PACS: 71.35.Ji Dedicated to Professor Dr. Roland Zimmermann on the occasion of his 60th birthdayWe present calculations of the magnetic field dependence of the emission spectrum of charged exciton (X À ) localised on a quantum ring. They are carried out using exact diagonalisation techniques in a coordinate system localised on a valence hole. The ground state energy of charged X À complex, unlike neutral exciton, exhibits Aharonov-Bohm oscillations for any disk radius. The emission energy is found as a difference of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the charged exciton and the final state electron energy.Introduction The evolution of the optical properties of low dimensional semiconductor structures with carrier density has been extensively studied [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. It is now well recognised that the low-density regime is dominated by the exciton and charged exciton absorption/recombination. The understanding of the role of negatively charged exciton, including dynamical processes, has been advanced largely by the work of Zimmermann and co-workers [12]. Our own discussion of negatively charged exciton was motivated by the attempt to understand the approach to the high density limit dominated by Fermi edge singularity [4]. In this limit the role of finite valence hole mass in the emission/absorption is a serious and unsolved problem [4]. A possible solution to the problem lies in the coordinate system where hole mass can be treated perturbatively. We studied such a coordinate system in the simplest case of a twodimensional X À [13]. Motivated by recent experiments on charged excitons in quantum rings [14] we extend the approach of Ref.[13] to quantum rings and to magnetic fields.In quantum ring geometry the phase of the single electron wavefunction changes with the external magnetic field. This results in oscillations of the electronic energy as a function of the number of magnetic flux quanta threading the ring, the AharonovBohm (AB) oscillations [15]. The possibility of observing Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in quantum rings was studied experimentally [16][17][18] and theoretically. Theoretical work started with Chaplik and Govorov [19] who studied excitons and charged exciton complexes. Finite size effects of quantum rings on magneto-excitons were also extensively studied [20][21][22]. It appears that in spite of its charge neutrality, the low-lying energy levels and oscillator strengths of an exciton also exhibit the AB oscillations as a function of the magnetic field, provided that the ring is small and narrow.