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Exciton Diamagnetic Shifts and Valley Zeeman Effects in Monolayer WS and MoS to 65 Tesla

arXiv:1510.07022 · doi:10.1038/ncomms10643

Abstract

We report circularly-polarized optical reflection spectroscopy of monolayer WS and MoS at low temperatures (4~K) and in high magnetic fields to 65~T. Both the A and the B exciton transitions exhibit a clear and very similar Zeeman splitting of approximately 230~eV/T (), providing the first measurements of the valley Zeeman effect and associated -factors in monolayer transition-metal disulphides. These results complement and are compared with recent low-field photoluminescence measurements of valley degeneracy breaking in the monolayer diselenides MoSe and WSe. Further, the very large magnetic fields used in our studies allows us to observe the small quadratic diamagnetic shifts of the A and B excitons in monolayer WS (0.32 and 0.11~eV/T, respectively), from which we calculate exciton radii of 1.53~nm and 1.16~nm. When analyzed within a model of non-local dielectric screening in monolayer semiconductors, these diamagnetic shifts also constrain and provide estimates of the exciton binding energies (410~meV and 470~meV for the A and B excitons, respectively), further highlighting the utility of high magnetic fields for understanding new 2D materials.

9 pages, 5 figures

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