Controlling free superflow, dark matter and luminescence rings of excitons in quantum well structures

Details Controlling free superflow, dark matter and luminescence rings of excitons in quantum well structures Controlling free superflow, dark matter and luminescence rings of excitons in quantum well structures

2010-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2778v1

EPL v 94 (2011) 17006

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 4 figures, 1 supplement with 1 figure, 2 animations

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Following the discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in ultra cold atoms [E. Gosta, Nobel Lectures in Physics (2001-2005), World Scientific (2008)], there has been a huge experimental and theoretical push to try and illuminate a superfluid state of Wannier-Mott excitons. Excitons in quantum wells, generated by a laser pulse, typically diffuse only a few micrometers from the spot they are created. However, Butov et al. and Snoke et al. reported luminescence from indirect and direct excitons hundreds of micrometers away from the laser excitation spot in double and single quantum well (QW) structures at low temperatures. This luminescence appears as a ring around the laser spot with the dark region between the spot and the ring. Developing the theory of a free superflow of Bose-liquids we show that the macroscopic luminesce rings and the dark state are signatures of the coherent superflow of condensed excitons at temperatures below their Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature. To further verify the dark excitonic superflow we propose several keystone experiments, including interference of superflows from two laser spots, vortex formation, scanning of moving dipole moments, and a giant increase of the luminescence distance by applying one-dimensional confinement potential. These experiments combined with our theory will open a new avenue for creating and controlling superflow of coherent excitons on nanoscale.

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