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Faria Junior, Paulo E. ; Hernangómez-Pérez, Daniel ; Amit, Tomer ; Fabian, Jaroslav ; Refaely-Abramson, Sivan

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 ±mⱼ⁢µB (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 (1⁢s−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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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review B
Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)
Volume:112
Page Range:L241404
Date3 December 2025
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian
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Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (314695032)
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10.1103/c5y7-w9tkDOI
KeywordsBethe-Salpeter equation Excitons Magneto-optics Spin-orbit coupling Transition metal dichalcogenides Group theory
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-783131
Item ID78313

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