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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 117: Focus Session: Frontiers of Electronic-Structure Theory: Correlated Electron Materials VIII (joint session O/TT/MM/DS/CPP)
O 117.1: Talk
Friday, March 16, 2018, 10:30–10:45, HL 001
Ab initio photoluminescence in 2D materials — •Pedro Melo1,4, Andrea Marini2,4, Matthieu Verstraete1,4, and Zeila Zanolli3,4 — 1NanoMat / CESAM, ULiege Belgium — 2ISM CNR, Italy — 3RWTH Aachen Germany — 4ETSF
The theoretical study of photoluminescence (PL) has been hindered in the past due to lack of predictive ab initio numerical techniques [1,2,4]. We present a complete theoretical framework for the computation of PL where electrons, nuclei, and photons are quantised. The intrinsic non-equilibrium nature of the process is fully taken into account [3]. Starting from the Keldysh contour, we arrive at a set of equations for the Green's functions of electrons, phonons, and photons where the different kinds of interactions are treated on the same footing. These equations are then simplified by using the generalised Baym-Kadanoff ansatz and the completed collision approximation [3]. This reduces the problem to a set of decoupled equations for the density matrix that describe all kinds of static and dynamical correlations. We show how the micro-macro connection relates the observable spectrum with the time-dependent microscopic dynamics, via the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Finally, we present the results of our numerical studies on 2D materials, such as WS2, where we relate the evolution of the carrier populations in the Brillouin zone with the changes in the PL spectrum of the material, for a range of experimental setups. [1] M. F. Pereira and K. Henneberger, PRB 58, 2064 (1998). [2] K. Hannewald, et al, PRB 67, 233202 (2003). [3] P. M. M. C. de Melo and A. Marini, PRB 93, 155102 (2016). [4] S. W. Koch, et al, Nat Mat 5, 523 (2006).