Direct observation of acoustic phonon mediated relaxation between coupled exciton states in a single quantum dot molecule

Abstract

We probe acoustic phonon mediated relaxation between tunnel coupled exciton states in an individual quantum dot molecule in which the inter-dot quantum coupling and energy separation between exciton states is continuously tuned using static electric field. Time resolved and temperature dependent optical spectroscopy are used to probe inter-level relaxation around the point of maximum coupling. The radiative lifetimes of the coupled excitonic states can be tuned from ~2 ns to ~10 ns as the spatially direct and indirect character of the wavefunction is varied by detuning from resonance. Acoustic phonon mediated inter-level relaxation is shown to proceed over timescales comparable to the direct exciton radiative lifetime, indicative of a relaxation bottleneck for level spacings in the range $ΔE$ ~3-6 meV.

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