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Excitons without effective mass: biased bilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-30 v1

Abstract

Understanding the dynamics of excitons in two dimensional semiconductors requires a theory that incorporates the essential physics distinct from their three-dimensional counterparts. In addition to the modified dielectric environment, single-particle states with strongly non-parabolic dispersion appear in many two-dimensional band structures, so that "effective mass" is ill-defined. Focusing on electrostatically-biased bilayer graphene as an example where quartic (and higher) dispersion terms are necessary, we present a semi-analytic theory used to investigate the properties of ground and excited excitonic states. This includes determination of relative oscillator strengths and magnetic moments (g-factors) which can be directly compared to recent experimental measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09893,
  title  = {Excitons without effective mass: biased bilayer graphene},
  author = {Pengke Li and Ian Appelbaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09893},
  year   = {2019}
}

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