Abstract
The previous chapter introduced a systematic procedure to obtain the semiconductor Bloch equations, (3.17–19), with an unscreened Coulomb interaction and without explicit expressions for the collision terms. Systematic approximations to collision contributions, which lead to carrier and polarization relaxation, as well as plasma screening, can be computed at the next higher level of approximation. In this chapter, we outline an analysis of these contributions which, in the context of many-body theory, are customarily referred to as Coulomb correlations.
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Many references listed in Chap. 3 are also relevant to this chapter. Additional references include
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The solutions of the Boltzmann equation in Figs. 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 are presented in
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Chow, W.W., Koch, S.W. (1999). Correlation Effects. In: Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03880-2_4
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