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Quantum Hall systems host quasiparticles demonstrating correlated electron physics and non-trivial quantum statistics. Excitonic phases, archetypical for interaction effect, have attracted significant interest in recent years in…

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The additional layer degree of freedom in trilayer moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides enables the emergence of novel excitonic species, such as quadrupolar excitons, which exhibit unique excitonic interactions and…

We present a theory of optical absorption by interlayer excitons in a heterobilayer formed from transition metal dichalcogenides. The theory accounts for the presence of small relative rotations that produce a momentum shift between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , A. H. MacDonald

We develop a microscopic theory for excitons and cavity exciton polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers under a perpendicular static magnetic field. We obtain numerically exact solutions for the ground and excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 D. de la Fuente Pico , J. Levinsen , E. Laird , M. M. Parish , F. M. Marchetti

We revisit low-temperature optical spectra of transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers and point to a possible crystallization of electrons (or holes) at low to moderate charge densities. To calculate the excitonic spectra under such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

The multivalley band structure of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) gives rise to intravalley and intervalley excitons. Much knowledge of these excitons has been gained, but fundamental questions remain, such as how to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Ngoc-Cam Hoang , Thanh-Phuc Nguyen , Vladimir A. Osipov

The rapidly growing class of atomically thin and tunable van der Waals materials is intensely investigated both in the context of fundamental science and for new technologies. There is in this connection a widespread need for new ways to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Shanshan Ding , Jose Antonio Valerrama Botia , Aleksi Julku , Zhigang Wu , G. M. Bruun

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…

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Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, play a fundamental role in both optical excitation and correlated phenomena in solids. When an exciton interacts with other quasi-particles, few- and many-body excited states, such as trions,…

Reflectance and magneto-reflectance experiments together with theoretical modelling based on the $\mathbf{k\cdot p}$ approach have been employed to study the evolution of direct bandgap excitons in MoS$_2$ layers with a thickness ranging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 A. O. Slobodeniuk , Ł. Bala , M. Koperski , M. R. Molas , P. Kossacki , K. Nogajewski , M. Bartos , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Faugeras , M. Potemski

Interlayer excitons, or bound electron-hole pairs whose constituent quasiparticles are located in distinct stacked semiconducting layers, are being intensively studied in heterobilayers of two dimensional semiconductors. They owe their…

The vertical stacking of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures gives rise to a plethora of intriguing optoelectronic properties and presents an unprecedented potential for technological development. While much progress has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 Joshua J. P. Thompson , Victoria Lumsargis , Maja Feierabend , Quichen Zhao , Kang Wang , Letian Dou , Libai Huang , Ermin Malic

Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host long-lived, tunable excitons, making them intriguing candidates for material-based quantum information applications. Light absorption in these systems induces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tomer Amit , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

When two 2D electron gas layers, each at Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$, are close together a condensate of interlayer excitons emerges at low temperature. Although the excitonic phase is qualitatively well understood, the incoherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The gas of interacting excitons in quantum wells is studied. We obtain the Hamiltonian of this gas by the projection of the electron-hole plasma Hamiltonian to exciton states and an expansion in a small density. Matrix elements of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ben-Tabou de-Leon , B. Laikhtman

Two-dimensional semiconductors have emerged as a new class of materials for nanophotonics for their strong exciton-photon interaction and flexibility for engineering and integration. Taking advantage of these properties, we engineer an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Eunice Y. Paik , Long Zhang , G. William Burg , Rahul Gogna , Emanuel Tutuc , Hui Deng

We theoretically studied the exciton geometric structure in layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides. Based on a three-orbital tight-binding model for Bloch electrons which incorporates their geometric structures, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Jianju Tang , Songlei Wang , Hongyi Yu

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides feature Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) with exceptionally large binding energy and coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom. These unique attributes have been leveraged for…

We develop a consistent theory of the interlayer exciton-polaron formed in atomically-thin bilayers. Coulomb attraction between an electron and a hole situated in the different layers results in their flexural deformation and provides an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Z. A. Iakovlev , M. A. Semina , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

Because of the reduced dielectric screening and enhanced Coulomb interactions, two-dimensional (2D) materials like phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit strong excitonic effects, resulting in fascinating…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-04 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xian Zhang