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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

We investigated excitonic absorptions in GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single barrier heterostructure using both photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopies at room temperature. Photocapacitance spectra show well defined resonance peak of indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Amit Bhunia , Mohit Kumar Singh , Y. Galvao Gobato , Mohamed Henini , Shouvik Datta

We study spatially indirect excitons confined in a 10 $\mu$m wide electrostatic trap of a GaAs double quantum well. We introduce a technique to control the amplitude of the electric field interacting with the excitons electric dipole, with…

We theoretically investigated the coupling between the exciton internal and center-of-mass motions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides subjected to a periodic electrostatic potential. The coupling leads to the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Fujia Lu , Qianying Hu , Yang Xu , Hongyi Yu

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

An indirect exciton is a bound state of an electron and a hole in spatially separated layers. Two-dimensional indirect excitons can be created optically in heterostructures containing double quantum wells or atomically thin semiconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chao Xu , J. R. Leonard , C. J. Dorow , L. V. Butov , M. M. Fogler , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

Indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, can form the medium for excitonic devices whose operation is based on controlled propagation of excitons. A proof of principle for excitonic devices was demonstrated in GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

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

We report on the modulation of indirect excitons (IXs) as well as their transport by moving periodic potentials produced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The potential modulation induced by the SAW strain modifies both the band gap and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Adriano Violante , Kobi Cohen , Snežana Lazić , Rudolph Hey , Ronen Rapaport , Paulo Ventura Santos

We present transport measurements through an electrostatically defined bilayer graphene double quantum dot in the single electron regime. With the help of a back gate, two split gates and two finger gates we are able to control the number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Luca Banszerus , Samuel Möller , Eike Icking , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christian Volk , Christoph Stampfer

In stacks of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers with arbitrary twisting angles, we explore a new class of bright excitons arising from the pronounced F\"{o}rster coupling, whose dimensionality is tuned by its in-plane momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Ci Li , Wang Yao

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, make possible long-range IX propagation. Van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , L. V. Butov

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

Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…

Momentum-indirect excitons composed of electrons and holes in different valleys define optoelectronic properties of many semiconductors, but are challenging to detect due to their weak coupling to light. The identification of an excitons'…

Interlayer excitons (IXs), composed of electron and hole states localized in different layers, excel in bilayers composed of atomically thin van der Waals materials such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Brian D. Gerardot , Alexander W. Holleitner , Ursula Wurstbauer

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

The kinetics of the process of defect accumulation in rare-gas solids as a result of exciton self-trapping was studied using the selective vacuum ultraviolet photoluminescence method for monitoring of the crystal structure of the samples.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-10 A. N. Ogurtsov , O. N. Bliznjuk , N. Yu. Masalitina

We recently used a compact Penning trap to capture and isolate highly-charged ions extracted from an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Isolated charge states of highly-stripped argon…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Samuel M Brewer , Nicholas D Guise , Joseph N Tan