Two-dimensional bound excitons in the real space and Landau quantization space: a comparative study

Abstract

The Landau quantization space is based on the respective motion of the electron and hole in a magnetic field and can provide a new route to understand the bound exciton behaviors observed in the experiments. In this paper, we study the two-dimensional exciton properties of monolayer WSe$_2$ in both the real space and Landau quantization space. Focusing on the excitons of zero center-of-mass momentum, we calculate its energy spectrum in both spaces, with the results agreeing well with each other. We then obtain the diamagnetic coefficients and root-mean-square radius, which are consistent with the available $s$ state data in the experiment. More importantly, in the exciton state $nl$, we find that the dominant electron-hole pair component may shift with the magnetic field and the Coulomb interactions, and reveal that the magnetic field will drive the dominant component to be the free electron-hole pair $\{n_e=n+l-1,n_h=n-1\}$, whereas the Coulomb interactions drives it to be the pair of the lower index.