Theory of exciton-exciton interactions with nontrivial electronic bands
Abstract
Excitons are bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors whose interactions influence optical properties and determine their collective behavior and emergent correlated phases. Despite the theoretical and experimental significance of these phenomena, a microscopic theory of exciton-exciton interactions that takes into account the full composite nature of these quasiparticles in systems with an arbitrary single-particle Hamiltonian is lacking. Here, we present a general theory of exciton-exciton interactions that builds upon our previous publication [Physical Review B 113, 155440 (2026)], which applied only to conventional semiconductors with weak band hybridization. By contrast, the theory presented here is valid in virtually any crystalline semiconducting system and can be applied to the study of biexciton formation and correlated excitonic phases in systems where band topology, quantum geometry, and moiré effects play a significant role. In addition to the analytical theory, we also present results in simple systems with flat bands with a nontrivial quantum metric and show that the biexcitonic spectrum differs strongly from that in the case without quantum geometry. Our theory paves the way for accurate quantitative calculations of biexciton spectra and excitonic many-body phases in modern condensed-matter systems.
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BibTeX
@misc{liceran2026theory,
title = {{Theory of exciton-exciton interactions with nontrivial electronic bands}},
author = {L. Maisel Licerán and H. T. C. Stoof},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.13246},
eprint = {2610.13246},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13246},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Theory of exciton-exciton interactions with nontrivial electronic bands
AU - L. Maisel Licerán
AU - H. T. C. Stoof
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/17
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.13246
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13246
AB - Excitons are bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors whose interactions influence optical properties and determine their collective behavior and emergent correlated phases. Despite the theoretical and experimental significance of these phenomena, a microscopic theory of exciton-exciton interactions that takes into account the full composite nature of these quasiparticles in systems with an arbitrary single-particle Hamiltonian is lacking. Here, we present a general theory of exciton-exciton interactions that builds upon our previous publication [Physical Review B 113, 155440 (2026)], which applied only to conventional semiconductors with weak band hybridization. By contrast, the theory presented here is valid in virtually any crystalline semiconducting system and can be applied to the study of biexciton formation and correlated excitonic phases in systems where band topology, quantum geometry, and moiré effects play a significant role. In addition to the analytical theory, we also present results in simple systems with flat bands with a nontrivial quantum metric and show that the biexcitonic spectrum differs strongly from that in the case without quantum geometry. Our theory paves the way for accurate quantitative calculations of biexciton spectra and excitonic many-body phases in modern condensed-matter systems.
ER -