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Semi-metallic graphene and semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are the two-dimensional (2D) materials most intensively studied in recent years. Recently, black phosphorus emerged as a promising new 2D material…

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In this paper we develop a semi-analytical perturbation-theory approach to the calculation of the energy levels (binding energies) and wave functions of excitons in phosphorene. Our method gives both the exciton wave function in real and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 J. C. G. Henriques , N. M. R. Peres

A self-consistent scheme for the calculations of the interacting groundstate and the near bandgap optical spectra of mono- and multilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenide systems is presented. The approach combines a dielectric model for the…

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Starting from the rigorous quantum-field-theory formalism we derive a formula for the screened conductivity designed to study the coupling of light with elementary electron excitations and the ensuing electromagnatic modes in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Dino Novko , Keenan Lyon , Duncan J. Mowbray , Vito Despoja

Phosphorene is a two-dimensional (2D) material exhibiting strong in-plane structural anisotropy. In this work, we investigate the influence of structural anisotropy on the optics, dynamics, and transport of excitons in phosphorene by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Kai-Wei Chang , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Bartomeu Monserrat

Density functional theory calculations are performed on phosphorene quantum dots having different shapes and edge terminations to investigate their structure stability, electronic properties, and gas sensing ability. All the selected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Hazem Abdelsalam , Vasil A. Saroka , Waleed O. Younis

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…

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We present a computational approach for exciton calculations in two-dimensional (2D) materials within the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) framework, employing an atomistic description with point-like orbitals. Unlike widespread efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 P. Ninhos , A. J. Uría-Álvarez , C. Tserkezis , N. A. Mortensen , J. J. Palacios

We investigate phase-dependent electronic and excitonic phenomena in monolayer Y2TeO2 MOenes in the 1T and 2H polymorphs using first-principles theory and an effective many-body framework. Phonon spectra and elastic stability criteria…

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The electronic and optical properties of 2D hexagonal boron nitride are studied using first principle calculations. GW and BSE methods are employed in order to predict with better accuracy the excited and excitonic properties of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 F. Ferreira , A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , R. M. Ribeiro

The optical spectra of two-dimensional (2D) periodic systems provide a challenge for time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) because of the large excitonic effects in these materials. In this work we explore how accurately these…

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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…

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Based on extensive first principle calculations, we explore the thickness dependent effective di- electric constant and slab polarizability of few layer black phosphorene. We find that the dielectric constant in ultra-thin phosphorene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Piyush Kumar , B. S. Bhadoria , Sanjay Kumar , Somnath Bhowmick , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Amit Agarwal

We study the size-dependent exciton fine structure in monolayer black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) deposited on different substrates (isolated, Si and SiO$_2$) using a combination of tight-binding method to calculate the single-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 J. S. de Sousa , M. A. Lino , D. R. da Costa , A. Chaves , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias

In recent years, enhanced light-matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In graphene, electrically tunable and highly confined…

Phosphorene, a new elemental two dimensional (2D) material recently isolated by mechanical exfoliation, holds the feature of a direct band gap of around 2.0 eV, overcoming graphene's weaknesses (zero band gap) to realize the potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-07 Liujiang Zhou , Jin Zhang , Zhiwen Zhuo , Liangzhi Kou , Wei Ma , Bin Shao , Aijun Du , Sheng Meng , Thomas Frauenheim

In the context of two-dimensional metal-free photocatalyst, we investigate the electronic, optical and excitonic properties of phosphorene derivatives within first-principles approach. While two-dimensional phosphorene does not catalyze the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-26 Srilatha Arra , K. R. Ramaya , Rohit Babar , Mukul Kabir

Strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials provides unprecedented opportunities for studying many key issues of condensed matter physics, such as co-existence and mutual conversions of excitonic complexes, fundamental optical processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Zhen Wang , Hao Sun , Qiyao Zhang , Jiabin Feng , Jianxing Zhang , Yongzhuo Li , Cun-Zheng Ning

Recent advances in fabrication of two dimensional materials and their moir\'e heterostructures have opened up new avenues for realization of ground-state excitonic insulators, where the structure spontaneously develops a finite interlayer…

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