Predicting exciton binding energies from ground-state properties

M Grunert, M Großmann, E Runge - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We systematically investigate the correlations between exciton binding energies and various
easily calculated ground-state properties (“predictors”) that have been proposed to correlate …

Rearrangement collision theory of phonon-driven exciton dissociation

CJN Coveney, JB Haber, AM Alvertis, JB Neaton… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Understanding the processes governing the dissociation of excitons to free charge carriers
in semiconductors and insulators is of central importance for photovoltaic applications …

Self-Trapped Excitons in Metal-Halide Perovskites Investigated by Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Y **, M Rusishvili, M Govoni… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We present a theoretical study of the formation of self-trapped excitons (STEs) and the
associated broadband emission in metal–halide perovskites Cs4SnBr6 and Cs2AgInCl6 …

Physical origin and control of exciton spatial localization in high-κ MOene monolayers under external perturbations

A Kishore, H Seksaria, A De Sarkar - Journal of Physics …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials hold great promise for the next-generation
optoelectronics applications, many of which, including solar cell, rely on the efficient …

Phonon-mediated renormalization of exciton energies and absorption spectra in polar semiconductors

M Schebek, P Pavone, C Draxl… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the influence of vibrational screening on the excitonic and optical properties
of solids based on first-principles electronic-structure calculations. We solve the Bethe …

Phonon screening of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors

W Lee, AM Alvertis, Z Li, SG Louie, MR Filip… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Atomically thin semiconductors, encompassing both 2D materials and quantum wells,
exhibit a pronounced enhancement of excitonic effects due to geometric confinement …

Theory of ab initio downfolding with arbitrary range electron-phonon coupling

NM Tubman, CJN Coveney, CE Hsu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Ab initio downfolding describes the electronic structure of materials within a low-energy
subspace, often around the Fermi level. Typically starting from mean-field calculations, this …