Collective Excitons (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

Collective Excitons

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This is an artist's depiction of the collective excitons of an excitonic solid. These excitations can be thought of as propagating domain walls (yellow) in an otherwise ordered solid exciton background (blue).

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Peter Abbamonte, U. of I. Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

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