Many-Body Effects in a Modulation-Doped Semiconductor Quantum Well

Abstract
The electron areal concentration ns of a one-sided 130-Å-thick GaAs-Ga(Al)As modulation-doped quantum well is continuously varied from 0 to 6.6×1011 cm2 by use of a Schottky gate. This allows one to study the precise evolution of the luminescence and excitation spectra with increasing ns. From a comparison between the measured peak positions and Hartree calculations of the energy levels, a measurement of the band-gap renormalization is obtained.