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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/123048
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exciton; biexciton; Bose-Einstein condensation; two-body recombination; cuprous oxide
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- Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois
- National Science foundation
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Excitons in high-purity crystals of Cu2O undergo a density-dependent lifetime that opposes Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). This rapid decay rate of excitons at a density n has generally been attributed to Auger recombination having the form dn/dt = -An(2), where A is an exciton-Auger constant. Various measurements of A, however, have reported values that are orders-of-magnitude larger than the existing theory. In response to this conundrum, recent work has suggested that excitons bind into excitonic molecules, or biexcitons, which are short-lived and expected to be optically inactive. Of particular interest is the case of excitons confined to a parabolic strain well-a method that has recently achieved exciton densities approaching BEC. In this paper we report time-and space-resolved luminescence data that supports the existence of short-lived biexcitons in a strain well, implying an exciton loss rate of the form dn/dt = -2 Cn(2) with a biexciton capture coefficient C(T) proportional to 1/T, as predicted by basic thermodynamics. This alternate theory will be considered in relation to recent experiments on the subject.
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