Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

, Volume 69, Issue 1, pp 97–102 | Cite as

Coherent motion of an exciton in a semi-infinite chain

  • J. Klíma
  • L. Skála
Article

Abstract

An explicit analytic expression for the propagator of a coherent motion of an exciton in a semi-infinite linear chain is derived. The “surface” relaxation is studied and the probability of an exciton being captured at the surface is calculated. The possibility of using the exponential decay approximation and the generalization to the three-dimensional crystal are also discussed.

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Spectroscopy Neural Network State Physics Complex System Nonlinear Dynamics 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • J. Klíma
    • 1
  • L. Skála
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Physics of Semiconductors, Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsCharles UniversityPragueCzechoslovakia

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