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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

Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, govern the optical properties of semi-conducting transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$ and WSe$_2$. We study optical transitions at the K-point for 2H homobilayer MoS$_2$ in Density…

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…

While photons in free space barely interact, matter can mediate interactions between them resulting in optical nonlinearities. Such interactions at the single-quantum level result in an on-site photon repulsion, crucial for photon-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Weijie Li , Xin Lu , Sudipta Dubey , Luka Devenica , Ajit Srivastava

Strongly bound excitons and many-body interactions between them determine light-matter interactions in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of 2D semiconductors. Unlike fundamental particles, quasiparticles in condensed matter, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Weijie Li , Zach Hadjri , Jin Zhang , Luka M. Devenica , Song Liu , James Hone , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Angel Rubio , Ajit Srivastava

The interaction potential of a two-dimensional system of excitons with spatially separated electron-hole layers is considered in the strong magnetic field limit. The excitons are assumed to have free dynamics in the $x$-$y$ plane, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Olivares-Robles , S. E. Ulloa

Interlayer excitons are bound states of electrons and holes confined in separate two-dimensional layers. Due to their repulsive dipolar interaction, interlayer excitons can form a correlated liquid. If another electron-hole bilayer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Chao Xu , Michael Fogler

We determine the zero temeperature phase diagram of excitons in the symmetric transition-metal dichalcogenide tri-layer heterosctructure WSe2/MoSe2/WSe2. First principle calculations reveal two distinct types of interlayer excitonic states,…

Realizing nonlinear optical response in the low photon density limit in solid-state systems has been a long-standing challenge. Semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime hosting exciton-polaritons have emerged as attractive…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, known for exhibiting strong excitonic resonances, constitute a very interesting and versatile platform for investigation of light-matter interactions. In this work we report on a strong coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 M. Król , K. Lekenta , R. Mirek , K. Łempicka , D. Stephan , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , A. Babiński , M. Potemski , J. Szczytko , B. Piętka

We consider the scenario of excitons in a semiconductor bilayer that are strongly coupled to cavity photons, leading to the formation of dipolar exciton polaritons (dipolaritons). Using a realistic pseudopotential for the dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yasufumi Nakano , Olivier Bleu , Brendan C. Mulkerin , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

The giant exciton binding energy and the richness of degrees of freedom make monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide an unprecedented playground for exploring exciton physics in 2D systems. Thanks to the well energetically separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Bairen Zhu , Ke Xiao , Siyuan Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Cui

Moire superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlations using optical spectroscopy. Despite observation of rich Mott-Wigner physics stemming from an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Ido Schwartz , Yuya Shimazaki , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Martin Kroner , Ataç Imamoğlu

Interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers combine high binding energy and valley-contrasting physics with long optical lifetime and strong dipolar character. Their permanent electric dipole enables electric-field…

Charge separated interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterobilayers are being explored for moir\'e exciton lattices and exciton condensates. The presence of permanent dipole moments and the poorly screened Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jue Wang , Qianhui Shi , En-Min Shih , Lin Zhou , Wenjing Wu , Yusong Bai , Daniel A. Rhodes , Katayun Barmak , James Hone , Cory R. Dean , X. -Y. Zhu

Bilayer crystals, built by stacking crystalline monolayers, generate interlayer potentials that govern excitonic phenomena but are constrained by fixed covalent lattices and orientations. Replacing one layer with an atomically thin…

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moir\'e interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electron/hole crystals commensurate with moir\'e superlattices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Yusong Bai , Yiliu Li , Song Liu , Yinjie Guo , Jordan Pack , Jue Wang , Cory R. Dean , James Hone , X. -Y. Zhu

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

In transition metal dichalcogenides layers of atomic scale thickness, the electron-hole Coulomb interaction potential is strongly influenced by the sharp discontinuity of the dielectric function across the layer plane. This feature results…

Ensembles of indirect or interlayer excitons (IXs) are intriguing systems to explore classical and quantum phases of interacting bosonic ensembles. IXs are composite bosons that feature enlarged lifetimes due to the reduced overlap of the…