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Published on: June 28, 2016
Stationary Phonon Squeezing by Optical Polaron Excitation
T Papenkort1, V M Axt2, T Kuhn1
1Institut für Festkörpertheorie, Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10, 48149 Münster, Germany.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that a stationary squeezed phonon state can be prepared by a pulsed optical excitation of a semiconductor quantum well. Unlike previously discussed scenarios for generating squeezed phonons, the corresponding uncertainties become stationary after the excitation and do not oscillate in time. The effect is caused by two-phonon correlations within the excited polaron. We demonstrate by quantum kinetic simulations and by a perturbation analysis that the energetically lowest polaron state comprises two-phonon correlations which, after the pulse, result in an uncertainty of the lattice momentum that is continuously lower than in the ground state of the semiconductor. The simulations show the dynamics of the polaron formation process and the resulting time-dependent lattice uncertainties.
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