Giant optical anisotropy in CrSBr from giant exciton oscillator strength
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| author | Ermolaev, Georgy Mazitov, Tagir Mazitov, Arslan Toksumakov, Adilet Grudinin, Dmitriy Minnekhanov, Anton Tselikov, Gleb Yakubovsky, Dmitry Tikhonowski, Gleb Pak, Nikolay Ahsan, Umer Slavich, Aleksandr Mironov, Mikhail Tsapenko, Alexey Vyshnevyy, Andrey Kruglov, Ivan Sofer, Zdenek Arsenin, Aleksey Novoselov, Kostya Katanin, Andrey Volkov, Valentyn |
| author_facet | Ermolaev, Georgy Mazitov, Tagir Mazitov, Arslan Toksumakov, Adilet Grudinin, Dmitriy Minnekhanov, Anton Tselikov, Gleb Yakubovsky, Dmitry Tikhonowski, Gleb Pak, Nikolay Ahsan, Umer Slavich, Aleksandr Mironov, Mikhail Tsapenko, Alexey Vyshnevyy, Andrey Kruglov, Ivan Sofer, Zdenek Arsenin, Aleksey Novoselov, Kostya Katanin, Andrey Volkov, Valentyn |
| contents | The interplay between dimensionality and electronic correlations in van der Waals (vdW) materials offers a powerful toolkit for engineering light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, are central to this endeavor, yet maximizing their oscillator strength, which dictates the interaction cross-section, remains a challenge. Conventional wisdom suggests a trade-off, where the observable oscillator strength often decreases in strongly bound systems due to population dynamics. Here, we unveil a colossal oscillator strength associated with the quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) excitons in the layered magnetic semiconductor CrSBr, which fundamentally defies this established scaling law. Through comprehensive optical characterization and ab initio calculations, we establish that this anomalous enhancement originates directly from the reduced dimensionality, which enforces an increased electron-hole wavefunction overlap. Moreover, we find a close connection between fundamental exciton and local spin fluctuations that contribute to the opening of the gap in the electronic spectrum. The resulting optical anisotropy shows a giant in-plane birefringence (Delta_n = 1.45) and profoundly anisotropic waveguiding, which we directly visualize using nano-optical imaging. Leveraging this extreme response, we realize a true zero-order quarter-wave plate with an unprecedented wavelength-to-thickness ratio (lambda/t) exceeding 3.4, surpassing the limits of current miniaturization technologies, including state-of-the-art metasurfaces. Our findings underscore the profound impact of dimensionality engineering in magnetic vdW materials for realizing novel regimes of light-matter coupling and developing next-generation ultracompact photonic architectures. |
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| spellingShingle | Giant optical anisotropy in CrSBr from giant exciton oscillator strength Ermolaev, Georgy Mazitov, Tagir Mazitov, Arslan Toksumakov, Adilet Grudinin, Dmitriy Minnekhanov, Anton Tselikov, Gleb Yakubovsky, Dmitry Tikhonowski, Gleb Pak, Nikolay Ahsan, Umer Slavich, Aleksandr Mironov, Mikhail Tsapenko, Alexey Vyshnevyy, Andrey Kruglov, Ivan Sofer, Zdenek Arsenin, Aleksey Novoselov, Kostya Katanin, Andrey Volkov, Valentyn Materials Science The interplay between dimensionality and electronic correlations in van der Waals (vdW) materials offers a powerful toolkit for engineering light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, are central to this endeavor, yet maximizing their oscillator strength, which dictates the interaction cross-section, remains a challenge. Conventional wisdom suggests a trade-off, where the observable oscillator strength often decreases in strongly bound systems due to population dynamics. Here, we unveil a colossal oscillator strength associated with the quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) excitons in the layered magnetic semiconductor CrSBr, which fundamentally defies this established scaling law. Through comprehensive optical characterization and ab initio calculations, we establish that this anomalous enhancement originates directly from the reduced dimensionality, which enforces an increased electron-hole wavefunction overlap. Moreover, we find a close connection between fundamental exciton and local spin fluctuations that contribute to the opening of the gap in the electronic spectrum. The resulting optical anisotropy shows a giant in-plane birefringence (Delta_n = 1.45) and profoundly anisotropic waveguiding, which we directly visualize using nano-optical imaging. Leveraging this extreme response, we realize a true zero-order quarter-wave plate with an unprecedented wavelength-to-thickness ratio (lambda/t) exceeding 3.4, surpassing the limits of current miniaturization technologies, including state-of-the-art metasurfaces. Our findings underscore the profound impact of dimensionality engineering in magnetic vdW materials for realizing novel regimes of light-matter coupling and developing next-generation ultracompact photonic architectures. |
| title | Giant optical anisotropy in CrSBr from giant exciton oscillator strength |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18866 |