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While the interaction potential between two dipoles residing in a single plane is repulsive, in a system of two vertically adjacent layers of dipoles it changes from repulsive interaction in the long range to attractive interaction in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 Kobi Cohen , Maxim Khodas , Boris Laikhtman , Paulo V. Santos , Ronen Rapaport

Interlayer excitons confined in bilayer heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a promising route to implement two-dimensional dipolar superfluids. Here, we study the experimental conditions necessary for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-03 Camille Lagoin , Francois Dubin

Van der Waals heterostructures composed of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMDs) are characterized by their truly rich excitonic properties which are determined by their structural, geometric and electronic properties: In…

Highly customizable interfaces created by van der Waals stacked 2D materials provide an extremely flexible opportunity for engineering and effectively controlling material properties. The atomic-thin nature and strong scalability of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-14 Xueqian Sun , Ermin Malic , Yuerui Lu

Strongly bound excitons and many-body interactions between them determine light-matter interactions in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of 2D semiconductors. Unlike fundamental particles, quasiparticles in condensed matter, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Weijie Li , Zach Hadjri , Jin Zhang , Luka M. Devenica , Song Liu , James Hone , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Angel Rubio , Ajit Srivastava

Indirect excitons (IXs) are bound pairs of electrons and holes confined in spatially separated layers. We present wide single quantum well (WSQW) heterostructures with high IX mobility, spectrally narrow IX emission, voltage-controllable IX…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 C. J. Dorow , M. W. Hasling , D. J. Choksy , J. R. Leonard , L. V. Butov , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers exhibit periodic moir\'e potentials, which can trap excitons at certain high-symmetry sites. At small twist angles, TMD lattices undergo an atomic reconstruction, altering the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

The electronic and optical properties of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and van der Waals heterostructures are strongly subject to their dielectric environment. In each layer the field lines of the Coulomb interaction are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-10 M. Florian , M. Hartmann , A. Steinhoff , J. Klein , A. Holleitner , J. J. Finley , T. O. Wehling , M. Kaniber , C. Gies

Vertically stacked van der Waals structures are promising platforms that enable layer engineering, opening new avenues for the quantum control of elementary excitations, including optically generated bound electron-hole pairs. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Alexandre R. Rocha , Rodrigo G. Amorim , Wanderlã L. Scopel , Cesar E. P. Villegas

Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-16 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Two dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures from transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors show a new class of spatially separate excitons with extraordinary properties. The interlayer excitons (XI) have been studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-02 Jaehoon Ji , Jong Hyun Choi

The fundamental properties of an exciton are determined by the spin, valley, energy, and spatial wavefunctions of the Coulomb bound electron and hole. In van der Waals materials, these attributes can be widely engineered through layer…

Stacking monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides into a heterostructure with a finite twist-angle gives rise to artificial moir\'e superlattices with a tunable periodicity. As a consequence, excitons experience a periodic potential,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic

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

In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayer semiconductors, lattice mismatch or rotational misalignment introduces an in-plane moir\'e superlattice. While it is widely recognized that a moir\'e superlattice can…

In superlattices of twisted semiconductor monolayers, tunable moir\'e potentials emerge, trapping excitons into periodic arrays. In particular, spatially separated interlayer excitons are subject to a deep potential landscape and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We studied interference dislocations (forks) adjacent to an emission spot in an interference pattern. The adjacent interference dislocations are observed in emission of excitons in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide and in emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 J. R. Leonard , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

Recent experiments on trilayer transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures have revealed the rich behavior of dipolar excitons. Motivated by these experimental observations, we investigate the collective dynamics of planar quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Michal Zimmerman , Daniel Podolsky , Ronen Rapaport , Snir Gazit

Excitons in van der Waals heterostructures based on atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are considered as potential candidates for the formation of a superfluid state in two-dimensional systems. A number of studies reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 M. M. Glazov , R. A. Suris

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…