Direct and indirect excitons in boron nitride polymorphs: a story of atomic configurations and electronic correlation
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In this work we study how different atomic configurations, and electronic correlation modify the exciton dispersion in hexagonal boron nitride. We use two different approaches, ab-initio DFT plus many-body perturbation theory and tight-binding. We found that in the case of AB-stacking electronic correlation inverts the nature of the optical gap, from indirect to direct respect… Read More