Magnetoexcitons in cuprous oxide

Frank Schweiner, Jörg Main, Günter Wunner, Marcel Freitag, Julian Heckötter, Christoph Uihlein, Marc Aßmann, Dietmar Fröhlich, and Manfred Bayer
Phys. Rev. B 95, 035202 – Published 3 January 2017

Abstract

Two of the most striking experimental findings when investigating exciton spectra in cuprous oxide using high-resolution spectroscopy are the observability and the fine structure splitting of F excitons reported by J. Thewes et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 027402 (2015)]. These findings show that it is indispensable to account for the complex valence band structure and the cubic symmetry of the solid in the theory of excitons. This is all the more important for magnetoexcitons, where the external magnetic field reduces the symmetry of the system even further. We present the theory of excitons in Cu2O in an external magnetic field and especially discuss the dependence of the spectra on the direction of the external magnetic field, which cannot be understood from a simple hydrogenlike model. Using high-resolution spectroscopy, we also present the corresponding experimental spectra for cuprous oxide in Faraday configuration. The theoretical results and experimental spectra are in excellent agreement as regards not only the energies but also the relative oscillator strengths. Furthermore, this comparison allows for the determination of the fourth Luttinger parameter κ of this semiconductor.

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  • Received 22 July 2016
  • Revised 13 December 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.035202

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Frank Schweiner, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik 1, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany

Marcel Freitag, Julian Heckötter, Christoph Uihlein, Marc Aßmann, Dietmar Fröhlich, and Manfred Bayer

  • Experimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany

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Vol. 95, Iss. 3 — 15 January 2017

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