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The energy band structure of excitons is studied in periodic potentials produced by the short-range interaction between the exciton and electrons of Wigner or Moir\'{e} lattices. Treating the exciton as a point-like dipole that interacts…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

Engineering and probing excitonic properties at the nanoscale remains a central challenge in quantum photonics and optoelectronics. While exciton confinement via electrical control and strain engineering has been demonstrated in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yueh-Chun Wu , Bogdan Dryzhakov , Huan Zhao , Ivan Vlassiouk , Kyle Kelley , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jun Yan , Benjamin Lawrie

An indirect exciton is a bound state of an electron and a hole in spatially separated layers. Two-dimensional indirect excitons can be created optically in heterostructures containing double quantum wells or atomically thin semiconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chao Xu , J. R. Leonard , C. J. Dorow , L. V. Butov , M. M. Fogler , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young

We propose a state of excitonic solid for double layer two dimensional electron hole systems in transition metal dicalcogenides stacked on opposite sides of thin layers of BN. Properties of the exciton lattice such as its Lindemann ratio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 S. T. Chui , Ning Wang , Chun Yu Wan

We report on a single photon and spin storage device based on a semiconductor quantum dot molecule. Optically excited single electron-hole pairs are trapped within the molecule and their recombination rate is electrically controlled over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Boyer de la Giroday , N. Skold , R. M. Stevenson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

Excitons -- two-particle correlated electron-hole pairs -- are the dominant low-energy optical excitation in the broad class of semiconductor materials, which range from classical silicon to perovskites, and from two-dimensional to organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Marcel Reutzel , G. S. Matthijs Jansen , Stefan Mathias

On the basis of many-body {\it ab-initio} calculations, using single-shot G$_0$W$_0$ method and Bethe-Salpeter equation, we study phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) in the two typical zigzag and armchair directions. The electronic structure,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Zahra Nourbakhsh , Reza Asgari

The electronic and optical properties of 2D hexagonal boron nitride are studied using first principle calculations. GW and BSE methods are employed in order to predict with better accuracy the excited and excitonic properties of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 F. Ferreira , A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , R. M. Ribeiro

Twisted atomically thin semiconductors are characterized by moir\'{e} excitons. Their optical signatures and selection rules are well understood. However, their hybridization with photons in the strong coupling regime for heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Ermin Malic

Excitons are two-particle correlated bound states that are formed due to Coulomb interaction between single-particle holes and electrons. In the solid-state, cooperative interactions with surrounding quasiparticles can strongly tailor the…

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, are the fundamental excitations governing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. While optical signatures of excitons have been studied extensively, experimental access to the excitonic…

When electron-hole pairs are excited in a semiconductor, it is a priori not clear if they form a fermionic plasma of unbound particles or a bosonic exciton gas. Usually, the exciton phase is associated with low temperatures. In atomically…

An exciton, a two-body composite quasiparticle formed of an electron and hole, is a fundamental optical excitation in condensed-matter systems. Since its discovery nearly a century ago, a measurement of the excitonic wavefunction has…

It is commonly believed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a typical feature of the motion of a charged particle interacting with the electromagnetic vector potential. Here we present a magnetophotoluminescence study of type-II InP/GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Ribeiro , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , W. Carvalho , A. O. Govorov

Herein, the dynamics of excitons coupled with optical phonons in a triangular system is numerically studied. By representing the excitons by quasi-spin states, the similarity between the chiral spin states and the exciton chiral states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Noriyuki Aoyagi , Hiroaki Matsueda , Kunio Ishida

We investigate the microscopic description of exciton-polaritons that involves electrons, holes and photons within a two-dimensional microcavity. We show that in order to recover the simplified exciton-photon model that is typically used to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-06 Jesper Levinsen , Guangyao Li , Meera M. Parish

The Ajiki-Ando (A-A) splitting of single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWNT) originating from the Aharanov-Bohm effect was observed in chiral specific SWNTs by the magneto-absorption measurements conducted at magnetic fields of up to 78 T. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shojiro Takeyama , Hirofumi Suzuki , Hiroyuki Yokoi , Yoichi Murakami , Shigeo Maruyama

The strong excitonic emission at 5.75 eV of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) makes this material one of the most promising candidate for light emitting devices in the far ultraviolet (UV). However, single excitons occur only in perfect…

Polarization resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of individual CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots is investigated in the presence of external in-plane magnetic field. We find that the excitonic fine structure strongly depends on the magnitude…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-25 K. Kowalik , O. Krebs , A. Golnik , J. Suffczynski , P. Wojnar , J. Kossut , J. A. Gaj , P. Voisin

Exciton polaritons are hybrid particles of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) and cavity photons, which are renowned for displaying Bose Einstein condensation and other coherent phenomena at elevated temperatures. However, their formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Kenneth Choo , Olivier Bleu , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish