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Publications and source records attributed to Ralph v. Baltz.
A real-space renormalization method for the frequency dependent conductivity of the periodic approximants of the Fibonacci chain is developed. This scheme is based on the known 2x2 transfer matrices and additional 5x5 matrices which allow an efficient numerical evaluation of the Kubo formula.
The Lloyd model is extended to the exciton problem in quasi one-dimensional structures to study the interplay between the Coulomb attraction and disorder scattering. Within this model the averaging and resummation of the locator series can be performed analytically. As an application, the optical absorption in quantum box wires is investigated. Without electron-hole interaction, fluctuations in the well-width lead to an asymmetric broadening of the minibands with respect to the lower and upper band-edges.