Subcycle dynamics of excitons under strong laser fields

EB Molinero, B Amorim, M Malakhov, G Cistaro… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of two-dimensional (2D) materials.
However, their role in the nonlinear response to intense, nonresonant, low-frequency light is …

The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids

SM Cavaletto, KM Kowalczyk, FO Navarrete… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The ultrafast dynamics of electrons in solid-state systems have garnered considerable
attention recently, driven by technological advancements in the generation of short laser …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient computation of optical excitations in two-dimensional materials with the Xatu code

AJ Uría-Álvarez, JJ Esteve-Paredes… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Here we describe an efficient numerical implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation to
obtain the excitonic spectrum of semiconductors. This is done on the electronic structure …

The Wannier-Functions Software Ecosystem for Materials Simulations

A Marrazzo, S Beck, ER Margine, N Marzari… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the last two decades, following the early developments on maximally-localized
Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software …

Detection of a Coherent Excitonic State in the Layered Semiconductor BiI3

V Gosetti, J Cervantes-Villanueva, D Sangalli… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The measurement and manipulation of the coherent dynamics of excitonic states constitute a
forefront research challenge in semiconductor optics and quantum-coherence-based …

Formation, stability, and highly nonlinear optical response of excitons to intense light fields interacting with two-dimensional materials

EB Molinero, B Amorim, M Malakhov, G Cistaro… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of 2D materials. However, their
significance in the highly nonlinear optical response to intense mid-infrared light has often …

Simulating strong-field electron-hole dynamics in solids probed by attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

SM Cavaletto, LB Madsen - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We investigate the ultrafast electron dynamics of a model of a wide-band-gap material with
inner, valence, and conduction bands excited by an intense few-femtosecond pump and …

Recombination of N Atoms in a Manifold of Electronic States Simulated by Time-Reversed Nonadiabatic Photodissociation Dynamics of N2

N Gelfand, F Remacle, RD Levine - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Following a single photon VUV absorption, the N2 molecule dissociates into distinct
channels leading to N atoms of different reactivities. The optically accessible singlets are …

Revealing fingerprints of valence excitons in x-ray absorption spectra with the bethe-salpeter equation

N Farahani, D Popova-Gorelova - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is a powerful theoretical approach that is capable to
accurately treat electron-hole interactions in materials in an excited state. We developed an …

Topologically protected photovoltaics in Bi nanoribbons

AJ Uría-Álvarez, JJ Palacios - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic efficiency in solar cells is hindered by many unwanted effects. Radiative
channels (emission of photons) sometimes mediated by nonradiative ones (emission of …