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Strongly enhanced electron-electron interaction in semiconducting moir\'e superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterobilayers has led to a plethora of intriguing fermionic correlated states. Meanwhile, interlayer…

Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moir\'e excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed…

In this paper we explore possible phases arising from doping neutral excitons into a Mott insulator in the context of moir\'e bilayers. We consider two moir\'e layers coupled together only through inter-layer repulsion and there is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-23 Ya-Hui Zhang

Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in physics. Transition metal oxides, layered molecular crystals and trapped ion arrays are a few examples out of many. In the strongly interacting regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Yang Xu , Song Liu , Daniel A Rhodes , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Veit Elser , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Moir\'e excitons are emergent optical excitations in 2D semiconductors with deep moir\'e superlattice potentials. While these excitations have been realized in several platforms, a system with dynamically tunable moir\'e potential to tailor…

Recent advances in the field of vertically stacked 2D materials have revealed a rich exciton landscape. In particular, it has been demonstrated that out-of-plane electrical fields can be used to tune the spectral position of spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

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

The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Moir\'{e} excitons (MXs) are electron-hole pairs localised by the periodic (moir\'{e}) potential forming in two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs). MXs can be exploited, $e.g.$, for creating nanoscale-ordered quantum emitters and achieving…

Two recent experiments from Cornell and Columbia have reported insulator-to-metal transitions in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenides (mTMD) induced by doping around half-filling, where the system is a Mott…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Moir\'e superlattices open an unprecedented opportunity for tailoring interactions between quantum particles and their coupling to electromagnetic fields. Strong superlattice potential generates moir\'e minibands of excitons -- bound pairs…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-25 Yanhao Tang , Jie Gu , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Moir\'e superlattices provide a powerful way to engineer properties of electrons and excitons in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. The moir\'e effect can be especially strong for interlayer excitons, where electrons and holes…

Interlayer excitons (IXs), composed of electron and hole states localized in different layers, excel in bilayers composed of atomically thin van der Waals materials such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Brian D. Gerardot , Alexander W. Holleitner , Ursula Wurstbauer

Exciton dissociation plays a crucial role in the performance of optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this work, we investigate the effect of an in-plane electric field on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Tao Zhu , Chenhang Zheng , Lei Xu , Ming Yang

Mostly optical spectroscopies are used to investigate existence of excitons, Mott transitions and other exquisite excitonic condensed phases of matter. On the other hand, electrical signatures of excitons are hardly explored. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Kanika Bansal , Shouvik Datta

The giant exciton binding energy and the richness of degrees of freedom make monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide an unprecedented playground for exploring exciton physics in 2D systems. Thanks to the well energetically separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Bairen Zhu , Ke Xiao , Siyuan Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Cui

Recent experimental progresses have demonstrated the great potential of electronic and excitonic moir\'e superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for quantum many-body simulations and quantum optics applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Qingjun Tong , Mingxing Chen , Feiping Xiao , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures and the corresponding superlattices, moire superlattices, are remarkable new material platforms, in which electron interactions and excited-state properties can be engineered. Particularly, the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Xiaobo Lu , Xiaoqin Li , Li Yang

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, with versatile experimentally accessible exciton species, offer an interesting platform for investigating the interaction between excitons and a Fermi sea of charges. Using hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Thomas Goldstein , Yueh-Chun Wu , Shao-Yu Chen , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kalman Varga , Jun Yan