Magnetoexciton dispersion in GaAs-(Ga,Al)As single and coupled quantum

TL;DR

This paper investigates magnetoexciton dispersion in GaAs-(Ga,Al)As quantum wells using the Bethe-Salpeter formalism, highlighting differences from the LLL approximation and emphasizing the importance of the B-S term in strong magnetic fields.

Contribution

It introduces the exact Bethe-Salpeter equation for magnetoexcitons in quantum wells and compares its results with the LLL approximation, revealing the significance of the B-S term.

Findings

Exact B-S equation yields similar ground-state energies to LLL approximation.

In strong magnetic fields, the B-S term dominates the magnetoexciton dispersion.

The B-S term significantly influences the in-plane magnetoexciton mass.

Abstract

We discuss magnetoexcitons dispersion in single and coupled $GaAs-(Ga,Al)As$ quantum wells using the Bethe-Salpeter (B-S) formalism. The B-S formalism in the case of quantum wells provides an equation for the exciton wave function which depends on two space variables plus the time variable, i.e. the B-S equation is 2+1-dimensional equation. We compare the results for magnetoexcitons dispersion, obtained in the LLL approximations with the results calculated by solving the exact B-S equation. It is shown that the exact B-S equation has an extra term (B-S term) that does not exist in the LLL approximation. Within the framework of the variational method, we obtain that, (i) the ground-state energy of a heavy-hole magnetoexciton with a zero wave vector in $GaAs-(Ga,Al)As$ quantum wells, calculated by means of the exact B-S equation, is very close to the ground-state energy, obtained in the LLL approximation, (ii) in a strong perpendicular magnetic field the magnetoexciton dispersion (in-plane magnetoexciton mass) is determined mainly by the B-S term rather than the term that describes the electron-hole Coulomb interaction in the LLL approximation.