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Generalized many-body exciton g factors: Magnetic hybridization and nonmonotonic Rydberg series in monolayer WSe₂
Faria Junior, Paulo E.
, Hernangómez-Pérez, Daniel
, Amit, Tomer
, Fabian, Jaroslav
and Refaely-Abramson, Sivan
(2025)
Generalized many-body exciton g factors: Magnetic hybridization and nonmonotonic Rydberg series in monolayer WSe₂.
Physical Review B 112, L241404.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 10 Dec 2025 10:51
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.78313
Abstract
The magneto-optical response of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is governed by a complex interplay of Bloch-state quantum geometry—reflected in the electronic magnetic moment—coupled with interband mixing and many-body interactions. Here, we develop a robust and general first-principles framework for many-body exciton g factors (magnetic moments) by incorporating ...
The magneto-optical response of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is governed by a complex interplay of Bloch-state quantum geometry—reflected in the electronic magnetic moment—coupled with interband mixing and many-body interactions. Here, we develop a robust and general first-principles framework for many-body exciton g factors (magnetic moments) by incorporating off-diagonal terms for the spin and orbital angular momenta of single-particle bands and many-body states for magnetic fields pointing in arbitrary spatial directions. We implement our framework using many-body perturbation theory via the GW-Bethe-Salpeter equation and supplement our analysis with robust symmetry-based models. Focusing on the archetypal monolayer WSe₂, we accurately reproduce the known results of the low-energy excitons including the Zeeman splitting and the dark/gray exciton brightening. Furthermore, our theory naturally reveals the magnetic-field hybridization of higher-energy excitons (s, p, and d like) and shows that the magnetic moments of nodal excitons (p and d like) do not acquire additional contributions of ±mⱼµB (mⱼ=1,2), characteristic of the hydrogenic picture. Our general approach also allows us to resolve the long-standing puzzle of the experimentally measured nonmonotonic Rydberg series (1s−4s) of exciton g factors. Our framework offers a comprehensive approach to investigate, rationalize, and predict the nontrivial interplay between magnetic fields, angular momenta, and many-body exciton physics in van der Waals systems, offering different opportunities to probe signatures of quantum geometry within many-body states.
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Generalized many-body exciton g-factors: magnetic hybridization and non-monotonic Rydberg series in monolayer WSe2.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B | ||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society (APS) | ||||
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| Volume: | 112 | ||||
| Page Range: | L241404 | ||||
| Date | 3 December 2025 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian | ||||
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Funded by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
(314695032)
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| Keywords | Bethe-Salpeter equation Excitons Magneto-optics Spin-orbit coupling Transition metal dichalcogenides Group theory | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-783131 | ||||
| Item ID | 78313 |
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