Resonant Rayleigh scattering dynamics of excitons in single quantum wells

Kocherscheidt, G., Langbein, Wolfgang Werner ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9786-1023, Woggon, U., Savona, V., Zimmermann, R., Reuter, D. and Wieck, A. 2003. Resonant Rayleigh scattering dynamics of excitons in single quantum wells. Physical Review B 68 (8) , 085207. 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.085207

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Abstract

The resonant Rayleigh scattering dynamics of excitons in single GaAs quantum wells is investigated. The deviation of the measured intensity from the ideal ensemble average is analyzed as a function of the speckle ensemble size. The influence of the amplitude and correlation length of the exciton disorder potential is traced using a series of samples with varying inhomogeneous broadening and interface island sizes. The experimental data are compared with theoretical predictions using exciton states of spatially uncorrelated energies, as well as full calculations of the exciton polarization dynamics using a more realistic disorder potential including the formation of monolayer islands. Deviations from the dynamics of uncorrelated states are found at early times after excitation. They are reproduced by the calculations possessing a state correlation due to quantum mechanical level repulsion and a finite correlation length for the disorder potential. Additionally, the presence of a long-range disorder potential in the micrometer range is suggested. Changing the disorder potential by varying the island size influences the observed dynamics systematically according to the different disorder correlation lengths.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0163-1829
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/48856

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