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Recently, polarization-dependent four-wave mixing experiments have demonstrated the need to account for the angular-momentum states of excitons when modelling their nonlinear optical response in GaAs quantum wells1. If exciton-exciton interactions are neglected, the appropriate model of the heavy-hole (hh) exciton is a pair of independent two-level systems which interact with left and right circularly polarized photons respectively. Abella et al.2 invoked this model to explain the results of their photon-echo experiments on ruby in the 1960s. If the light-hole (lh) and heavy-hole exciton transitions are excited simultaneously, the six-level model illustrated in Figure 1 is required.
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Denton, G.J., Phillips, R.T. (1994). Polarization Studies of Four-Wave Mixing in GaAs Quantum Wells. In: Phillips, R.T. (eds) Coherent Optical Interactions in Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 330. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9748-0_27
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