Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

G Wang, A Chernikov, MM Glazov, TF Heinz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Excited state properties of hybrid perovskites

M Saba, F Quochi, A Mura… - Accounts of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal halide perovskites have come to the attention of the scientific community
for the progress achieved in solar light conversion. Energy sustainability is one of the …

Bottleneck effects in the relaxation and photoluminescence of microcavity polaritons

F Tassone, C Piermarocchi, V Savona, A Quattropani… - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
A theoretical model for the investigation of the dynamics of microcavity polaritons in the
strong-coupling regime is proposed. The resulting photoluminescence dynamics at small …

The role of excitons in 3D and 2D lead halide perovskites

D Marongiu, M Saba, F Quochi, A Mura… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The success of lead halide perovskites as active materials in solar cells and light-emitting
diodes (LEDs) is often traced back to the unique properties of their optical excitations. At …

Theory of polariton parametric interactions in semiconductor microcavities

C Ciuti, P Schwendimann… - … science and technology, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We review some fascinating aspects of the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor
microcavities in the strong exciton–photon coupling regime. Our theoretical discussion is …

Polariton dynamics and Bose-Einstein condensation in semiconductor microcavities

D Porras, C Ciuti, JJ Baumberg, C Tejedor - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We present a theoretical model that allows us to describe the polariton dynamics in a
semiconductor microcavity at large densities, for the case of nonresonant excitation. Exciton …

Transient terahertz spectroscopy of excitons and unbound carriers in quasi-two-dimensional electron-hole gases

RA Kaindl, D Hägele, MA Carnahan, DS Chemla - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We report a comprehensive experimental study and detailed model analysis of the terahertz
dielectric response and density kinetics of excitons and unbound electron-hole pairs in …

The ultrafast onset of exciton formation in 2D semiconductors

C Trovatello, F Katsch, NJ Borys, M Selig, K Yao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation …

Microscopic theory of excitonic signatures in semiconductor photoluminescence

M Kira, F Jahnke, SW Koch - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
Luminescence in a quantum well is studied theoretically using a consistent quantum
description of light interacting with Coulomb correlated carriers. The buildup of excitonic …

Probing the dynamics of spontaneous quantum vortices in polariton superfluids

KG Lagoudakis, F Manni, B Pietka, M Wouters… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
The experimental investigation of spontaneously created vortices is of utmost importance for
the understanding of quantum phase transitions towards a superfluid phase, especially for …