Thermal effect on magnetoexciton energy spectra in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Abstract

It is widely comprehended that temperature may cause phonon-exciton scattering, enhancing the energy level's linewidth and leading to some spectrum shifts. However, in the present paper, we suggest a different mechanism that allows the thermal motion of the exciton's center of mass (c.m.) to affect the magnetoexciton energies in monolayer dichalcogenides (TMDCs). By the nontrivial but precise separation of the c.m. motion from an exciton in a monolayer TMDC with a magnetic field, we obtain an equation for the relative motion containing a motional Stark term proportional to the c.m. pseudomomentum, related to the temperature of the exciton gas but neglected in the previous studies. Solving the Schrödinger equation without omitting the motional Stark potential at room temperature shows approximately a few meV thermal-magnetic shifts in the exciton energies, significant enough for experimental detection. Moreover, this thermal effect causes a change in exciton radius and diamagnetic coefficient and enhances the exciton lifetime as a consequence. Surprisingly, the thermoinduced motional Stark potential breaks the system's SO(2) symmetry, conducting new peaks in the exciton absorption spectra at room temperature besides those of the $s$ states. This mechanism could be extended for other magnetoquasiparticles such as trions and biexcitons.

8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables for main manuscript; 20 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables for supplementary. Published on Physical Review B

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