Exciton-polarons in doped semiconductors in a strong magnetic field

Dmitry K. Efimkin and Allan H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. B 97, 235432 – Published 21 June 2018

Abstract

In previous work, we have argued that the optical properties of moderately doped two-dimensional semiconductors can be described in terms of excitons dressed by their interactions with a degenerate Fermi sea of additional charge carriers. These interactions split the bare exciton into attractive and repulsive exciton-polaron branches. The collective excitations of the coupled system are many-body generalizations of the bound trion and unbound states of a single electron interacting with an exciton. In this paper, we consider exciton-polarons in the presence of an external magnetic field that quantizes the kinetic energy of the electrons in the Fermi sea. Our theoretical approach is based on a transformation to a new basis that respects the underlaying symmetry of magnetic translations. We find that the attractive exciton-polaron branch is only weakly influenced by the magnetic field, whereas the repulsive branch exhibits magnetic oscillations and splits into discrete peaks that reflect combined exciton-cyclotron resonance.

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  • Received 19 July 2017
  • Revised 9 April 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.235432

©2018 American Physical Society

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Dmitry K. Efimkin and Allan H. MacDonald

  • Center for Complex Quantum Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Vol. 97, Iss. 23 — 15 June 2018

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