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We have developed a microspectroscopy technique for measuring gate-modulated reflectance to probe excitonic states in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. Successfully observing excited states of excitons from cryogenic to room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Mengsong Xue , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryo Kitaura

The dependence of the excitonic photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on the tilt angle of an applied magnetic field is studied. Starting from a four-band Hamiltonian we construct a theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 M. Van der Donck , M. Zarenia , F. M. Peeters

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

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…

We develop a microscopic theory for excitons and cavity exciton polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers under a perpendicular static magnetic field. We obtain numerically exact solutions for the ground and excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 D. de la Fuente Pico , J. Levinsen , E. Laird , M. M. Parish , F. M. Marchetti

Control of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their heterostructures is fundamentally interesting for tailoring light-matter interactions and exploring their potential applications in high-efficiency optoelectronic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Mahfujur Rahaman , Gwangwoo Kim , Kyung Yeol Ma , Seunguk Song , Hyeon Suk Shin , Deep Jariwala

Using an equation of motion (EOM) approach, we calculate excitonic properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) perturbed by an external magnetic field. We compare our findings to the widely used Wannier model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Have , G. Catarina , T. G. Pedersen , N. M. R. Peres

Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are gaining increasing attention as alternative to graphene for their very high potential in optoelectronics applications. Here we consider two prototypical metallic 2D TMDs, NbSe$_2$…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierluigi Cudazzo , Matteo Gatti , Angel Rubio

We investigate an excitonic peak appearing in low-temperature photoluminescence of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which is commonly associated with defects and disorder. First, to uncover the intrinsic origin of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Kyrylo Greben , Sonakshi Arora , Moshe G. Harats , Kirill I. Bolotin

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (tTMDs) provide a highly tunable platform to explore the interplay between strong correlation and topology. Among them, the properties involving the charge degree of freedom have been extensively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Wei-Tao Zhou , Zhao-Yang Dong , Zhao-Long Gu , Jian-Xin Li

The predicted formation of moire superlattices leading to confined excitonic states in heterostructures formed by stacking two lattice mismatched transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers was recently experimentally confirmed. Such…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are regarded as a possible materials platform for quantum information science and related device applications. In TMD monolayers, the dephasing time and inhomogeneity are crucial parameters for any…

TMDCs have attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to their unique indirect to direct band gap transition from bulk to monolayer thickness. Strong confinement in the out-of-plane direction enhances the Coulomb potential between the…

The magneto-optical response of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), including excitonic effects, is studied using a nanoribbon geometry. We compute the diagonal optical conductivity and the Hall conductivity. Comparing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 J. Have , N. M. R. Peres , T. G. Pedersen

We theoretically investigate the corrections of exciton binding energy in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to the exciton-optical phonon coupling in the Fr$\ddot{o}$hlich interaction model by using the linear operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Zi-Wu Wang , Yao Xiao , Wei-Ping Li , Run-Ze Li , Zhi-Qing Li

We study exciton energy spectrum and their propagation in moir\'e superlattices formed in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. In such structures, as a result of weak interlayer interaction, an effective, moir\'e, potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 A. M. Shentsev , M. M. Glazov

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

We study the collective electronic excitations in metallic single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using time dependent density functional theory in the random phase approximation. For very small momentum transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kirsten Andersen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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

Since the discovery of semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a variety of experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out seeking to understand the intrinsic exciton population decay and valley relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Galan Moody , John Schaibley , Xiaodong Xu