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A theoretical study of the exciton binding energy in the two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride monolayer is presented within the tight-binding approximation (TBA). A self-consistent equation for the interband electron-hole propagators is…
We have evaluated hyperfine-induced electron spin dynamics for two electrons confined to a double quantum dot. Our quantum solution accounts for decay of a singlet-triplet correlator even in the presence of a fully static nuclear spin…
The most popular 3-dimensional reduction of the Bethe-Salpeter formalism for the description of bound states within quantum field theory is the Salpeter equation, found as the instantaneous limit of the Bethe-Salpeter framework if allowing,…
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…
The formation and disassociation of excitons plays a crucial role in any photovoltaic or photocatalytic application. However, excitonic effects are seldom considered in materials discovery studies due to the monumental computational cost…
We present a theoretical approach to calculate the {\it local} absorption spectrum of excitons confined in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using the density-matrix formalism, we derive a microscopic expression for the non-local…
The solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation within the framework of many-body perturbation theory has turned out to be a benchmark for ab-initio calculations of optical properties of semiconductors and insulators. Commonly, however, the…
The Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is the workhorse method to study excitons in materials. The BSE Hamiltonian size, which depends on how many valence-to-conduction band transitions are considered, needs to be chosen to be sufficiently large…
Exciton-surface plasmon coupling is at the heart of the most elementary light-matter interactions and is a result of not only an intrinsic property of the emitter but that of emitter-environment interaction. Thus, change of electromagnetic…
We present a theory of polarized photoluminescence of triplet excitons in semiconductor nanocrystal ensembles with the random fine structure contributed by the electron-hole exchange and carrier-nuclear hyperfine interactions. The…
By means of cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) we study how short-range correlations drive the breakdown of the self-consistent perturbation theory in two-dimensional systems and the most relevant physical consequences associated…
S-doped graphyne (S-GY) is a recently synthesized two-dimensional graphyne-based carbon allotrope that provides a promising platform for exciton engineering and coherent many-body phases. Here, we investigate the quasiparticle electronic…
We present a self-consistent Maxwell-Bloch theory to analytically study the interaction between a nanostructure consisting of a metal nanoparticle and a monolayer of transition metal dichalcogenide. For the combined system, we identify an…
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…
Treating the trion problem as an effective two-body system with exciton and electron components, we identify component exchange as the reason leading to trion formation. This mechanism can be visualized as a hole that toggles back and forth…
Stimulated by the still puzzling competition between spin-singlet and spin-triplet pairing in nuclei, the 3SD1 neutron-proton pairing is investigated in the framework of BCS theory of nuclear matter. The medium polarization effects are…
From organic electronics to biological systems, understanding the role of intermolecular interactions between spin pairs is a key challenge. Here we show how such pairs can be selectively addressed with combined spin and optical…
We derive a rigorous theory of the interaction between photons and spatially extended excitons confined in quantum dots in inhomogeneous photonic materials. We show that, beyond the dipole approximation, the radiative decay rate is…
Coupling degrees of freedom of distinct nature plays a critical role in numerous physical phenomena. The recent emergence of layered materials provides a laboratory for studying the interplay between internal quantum degrees of freedom of…
The electronic structure of the three-particle donor bound exciton (D$^0$X) in silicon is computed using a large-scale atomic orbital tight-binding method within the Hartree approximation. The calculations yield a transition energy close to…