Solving quantum mysteries: New insights into 2D semiconductor physics

Nanowerk   October 16, 2023 An international team of researchers (Australia, Spain) has introduced a novel approach ‘quantum virial expansion,’ to uncover the complex quantum interactions in two-dimensional semiconductors. They showed that this constituted a perturbatively exact theory in the high-temperature or low-doping regime, where the electrons’ thermal wavelength was smaller than their interparticle spacing. They obtained exact analytic expressions for the photoluminescence and predicted new features such as a nontrivial shape of the attractive branch peak related to universal resonant exciton-electron scattering and an associated energy shift from the trion energy. The theory allowed them to formally unify the two […]