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Excitons in a semiconductor monolayer form a collective resonance that can reflect resonant light with extraordinarily high efficiency. Here, we investigate the nonlinear optical properties of such atomistically thin mirrors and show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Valentin Walther , Lida Zhang , Susanne F. Yelin , Thomas Pohl

Excitons -- quasiparticles formed by the binding of an electron and a hole through electrostatic attraction -- hold promise in the fields of quantum light confinement and optoelectronic sensing. Atomically thin transition metal…

The formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

We analyze theoretically the Coulomb scattering processes of highly excited excitons in the direct bandgap semiconductor quantum wells. We find that contrary to the interaction of ground state excitons the electron and hole exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 V. Shahnazaryan , I. A. Shelykh , O. Kyriienko

In superlattices of twisted semiconductor monolayers, tunable moir\'e potentials emerge, trapping excitons into periodic arrays. In particular, spatially separated interlayer excitons are subject to a deep potential landscape and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Moir\'e excitons promise a new platform with which to generate and manipulate hybrid quantum phases of light and matter in unprecedented regimes of interaction strength. We explore the properties in this regime, through studies of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Arturo Camacho-Guardian , Nigel R. Cooper

We review ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRM), which are bound states between a Rydberg atom and one or more ground-state atoms with bond lengths on the order of thousands of Bohr radii. The binding originates from multiple…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Christian Fey , Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher

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,…

In condensed matter, it is often difficult to untangle the effects of competing interactions, and this is especially problematic for superconductors. Quantum simulators may help: here we show how exploiting the properties of highly excited…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-30 J. P. Hague , C. MacCormick

Integrating magnetic order to moir\'e superlattices is of significant scientific and technological interest. Based on first-principles calculations, we study the interplay of magnetic proximity and moir\'e proximity in WSe2/WSe2/CrI3…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Junyi Liu , Xu Zhang , Gang Lu

We perform a polarization-resolved magnetoluminescence study of excitons in ReS$_2$. We observe that two linearly polarized Rydberg series of excitons are accompanied by two other Rydberg series of dark excitons, brightened by an in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 P. Kapuściński , J. Dzian , A. O. Slobodeniuk , C. Rodríguez-Fernández , J. Jadczak , L. Bryja , C. Faugeras , D. M. Basko , M. Potemski

Moir\'e superlattices are excellent platforms to realize strongly correlated quantum phenomena, such as Mott insulation and superconductivity. In particular, recent research has revealed stripe phases and generalized Wigner crystals at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Erfu Liu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nathaniel M. Gabor , Yong-Tao Cui , Chun Hung Lui

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers host strong Coulomb interactions residing in narrow electron bands, leading to correlated insulating states at fractional carrier doping densities, known as generalized…

We develop a microscopic theory for nonlinear optical response of moir\'e exciton-polaritons in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Our theory allows to study the tunnel-coupled intralayer and interlayer excitonic modes for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Kok Wee Song , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Moir\'e heterostructures are rapidly emerging as a tunable platform to study correlated electronic phenomena. Discovery of exotic quantum phases in moir\'e systems requires novel probes of charge and spin order. Unlike detection schemes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Weijie Li , Luka M. Devenica , Jin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Xin Lu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Angel Rubio , Ajit Srivastava

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…

Coherent optical control of individual particles has been demonstrated both for atoms and semiconductor quantum dots. Here we demonstrate the emergence of quantum coherent effects in semiconductor Rydberg excitons in bulk Cu$_2$O. Due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 P. Grünwald , M. Aßmann , J. Heckötter , D. Fröhlich , M. Bayer , H. Stolz , S. Scheel

Exciton spectra of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in various dielectric environments are studied. The screened hydrogen model (SHM) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056401 (2016)] is examined by comparing its exciton spectra with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Jian-zhong Zhang , Jin-zhong Ma

The unique properties of two-dimensional moire systems have been widely studied from many perspectives. However, relatively little work has explored how the real space structure of the moire systems can directly engender novel properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Haowei Xu , Wang Yao , Ju Li