Exciton-acoustic phonon coupling revealed by resonant excitation of single perovskite nanocrystals.

Lv, Yan; Yin, Chunyang; Zhang, Chunfeng; Wang, Xiaoyong; Yu, Zhi-Gang; Xiao, Min · Nat Commun · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Single perovskite nanocrystals have attracted great research attention very recently due to their potential quantum-information applications, which critically depend on the development of powerful optical techniques to resolve delicate exciton photophysics. Here we have realized resonant and near-resonant excitations of single perovskite CsPbI<sub>3</sub> nanocrystals, with the scattered laser light contributing to only ~10% of the total collected signals. This allows us to estimate an ultranarrow photoluminescence excitation linewidth of ~11.32 µeV for the emission state of a single CsPbI<sub>3</sub> nanocrystal, corresponding to an exciton dephasing time of ~116.29 ps. Meanwhile, size-quantized acoustic phonons can be resolved from a single CsPbI<sub>3</sub> nanocrystal, whose coupling with the exciton is proposed to arise from the piezoelectric potential. The ability to collect resonance fluorescence from single CsPbI<sub>3</sub> nanocrystals, with the subsequent revelation of exciton-acoustic phonon coupling, has marked a critical step towards their steady advancement into superior quantum-light sources.