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Excitonic effects play a particularly important role in the optoelectronic behavior of two-dimensional semiconductors. To facilitate the interpretation of experimental photoabsorption and photoluminescence spectra we provide (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 E. Mostaani , M. Szyniszewski , C. H. Price , R. Maezono , M. Danovich , R. J. Hunt , N. D. Drummond , V. I. Fal'ko

We propose a way to increase the lifetime of two-dimensional direct excitons and show the possibility to observe their macroscopically coherent state at high temperatures. For a single GaAs quantum well embedded in photonic layered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Nina S. Voronova , Igor L. Kurbakov , Yurii E. Lozovik

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…

The present paper is devoted to comprehensive theoretical studies of exction-polariton quantum fluids specificities in the optics of their utilization for quantum turbulence research. We show that a non-trivial implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 R. Ferrini , S. V. Koniakhin

Exciton transport is fundamental for understanding transport phenomena in bosonic systems and for exploring excitation energy transfer in materials. Spatially indirect excitons (IXs) are composed of electrons and holes in separated layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhiwen Zhou , W. J. Brunner , E. A. Szwed , H. Henstridge , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy has revealed a novel, highly efficient two-photon excitation method to produce a cold, uniformly distributed high density excitonic gas in bulk cuprous oxide. A study of the time evolution of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Karpinska , M. Mostovoy , M. A. van der Vegte , A. Revcolevschi , P. H. M. van Loosdrecht

We study the exciton gas-liquid transition in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells. Below a critical temperature, Tc=4.8K, and above a threshold laser power density the system undergoes a phase transition into a liquid state. We determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Subhradeep Misra , Michael Stern , Arjun Joshua , Vladimir Umansky , Israel Bar-Joseph

We investigate the diffusion process of negatively charged excitons (trions) in WSe2 transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer. We measure time-resolved photoluminescence spatial profiles of these excitonic complexes which exhibit a…

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

The time-resolved angle-resolved photoemission spectra of WSe$_2$, a paradigmatic transition metal dichalcogenide, are dominated by a transient signal that, after being initially observed in the gap at the K valley, scatters, on an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Kai Wu , Michele Puppin , Andrea Marini

We study the exciton magnetic polaron (EMP) formation in (Cd,Mn)Se/(Cd,Mg)Se diluted-magnetic-semiconductor quantum wells using time-resolved photoluminescence (PL). The magnetic field and temperature dependencies of this dynamics allow us…

We study dynamics of incoherent exciton formation under interband photoexcitation in Cu$_2$O using time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy at 90 K. Hot electrons injected by allowed optical transitions with 3.40-eV photons show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 H. Tanimura , K. Tanimura , P. H. M. van Loosdrecht

We present an exciton/lattice model of the electronic dynamics of primary photoexcitations in a polymeric semiconductor heterojunction which includes both polymer pi-stacking, energetic disorder, and phonon relaxation. Results from our…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-26 Eric R. Bittner , Carlos Silva

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) absorb a large fraction of incident photons in the visible frequencies despite being atomically thin. It has been suggested that the strong absorption is…

Hyperspectral imaging at cryogenic temperatures is used to investigate exciton and trion propagation in MoSe$_2$ monolayers encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Under a tightly focused, continuous-wave laser excitation, the…

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…

We calculate, as a function of temperature and conduction band electron density, the optical absorption of a weakly n-doped, idealized semiconductor quantum well. In particular, we focus on the absorption band due to the formation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 F. X. Bronold

We use optical pump--THz probe spectroscopy at low temperatures to study the hot carrier response in thin Bi$_2$Se$_3$ films of several thicknesses, allowing us to separate the bulk from the surface transient response. We find that for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Valdés Aguilar , J. Qi , M. Brahlek , N. Bansal , A. Azad , J. Bowlan , S. Oh , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar , D. A. Yarotski

We study excitonic polariton relaxation and propagation in bulk CdZnTe using time- resolved photoluminescence and time-of-flight techniques. Propagation of picosecond optical pulses through 0.745 mm thick crystal results in time delays up…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Godde , I. A. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , H. Mariette , M. Bayer

The interaction between off-resonant laser pulses and excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is attracting increasing interest as a route for the valley-selective coherent control of the exciton properties. Here, we extend…