When composite particles - such as small molecules, nuclei, or photogenerated excitons in semiconductors - are scattered by an external potential, energy may be transferred between the c.m. and the internal degrees of freedom. An accurate dynamical modeling of this effect is pivotal in predicting diverse scattering quantities and reaction cross sections, and allows us to rationalize time-resolved energy and localization spectra. Here, we show that time-dependent scattering of a quantum composite particle with an arbitrary, nonperturbative external potential can be obtained by propagating the c.m. degrees of freedom with a properly designed local self-energy potential. The latter embeds the effect of internal virtual transitions and can be obtained by the knowledge of the stationary internal states. The case is made by simulating Wannier-Mott excitons in one- and two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. The self-energy approach shows very good agreement with numerically exact Schrödinger propagation for scattering potentials where a mean-field model cannot be applied, at a dramatically reduced computational cost.

Time-dependent scattering of a composite particle: A local self-energy approach for internal excitations / Grasselli, Federico; Bertoni, Andrea; Goldoni, Guido. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B. - ISSN 2469-9950. - STAMPA. - 94:(2016), pp. N/A-N/A. [10.1103/PhysRevB.94.125418]

Time-dependent scattering of a composite particle: A local self-energy approach for internal excitations

GRASSELLI, FEDERICO;BERTONI, Andrea;GOLDONI, Guido
2016

Abstract

When composite particles - such as small molecules, nuclei, or photogenerated excitons in semiconductors - are scattered by an external potential, energy may be transferred between the c.m. and the internal degrees of freedom. An accurate dynamical modeling of this effect is pivotal in predicting diverse scattering quantities and reaction cross sections, and allows us to rationalize time-resolved energy and localization spectra. Here, we show that time-dependent scattering of a quantum composite particle with an arbitrary, nonperturbative external potential can be obtained by propagating the c.m. degrees of freedom with a properly designed local self-energy potential. The latter embeds the effect of internal virtual transitions and can be obtained by the knowledge of the stationary internal states. The case is made by simulating Wannier-Mott excitons in one- and two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. The self-energy approach shows very good agreement with numerically exact Schrödinger propagation for scattering potentials where a mean-field model cannot be applied, at a dramatically reduced computational cost.
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Time-dependent scattering of a composite particle: A local self-energy approach for internal excitations / Grasselli, Federico; Bertoni, Andrea; Goldoni, Guido. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B. - ISSN 2469-9950. - STAMPA. - 94:(2016), pp. N/A-N/A. [10.1103/PhysRevB.94.125418]
Grasselli, Federico; Bertoni, Andrea; Goldoni, Guido
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