Disentangling the multiorbital contributions of excitons by photoemission exciton tomography.

ABSTRACT: Excitons are realizations of a correlated many-particle wave function, specifically consisting of electrons and holes in an entangled state. Excitons occur widely in semiconductors and are dominant excitations in semiconducting organic and low-dimensional quantum materials. To efficiently harness the strong optical response and high tuneability of excitons in optoelectronics and in energy-transformation processes, access to the full wavefunction of the entangled state is critical, but has so far not been feasible. Here, we show how time-resolved photoemission momentum microscopy can be used to gain access to the entangled wavefunction and to unravel the exciton's multiorbital electron and hole contributions. For the prototypical organic semiconductor buckminsterfullerene (C₆₀),

SUBMITTER: Bennecke W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10899218 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature