Interaction of Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide with phonons and photons: optical linewidth and polariton effect

We demonstrate that the optical linewidth of Rydberg excitons in Cu _2 O can be completely explained by scattering with acoustical and optical phonons, whereby the dominant contributions stems from the non-polar optical ${{\rm{\Gamma }}}_{3}^{-}$ and ${{\rm{\Gamma }}}_{5}^{-}$ modes. The consequence...

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Main Authors: Heinrich Stolz, Florian Schöne, Dirk Semkat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaa396