Renormalized bosonic interaction of excitons

An effective bosonic Hamiltonian of $1s$ excitons with ``spin'' degrees of freedom in two dimensions is obtained through a projection procedure, starting from a conventional electron-hole Hamiltonian Hₑₕ. We first demonstrate that a straightforward transformation of Hₑₕ into a Hamiltonian of bosonic excitons does not give the two-body interaction between an ``up-spin'' exciton and a ``down-spin'' exciton, which are created by the left- and right-circularly polarized light beams, respectively. We then show that this interaction is generated through a projection procedure onto the subspace spanned by $1s$ excitons, as a renormalization effect coming from higher exciton states. The projection also renormalizes the interaction between $1s$ excitons with the same spins by a large amount. These renormalization effects are crucial for the polarization dependence of the optical responses from semiconductors. The present theory gives the microscopic foundation of the phenomenology that was successfully applied to the analysis of four-wave mixing experiments in GaAs quantum wells strongly coupled to the radiation field in a high-Q microcavity.