Authors
Dipankar Jana, Swagata Acharya, Amit Pawbake, Dmitrii Litvinov, Aljoscha Soll, Zdenek Sofer, Clement Faugeras, Dimitar Pashov, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Kostya S Novoselov, Marek Potemski, Maciej Koperski
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Volume 123. Issue 34. Pages e2616584123. Aug 25, 2026. Epub Aug 17, 2026.
Abstract
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.
PMID:
42607215
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