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Nonequilibrium Physics at Short Time Scales pp 309–335Cite as

Cluster Expansion in Semiconductor Quantum Optics

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During recent decades, semiconductor research gradually progressed towards the quantum-optical regime. For example, the special quantum nature of light is apparent when semiconductor quantum dots emit well defined photons [1,2] or when light-matter entanglement influences optical experiments in microcavity structures [3,4].

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Hoyer, W., Kira, M., Koch, S.W. (2004). Cluster Expansion in Semiconductor Quantum Optics. In: Morawetz, K. (eds) Nonequilibrium Physics at Short Time Scales. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08990-3_17

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