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Semiclassical theory of excitonic polaritons in a planar semiconductor microcavity

Gu Xu, Dingzhou Li, Bingshen Wang, Zhao-bin Su

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/9911362

Abstract

We present a comprehensive theoretical description of quantum well exciton-polaritons imbedded in a planar semiconductor microcavity. The exact non-local dielectric response of the quantum well exciton is treated in detail. The 4-spinor structure of the hole subband in the quantum well is considered, including the pronounced band mixing effect. The scheme is self-contained and can be used to treat different semiclassical aspects of the microcavity properties. As an example, we analyze the "selection" rules for the exciton-cavity mode coupling for different excitons.

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