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Excitons in the weakly interacting regime can be well-described by many-body perturbation theories such as the Bethe-Salpeter equation formalism. However, for materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides moir\'e heterostructures under…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Fangzhou Zhao , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Angel Rubio , Vojtěch Vlček

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

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…

A newly synthesized layered material C2N was investigated based on many- body perturbation theory using GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. The electronic band gap was determined to be ranging from 3.75 to 1.89 eV from monolayer to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 Jiuyu Sun , Ruiqi Zhang , Xingxing Li , Jinlong Yang

Due to a strong Coulomb interaction, excitons dominate the excitation kinetics in 2D materials. While Coulomb-scattering between electrons has been well studied, the interaction of excitons is more challenging and remains to be explored. As…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We study the dark excitons at the interface of sharp lateral heterostructure of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. By introducing a low-energy effective Hamiltonian model, we find the energy dispersion relation of exciton and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Hamidreza Simchi

Excitonic band structure is critical for investigating exciton dynamics. Theoretically, quantum effects from exchange scattering between electron-hole pairs significantly modulate exciton dispersion. Here, we report the direct observation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhibin Su , Junjian Mi , Shaohua Yan , Jiade Li , Siwei Xue , Zhiyu Tao , Enling Wang , Xiongfei Shi , Hechang Lei , Zhuan Xu , Jiandong Guo , Xuetao Zhu

Biased bilayer graphene (BBG) is a variable band gap semiconductor, with a strongly field-dependent band gap of up to $300 \, \text{meV}$, making it of particular interest for graphene-based nano-electronic and -photonic devices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Mikkel Ohm Sauer , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Because of the reduced dielectric screening and enhanced Coulomb interactions, two-dimensional (2D) materials like phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit strong excitonic effects, resulting in fascinating…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-04 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xian Zhang

Exciton-exciton interactions are key to understanding non-linear optical and transport phenomena in van der Waals heterobilayers, which emerged as versatile platforms to study correlated electronic states. We present a combined…

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…

Presence of excitons significantly influence the optoelectronic properties and potential applications of materials. Using combined theoretical and experimental tools, we investigate the absorption spectra of $d^0$ double perovskite oxides…

Understanding and controlling the way excitons propagate in solids is a key for tailoring materials with improved optoelectronic properties. A fundamental step in this direction is the determination of the exciton energy-momentum…

In this tutorial we introduce the reader to several theoretical methods of determining the exciton wave functions and the corresponding eigenenergies. The methods covered are either analytical, semi-analytical, or numeric. We make explicit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 M. F. C. Martins Quintela , J. C. G. Henriques , N. M. R. Peres

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

Binding energy calculation in two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial in determining their electronic and optical properties pertaining to enhanced Coulomb interactions between charge carriers due to quantum confinement and reduced…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. Ahmad , M. Zubair , O. Jalil , M. Q. Mehmood , U. Younis , X. Liu , K. W. Ang , L. K. Ang

In two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic metal-halide perovskites, the intrinsic optical lineshape reflects multiple excitons with distinct binding energies, each dressed differently by the hybrid lattice. Given this complexity, a…

We present a many-body theory for exciton-trion-polaritons in doped two-dimensional materials. Exciton-trion-polaritons are robust coherent hybrid excitations involving excitons, trions, and photons. Signatures of these polaritons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Farhan Rana , Okan Koksal , Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets , A. Nick Vamivakas , Christina Manolatou

Monolayer black and blue phosphorenes possess electronic and optical properties that result in unique features when the two materials are stacked. We devise a low-strain van-der-Waals double layer and investigate its properties with ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-29 Michele Re Fiorentin , Giancarlo Cicero , Maurizia Palummo

Optical excitations in hexagonal nanonetwork materials, for example, Boron-Nitride (BN) sheets and nanotubes, are investigated theoretically. A permanent electric dipole moment, whose direction is from the B site to the N site, is…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kikuo Harigaya