Wednesday, May 1, 2013

1304.7909 (David Breyel et al.)

Detecting an exciton crystal by statistical means    [PDF]

David Breyel, Henning Soller, Thomas L. Schmidt, Andreas Komnik
We investigate an ensemble of excitons in a coupled quantum well excited via an applied laser field. Using an effective disordered quantum Ising model, we perform a numerical simulation of the experimental procedure and calculate the probability distribution function $P(M)$ to create $M$ excitons as well as their correlation function. It shows clear evidence of the existence of two phases corresponding to a liquid and a crystal phase. We demonstrate that not only the correlation function but also the distribution $P(M)$ is very well suited to monitor this transition.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7909

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