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We studied the possibility of exciton condensation in Mott insulating bilayers. In these strongly correlated systems an exciton is the bound state of a double occupied and empty site. In the strong coupling limit the exciton acts as a…
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We study the localization of dressed Dirac electrons in a cylindrical quantum dot (QD) formed on monolayer and bilayer graphene by spatially different potential profiles. Short lived excitonic states which are too broad to be resolved in…
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We present a full configuration interaction study of the spontaneous recombination of neutral and singly charged excitons (trions) in semiconductor quantum dots, from weak to strong coupling regimes. We find that the enhancement of the…
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Entanglement of excitons holds great promise for the future of quantum computing, which would use individual molecular dyes as building blocks of their circuitry. Even though entangled excitonic eigenstates emerging in coupled molecular…
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