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Excitons and their constituent charge carriers play the central role in electroluminescence mechanisms determining the ultimate performance of organic optoelectronic devices. The involved processes and their dynamics are often studied with…

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The potential for low-threshold optical nonlinearity has received significant attention in the fields of photonics and conceptual optical neuron networks. Excitons in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are particularly promising in this…

Effects of coupling between an molecular exciton and a surface plasmon (exciton-plasmon coupling) on the luminescence properties of the molecule and the surface plasmons are investigated using nonequilibrium Green's function method.…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-12 Kuniyuki Miwa , Mamoru Sakaue , Hideaki Kasai

In transition metal dichalcogenides layers of atomic scale thickness, the electron-hole Coulomb interaction potential is strongly influenced by the sharp discontinuity of the dielectric function across the layer plane. This feature results…

Excitons, electron-hole pairs bound by the Coulomb potential, are fundamental quasiparticles of coherent light-matter interaction energizing processes from photosynthesis to optoelectronics. Excitons are observed in semiconductors, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xuefeng Cui , Cong Wang , Adam Argondizzo , Sean Garrett-Roe , Branko Gumhalter , Hrvoje Petek

We show that an exciton on a discrete chain of sites can be guided by effective measurements induced by an ambient, non-equilibrium medium that is synchronised to the exciton transport. For experimental verification, we propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 K. Mukherjee , S. Wüster

The conductance of a molecular junction is commonly determined by either charge-transfer-doping, where alignment of the Fermi energy to the molecular levels is achieved, or tunnelling through the tails of molecular resonances within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Gutierrez , G. Fagas , K. Richter , F. Grossmann , R. Schmidt

We report the direct observation of quantum coupling in individual quantum dot molecules and its manipulation using static electric fields. A pronounced anti-crossing of different excitonic transitions is observed as the electric field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Krenner , M. Sabathil , E. C. Clark , A. F. Kress , D. Schuh , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley

Exciton transport in molecular aggregates with magic-angle orientation is expected to be strongly suppressed due to their negligible dipole-dipole interactions. However, recent reports show that light-matter interactions can significantly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Siwei Wang , Liang-Yan Hsu , Hsing-Ta Chen

In this paper we consider dynamics of a molecular system subjected to external pumping by a light source. Within a completely quantum mechanical treatment, we derive a general formula, which enables to asses effects of different light…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 Tomas Mancal , Leonas Valkunas

We investigate on the same footing the time-dependent electronic transport properties and vibrational dynamics of a molecular junction. We show that fluctuations of both the molecular vibron displacement and the electronic current across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Rémi Avriller , R Souto , A. Martin-Rodero , A Yeyati

We theoretically examine the effect of the coupling of the transport electrons to a vibrational mode of the molecule on the ac linear-response conductance of molecular junctions. Representing the molecule by a single electronic state, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Ueda , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Coulomb drag is a process whereby the repulsive interactions between electrons in spatially separated conductors enable a current flowing in one of the conductors to induce a voltage drop in the other. If the second conductor is part of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 D. Nandi , A. D. K. Finck , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

A radical restructuring of the optical response of highly excited electron-hole plasma formed in a mesoscopic GaAs/AlGaAs channel in a quantizing magnetic field when an electric current flows in the channel has been discovered. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Yu. A. Pusep , M. A. T. Patricio , G. M. Jacobsen , M. D. Teodoro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

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…

(Dated: July 17, 2017) We calculate the electric charge current flowing through a vibrating molecular nanojunction, which is driven by an ac voltage, in its regime of nonlinear oscillations. Without loss of generality, we model the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Vicente Leyton , Stephan Weiss , Michael Thorwart

Quantum interference between one- and two-photon absorption pathways allows coherent control of interband transitions in unbiased bulk semiconductors; carrier population, carrier spin polarization, photocurrent injection, and spin current…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. R. Bhat , J. E. Sipe

We consider a two-level system coupled to contacts as a model for charge pump under external laser pulse. The model represents a charge-transfer molecule in a junction, and is a generalization of previously published results [B. D.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Boris D. Fainberg , Maxim Sukharev , Tae-Ho Park , Michael Galperin

Recent experiments have shown that transport properties of molecular-scale devices can be reversibly altered by the surrounding solvent. Here, we use a combination of first-principles calculations and experiment to explain this change in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Michele Kotiuga , Pierre Darancet , Carlos R. Arroyo , Latha Venkataraman , Jeffrey B. Neaton

Light-induced charge transmission through a molecular junction (molecular diode) is studied in the framework of a HOMO-LUMO model and in using a kinetic description. Expressions are presented for the sequential (hopping) and direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 E. G. Petrov , V. O. Leonov , V. May , P. Hänggi