Datta Biswajit, Adak Pratap Chandra, Yu Sichao, Valiyaparambil Dharmapalan Agneya, Hall Siedah J, Vakulenko Anton, Komissarenko Filipp, Kurganov Egor, Quan Jiamin, Wang Wei, Mosina Kseniia, Sofer Zdeněk, Pashov Dimitar, van Schilfgaarde Mark, Acharya Swagata, Kamra Akashdeep, Sfeir Matthew Y, Alù Andrea, Khanikaev Alexander B, Menon Vinod M
Department of Physics, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Physics, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA.
Nat Mater. 2025 Mar 21. doi: 10.1038/s41563-025-02183-0.
Excitons are fundamental excitations that govern the optical properties of semiconductors. Interactions between excitons can lead to various emergent phases of matter and large nonlinear optical responses. In most semiconductors, excitons interact via exchange interactions or phase-space filling. Correlated materials that host excitons coupled to other degrees of freedom could offer pathways for controlling these interactions. Here we demonstrate magnon-mediated interactions between excitons in CrSBr, an antiferromagnetic semiconductor. These interactions manifest as the dependence of the exciton energy on the exciton density via a magnonic adjustment of the spin canting angle. Our study demonstrates the emergence of quasiparticle-mediated interactions in correlated quantum materials, leading to large nonlinear optical responses and potential device concepts such as magnon-mediated quantum transducers.
激子是决定半导体光学性质的基本激发态。激子之间的相互作用可导致各种新出现的物质相和大的非线性光学响应。在大多数半导体中,激子通过交换相互作用或相空间填充进行相互作用。承载与其他自由度耦合的激子的关联材料可为控制这些相互作用提供途径。在此,我们展示了反铁磁半导体CrSBr中激子之间的磁振子介导的相互作用。这些相互作用表现为通过自旋倾斜角的磁振子调节,激子能量对激子密度的依赖性。我们的研究证明了在关联量子材料中出现了准粒子介导的相互作用,导致了大的非线性光学响应以及诸如磁振子介导的量子换能器等潜在的器件概念。