Coherence of Bose-Einstein condensates of dipolar excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures

Experiments relating to studies of the coherence of Bose condensates of dipolar excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with a wide, single quantum well and a Schottky gate are analyzed. Dipolar excitons were excited by light in an annular trap formed along the perimeter of a window in a metal gate with an applied electric voltage. A dual-beam interference technique involving interference combination of the amplitudes of the luminescence light field, together with subsequent analysis of first order correlators, is used to study the temporal (longitudinal) and spatial (transverse) coherence of the exciton condensates. It is found that the transverse coherence length of an exciton condensate is considerably longer than its thermal De Broglie wavelength. Experimental studies of the luminescence intensity correlator also confirm the coherence of the exciton Bose condensate. Published by AIP Publishing.