International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems

Conference
Schedule        




Monday

8:00-11:00 PM Registration and Reception

Tuesday

9:00 Opening

General Theory of Exciton BEC I
Chair: C. Tejedor

9:10 P. Littlewood
Models of Polariton Condensation

9:50 R. Zimmermann
Probing Exciton Condensation by Speckle Emission

10:30 break

10:40
P. Pieri, G.C. Strinati, and D. Neilson
BCS-BEC Crossover and Density Imbalance in Electron-Hole Double Layer Systems


11:05 J. Shumway and D. Ceperley
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Excitonic Condensates

11:30 Yu. Lozovik
Phases and Coherent Phenomena in Bilayer Systems


12:30 lunch

Polaritons in Microcavities I
Chair:
E. Burstein

1:30 J.J. Baumberg
Semiconductor Microcavities: Half-light, Half-matter, and a Quarter Mystery

2:10 D.M.Whitakker, D. Sanvitto, R. Butte, and M.S. Skolnick
The Microcavity Optical Parametric Oscillator

2:50 break

3:00 M. Richard, J. Kasprzak, R. Andre, R. Romestain, and Lesi Dang
Spontaneous Build-up of Polariton Coherence in Semiconductor Microcavities

3:40 Y. Yamamoto
Dynamic Condensation of Exciton Polaritons

4:20 E. Giacobino, A. Baas, J.-P. Karr, A. Bramanti, and M. Romanelli
Quantum Coherent Effects in Cavity Exciton Polariton Systems

5:00
A.V. Kavokin, K.V. Kavokin, I. Shelykh, and G. Malpuech
Spin Dynamics of Exciton Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities


5:25 break

5:30 Panel:  Applications of BEC of Excitons and Polaritons
Moderator: D. Snoke

Wednesday

Coupled Quantum Wells
Chair:
P. Littlewood

9:00 L. V. Butov
Phenomena in Cold Exciton Gases

9:40 
L. Levitov, B.D. Simons, and L.V. Butov
Pattern Formation as a Signature of Quantum Degeneracy in a Cold Exciton System


9:55
G. Chen, R. Rapaport, S.H. Simon, L.N. Pfeiffer, K. West, D. Snoke, Y. Liu, and S. Denev
What Really Drives the Formation of Exciton Emission Rings in Quantum Wells?


10:20 break

10:30
S. Chatterjee and G. Baym
Instability of 2D Gases in Layered Semiconductors


10:55
D.W. Snoke
Trapping Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells


12:30 lunch

General Theory of Exciton BEC II
Chair: R. Zimmermann

1:30  C. Tejedor
Spin Effects in Condensates

2:10 H. Haug
Exciton Condensation Kinetics and the Build-up of Spontaneous Coherence

2:50 break

3:00 Poster Session
wine and cheese reception sponsored by IOP

7:00 Conference Banquet
(buses depart 6:00)

Thursday

Permanent Exciton Systems
Chair:
S. Ulloa

9:00 P. Wachter, B. Bucher, and J. Maier
A Superfluid Phase in a Bose Condensed Excitonic State

9:40 J.P. Eisenstein
Experiments on a Quantum Hall Exciton Condensate

10:20 break

10:30 A. MacDonald
Spontaneous Bilayer Coherence in the Strong Field Limit

11:10 S. Luin, V. Pellegrini, A. Pinczuk, B.S. Dennis, L.N. Pfeiffer, and K. West
Excitonic Instabilities in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

11:35  S. Simon
Excitons and Biexcitons and “Other” Quantum Hall Systems

12:00 M. Rotani and L.J. Sham
Unusual Transport Properties at the Boundary Between Semimetal and Excitonic Insulator

12:30 lunch

2:00 Conference Excursion

Friday

Bulk Crystals
Chair: J. Ketterson

9:00 M. Kuwata-Gonokami
Direct Creation of Degenerate Excitonic Particles by Phase Space Compression with Pulsed Two-Photon Excitation

9:40 K. Karpinska, P.H.M. van Loosdrecht, and I.P. Handayani
New Approach to Prove Kinetics of Paraexcitons in
Cu2O

9:55 D. Froehlich, G. Dasbach, G. Baldassarri, H. von Hoegersthal, M. Bayer, and H. Stolz
High Resolution Spectroscopy of Yellow 1s Excitons in
Cu2O

10:20 break

10:30 J.P. Wolfe
Relaxation Kinetics in Cu2O—Our Latest Thinking

10:55  T. Fleck, M. Joerger, A. Jolk, and C. Klingshirn
Exciton Transport in
Cu2O and Its Detection by Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy and by Field Ionization in a Schottky Barrier

11:30 Panel: The status of experiments in Cu2O
Moderator: H. Haug

12:30 lunch

Polaritons in Microcavities II
Chair: D. Whitakker


1:30
M. Seemann, H. Stoltz, F. Kieseling, R. Franz, G. Manzke, and K. Henneberger
Nonlinear Phase-Resolved Polariton Spectroscopy in ZnSe Epilayers


1:55
V. Savona, A. Quattropani, and P. Schwendimann
Formation of Coherence in the Nondegenerate Parametric Downconversion of Microcavity Polaritons


2:20
H. Deng, G. Weihs, D. Snoke, J. Bloch, and Y. Yamamoto
Polariton Lasing in a Semiconductor Microcavity
 

2:45 break

2:55
M. Szymanska, P.B. Littlewood, and B.D. Simons
Polariton Condensation and Lasing—Decoherence Driven Crossover


3:20 
S. Kundermann, M. Saba, C. Ciuti, T. Guillet, J.L. Staehli, and B. Deveaud
Evidence for Parametric Correlation in Semiconductor Microcavities


3:45 Conference Wrap-up


Posters

Polaritons in Microcavities

P-1  F.P. Laussy, G. Malpeuch, and A. Kavokin
Spontaneous Coherence Buildup in a Polariton Laser

P-2 J. Keeling, P.R. Eastham, M.H. Szymanska, and P.B. Littlewood
Excitation Spectra and Thermodynamics in the Dicke Model with Propagating Photons

P-3 F.M. Marchetti, B.D. Simons, and P.B. Littlewood
Condensation of Cavity Polaritons in a Disordered Environment

P-4 I. Vadeiko
Rigorous Algebraic Approach to Study the Phase Transition of Cavity Polaritons in the Dicke-like Model

P-5 A. Baas, J.-Ph. Karr, M. Romanelli, A. Bramanti, and E. Giacobino
Optical Bistability in Semiconductor Microcavities in the Nondegenerate Parametric Oscillation Regime: Analogy with the Optical Parametric Oscillator

P-6 D. Sarchi and V. Savona
Spontaneous Formation of Polariton Coherence in Semiconductor Microcavities

P-7 P.R. Eastham and P.B. Littlewood
Bose Condensation in a Model Microcavity

P-8 P.R. Eastham and D.M. Whittaker
Theory of Coupled Polarisations in the Microcavity Parametric Oscillator

P-9  I. Carusotto and C. Ciuti
Probing Polariton Superfluidity Through Resonant Rayleigh Scattering


Cuprous Oxide

C-1  D. Roubtsov and I. Loutsenko
Bose-Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity of Excitons in 3D Semiconductors

C-2 I.V. Beloussov, J.B. Ketterson, and Y. Sun
Four-wave Mixing Theory for Two-Photon Generation of Excitons in Cuprous Oxide

C-3 Y. Sun, R.P.H. Chang, and J.B. Ketterson
Study of 1s Orthoexciton Luminescence in
Cu2O under Two-Photon Excitation

C-4 Y. Sun, K. Rivkin, J.B. Ketterson, P.R. Markworth, and R.P.H. Chang
Strain Split Spectra of 1s Yellow Orthoexcitons in Epitaxial
Cu2O Films on MgO

C-5 P.H.M. van Loosdrecht, K. Karpinska, M. Mostovoy, C. van der Vegte, and A. Revcolevschi
Hyper-Raman Excited Yellow Orthoexcitons in
Cu2O

C-6 N. Naka and N. Nagasawa
Anomalous Light Scattering by a Dark Condensate of Excitons in
Cu2O

C-7  J.I. Jang and J.P. Wolfe
Auger Decay of Excitons in
Cu2O- Temperature Dependence and Spin Dependence

C-8 Y. Liu and D. Snoke
Resonant Two-Photon Excitation of 1s Paraexcitons in
Cu2O

C-9 P.J. Leblanc and E. Fortin
Evidence of Lateral Contraction of Traveling Exciton Packet


Quantum Structures

Q-1 O. Berman and Yu. E. Lozovik
Superfluidity of Indirect Excitons in Superlattices

Q-2 O. Berman, Yu. Lozovik, D. Snoke, and R. Coalson
Superfluidity of “Dirty” Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells

Q-3 V.V. Botan and M.A. Liberman
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Indirect Magnetoexcitons in a Double Quantum Well

Q-4 L.E. Smallwood and A.L. Ivanov
Effective Heating of Statistically-Degenerate Quantum Well Excitons due to Optical Evaporation

Q-5 S. Denev, Y. Liu, D. Snoke, S.H. Simon, L.N. Pfeiffer, and K. West
Luminescence Ring Formation in Coupled Quantum Wells


Q-6 P. Folkes, G. Gumbs, and X. Xu
Electric-Field Dependent Characteristics of a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gas in a GaSb/InAs/AlSb Heterostructure

Q-7 V.V. Ovsyankin, B.V. Stroganov, Yu. K. Dolgikh, Yu. P. Efimov, S.A. Eliseev, and V.S. Zapasskii
Quantum Switching of Spatial Modes in Coherent Spontaneous Emission of a 2D System

Q-8 V.I. Sugakov
Islands of Exciton Condensed Phases in a Two-Dimensional System, the Distribution of their Sizes and Coherence in Position

Q-9 P.P. Vasil’ev
Non-equilibrium Photon-Induced Condensation of e-h Pairs in Bulk GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures

Q-10 S.A. Moskalenko, V.V. Botan, M.A. Liberman, and D.W. Snoke
Coexistence of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates of Two-Dimensional Magnetoexcitons with Different Motional Dipole Moments

Q-11 Z.G. Koinov
Absence of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons in Two-Dimensions in a  Low Density Regime


General Exciton Physics

G-1 L. Kappei, J. Szczytko, and B. Deveaud
Direct Observation of the Mott Transition in an Optically Excited Semiconductor Quantum Well

G-2 R. Shimano, M. Nagai, K. Horiuch, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami
Observation of Electron-Hole Droplet Formation in Diamond

G-3  J.M. Villas-Boas, S.E. Ulloa, and A.O. Govorov
Damping of Rabi Oscillations in a Single Quantum Dot

G-4  A. Yamaguchi, N. Kometani, Y. Yonezawa, and O. Kajimoto
Exciton Delocalization and Trapping of the J-Aggregate of Oxacyanine Dye in LB Films

G-5 M. Saglam and Z. Saglam
Explanation of the Spin Relaxation in an Excitonic Transition in Terms of the Magnetic Flux Quantization of the Hydrogen Atom

G-6
D. Haegele, S. Pfalz, and M. Oestreich
Observation of Stimulated Bosonic Scattering in a Partially Spin Polarized Exciton-Biexciton System

G-7  N. Atenco-Analco, F. Perez-Rodriguez, and N.M. Makarov
Effect of the Surface Scattering on Spectral and Optical Properties of Excitons in the Weak-Confinement Regime







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