Local absorption spectra of artificial atoms and molecules
arXiv:cond-mat/0008120 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.62.13657
Abstract
We investigate theoretically the spatial dependence of the linear absorption spectra of single and coupled semiconductor quantum dots, where the strong three-dimensional quantum confinement leads to an overall enhancement of Coulomb interaction and, in turn, to a pronounced renormalization of the excitonic properties. We show that -because of such Coulomb correlations and the spatial interference of the exciton wavefunctions- unexpected spectral features appear whose intensity depends on spatial resolution in a highly non-monotonic way when the spatial resolution is comparable with the excitonic Bohr radius. We finally discuss how the optical near-field properties of double quantum dots are affected by their coupling.
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