Internal transitions of negatively charged magnetoexcitons and many body effects in a two-dimensional electron gas

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Feb 4;88(5):056801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.056801. Epub 2002 Jan 16.

Abstract

Internal transitions of quasi-two-dimensional, negatively charged magnetoexcitons ( X-) and their evolution with excess electron density have been studied in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. In the dilute electron limit, due to magnetic translational invariance, the optically detected resonance spectra are dominated by bound-to-continuum bands in contrast to the negatively charged donor system D-, which exhibits strictly bound-to-bound transitions. With increasing excess electron density Landau-level filling factors nu<2 the X--like transitions are blueshifted; they are absent for nu>2. The blueshifted transitions are explained in terms of a new type of collective excitation---magnetoplasmons bound to a mobile valence band hole.