paper

Direct Optical Excitation of Quantum-Degenerate Exciton States in Semiconductors

arXiv:cond-mat/0408453

Abstract

Quantum electrodynamic calculations predict that truly incoherent light can be used to efficiently generate quantum-degenerate exciton population states. Resonant incoherent excitation directly converts photons into excitons with vanishing center of mass momentum. The populated exciton state possesses long-range order, is very stable against perturbations, and should be observable via its unusual directional and density dependence in luminescence measurements.

10 pages, 4 figures