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The two-dimensional character and reduced screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to the ubiquitous formation of robust excitons with binding energies orders of magnitude larger than in bulk semiconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Benedikt Scharf , Gaofeng Xu , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

Exciton condensation, the Bose-Einstein-like condensation of quasibosonic particle-hole pairs, has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental interest and holds promise for ultra-energy-efficient technologies. Recent advances in…

We study the theory of itinerant-hole photoluminescence of two-dimensional electron systems in the regime of the magnetically induced Wigner crystal. We show that the exciton recombination transition develops structure related to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. R. Cooper

Integrating two-dimensional van der Waals materials with optical cavities has revealed a fascinating platform to study exciton-polariton physics. Manipulating exciton polaritons often requires external control over the electrical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Zhi Wang , Li He , Bumho Kim , Bo Zhen

Excitons -- quasiparticles formed by the binding of an electron and a hole through electrostatic attraction -- hold promise in the fields of quantum light confinement and optoelectronic sensing. Atomically thin transition metal…

Semiconducting MXenes are an intriguing two-dimensional (2D) material class with promising electronic and optoelectronic properties. Here, we focused on recently prepared Hf-based MXenes, namely Hf$_3$C$_2$O$_2$ and Hf$_2$CO$_2$. Using the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-03 Nilesh Kumar , Miroslav Kolos , Sitangshu Bhattacharya , František Karlický

Excitonic insulators (EI) arise from the formation of bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors and provide a solid-state platform for quantum many-boson physics. Strong exciton-exciton repulsion is expected to stabilize…

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

About a year ago, two independent experiments [1,2], imaging indirect exciton luminescence from doped double quantum wells under applied bias and optical excitation, reported a very intriguing observation: under certain experimental…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Rapaport , Gang Chen , D. Snoke , Steve H. Simon , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West , Y. Liu , S. Denev , .

Excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising platform for novel applications ranging from optoelectronic devices to quantum optics and solid state quantum simulators. While much progress has been made…

We theoretically investigate exciton-polaritons in a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructure, where a static magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane. To explore the interplay between magnetic field and a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Emma Laird , Francesca M. Marchetti , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Meera M. Parish , Jesper Levinsen

Light emission from higher-order correlated excitonic states has been recently reported in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe2 and WS2 upon optical excitation. These exciton complexes are found to be bound states of excitons residing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Matthias Paur , Aday J. Molina-Mendoza , Rudolf Bratschitsch , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Thomas Mueller

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

Controlling excitons and their transport in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) heterostructures is central to advancing photonics and electronics on-chip integration. We investigate the controlled generation and…

Resolving the early-stage dynamics of exciton formation following non-resonant photoexcitation in time, energy, and momentum is quite challenging due to their inherently fast timescales and the proximity of the excitonic state to the bottom…

Two-dimensional semiconductors exhibit pronounced many-body effects and intense optical responses due to strong coulombic interactions. Consequently, subtle differences in photoexcitation conditions can strongly influence how the material…

Bilayer electron-hole systems, where the electrons and holes are created via doping and confined to separate layers, undergo excitonic condensation when the distance between the layers is smaller than typical distance between particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander V. Balatsky , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Peter B. Littlewood

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Raul Perea-Causin , Daniel Erkensten , Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Roberto Rosati , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Two-dimensional excitons formed in quantum materials such as monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides and their strong light-matter interaction have attracted unrivalled attention by the research community due to their extraordinarily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Lorenz Maximilian Schneider , Shanece Esdaille , Daniel Rhodes , Katayun Barmak , James Hone , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (1L-TMDs) have tremendous potential as atomically thin, direct bandgap semiconductors that can be used as convenient building blocks for quantum photonic devices. However, the short exciton…