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Exciton-polaritons are hybrid light-matter quasiparticles formed by strongly interacting photons and excitons (electron-hole pairs) in semiconductor microcavities. They have emerged as a robust solid-state platform for next-generation…

The ultrafast formation of strongly bound excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a rich platform for studying fundamental physics as well as developing novel optoelectronic technologies. While extensive research has explored the…

Extended efforts have been devoted to the study of strongly-interacting excitons and their dynamics, towards macroscopic quantum states of matter such as Bose-Einstein condensates of excitons and polaritons. Momentum-direct layer-hybridized…

Semiconductor microresonators embedding quantum wells can host tightly confined and mutually interacting excitonic, optical and mechanical modes at once. We theoretically investigate the case where the system operates in the strong…

Moir\'e superlattices are excellent platforms to realize strongly correlated quantum phenomena, such as Mott insulation and superconductivity. In particular, recent research has revealed stripe phases and generalized Wigner crystals at…

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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

Inspired by the recent experimental observation of strongly coupled polaritons in a Moir\'e heterobilayer, we study a model of dipole-interacting excitons localized on sites of a lattice and coupled to planar cavity photons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Edelman , Peter B. Littlewood

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

Moir\'e heterostructures provide a powerful framework for tailoring electronic band structures via controlled long-range periodic superlattice potentials. Beyond widely studied moir\'e-tailored flat bands, folded band structures can host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Ganser , M. P. T. Masilamani , B. Geldiyev , M. M. Hirschmann , A. Consiglio , J. Schusser , D. Di Sante , M. Ünzelmann , F. Reinert

Layered two-dimensional materials exhibit rich transport and optical phenomena in twisted or lattice-incommensurate heterostructures with spatial variations of interlayer hybridization arising from moir\'e interference effects. Here, we…

We propose a robust and efficient way of controlling the optical spectra of two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures by quantum cavity embedding. The cavity light-matter coupling leads to the formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Simone Latini , Enrico Ronca , Umberto de Giovannini , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio

Achieving electrical injection of exciton-polaritons, half-light, half-matter quasiparticles arising from the strong coupling between photonic and excitonic resonances, is a crucial milestone to scale up polaritonic devices such as optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-14 Yutao Wang , Jingyi Tian , Maciej Klein , Giorgio Adamo , Son Tung Ha , Cesare Soci

Integrating two-dimensional van der Waals materials with optical cavities has revealed a fascinating platform to study exciton-polariton physics. Manipulating exciton polaritons often requires external control over the electrical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Zhi Wang , Li He , Bumho Kim , Bo Zhen

The strong coupling between photons and matter excitations such as excitons, phonons, and magnons is of central importance in the study of light-matter interactions. Bridging the flying and stationary quantum states, the strong light-matter…

Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures (HS) formed by transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers offer a unique platform for the study of intralayer and interlayer excitons as well as moir\'e-pattern-induced features. Particularly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Mohammed Adel Aly , Manan Shah , Lorenz Maximilian Schneider , Kyungnam Kang , Martin Koch , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Highly customizable interfaces created by van der Waals stacked 2D materials provide an extremely flexible opportunity for engineering and effectively controlling material properties. The atomic-thin nature and strong scalability of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-14 Xueqian Sun , Ermin Malic , Yuerui Lu

Nonperturbative coupling between cavity photons and excitons leads to formation of hybrid light-matter excitations termed polaritons. In structures where photon absorption leads to creation of excitons with aligned permanent dipoles, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Emre Togan , Hyang-Tag Lim , Stefan Faelt , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

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

We consider dressing of excitonic properties by strongly correlated electrons in gate controlled twisted homo-bilayer heterostructures. The combined effect of the moir\'e potential and the Coulomb interaction supports the formation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-16 Giacomo Mazza , Adriano Amaricci

Optical excitations in moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers lead to the creation of excitons, as electron-hole bound states, that are generically considered within a Bose-Hubbard framework. Here, we demonstrate that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Tsung-Sheng Huang , Peter Lunts , Mohammad Hafezi