Experimental imaging and atomistic modeling of electron and hole quasiparticle wave functions in InAs/GaAs quantum dots
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G. Bester,1 D. Reuter,2 Lixin He,1 A. Zunger,1 P. Kailuweit,2 A. D. Wieck,2 U. Zeitler,3 J. C. Maan,3 O. Wibbelhoff,4 and A. Lorke4 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA 2Ruhr-Universität, 44801 Bochum, Germany 3High Field Magnet Laboratory, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands 4Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany Received 3 July 2007; published 22 August 2007
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