Scaling laws of Rydberg excitons

Abstract

Rydberg atoms have attracted considerable interest due to their huge interaction among each other and with external fields. They demonstrate characteristic scaling laws in dependence on the principal quantum number $n$ for features such as the magnetic field for level crossing. While bearing striking similarities to Rydberg atoms, fundamentally new insights may be obtained for Rydberg excitons, as the crystal environment gives easy optical access to many states within an exciton multiplet. Here we study experimentally and theoretically the scaling of several characteristic parameters of Rydberg excitons with $n$. From absorption spectra in magnetic field we find for the first crossing of levels with adjacent principal quantum numbers a $B_r\propto n^{-4}$ dependence of the resonance field strength, $B_r$, due to the dominant paramagnetic term unlike in the atomic case where the diamagnetic contribution is decisive. By contrast, in electric field we find scaling laws just like for Rydberg atoms. The resonance electric field strength scales as $E_r\propto n^{-5}$. We observe anticrossings of the states belonging to multiplets with different principal quantum numbers. The energy splittings at the avoided crossings scale as $n^{-4}$ which we relate to the crystal specific deviation of the exciton Hamiltonian from the hydrogen model. We observe the exciton polarizability in the electric field to scale as $n^7$. In magnetic field the crossover field strength from a hydrogen-like exciton to a magnetoexciton dominated by electron and hole Landau level quantization scales as $n^{-3}$. The ionization voltages demonstrate a $n^{-4}$ scaling as for atoms. The width of the absorption lines remains constant before dissociation for high enough $n$, while for small $n\lesssim 12$ an exponential increase with the field is found. These results are in excellent agreement with theoretical calculations.

16 pages, 13 figures

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