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NATURE
卷 514, 期 7522, 页码 343-347出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature13832
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [BA 1549/18-1, SFB 652]
- Russian Ministry of Science and Education [14.Z50.31.0021]
A highly excited atom having an electron that has moved into a level with large principal quantum number is a hydrogen-like object, termed a Rydberg atom. The giant size of Rydberg atoms(1) leads to huge interaction effects. Monitoring these interactions has provided in-sights into atomic and molecular physics on the single-quantum level. Excitons-the fundamental optical excitations in semiconductors(2), consisting of an electron and a positively charged hole-are the condensed-matter analogues of hydrogen. Highly excited excitons with extensions similar to those of Rydberg atoms are of interest because they can be placed and moved in a crystal with high precision using microscopic energy potential landscapes. The interaction of such Rydberg excitons may allow the formation of ordered exciton phases or the sensing of elementary excitations in their surroundings on a quantum level. Here we demonstrate the existence of Rydberg excitons in the copper oxide Cu2O, with principal quantum numbers as large as n = 25. These states have giant wavefunction extensions (that is, the average distance between the electron and the hole) of more than two micrometres, compared to about a nanometre for the ground state. The strong dipole-dipole interaction between such excitons is indicated by a blockade effect in which the presence of one exciton prevents the excitation of another in its vicinity.
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