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Identifying materials hosting an excitonic insulator ground state has been one of the major pursuits in condensed matter physics in recent years. Promising candidates in transition metal chalcogenide compounds (TMC), including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yao Zeng , Shi-Cong Mo , Wéi Wú

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

Rich valleytronics and diverse defect-induced or interlayer pre-bandgap excitonics have been extensively studied in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), a system with fascinating optical physics. However, more intense high-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-02 Jinhua Hong , Masanori Koshino , Ryosuke Senga , Thomas Pichler , Hua Xu , Kazu Suenaga

Excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a novel platform for fundamental studies of many-body interactions. In particular, dipolar interactions between spatially indirect excitons may give rise to strongly correlated phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Rafał Ołdziejewski , Alessio Chiocchetta , Johannes Knörzer , Richard Schmidt

We develop a systematic theory for excitons subject to Fermi-Hubbard physics in moir\'e twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Specifically, we consider excitons in moir\'e systems for which the valence band is in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 T. -S. Huang , Yang-Zhi Chou , C. L. Baldwin , Fengcheng Wu , Mohammad Hafezi

The energy band structure of excitons is studied in periodic potentials produced by the short-range interaction between the exciton and electrons of Wigner or Moir\'{e} lattices. Treating the exciton as a point-like dipole that interacts…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

Bose-Fermi mixtures naturally appear in various physical systems. In semiconductor heterostructures, such mixtures can be realized, with bosons as excitons and fermions as dopant charges. However, the complexity of these hybrid systems…

It is shown that the three-fold rotational symmetry in transition metal dichalcogenides leads to a Coulomb induced renormalization of the effective electron and hole masses near the $K$-points of the Brillouin zone. The magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 T. Stroucken , J. Neuhaus , S. W. Koch

Among heavy-fermion metals, Ce$_3$Pd$_{20}$Si$_6$ is one of the heaviest-electron systems known to date. Here we used high-resolution neutron spectroscopy to observe low-energy magnetic scattering from a single crystal of this compound in…

The optical dielectric function of ZnGeN$_2$ is calculated from the interband transitions using the energy bands calculated in the quasiparticle self-consistent (QS)$G\hat W$ method using two different levels of approximation: the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ozan Dernek , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

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…

Twisted double bilayer graphene is a compensated semi-metal near the charge neutrality point with the presence of small electron and hole pockets in its band structure. We show that strong Coulomb attraction between the electrons and holes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Unmesh Ghorai , Ayan Ghosh , Anindya Das , Rajdeep Sensarma

Accurately described excitonic properties of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers (HBLs) are crucial to comprehend the optical response and the charge carrier dynamics of them. Excitons in multilayer systems posses inter or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 E. Torun , A. Molina-Sánchez , H. P. C. Miranda , L. Wirtz

In transition metal dichalcogenides layers of atomic scale thickness, the electron-hole Coulomb interaction potential is strongly influenced by the sharp discontinuity of the dielectric function across the layer plane. This feature results…

We study exciton energy spectrum and their propagation in moir\'e superlattices formed in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. In such structures, as a result of weak interlayer interaction, an effective, moir\'e, potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 A. M. Shentsev , M. M. Glazov

Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, are responsible for strong optical resonances near the bandgap in low-dimensional materials and wide-bandgap insulators. Although current ab initio methods can accurately determine exciton energies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Muralidhar Nalabothula , Davide Sangalli , Fulvio Paleari , Sven Reichardt , Ludger Wirtz

The bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons govern the optical properties of insulating solids. While their behavior in equilibrium is well-understood theoretically, the nonequilibrium regime at high excitation densities-where phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pushpendra Yadav

Moir\'e patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers have proven to be an ideal platform to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism, and correlated exciton physics. While the existence of novel…

We report on small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations which prove the formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) as prerequisite for spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in bilayer systems described by the extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-25 T. Kaneko , S. Ejima , H. Fehske , Y. Ohta

Exciton Mott transition in Si is investigated by using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The excitonic correlation as manifested by the 1s-2p resonance is observed above the Mott density. The scattering rate of charge carriers is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takeshi Suzuki , Ryo Shimano