Quantum saturation and condensation of excitons in Cu2O: A theoretical study

被引:39
作者
Kavoulakis, GM
Baym, G
Wolfe, JP
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1996年 / 53卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.53.7227
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Recent experiments on high density excitons in Cu2O provide evidence for degenerate quantum statistics and Bose-Einstein condensation of this nearly ideal gas. We model the time dependence of this bosonic system including exciton decay mechanisms, energy exchange with phonons, and interconversion between ortho (triplet-state) and para (singlet-state) excitons, using parameters for the excitonic decay, the coupling to acoustic and low-lying optical phonons, Auger recombination, and ortho-para interconversion derived from experiment. The single adjustable parameter in our model is the optical-phonon cooling rate for Auger and laser-produced hot excitons. We show that the ortho excitons move along the phase boundary without crossing it (i.e., they exhibit a ''quantum saturation''), as a consequence of the balance of entropy changes due to cooling of excitons by phonons and heating by the nonradiative Auger two-exciton recombination process. The Auger annihilation rate for para-para collisions is much smaller than that for ortho-para and ortho-ortho collisions, explaining why, under the given experimental conditions, the para excitons condense while the ortho excitons fail to do so.
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页码:7227 / 7243
页数:17
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