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Manipulation of Localized Excitons in CrPS4 by Temperature and Magnetic Field

Jana, Dipankar [National University of Singapore]·Acharya, Swagata [National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO (United States)]·Pawbake, Amit [Grenoble Alpes University]·Litvinov, Dmitrii [National University of Singapore]·Soll, Aljoscha [University of Chemistry & Technology]·Sofer, Zdenek [University of Chemistry & Technology]·Faugeras, Clement [Grenoble Alpes University]·Pashov, Dimitar [King's College London]·van Schilfgaarde, Mark [National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO (United States)] (ORCID:0000000312104459)·Novoselov, Kostya [National University of Singapore]·Potemski, Marek [Grenoble Alpes University; Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw University of Technology]·Koperski, Maciej [National University of Singapore]
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Layered van der Waals magnetic semiconductors provide a versatile platform for exploring excitonic phenomena intertwined with spin and lattice degrees of freedom, enabling excitons to act as sensitive probes of magnetic order. CrPS4 is a layered antiferromagnetic semiconductor that hosts rich excitonic features whose microscopic origin and connection to magnetic ordering remain incompletely understood. Here, we investigate the electronic and excitonic properties of bulk CrPS4 using a combination of many-body perturbation theory, dynamical mean-field theory, and photoluminescence-based experiments. Our calculations establish CrPS4 as a direct-gap semiconductor with a bandgap of 2.48 eV in the antiferromagnetic phase. Several subbandgap excitonic transitions are predicted by theory, comprising multiple spin-allowed excitons and an additional spin-flip excitation, predominantly localized on the Cr3+ ions. Temperature- and magnetic-field-dependent optical measurements reveal thermally driven exciton redistribution among localized states and identify characteristic energy shifts that provide clear optical signatures of magnetic phase transitions in CrPS4. These results provide insights into the excitonic transitions of antiferromagnets and suggest potential routes for all-optical sensing and light-driven control of their magnetic order.

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Jana, Dipankar [National University of Singapore], Acharya, Swagata [National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO (United States)], Pawbake, Amit [Grenoble Alpes University], Litvinov, Dmitrii [National University of Singapore], Soll, Aljoscha [University of Chemistry & Technology], Sofer, Zdenek [University of Chemistry & Technology], Faugeras, Clement [Grenoble Alpes University], Pashov, Dimitar [King's College London], van Schilfgaarde, Mark [National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO (United States)] (ORCID:0000000312104459), Novoselov, Kostya [National University of Singapore], Potemski, Marek [Grenoble Alpes University; Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw University of Technology], Koperski, Maciej [National University of Singapore]. 2026-08-17. Manipulation of Localized Excitons in CrPS4 by Temperature and Magnetic Field. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2616584123

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