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Theory of the Quasiparticle Effective Masses in Semiconductors based on an Electron Self Energy Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

Xuejun Zhu ,
Mark S. Hybertsen  and
Steven G. Louie
Xuejun Zhu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, and Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Mark S. Hybertsen
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Steven G. Louie
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, and Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

A conceptually complete formalism for the quasiparticle effective masses in semiconductors is proposed. Our approach is based. on a generalized form of the theory, including the effects of the nonlocal, energy dependent electron self: energy operator Σ, which accounts for the electron-electron interaction. This introduces two -important effects on the expression of the effective mass: an explicit energy renormalization and an extra contribution to the matrix element that enters the usual . Our preliminary numerical results for prototypical GaAs show promising improvements over the results from the local density approximation for the calculated electron effective mass compared to experimental data.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 193: Symposium Q – Atomic Scale Calculations of Structure in Materials , 1990 , 113
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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