Dynamics of Coulomb–correlated Electron–hole Pairs in Disordered Semiconductor Nanowires
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The dynamics of optically generated electron-hole pairs is investigated in a disordered semiconductor nanowire. The particle pairs are generated by short laser pulses and their dynamics is followed using the Heisenberg equation of motion. Is is shown that Coulomb–correlation acts against localization in the case of the two–interacting particles (TIP) problem. Furthermore, currents are generated using a coherent combination of full-gap and half-gap pulses. The subsequent application of a full-gap pulse after time τ produces an intraband echo phenomenon 2τ time later. The echo current is shown to depend on the mass ratio between the electrons and the holes
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