Coulomb Interaction in Atomically Thin Semiconductors and Density-Independent Exciton-Scattering Processes
Abstract
In quantum-kinetic approaches to the dynamics of Coulomb-bound many-body correlations such as excitons, trions, biexcitons or higher-order correlations, a detailed knowledge of the many-body Coulomb Hamiltonian serving as a starting point is important. In this manuscript, the second-quantized description of the Coulomb interaction between Bloch electrons in a Heisenberg-equation-of-motion approach in atomically thin semiconductors is derived and reviewed. Emphasis is put on a discussion of Umklapp processes and the dielectric screening including all local-field effects. A link between \textit{ab initio} methods of screening and few-band models in effective-mass approximations for the quantum kinetics is established and all important Coulomb scattering processes contributing to the exciton energy landscape and density-independent exciton scattering are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.2602.13763,
title = {Coulomb Interaction in Atomically Thin Semiconductors and Density-Independent Exciton-Scattering Processes},
author = {Henry Mittenzwey and Andreas Knorr and Thorsten Deilmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13763},
year = {2026}
}