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Bichromatic Moir\'{e} Superlattices for Tunable Quadrupolar Trions and Correlated States

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-09-19 v1 Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Moir\'{e} superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures provide a platform to engineer many-body interactions. Here, we realize a bichromatic moir\'{e} superlattice in an asymmetric WSe2_2/WS2_2/WSe2_2 heterotrilayer by combining R- and H-stacked bilayers with mismatched moir\'{e} wavelengths. This structure hosts fermionic quadrupolar moir\'{e} trions -- interlayer excitons bound to an opposite-layer hole -- with vanishing dipole moments. These trions arise from hybridized moir\'{e} potentials enabling multiple excitonic orbitals with tunable interlayer coupling, allowing control of excitonic and electronic ground states. We show that an out-of-plane electric field could effectively reshape moir\'{e} excitons and interlayer-intralayer electron correlations, driving a transition from interlayer to intralayer Mott states with enhanced Coulomb repulsion. The asymmetric stacking further enriches excitonic selection rules, broadening opportunities for spin-photon engineering. Our results demonstrate bichromatic moir\'{e} superlattices as a reconfigurable platform for emergent quantum states, where quadrupolar moir\'{e} trion emission may enable coherent and entangled quantum light manipulation.

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@article{arxiv.2509.15118,
  title  = {Bichromatic Moir\'{e} Superlattices for Tunable Quadrupolar Trions and Correlated States},
  author = {Mingfeng Chen and Runtong Li and Haonan Wang and Yuliang Yang and Yiyang Lai and Chaowei Hu and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Jiaqiang Yan and Jiun-Haw Chu and Erik Henriksen and Chuanwei Zhang and Li Yang and Xi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15118},
  year   = {2025}
}