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Exciton binding energies of hundreds of meV and strong light absorption in the optical frequency range make transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) promising for novel optoelectronic nanodevices. In particular, atomically thin TMDs can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Simon Ovesen , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Mikael Kuisma , Paul Erhart , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic

Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…

We develop a general theory for how an exciton in an atomically thin transition metal dichacogenide (TMD) monolayer couples to spin and charge correlations in an adjacent moire lattice created by a TMD bi-layer. Virtual tunneling of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Aleksi Julku , Shanshan Ding , Georg M. Bruun

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality and crystal symmetry. The family of semiconducting…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

We study the interface exciton at lateral type II heterojunctions of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), where the electron and hole prefer to stay at complementary sides of the junction. We find that the 1D interface exciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Ka Wai Lau , Calvin , Zhirui Gong , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

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

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. Forming van der Waals heterostructures by deterministically stacking individual…

Charge separated interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterobilayers are being explored for moir\'e exciton lattices and exciton condensates. The presence of permanent dipole moments and the poorly screened Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jue Wang , Qianhui Shi , En-Min Shih , Lin Zhou , Wenjing Wu , Yusong Bai , Daniel A. Rhodes , Katayun Barmak , James Hone , Cory R. Dean , X. -Y. Zhu

Interlayer excitons are bound states of electrons and holes confined in separate two-dimensional layers. Due to their repulsive dipolar interaction, interlayer excitons can form a correlated liquid. If another electron-hole bilayer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Chao Xu , Michael Fogler

In the last decade atomically thin 2D materials have emerged as a perfect platform for studying and tuning light-matter interaction and electronic properties in nanostructures. The optoelectronic properties in layered materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Roberto Rosati , Ioannis Paradisanos , Ermin Malic , Bernhard Urbaszek

Interlayer excitons (IXs), composed of electron and hole states localized in different layers, excel in bilayers composed of atomically thin van der Waals materials such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Brian D. Gerardot , Alexander W. Holleitner , Ursula Wurstbauer

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

We investigate the correction of interlayer exciton binding energy in transition metal dichalcogenides double layers arising from the exciton-optical phonon coupling using the method of Lee-Low-Pines unitary transformation. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zi-Wu Wang , Xi-Ying Dong , Run-Ze Li , Yao Xiao , Zhi-Qing Li

Exciton dissociation plays a crucial role in the performance of optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this work, we investigate the effect of an in-plane electric field on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Tao Zhu , Chenhang Zheng , Lei Xu , Ming Yang

Double layer systems where one layer has electrons and the holes are in a parallel layer a distance d away are expected to undergo excitonic condensation at low temperature. This excitonic condensate is traditionally described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-19 Christopher R. Jamell , Chang-hua Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

A four-band exciton Hamiltonian is constructed starting from the single-particle Dirac Hamiltonian for charge carriers in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The angular part of the exciton wave function can be separated from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 M. Van der Donck , F. M. Peeters

Heterostructures of two-dimensional materials offer a versatile platform to study light-matter interactions of electron and hole gases. By separating electron and hole layers with an insulator long-lived electron-hole bound states known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Jonathan Sanchez-Lopez , Ze-Xun Lin , Di Luo , Prineha narang

In bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, the twist angle between layers can be used to introduce a highly regular periodic potential modulation on a length scale that is large compared to the unit cell. In such…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-27 N. Götting , F. Lohof , C. Gies

The physics of excitons, electron-hole pairs that are bound together by their mutual Coulomb attraction, can to great extent be understood in the framework of the quantum-mechanical hydrogen model. This model has recently been challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Maxim Trushin , Mark Oliver Goerbig , Wolfgang Belzig