Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-06-17
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 207402 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.207402
We present a new physical model resolving a long-standing mystery of the power-law distributions of the blinking times in single colloidal quantum dot fluorescence. The model considers the non-radiative relaxation of the exciton through multiple recombination centers. Each center is allowed to switch between two quasi-stationary states. We point out that the conventional threshold analysis method used to extract the exponents of the distributions for the on-times and off-times has a serious flaw: The qualitative properties of the distributions strongly depend on the threshold value chosen for separating the on and off states. Our new model explains naturally this threshold dependence, as well as other key experimental features of the single quantum dot fluorescence trajectories, such as the power-law power spectrum (1/f noise).
Frantsuzov Pavel A.
Janko Bolizsar
Volkan-Kacso Sandor
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