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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Suris tetrons: possible spectroscopic evidence for four-particle optical excitations of a two-dimensional electron
A V Koudinov1, C Kehl2, A V Rodina3
1A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of RAS, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia and Spin Optics Laboratory, Saint Petersburg State University, 198504 Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
The excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas in quantum wells with intermediate carrier density (ne∼1011 cm-2), i.e., between the exciton-trion and the Fermi-sea range, are so far poorly understood. We report on an approach to bridge this gap by a magnetophotoluminescence study of modulation-doped (Cd,Mn)Te quantum well structures. Employing their enhanced spin splitting, we analyzed the characteristic magnetic-field behavior of the individual photoluminescence features. Based on these results and earlier findings by other authors, we present a new approach for understanding the optical transitions at intermediate densities in terms of four-particle excitations, the Suris tetrons, which were up to now only predicted theoretically. All characteristic photoluminescence features are attributed to emission from these quasiparticles when attaining different final states.
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