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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,…

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Van der Waals magnets are attracting a lot of attention for their potential integration in spintronic and magnonic technologies. CrSBr is an A-type antiferromagnet that shows a coupling between its electronic band structure and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 Shalini Badola , Amit Pawbake , Bing Wu , Aljosha Söll , Zdenek Sofer , Rolf Heid , Clement Faugeras

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 investigate the ultrafast magnetization dynamics of semiconducting antiferromagnetic CrSBr using real-time time-dependent density functional theory. In zero magnetic field, laser excitation modifies only the magnetization along the easy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Kefayati , Yafei Ren

The nanoscale periodic potentials introduced by moir\'{e} patterns in semiconducting van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide a new platform for designing exciton superlattices. To realize these applications, a thorough understanding of…

Spin-momentum locking (SML) excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors are appealing to programmable optical control of spin-polarized carriers in ultrafast spintronics. To address the current thirsty for long-lived excitons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jiuyu Sun , Jinzhe Han , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Spin and photonic systems are at the heart of modern information devices and emerging quantum technologies. An interplay between electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors and collective spin excitations (magnons) in magnetic crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Arnaud Gloppe , Masaru Onga , Ryusuke Hisatomi , Atac Imamoglu , Yasunobu Nakamura , Yoshihiro Iwasa , Koji Usami

2D magnetic semiconductor CrSBr exhibits unique magneto-optical properties, yet its electronic structure and photophysical mechanisms remain unclear at high magnetic field and low temperature. Through comprehensive spectroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Xiaodong Shen , Jiajun Cao , Weizheng Liang , Borong Cong , Bao Ke , Jialong Zhao , Bingsuo Zou

We demonstrate the potential of van der Waals magnets for spintronic applications by reporting long-distance magnon spin transport in the electrically insulating antiferromagnet chromium thiophosphate (CrPS$_4$) with perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Dennis K. de Wal , Arnaud Iwens , Tian Liu , Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Bart J. van Wees

Two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic semiconductors are a new class of quantum materials for studying the emergent physics of excitons and spins in the 2D limit. Twist engineering provides a powerful tool to manipulate the…

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

The interplay between dimensionality and electronic correlations in van der Waals (vdW) materials offers a powerful toolkit for engineering light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, are central to this…

In the rich phases of van der Waals (vdW) materials featuring intertwined electronic order and collective phenomena, characterizing elementary dynamics that entail the low-energy Hamiltonian and electronic degrees of freedom is of paramount…

The Van der Waals semiconductor metamagnet CrSBr offers an ideal platform for studying the interplay between optical and magnetic properties in the two-dimensional limit. Here, we carried out an exhaustive optical characterization of this…

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

Composite quasi-particles with emergent functionalities in spintronic and quantum information science can be realized in correlated materials due to entangled charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. Here we show that by…

Recent experiments observe the spin-wave-Meissner-current modes in ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor heterostructures, in which the coherently excited spin waves seemingly do not decay as usual beneath the superconductor strip [Borst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Xi-Han Zhou , Xiyin Ye , Lihui Bai , Tao Yu

The transport of energy and information in semiconductors is limited by scattering between electronic carriers and lattice phonons, resulting in diffusive and lossy transport that curtails all semiconductor technologies. Using Re6Se8Cl2, a…

Exciton-exciton interactions are key to understanding non-linear optical and transport phenomena in van der Waals heterobilayers, which emerged as versatile platforms to study correlated electronic states. We present a combined…

In the spin energy excitation mode of normal metals and superconductors, spin up and down electrons (or quasiparticles) carry different heat currents. This mode occurs only when spin up and down energy distribution functions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 M. Kuzmanović , B. Y. Wu , M. Weideneder , C. H. L. Quay , M. Aprili