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Control of the dephasing process due to many-body interactions among excitons by using non-Markovian effect in GaAs single quantum well

Yoshihiro Ogawa, F. Minami

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show the coherent control of dephasing process of exciton polarization due to heavy hole-heavy hole and heavy hole-light hole scatterings in a GaAs single quantum well. The memory time of the exction scattering is estimated as 0.47 ps.
DOI
10.1063/1.4848490

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