich's Hamiltonian to calculate the electron self-energy, as well as the elastic and inelastic scattering cross…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. V. Reich

We investigate the spin relaxation induced by acoustic phonons in the presence of spin-orbit interactions in single electron Si/SiGe lateral coupled quantum dots. The relaxation rates are computed numerically in single and double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

The theory of Raman scattering by the electron--phonon coupled system in metals and heavily doped semiconductors is developed taking into account the Coulomb screening and the electron--phonon deformation interaction. The Boltzmann equation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Falkovsky

We study all of the leading-order contributions to spin relaxation of \textit{conduction} electrons in silicon due to the electron-phonon interaction. Using group theory, $k\cdot p$ perturbation method and rigid-ion model, we derive an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-21 Yang Song , Hanan Dery

We investigate electron charge decoherence in a laterally-coupled single-electron semiconductor double quantum dot through electron-phonon interaction. We analytically and numerically evaluate the relaxation and dephasing rates due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Stavrou , Xuedong Hu

We have studied direct and Raman processes of the decay of electron spin states in a quantum dot via radiation of phonons corresponding to elastic twists. Universal dependence of the spin relaxation rate on the strength and direction of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Calero , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

A quantum dot molecule doped with a single electron in the presence of diagonal and off-diagonal carrier-phonon couplings is studied by means of a non-perturbative quantum kinetic theory. The interaction with acoustic phonons by deformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 A. Grodecka-Grad , J. Förstner

Phonon-induced orbital and spin relaxation rates of single electron states in lateral single and double quantum dots are obtained numerically for realistic materials parameters. The rates are calculated as a function of magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Electron spin relaxation induced by phonon-mediated s-d exchange interaction in a II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dot is investigated theoretically. The electron-acoustic phonon interaction due to piezoelectric coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , K. Chang

Materials exhibit various wave-like excitations, among which phonons (lattice vibrations) and magnons (oscillations in ferromagnetic ordering) hold significant promise for future nanoscale technologies. Exploring the interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 A. L. Bassant , M. F. van Willigen , R. A. Duine

It is shown that the electron scattering by static defects, acoustic or optical phonons in quantum wells subjected to an in-plane magnetic field is asymmetric. The probability of scattering contains terms which are proportional to both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Tarasenko

The influence of electron-phonon interaction on the transmission phase shift of an electron passing through a quantum dot is investigated by using the scattering theory. The transmission phase versus the intra-dot level shows a serial of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juntao Song , Qing-feng Sun , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

We propose a mechanism of energy relaxation for carriers confined in a non-polar quantum dot surrounded by an amorphous polar environment. The carrier transitions are due to their interaction with the oscillating electric field induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 A. N. Poddubny , S. V. Goupalov , V. I. Kozub , I. N. Yassievich

Polar phonons can induce electric fields in an adjacent layer, whether non-polar or polar, producing remote phonon scattering of electrons. Treatment of remote phonon scattering has been based on the dielectric continuum model which takes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-15 A. Dyson , B. K. Ridley

Here we report on an elastic and inelastic neutron scattering study addressing the effect of electric fields on quantum paraelectric SrTiO3. Our elastic scattering results find small changes as a function of field in a superlattice…

Micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy at variable temperature, excitation intensity and energy was performed on a single InAs/AlAs self-assembled quantum dot. The exciton emission line (zero-phonon line, ZPL) exhibits a broad sideband due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Sarkar , H. P. van der Meulen , J. M. Calleja , J. M. Meyer , R. J. Haug , K. Pierz

We calculate the spin relaxation rates in a parabolic InSb quantum dots due to the spin interaction with acoustical phonons. We considered the deformation potential mechanism as the dominant electron-phonon coupling in the Pavlov-Firsov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 A. M. Alcalde , C. L. Romano , L. Sanz , G. E. Marques