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Cavity-control of bright and dark interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-06-22 v2

Abstract

Monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) integrated in optical microcavities host exciton-polaritons as a hallmark of the strong light-matter coupling regime. Analogous concepts for hybrid light-matter systems employing spatially indirect excitons with a permanent electric dipole moment in heterobilayer (HBL) crystals promise realizations of exciton-polariton gases and condensates with immanent dipolar interactions. Here, we identify optical signatures of spatially indirect momentum-bright and momentum-dark interlayer excitons in vertical MoSe2_2-WSe2_2 heterostructures and implement cavity-control of both exciton manifolds. Our experiments quantify the strength of light-matter coupling for both zero and finite momentum excitons residing in Moir\'{e} superlattices of TMD HBLs and demonstrate that both exciton species are susceptible to Purcell enhancement in cavity-modified photonic environments. Our results form the basis for further developments of dipolar exciton-polariton gases and condensates in hybrid cavity -- van der Waals heterostructure systems.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00990,
  title  = {Cavity-control of bright and dark interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures},
  author = {Michael Förg and Léo Colombier and Robin K. Patel and Jessica Lindlau and Aditya D. Mohite and Hisato Yamaguchi and David Hunger and Alexander Högele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00990},
  year   = {2020}
}