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Using Ewald's summation method we investigate collective electronic excitations (excitons) of ultracold atoms in parallel planar optical lattices including long range interactions. The exciton dispersion relation can then be suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

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 of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Twisted two-dimensional semiconductors generate a moir\'e landscape that confines excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) into programmable lattices, offering routes to efficient light sources, sensing, and room-temperature information…

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…

The properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are drastically altered by a tunable moir\'e superlattice arising from periodic variations of atomic alignment between the layers. Exciton diffusion represents an important channel of…

The elementary optical excitations in two dimensional semiconductors hosting itinerant electrons are attractive and repulsive polarons -- excitons that are dynamically screened by electrons. Exciton-polarons have hitherto been studied in…

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers exhibit periodic moir\'e potentials, which can trap excitons at certain high-symmetry sites. At small twist angles, TMD lattices undergo an atomic reconstruction, altering the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Moir\'e superlattices serve as a playground for emerging phenomena, such as localization of band states, superconductivity, and localization of excitons. These superlattices are large and are often modeled in the zero angle limit, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Christopher Linderälv , Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic , Paul Erhart

Bilayer electron-hole systems, where the electrons and holes are created via doping and confined to separate layers, undergo excitonic condensation when the distance between the layers is smaller than typical distance between particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander V. Balatsky , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Peter B. Littlewood

We measure the optical absorption spectra and optical conductivities of excitons and trions in monolayers of metal dichalcogenide MoS$_{2}$ and compare the results with theoretical models. Our results show that the Wannier-Mott model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 Changjian Zhang , Haining Wang , Weimin Chan , Christina Manolatou , Farhan Rana

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 interlayer exciton in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer features a permanent electric dipole that enables the electrostatic control of its flow, and optical dipole that is spatially varying in the moir\'e landscape. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a combination of structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moir\'e potentials that can confine charged and neutral excitations. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sara Shabani , Dorri Halbertal , Wenjing Wu , Mingxing Chen , Song Liu , James Hone , Wang Yao , Dmitri N. Basov , Xiaoyang Zhu , Abhay N. Pasupathy

Moir\'e materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moir\'e excitons due to their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Indrajit Maity , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Ángel Rubio

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…

We develop the theory of the magnetic-field-induced Wigner crystallization effect for charged interlayer excitons (CIE) discovered recently in transition-metal-dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers. We derive the ratio of the average…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Igor V. Bondarev , Yurii E. Lozovik

Heterobilayers formed by stacking two-dimensional atomic crystals are particularly promising for low-dimensional semiconductor optics, as they host interlayer excitons, bound states of electrons and holes residing in different layers. They…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Suvadip Masanta , Chumki Nayak , Premananda Chatterjee , Atindra Nath Pal , Indrani Bose , Achintya Singha

Recent experiments have realized a twisted bilayer-like optical potential for ultra-cold atoms, which in contrast to solid-state set ups may allow for an arbitrary ratio between the inter- and intra-layer couplings. For commensurate Moir\'e…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-04 Ganesh C. Paul , Patrik Recher , Luis Santos

Being motivated by recent achievements in the rapidly developing fields of optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) and excitons in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, we analyze strong coupling between BICs in $\rm Ta_2O_5$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 K. L. Koshelev , S. K. Sychev , Z. F. Sadrieva , A. A. Bogdanov , I. V. Iorsh