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Reduced electron relaxation rate in multi-electron quantum dots

A. Bertoni, M. Rontani, G. Goldoni, E. Molinari

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0506743

Abstract

We use a configuration-interaction approach and Fermi golden rule to investigate electron-phonon interaction in realistic multi-electron quantum dots. Lifetimes are computed in the low-density, highly correlated regime. We report numerical evidence that electron-electron interaction generally leads to reduced decay rates of excited electronic states in weakly confined quantum dots, where carrier relaxation is dominated by the interaction with longitudinal acoustic phonons.

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