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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…

We combine electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to study the dispersion and effective mass of excitons in the bulk of WSe$_2$. Our EELS data suggest substantial deviations from the…

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The theory of exciton spectrum in multi-shell hexagonal semiconductor nanotube is developed within the effective masses and rectangular potentials approximations using the method of effective potential. It is shown that the exciton binding…

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The competing ground states of bilayer graphene are studied by applying renormalization group techniques to a bilayer honeycomb lattice with nearest neighbor hopping. In the absence of interactions, the Fermi surface of this model at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 Kok Wee Song , Yung-Ching Liang , Stephan Haas

We study superfluid behavior of a gas of spatially indirect magnetoexcitons with reference to a system of two graphene layers embedded in a multilayer dielectric structure. The system is considered as an alternative of a double quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. A. Pikalov , D. V. Fil

We show theoretically that excitons can form from spatially separated one-dimensional ground state populations of electrons and holes, and that the resulting excitons can form a quasicondensate. We describe a mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 D. S. L. Abergel

Several problems in mathematical physics relating to excitons in two dimensions are considered. First, a fascinating numerical result from a theoretical treatment of screened excitons stimulates a re-evaluation of the familiar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. G. W. Parfitt , M. E. Portnoi

The excitations in graphene and some other materials are described by two-dimensional massless Dirac equation with applied external potential of some kind. Solutions of this zero energy equation are built analytically for a wide class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

Excitons in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2L-TMDs) are Coulomb-bound electron/hole pairs that can be viewed as broadly tunable analogs of atomic or molecular systems. Here, we study the properties of 2L-TMD excitons under strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 S. Kovalchuk , K. Greben , A. Kumar , S. Pessel , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Christiansen , M. Selig , A. Knorr , K. I. Bolotin

We show how two different mobile-immobile type models explain the observation of negative diffusion of excitons reported in experimental studies in quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor systems. The main reason for the effect is the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Alerksandr A. Kurilovich , Vladimir N. Mantsevich , Aleksey V. Chechkin , Vladimir V. Palyulin

Artificial molecular states of double quantum dots defined in bilayer graphene are studied with the atomistic tight-binding and its low-energy continuum approximation. We indicate that the extended electron wave functions have opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

Understanding the wave transport and localisation is a major goal in the study of lattices of different nature. In general, inhibiting the energy transport on a perfectly periodic and disorder-free system is challenging, however, some…

Collective excitations of charged particles under the influence of an electromagnetic field give rise to a rich variety of hybrid light-matter quasiparticles with unique properties. In metals, intraband collective response manifested by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Tomer Eini , M. F. C. Martins Quintela , J. C. G. Henriques , R. M. Ribeiro , Yarden Mazor , N. M. R. Peres , Itai Epstein

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Magnetotransport of conventional semiconductor based double layer systems with barrier suppressed interlayer tunneling has been a rewarding subject due to the emergence of an interlayer coherent state that behaves as an excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Dohun Kim , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen H. Smet , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

We have investigated, using effective mass approach (EMA), magnetic properties of a one-dimensional electron gas in graphene armchair ribbons when the electrons of occupy only the lowest conduction subband. We find that magnetic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Lee , S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang

An indirect exciton is a bound state of an electron and a hole in spatially separated layers. Two-dimensional indirect excitons can be created optically in heterostructures containing double quantum wells or atomically thin semiconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chao Xu , J. R. Leonard , C. J. Dorow , L. V. Butov , M. M. Fogler , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young

Electron transport in bilayer graphene is studied by using a first principles analysis and theMonte Carlo simulation under conditions relevant to potential applications. While the intrinsic properties are found to be much less desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 X. Li , K. M. Borysenko , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Metal monochalcogenide GaSe is a classic layered semiconductor that has received increasing research interest due to its highly tunable electronic and optical properties for ultrathin electronics applications. Despite intense research…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-14 Fanhao Jia , Zhao Tang , Greis J. Cruz , Weiwei Gao , Shaowen Xu , Wei Ren , Peihong Zhang

By means of analytical calculations and numerical simulations we study the diffusion properties in quasi-two-dimensional structures with two exciton subsystems with an exchange between them. The experimental realisation is possible in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Oluwafemi P. Adejumobi , Vladimir N. Mantsevich , Vladimir V. Palyulin