@article{43413,
  abstract     = {{We describe a novel three-pulse degenerate four-wave mixing configuration that permits the direct observation of the coherence between the σ+ and the σ− exciton states in a GaAs quantum well excited in a two-photon process. It is found that the phase coherence between the two single heavy-hole exciton states decays with a time constant that is considerably longer than the dephasing time of the coherence between these states and the ground state (interband coherence). All the experimental data are well described by numerical solutions of the optical Bloch equations for a phenomenological multilevel model.}},
  author       = {{Meier, Torsten and Bott, K. and Mayer, E.J. and Smith, G.O. and Heuckeroth, V. and Hübner, M. and Kuhl, J. and Schulze, A. and Lindberg, M. and Koch, S.W. and Thomas, P. and Hey, R. and Ploog, K.}},
  journal      = {{Journal of the Optical Society of America B}},
  number       = {{5}},
  pages        = {{1026--1030}},
  publisher    = {{Optica Publishing Group}},
  title        = {{{Dephasing of interacting heavy-hole and light-hole excitons in GaAs quantum wells}}},
  doi          = {{10.1364/JOSAB.13.001026}},
  volume       = {{13}},
  year         = {{1996}},
}