Excitonic complexes in quantum Hall systems

TL;DR

This paper discusses the formation, decay, and properties of various excitonic complexes in quantum Hall systems, highlighting their significance in understanding quasiparticle interactions and optical phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of excitonic complexes in quantum Hall systems, including their types, formation conditions, and decay processes, with insights into experimental observations.

Findings

Identification of different excitonic complexes in quantum Hall systems

Analysis of decay processes such as radiative recombination and spin transitions

Implications for optical experiments like photoluminescence

Abstract

The formation and various possible decay processes of neutral and charged excitonic complexes in electronic integral and fractional quantum Hall systems are discussed. The excitonic complexes are bound states of a small number of the relevant negatively and positively charged quasiparticles (e.g., conduction electrons and valence holes, reversed-spin electrons and spin holes, Laughlin quasielectrons and quasiholes, composite fermions) that occur in an electron system under specific conditions (e.g., electron density, well width, electric and magnetic fields, or hydrostatic pressure). The examples of such bound states are interband neutral and charged excitons, fractionally charged "anyon excitons", spin waves, skyrmions, or "skyrmion excitons". Their possible decay processes include radiative recombination, experimentally observed in photoluminescence or far infrared emission, or spin transitions, important in the context of nuclear spin relaxation.