Abstract

A fully quantum mechanical theory for the coupled electron-hole-pair and photon dynamics of semiconductor microcavity systems is presented. Based on a nonequilibrium Green’s functions approach, the carrier system is described by a generalized Boltzmann equation which includes contributions for carrier generation, carrier scattering by other carriers and phonons, as well as the spontaneous and stimulated recombination. The photon dynamics is described in terms of coupling to the carriers as well as by the mode confinement through the cavity. The many-body Coulomb effects are included on the level of a screened Hartree-Fock approximation.

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