Non-linear dynamics and inner-ring photoluminescence pattern of indirect excitons

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2012-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/1202.1985v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 figures, 8 pages

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We study the photoluminescence dynamics of ultra-cold indirect excitons optically created in a double quantum well heterostructure. Above a threshold laser excitation, our experiments reveal the apparition of the so-called inner photoluminescence ring. It is characterized by a ring shaped photoluminescence which suddenly collapses once the laser excitation is terminated. We show that the spectrally resolved dynamics is in agreement with an excitonic origin for the inner-ring which is formed due to a local heating of indirect excitons by the laser excitation. To confirm this interpretation and exclude the ionization of indirect excitons, we evaluate the excitonic density that is extracted from the energy of the photoluminescence emission. It is shown that optically injected carriers play a crucial role in that context as these are trapped in our field-effect device and then vary the electrostatic potential controlling the confinement of indirect excitons. This disruptive effect blurs the estimation of the exciton concentration. However, it suppressed by smoothing the electrostatic environment of the double quantum well by placing the latter behind a super-lattice. In this improved geometry, we then estimate that the exciton density remains one order of magnitude smaller than the critical density for the ionization of indirect excitons (or Mott transition) in the regime where the inner-ring is formed.

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