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The enhanced Coulomb interaction in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors leads to the tightly bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons. The large binding energy of excitons enables the formation of Rydberg excitons with high principal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Zhen Lian , Yun-Mei Li , Li Yan , Lei Ma , Dongxue Chen , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Chuanwei Zhang , Su-Fei Shi

Moir\'e excitons are emergent optical excitations in 2D semiconductors with deep moir\'e superlattice potentials. While these excitations have been realized in several platforms, a system with dynamically tunable moir\'e potential to tailor…

The ability to generate and control strong long-range interactions via highly excited electronic states has been the foundation for recent breakthroughs in a host of areas, from atomic and molecular physics [1, 2] to quantum optics [3, 4]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Julian Heckötter , Valentin Walther , Stefan Scheel , Manfred Bayer , Thomas Pohl , Marc Aßmann

Moir\'e superlattices open an unprecedented opportunity for tailoring interactions between quantum particles and their coupling to electromagnetic fields. Strong superlattice potential generates moir\'e minibands of excitons -- bound pairs…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-25 Yanhao Tang , Jie Gu , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors exhibit strong excitonic optical resonances which serve as a microscopic, non-invasive probe into their fundamental properties. Like the hydrogen atom, such excitons can…

Excitons, or bound electron-hole pairs, play a crucial role in the optical response of monolayer, 2H-phase transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). They hold significant promise for the development of novel quantum opto-electronic devices…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-29 Sebastian Yepez Rodriguez , Marshall A. Campbell , Jinyu Liu , Luis A. Jauregui

Moir\'{e} superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) heterobilayers exhibit various correlated insulating states driven by long-range Coulomb interactions, and these states crucially alter exciton resonances, particularly at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Junghwan Kim , Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

Rydberg excitons (analogues of Rydberg atoms in condensed matter systems) are highly excited bound electron-hole states with large Bohr radii. The interaction between them as well as exciton coupling to light may lead to strong optical…

The large surface-to-volume ratio in atomically thin 2D materials allows to efficiently tune their properties through modifications of their environment. Artificial stacking of two monolayers into a bilayer leads to an overlap of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Samuel Brem , Kai-Qiang Lin , Roland Gillen , Jonas M. Bauer , Janina Maultzsch , John M. Lupton , Ermin Malic

Moir\'e superlattices provide a powerful tool to engineer novel quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures, where the interactions between the atomically thin layers qualitatively change the electronic band structure of the…

Rydberg excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide sensitive and non-destructive probes of physics in proximal sample layers that host correlated electronic states. In particular, electron or hole doping of the sample layer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Arthur Christianen , Anna M. Seiler , Alperen Tüğen , Ataç İmamoğlu

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…

Exotic collective phenomena emerge when bosons strongly interact within a lattice. However, creating a robust and tunable solid-state platform to explore such phenomena has been elusive. Dual moir\'e systems$-$compromising two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Amine Ben Mhenni , Elif Çetiner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jonathan J. Finley , Nathan P. Wilson

Moir\'e superlattices provide a powerful way to engineer properties of electrons and excitons in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. The moir\'e effect can be especially strong for interlayer excitons, where electrons and holes…

Flexible Rydberg aggregates, assemblies of few Rydberg atoms coherently sharing electronic excitations while undergoing directed atomic motion, show great promise as quantum simulation platform for nuclear motional dynamics in molecules or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ghassan Abumwis , Sebastian Wüster

Strong resonant dipole-dipole interactions in flexible Rydberg aggregates enable the formation of exciton pulses, the interplay of atomic motion and electronic excitation transfer which feature high fidelity entanglement transport. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Karsten Leonhardt

We theoretically investigate exciton-polaritons in a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructure, where a static magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane. To explore the interplay between magnetic field and a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Emma Laird , Francesca M. Marchetti , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Meera M. Parish , Jesper Levinsen

We report the experimental observation of radiative recombination from Rydberg excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor, monolayer WSe2, encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. Excitonic emission up to the 4s excited state is directly…

The additional layer degree of freedom in trilayer moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides enables the emergence of novel excitonic species, such as quadrupolar excitons, which exhibit unique excitonic interactions and…

Highly excited atoms with an electron moved into a level with large principal quantum number are fascinating hydrogen-like objects. The giant extension of these Rydberg atoms leads to huge interaction effects. Monitoring these interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Tomasz Kazimierczuk , Dietmar Fröhlich , Stefan Scheel , Heinrich Stolz , Manfred Bayer
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