Chang, E.
, Levine, Z.
and Shirley, E.
(2002),
Excitonic Effects on Optical Second-Harmonic Polarizabilities of Semiconductors, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(Accessed September 19, 2025)
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Excitonic Effects on Optical Second-Harmonic Polarizabilities of Semiconductors
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Author(s)
E K. Chang, ,
Abstract
We present an ab initio many-body formalism for computing the frequency-dependent second-harmonic polarizability of semiconductor materials that includes both local-field and excitonic effects. We calculate the second-harmonic polarizability for AIP, AIAs, GaP, and GaAs. In each case, excitonic effects increase the value of the second-harmonic polarizability by about 20%. Weobtain results in good agreement with available experiments.Citation
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume
65
Issue
No. 3
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
ab initio, non-linear optics, second-harmonic generation
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Created December 31, 2001, Updated October 12, 2021