Effects of parallel electric and magnetic fields on Rydberg excitons in buckled two-dimensional materials

TL;DR

This paper investigates how parallel electric and magnetic fields influence Rydberg excitons in buckled 2D materials called Xenes, revealing tunable binding energies and diamagnetic coefficients with potential for electronic device applications.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed calculations of binding energies and diamagnetic coefficients of magnetoexcitons in Xenes under external fields, including effects of screening and heterostructure layers.

Findings

Electric and magnetic fields can tune exciton properties.

Binding energies and DMCs are adjustable via external fields.

Layer number influences exciton characteristics.

Abstract

We study direct and indirect magnetoexcitons in Rydberg states in monolayers and double-layer heterostructures of Xenes (silicene, germanene, and stanene) in external parallel electric and magnetic fields, applied perpendicular to the monolayer and heterostructure. We calculate binding energies of magnetoexcitons for the Rydberg states 1$s$, 2$s$, 3$s$, and 4$s$, by numerical integration of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation using the Rytova-Keldysh potential for direct magnetoexciton and both the Rytova-Keldysh and Coulomb potentials for indirect excitons. Latter allows understanding a role of screening in Xenes. In the external perpendicular electric field, the buckled structure of the Xene monolayers leads to appearance of potential difference between sublattices allowing to tune electron and hole masses and, therefore, the binding energies and diamagnetic coefficients (DMCs) of magnetoexcitons. We report the energy contribution from electric and magnetic fields to the binding energies and DMCs. The tunability of the energy contribution of direct and indirect magnetoexcitons by electric and magnetic fields is demonstrated. It is also shown that DMCs of direct excitons can be tuned by the electric field, and the DMCs of indirect magnetoexcitons can be tuned by the electric field and manipulated by the number of h-BN layers. Therefore, these allowing the possibility of electronic devices design that can be controlled by external electric and magnetic fields and the number of h-BN layers. The calculations of the binding energies and DMCs of magnetoexcitons in Xenes monolayers and heterostructures are novel and can be compared with the experimental results when they will be available.