Magnon-induced hybridization brightens excitons in ferromagnetic semiconductors
Abstract
Excitons in magnetic semiconductors have energies and spin structures that are sensitive to the underlying magnetic order. We study this coupling in a minimal one-dimensional lattice model of a conduction electron and a valence hole moving in a ferromagnetic background of localized quantum spins, treating the electron, the hole, and the magnon(s) as explicitly resolved degrees of freedom. At zero temperature, spin conservation closes the relevant Hilbert subspaces at the one- or two-magnon level, so the model can be solved essentially exactly with a real-space Green's function method. Comparison against a frozen-spin approximation in which the local moments are replaced by their ordered values identifies which effects are due to emission and absorption of quantum magnons. A frozen background already lifts the spin degeneracy of the exciton and, if the two carriers couple with different strengths to the local moments, it mixes the singlet with the spin-zero triplet exciton. The emission and absorption of quantum magnons goes qualitatively further: it splits and shifts the exciton energies nonlinearly in the exchange coupling even when all frozen-spin effects vanish; for carriers with unequal hopping integrals, it hybridizes the singlet and spin-zero triplet excitons, thereby brightening the dark triplet; and it increases the exciton radius, which in turn enhances the magnon dressing by removing an on-site cancellation. These quantum effects are therefore strongest for extended, Wannier-like excitons, which is precisely the regime that is commonly modeled assuming a static (frozen-spin) magnetic order.
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BibTeX
@misc{chu2026magnoninduced,
title = {{Magnon-induced hybridization brightens excitons in ferromagnetic semiconductors}},
author = {Man-Yat Chu and Mona Berciu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.13124},
eprint = {2609.13124},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13124},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Magnon-induced hybridization brightens excitons in ferromagnetic semiconductors
AU - Man-Yat Chu
AU - Mona Berciu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.13124
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13124
AB - Excitons in magnetic semiconductors have energies and spin structures that are sensitive to the underlying magnetic order. We study this coupling in a minimal one-dimensional lattice model of a conduction electron and a valence hole moving in a ferromagnetic background of localized quantum spins, treating the electron, the hole, and the magnon(s) as explicitly resolved degrees of freedom. At zero temperature, spin conservation closes the relevant Hilbert subspaces at the one- or two-magnon level, so the model can be solved essentially exactly with a real-space Green's function method. Comparison against a frozen-spin approximation in which the local moments are replaced by their ordered values identifies which effects are due to emission and absorption of quantum magnons. A frozen background already lifts the spin degeneracy of the exciton and, if the two carriers couple with different strengths to the local moments, it mixes the singlet with the spin-zero triplet exciton. The emission and absorption of quantum magnons goes qualitatively further: it splits and shifts the exciton energies nonlinearly in the exchange coupling even when all frozen-spin effects vanish; for carriers with unequal hopping integrals, it hybridizes the singlet and spin-zero triplet excitons, thereby brightening the dark triplet; and it increases the exciton radius, which in turn enhances the magnon dressing by removing an on-site cancellation. These quantum effects are therefore strongest for extended, Wannier-like excitons, which is precisely the regime that is commonly modeled assuming a static (frozen-spin) magnetic order.
ER -