Nonanalyticity, Valley Quantum Phases, and Light-like Exciton Dispersion in Monolayer TMDs: Theory and First-Principles Calculations
Abstract
Exciton dispersion as a function of center-of-mass momentum, Q, is essential to the understanding of exciton dynamics. We use the ab-initio GW-Bethe Salpeter equation method to calculate the dispersion of excitons in monolayer MoS2 and find a nonanalytic light-like dispersion. This behavior arises from an unusual |Q| term in both the intra- and inter-valley exchange of the electron-hole interaction, which concurrently gives rise to a valley quantum phase of winding number two. A simple effective Hamiltonian to Q2 order with analytic solutions is derived to describe quantitatively these behaviors.
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