Variational approach for phonon renormalization effects in photoexcited quantum wires and quantum wells
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1996
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Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research
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0370-1972
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Wiley - V C H Verlag
Volume
197
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2
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369 - 379
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English
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We investigate the effects of screening on polaronic corrections to the effective band edge in photoexcited quasi-one-dimensional GaAs quantum wires and two-dimensional quantum wells. We develop a variational method to calculate the polaron energy of a two-component plasma (electrons and holes) coupled to LO-phonons. Screening effects are incorporated within a dynamical scheme. We find that the screening effects and finite well width considerably reduce the polaron energy as the plasma density increases. Many-body corrections beyond the random-phase approximation are also considered.