We present a theoretical calculation of the absorption spectrum of cuprous oxide (Cu2O) based on the general theory developed by Y. Toyozawa. An inclusion not only of acoustic phonons but also of optical phonons and of specific properties of the excitons in Cu2O like the central-cell corrections for the 1S-exciton allows us to calculate the experimentally observed line widths in experiments by T. Kazimierczuk et al [Nature 514, 343, (2014)] within the same order of magnitude, which demonstrates a clear improvement in comparison to earlier work on this topic. We also discuss a variety of further effects, which explain the still observable discrepancy between theory and experiment but can hardly be included in theoretical calculations.
@article{arxiv.1602.01813,
title = {Linewidths in excitonic absorption spectra of cuprous oxide},
author = {Frank Schweiner and Jörg Main and Günter Wunner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01813},
year = {2016}
}