Collective effects in excitonic free induction decay: Do semiconductors and atoms emit coherent light in different ways?
- 2 November 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (18), 2685-2688
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.2685
Abstract
We show that the many-body interactions among excitons govern the temporal line shape of the coherent (free induction decay) emission from semiconductor quantum walls. At low exciton densities, they become the dominant contribution to the emission.Keywords
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