Many-body interactions in semiconductors probed by optical two-dimensional fourier transform spectroscopy

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Feb 10;96(5):057406. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.057406. Epub 2006 Feb 7.

Abstract

We study many-body interactions between excitons in semiconductors by applying the powerful technique of optical two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy. A two-dimensional spectrum correlates the phase (frequency) evolution of the nonlinear polarization field during the initial evolution and the final detection period. A single two-dimensional spectrum can identify couplings between resonances, separate quantum mechanical pathways, and distinguish among microscopic many-body interactions.