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We studied optical absorption of single-walled carbon nanotubes by varying the dielectric environment. For the two different components of the broad UV absorption feature conventionally referred to as the pi-plasmon, we find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-31 Yoichi Murakami , Shigeo Maruyama

We study both experimentally and theoretically the fundamental interplay of exciton localization and polarization in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. From Stark spectroscopy of individual carbon nanotubes at cryogenic…

The manipulation of coupled quantum excitations is of fundamental importance in realizing novel photonic and optoelectronic devices. We use electroluminescence to probe plasmon-exciton coupling in hybrid structures consisting of a nanoscale…

Plasmonic cavities can be used to control the atom-photon coupling process at the nanoscale, since they provide ultrahigh density of optical states in an exceptionally small mode volume. Here we demonstrate strong coupling between molecular…

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are quasi-one-dimensional systems with poor Coulomb screening and enhanced electron-phonon interaction, and are good candidates for excitons and exciton-phonon couplings in metallic state. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-20 Hualing Zeng , Hongbo Zhao , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xiaodong Cui

Spatiotemporal dynamics of excitons in isolated semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes are studied using transient absorption microscopy. Differential reflection and transmission of an 810-nm probe pulse after excitation by a 750-nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Brian A. Ruzicka , Rui Wang , Jessica Lohrman , Shenqiang Ren , Hui Zhao

We report on an optical method to directly measure electron-phonon coupling in carbon nanotubes by correlating the first and second harmonic of the resonant Raman excitation profile. The method is applicable to 1D and 0D systems and is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Yin , A. Vamivakas , A. Walsh , S. Cronin , M. S. Unlu , B. B Goldberg , A. K. Swan

Strong coupling of excitonic resonances with a cavity gives rise to exciton-polaritons which possess a modified energy landscape compared to the uncoupled emitter. However, due to the femtosecond lifetime of the so-called bright polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Jan M. Lüttgens , Zhuoran Kuang , Nicolas F. Zorn , Tiago Buckup , Jana Zaumseil

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting microcavity, where exciton-polaritons can be formed, constitues a promising setup for exploring and manipulating various regimes of light-matter interaction. Here, the coupling between 2D excitons and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-08 Dino Novko , Vito Despoja

Many-electron effects often dramatically modify the properties of reduced dimensional systems. We report calculations, based on an many-electron Green's function approach, of electron-hole interaction effects on the optical spectra of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Catalin D. Spataru , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi , Lorin X. Benedict , Steven G. Louie

Single walled carbon nanotubes as emerging quantum-light sources may fill a technological gap in silicon photonics due to their potential use as near infrared, electrically driven, classical or non-classical emitters. Unlike in…

We report benchmark calculations of electroabsorption in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to provide motivation to experimentalists to perform electroabsorption measurement on these systems. We show that electroabsorption can…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongbo Zhao , Sumit Mazumdar

Resonant Raman spectroscopy of single carbon nanotubes suspended across trenches displays red shifts of up to 30 meV of the electronic transition energies as a function of the surrounding dielectric environment. We develop a simple scaling…

We develop an rf circuit model for single walled carbon nanotubes for both dc and capacitively contacted geometries. By modeling the nanotube as a nano-transmission line with distributed kinetic and magnetic inductance as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. J. Burke

We calculate the exciton binding energy in single-walled carbon nanotubes with narrow band gaps, accounting for the quasi-relativistic dispersion of electrons and holes. Exact analytical solutions of the quantum relativistic two-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 R. R. Hartmann , I. A. Shelykh , M. E. Portnoi

We present many-body \textit{ab initio} calculations of the electronic and optical properties of semiconducting zigzag carbon nanotubes under uniaxial strain. The GW approach is utilized to obtain the quasiparticle bandgaps and is combined…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Catalin D. Spataru , François Léonard

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the nonlinear interaction between excitations whose harmonic energies coincide gives rise to a strong coupling that opens a new coherent ultrafast energy relaxation path. Instead of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Pierre Gilliot , Bertrand Yuma , Marc Ziegler , Mathieu Gallart , Bernd Hönerlage

Enhancing the light-matter interactions in two-dimensional materials via optical metasurfaces has attracted much attention due to its potential to enable breakthrough in advanced compact photonic and quantum information devices. Here, we…

Ultraclean, undoped carbon nanotubes are observed to be always insulating, even when the gap predicted by band theory is zero: the residual band gap is then thought to have a many-body origin. Here we theoretically show that the correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Giacomo Sesti , Daniele Varsano , Elisa Molinari , Massimo Rontani

Exciton-phonon coupling limits the homogeneous emission linewidth of nanocrystals. Hence, a full understanding of it is crucial. In this work, we statistically investigate exciton-phonon coupling by performing single-particle spectroscopy…