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We investigate low energy excitons in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN/R5G/hBN), focusing on the regime at the experimental twist angle $\theta = 0.77^\circ$ and with an applied electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Henry Davenport , Frank Schindler , Johannes Knolle

Reduced electron screening in two-dimension plays a fundamental role in determining exciton properties, which dictates optoelectronic and photonic device performances. Considering the explicit electron-hole interaction within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Srilatha Arra , Rohit Babar , Mukul Kabir

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a 2D, wide band-gap semiconductor that has recently been shown to display bright room-temperature emission in the visible region, sparking immense interest in the material for use in quantum applications.…

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

Two-dimensional (2D) monolayer phosphorene, a 2D system with quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) excitons, provides a unique 2D platform for investigating the dynamics of excitons in reduced dimensions and fundamental many-body interactions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Renjing Xu , Jiong Yang , Ye Win Myint , Jiajie Pei , Han Yan , Fan Wang , Yuerui Lu

We present an \textit{ab initio} method to calculate phonon-assisted absorption and emission spectra in the presence of strong excitonic effects. We apply the method to bulk hexagonal BN which has an indirect band gap and is known for its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Fulvio Paleari , Henrique P. C. Miranda , Alejandro Molina-Sánchez , Ludger Wirtz

Strong Coulomb interactions in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) result in the emergence of strongly bound excitons, trions and biexcitons. These excitonic complexes possess the valley degree of freedom, which can be…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is attracting a lot of attention in the last years, thanks to its many remarkable properties. These include the presence of single-photon emitters with superior optical properties, which make it an ideal…

We present a microscopic theory of neutral excitons and charged excitons (trions) in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, including molybdenum disulfide. Our theory is based on an effective mass model of excitons and trions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-12 Timothy C. Berkelbach , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

Excitons govern the light-matter interaction in 2D gapped materials with intrinsically large binding energies. In spite of plentiful optical measurements in the visible for semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, we still lack…

Substrates have strong effects on optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, which have emerged as promising platforms for exotic physical phenomena and outstanding applications. To reliably interpret experimental results…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 Chunhao Guo , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping

The anisotropic nature of the new two-dimensional (2D) material phosphorene, in contrast to other 2D materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors, allows excitons to be confined in a…

Wannier-Mott excitons in a semiconductor layered superlattice (SL) of period much smaller than the 2D exciton Bohr radius in the presence of a longitudinal external dc electric field directed parallel to the SL axis are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 B. S. Monozon , P. Schmelcher

Excitons in 2D material bubbles-nanoscale deformations in atomically thin materials, typically exhibiting a dome-like shape-are confined by the strain effect, exhibiting extraordinary emission properties, such as single photon generation,…

The optical response of two-dimensional materials is often significantly impacted by excitonic effects due to the reduced screening of attractive Coulomb interactions in low-dimensional systems. Accurate modeling of exciton formation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Dmitry Tumakov , Daria Popova-Gorelova

Excitons are vital in the photophysics of materials, especially in low-dimensional systems. The conceptual and quantitative understanding of excitonic effects in nonlinear optical (NLO) processes is more challenging compared to linear ones.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiawei Ruan , Y. -H. Chan , Steven G. Louie

Monolayer phosphorene provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) platform to investigate the fundamental dynamics of excitons and trions (charged excitons) in reduced dimensions. However, owing to its high instability, unambiguous…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-30 Jiong Yang , Renjing Xu , Jiajie Pei , Ye Win Myint , Fan Wang , Zhu Wang , Shuang Zhang , Zongfu Yu , Yuerui Lu

Exciton-phonon interactions play a central role in defining the optical response of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), yet their quantitative determination has remained incomplete. Here, we reveal the Fr\"ohlich-type exciton-phonon coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ioannis Chatzakis , Timur Abdilov , Elliot Walker , Jaime Freitas , Song Liu , James H. Edgar

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

Polaritons in 2D and van der Waals (vdW) materials have been investigated in several recent works as an innovative platform for light-matter interaction, rich of new physical phenomena.Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN), in particular, is an…