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We have measured circularly polarized photoluminescence in monolayer MoSe2 under perpendicular magnetic fields up to 10 T. At low doping densities, the neutral and charged excitons shift linearly with field strength at a rate of $\mp$ 0.12…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, molybdenum and tungsten disulfides and diselenides demonstrate unusual optical properties related to the spin-valley locking effect. Particularly, excitation of monolayers by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , G. Wang , T. Amand , X. Marie , B. Urbaszek , B. L. Liu

In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by their valley index. The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act as a useful information carrier analogous to electronic…

Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a promising material system to explore the electron's valley degree of freedom as a quantum information carrier. The valley degree of freedom in single-layer TMDs can be directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Yanhao Tang , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

In monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) the valence and conduction bands are spin split because of the strong spin-orbit interaction. In tungsten-based TMDs the spin-ordering of the conduction band is such that the so-called…

At cryogenic temperatures, the photoluminescence spectrum of monolayer WSe2features a num-ber of lines related to the recombination of so-called localized excitons. The intensity of these lines strongly decreases with increasing…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) have immense potential for future spintronic and valleytronic applications due to their two-dimensional nature and long spin/valley lifetimes. We investigate the origin of these long-lived…

We study the momentum distribution and relaxation dynamics of semiconductor microcavity polaritons by angle-resolved and time-resolved spectroscopy. Above a critical pump level, the thermalization time of polaritons at positive detunings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H Deng , D Press , S Gotzinger , GS Solomon , R Hey , KH Ploog , Y Yamamoto

We developed a comprehensive theoretical framework focusing on many-body effects of exciton species in monolayer WS$_2$, including bright and dark excitons, and intra- and inter-valley biexcitons, to investigate valley dynamics in monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Fanyao Qu , Helena Bragança , Railson Vasconcelos , Fujun Liu , S-J Xie , Hao Zeng

Using time-resolved Kerr rotation, we measure the spin/valley dynamics of resident electrons and holes in single charge-tunable monolayers of the archetypal transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor WSe2. In the n-type regime, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 P. Dey , Luyi Yang , C. Robert , G. Wang , B. Urbaszek , X. Marie , S. A. Crooker

We study theoretically the exciton Bose-Einstein condensation and exciton vortices in a two-dimensional (2D) perovskite (PEA)2PbI4 monolayer. Combining the first-principles calculations and the Keldysh model, the exciton binding energy of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Yingda Chen , Dong Zhang , Kai Chang

The exciton valley dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures with transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers is driven by the long-range exchange interaction between the electron and the hole in the exciton. It couples the states active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 A. I. Prazdnichnykh , M. M. Glazov , L. Ren , C. Robert , B. Urbaszek , X. Marie

Understanding exciton thermalization is critical for optimizing optoelectronic and photocatalytic processes in many materials. However, it is hard to access the dynamics of such processes experimentally, especially on systems such as…

We analyze exciton spin dynamics in GaSe under nonresonant circularly polarized optical pumping with an exciton spin-flip rate-equation model. The model reproduces polarized time-dependent photoluminescence measurements in which the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Yanhao Tang , Wei Xie , Krishna C. Mandal , John A. McGuire , Chih-Wei Lai

We investigate with polarized microphotoluminescence the optical pumping of the valley degree of freedom in charge-tunable MoS2 monolayers encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride at cryogenic temperatures. We report a large steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Sangjun Park , Steve Arscott , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Fausto Sirotti , Fabian Cadiz

We report circularly-polarized optical reflection spectroscopy of monolayer WS$_2$ and MoS$_2$ at low temperatures (4~K) and in high magnetic fields to 65~T. Both the A and the B exciton transitions exhibit a clear and very similar Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Andreas V. Stier , Kathleen M. McCreary , Berend T. Jonker , Junichiro Kono , Scott A. Crooker

Monolayered MoSe2 is a promising new material to investigate advanced light-matter coupling as it hosts stable and robust excitons with comparably narrow optical resonances. In this work, we investigate the evolution of the lowest lying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 N. Lundt , A. Maryński , E. Cherotchenko , A. Pant , X. Fan , G. Sęk , S. Tongay , A. V. Kavokin , S. Höfling , C. Schneider

We identify an optical excitation mechanism that transfers a valley polarization from photo-excited electron-hole pairs to free charge carriers in twisted WSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers. For small twist angles, the valley lifetimes of the…

Two-dimensional semiconductors feature valleytronics phenomena due to locking of the spin and momentum valley of the electrons. However, the valley polarization is intrinsically limited in monolayer crystals by the fast intervalley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Long Zhang , Rahul Gogna , G. William Burg , Jason Horng , Eunice Paik , Yu-Hsun Chou , Kyounghwan Kim , Emanuel Tutuc , Hui Deng

Non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated systems constitutes a fascinating problem of condensed matter physics with many open questions. Here we investigate the relaxation dynamics of Landau-quantized electron system into spin-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 T. Smoleński , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Kroner , A. Imamoğlu