Excitons and electron-hole plasma in quasi-two-dimensional systems☆

A theoretical study of many-body effects in quasi-two-dimensional electron-hole systems is presented. The renormalized single-particle energies and the exciton binding energy are calculated as functions of the carrier density and temperature. A simple model for the nonlinear excitonic absorption and refraction is proposed.

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