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Fermi edge singularity in ultracold electron-hole plasma

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Abstract

We study ultracold neutral electron-hole plasma in separated electron and hole layers in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum well heterostructures. The long electron-hole recombination lifetimes, due to the spatial separation between the electron and hole layers, allows the plasma to cool to low temperatures. We observe a strong enhancement of the photoluminescence intensity at the Fermi energy of the ultracold plasma, evidence of the emergence of the excitonic Fermi edge singularity. This enhancement vanishes with increasing temperature. We control the electron-hole density by the laser excitation power, and with the increasing electron-hole density, observe a transition from the ultracold gas of spatially indirect excitons, the hydrogen-like bound pairs of separated electrons and holes, at low electron-hole densities to the ultracold plasma with the Fermi edge singularity at high electron-hole densities.

Presenters

  • Erik A Szwed

    University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

Authors

  • Erik A Szwed

    University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

  • Darius J Choksy

    University of California, San Diego, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

  • Leonid V Butov

    University of California, San Diego, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

  • Kirk Baldwin

    Princeton University, Princeton university, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

  • Loren N Pfeiffer

    Princeton University, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA