Direct visualization of hybrid excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

Abstract

Van der Waals heterostructures show fascinating physics including trapped moire exciton states, anomalous moire exciton transport, generalized Wigner crystals, etc. Bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are characterized by long-lived spatially separated interlayer excitons. Provided a strong interlayer tunneling, hybrid exciton states consisting of interlayer and intralayer excitons can be formed. Here, electrons and/or holes are in a superposition of both layers. Although crucial for optics, dynamics, and transport, hybrid excitons are usually optically inactive and have therefore not been directly observed yet. Based on a microscopic and material-specific theory, we show that time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) is the ideal technique to directly visualize these hybrid excitons. Concretely, we predict a characteristic double-peak ARPES signal arising from the hybridized hole in the MoS${}_2$ homobilayer. The relative intensity is proportional to the quantum mixture of the two hybrid valence bands at the $\Gamma$ point. Due to the strong hybridization, the peak separation of more than 0.5 eV can be resolved in ARPES experiments. Our study provides a concrete recipe of how to directly visualize hybrid excitons and how to distinguish them from the usually observed regular excitonic signatures.

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