Inelastic Coulomb scattering rate of a multisubband Q1D electron gas



Título del documento: Inelastic Coulomb scattering rate of a multisubband Q1D electron gas
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000159069
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Física, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 29
Número: 4
Paginación: 734-737
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés We study, the Coulomb scattering lifetimes of electrons in two coupled quantum wires by calculating the quasiparticle self-energy within a multisubband model of quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) electron system. We consider two strongly coupled quantum wires with two occupied subbands. The intrasubband and intersubband inelastic scattering rates are caculated for electrons in different subbands. Contributions of the intrasubband, intersubband plasmon excitations, as well as the quasiparticle excitations are investigated. Our results show that the plasmon exictations of the first subband are the most important scattering mechanism for electrons in both subbands
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física de materia condensada,
Semiconductores,
Sistemas cuasiunidimensionales,
Dispersión inelástica,
Gas de electrones,
Hilos cuánticos
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Condensed matter physics,
Semiconductors,
Quasi one dimensional systems,
Inelastic scattering,
Electron gas,
Quantum wires
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