HOT PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN AN ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM-WELL

Authors
DOBIN AY PEREL VI
Citation
Ay. Dobin et Vi. Perel, HOT PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN AN ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM-WELL, Semiconductors, 28(7), 1994, pp. 708-710
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Semiconductors → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637826
Volume
28
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
708 - 710
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7826(1994)28:7<708:HPIAAQ>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A new type of correlation between the spin and momentum of an electron arises in an asymmetric quantum well upon photoexcitation. Even if th e exciting light is unpolarized, the expectation value of the electron spin turns out to be nonzero. It is directed perpendicular to the ele ctron quasimomentum in the plane of the well. A longitudinal magnetic field disrupts the correlation, as can be seen in the intensity of the hot luminescence.