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Layered van-der-Waals materials with hexagonal symmetry offer an extra degree of freedom to their electrons, the so called valley index or valley pseudospin. This quantity behaves conceptually like the electron spin and the term…

The polarization analysis of optical transitions in monolayer and bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides provides invaluable information on the spin and valley (pseudospin) degrees of freedom. To explain optical properties of a given…

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Spatially indirect excitons with displaced wavefunctions of electrons and holes play a pivotal role in a large portfolio of fascinating physical phenomena and emerging optoelectronic applications, such as valleytronics, exciton spin Hall…

The charge density wave phase transition of 1T-TiSe2 is studied by angle-resolved photoemission over a wide temperature range. An important chemical potential shift which strongly evolves with temperature is evidenced. In the framework of…

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Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) is a powerful spectroscopic method to measure the ultrafast electron dynamics directly in momentum-space. However, band gap materials with exceptional strong Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Dominik Christiansen , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic , Ralph Ernstorfer , Andreas Knorr

Excitons dominate the optical response of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Strong interactions produce peculiar excitonic complexes, which provide a testing ground for exciton and quantum many-body theories. Here, we report a hitherto…

The valley degree of freedom in atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides provides a natural binary index for information processing. Exciton-polaritons formed under strong light-matter coupling offer a promising route to overcome…

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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, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, are the fundamental excitations governing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. While optical signatures of excitons have been studied extensively, experimental access to the excitonic…

Excitons and their complexes govern optical-related behaviors in semiconductors. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we have elucidated the light-matter interaction mediated by quasi-steady excitonic complexes…

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Time-resolved, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES) is a one-particle spectroscopic technique that can probe excitons (two-particle excitations) in momentum space. We present an ab initio, time-domain GW approach to TR-ARPES…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Y. -H. Chan , Diana Y. Qiu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie

In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by their valley index. The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act as a useful information carrier analogous to electronic…

Electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons and condense in a semimetal or semiconductor, as predicted decades ago. This type of Bose condensation can happen at much higher temperatures in comparison with dilute atomic gases.…

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There are conflicting predictions and reports on the character of the exciton Mott transition (EMT) in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. It could be either a discontinuous or a continuous transition from the excitonic to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-27 Subhadra Mohapatra , Samuel Palato , Nicholas Olsen , Julia Stähler , Lukas Gierster

Excitons, quasiparticles of electrons and holes bound by Coulombic attraction, are created transiently by light and play an important role in optoelectronics, photovoltaics and photosynthesis. While they are also predicted to form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Keisuke Fukutani , Roland Stania , Chang Il Kwon , Jun Sung Kim , Ki Jeong Kong , Jaeyoung Kim , Han Woong Yeom

Excitons - the particle-hole bound states - composed of localized electron-hole states in semiconducting systems are crucial to explaining the optical spectrum. Spectroscopic measurements can contain signatures of these two particle bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Avinash Rustagi , Alexander F. Kemper

In the archetypal monolayer semiconductor WSe$_2$, the distinct ordering of spin-polarized valleys (low-energy pockets) in the conduction band allows for studies of not only simple neutral excitons and charged excitons (i.e., trions), but…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Dinh Van Tuan , Su-Fei Shi , Xiaodong Xu , Scott A. Crooker , Hanan Dery

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…

By enabling control of valley degrees of freedom in transition-metal dichalcogenides, valley-selective circular dichroism has become a key concept in valleytronics. In this manuscript, we show that valley excitons -- bound electron-hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Fabio Caruso , Maximilian Schebek , Yiming Pan , Cecilia Vona , Claudia Draxl

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…

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