Dynamics of Coulomb-correlated electron-hole pairs in disordered semiconductor nanowires

I. Varga, C. Schlichenmaier, T. Meier, K. Maschke, P. Thomas, S. W. Koch

Published 2001-11-23Version 1

The dynamics of optically generated electron-hole pairs is investigated in a disordered semiconductor nanowire. The particle pairs are generated by short laser pulses and their dynamics is followed using the Heisenberg equation of motion. Is is shown that Coulomb-correlation acts against localization in the case of the two-interacting particles (TIP) problem. Furthermore, currents are generated using a coherent combination of full-gap and half-gap pulses. The subsequent application of a full-gap pulse after time $\tau$ produces an intraband echo phenomenon $2\tau$ time later. The echo current is shown to depend on the mass ratio between the electrons and the holes.