Ultrafast dephasing through acoustic plasmon undamping in nonequilibrium electron-hole plasmas
- 13 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (2) , 347-350
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.347
Abstract
Strong enhancement of acoustic plasmons in optically excited nonequilibrium electron-hole plasmas in bulk semiconductors is shown to cause ultrashort (∼10 fs) dephasing times and very high carrier-carrier scattering rates.Keywords
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