From Exciton to Tetraexciton: Final-State Doublets and 1P Addition Energies in a Weakly Confined Perovskite Quantum Dot
perovskite quantum dots, from the exciton through at least the tetraexciton. The exciton and biexciton emit as single transitions, whereas the triexciton and tetraexciton each appear as doublets. These doublets reveal distinct correlated final states, while the evolution from 3X to 4X exposes 1P addition energies that are not simply linearly additive. The higher multiexciton ladder therefore does not follow a rigid shell-filling sequence but evolves with exciton number through occupation-dependent many-body interactions. In this weakly confined regime, the higher manifold is best viewed as a correlated, lattice-dressed artificial atom whose internal structure becomes directly visible only at the triexciton and tetraexciton levels.
Authors
- Patanjali Kambhampati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-3544)
- Maksym V. Kovalenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-8938)
- Dallas Strandell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7829-4721)
- Dmitry N. Dirin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5187-4555)
- Arnab Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9314-3059)
- D. Zenatti
- Priya Nagpal
Institutions
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- McGill University (CA)
- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Published
- 2026-06-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c01392
- Primary Topic
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Sony
- Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada