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We report lasing of moir\'e trapped interlayer excitons (IXs) by integrating a pristine hBN-encapsulated MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterobilayer into a high-$Q$ ($>10^4$) nanophotonic cavity. We control the cavity-IX detuning using a magnetic field…

Interlayer excitons (IXs) in 2D semiconductors have long lifetimes and spin-valley coupled physics, with a long-standing goal of single exciton trapping for valleytronic applications. In this work, we use a nano-patterned graphene gate to…

Trapped interlayer excitons (IXs) in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers have generated interest for use as single quantum emitter arrays and as an opportunity to study moir\'e physics in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures. IXs…

Interlayer excitons (IXs) formed at the interface of atomically-thin semiconductors possess various novel properties. In a parallel development, nanoscale strain engineering has emerged as an effective means for creating 2D quantum light…

Interlayer excitons (IXs) in hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent an exciting emergent class of long-lived dipolar composite bosons in an atomically thin, near-ideal two-dimensional (2D) system. The…

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers offer attractive opportunities to realize lattices of interacting bosons with several degrees of freedom. Such heterobilayers can feature moir\'e patterns that modulate their electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Hyeonjun Baek , Aidan Campbell , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Brian D. Gerardot

Ensembles of indirect or interlayer excitons (IXs) are intriguing systems to explore classical and quantum phases of interacting bosonic ensembles. IXs are composite bosons that feature enlarged lifetimes due to the reduced overlap of the…

Van der Waals heterostructures offer attractive opportunities to design quantum materials. For instance, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess three quantum degrees of freedom: spin, valley index, and layer index. Further, twisted…

Interlayer excitons in layered materials constitute a novel platform to study many-body phenomena arising from long-range interactions between quantum particles. The ability to localise individual interlayer excitons in potential energy…

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures can host interlayer excitons (IXs), which consist of electrons and holes spatially separated in different layers. IXs possess permanent dipoles and have proven to offer a wealth of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Darien J. Morrow , Xuedan Ma

Novel excitonic phenomena emerging in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures belong to the most exciting topics in contemporary physics of van der Waals materials. Interlayer excitons (IXs) stand out among those due to…

Controlling the flow of charge neutral interlayer exciton (IX) quasiparticles can potentially lead to low loss excitonic circuits. Here, we report unidirectional transport of IXs along nanoscale electrostatically defined channels in an…

Atomically thin semiconductor heterostructures provide a two-dimensional (2D) device platform for creating high densities of cold, controllable excitons. Interlayer excitons (IEs), bound electrons and holes localized to separate 2D quantum…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a versatile platform to explore unique excitonic physics via properties of the constituent TMDs and external stimuli. Interlayer excitons (IXs) can form in TMD heterobilayers as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Hanlin Fang , Qiaoling Lin , Yi Zhang , Joshua Thompson , Sanshui Xiao , Zhipei Sun , Ermin Malic , Saroj Dash , Witlef Wieczorek

Engineering and probing excitonic properties at the nanoscale remains a central challenge in quantum photonics and optoelectronics. While exciton confinement via electrical control and strain engineering has been demonstrated in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yueh-Chun Wu , Bogdan Dryzhakov , Huan Zhao , Ivan Vlassiouk , Kyle Kelley , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jun Yan , Benjamin Lawrie

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…

Indirect excitons (IX) in semiconductor heterostructures are bosons, which can cool below the temperature of quantum degeneracy and can be effectively controlled by voltage and light. IX quantum Bose gases and IX devices were explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 E. V. Calman , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young , S. Hu , A. Mischenko , A. K. Geim

Long-lived interlayer excitons with distinct spin-valley physics in van der Waals heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides make them promising for information processing in next-generation devices. While the emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Alberto Ciarrocchi , Dmitrii Unuchek , Ahmet Avsar , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andras Kis

Controlling interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures holds promise for exploring Bose-Einstein condensates and developing novel optoelectronic applications, such as excitonic integrated circuits. Despite intensive studies,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lifu Zhang , Ruihao Ni , Liuxin Gu , Ming Xie , Suji Park , Houk Jang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , You Zhou

We investigate the confinement of neutral excitons in a one-dimensional (1D) potential, engineered by proximizing hBN-encapsulated monolayer MoSe$_2$ to ferroelectric domain walls (DW) in periodically poled LiNbO$_3$. Our device exploits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Pedro Soubelet , Yao Tong , Asier Astaburuaga Hernandez , Peirui Ji , Katia Gallo , Andreas V. Stier , Jonathan J. Finley
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