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450 Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors
Mott density, 286, 290
multi-subband Bloch equations, 221
multi-subband situation, 123
multiband configuration, 256
multilevel Bloch equations, 396
narrow band-gap semiconductors, 291
nearly free electron model, 50
non-Markovian quantum kinetics, 227
nonlinear optical response, 310
nonlinearity
density-dependent, 307
nonradiative recombination, 324
number operator, 91
numerical matrix inversion, 289
Nyquist noise, 334
occupation number, 91
off-diagonal damping, 411
off-diagonal elements, 71
one-component plasma, 131
one-particle density matrix, 164
operator
contour-ordering, 436, 437
Fermion, 437
time-ordering, 436
optical bistability, 305, 311
optical Bloch equations, 24, 75
optical Bloch equations for quantum
dots, 395
optical dielectric function, 290
optical dipole matrix element, 69
optical dipole transition, 65, 68
optical feedback, 340
optical gain, 23, 85, 290, 399, 413
optical matrix element, 72, 197
optical nonlinearities, 86
optical polarization, 79, 169
optical pumping, 84
optical resonator, 311
optical response, nonlinear, 310
optical spectrum, 184, 300
optical Stark effect, 27, 237
optical Stark shift, 23
optical susceptibility, 2, 3, 21, 185,
295, 307, 356
atomic, 17
free carrier, 80
optical switching devices, 291
optical theorem, 406
optically thin samples, 271
orthogonality relation, 65
oscillations, coherent, 254
oscillator, 2
oscillator potential, 374
oscillator strength, 21, 186
oscillator strength sum rule, 22
overlap integral, 359
Pad´e approximation, 96, 294
pair correlation function, 118, 121
pair energy, 389
pair function, 165
pair wave function, 391
paraxial approximation, 307
particle propagator, 150
Pauli blocking, 219, 264
Pauli exclusion principle, 89
periodic boundary conditions, 34
perturbed free induction decay, 254
phase, 311, 341
phase-space filling, 219, 262
phonon Hamiltonian, 225
phonon-assisted density matrix, 224
phonons, 425
photon echo, 78, 275, 280
intrinsic, 275
photon operators, 430
photons, 422
picture
Heisenberg, 260, 436, 437
interaction, 260
plasma eigenmodes, 139
plasma frequency, 6, 134, 143
plasma screening, 137, 296
plasma theory, 296
plasmon, 129, 140
plasmon frequency, 147
effective, 146
plasmon pole, 416
plasmon–pole approximation, 146,
147, 158