Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-02-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.174305
This paper introduces a new quantum object, the ``coboson'', for composite particles, like the excitons, which are made of two fermions. Although commonly dealed with as elementary bosons, these composite bosons -- ``cobosons'' in short -- differ from them due to their composite nature which makes the handling of their many-body effects quite different from the existing treatments valid for elementary bosons. Due to this composite nature, it is not possible to correctly describe the interaction between cobosons as a potential $V$. Consequently, the standard Fermi golden rule, written in terms of $V$, cannot be used to obtain the transition rates between exciton states. Through an unconventional expression for this Fermi golden rule, which is here given in terms of the Hamiltonian only, we here give a detailed calculation of the time evolution of two excitons. We compare the results of this exact approach with the ones obtained by using an effective bosonic exciton Hamiltonian. We show that the relation between the inverse lifetime and the sum of transition rates for elementary bosons differs from the one of composite bosons by a factor of 1/2, whatever the mapping from composite bosons to elementary bosons is. The present paper thus constitutes a strong mathematical proof that, in spite of a widely spread belief, we cannot forget the composite nature of these cobosons, even in the extremely low density limit of just two excitons. This paper also shows the (unexpected) cancellation, in the Born approximation, of the two-exciton transition rate for a finite value of the momentum transfer.
Betbeder-Matibet Odile
Combescot Monique
Combescot Roland
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