(1) Institut de Physique Appliquée, école Polytechnique Fédérale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, CH;(2) Department of Physics and Material Sciences Center, Philipps University, Renthof 5, 35032 Marburg, Germany, DE
Abstract:
The coherent dynamics of magnetoexcitons in semiconductor nanorings following pulsed optical excitation is studied. The calculated
temporal evolution of the excitonic dipole moment may be understood as a superposition of the relative motion of electrons
and holes and a global circular motion associated with the magnetic-field splitting of these states. This dynamics of the
electron-hole pairs can be generated either by local optical excitation of an ordered ring or, alternatively, by homogeneous
excitation of rings with broken rotational symmetry due to disorder or band tilting.
Received 27 September 2000