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Exciton-polaritons are mutually interacting quantum hybridizations of confined photons and electronic excitations. Here we demonstrate a system of optically guided, electrically polarized exciton-polaritons ('dipolaritons') that displays up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Itamar Rosenberg , Dror Liran , Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz , Kenneth West , Loren Pfeiffer , Ronen Rapaport

We study the energies and optical spectra of excitons in twisted bilayers of anisotropic van der Waals semiconductors exhibiting moir\'e patterns, taking phosphorene as a case study. Following the electronic Hamiltonian introduced by us in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Isaac Soltero , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Van der Waals materials and heterostructures manifesting strongly bound room temperature exciton states exhibit emergent physical phenomena and are of a great promise for optoelectronic applications. Here, we demonstrate that nanostructured…

Moir\'e superlattices provide a powerful tool to engineer novel quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures, where the interactions between the atomically thin layers qualitatively change the electronic band structure of the…

Two-dimensional moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform to investigate strongly correlated electronic states. Such emergent many-body phenomena can be optically probed in moir\'e systems created by stacking two layers of…

The interaction between light and matter can give rise to novel topological states. This principle was recently exemplified in Floquet topological insulators, where \emph{classical} light was used to induce a topological electronic band…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-08 Torsten Karzig , Charles-Edouard Bardyn , Netanel Lindner , Gil Refael

Ultracold atoms uniformly filling an optical lattice can be treated like an artificial crystal. An implementation including the atomic occupation of a single excited atomic state can be represented by a two-component Bose-Hubbard model. Its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-31 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

Heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) moir\'e systems provide an ideal framework to investigate strongly correlated physics. Here we theoretically study bosonic many-body phases of excitons in moir\'e TMDCs. By using two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Aleksi Julku

Exciton-polaritons - coherently hybridized states of excitons and photons - are instrumental for solid-state nonlinear optics and quantum simulations. To enable engineered polariton energy landscapes and interactions, local control over the…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking, arising from the competition of interactions and quantum fluctuations, is fundamental to understanding ordered electronic phases. Although electrically neutral, optical excitations like excitons can interact…

Semiconductors in all dimensionalities ranging from 0D quantum dots and molecules to 3D bulk crystals support bound electron-hole pair quasiparticles termed as excitons. Over the past two decades, the emergence of a variety of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Surendra B. Anantharaman , Kiyoung Jo , Deep Jariwala

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) moir\'e superlattices, owing to the moir\'e flatbands and strong correlation, can host periodic electron crystals and fascinating correlated physics. The TMDC heterojunctions in the type-II alignment…

We develop a microscopic theory for nonlinear optical response of moir\'e exciton-polaritons in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Our theory allows to study the tunnel-coupled intralayer and interlayer excitonic modes for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Kok Wee Song , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Exciton-polariton modes arising from interaction between bound excitons in monolayer thin semiconductor sheets and photons in a Fabry-Perot microcavity are considered theoretically. We calculate the dispersion curves, mode lifetimes, Rabi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-30 Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy , Darío G. Santiago-Pérez , Carlos Trallero-Giner , Nuno M. R. Peres , Alexey Kavokin

Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan

Transition metal dichalcogenides integrated within a high-quality microcavity support well-defined exciton polaritons. While the role of intralayer excitons in 2D polaritonics is well studied, interlayer excitons have been largely ignored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Jonas K. König , Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Joakim Hagel , Daniel Erkensten , Ermin Malic

The polariton, a quasiparticle formed by strong coupling of a photon to a matter excitation, is a fundamental ingredient of emergent photonic quantum systems ranging from semiconductor nanophotonics to circuit quantum electrodynamics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-21 Joonhyuk Kwon , Youngshin Kim , Alfonso Lanuza , Dominik Schneble

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,…

Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a new platform for studying strongly correlated quantum phenomena, but these systems have been largely limited to van der Waals layer two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here we introduce moir\'e…

Two dimensional semiconductors provide an ideal platform for exploration of linear exciton and polariton physics, primarily due to large exciton binding energy and strong light-matter coupling. These features, however, generically imply…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Li Bing Tan , Ovidiu Cotlet , Andrea Bergschneider , Richard Schmidt , Patrick Back , Yuya Shimazaki , Martin Kroner , Atac Imamoglu