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Exciton edge states and the microwave edge exciton absorption of a 2D topological insulator subject to the in-plane magnetic field are studied. The magnetic field forms a narrow gap in electron edge states that allows the existence of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 M. V. Entin L. I. Magarill , M. M. Mahmoodian

Photogenerated excitonic ensembles confined in coupled GaAs quantum wells are probed by a complementary approach of emission spectroscopy and resonant inelastic light scattering. Lateral electrostatic trap geometries are used to create…

We have studied the low-energy electronic excitations of solid picene at 20 K using momentum dependent electron energy-loss spectroscopy. Our results demonstrate the presence of five excitonic features below the transport energy gap of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-28 Friedrich Roth , Benjamin Mahns , Bernd Büchner , Martin Knupfer

Mostly optical spectroscopies are used to investigate existence of excitons, Mott transitions and other exquisite excitonic condensed phases of matter. On the other hand, electrical signatures of excitons are hardly explored. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Kanika Bansal , Shouvik Datta

The exciton ground state and excited state energies are calculated for a model system of an infinitely long cylindrical wire. The effective Coulomb potential between the electron and the hole is studied as function of the wire radius.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. F. Slachmuylders , B. Partoens , W. Magnus , F. Peeters

We report on asymmetric electron-hole decoherence in epitaxial graphene gated by an ionic liquid. The observed negative magnetoresistance near zero magnetic field for different gate voltages, analyzed in the framework of weak localization,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Kil-Joon Min , Jaesung Park , Wan-Seop Kim , Dong-Hun Chae

The properties of excitons, or correlated electron-hole pairs, are of paramount importance to optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is the electron-hole interaction, which is commonly treated as…

We study theoretically the interaction of twisted light with graphene. The light-matter interaction matrix elements between the tight-binding states of electrons in graphene are determined near the Dirac points. We examine the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. B. Farías , G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

The magnetic-field dependence of the energy spectrum, wave function, binding energy and oscillator strength of exciton states confined in a circular graphene quantum dot (CGQD) are obtained within the configuration interaction (CI) method.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 L. L. Li , M. Zarenia , W. Xu , H. M. Dong , F. M. Peeters

Using a combination of ultraviolet-vacuum ultraviolet reflectivity and spectroscopic ellipsometry, we observe a resonant exciton at an unusually high energy of 6.3eV in epitaxial graphene. Surprisingly, the resonant exciton occurs at room…

We present a theory of excitonic processes in gate controlled graphene quantum dots. The dependence of the energy gap on shape, size and edge for graphene quantum dots with up to a million atoms is predicted. Using a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , P. Hawrylak

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

In a two or three dimensional ferromagnetic XXZ model, a low energy excitation mode above a magnetic domain wall is gapless, whereas all of the usual spin wave excitations moving around the whole crystal are gapful. Although this surprising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tohru Koma , Masanori Yamanaka

Coulomb drag between adjacent electron and hole gases has attracted considerable attention, being studied in various two-dimensional systems, including semiconductor and graphene heterostructures. Here we report measurements of…

The effective Hamiltonian describing the motion of an exciton in an external non-homogeneous magnetic field is derived. The magnetic field plays the role of an effective potential for the exciton motion, results into an increment of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. K. Freire , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters , V. N. Freire , G. A. Farias

The fine structure of the Dirac energy spectrum in graphene induced by electron-optical phonon coupling is investigated in the portion of the spectrum near the phonon emission threshold. The derived new dispersion equation in the immediate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

Understanding the dynamics of excitons in two dimensional semiconductors requires a theory that incorporates the essential physics distinct from their three-dimensional counterparts. In addition to the modified dielectric environment,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Pengke Li , Ian Appelbaum

In this article we investigate the excitations in a single graphene layer and in a single-walled carbon nanotube, i.e. the spectrum of magnetic excitations is calculated. In the absence of interactions in these systems there is a unique gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Posvyanskiy , Logi Arnarson , Per Hedegård

We present ab initio many-body calculations of the optical absorption in bulk graphite, graphene and bilayer of graphene. Electron-hole interaction is included solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on top of a GW quasiparticle electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Paolo E. Trevisanutto , Markus Holzmann , Michel Cote , Valerio Olevano

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…