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The exciton Wannier equation for graphene is solved for different background dielectric constants. It is shown that freestanding graphene features strong Coulomb effects with a very large exciton binding energy exceeding $3\,$eV. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-29 J. H. Grönqvist , T. Stroucken , G. Berghäuser , S. W. Koch

The effects of the electron-phonon interaction on optical excitations can be understood in terms of exciton-phonon coupling, and require a careful treatment in low-dimensional materials with strongly bound excitons or strong electron-hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-17 Gabriel Antonius , Steven G. Louie

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

Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…

Many-body interactions can produce novel ground states in a condensed-matter system. For example, interacting electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons, a neutral bound state, provided that the exciton binding energy exceeds the…

Significant excitonic effects were observed in graphene by measuring its optical conductivity in a broad spectral range including the two-dimensional {\pi}-band saddle-point singularities in the electronic structure. The strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

A study of the formation of excitons as a problem of two Dirac particles in a gapped graphene layer and in two gapped graphene layers separated by a dielectric is presented. In the low energy limit the separation of the center-of-mass and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 O. L. Berman , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , K. Ziegler

Exciton problem is solved in the two-dimensional Dirac model with allowance for strong electron-hole attraction. The exciton binding energy is assumed smaller than but comparable to the band gap. The exciton wavefunction is found in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

The quantum states of an electron-hole pair in one-dimensional semiconductors under a static electric field are theoretically analyzed using a two-band model with on-site Coulomb interaction. In the absence of static field, the electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Adriana García , Alexander López , Jorge Quereda , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

Bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors known as excitons are the subject of intense research due to their potential for optoelectronic devices and applications, especially in the realm of two-dimensional materials. While the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Peter A. Noordman , Lucas Maisel Licerán , Henk T. C. Stoof

Using first principles many-body theory methods (GW+BSE) we demonstrate that optical properties of graphane are dominated by localized charge-transfer excitations governed by enhanced electron correlations in a two-dimensional dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierluigi Cudazzo , Claudio Attacalite , Ilya V. Tokatly , Angel Rubio

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

Excitons are electron-hole (e-h) pair quasiparticles, which may form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and collapse into the phase coherent state at low temperature. However, because of ephemeral strength of pairing, a clear evidence for BEC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Min-Kyu Joo , Youngjo Jin , Byoung Hee Moon , Hyun Kim , Sanghyub Lee , Young Hee Lee

An exciton is an electron-hole pair bound by attractive Coulomb interaction. Short-lived excitons have been detected by a variety of experimental probes in numerous contexts. An excitonic insulator, a collective state of such excitons, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-30 Jinhua Wang , Pan Nie , Xiaokang Li , Huakun Zuo , Benoît Fauqué , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

We apply the topological theory of symmetry indicators to interaction-induced exciton band structures in centrosymmetric semiconductors. Crucially, we distinguish between the topological invariants inherited from the underlying electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Henry Davenport , Johannes Knolle , Frank Schindler

Exciton condensation in semiconductors and semimetals has long been predicted but remains elusive. In a semiconductor, condensation occurs when the exciton binding energy matches the band gap. This binding energy results from a balance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-11 Harley D. Scammell , Oleg P. Sushkov

In order to discuss the exciton fine-structure of transition-metal dichalcogenides mono-layers, excitons are first defined in the subspace of electron- and hole states, including the lowest conduction band (LCB) and the uppermost valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Pierre Gilliot , Mathieu Gallart , Bernd Hönerlage

Electroluminescence properties of epitaxially grown n-ZnO/p-GaN pn-heterojunctions are investigated as functions of applied bias and temperature. The study reveals the existence of indirect interfacial excitons at sufficiently low…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-14 Simran Arora , Subhabrata Dhar

The ground state of neutral and negatively charged excitons confined to a single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot is probed in a direct absorption experiment by high resolution laser spectroscopy. We show how the anisotropic electron-hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Högele , S. Seidl , M. Kroner , K. Karrai , M. Atatüre , J. Dreiser , A. Imamoglu , R. J. Warburton , B. D. Gerardot , P. M. Petroff

Excited conduction electrons, conduction holes, and valence holes in monolayer electron-doped graphene exhibit unusual Coulomb decay rates. The deexcitation processes are studied using the screened exchange energy. They might utilize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Chih-Wei Chiu , Chiun-Yan Lin , Rong-Bin Chen
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