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Spatially indirect excitons can be created when an electron and a hole, confined to separate layers of a double quantum well system, bind to form a composite Boson. Because there is no recombination pathway such excitons are long lived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean

The coherent manipulation of excitons in bulk semiconductors via the lattice degrees of freedom is key to the development of acousto-optic and acousto-excitonic devices. Wide-bandgap transition metal oxides exhibit strongly bound excitons…

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit rich quantum phenomena, but ab initio modelling of these systems remains computationally prohibitive. Existing machine learning methods for accelerating density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Zekun Lou , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi

Exciton dynamics, lifetimes and scattering are directly related to the exciton dispersion, or bandstructure. While electron and phonon bandstructures are well understood and can be easily calculated from first principles, the exciton…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-04 Diana Y. Qiu , Galit Cohen , Dana Novichkova , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Nanomaterials exhibit unique optical phenomena, in particular excitonic quantum processes occurring at room temperature. The low dimensionality, however, imposes strict requirements for conventional optical excitation, and an approach for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 N. Fang , D. Yamashita , S. Fujii , M. Maruyama , Y. Gao , Y. R. Chang , C. F. Fong , K. Otsuka , K. Nagashio , S. Okada , Y. K. Kato

Using the spherical geometry, we introduce a novel model to study excitons confined in a three-dimensional space, which offers unparalleled mathematical simplicity while retaining much of the key physics. This new model consists of an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pierre-François Loos

Excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered significant attention because of their large binding energies due to weakly screened Coulomb interaction, and direct bandgap at the K/K$^\prime$ point in 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

Optical excitations in moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers lead to the creation of excitons, as electron-hole bound states, that are generically considered within a Bose-Hubbard framework. Here, we demonstrate that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Tsung-Sheng Huang , Peter Lunts , Mohammad Hafezi

Excitonic condensation and superfluidity have recently received a renewed attention, due to the fabrication of bilayer systems in which electrons and hole are spatially separated and form stable pairs known as indirect excitons.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-05 Cesare Malosso , Gaetano Senatore , Stefania De Palo

We formulated an effective theory for a single interlayer exciton in a bilayer quantum antiferromagnet, in the limit that the holon and doublon are strongly bound onto one interlayer rung by the Coulomb force. Upon using a rung linear spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Louk Rademaker , Kai Wu , Jan Zaanen

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By…

The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation dynamics in TMDs have been extensively studied by time-domain…

Reduced dielectric screening in two-dimensional materials enables bound excitons, which modifies their optical absorption and optoelectronic response even at room temperature. Here, we demonstrate the existence of excitons in the bandgap of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Pushpendra Yadav , Bramhachari Khamari , Bahadur Singh , K. V. Adarsh , Amit Agarwal

Motivated by recent experimental measurement of the intrinsic excitonic wave-function in 2D Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we developed a theoretical study to resolve some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nizar Chaouachi , Sihem Jaziri

Our ability to efficiently detect and generate far-infrared (i.e., terahertz) radiation is vital in areas spanning from biomedical imaging to interstellar spectroscopy. Despite decades of intense research, bridging the terahertz gap between…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-24 Zhao Tang , Greis J. Cruz , Fanhao Jia , Yabei Wu , Weiyi Xia , Peihong Zhang

Control over the optical properties of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) layers, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), is needed for future optoelectronic applications. Remarkable advances have been achieved through…

We studied the possibility of exciton condensation in Mott insulating bilayers. In these strongly correlated systems an exciton is the bound state of a double occupied and empty site. In the strong coupling limit the exciton acts as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-01 Louk Rademaker , Jeroen van den Brink , Jan Zaanen , Hans Hilgenkamp

A study of the formation of excitons as a problem of two Dirac particles confined in two-layer graphene sheets separated by a dielectric when gaps are opened and they interact via a Coulomb potential is presented. We propose to observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Klaus G. Ziegler

The realization of semiconductor structures with stable excitons at room temperature is crucial for the development of excitonics and polaritonics. Quantum confinement has commonly been employed for enhancing excitonic effects in…