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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters

Inflating antenna: Dynamics of exciton wave packets

Emmanuel I. RASHBA

Published Jan 1, 1997• 0 citations
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Abstract

A theory of the free-induction signal from biexcitons and bound excitons is presented. Simultaneous existence of the exciton continuum and a bound state is shown to result in a new type of the time dependence of the free induction. The optically detected signal increases in time and oscillates with increasing amplitude until damped by radiative and dephasing processes. The expanding area of coherent exciton polarization (inflating antenna) produced by the exciting pulse is the underlying physical mechanism. The formalism developed can be applied to various biexciton transients

DOI
10.1134/1.567314

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