Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 58, Number 1, April 2002
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Page(s) | 87 - 92 | |
Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00609-3 | |
Published online | 01 August 2002 |
The effective bosonic Hamiltonian for excitons reconsidered
GPS, Université Denis Diderot and Université Pierre
et Marie Curie, CNRS Tour 23, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris
Cedex 05, France
Received:
9
April
2001
Accepted:
15
January
2002
The effective bosonic Hamiltonian for excitons, extensively quoted up to now, cannot be correct because it is (surprisingly) non-Hermitian. The oversight physically originates from the intrinsic difficulty of properly defining electron-hole interactions between excitons when dealing with exchange terms. By using our commutation technique, we show that the fermionic character of the excitons cannot be forced into a dressed Coulomb interaction only: The effective bosonic Hamiltonian must contain purely fermionic terms of the same order as the Coulomb terms. They are necessary to ensure hermiticity, and they do not reduce to a two-body interaction, Pauli exclusion being N-body by essence.
PACS: 71.35.-y – Excitons and related phenomena
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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