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Condensed Matter, Materials Science, cond-mat.mtrl-sci
Abstract:
Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, are the fundamental excitations governing optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. While optical signatures of excitons have been studied extensively, experimental access to the excitonic wave function itself has been elusive. Using multidimensional photoemission
spectroscopy, we present a momentum-, energy- and time-resolved perspective on
excitons in the layered semiconductor WSe2. By tuning the excitation
wavelength, we determine the energy-momentum signature of bright exciton
formation and its difference from conventional single-particle excited states. The multidimensional data allows to retrieve fundamental exciton properties like the binding energy and the exciton-lattice coupling and to reconstruct the real-space excitonic wave function via Fourier transform. All quantities are in excellent agreement with microscopic calculations. Our approach provides a full characterization of the exciton wave function and is applicable to bright and dark excitons in semiconducting materials, heterostructures, and devices.
