Vanishing and Emerging of Absorption Quantum Beats from Electron Spin Coherence in GaAs Quantum Wells

Phedon Palinginis and Hailin Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 037402 – Published 23 January 2004

Abstract

We report experimental studies of absorption quantum beats induced by electron spin coherence in GaAs quantum wells. Absorption quantum beats occur for strongly localized excitons, but nearly vanish for mobile excitons in the third order nonlinear optical response. Pronounced quantum beats for mobile excitons emerge in an unusual fifth order process. These results, along with a qualitative analysis based on the use of N-exciton eigenstates, elucidate how the manifestation of electron spin coherence in the excitonic nonlinear optical response can differ fundamentally from that in an atomic system.

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  • Received 12 September 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.037402

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Phedon Palinginis and Hailin Wang

  • Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA

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Vol. 92, Iss. 3 — 23 January 2004

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