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Interaction of an electron gas with photoexcited electron-hole pairs in modulation-doped GaAs and CdTe quantum wells

H. A. Nickel, T. Yeo, C. J. Meining, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Furis, A. B. Dzyubenko, B. D. McCombe, A. Petrou

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0106277

Abstract

The nature of the correlated electron gas and its response to photo-injected electron-hole pairs in nominally undoped and modulation-doped multiple quantum-well (MQW) structures was studied by experiment and theory, revealing a new type of optically-active excitation, magnetoplasmons bound to a mobile valence hole. These excitations are blue-shifted from the corresponding transition of the isolated charged magnetoexciton X-. The observed blue-shift of X- is larger than that of two-electron negative donor D-, in agreement with theoretical predictions.

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