Reduced electron relaxation rate in multielectron quantum dots |
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Authors: | Bertoni Andrea Rontani Massimo Goldoni Guido Molinari Elisa |
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Institution: | INFM National Research Center on nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces (S3) and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/A, 41100 Modena, Italy. |
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Abstract: | We use a configuration-interaction approach and the Fermi golden rule to investigate electron-phonon interaction in multielectron 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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