A. V. Gorbunov

Super-long life time for 2D cyclotron spin-flip excitons

An experimental technique for the indirect manipulation and detection of electron spins entangled in two-dimensional magnetoexcitons has been developed. The kinetics of the spin relaxation has been investigated. Photoexcited spin-magnetoexcitons were found to exhibit extremely slow relaxation in specific quantum Hall systems, fabricated in high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs structures; namely, the relaxation time reaches values over one hundred microseconds. A qualitative explanation of this spin-relaxation kinetics is presented. Its temperature and magnetic field dependencies are discussed within the available theoretical framework.

Long-Lived Magnetoexcitons and Two-Dimensional Magnetofermionic Condensate in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure

Excitation of long-lived triplet magnetoexcitons in a Hall insulator (filling factor ν = 2) with a high mobility of electrons, at low temperatures, Т < 1 K, enabled to discover a new collective state − magnetofermionic condensate, that interacts coherently with an external electromagnetic field, exhibits superradiant properties and, owing to its low viscosity, spreads over the surface of the two-dimensional structure for macroscopically large distances.

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Two-Dimensional Triplet Magnetoexcitons and a Magnetofermionic Condensate in the GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures

A fundamentally new collective state, namely, the magnetofermionic condensate, is discovered during photoexcitation of a sufficiently dense gas of long-lived triplet cyclotron magnetoexcitons in a twodimensional Hall insulator with a high electron mobility, a filling factor of ν = 2, and temperatures of T < 1 K. The condensed phase coherently interacts with an external electromagnetic field, exhibits superradiant properties in the recombination of correlated condensate electrons with heavy holes in the valence band, and spreads nondissipatively in the layer of a two-dimensional electron gas to macroscopical large distances, transferring an integer spin. The observed effects are explained in terms of a coherent condensate in a nonequilibrium system of two-dimensional fermions with a fully quantized energy spectrum, in which a degenerate ensemble of long-lived triplet magnetoexcitons obeying the Bose statistics is present.

Excited States of Magnetotrion

New lines are observed in the photoluminescence spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas in a quantizing magnetic field at a filling factor of ν = 2 upon the photoexcitation of a nonequilibrium ensemble of cyclotron magnetoexcitons. Their energies lie in the region forbidden for single-particle optical transitions and allowed for inner transitions from excited states of three-particle translationally invariant complexes called magnetotrions. It is suggested that the new lines are associated with the complicated spectrum of internal motion in the magnetotrion, composed of an electron at the first Landau level and two identical holes at the zeroth Landau level.

Detection of spin excitation transfer in a two-dimensional electron system via photoluminescence of multiparticle exciton complexes

The possibility of creating dense ensembles of spin excitons, transferring them to macroscopic distances on the order of hundreds of microns, and recording the appearance of these excitons in the region spatially remote from the excitation point by means of simple techniques of photoexcitation and space-resolved detection of photoluminescence of a two-dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well has been demonstrated.

Long-lived two-dimensional triplet magnetoexcitons in a Hall insulator

An experimental technique is developed to perform photoexcitation of an ensemble of translationinvariant triplet excitons, to manipulate this ensemble, and to detect the properties of its components. In particular, the influence of temperature on the radiationless decay during the relaxation of an exciton spin into the ground state of a Hall insulator at a filling factor ν = 2 is studied. The generation of photoexcited electrons and holes is controlled using photoinduced resonance reflection spectra, which makes it possible to estimate the density of light-generated electron–hole pairs and to independently control the self-consistent generation of electrons at the first Landau level and holes (vacancies) at the ground (zero) cyclotron electronic level. The existence of triplet excitons is established from inelastic light scattering spectra, which are used to determine the singlet–triplet exciton splitting. The lifetimes of triplet excitons, which are closely related to the relaxation time of an electron spin, are extremely long: they reach 100 μs in perfect GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with a high mobility of two-dimensional electrons at low temperatures. These long spin relaxation times are qualitatively explained, and the expected collective behavior of high-density triplet magnetoexcitons at sufficiently low temperatures, which is related to their Bose nature, is discussed.