Mechanism of Luminescence Ring Pattern Formation in Quantum Well Structures: Optically-Induced In-Plane Charge Separation

Physics – Condensed Matter

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About a year ago, two independent experiments [1,2], imaging indirect exciton luminescence from doped double quantum wells under applied bias and optical excitation, reported a very intriguing observation: under certain experimental conditions, the exciton luminescence exhibits a ring pattern with a dark region in between the center excitation spot and the luminescent ring that can extend more than a millimeter from the center spot. Initial speculations on the origin of this emission pattern included supersonic ballistic transport of excitons due to their dipole-dipole repulsion and Bose superfluidity of excitons. In this paper we show that the ring effect is also observed in single quantum well structures, where only direct excitons exist. More importantly, we find that these experimental results are quantitatively explained by a novel coupled 2D electron-hole plasma dynamics, namely, photoinduced in-plane charge separation. This charge separation explains extremely long luminescence times that may be more than a microsecond for the ring -- orders of magnitude longer than the emission lifetime of the excitons in the center spot. This method of continuously creating excitons may result in a highly dense exciton gas which is also well thermalized with the lattice (since the particles can cool over the very long luminescence time after their hot optical creation), thus opening up opportunities for a detailed study of quantum statistics. The in-plane separation of the charges into positive and negative regions, with a sharp interface between them is an interesting new example of nonequilibrium dynamics and pattern formation.

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