Theory of excitonic states and their fine structure in halide perovskite quantum dots
Simon Thébaud a, Hao Zhang b, Altaf Pasha b, Isaac Metcalf b, Jianlin Zhou b, Mathias Staunstrup c, Yunxuan Zhu d, Shusen Liao d, Ken Ssennyimba d, Jia-Shiang Chen e, Surya Prakash Reddy f, Jin Hou d, Xinting Shuai d, Faiz Mandani b, Siraj Sidhik b, Matthew R. Jones d, Xuedan Ma d, R Geetha Balakrishna g, Sandhya Susarla f, David S. Ginger h, Claudine Katan i, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis j, Moungi G. Bawendi k, Douglas Natelson d, Philippe Tamarat c, Brahim Lounis c, Jacky Even a, Aditya Mohite b
a Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON - UMR6082, F-35000 Rennes, France.
b Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, US, United States
c Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, France
d Rice University, Houston, US, Main street, 6100, Houston, United States
e Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
f Arizona State University, Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287, United States
g Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain (Deemed–to–be University), Jain Global Campus, Kanakapura Road, Bangalore – 562112, Karnataka, India
h University of Washington, Seattle
i Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes
j Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, Sheridan Road, 2145, Evanston, United States
k Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Invited Speaker, Simon Thébaud, presentation 689
Publication date: 15th December 2025

Halide perovskite quantum dot nanocrystals have shown great potential as quantum emitters of single photons or entangled photon pairs due to their exceptional brightness, weak blinking or spectral diffusion and optical coherence times close to their radiative lifetimes. Key to their performances are the properties of excitonic states, strongly interacting electron-hole pairs confined inside the quantum dots. In particular, their spin degree of freedom leads to a meV-scale splitting of the excitonic ground state into four states of differing oscillator strength called the fine structure. This talk is meant as an accessible introduction and discussion of the exciton fine structure in perovskite quantum dots from a theoretical viewpoint based on semi-empirical methods. In particular, the physical origin and symmetry of the exciton fine structure, the screening of the exchange interaction and its decomposition into a short range part and a long range part will be discussed.
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