The initial charge separation step in oxygenic photosynthesis

Kavli Affiliate: Graham R. Fleming | First 5 Authors: Yusuke Yoneda, Eric A. Arsenault, Kaydren Orcutt, Masakazu Iwai, Graham R. Fleming | Summary: Photosystem II is crucial for life on Earth as it provides oxygen as a result of photoinduced electron transfer and water splitting reactions. The excited state dynamics of the photosystem II-reaction center […]


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Inhibited nonradiative decay at all exciton densities in monolayer semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Javey | First 5 Authors: Hyungjin Kim, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Naoki Higashitarumizu, Eran Rabani, Ali Javey | Summary: Most optoelectronic devices operate at high photocarrier densities, where all semiconductors suffer from enhanced nonradiative recombination. Nonradiative processes proportionately reduce photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY), a performance metric that directly dictates the maximum device […]


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Inhibited nonradiative decay at all exciton densities in monolayer semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Javey | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Most optoelectronic devices operate at high photocarrier densities, where all semiconductors suffer from enhanced nonradiative recombination. Nonradiative processes proportionately reduce photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY), a performance metric that directly dictates the maximum device efficiency. Although transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers exhibit […]


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Thermodynamics of light management in near-field thermophotovoltaics

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Georgia T. Papadakis, Meir Orenstein, Eli Yablonovitch, Shanhui Fan, | Summary: We evaluate near-field thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems focusing in particular on their open-circuit voltage (Voc). Unlike previous analyses based largely on numerical simulations with fluctuational electrodynamics, here, we develop an analytic model that captures the […]


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Learning intermolecular forces at liquid-vapor interfaces

Kavli Affiliate: David T. Limmer | First 5 Authors: Samuel P. Niblett, Mirza Galib, David T. Limmer, , | Summary: By adopting a perspective informed by contemporary liquid state theory, we consider how to train an artificial neural network potential to describe inhomogeneous, disordered systems. We find that neural network potentials based on local representations […]


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Quasiparticle kinetic theory for Calogero models

Kavli Affiliate: Joel E. Moore | First 5 Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Manas Kulkarni, Joel E. Moore, Xiangyu Cao, | Summary: We show that the quasiparticle kinetic theory for quantum and classical Calogero models reduces to the free-streaming Boltzmann equation. We reconcile this simple emergent behaviour with the strongly interacting character of the model by […]


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A representation-independent electronic charge density database for crystalline materials

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Jimmy-Xuan Shen, Jason M. Munro, Matthew K. Horton, Patrick Huck, Shyam Dwaraknath | Summary: In addition to being the core quantity in density functional theory, the charge density can be used in many tertiary analyses in materials sciences from bonding to assigning charge to specific atoms. […]


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Imaging Generalized Wigner Crystal States in a WSe2/WS2 Moiré Superlattice

Kavli Affiliate: Michael F. Crommie | First 5 Authors: Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li, Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang, Wenyu Zhao | Summary: The Wigner crystal state, first predicted by Eugene Wigner in 1934, has fascinated condensed matter physicists for nearly 90 years2-14. Studies of two-dimensional (2D) electron gases first revealed signatures of the Wigner crystal […]


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Phonon Screening of Excitons in Semiconductors: Halide Perovskites and Beyond

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Marina R. Filip, Jonah B. Haber, Jeffrey B. Neaton, , | Summary: The ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach, an established method for the study of excitons in materials, is typically solved in a limit where only static screening from electrons is captured. Here, we generalize […]


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