Steady-state nonlinear optical response of excitons in monolayer MoSe${}_2$

Abstract

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 ultrafast nonlinear response of monolayer TMDs, a study of the steady-state nonlinear response is lacking. We report a comprehensive study of the steady-state two-color nonlinear response of excitons in hBN-encapsulated monolayer MoSe${}_2$ at 7 K. We observe differential transmission (DT) signals associated with the neutral and charged exciton species, which is strongly dependent on the polarization of the pump and probe. Our results are compared to a theoretical model based on a T-matrix formulation for exciton-exciton, exciton-trion, and trion-trion correlations. The parameters are chosen such that the theory accurately reproduces the experimental DT spectrum, which is found to be dominated by two-exciton correlations without strong biexciton binding, exciton-trion attractive interactions, and strong spin mixing through incoherent relaxation.

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