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We discuss the linear and two-photon spectroscopic selection rules for spin-singlet excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. Our microscopic formalism combines a fully $k$-dependent few-orbital band structure with a many-body…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-12 Timothy C. Berkelbach , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

Strong Coulomb correlations together with multi-valley electronic bands in the presence of spin-orbit interaction and possible new optoelectronic applications are at the heart of studies of the rich physics of excitons in semiconductor…

Coherent optical dressing of quantum materials offers technological advantages to control their electronic properties, such as the electronic valley degree of freedom in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Here, we observe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Edbert J. Sie , Chun Hung Lui , Yi-Hsien Lee , Jing Kong , Nuh Gedik

Breaking space-time symmetries in two-dimensional crystals (2D) can dramatically influence their macroscopic electronic properties. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are prime examples where the intrinsically broken crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Edbert J. Sie , James W. McIver , Yi-Hsien Lee , Liang Fu , Jing Kong , Nuh Gedik

The photoluminescence (PL) of momentum-indirect $\rm \Gamma- K$ excitons in monolayer WS$_2$ under biaxial strain was recently observed by Blundo et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 067402 (2022)], yet its microscopic origin remains elusive. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yingtong Zhu , Kang Lan , Shiling Li , Ning Hao , Ping Zhang , Jiyong Fu

Monolayer valley semiconductors, such as tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$), possess valley pseudospin degrees of freedom that are optically addressable but degenerate in energy. Lifting the energy degeneracy by breaking time-reversal symmetry…

Optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers are controlled by the Wannier-Mott excitons forming a series of $1s$, $2s$, $2p$,... hydrogen-like states. We develop the theory of the excited excitonic states energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub , G. Wang , X. Marie , T. Amand , B. Urbaszek

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

Spin-momentum locking (SML) excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors are appealing to programmable optical control of spin-polarized carriers in ultrafast spintronics. To address the current thirsty for long-lived excitons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jiuyu Sun , Jinzhe Han , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Two-dimensional excitons formed in quantum materials such as monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides and their strong light-matter interaction have attracted unrivalled attention by the research community due to their extraordinarily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Lorenz Maximilian Schneider , Shanece Esdaille , Daniel Rhodes , Katayun Barmak , James Hone , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are direct bandgap semiconductors that feature tightly bound excitons, strong spin-orbit coupling, and spin-valley degrees of freedom. Depending on the spin configuration of the electron-hole…

We propose a mechanism of intravalley spin-flip scattering in spin-valley coupled two dimensional systems by transferring momentum of light into exciton center of mass using optical vortex (OV) beams. By varying the dispersion of light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 A. K. Pattanayak , P. Das , D. Chakrabarty , A. Dhara , S. Paul , S. Maji , M. M. Brundavanam , S. Dhara

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered materials that have a semiconducting phase with many advantageous optoelectronic properties, including tightly bound excitons and spin-valley locking. In Tungsten-based TMDs, spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Saroj B. Chand , John M. Woods , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gabriele Grosso

The generation of exciton valley coherence typically requires linearly polarized (LP) light as an external coherent drive, whereas circularly polarized (CP) light fails to induce coherence. Here, we develop a unified,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kang Lan , Xiangji Cai , Zhongxiao Man , Shijie Xie , Ning Hao , Ping Zhang , Jiyong Fu

We study a vertical double quantum dot (DQD) in a Si/Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$/Si double-well heterostructure for full electrical control of electron Loss-DiVincenzo (LD) spin qubits, using realistic device modeling and numerical simulations. Due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Abhikbrata Sarkar , Daniel Loss

Monolayer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides possess broken inversion symmetry and strong spin-orbit coupling, which leads to unique spin-valley locking effect. In 2H stacked pristine multilayers, the spin-valley locking yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Yinong Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Dmitry Ovchinnikov , Jiayi Zhu , Xi Wang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

The valley degree of freedom is a sought-after quantum number in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. Similar to optical spin orientation in semiconductors, the helicity of absorbed photons can be relayed to the valley (pseudospin)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Min Yang , Cedric Robert , Zhengguang Lu , Dinh Van Tuan , Dmitry Smirnov , Xavier Marie , Hanan Dery

Excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising platform for novel applications ranging from optoelectronic devices to quantum optics and solid state quantum simulators. While much progress has been made…

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers have emerged as promising candidates for future valleytronics-based quantum information technologies. Two distinct momentum-states of tightly-bound electron-hole pairs in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Gerd Plechinger , Tobias Korn , John M. Lupton

Strong spin-orbit coupling and inversion symmetry breaking in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers yield the intriguing effects of valley-dependent optical selection rules. As such, it is possible to substantially polarize valley…