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The optical spectra of vertically stacked MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures contain additional 'interlayer' excitonic peaks that are absent in the individual monolayer materials and exhibit a significant spatial charge separation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Roland Gillen

We study the theory of itinerant-hole photoluminescence of two-dimensional electron systems in the regime of the magnetically induced Wigner crystal. We show that the exciton recombination transition develops structure related to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. R. Cooper

Electronic and optical excitations in two-dimensional moir\'e systems are uniquely sensitive to local atomic registries, leading to materials- and twist-angle specific correlated electronic ground states with varied degree of localization.…

Atomically thin heterostructures formed by twisted transition metal dichalcogenides can be used to create periodic moir\'e patterns. The emerging moir\'e potential can trap interlayer excitons into arrays of strongly interacting bosons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

The competition between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy in correlated systems can allow electrons to crystallize into Wigner solids. Despite researches across diverse two-dimensional Wigner platforms, the microscopic melting processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chaofei Liu , Jianwang Zhou , Wenao Liao , Zeyu Jiang , Chao Zhang , Tingfei Guo , Tianyou Zhai , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu , Qi-Kun Xue

Metal monochalcogenide GaSe is a classic layered semiconductor that has received increasing research interest due to its highly tunable electronic and optical properties for ultrathin electronics applications. Despite intense research…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-14 Fanhao Jia , Zhao Tang , Greis J. Cruz , Weiwei Gao , Shaowen Xu , Wei Ren , Peihong Zhang

The few-body problem (with $N \leq 6$ fermionic charge carriers) in isolated moir\'{e} quantum dots (MQDs) in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer materials with integer fillings, $\nu \geq 2$, is investigated by employing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Eugene Wigner predicted long ago that when the Coulomb interactions between electrons become much stronger than their kinetic energy, electrons crystallize into a closely packed lattice. A variety of two-dimensional systems have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yen-Chen Tsui , Minhao He , Yuwen Hu , Ethan Lake , Taige Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides are direct gap semiconductors with great promise for optoelectronic devices. Although spatial correlation of electrons and holes plays a key role, there is little experimental information on such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 A. T. Hanbicki , M. Currie , G. Kioseoglou , A. L. Friedman , B. T. Jonker

The variety of correlated phenomena in moir\'e systems is incredibly rich, spanning effects such as superconductivity, a generalized form of ferromagnetism, or even charge fractionalization. This wide range of quantum phenomena is partly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Michał Papaj , Guangxin Ni , Cyprian Lewandowski

Due to the forming of low-energy flat bands, the moir\'e superlattices of the transition metal dichalcogenides are fascinating platforms for studying novel correlated states when such flat bands are fractionally filled, with the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bingbing Wang , Junxi Yu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Atomically-thin layers of two-dimensional materials can be assembled in vertical stacks held together by relatively weak van der Waals forces, allowing for coupling between monolayer crystals with incommensurate lattices and arbitrary…

For moir\'e bilayer TMD superlattices, full-configuration-interaction (FCI) calculations are presented that take into account both the intra-moir\'e-quantum-dot (MQD) charge-carrier Coulombic interactions, as well as the crystal-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

An excitonic insulator phase is expected to arise from the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors where the exciton binding energy exceeds the size of the electronic band gap. At low temperature, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-02 Selene Mor , Marc Herzog , Claude Monney , Julia Stähler

Excitonic insulators represent a unique quantum phase of matter, providing a rich ground for studying exotic quantum bosonic states. Strongly coupled electron-hole bilayers, which host stable dipolar exciton fluids with an exciton density…

We report experimental and theoretical studies of MoTe$_2$-MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers with rigid moir\'e superlattices controlled by the twist angle. Using an effective continuum model that combines resonant interlayer electron tunneling with…

Moir\'e exciton features tunable Dirac dispersion and spatially dependent optical selection rules. With the long lifetime due to its interlayer nature, it is promising to realize a Bose-Einstein condensation of moir\'e excitons. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Sha Deng , Yichen Chu , Qizhong Zhu

We develop a general theory for how an exciton in an atomically thin transition metal dichacogenide (TMD) monolayer couples to spin and charge correlations in an adjacent moire lattice created by a TMD bi-layer. Virtual tunneling of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Aleksi Julku , Shanshan Ding , Georg M. Bruun

When the Coulomb interaction dominates over kinetic energy, electrons can crystallize into a Wigner crystal (WC). This paradigmatic correlated electronic phase has been realized in two-dimensional electron gases with parabolic band…

Coherent coupling between excitons is at the heart of many-body interactions with transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures as an emergent platform for the investigation of these interactions. We employ multi-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Torben L. Purz , Eric W. Martin , Pasqual Rivera , William G. Holtzmann , Xiaodong Xu , Steven T. Cundiff