Band-gap renormalization in quasi-one-dimensional electron-hole systems
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Date
1996Source Title
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Print ISSN
0953-8984
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd
Volume
8
Issue
33
Pages
5997 - 6004
Language
English
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Abstract
We study the band-gap renormalization (BGR) in semiconductor quantum wires. Assuming an electron-hole system in quasi-equilibrium, we employ the random-phase approximation (RPA) and beyond (e.g., local-field corrections) to calculate the electron and the hole self-energies. The plasmon-pole approximation to the static dielectric function ε(q) agrees well with the RPA result. Our results for the BGR are compared with the recent experimental measurements and other theoretical calculations.