Abstract
We present the calculation of the low temperature exciton bimolecular formation rate in quantum wells through acoustic phonon scattering taking into account the heavy- and light-hole mixing in the hole and exciton states. We observe a decrease in the exciton formation rate compared to the parabolic approximation. For symmetric quantum wells, the hole-subband mixing allows a finite probability of scattering involving the change of parity. This opens a channel for spin-flip transitions during the exciton formation process.
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