Optical absorption and photoluminescence of single layer boron nitride from a first principles cumulant approach
arXiv:2402.03826 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00669
Abstract
The photoluminescence spectrum of a single-layer boron nitride remains elusive, marked by enigmatic satellites that hint at a significant but unidentified exciton-phonon coupling.Here, by employing a first principles approach based on the many-body cumulant expansion of the charge response, we calculate the optical absorption and photoluminescence of a single layer boron nitride. We identify the specific exciton-phonon scattering channels and unravel their impact on the optical absorption and photoluminescence spectra thereby providing an interpretation of the experimental features. Finally, we show that, even in a strongly polar material such as h-BN monolayer, the electron-hole interaction responsible for the excitonic effect results in the cancellation of the Frölich interaction at small phonon momenta. This effect is captured only if the invariance of the exciton-phonon matrix elements under unitary transformations in the Bloch functions manifold is preserved in the calculation.
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