Trapping of Cold Excitons with Laser Light
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles has led to a variety of experiments from stretching DNA-molecules to trapping and cooling of neutral atoms. An exciting recent outgrowth of the technique is an experimental implementation of atom Bose-Einstein condensation. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate laser induced trapping for a new system--a gas of excitons in quantum well structures. We report on the trapping of a highly degenerate Bose gas of excitons in laser induced traps.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603597,
title = {Trapping of Cold Excitons with Laser Light},
author = {A. T. Hammack and M. Griswold and L. V. Butov and L. E. Smallwood and A. L. Ivanov and A. C. Gossard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603597},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures