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The efficiency of resonant light scattering on excitons

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We discuss the validity of various theories of resonant light scattering by phonons. We specially consider the case of an exciton-phonon coupling which is small compared to the exciton-photon coupling. Thus, for a particular choice of additional boundary conditions (ABC) the scattered intensity can be calculated self-consistently with, parameters deduced from the experiments. We discuss several experiments, of the literature and the problem of ABC. Elastic scatterings by defects are also considered.

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Merle, JC. (1985). The efficiency of resonant light scattering on excitons. In: Grosse, P. (eds) Festkörperprobleme 25. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0108160

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