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Spectral ordering between dark and bright excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides is of increasing interest for optoelectronic applications. However, little is known about dark exciton energies and their binding energies. We report the…
Excitonic effects in metals are commonly supposed to be weak, because the Coulomb interaction is strongly screened. We investigate the low-density regime of the homogeneous electron gas, where low-energy collective excitations and ghost…
High-energy optical transitions in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides exhibit characteristics that are markedly distinct from those of lower-lying band-edge excitons. These differences arise from the involvement of electronic states…
Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…
We demonstrate the reduction of the inhomogeneous linewidth of the free excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MoSe$_{2}$, WSe$_{2}$ and MoS$_{2}$ by encapsulation within few nanometer thick hBN. Encapsulation…
In bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, the twist angle between layers can be used to introduce a highly regular periodic potential modulation on a length scale that is large compared to the unit cell. In such…
Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, govern the optical properties of semi-conducting transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$ and WSe$_2$. We study optical transitions at the K-point for 2H homobilayer MoS$_2$ in Density…
Excitons, namely neutral excitations in a system of electrons arising from the electron-hole interaction, are often essential to explain optical measurements in materials. They are governed by the Bethe-Salpeter equation, which can be cast…
Bounded excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers lead to numerous opto-electronic applications, which require a detailed understanding of the exciton dynamics. The dynamical properties of excitons with finite momentum…
In order to discuss the exciton fine-structure of transition-metal dichalcogenides mono-layers, excitons are first defined in the subspace of electron- and hole states, including the lowest conduction band (LCB) and the uppermost valence…
Exciton dissociation via the excitonic Mott transition (EMT) governs the high-density optical response of semiconductors and sets fundamental limits for optoelectronic devices. The EMT is conventionally linked to the onset of population…
Van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides provide a unique platform to engineer optoelectronic devices tuning their optical properties via stacking, twisting, or straining. Using ab initio Many-Body…
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…
Excitons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) acquire a spin-like quantum number, a pseudospin, originating from the crystal's discrete rotational symmetry. Here, we break this symmetry using a tunable uniaxial strain, effectively…
The moir\'e pattern observed in stacked non-commensurate crystal lattices, such as hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, produces a periodic modulation of their bandgap. Excitons subjected to this potential landscape exhibit…
Excitons in thin layers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are highly subject to the strongly modified Coulomb electron-hole interaction in these materials. Therefore, they do not follow the model system of a two-dimensional…
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…
The strange metal phase is characteristic for the $T$-linear dc resistivity behaviour over a large $T$-range. The effect of the strength of the charge-paramagnon interactions on the charge fluctuations in optimally doped and underdoped…
Excitons are two-particle correlated bound states that are formed due to Coulomb interaction between single-particle holes and electrons. In the solid-state, cooperative interactions with surrounding quasiparticles can strongly tailor the…
Many of the fundamental optical and electronic properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by strong Coulomb interactions between electrons and holes, forming tightly bound atom-like excitons. Here, we…