Abstract
We study the evolution of the absorption spectrum of a modulation-doped semiconductor quantum well with decreasing the carrier density. We find that at some critical electron density there is a sharp change in the line shape and the transitions energies of the exciton peaks. We show that this critical density marks an abrupt transition from a simple excitonic behavior to a Fermi edge singularity.
- Received 12 September 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.15390
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