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Moir\'e superlattices in atomically thin van-der-Waals heterostructures hold great promise for an extended control of electronic and valleytronic lifetimes, the confinement of excitons in artificial moir\'e lattices, and the formation of…

Excitons, bound states of electrons and holes, are affected by the properties of the underlying band structure of a material. Defects in lattice systems may trap electronic defect states, to which an electron can be excited to form…

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Since the seminal work on MoS2 monolayers, photoexcitation in atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has been assumed to result in excitons with large binding energies (~ 200-600 meV). Because the exciton binding energies…

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

Many of the fundamental optical and electronic properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by strong Coulomb interactions between electrons and holes, forming tightly bound atom-like excitons. Here, we…

Due to the presence of flat Chern bands, moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a platform to realize strongly correlated topological phases of fermions such as fractional Chern insulators. TMDs are also known to host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Paul Froese , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors such as MoSe$_2$ host strongly bound excitons which are known to exhibit a strong resonant third-order nonlinear response. Although there have been numerous studies of the…

Electronic spin and orbital (dd) excitation spectra of (Ca{x}La{1-x})(Ba{1.75-x}La{0.25+x})Cu{3}O{y} samples are measured by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). In this compound, Tc of samples with identical hole dopings is strongly…

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.…

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

Integrating 2D materials into high-quality optical microcavities opens the door to fascinating many-particle phenomena including the formation of exciton-polaritons. These are hybrid quasi-particles inheriting properties of both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Beatriz Ferreira , Roberto Rosati , Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Ermin Malic

The optical spectra of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are dominated by excitons and trions. Here we establish the dependences of these optical transitions on disorder from hyperspectral imaging of h-BN encapsulated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Jue Wang , Christina Manolatou , Yusong Bai , James Hone , Farhan Rana , Xiaoyang Zhu

Exotic collective phenomena emerge when bosons strongly interact within a lattice. However, creating a robust and tunable solid-state platform to explore such phenomena has been elusive. Dual moir\'e systems$-$compromising two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Amine Ben Mhenni , Elif Çetiner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jonathan J. Finley , Nathan P. Wilson

The interaction of optically excited excitons in atomically thin semiconductors with residual doping densities leads to many-body effects which are continuously tunable by external gate voltages. Here, we develop a fully microscopic theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Florian Katsch , Andreas Knorr

Moir\'e patterns with angular mismatch in van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin semiconducting materials are a fascinating platform to engineer the optically generated excitonic properties towards novel quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Keisuke Shinokita , Yuhei Miyauchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kazunari Matsuda

Excitons in monolayer semiconductors have large optical transition dipole for strong coupling with light field. Interlayer excitons in heterobilayers, with layer separation of electron and hole components, feature large electric dipole that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Wei-Ting Hsu , Bo-Han Lin , Li-Syuan Lu , Ming-Hao Lee , Ming-Wen Chu , Lain-Jong Li , Wang Yao , Wen-Hao Chang , Chih-Kang Shih

Small-twist-angle transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers develop isolated flat moir\'e bands that are approximately described by triangular lattice generalized Hubbard models [PhysRevLett.121.026402]. In this article we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-16 Nai Chao Hu , Allan H. MacDonald

We studied the possibility of exciton condensation in Mott insulating bilayers. In these strongly correlated systems an exciton is the bound state of a double occupied and empty site. In the strong coupling limit the exciton acts as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-01 Louk Rademaker , Jeroen van den Brink , Jan Zaanen , Hans Hilgenkamp

Excitons, composite electron-hole quasiparticles, are known to play an important role in optoelectronic phenomena in many semiconducting materials. Recent experiments and theory indicate that the band-gap optics of the newly discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Yuri N. Gartstein , Xiao Li , Chuanwei Zhang

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) support robust excitons in the visible to near-infrared spectral range. Their reduced dielectric screening results in large binding energies, and combined with a direct bandgap in monolayer…