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Anomalous exciton Hall effect

Anomalous exciton Hall effect
Anomalous exciton Hall effect
It is well known that electrically neutral excitons can still be affected by crossed electric and magnetic fields that make them move in a direction perpendicular to both fields. We show that a similar effect appears in the absence of external electric fields, in the case of scattering of an exciton flow by charged impurities in the presence of the external magnetic field. As a result, the exciton flow changes the direction of its propagation that may be described in terms of the Hall conductivity for excitons. We develop a theory of this effect, which we refer to as the anomalous exciton Hall effect, to distinguish it from the exciton Hall effect that arises due to the valley selective exciton transport in transition metal dichalcogenides. According to our estimations, the effect is relatively weak for optically active or bright excitons in conventional GaAs quantum wells, but it becomes significant for optically inactive or dark excitons, because of the difference of the lifetimes. This makes the proposed effect a convenient tool for spatial separation of dark and bright excitons.
1079-7114
Kozin, V.K.
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Shabashov, V.A.
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Kozin, V.K.
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Shabashov, V.A.
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Kavokin, A.V.
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Kozin, V.K., Shabashov, V.A., Kavokin, A.V. and Shelykh, I.A. (2021) Anomalous exciton Hall effect. Physical Review Letters, 126 (3), [036801]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.036801).

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It is well known that electrically neutral excitons can still be affected by crossed electric and magnetic fields that make them move in a direction perpendicular to both fields. We show that a similar effect appears in the absence of external electric fields, in the case of scattering of an exciton flow by charged impurities in the presence of the external magnetic field. As a result, the exciton flow changes the direction of its propagation that may be described in terms of the Hall conductivity for excitons. We develop a theory of this effect, which we refer to as the anomalous exciton Hall effect, to distinguish it from the exciton Hall effect that arises due to the valley selective exciton transport in transition metal dichalcogenides. According to our estimations, the effect is relatively weak for optically active or bright excitons in conventional GaAs quantum wells, but it becomes significant for optically inactive or dark excitons, because of the difference of the lifetimes. This makes the proposed effect a convenient tool for spatial separation of dark and bright excitons.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 January 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 January 2021
Published date: 21 January 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: The work of V. K. K. related to numerical analysis of the magnitude of the predicted effects was supported by Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 19-72- 20120. I. A. S. thanks Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Project No. 14.Y26.31.0015, and Icelandic Research Fund (Rannis), project “Hybrid Polaritonics.” A. V. K. acknowledges the support from International Center for Polaritonics under Project No. 041020100118 and Program 2018R01002 supported by Leading Innovative and Entrepreneur Team Introduction Program of the Zhejiang Province. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Physical Society.

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447076
ISSN: 1079-7114
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Author: V.K. Kozin
Author: V.A. Shabashov
Author: A.V. Kavokin
Author: I.A. Shelykh

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