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most citedSpin-layer locking of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials

137 citations · 784 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.optics2026

Spectral Anisotropy in Transition Radiation from Biaxial Media

Sven Ebel, Bibi Mary Francis, Min Seok Jang +4

In anisotropic optical media, the electromagnetic response depends on the orientation of the optical field relative to the material's principal dielectric axes. While this directio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Unveiling the Spin-Valley Structure of Dipolar Exciton Ladders in R-stacked WSe/WS Moiré Heterobilayers

Byeong Wook Cho, Tatyana V. Ivanova, Zhe Li +4

Localized interlayer excitons in moiré heterobilayers can form dipolar exciton ladders, yet their internal spin-valley structure remains unresolved. Here, we use helicity-resolved…

physics.optics2026

Twist-Engineered Nonlinearity in Two-Dimensional Crystals for Tailored Quantum Light

Dylan Mcleod, Fabrizio Chiriano, Francesco Graffitti +3

Van der Waals (vdW) materials enable nonlinear-optical engineering with unprecedented resolution: their strong second-order susceptibilities () and twist-tunable interlaye…

quant-ph2025

Photoexcitation of moiré-trapped interlayer excitons via chiral phonons

A. Borel, T. V. Ivanova, J. Cervantes-Villanueva +7

Moiré superlattices in transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductor heterobilayers enable the quantum confinement of interlayer excitons with large out-of-plane permanent electric…

quant-ph2025

Roadmap: 2D Materials for Quantum Technologies

Qimin Yan, Tongcang Li, Xingyu Gao +29

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile and powerful platform for quantum technologies, offering atomic-scale control, strong quantum confinement, and seamless i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Highly tunable band structure in ferroelectric R-stacked bilayer WSe

Zhe Li, Prokhor Thor, George Kourmoulakis +6

Transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers unite two frontiers of quantum materials research: sliding ferroelectricity, arising from rhombohedral (R) stacking, and moiré quantum…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 8 cited

Quadrupolar and Dipolar Excitons in Bilayer 2-MoSe

Shun Feng, Aidan J. Campbell, Bibi Mary Francis +6

We report the experimental observation of quadrupolar exciton states in the reflectance contrast spectrum of 2-stacked bilayer MoSe. The application of a vertical electric f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Interlayer and moiré excitons in atomically thin double layers: from individual quantum emitters to degenerate ensembles

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Brian D. Gerardot, Alexander W. Holleitner +1

Interlayer excitons (IXs), composed of electron and hole states localized in different layers, excel in bilayers composed of atomically thin van der Waals materials such as semicon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Optical contrast analysis of α-RuCl nanoflakes on oxidized silicon wafers

Tatyana V. Ivanova, Daniel Andres-Penares, Yiping Wang +6

α-RuCl, a narrow-band Mott insulator with large work function, offers intriguing potential as a quantum material or as a charge acceptor for electrical contacts in van der Waal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

The interplay of field-tunable strongly correlated states in a multi-orbital moiré system

Aidan J. Campbell, Valerio Vitale, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert +5

The interplay of charge, spin, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom leads to a wide range of emergent phenomena in strongly correlated systems. In heterobilayer transition metal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 31 cited

Highly Tunable Ground and Excited State Excitonic Dipoles in Multilayer 2H-MoSe

Shun Feng, Aidan Campbell, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert +7

The fundamental properties of an exciton are determined by the spin, valley, energy, and spatial wavefunctions of the Coulomb bound electron and hole. In van der Waals materials, t…

physics.optics2022★ 88 cited

Van der Waals Materials for Applications in Nanophotonics

Panaiot G. Zotev, Yue Wang, Daniel Andres-Penares +12

Numerous optical phenomena and applications have been enabled by nanophotonic structures. Their current fabrication from high refractive index dielectrics, such as silicon or galli…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 1 cited

Moiré straintronics: a universal platform for reconfigurable quantum materials

M. Kögl, P. Soubelet, M. Brotons-Gisbert +3

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moiré superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 2 cited

Exciton-polarons in the presence of strongly correlated electronic states in a MoSe/WSe moiré superlattice

Aidan J. Campbell, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Hyeonjun Baek +5

Two-dimensional moiré materials provide a highly tunable platform to investigate strongly correlated electronic states. Such emergent many-body phenomena can be optically probed in…

physics.app-ph2021★ 22 cited

Optical and dielectric properties of MoO nanosheets for van der Waals heterostructures

Daniel Andres-Penares, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Cristian Bonato +2

Two-dimensional (2D) insulators are a key element in the design and fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures. They are vital as transparent dielectric spacers whose thickness…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 39 cited

Optical dipole orientation of interlayer excitons in MoSe-WSe heterostacks

Lukas Sigl, Mirco Troue, Manuel Katzer +10

We report on the far-field photoluminescence intensity distribution of interlayer excitons in MoSe-WSe heterostacks as measured by back focal plane imaging in the tempe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 47 cited

Optical read-out of Coulomb staircases in a moiré superlattice via trapped interlayer trions

Hyeonjun Baek, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Aidan Campbell +5

Moiré patterns with a superlattice potential can be formed by vertically stacking two layered materials with a relative twist or lattice constant mismatch. The moiré superlattice c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 57 cited

Moiré-trapped interlayer trions in a charge-tunable WSe/MoSe heterobilayer

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Hyeonjun Baek, Aidan Campbell +3

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers offer attractive opportunities to realize lattices of interacting bosons with several degrees of freedom. Such heterobilayers can fea…

quant-ph2020★ 52 cited

Coherent Dynamics in Quantum Emitters under Dichromatic Excitation

Z. X. Koong, E. Scerri, M. Rambach +8

We characterize the coherent dynamics of a two-level quantum emitter driven by a pair of symmetrically-detuned phase-locked pulses. The promise of dichromatic excitation is to spec…

physics.app-ph2020

Resonance fluorescence from waveguide-coupled strain-localized two-dimensional quantum emitters

Carlos Errando-Herranz, Eva Schöll, Raphaël Picard +12

Efficient on-chip integration of single-photon emitters imposes a major bottleneck for applications of photonic integrated circuits in quantum technologies. Resonantly excited soli…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 2 cited

Highly tunable quantum light from moiré trapped excitons

Hyeonjun Baek, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Zhe Xian Koong +5

Photon antibunching, a hallmark of quantum light, has been observed in the correlations of light from isolated atomic and atomic-like solid-state systems. Two-dimensional semicondu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 137 cited

Spin-layer locking of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Hyeonjun Baek, Alejandro Molina-Sánchez +7

Van der Waals heterostructures offer attractive opportunities to design quantum materials. For instance, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess three quantum degrees of fr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 100 cited

Discrete Interactions between a few Interlayer Excitons Trapped at a MoSe-WSe Heterointerface

Malte Kremser, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Johannes Knörzer +7

Interlayer excitons (IXs) in hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent an exciting emergent class of long-lived dipolar composite bosons in an atomically…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 116 cited

Out-of-plane orientation of luminescent excitons in atomically thin indium selenide flakes

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Raphaël Proux, Raphaël Picard +5

Van der Waals materials offer a wide range of atomic layers with unique properties that can be easily combined to engineer novel electronic and photonic devices. A missing ingredie…