Breaking a Bloch-wave interferometer: Quasiparticle species-specific temperature-dependent nonequilibrium dephasing

Joseph B. Costello, Seamus D. O'Hara, Qile Wu, Moonsuk Jang, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, Mark S. Sherwin

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Abstract

Recently, high-order sideband polarimetry has been established as an experimental method that links the polarization of sidebands to an interference of Bloch waves. However, the robustness of sideband polarizations to increasing dephasing remains to be explored. Here, we investigate the dependence of high-order sideband generation in bulk gallium arsenide on dephasing by tuning temperature. We find that the intensities of the sidebands, but not their polarizations, depend strongly on temperature. Using our polarimetry method, we are able to isolate the contributions of electron-heavy hole (HH) and electron-light hole (LH) pairs to sideband intensities, and separately extract the nonequilibrium dephasing coefficients associated with the longitudinal optical (LO) phonons and acoustic (A) phonons for each species of electron-hole pair. We find that ΓHH,A=6.1±1.6μeV/K, ΓLH,A<1.5μeV/K, ΓHH,LO=14±3meV, and ΓLH,LO=30±3meV.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number195205
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume108
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 15 2023
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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