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he properties of excitons formed in spherical quantum dots are studied using the $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ method within the Hartree approximation. The spherical quantum dots considered have a central core and several concentric layers of…

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Moir\'e potential acts as periodic quantum confinement for optically generated exciton, generating spatially ordered zero-dimensional quantum system. However, broad emission spectrum arising from inhomogeneity among moir\'e potential…

We theoretically study the optical properties and the electronic structure of highly elongated quantum dots (quantum dashes) and show how carrier trapping due to geometrical fluctuations of the confining potential affects the excitonic…

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In this paper, we derive the dynamical algebra of a particle confined in an infinite spherical well by using the $f$-deformed oscillator approach. We consider an exciton with definite angular momentum in a wide quantum dot interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 M. Bagheri Harouni , R. Roknizadeh , M. H. Naderi

A theory of the trion and biexciton in a nanowire (NW) in the framework of the effective-mass model using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is presented. We consider the formation of trions and biexcitons under the action of both the…

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We study possible optically excited bound states in monolayer MoS2: excitons and trions. For this purpose we formulate and apply a generalized time-dependent density-matrix functional approach for bound states of multiple excitations. The…

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Rotational excitation of polar molecules trapped in an optical lattice gives rise to rotational excitons. Here we show that non-linear interactions of such excitons can be controlled by an electric field. The exciton--exciton interactions…

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Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a 2D, wide band-gap semiconductor that has recently been shown to display bright room-temperature emission in the visible region, sparking immense interest in the material for use in quantum applications.…

The trapping of excitons in a semiconductor quantum well due to a circular symmetric nonhomogeneous magnetic field is studied. The effect of the spin state of the exciton on its trapping energy is analyzed, and the importance of the…

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We map the three-body problem in two dimensions onto one particle in a three dimensional potential treatable by a purposely-developed boundary-matching-matrix method. We evaluate binding energies of trions $X^{\pm}$, excitons bound by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bogdan Ganchev , Neil Drummond , Igor Aleiner , Vladimir Fal'ko

Excitons in one-dimensional narrow gap semiconductors of anti-crossing quantum Hall edge states are investigated using a bosonization method. The excitonic states are studied by mapping the problem into a non-integrable sine-Gordon type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Lee , S. -R. Eric Yang

Interaction induced topological states remain one of the fascinating phases in condensed matter physics. The exciton condensate has recently sparked renewed interest due to the discovery of new candidate materials and its driving force to…

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Recent experiments have demonstrated strong light-matter coupling between electromagnetic nanoresonators and pristine sheets of two-dimensional semiconductors, and it has been speculated whether these systems can enter the quantum regime…

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We study an impact of the fine structure of the heavy--hole ground state exciton confined in semiconductor quantum dots on the photoluminescence polarization dynamics solving the relevant system of the rate equations. The presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 E. Tsitsishvili , H. Kalt

The recent discovery of single-photon emitting defects hosted by the two-dimensional wide band gap semiconductor hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has inspired a great number of experiments. Key characteristics of these quantum emitters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Tobias Vogl , Marcus W. Doherty , Ben C. Buchler , Yuerui Lu , Ping Koy Lam

Excitons in alloyed nanowire quantum dots have unique spectra as shown here using atomistic calculations. The bright exciton splitting is triggered solely by alloying and despite cylindrical quantum dot shape reaches over $15~\mu$eV,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Michał Zieliński

We show that the optical absorption spectra of boron nitride (BN) nanotubes are dominated by strongly bound excitons. Our first-principles calculations indicate that the binding energy for the first and dominant excitonic peak depends…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-07 Ludger Wirtz , Andrea Marini , Angel Rubio

The calculated quasiparticle band structure of bulk hexagonal boron nitride using the all-electron GW approximation shows that this compound is an indirect-band-gap semiconductor. The solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Arnaud , S. Lebègue , P. Rabiller , M. Alouani

The recent discovery of exciton quantum emitters in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has triggered renewed interest of localized excitons in low-dimensional systems. Open questions remain about the microscopic origin previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Gabriella D. Shepard , Obafunso Ajayi , Xiangzhi Li , X. -Y. Zhu , James Hone , Stefan Strauf