Fundamental collapse of the exciton-exciton effective scattering
arXiv:1002.4492 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.075327
Abstract
The exciton-exciton effective scattering which rules the time evolution of two excitons is studied as a function of initial momentum difference, scattering angle and electron-to-hole mass ratio. We show that this effective scattering can collapse for energy-conserving configurations provided that the difference between the two initial exciton momenta is larger than a threshold value. Sizeable scatterings then exist in the forward direction only. We even find that, for an electron-to-hole mass ratio close to 1/2, the exciton-exciton effective scattering stays close to zero in all directions when the difference between the initial exciton momenta has a very specific value. This unexpected but quite remarkable collapse comes from tricky compensation between direct and exchange Coulomb processes which originates from the fundamental undistinguishability of the exciton fermionic components.
Revised text version. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
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