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Twisted light carries a well-defined orbital angular momentum (OAM) per photon. The quantum number l of its OAM can be arbitrarily set, making it an excellent light source to realize high-dimensional quantum entanglement and ultra-wide…

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

An anomalous magneto-optical spectrum is discovered for dipolar valley excitons in twisted double layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), where in-plane magnetic field induces a sizable multiplet splitting of exciton states inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit novel electrical and optical properties and are emerging as a new platform for exploring 2D semiconductor physics. Reduced screening in 2D results in dramatically enhanced…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known to support complex excitonic states. Revealing the differences in relaxation dynamics among different excitonic species and elucidating the transition dynamics between them may provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Anran Wang , Yuhan Wang , Jianfei Li , Ning Xu , Songlin Li , Xinran Wang , Yi Shi , Fengqiu Wang

Van der Waals materials and heterostructures manifesting strongly bound room temperature exciton states exhibit emergent physical phenomena and are of a great promise for optoelectronic applications. Here, we demonstrate that nanostructured…

We report ab initio calculations of the dielectric function of six mono- and bilayer molybdenum dichalcogenides based in a Bethe Salpether equation+G$_0$W$_0$ ansatz, focussing on the excitonic transitions dominating the absorption spectrum…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-17 Roland Gillen , Janina Maultzsch

Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDS) are highly luminescent materials despite being sub-nanometer thick due to the ultra-short ($<1$ ps) radiative lifetime of the strongly bound bright excitons hosted by these materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Garima Gupta , Kausik Majumdar

The photoluminescence (PL) in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is dominated by recombination of electrons in the conduction band with holes in the spin-orbit split valence bands, and there are two distinct emission features…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Kathleen M. McCreary , Aubrey T. Hanbicki , Saujan V. Sivaram , Berend T. Jonker

Atomically thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) exhibit exceptionally strong Coulomb interaction between charge carriers due to the two-dimensional carrier confinement in connection with weak dielectric screening. The van…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-18 A. Steinhoff , T. O. Wehling , M. Rösner

The vertical stacking of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures gives rise to a plethora of intriguing optoelectronic properties and presents an unprecedented potential for technological development. While much progress has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 Joshua J. P. Thompson , Victoria Lumsargis , Maja Feierabend , Quichen Zhao , Kang Wang , Letian Dou , Libai Huang , Ermin Malic

Identifying materials hosting an excitonic insulator ground state has been one of the major pursuits in condensed matter physics in recent years. Promising candidates in transition metal chalcogenide compounds (TMC), including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yao Zeng , Shi-Cong Mo , Wéi Wú

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are widely dominated by excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs. These quasi-particles exhibit giant oscillator strength and give rise to narrow-band, well-pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Christian Schneider , Mikhail M. Glazov , Tobias Korn , Sven Höfling , Bernhard Urbaszek

Two recent electronic transport experiments from Columbia University and Harvard University have reported record high mobility and low channel densities in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WSe$_2$ monolayers [J. Pack, et al.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Yi Huang , Sankar Das Sarma

Excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising platform for novel applications ranging from optoelectronic devices to quantum optics and solid state quantum simulators. While much progress has been made…

Layered two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit unique properties, expanding opportunities in material design. We investigate MX$_2$ transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se, Te) in homo- and heterobilayers with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 Yu-Hsiu Lin , William P. Comaskey , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

Transition metal dichalcogenides have a rich exciton landscape consisting of a variety of bright and dark excitonic states. We consider the lowest-energy dark states in $\hbox{MoS}_2$, which can be referred to as hybrid excitons, as they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Hong Liu , Anny Pau , Dmitry K. Efimkin

We present a detailed theoretical investigation on the electronic transport properties of $n$-type monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at low temperature in the presence of proximity-induced interactions such as Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 J. Liu , W. Xu , Y. M. Xiao , L. Ding , H. W. Li , B. Van Duppen , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters

Understanding quasiparticle band structures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is critical for technological advances of these materials for atomic layer electronics and photonics. Although theoretical calculations to date have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Chendong Zhang , Yuxuan Chen , Amber Johnson , Ming-Yang Li , Lain-Jong Li , Patrick C. Mende , Randall M. Feenstra , Chih-Kang Shih

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable optical properties due to the diverse number of strongly bound excitons, which can be fine-tuned by alloying. Despite a flurry of research activity in characterizing these excitons,…