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11713523

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6861
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-19
pubmed:abstractText
Electrostatic coupling between particles is important in many microscopic phenomena found in nature. The interaction between two isolated point charges is described by the bare Coulomb potential, but in many-body systems this interaction is modified as a result of the collective response of the screening cloud surrounding each charge carrier. One such system involves ultrafast interactions between quasi-free electrons in semiconductors-which are central to high-speed and future quantum electronic devices. The femtosecond kinetics of nonequilibrium Coulomb systems has been calculated using static and dynamical screening models that assume the instantaneous formation of interparticle correlations. However, some quantum kinetic theories suggest that a regime of unscreened bare Coulomb collisions might exist on ultrashort timescales. Here we monitor directly the temporal evolution of the charge-charge interactions after ultrafast excitation of an electron-hole plasma in GaAs. We show that the onset of collective behaviour such as Coulomb screening and plasmon scattering exhibits a distinct time delay of the order of the inverse plasma frequency, that is, several 10(-14) seconds.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
414
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
286-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-10-31
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
How many-particle interactions develop after ultrafast excitation of an electron-hole plasma.
pubmed:affiliation
Physik-Department E11, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article