Revised fine splitting of excitons in diamond |
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Authors: | Sauer Sternschulte Wahl Thonke Anthony |
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Affiliation: | Abteilung Halbleiterphysik, Universitat Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany. |
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Abstract: | We study low-strain synthetic high pressure, high temperature diamonds by cathodoluminescence and observe novel fine structure in the free exciton and the boron-bound exciton emission. The basic spectral structure is a doublet with DeltaE approximately 11 meV common to both exciton spectra. This resolves the previously found inequivalence of free exciton ( approximately 7 meV) and bound exciton ( approximately 12 meV) fine splitting. It is argued that for a spin-orbit interaction Delta(0) much smaller than the excitonic binding ( E(X) approximately 80 meV) and the excitonic localization ( E(loc) approximately 51 meV) at the boron acceptor, the orbital momentum and the spin of the particles constituting the electron-hole pair are recoupled to form spin singlet and triplet exciton states as the elementary excitations. |
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