Abstract

Quantum phenomena in low-dimensional electron systems have been attracting much attention of semiconductor physicists and engineers for the last few decades. However, most discussions concern either electron transport or responses to classical electromagnetic fields. On the other hand, non-classical effects of light are a subject of growing interest in quantum optics. In this case, however, electronic systems are usually limited to either atoms or effective media (which are phenomenologically described to induce photon-photon couplings). The purpose of this talk is to give a brief introduction to “fully-quantum optoelectronics,” in which electrons confined in low-dimensional semiconductors are assumed to interact with quantized electromagnetic fields.

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