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We investigate polarization properties of neutral exciton emission in single self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots. The in-plane shape and strain anisotropy strongly couple the heavy and light hole states and lead to large optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 C. Tonin , R. Hostein , V. Voliotis , R. Grousson , A. Lemaitre , A. Martinez

Elementary quasi-particles in a two dimensional electron system can be described as exciton-polarons since electron-exciton interactions ensures dressing of excitons by Fermi-sea electron-hole pair excitations. A relevant open question is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Sylvain Ravets , Patrick Knüppel , Stefan Faelt , Martin Kroner , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have advanced to become a model system for studying dynamical Bose-Einstein condensation, macroscopic coherence, many-body effects, nonclassical states of light and matter, and possibly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-21 C. Schneider , K. Winkler , M. D. Fraser , M. Kamp , Y. Yamamoto , E. A. Ostrovskaya , S. Hoefling

While the interaction potential between two dipoles residing in a single plane is repulsive, in a system of two vertically adjacent layers of dipoles it changes from repulsive interaction in the long range to attractive interaction in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 Kobi Cohen , Maxim Khodas , Boris Laikhtman , Paulo V. Santos , Ronen Rapaport

Single and multi-band (Burt-Foreman) k.p Hamiltonians for GaAs crystal phase quantum dots are developed and used to assess ongoing experimental activity on the role of such factors as quantum confinement, spontaneous polarization, valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Juan I. Climente , Carlos Segarra , Fernando Rajadell , Josep Planelles

Exciton-polaritons are hybrid elementary excitations of light and matter that, thanks to their nonlinear properties, enable a plethora of physical phenomena ranging from room temperature condensation to superfluidity. While polaritons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Davide Nigro , Vincenzo D'Ambrosio , Daniele Sanvitto , Dario Gerace

A variational calculation of the lower singlet and triplet states of positively charged excitons (trions) confined to a single quantum well and in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field is presented. We study the dependence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Riva , F. M. Peeters , K. Varga

The structure appearance in exciton density distribution in semiconductor double quantum well with transverse electric field applied is studied, in the case when the metal electrode contains a round window. It is suggested that there is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Chernyuk , V. S. Kopp , V. I. Sugakov

We present a precise calculation of spatially-indirect exciton states in semiconductor coupled quantum wells and polaritons formed from their coupling to the optical mode of a microcavity. We include the presence of electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 J. Wilkes , E. A. Muljarov

We have theoretically studied exciton states and photoluminescence spectra of strained wurtzite AlGaN/GaN quantum-well heterostructures. The electron and hole energy spectra are obtained by numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. P. Pokatilov , D. L. Nika , V. M. Fomin , J. T. Devreese

Exciton-polaritons generated by light-induced potentials can spontaneously condense into macroscopic quantum states that display nontrivial spatial and temporal density modulation. While these patterns and their dynamics can be reproduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Li Ge , Ani Nersisyan , Baris Oztop , Hakan E. Tureci

We show that a magnetic field perpendicular to an AlGaAs/GaAs coupled quantum well efficiently traps dipolar excitons and leads to the stabilization of the excitonic formation and confinement in the illumination area. Hereby, the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 K. Kowalik-Seidl , X. P. Vögele , F. Seilmeier , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , A. W. Holleitner , J. P. Kotthaus

Over the past decade, exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have attracted a great deal of interest as a driven-dissipative quantum fluid. These systems offer themselves as a versatile platform for performing Hamiltonian…

Exciton polaritons are hybrid particles of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) and cavity photons, which are renowned for displaying Bose Einstein condensation and other coherent phenomena at elevated temperatures. However, their formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Kenneth Choo , Olivier Bleu , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

We observe condensation of exciton polaritons in quantum states composed of concentric rings when exciting cylindrical pillar GaAs/AlGaAs microcavities non-resonantly by a focused laser beam normally incident at the center of the pillar.…

We have developed a mean-field model to describe the dynamics of a non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. The spectrum of elementary excitations around the stationary state is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Wouters , I. Carusotto

We investigate the dynamics and stationary states of a semiconductor exciton-polariton condensate in a double well potential. We find that upon the population build up of the polaritons by above-threshold laser pumping, coherence relaxation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Panayotis A. Kalozoumis , David Petrosyan

Exciton-polariton solitons are strongly nonlinear quasiparticles composed of coupled exciton-photon states due to the interaction of light with matter. In semiconductor microcavity systems such as semiconductor micro and nanowires,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 E. Nji Nde Aboringong , I. Ngek Ndifon , Alain M. Dikandé

In a standard semiconductor laser, electrons and holes recombine via stimulated emission to emit coherent light, in a process that is far from thermal equilibrium. Exciton-polariton condensates -- sharing the same basic device structure as…

Interlayer excitons are bound states of electrons and holes confined in separate two-dimensional layers. Due to their repulsive dipolar interaction, interlayer excitons can form a correlated liquid. If another electron-hole bilayer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Chao Xu , Michael Fogler