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Brightening dark excitons and trions in systems with a Mexican-hat energy dispersion: example of InSe

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Pith's one-line read In monolayer InSe the lowest-energy excitons and trions are momentum-dark, and a single longitudinal-acoustic phonon is enough to brighten them, producing a photoluminescence spectrum dominated by the negative trion at low temperature.

desk verdict Solid variational calculation of momentum-dark excitons and trions in InSe, with a clearly flagged single-phonon brightening assumption that controls the quantitative PL predictions. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.06473 v2 pith:YWPJJWT3 submitted 2025-02-10 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Lewis J. Burke , Mark T. Greenaway , Joseph J. Betouras This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords Mexican-hatdispersionmomentum-darkexcitontrionvanHovesingularityphonon-assistedbrighteningphotoluminescencemonolayerInSeRytova-Keldyshpotential
topics Dark Energy
open problems Dark Energy
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The reading

This paper argues that in monolayer InSe the lowest-energy excitons and trions are momentum-dark: the electron and hole sit at different momenta because the valence band has an inverted Mexican-hat shape with its maximum at nonzero momentum. The computed dark exciton binding energy is $-135$ meV with a $65$ meV activation energy to reach the bright state, and the negative trion binds about $10$ meV more strongly than the exciton while the positive trion is only weakly bound. The authors show that coupling to a single longitudinal-acoustic phonon at momentum $k_{\max}$ raises the dark state by the phonon energy, creating a virtual bright state that can emit light. The resulting photoluminescence spectrum is predicted to be dominated by the negative trion at low temperature, with the exciton growing relatively stronger as temperature increases. If right, this makes momentum-dark states and their van Hove singularity the controlling factor in InSe's optical response.

What carries the argument

The central object is the inverted Mexican-hat dispersion of the topmost valence band of monolayer InSe, parametrized as $E_v(k) = E_0 + E_1|k|^2 + E_2|k|^4 + E_3|k|^6 + E_4|k|^6\cos(6\phi) + E_5|k|^8$ plus small spin-orbit terms. Its brim at $|k| = k_{\max} \approx 0.28$ Å$^{-1}$ hosts a van Hove singularity in the quasiparticle density of states, and it is what makes the ground states momentum-dark: the electron sits at the conduction band minimum at $k = 0$ while the hole sits at the valence band maximum at nonzero momentum, so the composite quasiparticle has $Q_{\min} \neq 0$. The computational machinery is the Bethe-Salpeter equation solved variationally with a hydrogenic $1s$ trial wave function and the Rytova-Keldysh screened potential; the brightening machinery is a polaron-reduced single-phonon scattering term that shifts the dark state by the LA phonon energy $\hbar\omega(k_{\max})$.

What would settle it

Measure the low-temperature (about 5 K) photoluminescence of hBN-encapsulated monolayer InSe under electrostatic gating. The central claim predicts two emission peaks separated by about 65 meV with the lower-energy dark peak stronger, a negative-trion peak that appears only with electron doping and dominates at low temperature, and a much weaker positive-trion peak under hole doping. Observing only a single bright-state peak, a different dark-bright splitting, or no gating-dependent trion peak would contradict the claim.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the Mexican-hat valence band of monolayer InSe makes the ground-state exciton and trion configurations momentum-dark, and that the van Hove singularity at the brim of the hat gives these dark states a large density of states that dominates the optical response. Variationally solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation with a Rytova-Keldysh screened interaction, the authors obtain a dark exciton binding energy of $-135$ meV and a bright-dark activation energy of $65$ meV (their Eq. 5); the negative trion is more strongly bound than the exciton, while the positive trion is weakly bound (their Eq. 9). They then show that emission of a single LA phonon with momentum $q' = k_{\max}$, which scatters the hole from the brim of the hat to the zone centre, transfers the dark state to a virtual bright state whose energy is exactly the dark energy plus the phonon energy (their Eqs. 47-48). This brightening mechanism, combined with thermal occupations and temperature-dependent dephasing, yields photoluminescence spectra in which the negative trion dominates at low temperatures, the exciton becomes relatively stronger as temperature rises, and the dark peak shifts toward the bright peak with increasing temperature.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a single LA phonon at momentum $q' = k_{\max}$ with unit coupling weight $|B(q')|^2 = 1$ completely describes how the momentum-dark states become bright; if the actual brightening involves multiple phonon modes, different matrix elements, or a different dominant phonon, the predicted peak energies, relative intensities, and temperature shifts change.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • At low temperature the photoluminescence of electron-doped monolayer InSe should show a dominant negative-trion peak, with the exciton becoming relatively stronger as temperature increases and the peaks eventually merging into a single broad line.
  • The dark (virtual-bright) and bright emission peaks should be separated by the activation energy of about 65 meV, with the dark peak shifting toward the bright peak as temperature raises the phonon-induced dephasing.
  • In hole-doped InSe the positive trion is weakly bound and should appear with much lower intensity than the exciton at all temperatures, making it difficult to observe.
  • The same phonon-brightening mechanism and dark-state dominance should apply to other III-VI monolayers with a Mexican-hat valence band, such as GaSe, with deeper hats giving larger activation energies and more persistent dark peaks.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the full momentum-dependent phonon coupling $B(q')$ were used instead of a single mode at $k_{\max}$, the virtual-bright energy would not be exactly the dark energy plus one phonon energy, and the ratio of dark to bright peak intensities could change significantly.
  • Strain, which the paper notes shifts the conduction band and leaves binding energies unchanged, also changes the depth of the Mexican hat; this could tune the activation energy and be used to engineer the temperature at which the dark peak merges with the bright peak.
  • The low-temperature dominance of the negative trion suggests a testable route: under controlled electron doping, the trion peak intensity should increase with doping and saturate, whereas the exciton peak should be largely doping-independent.
  • Coupling the variational bound states to a Saha-type equilibrium of the photoexcited fluid, which the paper lists as future work, could shift the predicted trion-to-exciton crossover temperature.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript studies excitons and trions in monolayer InSe using a variational Bethe-Salpeter approach built on a DFT-parametrized tight-binding band model and the Rytova-Keldysh potential. It finds that the lowest-energy exciton and trion states occur at finite center-of-mass momentum Q, i.e. they are momentum-dark, because of the Mexican-hat valence band dispersion and its associated van Hove singularity. The reported dark exciton binding energy is -135 meV with an activation energy of 65 meV (Eq. 5); the negative trion is more strongly bound than the exciton while the positive trion is weakly bound (Eq. 9). The authors then model phonon-assisted brightening by a single LA phonon at q'=kmax and compute photoluminescence spectra at 5, 150, and 300 K (Fig. 8), finding that the negative trion dominates at low temperature and the exciton grows in relative intensity as temperature increases.

Significance. The central qualitative idea is interesting and potentially significant: in a 2D semiconductor with a Mexican-hat valence band, the excitonic ground state is momentum-dark and its density of states is enhanced by a van Hove singularity, which should control the optical response. The variational BSE calculation is internally consistent and the binding energies are genuinely derived from the input band structure and Coulomb potential rather than fitted to the target results; the inclusion of SOC, anisotropy, and finite momentum is a strength. However, the quantitative PL predictions and the specific claim that the negative trion dominates at low temperature rest on assumptions about phonon coupling and dephasing that are not evaluated from the microscopic model. If those assumptions are supported, the paper would establish a new route to momentum-dark exciton physics in III-VI chalcogenides; at present the quantitative conclusions are conditional.

major comments (3)
  1. The brightening mechanism is reduced to a single LA phonon with |B(q')|^2=1 at q'=kmax, but the integral defining B(q') in Eq. (38) is never evaluated. Equations (39)-(48) then simply add the phonon energy to the dark-state energy. This assumption controls all virtual-bright state energies and therefore the dark/bright peak positions and their temperature evolution in Fig. 8. The manuscript states that the full polaron wave function is not needed because of the single-phonon assumption, but that is not a justification of the assumption itself. In addition, Eq. (19) assumes that the trion-phonon matrix element GQ equals the exciton-phonon matrix element DQ and that the interband matrix element is the same for both species. I recommend that the authors either compute B(q') and the phonon matrix elements from the DFT band structure and electron-phonon coupling, or explicitly reframe the PL spectra as illustrative and provide a sensitivity analysis over coupling strengths and phonon momenta.
  2. The dephasing rates in Eq. (21) are imported from the TMD literature in Ref. [32] as 1 meV plus a linear temperature coefficient, with no validation for InSe. These widths set the peak heights, the visibility of the dark/bright doublet, and the temperature at which the two peaks merge in Fig. 8. The relative dominance of the negative trion at low temperature depends on the balance between these rates and the phonon-assisted terms. The authors should benchmark these rates against available PL data for monolayer InSe (for example Refs. [27] and [38]) or demonstrate that the qualitative conclusions are robust to order-of-magnitude variations of the dephasing parameters.
  3. The quantitative binding and activation energies in Eqs. (5) and (9) are not compared with experimental measurements or with higher-level theoretical results. The calculation uses a single 1s variational state and sets the form factor in the interaction to unity (Sec. 4.1), and the Discussion itself acknowledges that the variational approach provides only qualitative results. Since these energies set the PL peak positions and underlie the finite-temperature stability argument for the trion, the paper should at minimum report the sensitivity of Eb and Eact to the tight-binding parameters, the Rytova-Keldysh screening length, and the trial-state choice, and should place the predictions in the context of existing InSe PL experiments.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Eq. (13) and Fig. 7] The Gaussian broadening sigma in the DOS calculation is never specified, so the peak heights and widths in Fig. 7 are not reproducible; please state the value used.
  2. [Eqs. (35)-(36)] The trion trial wave function in Eq. (35) contains an overall constant A, but the normalization constant is not defined anywhere; please provide it explicitly.
  3. [Eq. (32)] The notation 'F BZX' in Eq. (32) appears to be a rendering error for the Brillouin-zone summation; please define all summation symbols clearly.
  4. [Sec. 2.4, after Eq. (20)] The statement that the separate phonon dephasing of the remaining electron or hole is ignored is very terse; please explain why this is a valid approximation for the spectra shown.
  5. [Fig. 3b caption] The caption states that activation energies are indicated with respect to the conduction band minimum, but the figure appears to show total binding energies below the CBM; please harmonize the caption with the plotted quantity.
  6. [Sec. 2.4] The manuscript states that circularly polarized sigma- light is considered, but it is not clear whether the calculated PL includes both sigma+ and sigma- contributions; please clarify the polarization convention and whether the spectra are summed over both.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: exciton/trion binding energies are computed from independent model inputs, and the phonon brightening is a stated assumption rather than a circular fit.

full rationale

The paper's central binding energies are obtained by a variational Bethe-Salpeter solution (Secs. 4.1-4.2, Eqs. 27-36) using a DFT-parametrized tight-binding band model (Ref [46]) and a Rytova-Keldysh potential with independently specified screening parameters (Ref [45]). The reported values (Eqs. 5 and 9) are the variational output, not parameters fitted to the target results. The photoluminescence formulas (Eqs. 18-19) use these computed energies together with occupation factors and dephasing rates imported from Ref [32]; no PL data are used to set the exciton or trion energies. The phonon brightening model (Sec. 4.3) defines the virtual-bright state energy as the dark-state energy plus the phonon energy (Eqs. 47-48) and assumes a single LA phonon at q'=kmax with |B(q')|^2=1. That is an explicit, unevaluated modeling assumption, acknowledged by the authors ('given the consideration of the single phonon process we remove the need for this detail in this work'), not a circular derivation: the dark-state energy itself comes from the independent variational calculation. Self-citations (Refs 39-43) appear in background statements about van Hove singularities and flat bands and are not load-bearing for the quantitative claims. No step reduces by construction to its own input, and no fitted parameter is relabeled as a prediction.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central results depend on band structure and screening parameters fitted in prior DFT/tight-binding work, plus several ad hoc assumptions for the phonon brightening and PL dephasing. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • Valence band polynomial parameters E0-E5, m_e*, gamma_c, gamma_v = E1=2.915 eV Å^2, E2=-38.057 eV Å^4, E3=205.551 eV Å^6, E4=3.050 eV Å^6, E5=-450.034 eV Å^8, m_e*=0.188 m_e…
    Fitted to DFT in Ref [46]; determine the Mexican-hat depth and dispersion, hence the dark-state activation energy and binding energies.
  • Rytova-Keldysh screening parameters = epsilon_z=9.5, epsilon_||=8.6, kappa_z=6.9, kappa_||=3.7, d=8.32 Å
    Taken from Ref [45]; set the Coulomb interaction strength and thus the exciton/trion binding energies.
  • Radiative and phonon dephasing rates = gamma_rad=1 meV; gamma_phonon=1 meV + 0.01 meV/K * T (exciton, neg trion), 1 meV + 0.02 meV/K * T (pos trion)
    Chosen ad hoc following Ref [32] from TMDs; directly control PL line widths, relative intensities, and temperature evolution.
  • Single-phonon coupling weight = |B(q')|^2 = 1 at q'=kmax
    Assumed to model the dominant LA phonon brightening process; sets the virtual-bright state energy shift.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption The conduction and valence band dispersions are described by Eqs. (1)-(2) with parameters from Ref [46], including the Mexican-hat valence band.
    The whole calculation of exciton/trion dispersions relies on this polynomial model; Sec. 2.1.
  • domain assumption The exciton and trion wavefunctions are approximated by 1s hydrogenic trial states with form factor F=1 (Wannier limit).
    Used in the variational BSE solution, Secs. 4.1-4.2; the authors acknowledge results are qualitative.
  • domain assumption The Rytova-Keldysh potential with hBN encapsulation parameters from Ref [45] describes the electron-hole interaction.
    Eq. (29); determines binding energies.
  • domain assumption The PL spectra are described by the Lorentzian formulas of Refs [10, 32] (Eqs. 14-19) with thermal Boltzmann occupation.
    Sec. 2.4; the shape and intensity model is imported from TMD literature.
  • ad hoc to paper A single LA phonon at q'=kmax with unit coupling weight |B|^2=1 dominates the brightening of the dark state.
    Sec. 4.3, Eq. (43); the authors state this removes the need for the full polaron wavefunction.
  • ad hoc to paper The dephasing rates in Eq. (21) are indicative and vary linearly with temperature.
    Chosen for simplicity, not computed for InSe; they control the temperature dependence of the PL.

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We investigate the properties of momentum-dark excitons and trions formed in two-dimensional (2D) materials that exhibit an inverted Mexican-hat-shaped dispersion relation, taking monolayer InSe as an example. We employ variational techniques to obtain the momentum-dark and bright ground-states (non-zero and zero quasiparticle momenta, respectively). These states are of particular interest due to their peaks in the quasiparticle density of states, the largest contribution comes from the momentum-dark ground state due to the presence of a van Hove singularity (VHS). These momentum-dark systems require a physical process to provide the necessary momentum to become bright. We study the brightening of this state due to coupling with phonons and compute the resulting photoluminescence spectrum. This work opens new avenues of research, such as exploiting dark excitons in solar cells and other semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices.

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