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Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, allow implementing both quantum exciton systems and long-range exciton transport. Van der Waals heterostructures (HS) composed of atomically thin layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

We studied transport of indirect excitons (IXs) and IX mediated spin transport in a MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructure in magnetic fields up to 8 T. We observed the long-range IX transport and the long-range IX mediated spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhiwen Zhou , W. J. Brunner , E. A. Szwed , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, make possible long-range IX propagation. Van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , L. V. Butov

Exciton transport is fundamental for understanding transport phenomena in bosonic systems and for exploring excitation energy transfer in materials. Spatially indirect excitons (IXs) are composed of electrons and holes in separated layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhiwen Zhou , W. J. Brunner , E. A. Szwed , H. Henstridge , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

Indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, can form the medium for excitonic devices whose operation is based on controlled propagation of excitons. A proof of principle for excitonic devices was demonstrated in GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

Van der Waals heterostructures constitute a platform for investigating intriguing many-body quantum phenomena. In particular, transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero-bilayers host long-lived interlayer excitons which exhibit permanent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Raül Perea-Causin , Ermin Malic

Indirect excitons (IXs) in van der Waals transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures are characterized by a high binding energy making them stable at room temperature and giving the opportunity for exploring fundamental phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 E. V. Calman , M. M. Fogler , L. V. Butov , S. Hu , A. Mishchenko , A. K. Geim

Controlling interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures holds promise for exploring Bose-Einstein condensates and developing novel optoelectronic applications, such as excitonic integrated circuits. Despite intensive studies,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lifu Zhang , Ruihao Ni , Liuxin Gu , Ming Xie , Suji Park , Houk Jang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , You Zhou

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

Analogous to conventional charge-based electronics, valleytronics aims at encoding data via the valley degree of freedom, enabling new routes for information processing. Long-lived interlayer excitons (IXs) in van der Waals heterostructures…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Tong Ye , Yongzhuo Li , Junze Li , Hongzhi Shen , Junwen Ren , Cun-Zheng Ning , Dehui Li

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures can host interlayer excitons (IXs), which consist of electrons and holes spatially separated in different layers. IXs possess permanent dipoles and have proven to offer a wealth of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Darien J. Morrow , Xuedan Ma

We report on the coherent control and transport of indirect exciton (IX) spins in GaAs double quantum well (DQW) nanostructures. The spin dynamics was investigated by optically generating spins using a focused, circularly polarized light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Adriano Violante , Rudolf Hey , Paulo Ventura Santos

Controlling the flow of charge neutral interlayer exciton (IX) quasiparticles can potentially lead to low loss excitonic circuits. Here, we report unidirectional transport of IXs along nanoscale electrostatically defined channels in an…

Interactions between out-of-plane dipoles in bosonic gases enable the long-range propagation of excitons. The lack of direct control over collective dipolar properties has hitherto limited the degrees of tunability and the microscopic…

Van der Waals heterostructures offer attractive opportunities to design quantum materials. For instance, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess three quantum degrees of freedom: spin, valley index, and layer index. Further, twisted…

Excitons in van der Waals heterostructures based on atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are considered as potential candidates for the formation of a superfluid state in two-dimensional systems. A number of studies reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 M. M. Glazov , R. A. Suris

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and two-dimensional (2D) magnets offer a versatile platform to study the coexistence and transformation of different excitons. By focusing on TMD WSe$_2$…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-29 Mushir Thodika , Dimitar Pashov , Igor Zutic , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Swagata Acharya

Narrow lines in photoluminescence (PL) spectra of excitons are characteristic of low-dimensional semiconductors. These lines correspond to the emission of exciton states in local minima of a potential energy landscape formed by fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , W. J. Brunner , H. Henstridge , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

A new class of optical quasiparticles called magnetic excitons recently emerged in magnetic van der Waals materials. Akin to the highly effective strategies developed for electrons, the strong interactions of these excitons with the spin…

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of vertically stacked transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a rich landscape of bright and dark intra- and interlayer excitons. In spite of a growing literature in this field of research,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic
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