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Spin Dynamics of Excitons
Alexey Kavokin Physics and Astronomy School, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO171BJ, UK
Spin Optics Laboratory, St-Petersburg State University, 1, Ulianovskaya, St-Petersburg, Russia.
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Excitons are electron-hole pairs bound by Coulomb interaction
Electron = fermion
Hole = fermion
Exciton = electron + hole =
boson
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electron
+1/2 -1/2
heavy hole
-3/2 +3/2
-2 Optically
active
excitons
-1 +1 +2
right-circular
polarisation left-circular
polarisation
dark exciton dark exciton
Zinc-blend semiconductor quantum wells:
Exciton spin structure
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Exciton spin density matrix
Exciton spinor wave-function (no coordinate-dependent part here)
Normalisation condition
Exciton spin-density matrix:
The polarisation degrees are given by:
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Relation between electron, hole and exciton spin density matrices
Elements of electron and hole density matrices can be deduced:
Here we used the normalisation condition: the trace of each spin density matrix = 1
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Electron and hole spins can be obtained from the exciton density matrix elements!
All we know from traditional spintronics can be applied to excitons once we
remember that they are composed by electrons and holes.
From exciton polarisation one can deduce electron and hole spins.
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Spin dynamics of spatially indirect excitons in
coupled quantum wells
• Controllable exciton life-time
• Controllable exciton interaction strength
• Controllable exchange splitting of dark-bright excitons
D.R. Nelson and J.M. Kosterlitz, Phys. Rev. Lett., 39, 1977
L.V. Butov, San Diego D. Snoke, Pittsburgh
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A. A. High, J. R. Leonard, A. T. Hammack, M. M. Fogler, L. V. Butov, A. V. Kavokin, K. L. Campman & A. C. Gossard,
Spontaneous coherence in a cold exciton gas, Nature, 483, 584 (2012).
Appearance of polarisation textures correlated with the build up of spatial
coherence
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Magnetic field effect (unpublished)
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Linear model of polarisation textures in cold exciton gases:
• Excitons propagate ballistically in radial directions;
• Dark and bright excitons are mixed by spin-orbit interaction.
• Electron and hole spins are rotated by the Dresselhaus field;
• Supplementary beats appear due to linear polarisation
splittings;
We solve the Liouville equation for a 4x4 spin density matrix:
The polarisation degrees are calculated from:
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Dresselhaus and Zeeman effects on electrons:
Dresselhaus spin-orbit Hamiltonian
What contributes to the exciton Hamiltonian?
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Dresselhaus and Zeeman effects on electrons: exciton Hamiltonian
Hence:
In the exciton basis:
P. Zeeman
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Dresselhaus and Zeeman effects for holes:
In the basis:
In the exciton basis:
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Long- and short-range exchange splittings of 4 exciton states:
Splitting of bright excitons:
Splitting of dark excitons:
In the exciton basis
S.V. Gupalov, E.L. Ivchenko, A.V. Kavokin, Fine
Structure of Localized Exciton Levels in
Quantum Wells, J. Experim. & Theor. Phys. 86,
388 (1998).
Al. L. Efros and M. Rosen, The Electronic
Structure of Semiconductor Nanocrystals,
Annual Review of Material Science 30, 475
(2000).
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All terms together, we obtain the exciton Hamiltonian:
Averaging over relative electron-hole motion: fruitful discussion with N. Gippius!
(center of mass wave-vector)
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Initial state (t=0) is assumed to be thermal: no external coherence!
we take
we diagonalise this Hamiltonian and find 4 eigen states
we assume that their populations are related to each other by the Boltzmann law
we assume no coherence in the system (no correlations between 4 states)
Thus we obtain
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Theory vs experiment:
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Theory vs experiment:
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Excitons carry electron and hole spin currents!
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Conclusions:
• Electrons and holes carry spins
• When they are bound to excitons, electron and hole spin currents are
correlated
• Correlated spin currents manifest themselves by polarisation textures
• In cold exciton gases spin propagates ballistically by about 10
micrometers
• Perspectives for bosonic spintronics