Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in black phosphorus
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| author | Kremer, Geoffroy Mosquera, Juan F. P. Morf, Joël Mahmoudi, Aymen Chassot, Frédéric Christiansson, Viktor Rumo, Maxime Balestra, Manuele von Rohr, Fabian O. Werner, Philipp Schüler, Michael Monney, Claude |
| author_facet | Kremer, Geoffroy Mosquera, Juan F. P. Morf, Joël Mahmoudi, Aymen Chassot, Frédéric Christiansson, Viktor Rumo, Maxime Balestra, Manuele von Rohr, Fabian O. Werner, Philipp Schüler, Michael Monney, Claude |
| contents | Excitons are key quasiparticles determining the optical properties of solids. As such, they can be utilized to coherently control the electronic structure of materials using optical femtosecond pulses. Identifying the decoherence mechanism during the early non-equilibrium dynamics is crucial to achieve light-induced band-structure engineering in semiconductors. Here, we generate excitons in the direct band gap semiconductor black phosphorus with a resonant mid-infrared photoexcitation. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we track their complex ultrafast dynamics on the few-picosecond time scale. We develop a quantum-kinetic theoretical framework to model the decoherence of excitons into dark excitons via phonon scattering. By combining simulation and experiment, we quantify key parameters describing the early dynamics of the excitons. Our work highlights phonon-mediated intravalley scattering as a fundamental limitation for coherent exciton phenomena in single-valley semiconductors. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in black phosphorus Kremer, Geoffroy Mosquera, Juan F. P. Morf, Joël Mahmoudi, Aymen Chassot, Frédéric Christiansson, Viktor Rumo, Maxime Balestra, Manuele von Rohr, Fabian O. Werner, Philipp Schüler, Michael Monney, Claude Materials Science Excitons are key quasiparticles determining the optical properties of solids. As such, they can be utilized to coherently control the electronic structure of materials using optical femtosecond pulses. Identifying the decoherence mechanism during the early non-equilibrium dynamics is crucial to achieve light-induced band-structure engineering in semiconductors. Here, we generate excitons in the direct band gap semiconductor black phosphorus with a resonant mid-infrared photoexcitation. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we track their complex ultrafast dynamics on the few-picosecond time scale. We develop a quantum-kinetic theoretical framework to model the decoherence of excitons into dark excitons via phonon scattering. By combining simulation and experiment, we quantify key parameters describing the early dynamics of the excitons. Our work highlights phonon-mediated intravalley scattering as a fundamental limitation for coherent exciton phenomena in single-valley semiconductors. |
| title | Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in black phosphorus |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28611 |