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Title: Many-body coupling between quasiparticle and collective excitations in semiconductor quantum wells

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States)
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  1. Joint Program for Advanced Electronic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

We predict that, due to a many-body coupling between collective and single-particle excitations, there is an experimentally observable resonant line splitting in the intersubband collective charge-density excitation spectra in wide semiconductor quantum wells at low electron densities. This many-body coupling causes even the long-wavelength intersubband plasmon mode to be Landau damped at a critical density. Above the critical density, the intersubband plasmon mode lies [ital lower] in energy than the single-particle excitation.

OSTI ID:
6380702
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Vol. 47:24; ISSN 0163-1829
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English