Selection rules for the excitation of quantum dots by spatially structured light beams -- Application to the reconstruction of higher excited exciton wave functions
arXiv:2004.10453 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.165315
Abstract
Spatially structured light fields applied to semiconductor quantum dots yield fundamentally different absorption spectra than homogeneous beams. In this paper, we theoretically discuss the resulting spectra for different light beams using a cylindrical multipole expansion. For the description of the quantum dots we employ a model based on the effective mass approximation including Coulomb and valence band mixing. The combination of a single spatially structured light beam and state mixing allows all exciton states in the quantum dot to become optically addressable. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the beams can be tailored such that single states are selectively excited, without the need of spectral separation. Using this selectivity, we propose a method to measure the exciton wave function of the quantum dot eigenstate. The measurement goes beyond electron density measurements by revealing the spatial phase information of the exciton wave function. Thereby polarization sensitive measurements are generalized by including the infinitely large spatial degree of freedom.
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