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Valley-exchange coupling probed by angle-resolved photoluminescence

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-11-22 v1

Abstract

The optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by tightly-bound excitons. They form at distinct valleys in reciprocal space, and can interact via the valley-exchange coupling, modifying their dispersion considerably. Here, we predict that angle-resolved photoluminescence can be used to probe the changes of the excitonic dispersion. The exchange-coupling leads to a unique angle dependence of the emission intensity for both circularly and linearly-polarised light. We show that these emission characteristics can be strongly tuned by an external magnetic field due to the valley-specific Zeeman-shift. We propose that angle-dependent photoluminescence measurements involving both circular and linear optical polarisation as well as magnetic fields should act as strong verification of the role of valley-exchange coupling on excitonic dispersionand its signatures in optical spectra

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@article{arxiv.2111.10237,
  title  = {Valley-exchange coupling probed by angle-resolved photoluminescence},
  author = {Joshua J. P Thompson and Samuel Brem and Hanlin Fang and Carlos Antón-Solanas and Bo Han and Hangyong Shan and Saroj P. Dash and Witlef Wieczorek and Christian Schneider and Ermin Malic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10237},
  year   = {2021}
}
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