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The quest for platforms to generate and control exotic excitonic states has greatly benefited from the advent of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and their heterostructures. Among the unconventional excitonic states,…

Moir\'e lattices formed from semiconductor bilayers host tightly localised excitons that can simultaneously couple strongly to light and possess large electric dipole moments. This facilitates the realization of new forms of polaritons that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 A. Camacho-Guardian , N. R. Cooper

A Bose-Einstein condensate is the ground state of a dilute gas of bosons, such as atoms cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. With much smaller mass, excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) are expected to condense at significantly…

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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

Moir\'{e} superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures provide a platform to engineer many-body interactions. Here, we realize a bichromatic moir\'{e} superlattice in an asymmetric WSe$_2$/WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterotrilayer…

Emergent strongly-correlated electronic phenomena in atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides are an exciting frontier in condensed matter physics, with examples ranging from bilayer superconductivity~\cite{zhao2023evidence} and…

Heterostructures of two-dimensional materials offer a versatile platform to study light-matter interactions of electron and hole gases. By separating electron and hole layers with an insulator long-lived electron-hole bound states known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Jonathan Sanchez-Lopez , Ze-Xun Lin , Di Luo , Prineha narang

Transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers exhibit a rich exciton landscape including layer-hybridized excitons, i.e. excitons which are of partly intra- and interlayer nature. In this work, we study hybrid exciton-exciton interactions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Raul Perea-Causin , Joakim Hagel , Fedele Tagarelli , Edoardo Lopriore , Andras Kis , Ermin Malic

In moir\'e-patterned van der Waals structures of transition metal dichalcogenides, correlated insulators can form under integer and fractional fillings, whose transport properties are governed by various quasiparticle excitations including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Zijian Ma , Hongyi Yu

Artificial moir\'e superlattices in 2d van der Waals heterostructure is a new venue for realizing and controlling correlated electronic phenomena. Recently, twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ emerged as a new robust moir\'e system hosting a correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhen Bi , Liang Fu

Moir\'e superlattices based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a highly versatile and fruitful platform for exploring correlated topological electronic phases. One of the most remarkable examples is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Ming Xie , Mohammad Hafezi , Sankar Das Sarma

The undoped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator naturally has one charge carrier per lattice site. When it is doped with additional carriers, they are unstable to spin fluctuation-mediated Cooper pairing as well as other unconventional types…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) became one of the most studied nanostructures in the last decade. Combining two different TMDC monolayers results in a heterostructure whose properties can be individually tuned by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Marten Richter

Based on \emph{ab initio} theoretical calculations of the optical spectra of vertical heterostructures of MoSe$_2$ (or MoS$_2$) and WSe$_2$ sheets, we reveal two spin-orbit-split Rydberg series of excitonic states below the \textsl{A}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Roland Gillen , Janina Maultzsch

A theory of optical excitations by using a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions is developed. The model is applied to a C60 molecule and a cluster, and is treated by the Hartree-Fock approximation followed by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Kikuo Harigaya , Shuji Abe

Elementary quasi-particles in a two dimensional electron system can be described as exciton-polarons since electron-exciton interactions ensures dressing of excitons by Fermi-sea electron-hole pair excitations. A relevant open question is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Sylvain Ravets , Patrick Knüppel , Stefan Faelt , Martin Kroner , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By…

By using \textit{ab initio} calculations with the HSE06 hybrid functional and GW approximation combined with numerical solution of the Bethe Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) we predict the existence of diverse number of excitonic states in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Pishtshev , S. Zh. Karazhanov , M. Klopov

The excitonic insulator (EI) state is a strongly correlated many-body ground state, arising from an instability in the band structure towards exciton formation. We show that the flat valence and conduction bands of a semiconducting diatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Gurjyot Sethi , Yinong Zhou , Linghan Zhu , Li Yang , Feng Liu

We present an exciton/lattice model of the electronic dynamics of primary photoexcitations in a polymeric semiconductor heterojunction which includes both polymer pi-stacking, energetic disorder, and phonon relaxation. Results from our…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-26 Eric R. Bittner , Carlos Silva