Proximitized materials

I Žutić, A Matos-Abiague, B Scharf, H Dery… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality
together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to …

Dynamical screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides and its manifestations in the exciton spectrum

B Scharf, D Van Tuan, I Žutić… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (ML-TMDs) offer exciting opportunities to test
the manifestations of many-body interactions through changes in the charge density. The …

Efficient generation of neutral and charged biexcitons in encapsulated WSe2 monolayers

Z Ye, L Waldecker, EY Ma, D Rhodes, A Antony… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Higher-order correlated excitonic states arise from the mutual interactions of excitons, which
generally requires a significant exciton density and therefore high excitation levels. Here, we …

Dark and bright exciton formation, thermalization, and photoluminescence in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

M Selig, G Berghäuser, M Richter, R Bratschitsch… - 2D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The remarkably strong Coulomb interaction in atomically thin transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) results in an extraordinarily rich many-particle physics including the …

Electron-exciton interactions in the exciton-polaron problem

DK Efimkin, EK Laird, J Levinsen, MM Parish… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recently, it has been demonstrated that the absorption of moderately doped two-
dimensional semiconductors can be described in terms of exciton polarons. In this scenario …

Coulomb interaction in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides

D Van Tuan, M Yang, H Dery - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recently, the celebrated Rytova-Keldysh potential has been widely used to describe the
Coulomb interaction of few-body complexes in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides …

Biexciton fine structure in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

A Steinhoff, M Florian, A Singh, K Tran, M Kolarczik… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
The optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC)
semiconductors are shaped by the emergence of correlated many-body complexes due to …

Magnetic proximity effects in transition-metal dichalcogenides: converting excitons

B Scharf, G Xu, A Matos-Abiague, I Žutić - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
The two-dimensional character and reduced screening in monolayer transition-metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to the ubiquitous formation of robust excitons with binding …

Six-Body and Eight-Body Exciton States in Monolayer

D Van Tuan, SF Shi, X Xu, SA Crooker, H Dery - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
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 …

Breakdown of the static dielectric screening approximation of Coulomb interactions in atomically thin semiconductors

A Ben Mhenni, D Van Tuan, L Geilen, MM Petric… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Coulomb interactions in atomically thin materials are remarkably sensitive to variations in
the dielectric screening of the environment, which can be used to control exotic quantum …