Coulomb Correlations and Biexciton Signatures in Coherent Excitation Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Abstract

The influence of coupling, correlation, and disorder on exciton and biexciton signatures is investigated using coherent excitation spectroscopy. Different biexciton-induced transitions of a single biexciton state are spectrally resolved. One of the transitions is found to be particularly sensitive to disorder. Mixed biexciton resonances, resulting from attractively interacting heavy and light hole exciton states, are identified. The observations are analyzed on the basis of microscopic model calculations.