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In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, multiple exciton resonances with highly tunable properties are formed and subject to both vertical and lateral confinement. We…

In this paper, the quantum phase transition between superfluid state and Mott-insulator state is studied based on an extended Bose-Hubbard model with two- and three-body on-site interactions. By employing the mean-field approximation we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo-Lun Chen , Xiao-Bin Huang , Su-Peng Kou , Yunbo Zhang

We study Mott insulator - superfluid transition in a two-band boson Hubbard model, which can be mapped onto a spin-1/2 XY model with spins coupled to an additional Ising degree of freedom. By using a modified mean field theory that include…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Huai-Bin Zhuang , Michael Ma , Xi Dai , Fu-Chun Zhang

Moir\'e patterns are common in Van der Waals heterostructures and can be used to apply periodic potentials to elementary excitations. We show that the optical absorption spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers is profoundly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , A. H. MacDonald

We propose to engineer topological exciton structures in layered transition metal dichalcogenides through hybridizing different Rydberg states, which can be induced by a periodic electrostatic potential remotely imprinted from charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Na Zhang , Wang Yao , Hongyi Yu

Moir\'e superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a versatile platform for studying strongly correlated electronic, excitonic, and topological phenomena in solids. In particular, angle-aligned…

This letter reports a time resolved pump-probe reflectance spectroscopic study on moir\'e excitons in a twisted monolayer WS2/WSe2 heterostructure. By probing at the resonant energies of intralayer excitons, we observed their distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Feng Kai , Xiong Wang , Yiqin Xie , Yuhui Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Cui

We study, the interplay between topology and electron-electron interactions in the moir\'{e} MoTe\(_2\)/WSe\(_2\) heterobilayer. In our analysis we apply an effective two-band model with complex hoppings that incorporates the Ising-type…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Palash Saha , Louk Rademaker , Michał Zegrodnik

We present a strong-coupling expansion of the Bose-Hubbard model which describes both the superfluid and the Mott phases of ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice. By performing two successive Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Sengupta , N. Dupuis

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures show an intriguing interface exciton physics including hybridization effects and emergence of moir\'e potentials. Recent experiments have revealed that moir\'e-trapped excitons exhibit a remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Exciton Mott physics in two-dimensional electron-hole (e-h) systems is studied in the quasiequilibrium, which is the crossovers or phase transitions between the insulating exciton gas and the metallic e-h plasma. By developing a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-08 Kenichi Asano , Takuya Yoshioka

The impressive physics and applications of intra- and interlayer excitons in a transition metal dichalcogenide twisted-bilayer make these systems compelling platforms for exploring the manipulation of their optoelectronic properties through…

Motivated by twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study an extended Hubbard model with both on-site and off-site repulsive interactions, in which Mott insulating states with concomitant charge order occur at fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhenhao Song , Urban F. P. Seifert , Leon Balents , Hong-Chen Jiang

Experiments on twisted double bilayer tungsten diselenide have demonstrated that moir'e semiconductors can realize a relativistic Mott transition, i.e., a quantum phase transition from a Dirac semimetal to a correlated insulating state, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Bilal Hawashin , Julian Kleeschulte , David Kurz , Aiman Al-Eryani , Michael M. Scherer

Recent experimental progresses have demonstrated the great potential of electronic and excitonic moir\'e superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for quantum many-body simulations and quantum optics applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Qingjun Tong , Mingxing Chen , Feiping Xiao , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Moir\'{e} excitons (MXs) are electron-hole pairs localised by the periodic (moir\'{e}) potential forming in two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs). MXs can be exploited, $e.g.$, for creating nanoscale-ordered quantum emitters and achieving…

Van der Waals heterostructures based on TMDC semiconducting materials have emerged as promising materials due to their spin-valley properties efficiently contrived by the stacking-twist angle. The twist angle drastically alters the…

We studied the exciton properties in double layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with a dielectric spacer between the layers. We developed a method based on an expansion of Chebyshev polynomials to solve the Wannier equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Luiz G. M. Tenório , Teldo A. S. Pereira , K. Mohseni , T. Frederico , M. R. Hadizadeh , Diego R. da Costa , André J. Chaves

We study the stability of excitonic Mott phases in the presence of a periodic potential and a non-local exciton-exciton interaction. The non-local interaction is treated in a mean-field approximation, while the local repulsion of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-18 K. Ziegler , R. Ya. Kezerashvili

Moir\'e superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions in an artificial lattice with periodicities more than ten times larger than that of atomic…