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The optical spectra of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are dominated by tightly bound excitons and trions. In the low doping limit, trions are often described as three-body quasiparticles consisting of two electrons and one hole or vice…

Excitons in optoelectronic devices have been generated through optical excitation, external carrier injection, or employing pre-existing charges. Here, we reveal a new way to electrically generate excitons in transition metal…

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Atomically thin semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers exhibit a very strong Coulomb interaction, giving rise to a rich exciton landscape. This makes these materials highly attractive for efficient and…

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The degree of electronic coupling between individual layers in few-layer van der Waals heterostructures offers a route to engineer their magnetic, electronic, and optical functionalities. Using state-of-the-art first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Sijia Ke , Yusuf Shaidu , Jeffrey B. Neaton

van der Waals magnets are emerging as a promising material platform for electric field control of magnetism, offering a pathway towards the elimination of external magnetic fields from spintronic devices. A further step is the integration…

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Nonlinear optical phenomena are widely used for the study of semiconductor materials. The paper presents an overview of experimental and theoretical studies of excitons by the method of optical second and third harmonics generation in…

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Integrating semiconducting and magnetic materials could combine transistor-like operation with nonvolatility and enable architectures such as logic-in-memory. Here, we employ correlated electrical transport and scanning nitrogen-vacancy…

Magnon spintronics is a prosperous field that promises beyond-CMOS technology based on elementary excitations of the magnetic order that act as information carriers for future computational architectures. Unidirectional propagation of spin…

Subpicosecond laser excitation of ferromagnetic metals induces strongly nonequilibrium dynamics involving scattering and transport of electrons, phonons, and magnons. Widely used theoretical approaches, such as the three-temperature model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Luca Mikadze , Peter M. Oppeneer , Markus Weißenhofer

Spintronics is concerned with replacing charge current with current of spin, the electron's intrinsic angular momentum. In magnetic insulators, spin currents are carried by magnons, the quanta of spin-wave excitations on top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Toeno van der Sar , Rembert A. Duine , Bart van Wees

Excitons in two dimensional Ruddlesden Popper perovskites (RPPs) exhibit large and tunable binding energies, making them promising candidates for optoelectronic applications. In particular, long-range exciton energy transfer in these…

CrSBr is an air-stable 2D van der Waals semiconducting magnet with great technological promise, but its atomic-scale magnetic interactions -- crucial information for high-frequency switching -- are poorly understood. We present an…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-18 A. Scheie , M. Ziebel , D. G. Chica , Y. J. Bae , Xiaoping Wang , A. I. Kolesnikov , Xiaoyang Zhu , X. Roy

The optical properties of the layered magnet CrSBr are dominated by intralayer excitons: the antiferromagnetic order between the layers makes layer-to-layer charge hopping, and therefore interlayer excitons, spin-forbidden. An external…

We investigate emergent superconductivity and non-reciprocal transport (magnetochiral anisotropy, superconducting diode effect) at the heterointerface of two non-superconducting van der Waals (vdW) materials, the Dirac semimetal ZrTe$_2$…

After the first unequivocal demonstration of spin transport in graphene (Tombros et al., 2007), surprisingly at room temperature, it was quickly realized that this novel material was relevant for both fundamental spintronics and future…

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In this letter we explore how the microscopic dynamics of charge transfer (CT) excitons are influenced by the presence of an external magnetic field in disordered molecular semiconductors. This influence is driven by the dynamic interplay…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Chee Kong Lee , Liang Shi , Adam P. Willard

The exploration of spin configurations and magnetoresistance in van der Waals magnetic semiconductors, particularly in the realm of thin-layer structures, is of paramount significance for the development of two-dimensional spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Ziqi Liu , Yichang Sun , Chengfeng Zhu , Canyu Hong , Yuchen Gao , Zeyuan Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shiwei Wu , Zuxin Chen , Pingfan Gu , Yu Ye

Tightly bound excitons in monolayer semiconductors represent a versatile platform to study two-dimensional propagation of neutral quasiparticles. Their intrinsic properties, however, can be severely obscured by spatial energy fluctuations…

Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-16 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

The anti-Stoner excitations are a spin-flips in which, effectively, an electron is promoted from a minority to a majority spin state, i.e., complementary to Stoner excitations and spin-waves. Since their spectral power is negligible in…

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