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We study the coherent light-matter interactions of GaAs quantum wells associated with excitons, biexcitons and many-body effects. For most polarization configurations, excitonic features dominate the phase-resolved two-dimensional…

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We report a comprehensive experimental study and detailed model analysis of the terahertz dielectric response and density kinetics of excitons and unbound electron-hole pairs in GaAs quantum wells. A compact expression is given, in absolute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-08 R. A. Kaindl , D. Haegele , M. A. Carnahan , D. S. Chemla

Quanta emitted by an open quantum system carry information about intrinsic parameters, enabling their estimation via continuous monitoring. In practice, however, only a fraction of the emitted quanta is detected, reducing the achievable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Robert Mattes , Igor Lesanovsky , Albert Cabot

We apply low temperature confocal optical microscopy to spatially resolve, and spectroscopically study a single self assembled quantum dot. By comparing the emission spectra obtained at various excitation levels to a theoretical many body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Dekel , D. Gershoni , E. Ehrenfreund , D. Spektor J. M. Garcia , P. M. Petroff

The spectral properties of one exciton trapped in a self-assembled multi-layered quantum dot is obtained using a high precision variational numerical method. The exciton Hamiltonian includes the effect of the polarization charges, induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Mariano Garagiola , Omar Osenda

Recently we reported on the condensation of cold, electrostatically trapped dipolar excitons in GaAs bilayer heterostructure into a new, dense and dark collective phase. Here we analyze and discuss in detail the experimental findings and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-04 Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz , Kobi Cohen , Ronen Rapaport

In contrast to interband excitons in undoped quantum wells, doped quantum wells do not display sharp resonances due to excitonic bound states. In these systems the effective Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes typically only…

Excitons -- bound electron-hole pairs -- play a central role in light-matter interaction phenomena, and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and generation to quantum information processing. A long-standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jenny Hu , Etienne Lorchat , Xueqi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tony F. Heinz , Puneet A. Murthy , Thibault Chervy

We present a fully three-dimensional study of the multiexciton optical response of vertically coupled GaN-based quantum dots via a direct-diagonalization approach. The proposed analysis is crucial in understanding the fundamental properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio De Rinaldis , Irene D'Amico , Fausto Rossi

Using the theory of imaging with partially coherent light, we derive general expressions for different kinds of interferometric setups like double slit, shift and mirror interference. We show that in all cases the interference patterns…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Heinrich Stolz , Maria Dietl Rico Schwartz , Dirk Semkat

Excitons in the weakly interacting regime can be well-described by many-body perturbation theories such as the Bethe-Salpeter equation formalism. However, for materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides moir\'e heterostructures under…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Fangzhou Zhao , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Angel Rubio , Vojtěch Vlček

We report direct evidence for macroscopic coherence in a condensate of dark dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells and show that its formation follows a non-equilibrium, driven-dissipative mechanism. The condensation transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Amit Jash , Maheswar Swar , Uri Shimon , Vladimir Umansky , Israel Bar-Joseph

We studied, theoretically, the optical absorption spectra for a slightly asymmetric double quantum well (DQW), in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. Recent experimental results for a 10.18/3.82/9.61 nm GaAs Al(_{.33}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francisco Vera

We discuss light-heavy hole beats observed in transient optical experiments in GaAs quantum wells in terms of a free-boson coherent state model. This approach is compared with descriptions based on few-level representations. Results lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor , R. Merlin

When the coupling between light and matter becomes comparable to the energy gap between different excited states they hybridize, leading to the appearance of a rich and complex phenomenology which attracted remarkable interest in recent…

Recent work applying multidimentional coherent electronic spectroscopy at dilute samples in the gas phase is reviewed. The development of refined phase-cycling approaches with improved sensitivity has opened-up new opportunities to probe…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-09-12 Lukas Bruder , Ulrich Bangert , Marcel Binz , Daniel Uhl , Frank Stienkemeier

We investigated excitonic absorptions in GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single barrier heterostructure using both photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopies at room temperature. Photocapacitance spectra show well defined resonance peak of indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Amit Bhunia , Mohit Kumar Singh , Y. Galvao Gobato , Mohamed Henini , Shouvik Datta

Multiexcitons (MXs) in quantum dots (QDs) manifest many body interactions under quantum confinement. Beyond this fundamental interest, MXs are of importance in numerous optoelectronic applications including QD lasing, light emitting diodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Einav Scharf , Rotem Liran , Adar Levi , Omer Alon , Nadav Chefetz , Dan Oron , Uri Banin

Coherence transfer is a multi-disciplinary topic of interest, including chemistry, biology and physics. In quantum technologies, achieving non-local coherent coupling between solid-state qubits is of the utmost importance. Here, we…

We study semiconductor excitons confined in an electrostatic trap of a GaAs bilayer heterostructure. We evidence that optically bright excitonic states are strongly depleted while cooling to sub-Kelvin temperatures. In return, the other…