Abstract
We have measured the effect of in-plane magnetic fields on the photoluminescence of 2D carriers confined in a modulation-doped GaAsAlGaAs MQW heterostructure. The most dramatic effect is a large increase, and eventual saturation at high fields, of the intensity of radiative recombination at interface acceptors (binding energy ∼ 10 meV). We explain this as a result of field-induced spreading of the confined wave functions toward the barriers. We show this behavior to be qualitatively consistent with an analytically soluble model which combines the in-plane magnetic field with harmonic quantum well confinement to give a 1D composite oscillator. The low field spreading is due to linear displacement of the oscillator centers with B; at higher fields the magnetic field confinement shrinks the wave functions, and they recede from the interfaces. We observe also a diamagnetic shift and a spectral narrowing of the band-to-band recombination. These effects are confirmed quantitatively with the composite oscillator model.
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