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In Chap. 4, we discuss the basic many-body theory of the semiconductor gain medium and derive the semiconductor Bloch equations, which contain the many-body modifications due to the Coulomb interaction between the carriers. The many-body effects manifest themselves as plasma screening, bandgap renormalization, interband Coulomb attraction, and carrier-carrier scattering.
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See also the references to Chap. 4. Gaves-Morris, P.R. (1973), Ed., Padé Approximants and Their Application, Academic Press, N.Y.
Haug, H. and S.W. Koch (1989), Phys. Rev. A39, 1887.
Haug, H. and S.W. Koch (1993), Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors, 2nd Edition, World Scientific, Singapore.
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Chow, W.W., Koch, S.W., Sargent, M. (1994). Many-Body Gain. In: Semiconductor-Laser Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61225-1_5
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