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Large effective mass and interaction-enhanced Zeeman splitting of $K$-valley electrons in MoSe$_2$

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-05-21 v2

Abstract

We study the magnetotransport of high-mobility electrons in monolayer and bilayer MoSe2_2, which show Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations and quantum Hall states in high magnetic fields. An electron effective mass of 0.8mem_e is extracted from the SdH oscillations' temperature dependence; mem_e is the bare electron mass. At a fixed electron density the longitudinal resistance shows minima at filling factors (FFs) that are either predominantly odd, or predominantly even, with a parity that changes as the density is tuned. The SdH oscillations are insensitive to an in-plane magnetic field, consistent with an out-of-plane spin orientation of electrons at the KK-point. We attribute the FFs parity transitions to an interaction enhancement of the Zeeman energy as the density is reduced, resulting in an increased Zeeman-to-cyclotron energy ratio.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10104,
  title  = {Large effective mass and interaction-enhanced Zeeman splitting of $K$-valley electrons in MoSe$_2$},
  author = {Stefano Larentis and Hema C. P. Movva and Babak Fallahazad and Kyoughwan Kim and Armad Behroozi and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Sanjay K. Banerjee and Emanuel Tutuc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10104},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures; includes supplemental material