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Carrier relaxation with LO phonon decay in semiconductor quantum dots

S. A. Levetas, M. J. Godfrey, P. Dawson

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0010309

Abstract

Analysis of an exactly soluble model of phonons coupled to a carrier in a quantum dot provides a clear illustration of a phonon bottleneck to relaxation. The introduction of three-phonon interactions leads to a broad window for relaxation by the processes of LO phonon scattering and decay.

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