Conference paper
On the Purcell effect beyond the dipole approximation
We investigate spontaneous emission from excitons in quantum dots beyond the dipole approximation and show how the symmetry of the exciton wavefunction plays a crucial role. We show explicitly that for spherically symmetric excitons, the Purcell effect is independent of the exciton size and is governed by the local density of optical states at the center of the exciton only, which is identical to the result derived with the dipole approximation.
This surprising result is a spontaneous emission counterpart to the shell theorem of classical mechanics and electrostatics and provides new insights to the physics of mesoscopic emitters as well as great simplifications in practical calculations.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 68-70 |
Proceedings: | 5th International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics |
Series: | A I P Conference Proceedings Series |
ISBN: | 0735410844 and 9780735410848 |
ISSN: | 15517616 and 0094243x |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.4750098 |
ORCIDs: | Kristensen, Philip Trøst and Stobbe, Søren |