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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 optical response of two-dimensional materials is often significantly impacted by excitonic effects due to the reduced screening of attractive Coulomb interactions in low-dimensional systems. Accurate modeling of exciton formation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Dmitry Tumakov , Daria Popova-Gorelova

Excitons, electron-hole pairs bound by the Coulomb potential, are fundamental quasiparticles of coherent light-matter interaction energizing processes from photosynthesis to optoelectronics. Excitons are observed in semiconductors, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xuefeng Cui , Cong Wang , Adam Argondizzo , Sean Garrett-Roe , Branko Gumhalter , Hrvoje Petek

The bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons govern the optical properties of insulating solids. While their behavior in equilibrium is well-understood theoretically, the nonequilibrium regime at high excitation densities-where phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pushpendra Yadav

Excitons -- two-particle correlated electron-hole pairs -- are the dominant low-energy optical excitation in the broad class of semiconductor materials, which range from classical silicon to perovskites, and from two-dimensional to organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Marcel Reutzel , G. S. Matthijs Jansen , Stefan Mathias

Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of 2D materials. However, their significance in the highly nonlinear optical response to intense mid-infrared light has often been overlooked. Using hBN as a prototypical example, we…

Excitons -- bound electron-hole pairs -- play a central role in light-matter interaction phenomena, and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and generation to quantum information processing. A long-standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jenny Hu , Etienne Lorchat , Xueqi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tony F. Heinz , Puneet A. Murthy , Thibault Chervy

Excitons govern the light-matter interaction in 2D gapped materials with intrinsically large binding energies. In spite of plentiful optical measurements in the visible for semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, we still lack…

Excitons, composite electron-hole quasiparticles, are known to play an important role in optoelectronic phenomena in many semiconducting materials. Recent experiments and theory indicate that the band-gap optics of the newly discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Yuri N. Gartstein , Xiao Li , Chuanwei Zhang

The robust spin and momentum valley locking of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors make the valley degree of freedom of great utility for functional optoelectronic devices. Owing to the difference in optical selection rules for the…

Because of the reduced dielectric screening and enhanced Coulomb interactions, two-dimensional (2D) materials like phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit strong excitonic effects, resulting in fascinating…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-04 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xian Zhang

An exciton, a two-body composite quasiparticle formed of an electron and hole, is a fundamental optical excitation in condensed-matter systems. Since its discovery nearly a century ago, a measurement of the excitonic wavefunction has…

Coherence transfer is a multi-disciplinary topic of interest, including chemistry, biology and physics. In quantum technologies, achieving non-local coherent coupling between solid-state qubits is of the utmost importance. Here, we…

Excitons -- elementary excitations formed by bound electron-hole pairs -- govern the optical properties and excited-state dynamics of materials. In two-dimensions (2D), excitons are theoretically predicted to have a linear energy-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Luna Y. Liu , Steffi Y. Woo , Jinyuan Wu , Bowen Hou , Cong Su , Diana Y. Qiu

When a semiconductor absorbs light, the resulting electron-hole superposition amounts to a uncontrolled quantum ripple that eventually degenerates into diffusion. If the conformation of these excitonic superpositions could be engineered,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiaoning Zang , Simone Montangero , Lincoln D. Carr , Mark T. Lusk

Excitons are bosonic quasiparticles with a variety of applications in optoelectronics, photosyn thesis, and dissipationless informatics, and their lifetime can become sufficiently long to form a quantum condensate. While exciton…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Siwon Lee , Kyung-Hwan Jin , SeongJin Kwon , Hyunjin Jung , Choongjae Won , Sang-Wook Cheong , Gil Young Cho , Jaeyoung Kim , Han Woong Yeom

Semiconductors in all dimensionalities ranging from 0D quantum dots and molecules to 3D bulk crystals support bound electron-hole pair quasiparticles termed as excitons. Over the past two decades, the emergence of a variety of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Surendra B. Anantharaman , Kiyoung Jo , Deep Jariwala

Excitons are key quasiparticles determining the optical properties of solids. As such, they can be utilized to coherently control the electronic structure of materials using optical femtosecond pulses. Identifying the decoherence mechanism…

The effectiveness of molecular-based light harvesting relies on transport of optical excitations, excitons, to charg-transfer sites. Measuring exciton migration has, however, been challenging because of the mismatch between nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Samuel B. Penwell , Lucas D. S. Ginsberg , Rodrigo Noriega , Naomi S. Ginsberg

Excitons are spin integer particles that are predicted to condense into a coherent quantum state at sufficiently low temperature, and exciton condensates can be realized at much higher temperature than condensates of atoms because of strong…

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