Semiconductor Kadanoff-Baym equation results for optically excited electron-hole plasmas in quantum wells

We present results from solutions of the semiconductor Kadanoff-Baym equations (full two-time semiconductor Bloch equations) with self-energies in quasistatic Born approximation, for GaAs single quantum wells. We concentrate on memory and correlation effects under fs-pulse excitation conditions. A remarkable feature is the observed kinetic energy increase which is due to the build-up of correlations among the generated carriers. We demonstrate that the two-time approach is (i) very well suited to study correlation phenomena both on short and long times, thereby avoiding well-known problems of one-time kinetic equations, and (ii) that it is becoming practical with the use of efficient integration techniques.