Proximity-enhanced valley Zeeman splitting at the WS${}_2$/graphene interface

Abstract

The valley Zeeman physics of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provides valuable insight into the spin and orbital degrees of freedom inherent to these materials. Being atomically-thin materials, these degrees of freedom can be influenced by the presence of adjacent layers, due to proximity interactions that arise from wave function overlap across the 2D interface. Here, we report 60 T magnetoreflection spectroscopy of the A- and B- excitons in monolayer WS${}_2$, systematically encapsulated in monolayer graphene. While the observed variations of the valley Zeeman effect for the A- exciton are qualitatively in accord with expectations from the bandgap reduction and modification of the exciton binding energy due to the graphene-induced dielectric screening, the valley Zeeman effect for the B- exciton behaves markedly different. We investigate prototypical WS${}_2$/graphene stacks employing first-principles calculations and find that the lower conduction band of WS${}_2$ at the $K/K^{\prime }$ valleys (the $C{B}^{-}$ band) is strongly influenced by the graphene layer on the orbital level. This leads to variations in the valley Zeeman physics of the B- exciton, consistent with the experimental observations. Our detailed microscopic analysis reveals that the conduction band at the $Q$ point of WS${}_2$ mediates the coupling between $C{B}^{-}$ and graphene due to resonant energy conditions and strong coupling to the Dirac cone. Our results therefore expand the consequences of proximity effects in multilayer semiconductor stacks, showing that wave function hybridization can be a multi-step process with different bands mediating the interlayer interactions. Such effects can be exploited to resonantly engineer the spin-valley degrees of freedom in van der Waals and moiré heterostructures.

14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables

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