1103.0321 (A. A. High et al.)

Spin Texture in a Cold Exciton Gas    [PDF]

A. A. High, A. T. Hammack, J. R. Leonard, Sen Yang, L. V. Butov, T. Ostatnicky, A. V. Kavokin, A. C. Gossard

We report on the observation of a spin texture in a cold exciton gas in a
GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum well structure. The spin texture is observed around
the exciton rings. The observed phenomena include: a ring of linear
polarization, a vortex of linear polarization with polarization perpendicular
to the radial direction, an anisotropy in the exciton flux, a skew of the
exciton fluxes in orthogonal circular polarizations and a corresponding
four-leaf pattern of circular polarization, a periodic spin texture, and
extended exciton coherence in the region of the polarization vortex. The data
indicate a transport regime where the spin polarization is locked to the
direction of particle propagation and scattering is suppressed.

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