2023 New's Items

Carbon Capture Phenomena in Metal-Organic Frameworks with Neural Network Potentials

Shaidu Y
Neaton JB
2023

Diamine-appended metal-organic frameworks are ultraporous materials exhibiting selective and cooperative CO2 adsorption mechanisms, leading to chemically tunable step-shaped isotherms and isobars that enable a large fraction of their full CO2 capacity to be captured or released with a modest change in...

Rydberg Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoTe2

Biswas S
Atwater HA
Neaton JB
2023

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors exhibit strong excitonic optical resonances, which serve as a microscopic, noninvasive probe into their fundamental properties. Like the hydrogen atom, such excitons can exhibit an entire Rydberg series of resonances. Excitons have been extensively studied in most TMDCs (MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2), but detailed exploration of excitonic phenomena has been lacking in the important TMDC material molybdenum ditelluride (...

Stabilizing Au2+ in a mixed-valence 3D halide perovskite

Lindquist KP
Karunadasa HI
Neaton JB
2023

Although Cu2+ is ubiquitous, the relativistic destabilization of the 5d orbitals makes the isoelectronic Au2+ exceedingly rare, typically stabilized only through Au–Au bonding or by using redox non-innocent ligands. Here we report the perovskite Cs4AuIIAuIII2Cl12, an extended solid with mononuclear Au2+ sites, which is stable to ambient conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray...

Maximally localized exciton Wannier functions for solids

Haber JB
Neaton JB
2023

We introduce a maximally localized Wannier function representation of Bloch excitons, two-particle correlated electron-hole excitations, in crystalline solids, where the excitons are maximally localized with respect to an average electron-hole coordinate in real space. As a proof-of-concept, we illustrate this representation in the case of low-energy spin-singlet and -triplet excitons in cubic lithium fluoride, computed using the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. We visualize the resulting maximally localized exciton Wannier functions (MLXWFs) in real space,...

Importance of nonuniform Brillouin zone sampling for ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations of exciton binding energies in crystalline solids

Alvertis AM
Neaton JB
2023

Excitons are prevalent in semiconductors and insulators, and their binding energies are critical for optoelectronic applications. The state-of-the-art method for first-principles calculations of excitons in extended systems is the ab initioGW-Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach, which can require a fine sampling of reciprocal space to accurately resolve solid-state exciton properties. Here we show, for a range of semiconductors and insulators, that the commonly...

Optical absorption spectra of metal oxides from time-dependent density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory based on optimally-tuned hybrid functionals

Ohad G
Camarasa-Gómez M
Haber JB
2023

Using both time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and the “single-shot” GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) approach, we compute optical band gaps and optical absorption spectra from first principles for eight common binary and ternary closed-shell metal oxides (MgO, Al2O3, CaO, ...

Transferable screened range-separated hybrid functionals for electronic and optical properties of van der Waals materials

Camarasa-Gómez M
Kronik L
Neaton JB
2023

The accurate description of electronic properties and optical absorption spectra is a long-standing challenge for density functional theory. Recently, the introduction of screened range-separated hybrid (SRSH) functionals for solid-state materials has allowed for the calculation of fundamental band gaps and optical absorption spectra that are in very good agreement with many-body perturbation theory. However, since solid-state SRSH functionals are typically tuned to reproduce the properties of bulk phases, their transferability to low-dimensional structures, which experience...

Universality of Critical Dynamics with Finite Entanglement

Sherman NE
Avdoshkin A
Moore JE
2023

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point, the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism makes universal predictions for quantities such as the number and energy of excitations produced. This mechanism is now being used to obtain critical exponents on emerging quantum computers and emulators, which in some cases can be compared to matrix product state (MPS) numerical studies. However, the mechanism is modified when the divergence of entanglement entropy required for a faithful description of many quantum critical points is not fully captured by the experiment or classical...

Multipartite entanglement in the one-dimensional spin- 1 2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Menon V
Moore JE
2023

Multipartite entanglement refers to the simultaneous entanglement between multiple subsystems of a many-body quantum system. While multipartite entanglement can be difficult to quantify analytically, it is known that it can be witnessed through the quantum Fisher information (QFI), a quantity that can also be related to dynamical Kubo response functions. In this work, we first show that the finite temperature QFI can generally be expressed in terms of a static structure factor of the system, plus a correction that vanishes as T...

Minimal one-dimensional model of bad metal behavior from fast particle-hole scattering

Wang Y-Q
Moore JE
2023

A strongly interacting plasma of linearly dispersing electron and hole excitations in two spatial dimensions (2D), also known as a Dirac fluid, can be captured by relativistic hydrodynamics and shares many universal features with other quantum critical systems. We propose a one-dimensional (1D) model to capture key aspects of the 2D Dirac fluid while including lattice effects and being amenable to nonperturbative computation. When interactions are added to the Dirac-like 1D dispersion without opening a gap, we show that this kind of irrelevant interaction is able to preserve Fermi-...