LA phonoritons in Cu2O

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作者
Hanke, L [1 ]
Fröhlich, D
Ivanov, AL
Littlewood, PB
Stolz, H
机构
[1] Univ Dortmund, Inst Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[2] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Dept Phys, TCM Grp, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[3] Univ Rostock, Fachbereich Phys, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4365
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report the observation of LA-phonoriton eigenstates, which are a pump-induced coherent superposition of excitons, photons, and longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonons developing in up-conversion Brillouin scattering of an intense polariton. The excitonic component of the LA phonoritons in a Cu2O bulk crystal in the presence of a coherent orthoexcitonic polariton is studied by stimulated two-photon emission spectroscopy. For optical intensities of 30-200 MW/cm(2) the relevant scale of the pump-induced spectral changes is 5-10 mu eV. The theory of LA phonoritons in Cu2O quantitatively reproduces the experimental data.
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