Exciton correlations and input-output relations in non-equilibrium exciton superfluids

Jinwu Ye*, Fadi Sun, Yi Xiang Yu, Wuming Liu

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Abstract

The photoluminescence (PL) measurements on photons and the transport measurements on excitons are the two types of independent and complementary detection tools to search for possible exciton superfluids in electron-hole semi-conductor bilayer systems. In fact, it was believed that the transport measurements can provide more direct evidences on superfluids than the spectroscopic measurements. It is important to establish the relations between the two kinds of measurements. In this paper, using quantum Heisenberg-Langevin equations, we establish such a connection by calculating various exciton correlation functions in the putative exciton superfluids. These correlation functions include both normal and anomalous greater, lesser, advanced, retarded, and time-ordered exciton Green functions and also various two exciton correlation functions. We also evaluate the corresponding normal and anomalous spectral weights and the Keldysh distribution functions. We stress the violations of the fluctuation and dissipation theorem among these various exciton correlation functions in the non-equilibrium exciton superfluids. We also explore the input-output relations between various exciton correlation functions and those of emitted photons such as the angle resolved photon power spectrum, phase sensitive two mode squeezing spectrum and two photon correlations. Applications to possible superfluids in the exciton-polariton systems are also mentioned. For a comparison, using conventional imaginary time formalism, we also calculate all the exciton correlation functions in an equilibrium dissipative exciton superfluid in the electron-electron coupled semi-conductor bilayers at the quantum Hall regime at the total filling factor νT = 1. We stress the analogies and also important differences between the correlations functions in the two exciton superfluid systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-72
Number of pages22
JournalAnnals of Physics
Volume329
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Equilibrium dissipative superfluid
  • Input-output relations
  • Non-equilibrium superfluid
  • Photoluminescence measurements
  • Transport measurements
  • Violations of the fluctuation and dissipation theorem

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Ye, J., Sun, F., Yu, Y. X., & Liu, W. (2013). Exciton correlations and input-output relations in non-equilibrium exciton superfluids. Annals of Physics, 329, 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2012.10.006