Exciton-polarons in doped semiconductors in a strong magnetic field

Dmitry K. Efimkin, Allan H. Macdonald

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number235432
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume97
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2018
Externally publishedYes

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