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The dependence of the excitonic two-photon absorption on the quantum correlations (entanglement) of exciting biphotons by a semiconductor quantum well is studied. We show that entangled photon absorption can display very unusual features…
We propose a physical principle for implementation of controllable interactions of identical electromagnetic bosons (excitons or polaritons) in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. The key ingredients are tightly bound biexcitons and…
We theoretically analyze a quasi-two-dimensional system of fermionic polar molecules in a harmonic transverse confining potential. The renormalized energy bands are calculated by solving the Hartree-Fock equation numerically for various…
The exciton relaxation dynamics of photoexcited electronic states in poly($p$-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) are theoretically investigated within a coarse-grained model, in which both the exciton and nuclear degrees of freedom are treated…
In molecular crystals like MePTCDI and PTCDA the molecule are regularly arranged creating quasi-one-dimensional molecular stacks. The intermolecular distance in a stack (about 3.3 A) is comparable with the electron--hole distance in the…
In this paper we consider the essential electronic excited states in parallel chains of semiconducting polymers that are currently being explored for photovoltaic and light-emitting diode applications. In particular, we focus upon various…
Organic semiconducting polymers are currently of broad interest as potential low-cost materials for photovoltaic and light-emitting display applications. I will give an overview of our work in developing a consistent quantum dynamical…
We analyze the many-particle correlations that affect the optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductors. These correlations manifest themselves through the specific optical resonances such as excitons, trions, etc. Starting from the…
The properties of semiflexible polymers tethered by one end to an impenetrable wall and exposed to oscillatory shear flow are investigated by mesoscale simulations. A polymer, confined in two dimensions, is described by a linear bead-spring…
Exciton-exciton interactions are key to understanding non-linear optical and transport phenomena in van der Waals heterobilayers, which emerged as versatile platforms to study correlated electronic states. We present a combined…
We present a theoretical study of photo-absorption in n-doped two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-2D semiconductors that takes into account the interaction of the photocreated exciton with Fermi-sea (FS) electrons through (i) Pauli blocking,…
The nature of the primary photoexcitations in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (S-SWCNTs) is of strong current interest. We have studied the emission spectra of S-SWCNTs and two different $\pi$-conjugated polymers in solutions…
Recent optical studies of monolayer transition metal dechalcogenides have demonstrated that their excitonic absorption feature splits into two widely separated peaks at finite carrier densities. The additional peak is usually attributed to…
The concept of \textit{optical} exciton - a photo-excited bound electron-hole pair within a crystal - is routinely used to interpret and model a wealth of excited-state phenomena in semiconductors. Beside originating sub-band gap signatures…
We propose a simple first-principles method to describe propagation of tightly bound excitons. By viewing the exciton as a composite object (an effective Frenkel exciton in Wannier orbitals), we define an exciton kinetic kernel to…
Excitons are compound particles formed from an electron and a hole in semiconductors. The impact of this substructure on the phonon-exciton interaction is described by a closed system of microscopic scattering equations. To calculate the…
Excitons with large binding energies $\sim$2-3 eV in CrX$_{3}$ are historically characterized as being localized (Frenkel) excitons that emerge from the atomic $d{-}d$ transitions between the Cr-3$d$-$t_{2g}$ and $e_{g}$ orbitals. The…
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…
In this work we study theoretically the axial spectral asymmetry of a 1D periodic multilayer systems composed by hybrid two-layers (isotropic/anisotropic) and for photon energies close to the electronic energy gaps of semiconductors…
We analyze the effects of intersite energy correlations on the linear optical properties of one-dimensional disordered Frenkel exciton systems. The absorption line width and the factor of radiative rate enhancement are studied as a function…