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Encoding and manipulating digital information in quantum degrees of freedom is one of the major challenges of today's science and technology. The valley indices of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited to…

Excitons and trions (or exciton-polarons) in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known to decay predominantly through intravalley transitions. Electron-hole recombination across different valleys can also play a significant role in…

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…

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Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors provide a unique possibility to access the electronic valley degree of freedom using polarized light, opening the way to valley information transfer between distant…

Twisted bilayer two-dimensional transition-metal dichalgocenides (TMDCs) exhibit a range of novel phenomena such as the formation of moir\'e excitons and strongly correlated phases. The coupling between the layers is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-27 Eileen Schneider , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Janina Maultzsch

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,…

Excitons in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2L-TMDs) are Coulomb-bound electron/hole pairs that can be viewed as broadly tunable analogs of atomic or molecular systems. Here, we study the properties of 2L-TMD excitons under strong…

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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

Transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers exhibit a rich exciton landscape including layer-hybridized excitons, i.e. excitons which are of partly intra- and interlayer nature. In this work, we study hybrid exciton-exciton interactions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Raul Perea-Causin , Joakim Hagel , Fedele Tagarelli , Edoardo Lopriore , Andras Kis , Ermin Malic

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides offer the possibility of optical control of the valley degree of freedom. In order to asses the potential of these materials in applications, detailed knowledge of the valley dynamics is essential.…

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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.…

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Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) host a variety of strongly bound exciton complexes that control the optical properties in these materials. Apart from spin and valley, layer index provides an additional degree of freedom in…

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Monolayer group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as a new class of semiconductors in the two-dimensional limit. The attractive properties include: the visible range direct band gap ideal for exploring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Hongyi Yu , Xiaodong Cui , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Inversion symmetry breaking and three-fold rotation symmetry grant the valley degree of freedom to the robust exciton in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which can be exploited for valleytronics applications. However, the…

Twisted multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a promising platform for realizing topological exciton phases. Here we propose that twisted TMD heterotrilayers WX$_2$/MX$_2$/WX$_2$ with layer symmetry represents a realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Hong Guo , Tao Yan , Jin-Zhu Zhao , Yuan-Jun Jin , Qizhong 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…

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

Transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers unite two frontiers of quantum materials research: sliding ferroelectricity, arising from rhombohedral (R) stacking, and moir\'e quantum matter, emerging from small-angle twisting. The…

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…

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Light emission from higher-order correlated excitonic states has been recently reported in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe2 and WS2 upon optical excitation. These exciton complexes are found to be bound states of excitons residing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Matthias Paur , Aday J. Molina-Mendoza , Rudolf Bratschitsch , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Thomas Mueller