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Exciton effects on soliton and bipolaron lattice states are investigated using an electron-lattice Peierls model with long-range Coulomb interactions. The Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation and the single-excitation configuration-interaction…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kikuo Harigaya , Yukihiro Shimoi , Shuji Abe

Strongly interacting electrons in two-dimensional systems can spontaneously break translational symmetry, forming a periodic Wigner crystal. Although these crystals have been realized in several platforms, experimental studies of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 L. Wang , F. Menzel , F. Pichler , P. Knüppel , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Knap , T. Smoleński

Using Ewald's summation method we investigate collective electronic excitations (excitons) of ultracold atoms in parallel planar optical lattices including long range interactions. The exciton dispersion relation can then be suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

We approach the biexciton Schr\"{o}dinger equation not through the free-carrier basis as usually done, but through the free-exciton basis, exciton-exciton interactions being treated according to the recently developed composite boson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-16 Shiue-Yuan Shiau , Monique Combescot , Yia-Chung Chang

Bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors known as excitons are the subject of intense research due to their potential for optoelectronic devices and applications, especially in the realm of two-dimensional materials. While the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Peter A. Noordman , Lucas Maisel Licerán , Henk T. C. Stoof

Ultracold atoms uniformly filling an optical lattice can be treated like an artificial crystal. An implementation including the atomic occupation of a single excited atomic state can be represented by a two-component Bose-Hubbard model. Its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-31 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moir\'e excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed…

One of the challenges of excitonic materials is the accurate determination of the exciton binding energy and bandgap. The difficulty arises from the overlap of the discrete and continuous excitonic absorption at the band edge. Many…

The effects of long-range intermolecular interactions on characteristic features of soliton bound states, consisting of localized excitons and polaritons in molecular crystals interacting with a high-intensity optical field, are…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 E. Nji Nde Aboringong , Alain M. Dikandé

We present a many-body theory for exciton-trion-polaritons in doped two-dimensional materials. Exciton-trion-polaritons are robust coherent hybrid excitations involving excitons, trions, and photons. Signatures of these polaritons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Farhan Rana , Okan Koksal , Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets , A. Nick Vamivakas , Christina Manolatou

We theoretically investigate the corrections of exciton binding energy in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to the exciton-optical phonon coupling in the Fr$\ddot{o}$hlich interaction model by using the linear operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Zi-Wu Wang , Yao Xiao , Wei-Ping Li , Run-Ze Li , Zhi-Qing Li

The additional layer degree of freedom in trilayer moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides enables the emergence of novel excitonic species, such as quadrupolar excitons, which exhibit unique excitonic interactions and…

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, play a fundamental role in both optical excitation and correlated phenomena in solids. When an exciton interacts with other quasi-particles, few- and many-body excited states, such as trions,…

The peculiar crystal structure of one-dimensional molecular solids originates from packing of an array of molecules in which intermolecular interactions are dominantly dispersive, including hydrogen-bond, van der Waals and London-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 E. Nji Nde Aboringong , Alain M. Dikandé

The properties of energy spectrum of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are investigated using a multiband model. In the multiband model we use the excitonic Hamiltonian in the product base of the Dirac single-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Victor Zalipaev , Vladislav Kuidin

The strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials facilitates the formation of tightly bound excitons and charge-ordered phases of matter. A prominent example is the formation of a crystalline phase from free charges due to mutual Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Daniel Erkensten , Alexey Chernikov , Ermin Malic

Excitons are electron-hole pairs appearing below the band gap in insulators and semiconductors. They are vital to photovoltaics, but are hard to obtain with time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), since most standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Zeng-hui Yang , Carsten A. Ullrich

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 the many-body theory of dipolar exciton-polaritons in an optical microcavity in crossed transverse electric and in-plane magnetic fields. Even for relatively weak fields, we reveal the existence of two minima in the bare…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-01 Timofey V. Maximov , Igor L. Kurbakov , Nina S. Voronova , Yurii E. Lozovik

We theoretically investigated the coupling between the exciton internal and center-of-mass motions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides subjected to a periodic electrostatic potential. The coupling leads to the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Fujia Lu , Qianying Hu , Yang Xu , Hongyi Yu