Effects of Floquet Engineering on the Coherent Exciton Dynamics in Monolayer WS
arXiv:2301.12599 · doi:10.1021/acsnano.3c01318
Abstract
Coherent optical manipulation of electronic bandstructures via Floquet Engineering is a promising means to control quantum systems on an ultrafast timescale. However, the ultrafast switching on/off of the driving field comes with questions regarding the limits of validity of the Floquet formalism, which is defined for an infinite periodic drive, and to what extent the transient changes can be driven adibatically. Experimentally addressing these questions has been difficult, in large part due to the absence of an established technique to measure coherent dynamics through the duration of the pulse. Here, using multidimensional coherent spectroscopy we explicitly excite, control, and probe a coherent superposition of excitons in the and valleys in monolayer WS. With a circularly polarized, red-detuned, pump pulse, the degeneracy of the and excitons can be lifted and the phase of the coherence rotated. We demonstrate phase rotations during the 100 fs driving pulse that exceed , and show that this can be described by a combination of the AC-Stark shift of excitons in one valley and Bloch-Siegert shift of excitons in the opposite valley. Despite showing a smooth evolution of the phase that directly follows the intensity envelope of the pump pulse, the process is not perfectly adiabatic. By measuring the magnitude of the macroscopic coherence as it evolves before, during, and after the pump pulse we show that there is additional decoherence caused by power broadening in the presence of the pump. This non-adiabaticity may be a problem for many applications, such as manipulating q-bits in quantum information processing, however these measurements also suggest ways such effects can be minimised or eliminated.
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