Speaker
Vadim Kovalev
Description
Interband and intraband optical transitions in a quantum
well (QW) with structure inversion asymmetry (SIA) is
theoretically studied. We pay main attention to the effect
of simultaneously accounting for Coulomb interaction between
electrons and holes created by the light and their
spin-orbit (SO) coupling due to SIA of the QW. Such a
spin-orbit interaction is referred in the literature as a
Rashba spin-orbit term. We found the probability transitions
both for light exciton and heavy exciton. It is shown that
their behavior under the influence of the light is different
due to the distinction of Rashba spin-orbit Hamiltonians of
heavy and light holes. We also found that Rashba SO coupling
strongly modifies the selection rules for intraband
transitions .
