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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Direct measurement of exciton-exciton interaction energy
Z Vörös1, D W Snoke, L Pfeiffer
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Abstract:
We report a direct measurement of the spectral function (real and imaginary self-energy) of excitons with a repulsive interaction potential. These results allow a stringent test of many-body theories of the exciton-exciton interaction which is independent of the exciton density calibration.
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