Signatures of exciton orbits in quantum mechanical recurrence spectra of CuO
arXiv:2207.07378 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.067401
Abstract
The seminal work by T. Kazimierczuk et al. [Nature 514, 343 (2014)] has shown the existence of highly excited exciton states in a regime, where the correspondence principle is applicable and quantum mechanics turns into classical mechanics, however, any interpretation of exciton spectra based on a classical approach to excitons is still missing. Here, we close this gap by computing and comparing quantum mechanical and semiclassical recurrence spectra of cuprous oxide. We show that the quantum mechanical recurrence spectra exhibit peaks, which, by application of semiclassical theories and a scaling transformation, can be directly related to classical periodic exciton orbits. The application of semiclassical theories to exciton physics requires the detailed analysis of the classical exciton dynamics, including three-dimensional orbits, which strongly deviate from hydrogenlike Keplerian orbits. Our findings illuminate important aspects of excitons in semiconductors by directly relating the quantum mechanical band-structure splittings of excitons to the corresponding classical exciton dynamics.
Article 6 pages, 3 figures and Supplemental material 7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters; Incomplete labeling in Figs. 2 and 3 corrected
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