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Aharonov-Bohm signature for neutral excitons in type-II quantum dot ensembles

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

It is commonly believed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a typical feature of the motion of a charged particle interacting with the electromagnetic vector potential. Here we present a magnetophotoluminescence study of type-II InP/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots, unambiguously revealing the Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations for neutral excitons when the hole ground state changes its angular momentum from lh = 0 to lh = 1, 2, and 3. The hole ring parameters derived from a simple model are in excellent agreement with the structural parameters for this system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304092,
  title  = {Aharonov-Bohm signature for neutral excitons in type-II quantum dot ensembles},
  author = {E. Ribeiro and G. Medeiros-Ribeiro and W. Carvalho and A. O. Govorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304092},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revised version, 10 pages, 3 figures