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Controlling excitons at the nanoscale in semiconductor materials represents a formidable challenge in the fields of quantum photonics and optoelectronics. Achieving this control holds great potential for unlocking strong exciton-exciton…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as prominent candidates to explore the complex interplay between the spin and the valleys degrees of freedom. The strong spin-orbit interaction and broken inversion symmetry within…

Lifting the valley degeneracy of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) would allow versatile control of the valley degree of freedom. We report a giant valley exciton splitting of 18 meV/T for monolayer WS2, using the proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Tenzin Norden , Chuan Zhao , Peiyao Zhang , Renat Sabirianov , Athos Petrou , Hao Zeng

Interactions between two excitons can result in the formation of bound quasiparticles, known as biexcitons. Their properties are determined by the constituent excitons, with orbital and spin states resembling those of atoms. Monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Edbert J. Sie , Alex J. Frenzel , Yi-Hsien Lee , Jing Kong , Nuh Gedik

We show that inversion symmetry breaking together with spin-orbit coupling leads to coupled spin and valley physics in monolayers of MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides, making possible controls of spin and valley in these 2D materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Di Xiao , Gui-Bin Liu , Wanxiang Feng , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

The newly discovered valley degree of freedom in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) offers a promising platform to explore rich nonlinear physics, such as spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Pasquale Cilibrizzi , Xiaoze Liu , Peiyao Zhang , Chenzhe Wang , Quanwei Li , Sui Yang , Xiang Zhang

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered materials that have a semiconducting phase with many advantageous optoelectronic properties, including tightly bound excitons and spin-valley locking. In Tungsten-based TMDs, spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Saroj B. Chand , John M. Woods , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gabriele Grosso

Monolayers and multilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer an ideal platform to explore valley-selective physics with promising applications in valleytronics and information processing. Here we manipulate…

We calculate the dispersion of spinor exciton-polaritons in a planar microcavity with its active region containing a single Transitional Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer, taking into account excitonic and photonic spin-orbit coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 O. Bleu , D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

Monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a unique opportunity to control the valley degree of freedom of optically excited charge carriers due to the spin-valley locking effect. Despite extensive studies of the…

Charge carriers in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as WSe$_2$, have their spin and valley-pseudospin locked into an optically-addressable index that is proposed as a basis for future information processing. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Weijie Li , Xin Lu , Jiatian Wu , Ajit Srivastava

Encoding and manipulating digital information in quantum degrees of freedom is one of the major challenges of today's science and technology. The valley indices of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited to…

In this letter we study the valley degeneracy splitting of the transition-metal dichalcogenides monolayer by first-principles calculations. The local magnetic moments are introduced into the system when the transition-metal atoms are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-06 Xiaofang Chen , Liangshuai Zhong , Xiao Li , Jingshan Qi

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a novel two-dimensional platform for semiconductor devices. One such application, whereby the added low dimensional crystal physics (i.e. optical spin selection rules) may prove TMDs a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Matthew Brooks , Guido Burkard

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

We study the effect of point-defect chalcogen vacancies on the optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides using ab initio GW and Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations. We find that chalcogen vacancies introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-24 Sivan Refaely-Abramson , Diana Y. Qiu , Steven G. Louie , Jeffrey B. Neaton

Strong spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers results in spin resolvable band structures about the $K$ and $K'$ valleys such that the eigenbasis of a 2D quantum dot (QD) in a TMDC monolayer in zero field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Matthew Brooks , Guido Burkard

In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), reduced dielectric screening of the Coulomb interaction leads to strongly correlated many-body states, including excitons and trions, that dominate the optical properties.…

Chiral interaction between light and two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) has recently drawn enormous scientific attention. The optical selection rules of these atomically thin semiconductors allow the attribution of a…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-08 Irina Komen , Sabrya E. van Heijst , Sonia Conesa-Boj , L. Kuipers

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides possess a pair of degenerate helical valleys in the band structure that exhibit fascinating optical valley polarization. Optical valley polarization, however, is limited by carrier lifetimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Jingshan Qi , Xiao Li , Qian Niu , Ji Feng