On the radiative lifetime of free-moving two-dimensional excitons

A simple microscopic mechanism explaining the linear dependence of the radiative lifetime of free-moving two-dimensional excitons on their effective temperature is suggested. It is shown that there exists a characteristic effective temperature (of about few Kelvin) defined by the exciton-acoustic phonon interaction at which the radiative lifetime is minimal. Below this temperature the lifetime starts to increase with decreasing temperature. The correspondence with previous theoretical and experimental results is discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Final versio

On the microscopic theory of the exciton ring fragmentation

The description is presented for the dependence of the indirect exciton condensate density at the ring as a function of the polar angle at zero temperature with the involvement of the processes of formation and recombination of the excitons. In particular, starting from the quasi one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a spatially uniform generating term, we derive an exact analytical solution yielding the fragmentation of an exciton ring which is probably observed in the experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. The preprint has been brought into accord with the journal's varian