Influence of Magnetic Confinement on the Yellow Excitons in Cuprous Oxide Subject to an Electric Field

• Published in: Physics of the solid state Vol. 60; no. 8; pp. 1595 - 1599
• Main Authors: Heckötter, J., Fröhlich, D., Aßmann, M., Bayer, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.08.2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: BINDING ENERGY; CHAOS THEORY; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; CONFIGURATION; Confinement; COPPER OXIDES; COULOMB FIELD; Coulomb potential; CROSSED FIELDS; Dipole interactions; DISPERSIONS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC DIPOLES; Electric fields; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; Energy (Physics); Energy of dissociation; EXCITONS; Field strength; INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; Optical Properties; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; QUANTUM NUMBERS; Solid State Physics; SPECTRA
• ISSN: 1063-7834; 1090-6460
• DOI: 10.1134/S1063783418080085

We study the spectrum of the yellow exciton series in crossed electric and magnetic fields. The electric field, applied along the optical axis, tilts the Coulomb potential between electron and hole, so that at sufficiently high fields exciton dissociation becomes possible, roughly when the electric dipole interaction energy exceeds the binding energy of an exciton state with principal quantum number n . For an applied voltage of U = 20 V all excitons above n = 6 are dissociated. Additional application of a magnetic field normal to the optical axis introduces magnetic confinement, due to which above a threshold field strength around B = 2.5 T the exciton lines re-emerge. The complex dispersion with increasing fields suggests quantum chaotic behavior in this crossed field configuration, so that the search for exceptional points may be promising.