08 Fakultät Mathematik und Physik
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Item Open Access Theory of yellow and green excitons in cuprous oxide with emphasis on correction terms and external fields(2022) Rommel, Patric; Main, Jörg (Prof. Dr.)Cuprous oxide has played a central role in the history of exciton physics, being the semiconductor where excitons were first experimentally discovered. Excitons formed from an electron in its lowest conduction band and a hole from its the highest valence band belong to the yellow exciton series. Recently, optical absorption experiments have followed this series up to principal quantum number n = 25 [T. Kazimierczuk et al., Nature 514, 343 (2014)]. This opens up possibilities for novel applications using the particular attributes of highly excited Rydberg system, for example in quantum information processing. For this, the properties of the excitons have to be understood thoroughly. In this thesis, we aim to advance the theoretical knowledge of the yellow and green exciton series in cuprous oxide. We use numerical simulation and analytical methods to investigate in detail the exchange splitting of the S states, the fine structure splitting of the D excitons, spectra in external magnetic fields in Faraday and Voigt configuration, second harmonic generation in forbidden directions, and autoionizing spectra in external electric and parallel magnetic and electric fields. For the latter, we apply the complex-coordinate-rotation method, which we then further use to calculate the green exciton resonances lying in the yellow continuum. We present absorption spectra for transitions from the crystal ground state and for interseries transitions from the yellow to the green series.