Phonon-assisted luminescence in defect centers from many-body perturbation theory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03518v3
• Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:04:51 GMT
• Title: Phonon-assisted luminescence in defect centers from many-body perturbation theory
• Authors: Francesco Libbi, Pedro Miguel Monteiro Campos de Melo, Zeila Zanolli, Matthieu Verstraete and Nicola Marzari
• Abstract summary: We show that phonons are responsible for the observed luminescence, which otherwise would be dark due to symmetry. We also show that the symmetry breaking induced by the static Jahn-Teller effect is not able to describe the presence of the experimentally observed peak at 1.5 eV.
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• Abstract: Phonon-assisted luminescence is a key property of defect centers in semiconductors, and can be measured to perform the readout of the information stored in a quantum bit, or to detect temperature variations. The investigation of phonon-assisted luminescence usually employs phenomenological models, such as that of Huang and Rhys, with restrictive assumptions that can fail to be predictive. In this work, we predict luminescence and study exciton-phonon couplings within a rigorous many-body perturbation theory framework, an analysis that has never been performed for defect centers. In particular, we study the optical emission of the negatively-charged boron vacancy in 2D hexagonal boron nitride, which currently stands out among defect centers in 2D materials thanks to its promise for applications in quantum information and quantum sensing. We show that phonons are responsible for the observed luminescence, which otherwise would be dark due to symmetry. We also show that the symmetry breaking induced by the static Jahn-Teller effect is not able to describe the presence of the experimentally observed peak at 1.5 eV.

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